Simon didn't feel that a girl in the crowd around him was watching him silently. Hearing Janet's words, he just smiled and said, "What, do you plan to stay there for a while?"
Janet nodded sincerely: "Yes, if I can be like you, I can stay here for a few years."
Catherine also came back to her senses at this time. Apart from being surprised, she once again became strongly curious about Simon's past. However, after hearing Janet's words, Catherine glared at her friend warningly: "Jenny, don't joke about this kind of thing again."
Janet felt the rare seriousness in Catherine's words. She immediately shrank her neck, took her arm and shook her arm flatteringly, and as expected she stopped talking.
Simon calmed down his hurried heartbeat after concentrating on playing. He noticed Janet's little movement, smiled, handed the guitar in his arms to Catherine in front of him and said, "Can you hold it for me?"
Catherine reached out to take it, still a little confused, but Simon already knelt down and started sorting the coins in the piano box in front of him.
Wanting to step forward to help and feel the guitar in her hands, Catherine had no choice but to stand and carefully hold the guitar in her arms.
Janet looked at the guitar in front of her, stretched out her hand, and was opened by Catherine. She pouted dissatisfiedly, and then squatted down to help Simon sort out the coins. She also twisted a 5-cent coin to criticize a certain guy for being too stingy.
He quickly sorted out all the coins in the piano case. Even not counting the hundred-dollar bill Janet had just received, there were more than 260 US dollars, far more than Simon expected.
Asking Janet to hold a small pile of coins, Simon stuffed the banknotes into his jeans pocket, took the guitar from Catherine, carefully packed it in the case, put it on his shoulder, looked at the woman and said, "Then, let's go have dinner. ?”
"Okay," Catherine did not hesitate this time, nodded with a smile, and proactively suggested, "There is a good Mexican restaurant nearby."
"It shouldn't be a problem if you walk over there, right?"
"Of course, just to the north."
"Oh, how are you going to go back later?"
"My car is in the parking lot over there."
"What a coincidence. Mine is also over there. I just borrowed the hotel owner's car. He's a very nice guy."
"The guitar is also borrowed?"
"yes."
Janet stood there, staring blankly at the man and woman who were about to walk away side by side, and then looked down at the coin she was still holding in her hand. What's going on
Was he just forgotten
Thinking of this, Janet suddenly became angry and yelled in the street with a hoarse little voice: "Simon Westeros, if you dare to take another step, I will throw away this pile of things!"
The eyes of many people on the pedestrian street were attracted again.
Simon and Catherine also turned around and looked at the angry Janet. Simon quickly returned and said: "Sorry, Janet, now, I'll get it."
Janet threw all the coins into Simon's hand with a clatter, and glared at Catherine aggrievedly.
Both of them were a little embarrassed. Catherine stepped forward to hold Janet's arm, Simon put the coins in his pocket, and then the three of them walked back to the north.
Looking at Janet who was deliberately separated between the two of them, Simon had no choice but to find something to say and said: "So, Catherine, you just said that Janet's studio is here, what kind of studio?"
"An art studio," Catherine replied, "Jenny is a painter. When you have money in the future, you can buy her paintings."
"Oh, definitely."
"I'm not selling it to you little bastard."
"I'll pay a high price."
"Not for sale!"
"Double."
"Nonsence!"
"Haha," Catherine chuckled. Seeing her friend staring at her again, she quickly said to Simon: "Jenny is also very good. She actually graduated from Columbia University Business School. Buffett also attended Columbia Business School. Simon, Buffett, you Do you know?"
Simon nodded: "Of course."
Catherine continued: "That year, Buffett returned to Columbia University to give a speech. Jenny argued with Buffett in the auditorium. If the dean of the business school had not smoothed things over, Jenny almost made the other party unable to step down."
"It's really amazing," Simon smiled and continued to ask, "Then why did you become a painter again?"
This time, Catherine just glanced at her best friend and smiled without explaining.
Seeing Simon looking at her curiously, Janet simply rolled her eyes.
Chatting casually, the three of them came to a nearby Mexican restaurant. Although Simon had several hundred dollars in his pocket, the two women only ordered a set meal of $25. However, Simon still obeyed Jenny's 'wishes' and used For her $100, she ordered a pretty good bottle of red wine.
After dinner, Simon also left the motel's contact information with Catherine before parting ways with the two women.
After paying the dinner bill, Simon still had more than a hundred dollars left in his hand, which was enough to support the salary payment of the supermarket job next week, so he gave up the idea of continuing to waste time on part-time jobs.
After solving his small financial troubles, Simon has finally settled down in Los Angeles.
Once the days seem to be the same, they tend to fly by quickly.
In the blink of an eye, it was already the third week since Simon arrived in Los Angeles, and it was July.
After work, Simon basically maintains a frequency of phone calls with Jonathan Friedman twice a week. The agent didn't hide from him that he wanted to make "The Butterfly Effect" a package project.
Last Wednesday, Simon rushed to the WMA headquarters at the invitation of Jonathan Friedman and chatted with Brian De Palma, the film director his agent was interested in, for more than half an hour.
Brian De Palma became famous in "Carrie" in the 1970s, but Simon knew that he was also the director of Tom Cruise's first "Mission: Impossible" ten years later. He can be said to be the most famous regular actor in Hollywood. One of the directors Aoki.
Therefore, although Brian De Palma taking over "The Butterfly Effect" will to a certain extent obscure the light of the script itself, Simon is also happy to see the results considering the role of this well-known director's participation in promoting the entire project.
Initially everything seemed to be going very smoothly.
However, when he had a phone call with his agent two days ago, the other party told him that something had changed.
Friedman's original idea was to use all of his own artists, but after the "Butterfly Effect" script spread within the company, some other WMA executives also had ideas for the project.
The agent didn't explain it too clearly this time. Simon couldn't figure out the joints, but he also understood that he would definitely have to wait patiently for a while. As a newcomer who has just debuted, he naturally cannot have much influence on the internal game of WMA. At this time, he can only be a chess piece.
On the other hand, after getting through the small threshold of being strapped for money in the first week, Simon only kept the job at Griffin Supermarket and started some other plans of his own.
It's another ordinary Thursday afternoon, except tomorrow is July 4th, the Fourth of July, and then the entire weekend. Therefore, many people have already fallen into the holiday atmosphere in advance, and the number of customers in supermarkets has obviously increased.
"So, how was your day?"
Standing behind the checkout counter, Simon saw Courteney Cox coming over with a bunch of snacks, helping the girl check out and saying hello casually.
Less than a week after working at Griffin Supermarket, Simon discovered that Courteney Cox happened to live nearby and often shopped in this store. Courteney also found this matter very interesting. Every time she came to buy something, she would make a point of chatting with Simon, and the two of them became familiar with each other unconsciously.
However, Courteney was obviously in a very bad mood today.
Hearing Simon's greeting, Courteney, who had a somewhat gloomy expression, said angrily: "I just received a notice of failed audition. What do you think will happen?"
Simon smiled and said: "There is no need to be so discouraged. If you are in such good conditions, you will definitely have more opportunities. Speaking of which, I am preparing an experimental film recently. How about you be the heroine?"
"Experimental film?" Courteney glanced at Simon's supermarket clerk costume and teased: "Let's not talk about whether you can make movies. First of all, do you have money?"
"When Joe sells my script, I'll probably have money," Simon said, packing Courtney's snacks and saying, "A total of 19 dollars and 75 cents."
Courteney handed over two 10-dollar bills and said with a bit of venom: "You've been here for weeks and there's been no movement. When Joe sells your script, maybe I'll be Michelle Fei You are such a big star. You can't even pay a fraction of my salary for one script."
Simon gave Courteney some change and said, "Michelle Pfeiffer shouldn't be expensive, right? However, she is indeed a very tasteful woman. Maybe I can date her if I have the opportunity in the future."
Courteney weighed a few coins in her hand, rolled her eyes at Simon, and said, "It's so rare that you haven't changed the wrong money even though you were daydreaming."
After hitting Simon so mercilessly, Courteney's mood obviously improved a lot. Before leaving, she even said goodbye in a dignified manner, then picked up the shopping bag and turned around to leave.
Simon threw the receipt that Courteney pulled down into the trash can next to him. Seeing that there were no customers behind him, he was about to sit down and rest for a while. Roger Griffin, the fat supermarket owner who likes to wander around the store to show his presence. The fat body came over, lying next to the cashier, and said: "Hey, boy, using an excuse like making a movie to pick up girls is really bad. If I had just asked her out, I have been confused for so many days. I'm worried about you."
Simon ignored the words of this middle-aged fat man who was definitely evil-hearted but not courageous, and instead said: "I'm not making excuses. Speaking of which, Roger, can you let me take some shots in your store then?"
"Sure," Roger Griffin was still very straightforward and straightforward: "As long as you pay."
"Of course I won't use it in vain," Simon said with a smile: "However, I have to explain one thing first, this is a robbery scene."
Roger saw that Simon didn't look like he was joking at all. He narrowed his eyes and looked at him, and quickly said: "That's okay, but you have to replace the store with a temporary new sign during the filming, and it can't be too specific in the camera. address information."
The movie I remember took several weeks to convince a supermarket to cooperate in filming the robbery scene.
Simon didn't expect that his turn would go smoothly, so he immediately nodded, raised his hand towards Roger and said, "Then it's settled."
Although he was as dissatisfied with Simon's idea of making a movie as Courteney was, the middle-aged fat man still raised his hand to shake his hand and said: "Boy, if you really want to make a movie one day, remember to leave a role for me. "
Simon didn't do any ink and simply said: "Of course it's no problem."
After chatting with Simon for a few words, Roger walked away leisurely.
Simon continued to work for more than half an hour. When the shift change time came, after handing over to the next employee, he left work with his light gray rucksack on his back.