"Hello, this is..."
"Listen! Whoever you are, tell my dear grandpa, I'll be back soon in the afternoon! Don't worry about me!" After Angela said this, she hung up the phone immediately, then turned around, got out of the public phone and stopped, facing the The girl, one big and one small, held her hands together and looked at her girl, "It's alright now, we can go."
Natalie could only shake her head at Angela's behavior, but she didn't say much. They were all on the pirate ship anyway, and Scarlett seriously agreed with Natalie after hearing about what happened in detail. Afterwards, his true colors were revealed soon.
"If it's just to show myself, I can dance, Angie accompanies, Nat sings, we each perform our duties; if the goal is to make money, then let Angie sing, and we'll count the money on the side!" Scarlett said in After hearing about Angela's plan, he said with a smile, she is much bolder than Natalie when she is not yet 10 years old. Of course, you can also call it reckless, but she really doesn't need to be so detailed, doesn't she
"Okay, let's determine the next route first, and then find a place to sing." Angela waved her hand, then looked at the Lower New York River and the Brooklyn Bridge that spanned it. On the other side is Manhattan, on the subway line. The scramble on top made them run here unintentionally.
The girl took out the map of New York that had been prepared, and unfolded it on a nearby bench. The map of Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan was run through by a thick red line. "I was going to go northeast from Pratt Institute, but it doesn't matter if you come here, you can still cross Queens into Manhattan, take a lap and go home. That way we are at least three in New York. All major areas have been performed, what do you think?" Angela said while drawing on the map.
"Why don't you plan to walk around Manhattan from here to the Bronx, then back to Manhattan, from here to Staten Island, and finally take a boat back to Long Island. Even if you can't perform in every borough, but You've at least visited all of New York." Natalie said at this time, since she was going crazy with her. That would be crazy.
Angela looked at her and blinked, then clapped her hands happily: "I like this idea, how about you, Manny?"
"Of course no problem!" Scarlet nodded again and again, as if the world would not be chaotic.
"Then do it!"
Although it is easy to say, it is actually not so simple to do, such as:
— "Hey. Little girl. You're blocking my shop!" It was a mild-tempered old man.
- "I said you can't change places? It's already noisy enough here!" This is a middle-aged man who hasn't rested.
- "Get away from me! This is my territory!" This is a sloppy bum.
But even so, it can't stop Angela's enthusiasm accumulated in the past and present, and most of the time. They are still very attractive.
The three girls took turns singing. Natalie was a little conservative and rarely sang. After all, she always showed herself as a good girl. Scarlett is much more lively, and often sings while dancing. Although her singing skills are a mess, she won a lot of applause.
Angela sang the least, even though she sang as often as possible, but after all, the talent was there. So the beautiful singing can always double the coins in the guitar case on the ground, making Scarlett jealous.
What's even more outrageous is that a talent scout also found Angela and asked if she wanted to release a record or make a movie. After the girl refused, she was still unwilling to persuade her, and she even used what you and Miss AM Zhang have. It's very similar, it's entirely possible to become popular like her, etc., hoping to impress her, which made Natalie and Scarlett laugh at her for a long time.
"...I need your love, God, please pass your love to me!" After the end of the ending, several audience members applauded in unison. "Unrestrained Melody" was originally a classic song. Although Angela was performed with a female voice, she couldn't be mediocre, so many pedestrians stopped to listen.
After the girl bowed slightly to salute, the people finally dispersed. The three then began to count the coins in the box.
“… 98 cents, 99 cents, $1, wow, we’ve made $4 and 59 cents so far!” Scarlett said excitedly, counting the coins.
"At least 70% of it was earned by Angie." Natalie couldn't help pouring cold water on her.
"But I also contribute." Scarlett said indifferently.
"Okay, we sang in Brooklyn, we sang in Queens, let's go to Manhattan now." Angela said, rolling up the coins and bills and handing them over to Natalie, then put the guitar in the box and memorized it. up.
"Hey, miss, do you want to go to a music party?" A languid male voice came over at this time.
Angela turned her head, and a young Caucasian man walked up to him, with no age visible, wearing a black leather jacket decorated with metal pieces, a long nose ring on his nose, and a malicious smile on his face. , not far behind followed by two whites, two blacks.
The four were clad in black leather jackets, one white man with a towering cockscomb dyed pink, another with a mustache and poodle-like hair, and both blacks in blue and white Alternating cloth towels wrapped around their heads, all with expressions of hippie smiling faces, one could tell who they were at a glance.
The girl frowned slightly, still smiled and said, "Thank you, I don't think so." Then she turned around and pulled Natalie and Scarlett to leave.
But the man immediately dodged and stood in front of him, laughing and said: "Don't reject me so quickly, miss, we have been preparing for a long time, there are many people participating, all of them are very, very fond of playing music, you can be with me. We talk and I think you look a lot like… who? Oh, Angela. Mason! We have a guy over there that looks a lot like Bon Jovi, how about, let's try it together?"
"Thank you, but no need, we just came out to play, it was just fun." Angela pressed the wide bull hat on her head and pulled the other two girls around the young men and continued to walk forward.
But the guy continued to stand in front of Shanshan: "Don't do this, let's play together, I guarantee you will like it."
"Sorry, sir, I don't want to cause trouble." Angela's tone began to turn cold, and she turned around again.
"Hey, little girl, do you think I'm a fool!" The guy immediately grabbed the girl's arm, and the feeling of goosebumps spread from the place where he was grabbed, almost like a conditioned reflex, Angela squeezed backhand, The index finger and thumb are firmly pinched at the junction of the inner epicondyle of the elbow joint and the two bones of the olecranon.
Unprepared, the man shouted, let go of his hand and grabbed his elbow and stepped back. Several of his companions were startled and rushed over to support him.
"Damn bitch." The man wasn't seriously hurt, so he eased up immediately and was about to step forward with a curse, but one of the blacks hurriedly stopped him: "Hawk! Wait, Tucker, There are police! There are police over there!"
The man stopped immediately. Looking at the place where the black man pointed, a patrol car was parked at the intersection not far away, and two white policemen were leaning against the car and looking here. The white man named Hawke glared at Angela hatefully, and finally left with his companion angrily.
The girl didn't make a sound, pulled Natalie and Scarlett, turned around and walked quickly in the direction of the New York River, as if someone was chasing behind them. After walking a few streets, she knew that she could already see the tall buildings in Manhattan. Only then did she suddenly let go of the two of them, and then sat down on the bench by the street, gasping for breath.
"Are you all right, Angie." The two girls ran with her for such a long way. Although they were a little tired, they still came to comfort her as soon as possible.
"I... I'm okay, are you two okay?" Angela rubbed her face and hurriedly asked.
"With you in the front, what will happen." Scarlett said jokingly.
But Angela is not in the mood to joke, don't look at how calm she looked just now, and now she is scared after a while, her legs are already weak, this is the first time I have encountered such a situation in so many years, even when she ran away from home at the age of 4 This has never happened.
"Are you really all right?" Angela pulled Natalie and Scarlett over worriedly.
"I have to say, Angie, your mental quality is worse than Manny!" Natalie said teasingly.
"That's right, don't you think those people dare to do anything on the street? There are police around." Scarlett shook her head again and again, then thought for a while, and suddenly said in a narrow voice, "Nat, didn't you find out? We Will be harassed because Angie is growing too fast."
"Well, yes, Angie looks almost fifteen years old." Natalie nodded knowingly. "If she were younger, there would be no hippies to strike up a conversation with."
"Okay, you two! If I were younger, the police would have come to ask." Angela cried out in disgust, but she immediately understood and shook her head with a smile: "Okay, I'm fine, Now go to Manhattan." Then she added: "We're on the street, we don't go to places with less people."
The other two girls shrugged in unison, but didn't say much. The three of them crossed the Queensboro Bridge together and entered the heart of New York. Although Angela kept saying that it was all right, they walked through several streets. He didn't mean to stop, his eyes were always wandering.
"Angie, we're going to Central Park... Hey!" Scarlet, who was talking, didn't expect Angela to stop suddenly, and immediately bumped into her.
"What's the matter, why don't you stop and say hello!" the girl complained, but she immediately found Angela staring at the street not far away, which was different from the usual street, a red brick and green tile The cornices of the tower stood there, although she could not read the crooked letters on it, but she still knew where it was: Chinatown!