Nikki turned around slowly and got back on track: "You're right. He didn't even call me once, and I called him twice and got the answer that he was busy at work. Now, he has time to go shopping with that girl."
Monica was surprised: "Have you called twice? I haven't called once."
Nikki: "Are you gloating?"
Monica said helplessly: "You were still a little imaginative before, but I knew from the beginning that he didn't like my style. Am I not more unlucky than you? He hit a home run in the opening game."
Nikki: "Huh?"
Monica: "Yes, I am the baseball. I was slapped away by him with a stick, and I didn't even have a chance to return to the game."
Nikki opened her mouth, unable to refute the metaphor of her best friend, let alone think of words of comfort.
"Okay, let's go buy Christmas gifts. Not all handsome guys can be friends, maybe he and us only have these two chance encounters." Monica walked forward with Nikki, taking advantage of the situation to comfort her again.
During the conversation, the figures of the two women also merged into the crowd.
…
Unlike Elena's previous "misunderstanding", Luke really took her on a tour of New York City in the afternoon.
After leaving Times Square, the two headed to NYPD headquarters to see where someone was working and fighting.
Then, the two took the opportunity to go to the Brooklyn Bridge, then headed southwest to the mouth of the Hudson River, and watched the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island from a distance.
They didn't go to the island by boat. The weather today is not very pleasant to go to the island by boat. They can only wait until the weather is fine before going to play.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, Luke sent Elena back to the school dormitory.
However, after parking the car in the parking lot not far from the back door, he took the opportunity of her to greet a young security guard and sneaked into the academy.
The Pallander Academy of Art itself does not have strict attendance requirements, and with Christmas approaching, most of the students leave school early.
Like Elena's roommate, she has gone on vacation with an unknown boyfriend, and won't be back for at least a week.
After a while, Luke finally stepped into Elena's dormitory.
Before his younger sister Claire went to USC, he just looked around the dormitory and did not go to her dormitory.
So, this is the first time he entered the dormitory for college girls.
In Paland, a not-so-famous art academy, the dormitory rules are also not too strict. The decorations in the dormitory are quite unique, and the room is full of weird things.
Elena's roommate is a New Zealand girl who likes to "make friends" and rarely goes back to the dormitory.
Now, this double dormitory has almost become Elena's private space, and that roommate only occasionally comes back to sleep for a night, or a day.
After using his keen sense of smell to analyze for a while, Luke no longer worried about his mild cleanliness attack.
Elena's dormitory is where international exchange students live, and the environment is better than that of ordinary dormitories. Not to mention a room for two, there is also a bathroom where you can take a shower, which is quite convenient.
But this is not preferential treatment, because the price of this dormitory is a bit more expensive than ordinary dormitories.
Fortunately, Yi Lianna came here with a scholarship, and she is also a top student in this school, and the fee is partially reduced, which is not much more expensive than others living in ordinary dormitories.
Coupled with meeting a roommate who hardly ever goes back to the dormitory, her living environment is much better than a house in New York with a monthly rent of 1,000+.
Of course, this is New Jersey, and it's not on the side of the Manhattan River, so the rent is not that high.
While Luke was visiting the dormitory, Elena had already taken off her coat, only wearing a thin sweater and jeans, and found a package from her locker: "Want some?"
He turned his head to look and laughed: "Of course."
Elena also smiled and opened the coffee bag in her hand: "Your taste hasn't changed, has it?"
Luke: "Yeah." His eyes fell on her.
She moves skillfully, not too quickly, and is pleasing to the eye.
Suddenly, she glanced at him sideways: "Why don't you talk?"
Luke sat on the chair in front of the window and said with a smile, "I remember when we first met."
Elena: "What's that?"
Luke hehe: "I still remember that you invited me to drink coffee on the third night."
Yi Lianna couldn't help but sneered when she heard the words: "You just remember this!"
Luke shrugged: "That was my first time traveling abroad, and it was also the first time a girl invited me to drink coffee. It is indeed very memorable."
Elena couldn't help laughing, took something from the side and threw it at him.
Luke caught the thing, held it in his hand and looked at it, and said in amazement: "Your growth period is not over yet, and you are still growing!"
Elena gave him a slap, turning a blind eye to someone playing with her underwear.
Just talking and laughing like this, when the hot coffee came out, the two of them sat by the window with coffee in hand.
Elena's habits remained the same.
A chair and a small round table are in front of the window, which must be where she drinks coffee in the bedroom.
On the small bookshelf next to it, there are still a few books.
There were art publications, there were literary classics, and there was... eh? detective.
Embracing Elena who was sitting on his lap, he took the detective book: "Derek Storm, do you still read this? I remember you don't have this hobby."
Yi Lianna looked at the gradually darkening sky outside the window, with bigger and bigger snowflakes falling, and said with a light smile, "Because, I want to know what your job looks like."
Luke stuffed the book back: "The protagonist of this book is a private detective, and I am a police detective."
Yi Lianna was at a loss: "Aren't they all solving cases?"
Luke hehe: "We can use guns and arrest and interrogate suspects. Private detectives don't have this right. However, if you think you can watch it, you can use it as a pastime. The job of both is to find evidence, and it's not completely useless." Relationship."
Elena just hummed.
The night outside the window is getting darker, but the bedroom is as warm as spring.
It gets dark very early in New York in winter, and at seven o'clock, all the street lights are turned on everywhere.
Jameson, the new security officer of Pallander College, was walking on the campus with a face full of helplessness.
The old Anbao retired due to illness, and he had just been recruited a few days ago.
Christmas was approaching, and the night shift was inexplicably held at his place for three consecutive days.
As a newcomer, he could only accept it, and comforted himself silently in his heart: Anyway, he doesn’t have a girlfriend, and his parents are still in his hometown, so he can still earn some wages by working overtime.
And it was only nightfall when the intercom rang, and another old security guard on duty at the main gate told him to go out for patrol.
Jameson hesitated for a few minutes in the warm security room, but he still had to get dressed and walked out, who made him a newcomer.