The darkness in the middle of the night starts from the horizon of the small town and goes all the way to the end of the universe. The ancient wilderness - human fantasy, only humans can think about such a profound place, all dims into black with the darkness of the night sky, leaving only
Under the vast silence and cold air. The inside and outside of the house were blended together. Only the last light of humanity lit up a lamp and remained on the street forever.
Mandy bent over and took out a can of beer from the refrigerator. Her lowered hair hung down by her side to let in some light from the room. A pure white loose T-shirt hung on her back, chest, and the excess fabric in front of her body was covered with
Gravity pulled me down, and the outline of the beautiful trajectory was vaguely reflected under the transparent white T-shirt.
It's a pity that not many people are lucky enough to appreciate this scene, because only Mandy lives in this house. The large house is empty, echoing the wind blowing from the lake, and there is a whining sound behind the curtains.
When you open a slit in the blinds with your fingers, you can still see half of the moon swaying on the black lake in the distance.
Homework and textbooks were scattered on the coffee table in the living room, and endless TV commercials were playing on the TV. When Mandy walked to the table with a cold beer, she muted the TV and slapped it on the table.
The tape recorder started to play "Old_Time_Rock_and_Roll_" after a slight jam in the room. The dynamic music made her couldn't help but pat the back of the hand holding the cold beer, shook her body slightly, turned around and lay on the bed.
.
Maybe it was because she fell too fast. After landing on the bed, a little of the cold beer in her hand spilled out and poured onto her T-shirt. The refreshing cold liquid made her cry out.
He immediately sat up and wiped the water stains with a slight embarrassment. At this time, the white phone on the table rang.
Mandy lowered her head and wiped her clothes while picking up the phone. She turned down the volume of the recorder. After answering the call, there was a lot of noise from the other side. She couldn't help but tilted her head back slightly and raised her eyebrows to pick up the phone.
Stay a little further away from your ears, and wait until the sound from the other side becomes normal before getting closer.
"Mandy! Mandy! Can you hear me! Mandy!" The girl's excited and crazy cheers came from the other end of the phone. The background music was the noisy screams of many people, as well as the noise of heavy objects falling into the water and
Water splashed and the crowd screamed.
“Lily? Is it Lily?” Mandy held the phone and gently scratched her eyebrows, “You called me at the party?”
"Yeah! Mandy, I'm at the party... You really should come, oh my god, he's trying to jump over the bonfire! That Italian transfer student! He's trying to jump over the bonfire!"
"What bonfire...? Lily, what's the reason you called me? How much wine have you drunk?" Mandy smiled bitterly and shook her head. In fact, she probably heard that the other party had drunk too much. That group of fraternities
Boys usually have a lot of fun, but I don’t know how much wine Lily has been drunk tonight.
"Wine? I don't know...there's so much wine here! I just wanted to tell you...it's a great party tonight! I wish you were here too! Mandy! You know what.
..just now...hahahaha...just now someone put the fish in the fish tank...on the barbecue grill, grilled it and put it into hamburgers and hot dogs...hahaha and ate it!" Lily
He laughed out loud and screamed along with the cheers that suddenly surged in the background, "He jumped over! I knew transfer students could do it! He jumped over the bonfire!"
"Okay... You are in a villa in the suburbs, right? You have a bonfire? Please tell the host of the party... He is the president of the fraternity, Cross? Is that the name? I remember... Ask him to restrain himself.
Pay attention to the fire protection, I don't want my uncle to have to run to your place with the fire brigade in the middle of the night." Mandy sighed and advised helplessly.
"You really should come, Mandy... I'm serious, you really should come! All the transfer students are here! There are so many... hiccups, so many people I don't know! Someone suggested that they prepare beer
Fill up the swimming pool! The Italian transfer student is calling the bar down the street... You really should come! Come now just in time to get to the interesting part!" Lily shouted inarticulately.
"No, let me forget it. I just finished my homework and am watching TV at home." Mandy raised her head and glanced at the TV commercial on the TV. "For you guys, just have fun, but be careful not to drink too much.
Be careful, be careful of others taking advantage of you... Where is Amara? She should be with you, right? Is she still conscious?"
“Amala? Amala...Amala is such a loser!” Lily shouted with a giggle, “She was drunk! She passed out drunk and was taken out of the party and sent home!”
"Who was carried out of the party?" Mandy was stunned for a moment, and immediately asked after realizing that Lily's choice of words was not right, "A boy? Or someone we know? Who took her away?"
"...boys! But which one... Hey, Mandy! Are you coming to the party? They've got cakes and they're going to play Russian roulette, and whoever loses has to do a dance covered in cakes!
"
"Lily, wake up, I'm asking you who carried Amala out of the party." Mandy suddenly sat up, pressed her temples and asked, "She is our good friend! Don't let him be taken out of the party by someone you don't know."
Taken away! This may be serious, Lily! Can you hear me?"
“Oh my god... there are two boys trying to imitate that Italian transfer student in jumping over a bonfire! Wait... do they know there is someone on the other side of the bonfire they are facing!”
Lily on the other end of the phone was no longer paying attention to the phone. She was just retelling the party scene. Her logic and articulation were as chaotic and crazy as her current logic.
"Lily...Hey! Lily! Is there a phone next to Amara?"
"They jumped! Oh, what the hell..." There were chaotic shouts on the other end of the phone, and Lily shouted, "Those two boys hit the bonfire and fell... Drag them out! Get them quickly
Drag it out! Throw it into the swimming pool! Hahahaha..."
Mandy was sitting on the sofa listening to the clutter on the phone, only feeling a headache and anxious. One of her best friends was now drunk, and may have been taken away from the party by a stranger! Although it is common for men and women to have sex at parties
, but being carried away from the party is a big or small thing. It’s hard to imagine what would happen to a young girl being taken to another place so late!
However, the only other friend who might be able to help Amara was still watching the two idiots dancing on the bonfire... She began to think about whether she could take a trip to the suburbs to get her friend out of the stranger's crotch.
Saved.
"Oh... they're fine, thank God... Mandy... Mandy? Are you still there? Mandy!" Lily seemed to have come to her senses on the phone. After being frightened by some stimulation, she finally came to her senses.
After a while, I remembered that I was still on the phone with my best friend.
"I'm here, Lily, listen to me, I'm asking you a question... Did you see Amala being taken away by someone? Do you know that person? How drunk was Amala?" Mandy covered her hands.
I asked loudly with my ears (actually useless).
"Well...why do you care about this? Amara was just drunk, and the transfer student sent her home." Lily's voice was still a little confused.
"Transfer student?" Mandy frowned, "You... you gave the phone number to the host of the party and said I had something to do with him."
"Hey! Wait for me...I want to play Russian roulette too...I mean, I'm really good at dancing!" However, Lily stopped listening to Mandy on the phone, and the girl's mind wandered off again.
He said, this time he even forgot about the phone call. Mandy only heard a whistling wind, and then the sound of splashing into the water, until the phone was forced to hang up.
Mandy put down the phone with a sad and depressed look on her face. She could probably guess what kind of treatment the phone on the other end received. She also didn’t know how the host of the party would feel when he woke up tomorrow and found his phone floating in the swimming pool.
But the most important thing now is Amala's problem. Lily said that Amala was taken away while drunk. Mandy was really concerned about this matter, especially since some unpleasant things happened in school this afternoon.
It's hard for her to relax... Although everyone is an adult and has to be responsible for their own actions, she has always regarded Amara as her junior brother... No, no, she is a junior, a junior.
You have to be responsible for your schoolmates, right?
Mandy quickly put the beer can on the table, plugged the phone back into the slot on the table, turned off the TV, stood up, picked up the coat on the sofa and started to rush out. Just as she was about to walk towards the door, she suddenly stopped
He stopped walking and suddenly turned his head to look at the floor-to-ceiling windows in the yard for no reason!
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Outside the window, the lawn was silent under the dim moonlight. There was no sound of crickets in the bushes. Iron thorns stood on the top of the black-red fence surrounding the yard. Outside, there was a dark street. The nearest street lamp was shining.
Ten meters away, the dim light could not illuminate the entire courtyard.
Mandy stood frozen for a while, staring out the window at the dark and silent yard without saying anything. The room was so quiet that only her breathing could be heard. Her expression in front of the door was reflected in the turned-off TV screen and the floor-to-ceiling windows.
A motionless figure.
After a while, the sound of a passing motorcycle engine broke the unsettling silence outside the street.
As if the ice was broken, Mandy suddenly let out a breath, ending the weird stalemate... She didn't even know why she suddenly froze, as if someone had locked her neck... But this
She was the only one in the room? What on earth was she suspicious of?
“…illusion?”
She took a breath, straightened her coat to soothe the goosebumps that had appeared for no reason, and was about to leave the house, but just as she put her hand on the doorknob, the phone on the table inside the house suddenly rang.
The piercing ringtone made Mandy jump. She took a step back. When she turned to look at the phone on the table, she took a deep breath and turned her head to gasp. Then she quickly walked over and answered the phone.
“Hello? Who are you?” Mandy hesitated and asked.
“Is this... Mandy Gonzalez’s house?” An unfamiliar voice rang on the other side of the phone.
“It’s me...are you?” Mandy quickly searched for the voice in her mind, but she had no impression.
“The transfer student today is the red-haired one,” the girl said.
“…Chen Motong?” When mentioning the red-haired girl, Mandy’s mind jumped to the three impressive transfer students this morning.
“It’s me.” Chen Motong said, “Did you call Lily just now?”
“Yes, I want to ask my friend Amara if she was taken out of the party by a stranger?” Mandy said, “Were you at the party too? Do you know about this?”
“Amala? The one with light blond hair?” Chen Motong asked.
“Yes, have you seen him?”
"She drank too much and was very uncomfortable. She kept yelling that she wanted to go home. I asked my friend to take her back first." Chen Motong explained, "I just heard Lily mention at the party that you might come to the party to find me.
Amala, I just borrowed the phone to call you, Amala should be home by now."
"...I see." Mandy suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the sofa. After being quiet for a while, she continued to nod and said, "Thank you...I will thank you personally if I have time tomorrow. I heard it before
I was shocked when Amara was taken away."
“Just explain it clearly, and aren’t you going to come to the party? It’s quite fun here, everyone is having a good time.” Chen Motong asked.
“Are you at the party now? Why didn’t you hear the noise?” Mandy asked.
"I'm in the villa, and the sound insulation effect of the room is very good." Chen Motong said, "They are probably doing a striptease now. I don't like it, so I came in to take a rest."
“You just have fun.” Mandy shook her head and said, “I won’t come.”
“…don’t like social activities?” Chen Motong asked.
"Absolutely." Mandy smiled softly and said, "But you transfer students are quite good at it. You can sneak into the fraternity party so quickly."
"One of our transfer students was the president of the student union of another school before he came here. His social skills are quite good. In half a day today, he has already become brothers with the fraternity group. The president even insisted that he should be promoted to the position of the next president.
Give him a seat." Chen Motong also said with a chuckle.
“That Caesar Gattuso?”
“Yes...it seems like he made a good impression on you?”
"Not really." Mandy shook her head and said with a smile, "I like the black-haired one better than him... I guess his name is Chu Zihang?"
“Do you like boys with black hair?” Chen Motong nodded thoughtfully.
"This is a bit taken out of context." Mandy smiled lightly and lay on the sofa with her fingers twirling the hair in front of her shoulders, "I just think that person named Chu Zihang... is quite familiar. It feels like he was there before.
Meet people like him."
"I will convey the exact words to Chu Zihang." Chen Motong said with a smile, "I didn't expect that the prom queen, the most influential figure in the school, would actually like a black-haired boy. Will those black-haired boys be so happy?"
"It's up to you." Mandy heard that the other party was just teasing her, and she also smiled nonchalantly and said, "Have fun."
"Okay...are you home alone?" Chen Motong asked casually before hanging up the phone.
“Yes, I live alone, what’s wrong?” Mandy asked.
“It’s okay. You have to be careful if you live alone. After all, something happened in the afternoon.” Chen Motong reminded.
“Got it.” Mandy responded and hung up the phone.
Sitting on the sofa and letting out a long breath, Mandy turned to look at the quiet yard outside the window. She got up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and opened it. Suddenly, a cool breeze rushed in and blew into her wet white T-shirt.
Somewhat cool.
She walked barefoot to the lawn outside and stood alone in the dark yard. The only light source was the white lamp in the house behind her, and the shadow was cast on the lawn of the yard. She turned around and looked at the corners around the yard to make sure that there was nothing wrong.
After leaving, he shook his head and walked into the house, closing the floor-to-ceiling windows and locking them.
Before returning to the sofa, Mandy picked up the phone and dialed a number. After waiting for two full minutes, only a busy signal came from the phone. She patiently dialed again, and after dialing for the fourth time.
At that moment, the phone finally answered with a click.