“Not only did this bowl of soup spill a lot, it got cold long ago, so make a new one.” Leon unscrewed the door handle to the study, Skyler following close behind him.
When he passed by the study, there was no movement in the study, the two men looked at each other, Leon’s heart suddenly had a feeling, he screamed a bad, almost rushed to break through the door, or Skyler before he rushed to reach arm to stop him.
Leon suppressed the idea of rushing over and slightly pushed the door open a crack, and when he didn’t see Brayden’s shadow in the crack, he pushed the door open with a ‘bang’, and Brayden was really not in the house anymore.
He was still dumbfounded in the doorway, and Skyler got in through his hands instead, and she caught a glimpse of the letter Brayden had left on the table.
She gestured with her eyes for Leon to come over and read it, and her hands held the sides of the paper as her nice voice read the letter up.
“Sorry, I’m leaving, don’t come back to me, thanks, bye.”
Skyler was dumbfounded for a few seconds before she immediately turned around and tried to go out and stop him. Just as she turned around, Leon grabbed her wrist so tightly that it almost hurt her slender wrist.
In what must have been Leon’s gentlest tone in days, and the most helpless in days, he said, “Skyler, don’t go. He doesn’t want to be seen by us, doesn’t want to be found by us.”
Skyler choked up and asked, “So let Brayden be out there alone, friendless and unwilling to go see his family.”
Leon’s eyes were a little moist, he forced himself not to drop tears in front of her, pretending to be calm: “Let’s leave him alone out there to think about these things, until when he misses us and wants to come back, we’ll go back to him.”
Brayden is not completely broken, some memories he still vaguely remember, for example, he was drunk more than once to get rid of Leon and Skyler’s support, causing them both to change the way to help him over and over again in the street at night, by passers-by a lot of blank stares, he felt ashamed, although it is true that there was little consciousness, but when he woke up, fragmented things in his mind echoed When he woke up, he felt sorry, so he wrote the three words ‘sorry’ at the beginning of the letter he left.
As for that last ‘thank you’, it was a thanksgiving that they both ran a lot of miles to make a special trip to this bar to bring him home and tell him that even though he was out of love, he still had a group of friends who cared about him by his side.
“Knock, knock, knock–” A knock at the door pulled Skyler out of her own mind games, and she pulled her hand out of Leon’s and stepped quickly forward to try to open the door.
Maybe Brayden figured it out, he’s no longer deep in his own tangles and struggles, maybe he wants to come back and talk to someone too.
Thinking about it, her face eased up a lot, but her gloomy expression froze the moment she opened the door and saw the visitor.
The person knocking at the door, her hand stopped in mid-air, as if she had knocked for a long time, thinking that no one was inside, but she didn’t expect that someone would suddenly come and open the door for her. She smiled like a flower, and her soft voice rang in Skyler’s ear, “Skyler, is Brayden here with you?”
Before Skyler had a chance to answer, or even think about how to answer, a strong hand came out from behind her and slammed the half-open door shut with great reluctance.
The people inside the house were startled, the people outside the house were confused, Dolly knocked suspiciously on the door, because it was too fast, she did not see from behind Skyler’s hand outstretched exactly whose, she thought Skyler’s house into the robbers, see someone came deliberately closed the door, so as to facilitate their own threat hostage.
“Skyler, what’s wrong with you, who was that just now, don’t you do it to her, you calm down!!!” Dolly got louder and louder, almost on the verge of yelling, and of course, she went from knocking on the door to unceremoniously banging on it.
“It’s me.” Leon’s hand still rested where it had just pushed the door, Skyler was squeezed between him and the door, and she didn’t know what Leon was going to do, not even daring to breathe.
Dolly was even more puzzled: “Leon, open the door, did you misunderstand something, I’m Dolly.”
“I know you’re Dolly, don’t you ever come running around here again, you’re not welcome in our house.” Leon continued, the vibrations of his vocal cords as he vocalized seemed to Skyler as if they were going to jar the top of her head.
“Leon, Skyler, what’s wrong with you guys? Can you open the door and let’s go in and talk it over.”
Dolly is still desperately trying to remedy the situation, she simply does not know what happened to these two people, she did not have any conflict with them, and in her opinion, several people in a piece of life for so many years, there has never been any big conflict, we are open to talk about it, how to make a scene now do not see each other?
“Dolly, you go away, and do not come here to the boss in the future, if you come in, I will definitely blow you out, we have been good friends for so many years, I do not want to make the relationship so stiff, should not come, you know in your own heart.”
Dolly asked louder and louder at the door, “Leon, what’s wrong with you, are you going to cut me off now, where’s Skyler, can you let Skyler talk to me, even if there’s any misunderstanding, we should talk face to face to make it clear!
Skyler heard her calling her name at the door and tried to break free from Leon and open the door for Dolly, but even though she was a black belt in taekwondo, she couldn’t stretch her fists at all with a practiced man who had been in the military, and besides, she didn’t know what was wrong with her, but she subconsciously didn’t want the man at the door to come into her house, as if she was some kind of filthy thing that would stain the The floor of her house.
Leon saw Skyler trying to open the door for her and swept her straight across the eyes, a look she had never seen on Leon before, a look of seriousness, like in a hunter with a shotgun, the way he looks at a prey.
She finally gave up on the idea of opening the door and put her ear to the door and quietly listened to the sound at the other end.
They still did not want to open the door for her, Dolly shouted at the door with an itchy throat, and her hand was a little sore from clapping on the door, and she spoke in a voice that was more than a little weaker: “In the end … what the hell is going on … ”
She wanted to talk to the two people inside, and it was like asking herself what was going on. Originally, she just wanted to see Brayden, so she came here to look for him, but she didn’t expect that now her two most trusted friends would turn away from her.