The smile on Severo’s face did not diminish and he spat out clearly: “Sit well.
Allyce had to reach out and lean on the car to steady herself.
Severo saw her hold still before she let go of his hands.
He got back into the car, turned off the lights, pulled his suit jacket back on, closed the door, walked to the front of the car and, with a long jump, sat down next to Allyce.
As he put Allyce’s suit jacket on, he said: “There are definitely stars tonight.
As soon as she sat down, Allyce became a little sleepy again.
He yawned and leaned on Severo’s shoulder, his voice a little muffled: “Why do you have to look at the stars, there really aren’t any today … I’ve seen the weather forecast before, it’s going to rain tomorrow … ”
It’s going to rain tomorrow, so there are unlikely to be any stars tonight.
Although she knew there would be no stars tonight, she gave Severo a lift, and as he was in a good mood for such “nonsense”, Allyce could not refuse and gave him a lift.
There was so little she could do for him, so why shouldn’t she give him the benefit of the doubt when he was so harmlessly “free” with his drink?
Occasionally there are young couples who come up here, on the slice of the hill, to look at the stars, probably because of the weather, and today, despite it being Friday, there was no one here.
Not even the sound of insects can be heard, and all is silent, with only the occasional passing of the night breeze.
Allyce lay back in a haze, almost falling asleep, before she heard Severo’s confident voice: “There will be”.
“Okay …” Allyce stiffened her eyelids, after a while it was too much, “I’m too sleepy.”
“No need to sleep.” There was a tinge of dominance in Severo’s voice.
Allyce was a little more awake, she couldn’t see Severo’s face in the dark, but she knew Severo was watching her.
“Why don’t they let people sleep anymore? …”
“Look at the stars”.
Allyce didn’t even bother to explain that there would be no stars tonight.
She is very sleepy and when she falls asleep Severo wakes her up.
Finally, he jumped out of the car and went for a walk to chase the sleep away.
Everything was dark and blurry and Allyce groped for Severo’s hand, which now felt like he was awake, but she couldn’t understand why he had to be here to look at the stars and not let her sleep.
“Severo”, he called him.
A small sound, but amplified in the silence of the dark night.
Severo lowered his head, unreadable and without any other emotion in his voice, sounding unusually sober: “Stay with me one night, just tonight, I don’t want to sleep tonight”.
At his words, Allyce was a little sensitive and suspicious; Severo hadn’t been drunk from the start and didn’t intend to see any stars, he just didn’t want to sleep.
She thought about it and asked: “Why don’t you want to sleep?
As far as I remember, Severo had a period of insomnia, but it was the knowledge that he had jumped out of a window and had a miscarriage that made him sleepless and anxious.
These days, I was sure Severo didn’t lose sleep at night.
He has a habit of waking up in the middle of the night to drink water, but every time he wakes up, Severo is lying next to him in a deep sleep.
Besides, Severo is in a good mood today.
He mentally went through the process of elimination and heard Severo say: “Happy”.
“Well, in that case, let’s talk about anything.” Allyce took a couple of long jumps in the front of the car, but found she couldn’t get in.
This is a bit awkward.
In the darkness she heard Severo let out a giggle, then she heard a rustle and the next moment she was being lifted into the car by Severo.
Severo followed suit and sat down.
This time, the two men climbed onto the roof of the car.
Severo folded his legs and lay down, and in the dim light of day Allyce could see the outline of his body.
Soon his voice came: “Have I ever told you what it was like to see you for the first time?
Allyce shook his head and then, remembering that Severo might not see, added: “No.” He said, “No”.
Severo added: “Quite a nice girl, pleasant to look at and quite pretty”.
Allyce was slightly embarrassed to be surprised by Severo’s compliment.
“It’s still … good, I guess”. When I was a kid, I was a real crowd pleaser.
But how old was Severo then?
Allyce had broken her fingers and calculated that her father, Orlin, had gone to prison when she was nine, that Orlin had been with Qin Li before that, and that Severo had met her without her knowing.
That is, probably when she was seven or eight years old, Severo had met her.
Severo was five years older than her, that is, he would have been 13 or 14 at the most.
Thinking about it, Allyce grunted, “You know how you see if a girl looks good when you’re that young?”
Severo said fervently: “Of course, half the time it was because, at the time, my mother was very fond of him”.
Allyce rolled her eyes and reached over to pinch his face, “Oh, in your eyes, I’m what . Mommy likes, that’s what makes you look good and cute.”
Severo’s voice was the same as always: “You look beautiful in bed too”.
“…” came in cold, and Allyce was unable to respond for a moment.
Half-heartedly, he reacted and said hatefully, “What a coincidence, you’re not at all handsome in bed, dressed…. You beast!”
The last four words were spoken through gritted teeth.
…
This. Allyce spent the night in a daze.
She said she would stay up all night, but fell asleep on her back.
The next morning, when he woke up, he found himself in the car and Severo was sitting next to him driving.
They covered her with Severo’s jacket and lowered the seat so she could lie down and sleep.
When she moved, Severo turned his head to look at her and said: “Don’t move until you wake up, I’m going to stop by the side of the road, you’ve been sleeping in this position for too long, your body must be sore.
Allyce sniffed and moved her body, and sure enough, she felt sore all over.
Severo pulled the car over to the side of the road and Allyce looked out of the window, only to realise that he was almost in the city and it was just dawn.
Severo helped her up and gave her arms and thighs another squeeze. legs, after a while, before driving on.
“Go back and rest for a while, Xabat will pick you up and then you will go to the airport together”.
Allyce froze for a moment before remembering that yesterday Severo had told her that he would help her pick up a large man from the airport today.
Allyce made no objection and asked, out of habit, “And you?
Sever o’s body stiffened imperceptibly for a moment, and then he said, as usual, “I have other things to do”.
“Oh.”
Allyce thought again, with a certain heaviness, that today is the first day of the presidential election convention: “Today …”.
Severo said in a light voice: “It’s all right.