Hollywood Secret Garden

"Miss Angela, after a few months of rest, you suddenly appeared at the concert in honor of Ms. Jacqueline Dupre, and at the same time played the lead cellist in the "Elgar Cello Concerto", do you intend to return to classical music? the road?"

"Miss Angela, what do you think of Ms. Jacqueline, I heard that you hate that biographical movie very much, is that true?"

"Miss Angela, the audience is full of praise for your performance, do you think you will be the second Jacqueline?"

Faced with countless microphones, recording pens, and flashing lights, Angela tried her best to keep smiling, but walked to the RV parked on the street without saying a word, surrounded by bodyguards.Of course, the reporters would not let her go so easily. This was Angela's first official appearance in public after winning the Oscar for Best Director. It is self-evident how newsworthy it is.

For a while, everyone wanted to get as close to Angela as possible, and the crowding made the scene chaotic. The short distance from the exit of the concert hall to the RV on the street seemed like a natural barrier.Fortunately, Angela's bodyguards are very dedicated, and there are enough of them—six people are still protecting her before returning to the United States—so after a lot of hard work, Angela finally broke through the siege and got in as soon as the waiter opened the car door. went in.

"These guys are terrible." Angela let out a long sigh as she slumped on her seat.

"Really, how scary?" Natalie, who was waiting in the car early, asked abruptly.

Angela was stunned and couldn't help but smiled wryly. The disaster—well, trouble might be a more appropriate word—has only just begun.At first, she planned to take advantage of the concert before it was over.Tell the bodyguards to get ready for an ordinary car to slip away through the side door. Even if a reporter with a keen sense of smell finds out, they will lose the opportunity to surround her immediately. It's just...

"I thought you should have relevant experience." Angela glanced at her cautiously.

"Just get used to it." Jessica, who was sitting next to her, said comfortingly, then she thought of something and became a little embarrassed, and gestured to explain: "I mean, I mean, you have...you have already ..."

"Don't worry, it's nothing, I'm just complaining habitually." Angie quickly made a pause gesture, and at the same time, she became more and more puzzled, why did Jesse become like this?Of course, this does not mean that Jesse is different from before. Although this is the first official meeting in three years, and although we have been together for less than an hour, Angela can still see that she is still the gentle and sweet Jesse.It's just...just...it's not quite...

"Yeah, it's just a habitual complaint." Kate, who was sitting opposite Natalie, spoke again. Ever since Angela got into the car, she had crossed her legs and looked out of the car window with an absent-minded look. Now she finally turned her head. But Lai pursed his lips into a line after he said a few words, his eyes swept over the car from time to time.

Angela could only smile wryly in her heart, and she recalled the scene in the waiting room at that time. Except for Alizee who was watching the play, the four of them kept their respective postures all the time, and moved away as soon as they made contact with their eyes.This strange atmosphere lasted for a long time, until the orchestra conductor John Smith and others appeared.

"Miss Angela, your performance is really..." The excited John Smith stopped after only half a sentence, and then looked at Jesse and Natalie in the room without knowing why, "Who are these two?"

"My friends." Angela quickly replied, "Like Kate, they are one of the few people who know that I will play at the concert, so they come here specially to support. It is my assistant Ellie Jie brought them backstage, probably they thought my performance was pretty good."

"It's not only good, it's simply brilliant." John was immediately brought back by that topic.

"That's true. I never expected to hear a cello as good as Jacqueline's." Alan next to him said in admiration.

Then, several people began to communicate about the previous "Elgar Cello Concerto", while Kate, Jessica, and Natalie, who couldn't talk, listened quietly.Although Angela was relieved because John and the others got rid of the embarrassing atmosphere, it still felt a little strange to see them around without saying a word. After taking time to think about it, she secretly did something to Alizee gesture.

Lily understood what Angela meant, and she didn't know what she said to the three of them, so she took them away smoothly.However, when she came back, after Angela planned to leave, she told Angela to arrange Kate and the others in the RV and waited to leave together.Although Angela stared at her for a long while, she could only accept this arrangement in the end, and surrounded by bodyguards, squeezed into the RV from the reporter's siege report and left.

Damn it, if Lily is in front of me now and there is no one else, I must take care of her!Angela said angrily in her heart.But after thinking about it, Lily probably planned this long ago. Otherwise, why would she have arranged for Kate, Jessie, and Natalie to ride with her in the car?

Glancing around secretly, Kate's lowered eyelids are still absent-minded, Jessica is always hesitant to look around and wants to say something but dare not say anything, Natalie is covering her mouth, not knowing what she is doing What do you think? Although his eyes are looking out of the car window, his ears are obviously pricked up.

Angela couldn't help but sighed with a wry smile in her heart, Kate returned to her previous indifferent attitude, Jessie still couldn't hide what was on her mind, and Nat... had no idea what she was thinking at all.

What is all this? Although I have decided to apologize to them sincerely, and even have the idea of ​​not having any contact with them in the future, it shouldn't be like this... let's suddenly appear in front of them all at once!

Reaching out and rubbing her face gently, Angela coughed dryly, intending to break the dullness in the car: "Then, I..."

Regrettably, the phone rang just after she uttered two syllables. Under the gazes of the three pairs of eyes, Angela forced a smile, took out the phone and twitched the corners of her mouth to make an apologetic gesture to them: "Call, grandpa Yes, I have to take it."

She pressed the answer button embarrassingly and took the phone to her ear, then turned around to avoid Kate's gaze.

"Hi, Grandpa...yes, I'm on my way back to the hotel...thank you for the compliment, it's just an exception, it doesn't mean I'm really that high...thanks, I will, I promise... ...Oh, come on, Grandpa, that's because I'm on vacation... Well, if you think it's wrong, how about waiting a few days for me to apologize to you in person? Hehehe, how can you say that about me...Okay, that's it Well, see you in a few days." After finishing the call, Angela let out a long breath, thinking of her grandfather's joking words, she couldn't help chuckling twice.

But she quickly realized where she was, and quickly covered her mouth and looked around, but Kate, Jessica, and Natalie didn't seem to hear it, and they were absent-mindedly thinking about their own affairs.

Angela forced a smile, and she didn't know what to say after being interrupted by her grandfather.Looking at the street scene outside, she collected herself for a while and asked, "I'll be at the hotel soon. I'll ask the driver to take you back after I get off the car. By the way, which hotel are you staying in now?"

"Claridge's Hotel." Natalie and Jessica replied almost in unison.

Following their weird glances at each other, the corners of Angela's mouth twitched several times, and it took a few minutes before she smiled and said, "Well...it's a coincidence that we...were staying in the same hotel."

Then, Angela subconsciously glanced at Kate, who pursed her lips to express nothing, not knowing what she was thinking.Damn Lily, what the hell have you done!

The RV quickly stopped at the gate of the Claridge Hotel, and the media that heard the news had already blocked the place, so Angela had to get out of the car first in order not to cause unnecessary trouble.

"Then, I'll leave first, I live in room 1207, if..." Angela smiled and made a few gestures, she didn't know if they understood, in fact she didn't even know what she wanted to express What.

"I live in room 1106." Just as Angela was about to open the car door, Jessica suddenly bit her lip and said courageously, "It's right...just below you..."

Natalie's complexion changed slightly, and she hesitated for a few seconds before she spoke briefly: "I'm at number 1105."

Kate, who was expressionless, couldn't help but snorted softly at this time, while Angela's hands trembled slightly—of course, the indescribable sneer was still on her face: "Well... yes, very good , are all...downstairs."

Then, she fled away from the RV. Fortunately, the long-term conditioned reflex helped her, and she immediately became calm when she appeared in front of the camera.The bodyguards in place had already separated the crowd very well, and the gate and car doors were not far apart like the concert hall, so Angela, who ignored the reporter's questions, quickly walked into the lobby.

He let out a long sigh of relief, and after waiting for a few minutes for Alizee to come in, the two walked towards the elevator together.They didn't say anything along the way, until they came outside the suite, and Angela opened the door and said, "Come in."

"Jack and I still have something to discuss, about the latest..." Alizee flipped through the documents in her hand.

"I said, come in!" Angela said almost gnashing her teeth.

Alizee, who stopped reading, raised her head and stared at her blankly for a few minutes, then spread her hands and shrugged: "Okay, as you wish."

The two walked into the room one after the other. After the sound of closing the door came into her ears, Angela folded her arms and took two deep breaths, then turned around and looked at Alizee seriously: "What's going on? thing?"

"What's going on?" Alizee showed a puzzled look.

"You know what I'm talking about!" Angela stared at her face intently, wanting to see something, but it's a pity that facing Alizee, who had no emotions, she was used to the other person with an expressionless face, and she would look at everything not come out.

"Sorry, I really don't know what you mean. I hope you can express it more accurately. If you don't make it clear, no one will know what you are talking about." Alizee slightly raised her chin to look As Angela said so.

"Okay, okay, don't change the topic, okay!" Angela hurriedly raised her hands, a kind of frustration welled up in her heart.But she immediately realized the other party's strategy, and then leaned in front of Alizee with her hands on her hips, and looked down oppressively with her height advantage and said: "Don't 'talk about him' like this! You know very well, what I asked Yes, why Kate... well, Kate has been practicing cello with me all this time, and I gave her the tickets, but! Why are Jessie and Nat also here, at the concert, backstage in the living room!"

Seeing that Alizee opened her mouth to say something, Angela then added: "Don't try to write yourself off completely, everyone will see that you brought Nat to the lounge!"

"Is there any problem?" Alizee asked lightly, as if she would not be surprised if the Tower of London collapsed in front of her.

"What's the problem?" Angela asked repeatedly angrily. She began to walk aimlessly around the room, clenching her fists as if she wanted to catch Lily and beat her up. consciousness.

"Of course, or are you still afraid of facing them? Or this month's vacation and even the previous events have left you immersed in self-pity and self-pity?" Alizee asked unceremoniously, "I thought you already had changed."

"Hehehe, of course I've changed. I've decided to apologize and repent to them." Angela waved her fist angrily, "But it shouldn't be like this now. The three of them appeared together in front of them."

"So what?" Alizee still had that calm tone.

"So what? Then I will feel weird, I won't know who to talk to, and then make a mess of things, just like before!" Angela clenched her teeth tightly.

"After all, you're still scared, aren't you?" Alizee said in a sarcastic tone.

"Who...who said I was scared!" Angela jumped up as if being pricked by a needle, glaring at Alizee.

Alizee didn't dig deeper into this topic, but just shrugged her shoulders: "Since everything started with the meeting of the four of you, it should naturally end with the meeting of the four of you."

Without waiting for Angela's answer, she turned around and walked to the door: "I'm leaving, I will call you if there is something to do."

Angela stared blankly at Lily walking to the door, then rushed over and hugged her tightly from behind, and asked again through gritted teeth: "Tell me honestly, what did you do? Why did Jesse and Nat come to the concert?" Yes?! And Kate said that Joe and Rachel were looking for her, what role did you play in it?!"

"Aren't you going to ask them in person, Miss Angel?" Alizee turned her head and hummed softly.

"I want you to tell me, so that I can take the lead!" Angela said and added harshly: "If you dare to refuse, then I will be rude to you!"