Simon didn't feel a girl in the crowd around him who was silently watching him, and when he heard Janet's words, he just smiled and said, "What, you're going to go in and live for a while?"

Janet nodded sincerely: "Yes, if I can become like you, I can live for a few years." ”

Catherine also came back to her senses at this time, and in addition to being surprised, she also had a strong curiosity about Simon's past again. It's just that, hearing Janet's words, the woman glared at her friend warningly: "Jenny, don't joke about this kind of thing again." ”

Janet felt the rare seriousness in Catherine's words, and immediately shrunk her neck, grabbed her arm and shook it flatteringly, and sure enough, she didn't speak again.

Simon calmed down his heartbeat, which had just been preoccupied with playing, noticed Janet's small movements, smiled, handed the guitar in his arms to Catherine in front of him, and said, "Can you help me get it?"

Catherine reached out to take it, still a little puzzled, Simon had already crouched down and began to sort out the coins in the case in front of him.

Wanting to step forward to help and feel the guitar in her hand, Catherine had to stand and carefully hold the guitar in her arms.

Janet looked at the guitar in front of her, reached over, was opened by Catherine, pouted dissatisfiedly, and simply squatted down again to help Simon sort out the coins, and twisted up a 5-cent coin to criticize a guy for being too picky.

Quickly sorted out all the coins in the piano case, even if you don't count the hundred-dollar bill that Janet just had, it turned out to be more than $260, far more than Simon expected.

Jeanette held a small pile of coins, Simon stuffed the pen and paper into his jeans pocket, took the guitar from Catherine's hand and carefully packed it in the piano case, put it on his shoulder, looked at the woman and said, "So, go to dinner, shall we?"

"Okay," Catherine didn't hesitate this time, nodded with a smile, and took the initiative to suggest: "There's a nice Mexican restaurant nearby." ”

"It should be okay to walk over, right?"

"Of course, over there. ”

"Oh, how are you going to get back later?"

"My car is in the parking lot over there. ”

"Coincidentally, mine is over there too, but it's just borrowing the innkeeper's car, a very good person. ”

"The guitar was borrowed too?"

"yes. ”

Janet stood in place, stunned as she looked at the men and women who were about to walk away side by side, and looked down at the coin she was still holding in her hand, what was going on?

I was just forgotten about it?

Thinking of this, Janet suddenly became angry, and shouted in the street with a hoarse little voice: "Simon Westeros, if you dare to take another step, I will throw away this pile of things!"

The eyes of many people on the pedestrian street were attracted again.

Simon and Catherine also turned around and looked at Janet who was huffing, Simon hurriedly returned and said, "I'm sorry, Jenny, I'll take it." ”

Janet threw all the coins into Simon's hand with a bang, and glared at Catherine with some grievance.

Both of them were a little embarrassed, Catherine stepped forward to hold Janet, Simon loaded the coin, and the three of them walked back north.

Looking at Janet, who was deliberately separated between the two, Simon had no choice but to find a word, and said, "So, Catherine, you just said that Jenny's studio is here, what studio?"

"Art studio," replied Catherine, "Jenny is a painter, and you will have the money to buy her paintings." ”

"Oh, definitely. ”

"I'm not going to sell you this little bastard. ”

"I pay a high price. ”

"Not for sale!"

"Double. ”

"Ahh ”

"Hehe," Catherine chuckled, and when she saw her friend glaring at her again, she hurriedly said to Simon: "Jenny is also very good, she is actually a graduate of Columbia Business School, and Warren Buffett also studied at Columbia Business School, Simon, Buffett you know, right?"

Simon nodded, "Of course." ”

Catherine continued: "That year, Warren Buffett went back to Columbia University to give a speech, and Jenny argued with Buffett in the auditorium. ”

"That's amazing," Simon smiled and continued, "Then why did you change to a painter again?"

Catherine just glanced at her best friend this time, smiled and didn't explain.

Janet saw that Simon was also looking at her curiously, and simply rolled her eyes.

Chatting casually, the three of them went to a nearby Mexican restaurant, although Simon had a few hundred dollars in his pocket, and both women only asked for a $25 set menu, but Simon still obeyed Jenny's 'wish' and ordered a bottle of good red wine with her $100.

After dinner, Simon also left the contact information of the motel to Catherine before separating from the two daughters.

After paying the bill for dinner, Simon still had more than $100 left in his hand, enough to support the convenience store salary payment next week, so he gave up the idea of continuing to waste time on his part-time job.

After solving his own minor financial troubles, Simon then settled down in Los Angeles completely.

Once the days seem to be static, they often pass quickly.

In the blink of an eye, it was Simon's third week in Los Angeles, and the time entered July.

Outside of work, Simon basically stays on the phone with Jonathan Friedman twice a week. The agent didn't hide from him that he wanted to make "The Butterfly Effect" a packaged project.

Last Wednesday, Simon also rushed to the WMA headquarters at the invitation of Jonathan Friedman and chatted for more than half an hour with Brian De Palma, the film's director.

Brian De Palma became famous in "Carrie the Witch" in the seventies, but Simon knew that the other party was still the director of Tom's first "Mission Impossible" ten years later, and he can be said to be one of the most well-known evergreen directors in Hollywood.

So, while Brian De Palma's takeover of The Butterfly Effect will somewhat overshadow the script itself, Simon is happy to see the well-known director's involvement in the overall project.

Everything seemed to be going very well.

It's just that when I talked to my agent on the phone two days ago, the other party told him that something had changed.

Friedman's initial idea was to use all of his own artists, but after the "Butterfly Effect" script spread within the company, some other WMAA executives also came up with ideas for the project.

The agent didn't explain too clearly this time, and Simon couldn't sort out the joints, but he also understood that he would definitely have to continue to wait patiently for a while. As a newcomer who has just debuted, he naturally can't have any impact on the internal game of WMA, so he can only be a chess piece obediently at this time.

On the other hand, after spending the first week on a small threshold, Simon only kept his job at the convenience store and started some other plans of his own.

It's another normal Thursday afternoon, but tomorrow is July 4th, U.S. National Day, and then the whole weekend. As a result, many people have already fallen into the holiday atmosphere in advance, and the flow of customers in convenience stores has obviously increased.

"So, how is today?"

Standing behind the cash register, Simon saw Courteney Cox coming over with a bunch of snacks and casually greeting the girl while helping her pay the bill.

After working at a convenience store for less than a week, Simon discovered that Courtney Cox happened to live nearby and shopped at the store regularly. Courteney Cox also found this very interesting, and every time she came to buy something, she would deliberately chat with Simon, and the two became acquainted with each other unconsciously.

However, Courtney was clearly in a very bad mood today.

Hearing Simon's greeting, Courtney, whose expression was already a little depressed, said angrily: "I just received a notice of failed audition, what do you think will happen?"

Simon smiled and said, "There's no need to be so discouraged, you have such good conditions, there will definitely be more opportunities." Speaking of which, I've been working on an experimental film lately, why don't you be the heroine?"

"Experimental films?" Courtney teased Simon, looking at Simon's clerk's outfit, "Let's not talk about whether you can make movies, first of all, do you have any money?"

"By the time Joe sells my script, I'll probably have the money," Simon said, packing Courtney's snacks and saying, "It's 19 dollars and 75 cents." ”

Courtney handed over two $10 bills, still a little foul-mouthed, and said, "You've been here for weeks and haven't moved." By the time Joe sells your script, maybe I'll already be a big star like Michelle Pfeiffer. You can't even pay a fraction of my salary for a script. ”

Simon gave Courtney some change and said, "Michelle Pfeiffer shouldn't be expensive, right? ”

Courteney flipped a few coins in her hand, gave Simon a blank look, and said, "It's really rare, you haven't made a mistake in daydreaming about the money." ”

After hitting Simon so mercilessly, Courtney's mood was obviously much better, and she said goodbye to her face when she left, before picking up her bag and leaving the convenience store.

Simon threw the receipt pulled down by Courtney into the trash can next to him, saw that there were no customers behind him, and was about to sit down and rest for a while, when the chubby body of convenience store owner Roger Griffin rubbed over, lay down next to the cash register, and said, "Hey, boy, it's really bad to pick up girls under the pretext of making movies." If I had asked her directly, I would have been anxious for you for so many days. ”

Simon didn't answer the words of this middle-aged fat man who was definitely a thief, and instead said, "I didn't make excuses, speaking of which, Roger, can you let me take some shots in your store then?"

"Yes," Roger Griffin was still cheerful and direct, "as long as you pay." ”

"Of course I won't use it for nothing," Simon laughed, "but let me make it clear first, this is a robbery scene." ”

Roger saw that Simon didn't look like a joke at all, squinted his eyes and looked at him, and quickly said: "It's okay, but you have to change a temporary new sign to the store during the shooting, and you can't show too specific address information in the camera." ”

It took weeks for the movie in my memory to convince a supermarket to cooperate in filming the robbery scene.

Simon didn't expect that it would be quite smooth for his turn, so he immediately nodded, raised his hand towards Roger and said, "Then it's decided." ”

Although he was very optimistic about Simon's idea of making a movie like Courtney, the middle-aged fat man still raised his hand and shook him, saying, "Boy, if you really want to shoot one day, remember to leave me a role." ”

Simon didn't ink either, and simply said, "Of course it's no problem." ”

After chatting with Simon, Roger walked away leisurely.

Simon continued to work for more than half an hour, and when it was time to change shifts and hand over the next shift, he left the convenience store with his light gray rucksack on his back.