Chapter 41: Gustavo
Gina entered the locker room in the gymnasium, and she was alone.
Today she came a little early, the dressing room was empty, the sun outside the window shone in through the high window, it was the morning sun, clear and clean, not like the afternoon, dusk and muddy. Gina took off her clothes and sat on a bench under the window, letting the sun shine on her.
She has a beautiful figure, like an ancient Greek sculpture, with healthy and flawless skin, long slender and strong legs, a soft lower abdomen, and her hair scattered down to cover her full breasts and round shoulders. In the past, neighbors always said that she looked like her mother, and she was glad that she looked like her mother Grace and not like her mediocre father, Carter Gustavo.
Gina's full name is Gina Sarina Gustavo.
Gina never received much love from her mother, and the relationship between her parents was sometimes intimate and sometimes distant, sometimes like a normal and warm home, sometimes like a ruined battlefield. Carter is an ordinary dock stevedore, with a low income, and Grace has no formal job, with a beautiful face and figure, taking on some modeling or theater work.
She thought of being an actress with all her heart, often wore exquisite makeup to participate in various auditions, and then returned home with a tired face. When Gina saw her lost mother, she wanted to comfort her, but she always got cold eyes and scolding. Mother locked herself in her room, shutting Gina out the door with her longing eyes.
At the age of 8, Grace ran away with a man who claimed to be a Hollywood director, left New York, and went to sunny California to fulfill her dream of being an actress in Hollywood. A year later, a divorce settlement was sent home, which Carter signed without hesitation, divorced Grace, and soon remarried, marrying a waitress at a restaurant near the pier.
Gina has a younger brother and a younger sister, and since then she has no presence in the family. Carter isn't bad, he's not as rude as a docker, he's going to buy Gina gifts for Christmas and take Gina to an amusement park on holidays. But that was a few times, and most of the time he was cold, to Gina, to his wife, to the other two children, all of them were cold.
He loves to seek flowers and willows, but he has an unusual attraction to the opposite sex in his ordinary appearance, and Gina suspects that he uses all the passion of his life on a woman's belly, so that he can only give a little to his wife and family. However, Gina's stepmother did not control Carter's private affairs much, and the hostess was also a prodigal who attracted bees and butterflies, and Gina had seen her bring other men to the house.
The stepmother was okay with Gina, and she didn't criticize Gina too much because of her special status, and once Gina made a mistake at school and was left by the teacher, she went to the school to take Gina back. It's just that most of the time, like Carter, she is ignorant and indifferent to Gina, but Gina is a girl with a fiery nature. She needs love and craves it, and as her body begins to develop, she feels the hot gaze from the boys around her.
Gina enjoyed the gaze, and she slowly learned that men liked her young, hot body. She herself often admires her carcass in front of the mirror, hoping to find the seductive secret in it. If she herself is beautiful and seductive, why don't those closest to her love her?
Her mother didn't love her and left her, her father and stepmother were indifferent most of the time, and even the half-siblings looked at her with a strange look. These two children, like their mothers, are full of a vulgar numbness, and when they are young, they do not have the aura and cuteness of children, and when they grow up, they seem even more mediocre and obnoxious.
At school, Gina received more and more attention, especially when she joined the cheerleading team. She was dressed in a beautiful bodysuit and performed difficult dance moves, and she could feel the gaze from the stands. There are boys, there are girls, there is passion, there is lewdness, there is jealousy, there is envy, Gina's vanity is satisfied. But she always felt that something was missing, a look that was missing, a pair of eyes that she needed most......
Until she met Arthur, that night, under the Brooklyn Bridge.
With a "quack", the door of the locker room rang, someone pushed the door in, Gina hurriedly covered herself with a towel, got up and walked away from the sun, hid next to the locker, opened the locker and put on her cheerleading uniform. And it was none other than Gina's good friend Jenny. She chewed bubblegum in her mouth, her blonde hair was tied high behind her head, and she walked in on tiptoe with her sports bag on her back.
"Gina, you're so early!"
Jenny saw Gina, opened the locker with a "bang", stuffed her bag in, and began to undress.
Gina just said "um" and looked at Jenny coldly, and Jenny took off her clothes one by one. She is taller than Gina, her legs are more slender, her abdomen is flat, her body is better proportioned, her waist is more bewitching, she is a stunner, the kind that women will be tempted to see it.
But when Gina saw her graceful figure, she just felt sick in her heart, because she couldn't help but think of her father, and tears couldn't help but burst out of her eyes. Gina slammed the locker door shut and rushed out of the locker room. Jenny was left stunned in place with wide eyes, not knowing what was happening.
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After dropping Gina off at school, Arthur rode to her home, a neighborhood near McCulran Park in Brooklyn. It was close to the docks in Brooklyn, and her family lived in an old apartment, and there was a Japanese restaurant downstairs, Arthur parked his car in front of the restaurant, looked up at the name of the restaurant, and compared it with the address given by Gina, and it was not wrong.
Today, Saturday, Gina said that his father may be off, but he is not necessarily at home either. With the idea of giving it a try, Arthur first bought a box of sushi at the Japanese restaurant downstairs, and if her father was a good talker, she would give him a box of sushi for lunch. If he doesn't talk well, Arthur won't be too polite to him.
In fact, Arthur didn't think clearly about how to solve this problem, which was not a problem.
Jenny and Gina's father got together, to be honest, this is not something Arthur can handle, and besides, didn't he also get someone else's daughter? People haven't settled accounts with him yet, but he came over to point fingers at the cheap old man, which is really strange.
After going upstairs and coming to the door of Gina's house, Arthur was holding sushi in one hand and a gun in his pocket, and now whenever he went out, Arthur would bring a gun.
The revolver that was supposed to be used to assassinate Abramo.
"Knock knock!" Arthur knocked on the door, he looked up at his watch, it was ten o'clock in the morning, it was time to get up.
There was no movement inside, and Arthur knocked hard a few more times before a hoarse voice from a middle-aged man, "Who is it?" ”
Arthur cleared his throat and said, "I'm Gina's friend, Arthur, Arthur Luciano. ”
As he spoke, Arthur took a step back and tidied up his clothes a little, and he suddenly felt that he had not come to solve the problem, but to propose to Gina's father. But when you get married, you have a box of sushi in your hand?
The door creaked open, and it was opened by a middle-aged man who was not tall, wearing a white sweatshirt, unexpectedly clean, and his hair neatly combed. He didn't ask much after seeing Arthur, as if he had known about Arthur's existence for a long time, and invited Arthur into the house.
The room was not messy as Arthur expected, on the contrary, it was very clean, with a carpet at the door, tables, chairs and benches neatly arranged, the area of the home was not large, the furniture was arranged in an orderly manner, and it did not look crowded at all. On the window facing the hallway, two pots of daffodils stand with leaves enjoying the April sun.
Arthur put the sushi on the table, facing the clean room, he was a little at a loss for a moment, and he didn't know where to sit. He thought that Gina's father was a dock stevedore, and that the house must be a mess, with wine and cigarette butts on the floor, cockroaches and rats crawling around, and his father was a bearded and foul-mouthed old man.
But if you think about it, if Gina's father is such a person, how can he get involved with a young and beautiful girl like Jenny? He has no money, no status, no handsome appearance, so there must be something unusual about him. Seeing where he lived, Arthur knew he was truly different.
Carter pulled a chair for Arthur and motioned for him to sit down, he found a high stool and sat down, looked at Arthur with his legs crossed, and asked in a very flat tone, "Is Gina okay?" ”
Arthur nodded, then shook his head and said, "Okay... It's not good. That's why I came. ”
Karter nodded, he reached out and scratched his eyebrows, and said, "I know she saw it, and Jenny, her good friend." Things are not quite what she thinks, though, would you be interested in hearing my story? It's about me, it's about Gina, it's about her mother. ”
Arthur actually wanted to refuse, and directly said "not interested", but looking at Carter Gustavo, who was sitting on a high stool, calm and even with a touch of elegance, he actually had a trace of curiosity. So he nodded and said, "Yes, I want to know, I'm always interested in stories." ”
Intuition tells Arthur that Carter might have something to do with poker, but which one will it be?