Compared with the cramped single curtain room, the layout of the champagne box is of course much more spacious and comfortable, although the space is only the size of a home bathroom, but at least the inside has been replaced with a sofa, with a soft wall, a small coffee table, and the top has also changed from a small dim lamp to a hanging colored light ball.

There is still no door, but it is no longer a faintly visible gauze curtain like between the curtains, but has been replaced by a purple opaque soft rubber curtain, and the most important point is that there will be no bodyguards guarding the champagne box at any time, and will only appear after fifteen minutes, opening outside the door to remind the guests and dancers inside that the time has come, either renew or leave.

"Have fun, sir." The bodyguard led Tommy Hawke out of the box, said a word, and turned to leave.

Melonie walked in from the outside with a bottle of cheap champagne in her arms, and Tommy Hawke motioned for Melonie to sit on the sofa and stand guard at the door, and after lifting the curtain to observe that the bodyguard had gone away, she turned around: "Okay, we now have fifteen minutes to have an undisturbed chat." ”

"Why are you here, Tommy Hawk?" Melonie didn't seem to be comfortable with being spotted in this gaudy outfit by the familiar, sitting on the couch and curling up slightly to minimize her exposure.

Tommy took off his jacket and handed it to Meloni: "You should be glad that the maximum temperature today is only 17 degrees, I wear a coat, and besides, the wig is good." ”

Melonie took her coat and put it on her upper body, trying to take a few deep breaths to make herself look like she still had the same nonchalant expression she had when she faced Tommy Hawk: "You haven't told me why you're here, you're a high school student, Tommy." ”

"My classmates gave me a ticket to see the world." Tommy took out a cigarette from his pocket, put one in his mouth, saw Meloni's expression, and handed over the cigarette case: "Do you want one?" ”

Melonie took the cigarette irritably, and after Tommy helped his distant aunt light it, she retreated to the door: "I remember that your job is a substitute teacher, and the business now expands to tutoring high school students like me who have no intention of studying at the club?" ”

"It's not funny, Tommy." Melonie exhaled a puff of smoke: "I ...... As I said, I'm ready for a different job. ”

"Aren't you preparing to go to those public school interviews to apply to become a full-time teacher?" Tommy Hawke frowned slightly and asked.

Her aunt Melonie graduated from the University of Rhode Island School of Education, although this university is not a prestigious school, but the career plan of the graduating college students is very clear, that is, to obtain a teaching certificate, and then apply to join a public middle school or public elementary school in Rhode Island to become a teacher who teaches and educates.

The University of Rhode Island is not a prestigious school, so it is very difficult for graduates who come out of this place to work in that kind of high-end private school, but it is much easier to work in a public school, especially thanks to the rights and interests of the teachers' union for the public school teacher group after World War II, as long as a teacher works in a public school for two years, he is automatically promoted to a tenured teaching position, and cannot be dismissed at will.

The meaning of this sentence is that as long as the teacher has not committed a crime and is imprisoned, the difficulty of the school to fire the teacher is equivalent to the enemy of the teachers' union, which has one million elementary and middle school teachers in the United States.

This is also the main reason why the quality of education in American public schools is very different from that of private schools, after all, for teachers, as long as they have a two-year probationary period, they are out-and-out iron rice bowls, whether they work hard or do nothing, they all earn the same salary, so of course they choose to use the most relaxed way of work to retire and receive a pension on a monthly basis.

Melonie is this kind of teacher who has no pursuit, she is now running around the state as a substitute teacher, and all the hard work is so that when she gets an interview with a public school, the principals of the schools where she has worked as a substitute teacher can give her a positive evaluation, win the favor of the school, and then when the interview is successful, she can earn this stable job with a weekly salary of 240 US dollars, and earn it until she retires and dies and is buried in the cemetery.

I've been a substitute teacher for so long in order to blend in with public school, and now I'm suddenly ready to change jobs? And a job as a stripper?

"I came here to work part-time because I needed money." Melonie lowered her head and said in an indifferent voice, "Five hundred, or more." ”

Tommy Hawk flicked the ash of his cigarette: "I guess, it's because of your ex-boyfriend?" ”

"We started dating when we were in college, and when we interacted, we ...... We've done some crazy things. Meloni talked about the past, her hands trembled a little, she barely held the cigarette to her lips and took a deep breath, and then continued: "Later, that guy became a teacher in a public elementary school faster than me, and then he accosted a bad guy in the school, and made that bad guy's belly bigger, so we broke up, but now, he knows that I am also going to be a public school teacher, and he starts to use those crazy past stories to blackmail me. ”

"Maybe he has some photos that, if exposed, would be enough to say goodbye to the teaching profession once and for all?" Tommy Hawk was silent for a few seconds before asking, "So the wound on your face was also left because of an argument with him?" ”

Melonie looked up at Tommy a little lonely, and finally nodded slightly.

"What a bastard." Tommy said noncommittally, and then looked out again, and then continued to stare at Meloni, and after a full half a minute, he seemed to have made up his mind to speak: "I'll help you get him, how about you help me do something?" ”

Melonie noticed that Tommy had been staring at her blankly just now, and when she heard Tommy's words again, her face immediately changed slightly: "You'd better take those eyes off me, although we are not related by blood, I am still your aunt, and I will definitely not be in your ......"

"Aunt Meloni, I'll help you get that bastard and make you a sacred people's teacher, but you need to use your apartment as collateral to help lend me twenty thousand dollars from the bank, and I will pay you back within a month, including interest." Tommy Hawke didn't seem to hear Melonie at all, and before she could finish speaking, he went straight to his own way of working together.

It wasn't until Tommy finished speaking that Melonie realized that she had guessed wrong, but she still maintained a serious expression: "You can take out a loan for college tuition yourself, unless you are prepared to do something unseemly, plus you are haunting this kind of place, Tommy Hawk, I suspect you are going to sell ......"

“No！ Of course not, although I do want to do some business, I can promise that I will never break any of the laws of the United States. Tommy Hawke looked at Melonie calmly:

"In the name of my most devout mother, who often told us the Bible at the dinner table, the most common thing she told us was: No heresy, no deviation from the right path, no way in the dark, no way in the wrong way, no way in the way. I always kept it in my heart, and I seriously promised her that I would never go down the path of evil. ”

Melonie lowered her head, "So, you're not going to kill that bastard, and you're not going to take the money to do the hemp or poison business. ”

"I'll take him where he needs to go, and if you're interested in business, I can tell you about it, and you can decide whether to lend me money or not, So, and go home together, aunt?" For the sake of me being a poor high school student, let's go home and talk, the fees here are too expensive for me. Tommy Hawk smiled at Melonie and held out his hand.

Melonie hesitated, then finally got up, and instead of shaking Tommy's hand, she gently hugged Tommy in her arms: "Let's go home, kid." ”