The Best Director

At dusk, the coffee shop has a lot of customers. After a long day of work, tired office workers come here to sit, drink a cup of coffee and enjoy the charming dusk.

Wang Yang and Jessica sat at a table by the floor-to-ceiling windows, each holding a cup of coffee.

After watching "Titanic", the two came to this coffee shop next to the cinema, but they didn't talk much along the way. After the initial joy of reuniting, now they don't know what to say. Although their friendship back then was so good that they talked about everything, but after all, it was when they were young. Now that nearly ten years have passed, it is inevitable to be unfamiliar.

"Yang, there is something I need to apologize to you." It was Jessica who broke the silence. She looked at Wang Yang and apologized, "I didn't say goodbye to you when I transferred to another school that year. I'm sorry." She sighed and explained: "My dad left the army and went to Los Angeles to do business, so we moved the whole family here. But you know, I was a coward at the time, and I didn't know how to deal with you. Goodbye, so... at the end of the day I just leave you with that letter."

Wang Yang asked suspiciously, "That letter? What letter?"

"Oh?" Jessica frowned, and said with some doubts, "It's just the farewell letter I left for you. It's in your drawer. You... haven't received it?"

"No, how can there be any letter?" Wang Yang shrugged. At that time, Jessica left as soon as she left, as if she didn't regard him as a good friend at all. He also complained for a while, so he almost completely dismissed her forget it.

Jessica was stunned. Since her father told her that she was going to move to Los Angeles, she began to write the long, several-page letter. It took more than a week to write and tear, tear and write. She didn't confirm the content of the letter until she went to school on the last day before she left, and put it carefully in Wang Yang's drawer. Why didn't Wang Yang receive it?

"Impossible, what's going on?" Jessica couldn't figure it out, and she seemed to have lost some treasure in anxiety: "I obviously put the letter in the drawer and pressed it with your book... Oh, God , I understand, no wonder I didn't receive your letter, you didn't see my farewell letter, so naturally you wouldn't know the address of my new home, my God, what went wrong?"

"Wait, let me think about it... I seem to have missed something..." Wang Yang rubbed his temples and tried hard to recall what happened back then. His memory was already very blurred. He went to school and walked as usual Entering the classroom, he found that the desk next to him was empty, and Jessica’s textbooks were gone. The teacher said that she had transferred to another school and left. He was very upset and complained why Jessica didn’t say goodbye to him. After class, he looked at the side The empty table, a little melancholy...

"That little black girl is gone at last. I get annoyed when I see her, she's so ugly..." "She's always like an ostrich, she doesn't say anything, and it's no fun to bully her..." "Look at that Chinese kid who can still talk to her." Whoever spoke, I was disgusted when I heard their laughter before..." The bad white kids in the class were discussing together, and then Peter, the leader of the bad kids, suddenly raised a few pages and shouted triumphantly, " Guys, look what I found." Then the white kids gathered around and watched, laughing and laughing. Then he felt that those people were boring, so he walked out of the classroom.

Later, his dream of becoming a director spread like wildfire. At that time, many people in the class laughed at him behind his back. He remembered Peter saying, "Find your ugly ghost as your heroine, great director! Haha!"

Thinking of this, Wang Yang basically knew what was going on, and he asked Jessica, "Did you write in the letter that I want to be a director?"

"Hmm..." Jessica pretended to be thinking, but in fact, she still remembered the content of that letter very clearly, and could even say every word in the letter now. After "thinking" for a while, she nodded and said: "It should be, I wrote some words of encouragement, and I probably mentioned it.

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She tried her best not to blush. In fact, she wrote the farewell letter very nasty. It was the first time she mustered up the courage to confess. She said that when she arrived in Los Angeles, she would try her best to persuade her parents to let her go to school. Performing arts school, she will work hard to make herself an actor, and write that Wang Yang will also work hard to become a director, and they will meet in Hollywood in Los Angeles in the future... These words are so nasty, so she always remembers clearly, thinking Never forget.

Now that she thought about it, especially Wang Yang was sitting opposite her, which made her feel a little confused and fidgety. Yang couldn't be teasing her, could he?

"Then I know what's going on! Damn it!" Wang Yang couldn't help cursing, and said, "It's Peter! That bitch stole the letter you gave me, no wonder he suddenly found out that I want to be a director Things, and I know you want to be an actor! Except for you, I never told other students these things, damn it, God curse him!"

Peter? When Jessica heard this, a white child's face suddenly appeared in her mind, and she said in disbelief, "Peter? That bad boy who likes to use hairspray to make his hair stand up? By the way, I I also remembered that when I put the letter in your drawer, he was the only one in the classroom, and he looked at me with a smile... Oh, my God! He stole the letter?! How could he do that Do!?"

As if Jessica had been severely hit, her face was blank at first, and then she scratched her head in pain. She remembered that after she moved to Los Angeles, she was bullied in various ways in the new school, and the letter from Wang Yang she was looking forward to every day had never stopped. Later, she even secretly cried several times. It wasn't until her family allowed her to go to acting school, and she gradually became beautiful, that she got out of the predicament.

What a great thing it would be if she could receive Wang Yang's letter and keep in touch at that time! She thought she would be very happy, even if she was ridiculed and bullied by those bad kids every day.

It's all that Peter's fault! Jessica clenched her fists, her face flushed with anger, she gritted her teeth and said to herself: "How could he do this, how could he do this!? Why would there be such a person!? I'm going to kill that bastard..."

Wang Yang was also very angry. If he knew that Peter had stolen his letter back then, he would have beaten that bitch into a pig's head!

The two were angry for a while, took a sip of coffee at the same time, looked at each other and laughed, with some helplessness and regret in their laughter. But these things are in the past tense, and they are irreversible. Fortunately, they are meeting again now, aren't they?

Putting down the coffee cup, Jessica gradually calmed down her excitement, looked at Wang Yang and said softly: "Yang, I am really grateful for your help in the past. You are the best friend I met in school." She Shaking his head, he said: "You don't know, my new school in Los Angeles has become the target of those bad kids again. They wear beautiful clothes, but they are ugly inside. They keep hurting a little girl. Mind. Seriously, I really missed you back then."

She smiled slightly, coughed, and then raised her throat, imitating Wang Yang's tone before: "Hey, do you want to bully her? Have you asked me, she is covered by me!"

"Wow, so I'm so great, I don't even know it." Wang Yang was a little embarrassed to be praised by her. He knew that he didn't want to be a "flower protector" back then. He helped Jessica fight, it was purely a war After learning some punches, it's just brave and ruthless.

"Yes." Jessica nodded her head pretending to be serious, and said mysteriously: "Actually, at that time you really felt like a superman. Haha!" She laughed again: "It's a pity that Superman was not on duty in Los Angeles later. Oh, what a dark period Fortunately, I made it through."

The two laughed heartily again. After reminiscing about the past, they talked about the recent situation, and the question that Jessica cared most and Wang Yang didn't want to ask finally came. Jessica asked with a smile, "Jan, how does it feel to study at USC?"

"It's okay, it feels good..." Wang Yang stammered, seeing Jessica resting her chin and listening attentively, he couldn't help but feel a big headache. He took a sip of coffee, feeling bitter, okay, this lie It's unbelievable, he said with a wry smile: "Actually, I was no longer a student at USC a week ago, and I was expelled."

"What!? You got fired?" Jessica was shocked, staring anxiously. "What happened? Oh, I'm sorry, what happened, Jan? Why did they fire you?!"

Now, Wang Yang's expression became even more bitter, and he said helplessly, "Racist, they say I'm racist."

"Racist? You?" Jessica was stunned. The moment she heard Wang Yang was expelled, she thought of many reasons for the expulsion. Poor grades? Smoking marijuana? crime? But she never thought that it was racial discrimination? She shook her head ironically, and said in disbelief, "Yang, are you kidding me?"

Wang Yang shrugged and said: "I also thought it was a joke, but it's true. I was wronged. To put it simply, there was a bitch like Peter in Southern California named Terrence Ben. That day He kept insulting me, picking on me, blocking my way and pushing me, and I got angry and beat him to the ground. A teacher happened to pass by and saw me beating him."

He gritted his teeth, suppressing his anger and said: "Terence bit me back, said I was racially discriminatory, insulted him and provoked him, and finally beat him. Unfortunately, the school chose to believe Terence, and then I was expelled. "

Jessica was also full of anger when she heard it, and said: "How could this be the case, they can't just wrong people like this! Yang, I would never believe that you are racist, how could they be so stupid?!"

"There was no one else in the place where I fought with him, so no one could testify to me. And the teacher who passed by saw me beating Terence violently, so he was willing to testify to Terence." Wang Yang recalled that time Helpless, I couldn't help cursing: "Damn it, I searched all the people in the academy and asked one by one, trying to find someone who was there to tell the truth, but there was no one! That's how I was confirmed racism!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Jessica also had a frowning face. Seeing Wang Yang's crazy appearance, she was very sad. She wanted to help Wang Yang, just like Wang Yang helped her before. She tried to calm herself down, thinking about various ways, and suddenly came up with an idea, she said happily: "Yang, can I testify for you? I will tell you about the help I got when I was a child, and prove it to the University of Southern California. , you are definitely not that kind of person!"

Wang Yang shook his head and said, "It's useless. Actually, I've already tried to do this. I found a few black classmates in high school to intercede with me, but the people in the school are a bunch of stubborn old men!" He The more he talked, the more angry he slapped the table: "They even suspected that my classmates were bought by me with money!"

"Is there no other way?" Jessica said unwillingly. How could this be? She has already become an actor, and Wang Yang could have become a director. Those childhood words would come true. But now... God, why did you arrange it like this?

Wang Yang didn't answer, Jessica watched him hesitate to speak, but couldn't say anything. There was a long silence between the two, just drinking coffee non-stop.

For a while, Jessica asked sadly, "Then what are your plans?" She knew that Wang Yang would be unable to move an inch, and that he would be accused of racial discrimination, making it difficult for him to find an ordinary job.

What are your plans and what to do next? Wang Yang was also asking himself this question, he drank the coffee in his cup in one gulp, it was so bitter that he wanted to vomit.

He has few choices, or no choice at all. Going back to school and finding a job have already indicated that this road is dead. And he doesn't have much money. The one-semester living expenses given by his parents, plus the money he earns from his own work, is only about 10,000 US dollars. Now that he has been expelled from the school, he needs to rent a house outside here, as well as utility bills. Wait, and there will be no more scholarships, he can't last long; in terms of time, there are still two months before the end of the second semester, and when the time comes, the news of his expulsion, the parents are absolutely no longer I can't hide it anymore, a war will definitely break out at that time, if he does nothing, he will be tied back to San Francisco...

With more than ten thousand dollars, what can he do in two months?

Looking at the beautiful face of Jessica Alba opposite, Wang Yang's heart skipped a beat, and then tightened again. She will eventually become famous, and she will stand on the stage that belongs to her and make the whole world fascinated by it. And him? Go back to that run-down restaurant in Chinatown in San Francisco, cook and wash dishes every day, and then drift away from the movie, the director, and this girl? damn it!

Jessica noticed the trace of pain flashing across Wang Yang's face, and her heart tensed up. It hurts a lot. How can I help Wang Yang? She thought for a while, and said, "Yang, after my father retired from the army, he did a lot of business. Now he has opened a real estate company, which is doing well. He is also recruiting employees now..."

"No, no, no! Jessica, thank you for your kindness, but I won't be a salesman." Before Jessica finished speaking, Wang Yang interrupted with a smile, because he already had idea! He smiled and said: "You know, I want to be a director, I want to make movies, I started thinking about it when I was very young. Now, I have decided, I want to put it into action, not just thinking, I Make a movie! Make an independent movie!"

Yes, he's going to make a movie, that's the way he's going! Even if his head is broken on this road, he will not give up, because he will not allow himself to lose something!

"Jessica, you are an ugly duckling now, but you will become a beautiful white swan in the future! Believe me, you must become an actor! Then I will be a director in the future, and I can ask you to play my heroine gone."

In this sentence, the former part has already been realized; one day, the latter part will also be realized! He firmly believes.