American Entertainment 1982

Chapter 18 I have a plan
At five o'clock in the afternoon, a second-hand champagne-colored Chevrolet Chevette two-seater small family car drove off Route 95 and turned into Warwick.

The trunk door was wide open and Tommy Hawk's bike was inside, causing Tommy, the co-pilot to hold a bottle of cheap champagne, to turn his head every few minutes to see if his bike had been dropped. possible.

"So, what do you want to do with 2 yuan?" Melonie asked, looking ahead, holding the steering wheel with one hand, and turning off the car radio playing country folk songs with the other hand.

Tommy sat up straight and looked away: "The most important thing now is not business, but what to have for dinner. I want to make a big dinner. Usually when I do some housework that doesn't require brains, I always have the habit of vacating The brain thinks about complex problems."

"Such as making up a reasonable reason temporarily?" Melonie asked Tommy with a suspicious glance.

Tommy Hawk spit out: "No, think about it, how to clean up your ex-boyfriend, and how to help you complete the entry, but before these two questions, the important thing is to keep your hands busy and cook a good dinner .”

"Yeah, if lemon chicken breast and spaghetti Bolognese deserve the word hearty, then you can indeed make a hearty dinner." Melonie smiled when she heard that Tommy Hawke was going to prepare a hearty dinner a bit.

During the period when the child rented his own apartment, most of the time he was poorer than an Indian ascetic.

The daily itinerary is roughly as follows: go to school to study, go to a part-time job after school to make money, buy cheap ingredients after work, go home to cook dinner and prepare lunch for the next day for myself, after dinner, continue to review homework until late at night, repeating itself.

And most of his dinners are cheap pasta from Costco, topped with black pepper sauce, served with a piece of chicken breast and a few slices of lemon. Melonie can no longer stand the food after eating a few times Monotonous, she would rather drink coffee with a few snacks than touch the dinner made by Tommy. She also persuaded Tommy Hawke to learn from her and buy some discounted dessert cakes to cope, but Tommy Hawke refused. The reason given is that a dinner such as coffee and snacks costs 1.2 dollars, and he only needs 50 cents to enjoy a serving of vitamins provided by lemon, protein provided by chicken, and carbohydrates provided by the rest, although the taste is a bit poor together , but nutritious dinner.

So when Tommy Hawk mentioned dinner, the first thing Melonie thought of was the Italian black pepper bolognese that made her stomach subconsciously spasm.

When Tommy heard Melonie talk about his signature bolognese noodles, he also laughed: "Not only do I know how to make bolognese noodles, but Chinese dishes are also very good, but I didn't have so much time to prepare them before."

"Sonny, the Chinese owner of the laundry, taught you?" Melonie asked casually. After all, the only way Tommy could get in touch with Chinese food was because he worked part-time in a laundry owned by a Chinese owner.

"That's right." Tommy nodded.

"Okay, let's see what Chinese dishes you can make." Melonie drove the car to the parking lot of the Costco supermarket. Tommy entered the supermarket without even looking at the dazzling array of fruits and organic vegetables. He went straight to the cold and fresh area. He was already familiar with the location and price of the meat here. The price of chicken legs was 21 cents a pound, chicken breast was 22 cents a pound, pork chops were 1 dollar a pound, and trotters were 23 cents. Portions of a pound, fine steak 2 dollars a piece.

After buying some chicken and pork chops, and some seasonings, and spending a total of seven dollars, Tommy Hawke returned to the apartment with Melonie with the big bags.

Tommy walked into the kitchen with the ingredients and began to clean up. At the same time, he asked Melonie, who was not ready to help at all, "Tell me about your ex-boyfriend, Aunt Melonie, give me some ideas."

From Melonie, Tommy Hawke learned that her ex-boyfriend is called Hugh Spade. He is currently working at Sinclair Primary School in East Greenwich, Kent County. When he was in college, Melonie and each other liked each other. met Aerosmith and eventually fell in love.

The two had a sweet time, working part-time together to save money for travel, such as going to Boston to watch the Aerosmith concert, go to New York to watch the New York Dolls concert, etc. After graduation, they have the same goal in life, which is to obtain a teacher qualification certificate, became a public school teacher, and worked hard to be able to paddle water and fish all his life.

Last year, Hugh Spade took the lead in passing the teacher qualification examination, and then worked as a paid substitute teacher to build a good reputation in major public schools in Rhode Island. During the interview, he got many letters of recommendation from the principals of primary and secondary schools, and finally joined Xin Clay Elementary School.

According to the agreement between the two, Hugh Spade should continue to live in the apartment left to Melonie by Melonie's parents as her boyfriend, but the other party soon rented another apartment in East Greenwich on the grounds that he was newly employed. She is busy with work, and Melonie needs to concentrate on preparing for the exam. However, after Melonie got her teacher qualification certificate, she learned of a surprise. The bastard not only got involved with another new female teacher at Sinclair Elementary School, Even made the other party's belly bigger.

Melonie had a big fight with the other party and then broke up, and told the female teacher that Hugh Spade was a scumbag, and the story should have come to an end here.

What is happening now is the sequel. Hugh Spade did not marry the female teacher in the end, and the two broke up.

The only problem is that the female teacher gave birth to the child, which is a bolt from the blue for Hugh Spade. As a biological father, it means that he needs to pay a monthly child support payment to the female teacher, and the female teacher is in the middle of nowhere. While enjoying maternity leave, maternity subsidies, school salary and other benefits to raise a child with peace of mind, and at the same time get 40% of his monthly salary as child support, the life of a single mother is not too comfortable.

Hugh Spade has no right to refuse to pay at all. The Rhode Island Child Protection Agency has the right to directly deduct from his salary account, collect a handling fee, and distribute it to the female teacher.

The weekly salary of $240 directly turned into a weekly salary of $140, which changed Hugh Spade's quality of life from a happy bachelor to a street bum.

In the end, he blamed all this on Melonie's appearance. If Melonie hadn't made a big fuss, the female teacher wouldn't have broken up with him, and he wouldn't have fallen to such a state, so he learned that Melonie was going around to prepare for the class. During the interview for admission, he approached Melonie and asked Melonie to pay him at least 500 yuan before next week, otherwise the hot photos taken by Melonie and him in the past would appear in the offices of those school principals. Don't ever get a teaching job in Rhode Island for the rest of your life.

But Melonie couldn't pay 500 yuan, her college loan had not been paid off, and she had to pay the property tax of this apartment, and she could barely make ends meet by running around as a substitute teacher every day. In the end, in desperation, Melonie encouraged With enough courage, he came up with the idea of ​​working part-time in a club to earn some quick money. As a result, the first guest on the first day of work was his tenant and nephew, Tommy Hawke.

Tommy Hawke listened to Melonie's past experiences, put the dishes on the table one by one, then took off his apron, and opened the champagne: "Dinner is ready, next, let's talk about how to solve the Hughes. Mr Ped."

Melonie looked at the several dishes on the table and let out a wow admiration: "The food is now, what else do you want to talk about?"

Tommy Hawke handed the glass of champagne to Melonie, imitating Dutch Van der Linde's tone and said: "I have a plan."

(End of this chapter)