The Greatest Showman - Chapter 2526

[2488 Emotional Edge]

“Renly, I need to go back to Manhattan.”

Matthew calmly explained his decision, not asking for opinions, but announcing the results. He couldn’t continue this nonsense. His patience had reached the limit. The farce still wasn’t over, and he needed a quick “no” to Renly.

At this time, it was already afternoon.

All morning, they’ve been on the go, returning from New Jersey to New York and back to New Jersey:

first in Brooklyn to buy some paintings by local artists, then shopping at the flea market in Queens; lunch on Long Island , according to the “Lonely Planet” guide, they found an authentic Cuban family restaurant and tasted locally made beef –

and encountered a few suspected smugglers during the period, mistaken them for “guests”, although The misunderstanding was quickly clarified, and no further accidents were created, but the high probability should be Italians selling smuggled cigars. Once involved, things may become more troublesome.

Then he returned to a used furniture market in New Jersey again, and after nearly two hours of wandering, he returned to Manhattan.

No, on the way back, Renly changed his mind again and was going to continue north, heading for Boston.

Matthew realized that things had to end here.

Renly turned his head and looked at Matthew carefully. He could sense Matthew’s emotions on the verge of eruption. Even in the silence, he could feel the heavy low pressure coming towards his face, but Renly still didn’t ask, just Nodding his head, he said obediently, “Okay. I see.”

Matthew breathed a sigh of relief.

“Then you can put me down here, I can hitch a ride all the way to Boston.” Renly said calmly, even with a look of anticipation, “I was going to try to hitch a ride before, this is the most interesting road trip in America. part, hippies do it, and now it’s finally time to try it out.”

Matthew turned his head to look at Renly, but got no response, which made him grit his teeth secretly, and without saying anything, he turned the steering wheel and pulled over.

Renly opened the car door, left the passenger seat neatly, and waved to Matthew, “The work is going well, remember not to work overtime tonight.”

After speaking, Renly closed the door, then turned around and started walking.

Matthew ignored Renly, released the handbrake, and walked away.

Anger was bubbling in the blood vessels, and the emotions intertwined with irritability and annoyance were burning fiercely.

Suppressed and suppressed, controlled and controlled, but failed in the end; raised his head, glanced in the rearview mirror, and then he could see that Renly really raised his hand to stop the car on the side of the road.

The problem is that the direction is wrong –

he is going to go to the north, but at this time he is facing the south, and the road has not changed sides, even people who can’t tell the difference between east, west, north and west, still want to hitch a ride along the road?

Or, was he going to see what it would feel like to read the headlines tomorrow that “Renly Hall was thrown into the wilderness”?

Damn it!

God damn it!

Damn it!

Matthew slammed on the brakes hard, put in reverse, backed all the way, and came back to Renly’s side, stopped, and opened the passenger’s window.

“The opposite direction!”

Renly wondered. “What?”

“You should be on the other side of the road. The opposite direction is for Boston. This is the direction back to Manhattan.” Matthew had to explain aloud.

“Oh. Thanks.” Renly said briskly with a realization, then looked left and right, preparing to cross the road.

Patience Patience Patience.

But Matthew couldn’t bear it any longer. He opened the door and walked straight down. All the anger erupted like a volcano.

“why?”

Matthew said loudly, which made Renly stop, and he stared at Renly like this, “Why are you deliberately provoking me today?”

“According to the schedule, aren’t you flying to Los Angeles today? The music festival is tomorrow. It’s about to start, but what are you, the host, still doing in New York? Isn’t this what you have been waiting for? You should arrive at the scene, it is the result of the efforts of countless people.”

At the beginning, the voice could still be maintained .

Calm, just expounding on his irritability, but as he spoke, his emotions completely lost control without warning.

“Why are you directing me to do these pointless stupid things? You know I have a job! I have a morning meeting! I have an important meeting waiting! I still have a lot of work to do! You should support me , Renly, you should support me more than anyone, why? Why do you keep provoking my bottom line like this today? You shouldn’t use me again and again.”

With that, Matthew turned around He walked towards the driver’s seat, opened the door, and was about to sit in, but after thinking about it, he couldn’t help but go back.

“You shouldn’t be so headstrong, Sebastian! You should know that I won’t be with you forever, I won’t! Neither will Rooney! Neither will Edith and Arthur! One day, We’re all leaving! We’re all dying! In the end, you’re all alone!”

“You should learn to take care of yourself, understand? You should…you should learn to organize your life, you can’t always hope for something else Humans! We can’t accommodate you forever, understand? Even Rooney, even me, we have no obligation to accommodate you forever. We have our own lives, we have our own difficulties, we have our own setbacks and pain, and we too Will leave eventually.”

“What if… if Paul and Heather did leave? What if I disappeared tomorrow? What about you? What should you do?”

“You can’t…Sebastian, you can’t…you can’t put all your trust in us, you’ll get hurt, we’ll get hurt, and you’ve got to rely on yourself. You can’t just rush in without reason. My office, and then ruin my meetings, ruin my day.”

“I…we’re not going to stand forever.”

Matthew, out of control.

He was completely out of control, yelling like a child, without logic or thinking, repeating words that he didn’t understand over and over again, and his slightly trembling voice revealed his pain and struggle. , red eyes full of despair bitterness.

“But I’ll always stand where I am.” Renly was not embarrassed, not only not angry or embarrassed, but also showed a shallow smile.

Matthew looked at Renly and shook his head slightly, “No, you won’t, neither will I, no one will. You shouldn’t make a promise you can’t keep, Sebastian, you’re more than that. Smart, you know it will never exist, you can’t believe this promise yourself.”

Shallow tears blurred his vision, but Matthew took a deep breath and all the tears disappeared completely, refusing to surrender to weakness, “Heather won’t She’s back, she’ll never be back, understand? That’s a fact you can’t change, so you shouldn’t make that promise.”

Renly nodded, “I know.”

Matthew Standing in the same place, just looking at Renly quietly, all the irritability and anger slowly subsided, replaced by sadness and helplessness, the fragility in his eyes was trembling slightly, and he silently sent a signal to Renly, Finally, he said in a low voice, “Sebastian, I need help.”

“I know.” Renly whispered again, “So, here I am.” Renly met Matthew’s line of sight and took the initiative. He called softly, “Charles, I’ve always been here, and I’ve never left, just like you.”

Matthew could feel the warmth in Ren Li’s eyes. He slowly closed his eyes, covering up his embarrassment and embarrassment, but all the disguises were falling apart, and he couldn’t hold on any longer. Power jerked him out of the dark self-pity.

Then he was forced to start looking at his wounds.

Haight Wesley, passed away.

The Dunlop housekeeper, Haight Wesley, died of a heart attack three days ago in his sleep.

Alexander brought it up this morning when Renly called Alexander Hamilton at Newark Airport to thank him – Henry Dunlop and Alexander brought it up and he called Matthew to ask if Matthew would like to Returning to London to attend Haight’s funeral, Matthew declined.

“Because there is still work at hand, please express my condolences to the Wesley family on my behalf.” These are Matthew’s original words, but Henry is obviously not satisfied with Matthew’s perfunctory.

Originally, Renly needed to go to Los Angeles today, and then drive to Indio, because the Herald Village Music Festival was about to officially open tomorrow; but after hearing the news, Renly canceled his ticket, turned around and returned to New York, the first time Went to Matthew’s law firm.

Because Renly knew something wasn’t right –

Matthew didn’t talk to him about Haight, or even talk to him; Matthew didn’t return to London, still burying himself in the heavy lifting.

Ma Jiu is escaping reality.

Renly had experienced it himself, and he clearly understood what kind of emotion it was.

So, Renly took the initiative to pull Matthew to keep running, trying to get Matthew out of the paralysis of work, trying to keep Matthew busy and forgetting those sorrows temporarily, and most importantly, trying to make Matthew open up. willing to face oneself.

He knew that Matthew needed his company.

Matthew just stood there, his whole brain was like a mess, countless thoughts were intertwined, and the deep feeling of exhaustion made him unable to think.

Slowly reopening his eyes, Matthew once again saw Renly standing not far away, looking around the road carefully, which reassured him a little, but he was not ready for the time being, and he didn’t want to discuss The elephant in the room didn’t know what to discuss.

“What’s next? Are you really going to Boston?” Matthew asked, his voice a little hoarse, and he felt tired from the bottom of his heart.

“Maybe we don’t have to go to Boston, I think it’s good nearby, there’s a hiking trail there, and we can go exploring.” Renly really took off.

Matthew was stunned and looked down at his leather shoes, not knowing how to respond.

[End of this Chapter]