Chapter 1304

On the stage, Jane seems to be aware of Levine's vision, eyes meaningful to fall on Levine's body, but hidden behind the melody and lyrics, people can not understand.

Levine's brow frowned slightly, and all the emotion and softness in his eyes disappeared. He spread his hands, showing a helpless and innocent look, and said with his mouth, "how?" It seems that the rambling indifference has never changed.

Jane's eyes darkened slightly, showing a trace of sadness. But before she could catch it, she turned her eyes and looked to the other side. Jim's voice came from her ear. She raised her jaw to look at her husband, and a sweet smile came from the corner of her mouth, and she was happy again.

However, hidden in the joy, there is a trace of loneliness.

Levine's face froze on her cheek again, staring at Jane. A touch of sadness and tenderness, a little bit to modify the edges and corners of his body, in the melodious and moving melody, quietly stirred up resonance.

Papi, the owner of the bar, sat down beside him. Levine looked up and then looked at Jane again.

"Boy, they're not bad." Papi said.

Levine raised his cigarette, curling smoke in front of his eyes, "hum."

"That Jane. I want to go to her

"... mmm."

Emily is so quietly watching the big screen, watching Levine's expression, the bitterness and loss hidden between the melody and light and shadow, like the dust slowly settling in the air, telling a story that belongs to a person in detail. Suddenly, she fell in love with the film.

That night, Levine stayed with Jim and Jane after all. He slept on the floor, Troy on the sofa.

Early in the morning, Levine woke up to the sound of Troy's breakfast cereal. Different from Levine, Troy is a positive, optimistic, easy-going personality, not complaining, not complaining, happy and complacent, but he got the chance to sign a contract with bud Grossman.

Troy left.

Levine is lying on the sofa, trying to enjoy the relaxation of a cigarette. He opens the window. But before he had time to take a sip, the rhubarb cat ran out of the open window and slipped along the fire escape. Levine chased out in a mess, but after a while of chaos, he failed to catch up.

Levine went back upstairs and woke Jane, who was asleep, to open the door; However, Levine didn't come in, but wanted to talk to Jane about the children. Interior is obviously not a good choice, so Levine borrows Jim's winter coat and leaves the house with Jane.

On the way to Columbia square, Jane is nagging and complaining, venting all her anger on Levine, and blaming Levine for all her faults. If this is Jim's child, she hopes to stay, because they have been trying to get pregnant; But the problem is, Jane can't be sure. So the child has to disappear.

And Levine?

Levine has been tidying up his coat. He was bigger than Jim, and his coat was slightly narrower.

What's more, no matter what he said, even if it was just silence, Jane's anger could not be calmed down. Any word could be a reason for Jane to attack.

Obviously, Jane knows that this is not the first time Levine has encountered such a situation, she is just another "accident" of Levine.

"Have you ever heard the saying 'Tango needs two people' Levine took all the anger and went back in a calm, sarcastic tone.

"Screw you." This is Jane's answer.

Levine's eyes fell on Jane's side face for a moment. Then he quickly lowered his eyes, covered up his inner feelings, and showed a look of indifference on his face. "Well, I think we should wait until you get angry, but we have to wait until..."

Levine drew a long ending, as if thinking seriously, "it's going to wait... When is it going to wait?" In the end, he threw the question to Jane.

"Screw you!" This is still Jane's answer.

Levine glanced at Jane in a complicated way. The painful struggle was fleeting. After all, he turned his head, breathed out a little, and did not speak any more.

"..." after a long silence, Jane's tone and attitude suddenly calmed down and said in a low voice, "I miss Mike."

Levine lowered his eyes, unable to capture the emotion in his eyes. He pretended not to hear and changed the topic. "Can I ask you a favor?"

"Are you kidding?" Jane looked at Levine in disbelief.

"Not for me. It's for the groffins. " Levine tried to explain, "their cat's gone. Can you leave the window of the fire escape open?"

"It's winter." Jane's anger had calmed down.

"Enough for the cat to slip in. It will come back. " Levine is still talking to himself.

"Back to our apartment?" After all, Jane's anger rose again, and she looked at Levine strangely. "He's only been there for six hours! Why did it come back? "

"I don't know. I'm not a damn cat!" Levine also raised his voice, slightly excited to defend, "think about it, I lost their cat, I'm very guilty."

"That's why you feel guilty?" Jane's eyes widened. She looked at Levine helplessly, speechless. She couldn't believe her ears.

……

Emily is sure that Levine is a jerk, but she underestimates the extent of Levine's jerk.

Levine returned to his sister's home, trying to borrow money to tide over the difficulties, but not willing to reveal his embarrassment, so he pretended that his music career was developing very smoothly, humbly criticized their lives, refused to give up his dream and lived with corpses and flesh, and put on a clear posture of artist. Finally, he returned empty handed.

At the railway station, Levine called professor groffins and mentioned the matter of rhubarb cat again. He also stressed that the cat was staying in Jim and Jane's house now and everything was OK. He would take the cat back tomorrow.

Levine was surprised to learn that Jim was looking for him. He didn't care about it at all. He just wanted to play it perfunctorily. However, Professor groffins repeatedly stressed that he knew what he knew, because Columbia Records had a recording opportunity, and one of the singers had to quit because of illness. Jim thought Levine should be interested.

So Levine came to Columbia Records.

Here, Levine meets Jim and the stranger al Cody.

This is not for folk singers to do accompaniment and other music work, but to record a special commercial song, full of popular simple chords and fancy singing skills.

When Levine asked Jim "who is the creator" with a playful expression, Jim answered with a calm expression, "I".

After the performance, Levine voluntarily gave up the copyright, hoping to cash the $200 reward check at the first time. He didn't care that his name couldn't appear on the list of creators and he couldn't get the royalty, and even couldn't wait to give up.

Leaving the studio, Levine went to his record company and asked if he had any letters from bud Grossman, but he was disappointed; What's more sad is that the record companies are sorting out "junk". One of the big boxes is old records that Levine and Mike can't sell.

So Levine came to Al's house with a large box of old records. At the end of the recording, Levine asked if he could borrow the sofa of Al's house, and Al agreed.

Just as he was about to leave, he went to his home in New Jersey and borrowed his mother's car, so he let Levine in alone. Levine tried to find a space to put the big box, but unexpectedly found another big box under the coffee table. The whole box was full of records al Cody couldn't sell.

Later, Levine comes to Jim and Jane's home again. Jane refuses Levine's request to go upstairs, but agrees to take Levine's belongings to the cafe downstairs and return them to Levine.

After raising the cash, Levine asked Jane when she was going to have the operation, but after a few words of conversation, they quarreled again. Levine accused Jim and Jane of being utilitarians, and music was just a tool; In short, Levine is condemned as a failure with no plan, no future, no merit and nothing.

Halfway through the quarrel, Levine rushed out of the cafe without warning. After a chaotic run, he caught a rhubarb cat. Obviously, this is the rhubarb cat owned by the grophines, which gives Levine a long sigh of relief. After returning to the cafe, he and Jane taunt each other again. The end of this conversation.

This is Levine's life.

It's not only for my music career, but also to solve the mess of my life.

However, when Levine learned from the doctor that Diane, the object of his last miscarriage, had not completed the abortion operation, and he knew nothing about it. The whole screening hall still gave out a low breathing sound, and he could feel the mixed emotions hidden in it, which could not be distinguished in detail.

Levine refused to accompany Diane or Jane to the operation, so he didn't know that Diane not only didn't have the operation, but also went back to his hometown to complete the production. However, the doctor has no way to refund the fee to Levine, because Levine does not have a fixed residence in New York, and the bars that used to perform regularly no longer appear.

So now, three years later, Levine knows that he is the father of a two-year-old.

Levine sat in his chair, staring at the doctor behind the desk opposite him. There was a trace of loss, a trace of pain, and a trace of bitterness in his eyes. That pair of dark brown eyes faintly reflected a thin water mist. Under that layer of bastard's coat, it showed a moment of vulnerability for the first time.