Volume 3: My days in a college fraternity Chapter 91 Brain harms people
"I still remember that when the artist who played Snow White said goodbye to me, she advised me not to be sad, because there would be a new Snow White to accompany me and make me happy tomorrow." Renee Moore sat in the co-pilot seat and told Tommy about her childhood experience:
"But when I went there the next day, Snow White was not her. I was sad for a long time because her family asked her not to work. Her family didn't allow her to work. That was too much, right? Eventually she returned to the countryside in Walnut Creek. So I think what you did with me, Tommy, can help many women. It's a good deed."
Renee Moore is a native Californian who lives in Anaheim, Orange County, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the location of the first Disneyland in the United States, only 28 kilometers away from Los Angeles.
Unlike the wild Tommy Hawke who still believed Spider-Man existed at the age of fifteen, Renee knew from childhood that fairy tales were lies, because she played in Disneyland almost every day when she was a child, and witnessed that Snow White and Sleeping Beauty would be released from the park because of their old age and loss of beauty. As a tourist from elementary school to high school, she outlasted three Sleeping Beauties and one Snow White in the park.
Tommy drove his 1963 Stingray, holding the steering wheel with both hands. "Are you sure you want me to accompany you to meet your father? According to my experience in Warwick, if a father knows his daughter was attacked by a jerk, his first choice is to pick up a gun and teach him a lesson, so that he will understand what it means to keep a distance from his daughter."
Renee's father, Benjamin Moore, is a senior exhibition designer for a large exhibition company in Los Angeles. He is mainly responsible for planning and designing various exhibitions. This time, there happened to be an exhibition in Silicon Valley that he was responsible for, and he came to inspect the venue, so he hoped to have a meal with his baby daughter by the way.
"My parents are very open-minded, Tommy. They know you exist, and when I was sixteen, I went on my first date with a boy. My parents thoughtfully prepared some precautions and helped the boy check his car. They don't object to me dating. My father once told me that it's a beautiful thing to fall in love during adolescence. If you fall in love when you're older, you'll miss the best and most innocent time of your life." Renee gave Tommy a worry-free smile and comforted him.
Tommy breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Renee's words. In the city of Warwick, where the people are tough, even if it was a childhood sweetheart like his brother and Ashley, after Ashley's father, Mr. Hull, found out that Tony had slept with his daughter, Tony ended up being chased for two blocks by Mr. Hull with a castration knife and was almost castrated.
Benjamin Moore is a 46-year-old amiable middle-aged gentleman with deliberately dyed white hair, a well-defined suit, a carefully trimmed beard, and an old-fashioned pipe in his hand. He looks like the kind of older male model that can appear in fashion magazines, a charming middle-aged man with a very artistic atmosphere.
This was Tommy's first impression of Benjamin.
After Renee hugged and kissed her father, she introduced Tommy to her father: "Tommy Hawke, my boyfriend in college. Tommy, this is my most open-minded and greatest father."
"Mr. Moore." Tommy shook hands with the other party and greeted him politely.
Just as Renee said, Benjamin was very open-minded. After shaking hands with Tommy, he looked at Tommy carefully and said to his daughter, "Yes, just like what you said to us on the phone, a sunny, kind and simple boy."
When the three of them entered the French restaurant Benjamin had reserved and followed the waiter to the table, Benjamin suddenly said, "Oh, Renee, go to your seat and order first. I'll ask Tommy to go with me to buy some computer magazines. My exhibition this time is related to computers. Since I'm going back to Los Angeles after dinner, I'd better buy them before dinner so that I can kill time on the plane."
"Okay, come back as soon as possible." Renee heard her father's words and agreed without thinking too much.
But Tommy Hawke immediately felt uneasy, just like the nervousness Tony felt before being chased by Mr. Hull with an axe.
"Come with me to the nearest newsstand. I need your professional advice, Tommy." Benjamin took the lead and walked out of the restaurant. He did not forget to turn his head to look at Tommy Hawke as he walked. He had a smile on his face, but his eyes were sharp.
Tommy followed the guy out the door in frustration , cursing under his breath as he walked, "So threatening or beating up your date behind your daughter's back is fucking called open-minded."
After walking to the street corner outside the restaurant and making sure Renee couldn't see them, Benjamin turned around and grabbed Tommy by the collar: "Asshole! What did you do to my daughter!"
"Calm down, Mr. Moore, we were just doing what we normally do on a date." Tommy raised his hands and said in his most sincere tone: "Hug, kiss... Well, we did the last step, but I don't think that in college..."
"Of course I know you did those normal date things! I want to know what's abnormal! You're fucking planning to trick my daughter into being your pimp! Right?" Benjamin glared at Tommy and growled in a low voice.
Tommy was completely stunned, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses: "What did I ask Renee to do? Sir, do you have any misunderstanding about me?"
"You placed ads in magazines like "The Pleasure Seeker" under the pretext of training women. Normal business would not be placed in those things. Renee also told me that you let her join a female equal rights organization on campus. So, you recruited those call girls in the name of equal rights and let Renee help you manage them." Benjamin said to Tommy, "Don't play innocent anymore. I have seen through you, you bastard named Tommy Hawke. I will report your problem to the school and send you back to where you belong."
Tommy lowered his raised hands and rubbed his face vigorously. "Mr. Moore, I did place ads in those magazines, but I'm not planning to open a brothel or an escort agency. I'm planning to teach those women how to use computers so that they can find a decent job."
Benjamin was too lazy to listen to Tommy's explanation: "Don't say such nonsense. I won't believe you. I am not my poor and innocent daughter. No matter how you pretend, you can't change the fact that you are a pimp."
"If I was planning to be a pimp, then Stanford University would have provided me with the startup funds to open a brothel! Their review is more detailed than what you know privately, Mr. Moore!" Tommy broke free from Benjamin's hand, too lazy to respect this guy who doubted him, and said in a mocking tone: "A Stanford student is going to be a pimp, Shit! You might as well say that I'm going to be a lower-level gigolo, which would humiliate me more!"
"Are you sure?" Benjamin was stunned when he saw Tommy say that he had obtained startup funding from Stanford University. Just as Tommy said, the university's review would be more detailed than his private knowledge.
Seeing that the other party had calmed down a little, Tommy nodded: "Of course, Renee is not an idiot, she has the ability to distinguish right from wrong, OK? She is no longer the innocent little girl in your eyes. To be honest, I learned all my kissing skills from her! There must be something wrong."
"But that's what Renee told us."
"Renee told you that I was planning to open a brothel?"
"No, she called me and told me that you put an ad in the Fun Seeker saying that you help women find jobs. I don't believe it because it's like me telling people that I love the art of exhibition design. What I love is the high salary of this job, so you must be planning to make money by deceiving women." Benjamin said to Tommy:
"Then I got another piece of news from her mother. She secretly told her mother that she bought more than a dozen pieces of sexy lingerie. So her mother and I were shocked. Was our daughter studying at Stanford University or doing some illegal job?"
"I can explain. These are two completely different things, Mr. Moore. I..." Tommy realized after hearing Benjamin's words that the two things Renee mentioned had made the old father piece together a big drama in his mind. He had become an ambitious pimp who wanted to deceive and use her daughter and prepare to build a call girl empire. No wonder he looked like he was ready to send himself to jail.
But before Tommy could finish, Renee walked out of the restaurant quickly and saw her father and Tommy on the corner. She didn't bother to wonder why the two didn't go buy magazines. Instead, she took the pager that Tommy had put in her handbag and said to Tommy, "Tommy! Jason told you to call me back as soon as you see the message!"
