"Ash." After Uma got up in the morning, she saw Charlize sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper and said politely.

"Good morning." Charlize looked up from the newspaper and gave Uma a friendly smile.

Uma noticed Charlize's friendly smile. As a woman, she keenly captured the true and sincere friendship after the smile. Uma had met Charlize several times before, but Charlize never showed her friendship, so Uma thought Charlize likes Hugo for a time, so she showed jealousy. Although she herself denied this possibility later, her attitude today had never appeared before.

Uma wanted to explore the specific reason, because women knew about women, there was no reason for Charlize's change. But then Uma thought about it and was suppressed by her inner curiosity. Without managing the reason, Charlize was now able to show kindness to herself, which is the best thing. Uma knew that Hugo and Charlize and Alex had a good relationship, and she didn't want to be excluded from Hugo's circle of friends, so the situation is really good now.

"I'm really sorry last night. I'm letting you stay upstairs for the surprises I prepared specifically for me." Uma stopped slightly and expressed her apology kindly.

Charlize put the newspaper down and looked at Uma politely, "Haha, nothing, it's just upstairs."

Charlize actually still doesn't like Uma. It's not that Uma did something wrong, nor because Uma and Hugo's development went smoothly, but simply because the aura between women is not in harmony. She doesn't hate Uma, but it doesn't mean that she can live in peace with Uma. But after the incident last night, Charlize knew that although Uma and Hugo didn't know if they were officially dating, the two of them did develop further from their dates, so it is necessary for her to do a good job as a friend.

As a friend, especially a friend of the opposite sex, if you care too much about the other person's love life, it is easy to cause girls to be jealous and cause unnecessary misunderstandings; similarly, if you make some inappropriate remarks about your friend's girlfriend, it depends on the occasion, otherwise it will cause your friend's landmines and make a fuss, and it will end up in Zhu Bajie looking in the mirror and not being a human being inside or outside, and the friendship between friends will also be tested.

Now, whether Hugo and Uma are in a passionate relationship, it is just a benign progress, and Charlize knows that there is no need to express too much opinions, especially when Hugo is not asking for her opinions, she shows proper friendship and does not interfere or ask. The wisest choice is.

So, Charlize put away his unfriendliness and expressed basic respect to Uma and appropriate friendliness.

Uma received Charlize's friendship. She wanted to talk for a few more words, but found that there was no way, because she and Charlize were still incorrect. This is how girls made friends, so Uma just smiled at Charlize, nodded, and then quickly walked to the kitchen, started pouring coffee, and then took the coffee back to Hugo's room.

Charlize looked at the corridor leading to Hugo's room and was stunned for about a second, then retracted her attention and read the newspaper again. When Carl went downstairs to call her, he quickly got up and prepared to work on the crew. Today, Charlize was not late. She got up early and prepared and even had time to read the newspaper.

Uma didn't stay for long, and soon began to re-dress and prepare to leave. Hugo hugged the quilt and climbed onto the bed, saying pitifully, "Can't you stay for a while?"

When Uma looked back, she saw Hugo's expression of being pitiful, her mouth was slightly down, her long and narrow peach blossom eyes were watery, and her innocent and sad eyes were so unbearable. Uma sat back on the edge of the bed and gently scraped Hugo's nose with her fingers, "I have to go home for Christmas, you know."

Hugo hugged the quilt and made two muffled sounds, "You can go back tomorrow."

Seeing this man acting like a five-year-old child, Uma couldn't help but chuckled, and couldn't help but lower his head and printed a kiss on the man's forehead. "The air ticket to New York is not that easy to buy, it's Christmas." Uma's father is a professor at Columbia University. Her whole family settled in New York. Uma came to Los Angeles to develop her acting career.

Hugo bit his lower lip and muttered in a low voice like "You can drive" and so on. Uma couldn't hear it clearly, but looking at Hugo's childish and cute appearance, his smile bloomed. "It's not that I'm not coming back. I'll be back after Christmas. We can celebrate the New Year together this year."

Hugo then realized that 1992 was about to pass, and the first year he came to Los Angeles was about to turn the page. Thinking of this, he became much more serious, raised his head and bit Uma's lips, "Stay at home for a few more days to accompany his family."

"Never ask me to come back early now?" Uma chuckled.

"I'll deal with you when you come back and see you." Hugo whispered gently.

"Where are you, don't go home on Christmas?" Uma said with a smile on her lips.

Hugo's movement paused, and then took it with a plausible word, "My home is not in New York, don't worry." After saying that, Hugo kissed Uma's lips and swallowed the rest of his words.

Soon the two of them noticed the tightness of their breathing, and Uma quickly stopped Hugo, "You can't continue, otherwise I'll really be late."

Hugo did not stop him this time, letting Uma clean up his clothes, then escorted Uma away, looking at the empty hall, and opening his eyes widened. The festive atmosphere of Christmas finally came.

In the next two days, Alex, Carl and Joseph all went home one after another, and Hugo's friends Neil and Pedro, whom Hugo had just met, all went home one after another. Los Angeles seemed to have become an empty city overnight, which reminded Hugo of his appearance when he was in the Demon City's New Year.

After repeated consideration, Hugo decided to call his father again. Although the idea of ​​going home on Thanksgiving was rejected, this time it was Christmas, and it might be different, right?

The phone rang twice and was picked up, and Adam's irritating and vicissitudes of voice came over, "Adam Lancaster, speak."

"Hey, dad, it's me, Hugo." Hugo tried hard to make his voice look relaxed, "How are you doing recently? Are everything okay?"

"I can't die." Adam was impatient after saying something, "If you have anything, tell me quickly. Didn't you say last time that you are doing well now, why? What's wrong with you?"

At least he still remembered what Hugo said when he called him last time. This added a little confidence to Hugo, "Oh, no, it's not a job..."

"So?" Adam interrupted Hugo's words roughly, but it was used to Hugo. This was Adam's style, "Tomorrow is Christmas, and I want to go back and see you."

"You want to come back? For why, there is nothing here." Adam's voice was rudely pulled and squeaked, squeaking.

Facing Adam's words, Hugo suddenly felt powerless. He was very sure that his father just didn't want him to go home. Maybe he was worried that the father and son would have nothing to say when they met. It was so difficult to communicate on the phone. It was probably the scene would be even more terrible after the real meeting. "You are my father. I just want to spend Christmas with you. Is there anything wrong?"

This time, Adam was silent and did not answer the first time. He just breathed silently, and the heavy breath was clearly transmitted from the phone receiver. Just as Hugo was about to continue to say something, Adam's voice came over, "You are an adult, you have the right to make decisions. Can I stop you if you want to come back? Of course not. I just feel that there is no point in your need to come back."

Adam's style of saying this is really easy to anger others. Hugo is not so angry at his personality, but I don't know if it's because Adam's words hurt too much, or because he has already taken on the role of his son, and his family always speaks unscrupulously, so Hugo is also very angry, "What do you mean? What does it mean without any meaning? Christmas, this is Christmas!"

"Don't yell at me, I can hear it!" Adam roared back angrily, making Hugo feel his ears buzzing. "Our family has no tradition of Christmas. If you want to celebrate festivals, you can go to Jewish festivals like your mother. Christmas? I can't cook for you, nor prepare gifts for you, so, so what?"

This was the first time Hugo heard Adam mention his mother actively from his mouth, and it was a fact that Hugo didn't know, was his mother Jewish? Or was she of Jewish descent?

But Hugo didn't have the heart to think more, so he could only continue to follow Adam's words, "Then according to your opinion, we should not meet again? We will not meet on Thanksgiving, nor will we meet on Christmas? So, what are you planning to do and break off relations with me?"

"Don't push all the mistakes on me! Don't!" Adam's voice was full of anger, "You know that all this is your choice. You chose to leave me and leave home to go to that damn Los Angeles. You chose to become that actor but you were unwilling to do something down-to-earth. You were unwilling to go home and not want to call even on holidays. You know all this! So, don't lose your temper at me just because you have achieved a little success. Don't be as cowardly and incompetent as your mother but have a lofty dream that is useless. Don't know anything except blame others, don't!"
Chapter completed!