American winner takes all

Chapter 23 Ignition
Back at the motel, Ethan looked up and saw Catherine leaning on the corridor railing and looking at him.

She was waiting for him to come back again, her brows were slightly furrowed, her expression was a little indifferent, and her nose was a little red.

There's a question, when has she ever seen him come back without a smile on his face?There's nothing going on at school...

Ethan faintly saw a scarlet word "danger" above her head.

"I've already made midnight snacks. I'll continue tutoring later and then practice football." Catherine turned around and walked into the room.

But this time, the dishes she cooked looked obviously not as careful as before.

"Try it?"

Ethan tried to eat a piece of steak that was cold and salty, spicy, and obviously had too much black pepper.

"Is it delicious?" Catherine asked with a sneer.

Ethan swallowed and said immediately: "Catherine, I have to tell you good news. Someone has taken a liking to the script written by Mia."

"In order to make my personal review look better, I joined the editorial department of "Highlights" before. Now that it is the finals, the school requires interviews with the parents of the football players, and I was arranged to interview Rice's mother."

"Guess what, she is actually a Hollywood agent. I took advantage of the break in the interview to mention Mia's script to her. She showed interest, so we chatted for a while."

"It's already twelve o'clock in summer time." Catherine said coldly.

"Yes, I just left her house. She provided a lot of opinions on the script. The two of us fully exchanged our thoughts on the script."

Catherine sneered: "Perhaps what you two fully exchanged is not just the thoughts in your mind?"

"By the way, there's this." Ethan pretended not to understand, then took out the $[-] nutrition subsidy he had just received from his pocket.

"This is the payment for the right of first refusal. When Mia finishes writing the script, I will show it to her as soon as possible." Ethan put the money on the table.

In Hollywood, there are many producers who are not sure whether a script can get investment, but don't want to give up, so they will sign a "priority" agreement and pay a certain amount of remuneration, which is regarded as a kind of reservation. Assuming that it cannot be promoted in the end project, the screenwriter will not return the money.

Catherine looked at the money on the table, and then at Ethan's harmless smile...

She was sitting very close to Rice's mother and heard her introduce herself.

The woman looks like a wealthy person, so there is no doubt about her identity.

The money is also on the table...

But Catherine still wasn't entirely convinced.

She stood up, picked up the landline phone, and dialed back in front of Ethan.

The phone rang for a long time and no one answered.

The woman on the other end of the phone just hung up the phone as soon as she heard him speak.Catherine felt that her tone was very wrong and too ambiguous.

"Isn't it connected? Maybe she has fallen asleep." Ethan said at this time.

Catherine silently put down the phone and stood up to take away the plates.

After a while, Catherine came back with the reprocessed ingredients, which tasted just right this time.

"I'll go see her with you next time." Catherine said suddenly.

She felt that women mostly covet Ethan.

Ethan nodded, indicating that he would keep it in mind.

After this operation, everything that night was finally settled.

The next day, Ethan spoke to Lisa from a public phone on campus, and calls from her home number were forwarded to Lisa's office.

"Who is that? Are you okay? I didn't answer the call on purpose," she said.

"That's Catherine..." Ethan introduced their relationship to her.

"I thought it was your girlfriend, so I hung up the phone without saying a word." She breathed a sigh of relief.

"Besides... I will be free the day after tomorrow in the afternoon. Do you need training then? If not, you can come find me." Before Ethan could speak, she actually said proactively.

Maybe this is the legendary wolf and tiger.And thanks to Ethan being a young athlete.

"The day after tomorrow happens to be the team's last day off," Ethan said.

"See you soon."

Ethan hung up the phone and called another person. "Who?" There was a female voice on the other end of the phone.

Ethan pondered for a moment, after all, the woman on the other end of the phone was not ordinary in the future: "Angelina Voight, right? This is Ethan, Katherine should have called you last night?"

"Yes, that's right. Who are you asking about who went to jail?"

There is actually more than one, which is a bit difficult to handle.

Ethan mentioned Rice's name.

"I remember him, the guy with pimples on his face. I met him several times at parties. He was also selling goods at the time, which was how that guy got into prison!" The other party gave a positive answer.

Ethan immediately asked for some details, including the time and place, but the woman on the other end of the phone only gave an approximate time and claimed that she could not remember the place.Mostly out of fear of implicating myself.

Ethan hung up the phone after thanking him.

Angelina Voight, at this time she has not yet dropped her father's surname from her given name.

And her later name was Angelina Jolie. BHHS is located in Beverly. How could there be no star alumni? In addition to this, Nicolas Cage also graduated from here. Ethan saw him in a musical still from ten years ago on the wall of the school corridor. The photo The signature is still "Nicholas Coppola".

I was going to turn around and tell Catherine not to have anything to do with bad people like Angelina in the future.

Then I went to the 12th grade floor, made some inquiries, and quickly found Adam.

He was using a cane at the moment, and as soon as he saw Ethan, he immediately sped up and came closer.

"How did you come?"

"How about the ankle?"

Adam shook his head and said, "It's not good. I need to recover for three months. Fortunately, I can still return to my previous state. The doctor told me that if I had stayed on the court, I might not be able to play basketball in my life."

"Thank you Ethan. I was too impulsive at the time, but you saved my career." Now, Adam feels scared, and of course he is grateful to Ethan.

"You also helped me a lot." Ethan said it was no big deal.

"This is different. Others who I taught you can also teach you, but you were the only one who did it at that time." Adam calculated clearly.

Ethan naturally accepted the favor.

"I came here today because I want to ask you for a favor. Help me find someone. She is in the same grade as you. She has not been in school due to physical reasons during this period..." Ethan stated his intention.

Adam was very popular in grade 12, so it would be a good idea to ask him to investigate.

"This matter has been taken care of by me. If you need help with anything in the future, just ask me." Yada agreed. This was a trivial matter for him.

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"You are a successful woman and very beautiful."

"You are the same. You are good-looking and quite talented in sports. No. 88, I remember it very clearly."

Rachel turned off the tape recorder and was quite annoyed. This was not an interview. This was simply flirting between a man and a woman.

Unqualified, absolutely unqualified!
She looked at Ethan, who was sitting opposite, and was thinking about whether to conduct the interview again when a student editor came over and handed a letter to her.

"I don't know who put it in the editorial office mailbox. It was unsigned and only your name was written on it."

Rachel opened the envelope, and the handwriting was crooked. It looked like it was written with her left hand.

A rough look revealed that this was an anonymous whistleblower letter. The letter mentioned that the whistleblower was in the same grade as Rice and was often bullied by Rice. He had privately collected a lot of shady stories about Rice and listed three things in detail. .

The last thing pointed directly to the relationship between his father and the school.

"I believe that the editor-in-chief of Highlights Magazine is a responsible journalist. News is one of the important tools to safeguard social justice. The crimes of evildoers must be exposed, and justice must be upheld!"

Rachel couldn't help but shake her head after reading the letter.

She doesn't believe in justice.

However, if such a thing is exposed, many readers must be interested!

That's the school's quarterback!
"What letter are you reading? It couldn't be a love letter written by someone, right?" Ethan, who was sitting opposite, held his chin and said casually.

"I don't bother to participate in these boring things, Ethan, you are really lucky." She raised her head.

"What do you mean?" Ethan expressed confusion.

Rachel didn't answer directly, but stood up: "I'm going to investigate some things now. Recording... I barely passed the test. Your interview task has been completed."

(End of this chapter)