Cultivate a black technology god

Chapter 213 Ariel's past (16)

Ariel forgets when she's with Danny:
She originally wanted to walk alone.

In the morning, she only leaves the house when she is sure she won't meet any of her classmates.

After school, she dawdled at her desk and didn't start home until the kids were gone.

Walking down the street, running errands for her mother, she would often turn from one side of the street to the other within a single block, as many as six or seven times, in order to meet people from different towns.

She didn't want to see anyone but Danny.

Danny would get along with any kid, and treat Ariel the same way Ariel treats him.

It was quite natural for them to feel that they would be married when they grew up.

Ariel firmly believes that by this time, time may not be so strange.

Then, one crisp October day, Ariel and Danny were sitting on the front steps, and Danny said, somewhat awkwardly, "Ariel, I have something to tell you."

"What's the matter?" Ariel felt that his tone was strange, so she asked anxiously.

"Look," Danny went on, "my dad—well, he bought a gas station in Texas. Well, we're going to move there. But you'll come and see me. I'll be back here too. We'll meet."

"Yes," Ariel said, "we will meet."

That night, Ariel told Heidi Dorset that Danny was leaving Willow Corners for good.

Heidi shrugged her shoulders, obviously saying on purpose:

"Oh, Dad doesn't like you spending so much time with that boy anyway. He doesn't think you're a kid anymore and shouldn't hang out like that."

Ariel told Danny what her mother said, and Danny replied calmly:

"Your mother knew it would hurt you, so she told you." Ariel was surprised that Danny would say this.

The next month, when the Danny family was preparing to leave Willow Corners, they seemed to postpone it again, and it seemed that they were not necessarily planning to move.

Between Ariel and Danny, it's business as usual, just more and more often together because they know the time is ticking.

Ariel had a similar feeling to when she went to her grandmother.

However, the day when Danny came to say goodbye finally came.

Ariel sat with him on the front steps.

This has been a place where the two have had a cordial exchange of feelings for a long time.

At this moment, Ariel sat silently, but her mood was still calm.

"You'll come to see me," Danny reminded Ariel.

"I'll come." Ariel greeted.

"We'll meet." Danny repeated.

"We will meet." Ariel also repeated.

Danny stood up to leave.Ariel sat motionless on the steps.

"Well, Ariel," he said,

"Hmm..." He was overwhelmed by the young man's embarrassment, fell silent without saying a word, and bent down towards the place where Ariel was sitting.He kissed her lightly on the cheek, then stepped back, turned around, and left.

From infancy, Ariel has been dodging even the most casual physical contact.

Now she felt a shiver of joy run through her.

At first, she didn't realize that Danny was no longer around.

When she found out, she panicked and looked for Danny in fear.

There he was—his blond hair, his lithe body—moving away.

He turned from Vine Street to Main Street and disappeared.

Ariel sank down on the steps.

The prospect of rescue offered by Danny was hopeless.

The town is even more dull.

All that's left now is loneliness.

Time is still a little weird, like invisible soap in water, slipping away, slipping away.

What a clear sky, Vicky thought, getting up from the front steps.

When Ariel disappeared, Viki stepped into reality.

Vicky walked around the white house with the black shutters.

How wonderful it was to be able to drive the entire body of her Vicky for the first time.

Finally, these eyes belonged to Viki alone, to see the whole world, to look up at the clear and blue sky.

Came to the steps of the back porch, where Vicky decided to enter the house.

"Is that you, Peggy?" Heidi called from the kitchen window.

No, Vicky thought, this isn't Peggy, or Ariel, but someone you've never met.

I am not your daughter, I just took Ariel's place.

You may call me your daughter, but you will soon find that I am not afraid of you.

I know how to deal with you.

"Is the boy gone?" Heidi asked when Vicky walked into the kitchen.

"gone."

"You shouldn't be sitting in that cold. You'll get pneumonia. You know you're not strong."

"I'm so used to winters in the Midwest that this fall is child's play compared to that winter," Vicki replied.

"Don't do this to me," Heidi warned.

"I'm just presenting the facts," Vicki said.

"Well," Heidi changed the subject, "Elderville sent me a package, go to the post office and pick it up for me."

Wiki goes.

It's autumn, which is strange.While listening to the rustling of dead leaves, she thought: Spring, summer, autumn and winter should start in spring.She went down the back porch steps and walked down the path toward Main Street.

Autumn is outside, but spring is inside—the spring after the severe winter that has been secretly hidden for more than eight years in the depths.

She has been around since the fall.

Silently restrained, nameless, until today in October.

This period is when Ariel was three and a half to 11 years old.

Silence, yes.Nothing can be done otherwise.

During this time, Vicky (then unnamed), exerted various internal pressures on Ariel and the other avatars.

The wiki is silently working.

Vicki knew: She'd made a big decision when she rose from obscurity to the surface when Danny Martin went out of view.

But at that time there was no other good solution.

Wikipedia knows: the time to be useful is over, and the time to be active is now.

Since Ariel couldn't bear the parting scene, she had to take over the power to command this body from Ariel.

In the fantasy of the children's world, Ariel once created the image of a girl who is full of vitality and fearless, named Victoria Antoinette Sharou.

Wei used this name to name himself.

This incarnation, which has been silent until now, was thus born.

Walking along the main street, Victoria thought: it would be wonderful to feel this biting wind, to command this sentient body.

She felt like an old townsman, even though it was a newcomer directing the shell through the streets.

She has witnessed everything in the town many times.

Vicky knows what happened to Ariel Isabel Dorset, and whether Ariel herself is in charge or quietly retiring.

The unbelievable thing is: time, for Ariel who lives in the real world, is intermittent;

However, for Wiki, who has lived in the depths of his heart for many years, it is always continuous.

Time is unpredictable and sometimes blank for Ariel.

But for wikis, time is constant.

Wiki, who has a complete memory, plays the role of a "memory trace" in Ariel's fragmented inner world.

A reliable memory, combined with the confidence, fearlessness, and insulation from the negative effects of relationships that Ariel imparts in her fantasies, this is the source of Vicky's strength.

People who see Arielle Dorset's yellow body must think that she is going back and forth to avoid the townspeople.

Well, they won't see each other now.

Thinking so, Viki walked into the post office.

The package from Elderville has arrived, and Vicky thinks it's off to a good start.

Mrs Dorset would blame her if the package didn't arrive.

As for the lady (not Vicky's mother), she knew who she was.

All these years, she helped Ariel try to deal with this person.

After returning home and giving the parcel to Mrs. Dorset, Vicky went down the back porch steps again, toward the swing set.

It was natural for her to do so, since she was the one who made Ariel adopt the swinging approach to Heidi Dorset's "must do something" admonition.

Whenever Ariel sat there thinking about something and not saying a word, Heidi would nag:
"Don't sit around doing nothing. For the sake of the earth, do something!" While swinging, you can think about things and "do something" at the same time.

In the evening, after dinner, Heidi suggested that Vicki go for a walk together.

The two walked silently.Heidi's hand has been directing this Vicki, whom she calls her daughter.

Passing the house in Stickney, which was twice the size of Dorset, Heidi snorted and said:
"Stickney is old. I hope they kill him at home." Heidi also said about Ella Baines,
"Fucking dirty with a schoolteacher in town, the authorities should harpoon her to death;"

Talking about Rita Steed's mother is not actually her mother, and Heidi told her this situation a few months ago, so she was shocked and overwhelmed (Vicky thinks: you are not my mother Mom, I can tell you that too, to avenge Rita on you).

Heidi Dorsett also talks about Danny Martin.

"I'm glad you didn't mourn the boy's departure," said Hattie,

"I told you once: Dad objects to your playing with him."

"You said it," Vicki said.She knew in her heart that Mrs. Dorset's cruel scheme had been aimed at Ariel, not her.

"Well, miss, it's more than that," said Heidi with a childish triumph,

"You don't know that Pa had a conversation with Danny's father a few months ago, and Papa told him straight up that it's not okay for you to mix with people who don't believe in us like the Martins."

Heidi Dorset was a Methodist before her conversion, and like the Martins, Willard Dorset married a Methodist but objected to his daughter's marriage to a Methodist Friendship, what a hypocrite!But Wiki didn't say a word.

"Well, Dad looked down on the Martins for other reasons. He thought they had no status, no experience, no manners. Martin's father came here from New Jersey to find gold mines, and ended up driving a milk truck. .Now he's out looking for opportunities again.Where he got the money to buy a gas station in Texas,no one can tell.Anyway,Papa talked to Danny's father for a long time.Mr. Martin said, They're going away from him soon, so no one cares about it. But, miss, I think you should know what Papa thinks of Danny and Danny's father."

"Isn't Danny gone?" That's all Viki said.

"It's a good thing, it's what Dad said." Heidi said this, pushing her responsibility away.

Vicky felt: Ariel didn't know what her father was doing behind her back in her whole life, which might not be a bad thing.

"Okay, let's go back," Heidi said.

"I have long wanted to tell you this while dad was away.

Now that you understand, let's go home. "

The next day, Vicky was in school.The classmates are very cold to her.

She knew it was produced within two years of Ariel's grandmother's death.

Vicky saw clearly how Peggy Lou lost Ariel's best classmate in the past two years.

Peggy Lou always sat at her desk at recess and made paper dolls instead of going out to the yard to play with the other kids.

When school was over at noon and in the afternoon, she always rushed out of the elementary school, icily refusing to talk to or accompany her classmates.

To ask her to go somewhere with everyone, she said mysteriously:

"I can't go," said and ran.

After a while, no one asked her to play or do things together.

Vicky knew that Peggy Lou had isolated herself not just because she didn't like the other kids, but because they had brothers and sisters in the family and didn't have to be afraid, and she was angry that she didn't have it.

She would not go with the other children to their house, but always forced herself to believe that she did not want anyone's friendship.

So she ran back alone to the white house with the black shutters.

In that house, there was something lurking around every corner that made her angry.

In her painful solitude she had a compensation for the elation she felt in acting independently, in doing what she wanted without being directed or checked;

In isolation, she felt free.

Sometimes Vicky regrets that Peggy Lou should have been born to replace Mary Dorset at Mary Dorset's grave.

But Viki immediately felt that there was no other way to do it.

This is how she thinks every time she recalls the situation at that time.

Wiki also convinces itself that:

As lovely as Mary Dorset was, she, Vicky, was not her granddaughter, and there was no need to jump into the grave.

This kind of creepy thing should be done by Peggy Lou.

Ariel, who was standing by the tomb, was very sad and indignant.

Dealing with anger is Peggy Lou's function, not Wiki's.

Besides, Peggy's two years weren't too bad.

In the first place, it was mainly Peggy Lou's timely presence (not the hand that grabbed her) that kept Ariel from jumping into Mary Dorset's grave.

After the funeral, feisty Peggy Lou does something that rigid Ariel couldn't.

The mourners were staying at the Dorset home at the time.

Cousin Anita's two-year-old Ella is very capricious.

The Dorsets were grateful to Peggy Lou for taking Ella over from the grown-ups.

In fact, they're thankful that their daughter is finally getting active.

Vicki was surprised to find that Heidi Dorsett was treating her daughter much better than before the funeral.

The daughter who came back from the funeral talked back a lot and stomped on the furniture when she was angry, but was much more likable than the daughter before the funeral.

Peggy Lu is more "similar" to an ordinary teenager than Ariel.

Vicky vaguely feels that this is actually because Peggy Lou is more like Heidi herself than Ariel.

Interestingly, after Ariel returned, Mrs. Dorset actually regarded the real Ariel as "different from before".

"The child is so different now," screamed Heidi,

"I'm going to break through the ceiling!"

Vicki remembers telling Peggy Lou on the side of Mary Dorset's grave to promise people to call her Ariel Dorset because it was impolite to point out someone else's mistakes.

Today, Wikipedia does the same.

In the sixth grade classroom, when teacher Mr. Strong called out the name of Ariel Dorset, Vicky answered his question immediately.

(End of this chapter)