In the direction of the bar counter, a thin, tall man in a black leather coat was clutching a girl's wrist with a red finger print on his face.
"Shame on you! Aren't you a whore?"
Although the girl was restrained, she still looked arrogant and coldly said, "Loosen your hand."
"I won't loosen it. I haven't been beaten by anyone since I grew up. Do you know who I am? No one in this street doesn't know my name, Dragon!"
The girl frowned, showing disgust on her face, "Can you shut up? It's so stinky, what kind of stinky dragon mouth is this?"
The crowd laughed at what she said.
The man lost his face and just dragged the girl out of anger and went out, "You will be punished for what you have done today."
They walked only for several steps and a figure blocked them, "You can't take her away."
"Little boy, who are you? You think you can rescue the girl with your figure?"
Although Colin was tall, but he was quit slim because he was just out of the hospital and his skin was even whiter than those average girls, which made him looked weak.
"She doesn't want to go with you and you cannot take her away. This is a society ruled by law."
The man laughed and almost lost his breath. He let go of the girl and grabbed Colin's neckline. "Brat, do you know the place here? It is the Backsea, a nightclub street. No laws here and you talked about the rule of law society? Just fuck off! "
Colin's classmates immediately rolled up their sleeves and stood forward with their strong bodies, "Whom did you ask to fuck off?"
"Let go of him right now."
The man was stunned for a moment, and he sneered immediately, "Okay, you have your companions. Guys, stop drinking and help me here. Didn't you see this group of brats?"
A row of gangsters with colorful hairs soon stood up behind him, and pulled out steel pipes under tables.
Colin was the first one to react and hit Dragon with his fist right on his head, turned around and shouted at the girl, "Run."
The two groups wrestled together in a second and the entire nightclub was mixed in. The fighting became more and more violent.
But no one noticed that the girl stood aside with a slight frowning. A tall man in the crowd walked towards her to prevent her from danger, and one of them whispered, "Miss, Let us handle it and please go..."
Before he finished his words, his eyes stiffened. He looked back stiffly and saw a young man holding a chair. Then he fell down instantly.
Colin looked at the girl and said anxiously, "Why you did not run?"
He crashed a thug who rushed up and it was really dangerous to stay at the bar. He grabbed her hand and ran out directly without waiting for the girl's answer. "Let's go."
...
When Colin returned home, Harriet was already asleep.
He knocked on the door twice and there was no answer. When he opened the door, he saw Harriet sleeping on the bed with her limbs greatly stretched, and the quilt was kicked to the ground. Colin thought it was really funny and put the quilt back on Harriet.
Colin was also a bit upset when he looked at Harriet's unconstrained sleeping gesture.
Harriet was bold and lively since she was a child, and she did everything regardless of the consequences. She often caused trouble by impulsiveness then he had to bear the punishment with her in the end. He suffered a lot from his mother's beating because of Harriet's misbehavior.
But their mother was suddenly examined with a cancer. The naughty Harriet seemed to grow up over a night. She took her responsibility as an elder sister and tried to support the family. Harriet was only ten years old at that time.
"If I join the army, maybe Harriet will not have to work so hard."
Harriet turned the alarm at 6 o'clock in the morning and kept sleeping. It was Molly who woke her up with a phone call. She managed to get up out of her sleepiness and quickly washed her face with cold water and painted a light makeup.
She just walked downstairs for two steps then met Colin with headphones hanging around his neck. He just came back on his bicycle. "Harriet, why did you get up so early, are you leaving?"
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