Chapter 60 Are You My Aunt?
In the days that followed, Ebony started focusing on filming.
The filming of Fairy Island was scheduled very tightly.
Ebony plunged headlong into work, and looked up occasionally only to find Carlton's resentful figure, but after a few days, he was nowhere to be seen.
Ebony did not take it seriously. It was good that he was not there, otherwise she would have to try to hide from him.
However, due to Carlton's frequent appearances lately, and the fuss that Ebony made that day, everyone in the crew now knew that Moses and Carlton were brothers.
Moses's status rose suddenly in the crew. The crew members who initially had a problem with him due to his messing up the takes frequently had totally no problem with him now.
Moses's attitude towards others was the same as before, and he was not arrogant, but Ebony noticed occasionally that when the others was flattering him, a trace of coldness flashed between his eyebrows and disappeared in an instant, and he was again the gentle, diligent and polite young man.
A month of filming went by in the blink of an eye.
Ebony went to and fro the hotel and the set everyday, and had not been in contact with the outside world for a long time.
One day, she met Lloyd at the entrance of studio zone.
Lloyd had just gotten out of the car. He was wearing a dark coat with a white turtleneck underneath. He was wearing a mask and dressed in a low-key manner, holding a little girl in a white woolen dress in his arms.
The little girl was about two or three years old and Ebony could not see her face clearly.
They went through the back door.
Ebony did not take it seriously.
However, she bumped into them again in the elevator.
Ebony stood outside the elevator, looking at the adult and child inside, and was hesitating whether to go in.
At this moment, the elevator door was about to close automatically, and the man raised his clean and slender fingers and pressed the door button.
He asked, "You don't want to come in?"
His voice was as clear and cold as ever.
Ebony pursed her lips and walked in finally.
The elevator door closed, and when Ebony wanted to press the floor button, she found that Lloyd had pressed the same floor button, so she put down her hands and put both her hands into her pockets.
"I haven't seen you lately," Ebony was looking for something to talk about as it was too quiet in the elevator.
Lloyd glanced at her and said, "Well, it's been a while since I finished filming."
"Really?" Ebony Gibson had not paid attention to the progress of the next crew at all. She scratched her face and said, "So... congratulations?"
"...Congratulations on what?" said Lloyd.
"...Nothing," said Ebony.
The atmosphere was completely awkward.
Ebony looked up at the elevator floors instead.
At this moment, her pants were suddenly pulled gently.
Ebony looked down and saw that it was the little girl that Lloyd brought who was pulling it. The little girl was very beautiful, with fair skin and delicate features, like a little doll.
Ebony did not know what she wanted, and asked inexplicably, "What are you doing?"
"Virginia," said Lloyd at this moment.
The little girl called Virginia looked up at Lloyd, and then at Ebony, and she asked suddenly, "Are you my aunt?"
Ebony was taken aback.
So was Lloyd.
Ebony looked at Lloyd in confusion.
Lloyd bent down and took the little girl up in his arms, "Don't talk nonsense."
Virginia pursed her lips and looked down after being criticized, but she could not help but goggled surreptitiously at Ebony who was next to her.
The elevator reached the floor at this moment.
Ebony walked out first. The set of Fairy Island was to the right. She took a few steps and looked back, and saw that Lloyd was leading the little girl to the corridor on the left.
Ebony did not take this to heart.
The filming throughout the morning went well and ended at half past twelve in the afternoon. Director Bass called for mealtime.
Ebony knew the woman who was handling the lunch boxes very well now. As soon as it was mealtime, she walked over and hugged her shoulder in a friendly way, hinting with a smile.
The woman was so annoyed of her. She rolled her eyes, pulled out a hidden lunch box from underneath, and thrust it into Ebony's arms, "Here, take it and go away."
"I love you!" Ebony took the box lunch in her arms as if she were smuggling drugs, and sneaked to the back stairs.
She opened the lunch box. There were two big drumsticks and a few chicken wings. It was a special treat for her from the woman!
She was just about to eat when she felt suddenly that someone was looking at her.
She turned sharply and saw a fair and innocent child's face at the corner of the stairs.
It was the little girl that was with Lloyd in the morning. It seemed that she was called Virginia.
Ebony found a clean newspaper, put it on the stairs, and sat down.
When she looked up again, she saw the little girl lying on the edge of the wall, and was looking at her timidly.
Ebony laughed and waved to her.
The little girl opened her eyes wide in surprise, and looked behind her. When she saw there was no one behind her, she pointed cautiously at the tip of her own nose and asked gently, "Me?"
Ebony nodded, "Come here."
The little girl ran over with small steps and stood in front of Ebony.
Ebony asked, "Why are you running around alone? Where is that man who brought you here in the morning?"
The little girl said obediently, "Uncle Lloyd has gone out and hasn't come back. I'm afraid to be alone in the room."
Ebony guessed that the room she said was probably the changing room.
"You can't run around even if you're afraid. What should you do if you get lost?" Ebony admonished her.
The little girl bit her lip and listened pitifully.
Ebony thought she looked so cute, so she touched her hair and said, "Don't do this again next time."
The little girl did not understand, but she saw that Ebony seemed no longer angry, so she took two steps forward, grabbed the corner of Ebony's clothes and asked timidly, "Are you my aunt?"
She had asked this question in the morning. Ebony smiled and said, "I'm not your aunt. I don't have any siblings."
The little girl's light eyebrows knitted. She suddenly leaned over and looked at Ebony very closely with her big eyes.
Ebony could not help taking a step back.
But the child followed her, and her short fingers touched Ebony's face lightly.
Ebony was taken aback. The child's fingers were soft, and she could smell the scent of milk on her body.
The child touched her cheek first, then moved slowly up, touching her nose and eyes.
Ebony had to take her hand off, and admonished her again, "You can't touch someone you don't know with your hands. It's a bad behavior, understand?"
The little girl put her hand down, blinking her big eyes and said, "Eyes."
"What's wrong with the eyes?"
The little girl whispered, "Like grandma."
Ebony did not quite understand, "Huh?"
"The nose is similar too."
"The mouth is similar too."
Ebony laughed, "What are you talking about?"
The little girl threw herself into Ebony's arms suddenly, hugged her arbitrarily and said, "You're my aunt."
Ebony had to put the lunch box in her hand away. Looking resignedly at the clingy little thing in her arms, she said, "I'm really not your aunt. You 're mistaken."
"You're my aunt," the little girl looked up and pouted, "just the same like Grandma in the photo."