Julie still feels resentful about Bryce's words and actions.
Julie's mother guessed the truth immediately. She felt that there must have been discussions in their family, otherwise a little boy would not have thought of those things on his own.
This incident also became the trigger for the first family quarrel.
Julie's mother was fed up with all this, and Julie's father kept trying to explain, but eventually got angry.
This was the first time Julie had seen her parents yelling and arguing with each other like this.
In the evening, Julie's father came to apologize to his daughter, mentioned his brother, and told Julie that he loved his brother very much and that he had promised his parents to take care of him forever.
The mother also came to her daughter to tell her how much she loved Julie's father, how strong and kind-hearted he was!
Although they quarreled, they still told their daughter that they loved each other deeply.
This made Julie feel very happy, but she felt sorry for her father and mother, but she was glad that they were her parents.
She still decided to repair the yard at home, not for Bryce, but just to make the home better.
"Why should I care about what he thinks when he treats the eggs I gave him like that? But... I just care!"
Julie was very conflicted and entangled.
She vented her anger on those branches. At this moment, Bryce's grandfather came over and asked, "Are you going to cut the branches or chop them to death?"
Bryce's grandfather came to help, but Julie thought he was called by Bryce and wanted to refuse him.
Chait smiled and said, "I saw you in the newspaper. Renee (Chait's wife) would sit in that tree with you. She would sit up there all night!"
"Renee?"
"My wife! You remind me of her!"
So, Julie accepted Chait's help, and the old man and the young man worked together to repair the small yard for several weeks.
Do things and chat at the same time!
Julie told him the story about the sycamore tree. Chait understood her very well and told her: "The same goes for people!"
Julie began to observe people she knew before, which also made her grow a lot. She began to try to accept Bryce's apology.
At Bryce's house, her mother suddenly mentioned that she wanted to invite Julie's family over.
But Bryce's father objected, and so did Bryce.
Only grandpa thought it was a good idea. Bryce's sister thought Julie's two brothers were cool.
His mother thinks Julie’s parents are very nice people!
Perhaps because of the feeling of empathy, Bryce's mother felt even more that what Julie's father did was right.
She made a firm decision to invite the family over for dinner, and asked the family to dress up.
For Bryce, this was a disaster.
At this time, Bryce would secretly look at Julie during class, but he was afraid of being discovered.
He often thought about Julie and couldn't concentrate.
So he decided to talk to his friend Gary, but Gary's reaction was very strong: "Are you crazy? You hate her so much!"
"That's the weird thing, I just can't help but think about her!"
"you are done!"
"what do I do?"
"You should kill it before it's too late, that's not true emotion!"
"Isn't it?"
"You're just feeling guilty about the egg!"
"Yes, I also criticized her yard!"
"That's right, it's a doghouse anyway!"
"His father had a mentally retarded brother, and all their money went to help him!" Bryce explained.
"Retarded? Then it's time for you, right?"
"What happened?"
"Julie!"
"what are you saying?"
"This kind of thing is hereditary!" Gary said.
His friend's gloating words gave Bryce the urge to scold him.
He felt that what Gary said was wrong. He didn't know Julie at all, but when he said it, he said, "Yes! Let's talk later!"
Originally, he would go to Gary's house to play with him every day, but he suddenly found that he and Gary couldn't get along. He felt that Gary had crossed the line.
He thinks he really has a crush on Julie Baker!
This section is actually a very interesting section and is the key to Bryce's growth.
Of course, it was also the point where he changed from hating him before to liking it.
Soon, it switched to Julie's perspective again.
On weekends, Julie's family all went to bed late, but she got up early to water the water, but she was also very conflicted about her feelings for Bryce.
At this time, Julie's father came out. He was going to see his brother Daniel. Today was his birthday, and Julie asked to go with him.
Her father was worried that Julie would not be able to accept seeing her mentally retarded uncle, but Julie insisted on going.
In the end, her father took her to watch Daniel.
It was fine at first, but when eating ice cream, Daniel accidentally dropped the ice cream on the ground, and he suddenly went crazy.
Until Julie brought him another ice cream stick.
This scene also made Julie understand that what her father said was that her uncle's life was very painful.
But after leaving the ice cream shop, he acted as if nothing had happened.
On the way back to town, her father told her that Daniel had lived with them before they were born.
But soon it became difficult!
When she got home, it seemed that nothing had changed, but Julie felt otherwise, because before, Daniel was just a name to her, but now he is a part of the family!
And because Bryce’s mother invited the family over for dinner, her mother mopped the floor to relieve her nervousness.
Julie's father was quite disgusted with this invitation at first, because he had always known that his family looked down upon his own.
But because Julie’s mother wanted to go, he agreed.
But because of this incident, Julie was also unable to concentrate in school. At the same time, she kept thinking of Daniel. She was thinking about how hard it must be for her grandparents to have such a son!
But at this time, a classmate came over and told him that Bryce liked her.
The classmate also dragged her to eavesdrop on the conversation between Bryce and Gary, but the result made Julie very disappointed, or disappointed. The classmate apologized, but Julie pretended to be generous and shook her head to show that she didn't care.
But in fact, she cared about it, and this time Bryce and Gary's conversation completely made Julie's doubts disappear, and she decided that she no longer liked Bryce!
It can be said that at this point, the roles are completely reversed.
Before, Julie had always liked Bryce, but Bryce hated her.
But now, it's the other way around. Julie begins to give up on the heart-pounding feelings she once thought she had, but Bryce begins to fall in love with her.
In order to show his most handsome side in front of Julie, he put on the most beautiful clothes, like a peacock spreading its tail.
Finally it was time for the two families to have dinner together.
Julie confesses to Bryce that she overheard him and Gary laughing at her uncle in the library.
"I don't want to talk to you! I don't want to talk to you now, and I don't want to talk to you in the future!"
This made Bryce feel very sad, and he finally plucked up the courage and hoped to talk to Julie.
He told Julie that he actually felt that Gary's words were wrong at that time and wanted to give him a slap in the face, but because he was in the library, he...
But his reason was unacceptable to Julie.
"So you are a coward!" Julie turned around and left after saying this.
During the dinner that followed, Julie didn't say a word to him or even look at him.
It wasn't until the end of the dinner that she politely apologized to him.
Bryce felt even worse because he knew Julie had not forgiven him.
Bryce's mother and grandfather both think that Julie's family is very good, such as Julie's two brothers, but Bryce's father says that they are little gangsters with no future.
He even suggested that they might steal something to record it.
This made Bryce's sister very dissatisfied, but when she said something back, he slapped her in the face.
This caused their family war to suddenly break out.
Bryce had always known that his father looked down on Julie's family because he once called them trash and laughed at Mr. Baker's paintings.
"Only now do I realize that he was actually angry with himself, but why? Julie said I was a coward. Is it possible that my father is also a coward?"
"I don't know! What's the difference? Julie Baker is out of my life, or rather, I'm out of hers!"
Looking at the same thing from different angles is completely different.
The scene returns to when Julie is preparing to attend the dinner at Bryce's house.
She was also changing clothes. The difference between her and Bryce was that she kept staring at the painting of sycamore trees painted by her father.
"Suddenly I was so angry that Bryce never considered me a friend, ever. He backed down and didn't help me when it came to protecting the tree. He also threw away my eggs and made fun of my uncle to entertain me. "
She didn't even want to go to the dinner party.
But she went anyway!
Because she was very happy to see her mother and carefully made those pastries, she seemed to take the invitation very seriously.
So she felt she couldn't do that!
The showdown with Bryce made her feel very comfortable!
During dinner, she was also observing everyone, such as Bryce's father. In Julie's eyes, he looked clean and decent, but there was something terrible hidden under the appearance.
To put it simply, it’s gold and jade on the outside but crumbs on the inside!
Just like Bryce was lying in bed thinking before, she was also lying in bed thinking, but what she was thinking about was having such a family, how great it was!
It’s so nice not to care about Bryce’s feelings!
The school held a charity donation auction, and two beautiful girls competed for Bryce's lunch. Julie had been watching with cold eyes.
During the meal, Bryce suddenly wanted to kiss Julie like a maniac, which made Julie crazy, and she turned and left.
Bryce chased him out, but Julie didn't give him a chance to explain.
Gary also chased her out. He didn't understand Bryce's behavior. He didn't like the most beautiful girl in the school, but he liked Julie.
This time Bryce was no longer timid and chose to break up with Gary!
He found out that he really liked Julie. He went to Julie's house for the first time and knocked on her door.
But Julie didn't open the door, so he called her home again, but Julie's mother told him that Julie didn't want to talk.
This time he did not back down, but found Julie's house again and asked Julie's mother to let him see Julie.
But Julie's mother told him that Julie locked herself in the room.
Bryce couldn't sleep that night!
Switching to Julie's perspective, on the eve of the auction house, she found that she still couldn't really be done with Bryce as she said.
She struggled to keep her money at home to stop herself from doing irrational things.
But it happened that the neighbor's Mrs. Dobby gave her the money she had spent on eggs some time ago.
She kept saying that she didn't care about Bryce and didn't like him anymore, but when she saw him, she couldn't help but feel dizzy again.
But when a classmate showed up and no one bid, she couldn't help but raise her hand and bid.
Then Bryce suddenly wanted to forcefully kiss her while eating.
"He wanted to kiss me, kiss me, and I've been waiting for that kiss all my life, but not like this, not like this!"
“I was cycling home so hard I thought my lungs were going to burst!”
She told her mother: "Bryce wanted to kiss me, in school, in front of everyone."
At this time the doorbell rang, and Julie asked her mother not to open the door.
But her mother told her, “Maybe you should talk!”
"I can't! I can't do it!"
No matter how much Bryce harassed her, she didn't want to see him.
After two days, Bryce stopped.
She thought it was finally over, but she found Bryce digging a hole in her yard.
She angrily tried to stop it, but her father told her that he agreed.
She was puzzled, and soon she saw that Bryce was going to plant trees!
She knew instantly why he did this and what the meaning of planting the tree was.
Because that is a sycamore tree!
She finally walked out into the yard and came to the sapling.
Bryce looked at her: "This reminds me of our first meeting. How could anyone want to escape from Julie Baker?"
Julie looked at him: "He looked at me with those eyes, those brilliant eyes that were shining again! I knew my first kiss was still with Bryce, but it wouldn't be long! We stood there, I I just realized that we have never really talked in all these years!”
The two just looked at each other.
"Do you need help?"
"certainly!"
The two planted the plane tree together and started chatting together.
This was the first time they smiled from the bottom of their hearts at the same time.
The movie ends here.
This is not the tear-jerker style that Li Yi used in the past. Everything feels very bland, bland and ignorant childhood sweethearts, bland first love, even a little childish, but it looks so beautiful.
There was roaring applause in the theater.
In fact, for many people, this kind of movie may really be unbearable. After all, the movie does not have the ups and downs like mainstream commercial movies.
Some only have a little freshness that comes from the eloquent talk.
But because almost all of the media people and film critics invited this time have this preference, they feel even more that this kind of movie is a breath of fresh air in the current Hollywood film industry.
(End of chapter)
