Lacey laughed and replied, “My finger wouldn’t be able to hold the one youwantedto get me. And we’ve not been anywhere since we got engaged, so they’re going to ask us about it. Well,you. They’ll ask you about it, and I’ll be hiding behind you because I still get embarrassed when they askmethings.”
“I know. It’s super cute.” Cameron laughed and pulled Lacey over to the sofa, where Lacey straddled her after Cameron set her beer on the table.
“If I stay here, it’ll be easier for you to side-step questions about us.”
Cameron laughed again and said, “No, it won’t. They’ll ask anyway. I can just refuse to answer and keep the focus on Kennedy, whether you’re there or not, Lace. I’m very well-practiced at deflecting their questions.”
Lacey squinted at her and said, “Miss Levine, you just announced your engagement to that lowly massage therapist woman. Laney, I think, her name is.” Lacey tried to use a deeper, mock-reporter voice that had Cameron laughing yet again. “Tell us: when is the big day? How many helicopters can we bringto invade your privacy? And is there a strict one-helicopter-per-reporter rule, or can we have multiple?”
Cameron knew what Lacey was doing, so she replied, “Tonight, I’m here to support my friend in her new movie. She’s getting so much award buzz that I don’t thinkLaceyand I should set our date yet because we might need to attend all the award shows and parties next year to support Kennedy in all her nominations and wins.”
Lacey lifted her eyebrow and said, “Nicely done.”
“Thank you,” she replied with a wink. “Now, can we finish celebrating down here before we need to get upstairs? The seventy-two people it takes to make me look decent for a red-carpet photo-op will be here soon.”
“You always look gorgeous, and you know it.”
“Don’t go giving me a big head,” Cameron replied and pulled Lacey’s T-shirt off.
“Cam! They’ll be here in, like, twenty minutes.”
“Yes. And I plan to take advantage of every single one of those minutes.”
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“You’re still nervous,” River stated.
“No, I’m not.”
“Oh, yes, you are,” River replied with a little chuckle. “I know your nervous expression by now, babe.”
“Fine. I’m nervous,” Kennedy admitted before she took the pillow that had been tossed aside and put it over her face. “This was supposed to be a lame-ass mom movie that I did just to have something to do.”
“But after, like, nine rewrites, the script got really good, and now, people are telling you you’re going to win things.”
River moved to straddle her naked girlfriend.
“What happened to the whole ‘no pressure, it’s no big deal’ from Zane? The pressure was supposed to come from leading my own show. That’s where the buzz was supposed to go.”
“It went there, too,” River said and shifted again until she was on her knees between Kennedy’s legs. “You need to relieve this stress before everyone gets here.”
“Again? You already helped me relieve it.”
“Clearly, I didn’t do a very good job. You’re still tense.”
“Babe, you could give me a million orgasms right now, and I’d still be nervous about this. It’s my first premiere in a long time; for one ofmythings, at least.” River licked her hard then, and Kennedy let out, “Oh, fuck.”
“Just one more. Then, we can shower, and everyone can show up, do your hair, and make you look all camera-ready. Later, though, I’d like another shower, and younotgoing to look camera-ready after that.”
“Yes, dear,” Kennedy replied, laughing. “But seriously, I can’t handle another one right now. When we get back, I’m all yours, I promise.”
“Well,that’sdisappointing.”
River went back to straddling Kennedy’s hips.
Kennedy winked at her and said, “Trust me, I’m more disappointed than you are. But when we do this, I like it to be all about us, and right now, I’m thinking about how many questions I’m going to get about the best supporting actress nomination or if all of them are going to be about the fact that Cameron and Lacey just got engaged. They love asking me every single time if Cameron and I are still friends and if you and Lacey keep in touch. It’s been over two years.”
“I know. It’s annoying,” River replied and climbed off Kennedy.
