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“I know Florence I…”
“I said, don’t think Eric. Just do, and I mean it.”
Then she walks out of the door, hobbling which means that she did hurt herself jumping off the table. I need to stop being a selfish prick. My dad ran off with mom’s insurance money, which was fine at the time because the money was rolling in. As soon as the money dried up and my reputation turned to mud, my so-called friends were no longer interested in hanging out with me. It was as if they thought that by hanging out with me, they would lose their jobs too. This industry’s crazy. Hanging out with successful people is key, and losers are not even an option if you want to survive. Florence has stuck by me, even when I became a junkie. I need to remind myself that every time I become an arrogant prick.
“Are you coming, Eric?”
I shake my head as a chill runs down my fucking spine. It’s the same one when Florence found me overdosed on the ground and with only a few minutes to live. She’s the one that brought me back to life. Right now, I don’t know what I’ll do without her. It’s as if she’s the mom that I’ve never had, and right now she wants to turn her back on me.
Fuck it!
I need to grow-up and stop acting like a dick. There’s only one problem. I don’t fucking know how.
She whispers, “Just get your head out of the gutter for both our sakes. We need this to finish with no issues. Then you’ll be back on top. I promise you. I know you can do it. I have faith in you. Even if you don’t have faith in yourself.”
Then with those words, the door slams shut and I’m alone with my thoughts, and that is my worst enemy. Thoughts and I don’t go together it always lands me in big fucking trouble.
Chapter Fourteen
Valentina
I don’t know what to do; I feel completely lost as I came to the departure lounge and the agent and Eric just moved out of the way. I can’t lose this job, and I had nothing else to wear. I didn’t know whether to come casual in a pair of jeans and a shirt or wear a dress.
Wearing the only decent dress from back home, maybe wasn’t the best choice. It’s long, floral and extremely old-fashioned, but then before I came to the Big Apple, it was a nice dress. Something that I would often go out and feel nice. I needed something to calm down me down before getting here.
I don’t drink.
I certainly don’t smoke.
So, I came as me and maybe that’s something that I shouldn’t have done as they made a quick disappearance the moment that they saw me. Luckily, they don’t disappear for long as Florence my agent comes by my side.
“You’re shaking are you okay?”
I nod my head, lying something that I’m not good at doing either. Maybe this isn’t the type of thing that I should be doing, going away with one of the hottest men in Hollywood for a movie that I know nothing about. Not only that but the last time I saw him he was calling a taxi from his house and making sure that I was as far away from him as possible.
I wonder if she knows?
God, I bet they were in the room laughing at me. I want to go back to my room. Back to the bar and get on my hands and knees and beg Janice to take me back.
“Valentina. This is your first movie right?”
Again, I nod my head. She’s looking at me with a smile, but there’s something about her eyes that tell me t
hat she’s tough and has a reputation of not taking crap from anyone. Not that she would get it from me.
“Did you pack everything that you need for the trip? It’s just that you look as if you’re going on a summer vacation.”
“This is all I have,” I say quietly as my eyes dart from her to the room that she was in with Eric a few minutes ago.
Isn’t he coming back out?
“Well, as soon as we get there, we’ll need to go shopping. You can’t go around Aspen like that.”
Maybe she can see the tears building in my eyes because her last comment cut like a knife.
Florence shakes her head, “I didn’t mean it like that. It’s a pretty dress. It’s just not for the cold weather.”
I look at her in her fur coat, boots, and pants and decide that maybe I should have asked Harper if she had anything, because when I was leaving home. I was thinking that I was going to LA and I’ll never need a coat. Not for now and I couldn’t afford to buy one. I came with the most decent things that I have in my closet and judging by the look on her face I can tell that it doesn’t add up to much.
