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Chapter Nineteen
Eric
Fuck!
I can’t believe Valentina. She told me that she’s not coming to the party and she’s invited Kevin back to her room. That's what he just told everyone as he's walking out of the door. Winking and telling people not to expect him back.
Okay, so she’s right. We’ve been here for a week. One long, painful week, but the majority of that included Florence keeping a watchful eye. I couldn’t do anything when she was here. Now, I can, and she wants to punish me, for not talking to her.
Well, she didn’t exactly make an effort. But every girl under the sun wants to be my friend at this party. There’s Gia the makeup artist, Rachel the stylist and Isobel who has a small role in the movie. I think that Isobel’s more interested in fast-tracking her career rather than keeping me company tonight. Their beautiful. Fucking stunning either, but they’re not Valentina. She’s the girl that I can’t get out of my fucking mind and yet she’s ignoring me.
Kevin’s been gone for twenty minutes. He must be in her room right now. I take a swing of my beer and grab hold of Gia, “Come on, let’s dance.”
As we start to dance, I realize that nothing about Gia is real. From her silicon breasts to her over inflated lips that make her look as if she’s been stung by a bee. To her blonde hair. Fuck! It’s as if she’s a real-life Barbie doll. And it starts to dawn on me, why I like Valentina so much. Everything about her is real.
From the fact that she bites her lips whenever she’s nervous, that she’s got the role of a lifetime and she doesn’t take it for granted. I’ve worked with girls that are just starting out in the industry. They get the one role and all of a sudden their treating their old friends as if they’re their slaves.
Valentina’s not like that, and even when her name goes up in lights, she’s not going to change. I know that for sure. Gia’s rubbing up against me and I feel that if she does it any more than her silicon breasts are going to cause a fire. I can’t stand it, and I growl, “I need to go and pee!”
She smiles and then continues to dance to her beat. Even her moves look fake. Fuck it; I’m going to see Valentina. I’m going to say what I should have said the moment; I got to her room. This time I’ll do it properly. I won’t take no for an answer, no matter how long she decides to lock herself in the bathroom for.
***
I feel like a caveman ready to kick Kevin out of her room if he’s in there and ready to fight for Valentina. She can’t say no to me. I won’t let her. As I step out of the taxi and head towards the hotel door. I hear my name being called out.
“Eric!”
I take another step and then I hear my name being called again. I stop dead in my tracks because I’m sure that the voice that’s calling it is Valentina.
“What the fuck?”
I say as I see a hand waving in the bushes near the hotel side window.
“Shh, come here,” Valentina says as she’s hiding behind a bush just by the front door.
“But what are you doing out here? It’s freezing.”
She’s shaking in my arms, and she has a hat on and some boots, but it’s not enough. Not to be stuck out here.
“I had a feeling that Kevin was up to something, so when he said that he was coming, I decided to hide out here.”
“Okay?”
I had the same feeling, but she could have hidden in the bar or something, not outside in the cold.
“Why out here? I don’t get it.”
“Well, if we go to your room then I’ll explain it to you.”
I nod my head and then take her hand, even with her gloves on I can tell that they’re as hard as ice.
“I don’t understand why…”
“Shh, fewer questions. Let’s get up to your room and then we’ll talk. Right now, I just want to get warm.”
Really?
What would she have done if I hadn’t come along?
