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Melody
“Christ, Melody!”
Judy’s hand flies to her chest, her eyes bulging as she backs flat against her dressing room door.
“You scared the absolute shit out of me!”
One of June’s friends, a sound tech who also happens to work on the set for The Late Show, let me into the studios while they were wrapping taping for tomorrow’s show. I’ve been waiting for Judy in her guest dressing room. And I glare at her as she tries to catch her breath.
“What did you put in there?”
She frowns. “Beg your pardon?”
“Yourbook, Judy. What the fuck is in there about me?”
She rolls her eyes, turning to march over to a mirrored vanity ringed with lights. She pulls a compact out of her bag, and I am every shade of completely not surprised when it’s revealed to be full of cocaine, not foundation.
I glare at her through the mirror as she dips the edge of a credit card into the white powder and takes a bump up her left nostril.
“It’s just…” she waves a hand, blinking quickly as she sniffs. “It’s just a book, Melody.”
“Am I in it?”
She shrugs noncommittally and takes another bump up the other nostril.
“JUDY.”
“Will you fuckingrelax!?” She snaps. “My God. Do you need a Xanax or something?”
“What I need is for you, foronce, to just stop lying and living in this fucking fantasy land, and to justtell me the truth!”
She turns, her eyes narrowing lethally.
“Fantasy land?”
“Judy, just—”
“IT. IS.MOM!” She roars with a fury that actually jolts me. She lurches to her feet, glaring nastily and jabbing a finger threateningly at me.
“It’s fuckingmomto you, you ungrateful brat! And thatfantasy landbrought you into this world! And gave you a roof over your head—”
“Will Cates put a roof over my head,” I snap.
“Because ofme!”
“Don’t,” I hiss dangerously, shaking my head. “Don’t you go down that road.”
“And which road is that Melody.”
“The ‘because of you’ road.” My mouth thins. “Don’t.”
“Oh, please. It’sallbecause of me!”
“NO SHIT!”
