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At lunchtime, I managed to keep down my lunch, munching away alone in my trailer. Not thinking of Matt.
Matt.
FUCK!
I screamed—on the inside, as one of the runners was passing by my trailer.
“Hey, Aisha?” I cringed as I called out to her. I never did things like this. Ever.
“Whassup?” She came over, shifting the box in her hands to adjust the radio clipped to her utility belt. I cringed again. She was obviously busy, but she was a nice person and had stopped anyway.
“Any chance you can get your hands on a couple of boxes of paracetamol?”
She took her earpiece out of her ear and examined me. “You OK?”
“Yeah, just need a few boxes.”
“You trying to kill yourself?”
“What? No!”
“Like, dude, one box is enough to kill you.” She rolled her eyes.
“It’s not like that. I used…” Fuck.
“Normal people just pop into the corner shop and buy a box if they need one. I’m not your slave,” she sassed.
OK, I lied. She was not a nice person.
“I…I’m on set until late,” I tried, feeling stupid.
This was my life. I’d lived like this since I was thirteen, and I had no idea how to actually manage the normal things like shopping, keeping supplies in my bag, ordering shit off Amazon. I didn’t even know if you could order paracetamol off Amazon, and in all honesty, I just wanted something that I could use as an excuse to go back to Matt’s tonight.
He may be sick. He may need some.
Matt wasn’t sick. He’d have texted me and told me.
He didn’t have my number.
I scrolled my phone in a panic as Aisha sighed loudly.
“Dude. You’re bloody hopeless. What do you need? No illegal shit. I don’t do that.”
“God, no!” I was going to have to tell her the truth. “I used up a friend’s supply of paracetamol and drank his blackberry smoothies and ate some kind of cereal he had.”
“Good hook-up then?” she teased.
Definitelynota nice person. I regretted even opening my mouth, despite her face softening as she shook her head.
“Chill, man. I’ll get one of the drivers to grab some. What cereal?”
“I have no idea,” I admitted. “Green box? Maybe blue?”
She rolled her eyes so loudly that I recoiled from my own words.
“You actors are nuts,” she said. “Was it muesli? Or kids’ stuff? Big tiger on the front?”
“I don’t know,” I whined.
