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Not just knocking,pounding, as though they were hammering it with their fists.
I got up and yawned, rubbing my eyes as I went to the door. There were April, Jamie, and Jerome, grinning.
“We brought you a trailer-warming present.” April held out a potted orchid.
“That’s very kind of you,” I said through another yawn. I took the plant, which had a large pink flower, and after placing it on the table, opened the drapes to give it some sunlight.
“So these are your digs,” Jamie said, as she walked through the space, running her hand over the furniture. “I could honestly live here.”
“Speak for yourself,” Jerome added. He perched on one of the chairs and peered around. “I did my time as a trailer park kid. There’s nothing good about it, I promise.” He lookedenviously at my bed. “Not that I’d mind one to nap in between takes, mind you.”
“That bed looksmuchmore comfortable than the chairs in the conference room.” April leaned sideways to stretch her back with one hand on her hip. “Maybe I should hang out here.”
“Or maybe you should hang out in the conference room so you know when you’re meant to be working,” I pointed out. I didn’t mean to sound so abrupt, but Ihadjust woken up and Dean was still on my mind.
April stepped backwards with a hurt look on her face and I wanted to yawn again, but I knew this wasn’t the right time, so I inhaled deeply to pull it back.
“I’m sorry,” I said. “It’s been a long week. A long couple of weeks.”
“Says the woman who got to fucktheDean Hart,” Jerome sniffed. “I can’t tell you how jealous I am. Tell me, did his abs feel as hard as they look?”
I frowned, wondering how he knew about Dean and me, before I realized he was talking about the sex scene in the movie, not our real-life tryst. Especially once April added, “You should have seen how much she was shitting herself before they filmed it. As though she’s not the luckiest bitch on the planet.”
She said the wordbitchaffectionately, but it still stung.
“His abs felt like a washboard,” I confessed. “Especially…” Should I tell them about Dean and me? On the one hand, I didn’t want to give away his secret. But on the other… he had used me for sex, and that hurt. Perhaps I would regret it later, but at that moment, I wanted to hurt him back. “When he fucked me in his trailer.”
“Ooh!” Jerome and Jamie cooed in unison.
“Tell me everything,” Jerome said as he grabbed my hand. “Don’t leave out a single detail.”
“We were rehearsing the scene.” I sat next to the orchid. It felt good to get this out. “And he told me about method acting, which is where —”
“We know what method acting is,” Jerome said, rolling his eyes. “We’re professional actors, remember?”
“Yes.” I blinked, losing the flow of my concentration. “He told me about method acting and we were going to try it for one of the other scenes until I confessed that the sex scene was the one Ireallyfelt nervous about.”
“And?” Jamie sat next to me, perched on the edge of the seat. Only April remained standing with her arms folded, frowning.
“And one thing led to another…” I grinned as Jamie and Jerome let out another long, “Ooh!”. I felt like I was back in high school, regaling my friends with stories about making out with the boy who’d moved in down the street from me. “The only thing is…”
Jamie and Jerome threw out guesses.
“His dick was tiny!”
“He couldn’t get hard.”
“Nothing like that,” I said with a laugh. “The only thing is that he hasn’t spoken to me since.”
They both fell silent.
“Well, what did you expect?” April asked, and I stared at her, shocked. I knew she was jealous that I was filming the sex scene with Dean, but this was the kind of reaction I’d expect from someone I barely knew, not my best friend of twenty years.
“What do you mean?”
“He’s a celebrity, and you’re —” April waved her hand at me as though that finished the sentence.
“I’m what?” I planted my hands on my hips and stared her down. There were hundreds of ways she might end that sentence — a waitress, a nobody,broken— and I wanted to knowexactlywhat she thought.
