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Her answer didn’t fill me with confidence.
“This isn’t funny.” I repeated my question with a long pause between each word to emphasize how serious I was. “What. Did. You. Say?”
“Relax.” April rolled her eyes. “I’m not interested in telling the world that you slept with Dean. I have stories of my own.”
That seemed highly unlikely. What other stories did she have? That the cafe was running low on soy milk?
“You’re not the center of the universe, you know,” April sniffed, as she leaned over to switch her laptop back on. “As much as you might think you are.”
I frowned.
Did she seriously think I was selfish and self-centered just because I’d been in the right place at the right time, and was given the role of Daisy without even asking for it? That could just as easily have been her or Jamie. Or literally anyone else.
“I’m not the center of the universe. I’m exactly the same person I was a month ago.”
April gave me a dubious look.
“Are you? Because the KylaIknow wouldn’t have screwed over her best friend like this. The Kyla that I know would have said, ‘I don’t want to be an actress, but my friend April does. Why don’t you offer her the part?’”
The next words came out of my mouth before I realized what I was saying.
“Maybe Idowant to be an actress.”
The idea surprised me as much as it surprised April. Her eyebrows darted together and her lips narrowed.
“Since when?”
“Since…” I thought back over the past week or so. The whole experience had been a blur and while seeing my dad so happy had been a major factor in my decision to take the role of Daisy… if I had to be honest, the first moment where I felt like acting might be fun was when Wyatt had shown me how to read more into the script than simply reciting the words on the page. That was the moment when I stopped seeing movies as a puppet show and started to see them as a creative challenge.
But how could I explain that to April, when she was too busy trying to resume her live feed to listen?
“Since now.” I covered the camera with my hand. “Please don’t say anything, okay?”
April didn’t answer. Instead, she pulled my hand away and beamed at her camera.
“Sorry about the interruption,” she said. “We’ve had some… technical difficulties.” She gave me a pointed look before continuing. “While I’ve got Kyla here, who would like to ask her a question?”
The first comment popped up so quickly that the person writing it must have had it ready. I bent down and squinted into the screen’s glare to read it.
“User92815 wants to know: Is Dean as hot in person as he is on the screen?”
I chuckled, seeing this as an opportunity to do some damage control of my own.
“He’s a fantastic actor. And he looks great, but he has a girlfriend, so I don’t really think about him that way.”
April leaned out of the frame and moved her fist in front of her open mouth, miming a blow job. I slapped her and chose another question at random.
“User39155 has asked if Wyatt would take her out on a date. Well, I’m sure I could ask him.”
I answered a few more questions. To my relief, none of the commenters asked whether I’d slept with Dean or gave any sign that there were rumors swirling about him and I.
Maybe we were in the clear!
But then a message came through that was attached to a name that instantly got my attention.
“Oh shit,” I said as I read it, forgetting for a moment that we were on camera.
BrookeHayesOfficial:You stole my role, and I want it back.
