Because Fat Girl by Lauren Marie Fleming

Author:Lauren Marie Fleming
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2024-08-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Janelle opened the door to her apartment wearing an emerald crushed velvet suit with no top underneath. Her hair was disheveled, and she had a flush to her face that told me she wasn’t alone.

“Shit, am I interrupting?” I whispered, looking into her apartment.

“Who is it?” someone asked from the other room.

“A friend.” Janelle pushed us both into the hallway and closed the door behind her. “I’ve got someone over.”

“I see that.” I wiggled my eyebrows at her.

Janelle’s door opened, and a curvy woman with long dark locks wearing a stunning copper cinched satin dress stood there. “Did you double-book yourself?”

“I’m so sorry for interrupting.” I hurried back toward the elevator, feeling like a total asshole for showing up on my best friend’s doorstep without warning. This was Janelle, after all. That woman always had a date.

“Diana, wait.” Janelle ran after me. “What’s up?”

“She looks mad.” I nodded over at where the woman was gathering her purse and keys.

Janelle ran back to her apartment and took the woman’s hands in hers. “Crystal, this is my best friend, Diana. I swear, I didn’t know she was coming over.”

“I’m really sorry!” I yelled back at the doorway as I stepped into the elevator. “I love your dress!”

The doors started closing, but Janelle’s hand shot out between them, stopping me from leaving.

“Go back to your date. I’m fine,” I insisted.

Janelle stood firm, staring at me. “What happened?”

“What, I can’t just come surprise my best friend?”

“You are horrible at surprises,” Janelle said, still blocking the elevator door.

“Am not!” I protested. Janelle raised her eyebrow at me. “Fine, I am.”

“So what’s up?” Janelle pulled me out of the elevator.

I looked over at her door, which had shut with Crystal inside. At least her date wouldn’t be around to hear this. I took a deep breath, grabbed her hand in mine, and said the words I’d been dreading to tell her for weeks. “They want to hire someone else to be director of photography.”

“Motherfuckers.” Janelle dropped my hand and started pacing the hallway. “I’m sorry, I know you’re all buddy-buddy with them now, but motherfuckers.”

“They’re not my buddies!” Chris barely gave me the time of day, and Drew was in a gray area between colleague and…something else. “They’re my producers. You’re my best friend.”

“And what did you tell your producers when they said your best friend was off this film?” Janelle glared at me.

“I fought for you.”

“How hard? Did you flex your right as director? Did you demand they put me on the film? Did you offer to give up something else in return? Did you keep fighting until they had to give in? Or did you give up as soon as they said no?”

I couldn’t answer her, because she was right. I hadn’t done all I could. I’d spent the whole day with Drew and hadn’t even brought her up with him. Sure, I complained to Jaqueline, but I hadn’t advocated for Janelle, not really, not like my best friend deserved.

“Right,” Janelle said, interpreting my silence.

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