Falling into Forever (Falling into You) by Abrams Lauren

Author:Abrams, Lauren [Abrams, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-04-16T22:00:00+00:00

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Atlanta

6 Years Earlier

Her voice, full of unbridled enthusiasm, rings through the tiny house.

“I found him. The most perfect Buster ever to walk this earth. I saw him at the shelter when I went to drop off the donations from the fundraiser and I almost just got him and put a little red bow on his neck and brought him home, but then I thought, a dog is a big grown-up move and I shouldn’t be making these kinds of decisions on my own. But he’s Buster. There’s no doubt about it. We need him. I mean, he has the name Buster written all over him. Buster’s a good name for a beagle. A beagle is a real dog, not like one of those…”

Her talk abruptly stops when she finds me in our little kitchen. I tap my foot on the stone floor and glance up at her.

“What’s wrong, Chris?”

“Nothing. Nothing’s wrong.” I quickly try to assuage her worry, but a line crosses her brow anyways.

“I know that look. That’s a ‘Marcus just called me’ look.” She sighs and places her hand over mine and moves to sit across from me at the rattan table. “Just tell me.”

“No. Finish the Buster story first.”

“No way. Out with it. Marcus said what exactly?”

I sigh. “There’s a part that I wanted, and I didn’t tell you, because I knew it was going to go to someone else. And it did, of course. Go to someone else, I mean. Except…”

She knows what I’m going to say before I say it. She tries to cover her disappointment, but it’s written all over her face.

“The actor they cast had to drop out and the movie starts shooting in a week. They need someone to step in.”

“And they want you.” It’s not a question.

“Yes.”

“What’s the movie?”

“It’s an adaptation of a play that was on Broadway a few years back. About club kids from New York.”

“Ecstasy.”

“Yeah.”

“The Danny Mills project.”

I look at her in surprise. “How did you know that?”

“Marcus and I talked about it a few months ago. He sent me the script, and I read it for him, because I’m still not convinced that Marcus even knows how to read. I guess this was probably when they were casting it the first time.”

“I’m fairly certain that Marcus does not know how to read.”

“Maybe not. His taste in scripts isn’t much better than yours.” She gives me a wicked look. “Hmmm…a movie about rich, bored kids who party too much. What’s the tagline? ‘If you live life in the fast lane…you learn to live life in the fast lane.’ There’s your deep thought for the day.”

“Yeah. The tagline sucks. But the movie should be good.”

“I don’t know why they would ever think of you. It’s not like you have any firsthand experience with being a bored rich kid on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.”

“I’m from the Upper West Side. Get your facts straight.”

“Oh, that’s right. You have East Side envy when you’re not pretending to be just like the rest of us.

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