Hollywood Days with Hayes by Hayes Grier

Author:Hayes Grier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

CHAPTER ELEVEN

VIOLET HAD DRIVEN through Beverly Hills before; she’d seen the most upscale neighborhood in LA many times. More specifically, she’d been down Rodeo Drive, a wide boulevard lined with palm trees and luxury shops and restaurants. With her uncle or Mia at the wheel, she’d gaped at passing store windows and the beautiful people strolling by.

But she’d never actually walked down the streets. Now, even with tourists strolling along, taking pictures, she felt a little out of her element. She overheard a husband and wife pronounce the street name like the regular rodeo, as in cowboys riding the range.

At least she knew it was pronounced Roh-DAY-oh Drive, Violet thought. That was one good thing. And after a few minutes of casual window-shopping, she relaxed. When a group of young girls rushed over, asking for Hayes’s autograph, she stepped back. Then she smiled at an older couple who were looking at her questioningly. I’m nobody important, she wanted to tell them. But I’m with somebody who is.

“I think it’s time to go undercover,” Hayes told Violet when the girls moved on. They rushed back to the car for baseball caps and sunglasses, Hayes insisting Violet wear them, too.

Then they ducked into a narrow cobblestone alley with small shops on either side. To Violet, the street looked like a movie set, and suddenly she felt like she was costarring in a film, cameras capturing her every move.

If this were a movie, Violet thought, their Rodeo Drive scene would be a montage of moments …

Hayes leading her into store after store … Violet skimming through a rack … explaining to a salesperson they were looking for a red-carpet outfit …

Hayes and Violet laughing over striped slacks that looked more like a prison uniform than a fashion statement …

Hayes preening in front of a mirror, modeling a flowing silk shirt and fedora … showing off a long leather jacket that he said made him feel like a couch … trying on a white-on-white tuxedo … then finally settling on a more casual tuxedo—more of a blazer with green lapels, a matching green V-necked T-shirt, tailored black slacks, and white sneakers.

The montage would show them laughing … their eyes meeting in the mirror … their fingers brushing when they reached for the same shirt.

Violet felt almost giddy. She was having so much fun; Hayes was acting perfectly normal, and there’d been no awkwardness about the night before. It probably helped, she realized, that they’d worked together to fix the Midnight Hawk scene, and that it turned out so well.

But was it all so relaxed because they were firmly in the “friend zone”? She thought back to the moments when they touched, when their eyes met. Her stomach tightened just remembering.

“Come on, V. Let’s get out of here.”

They left the last shop side by side, Hayes swinging his shopping bag back and forth. “That outfit is dope,” he told Violet. “Tonight I’ll be the best-dressed guy on the red carpet.” He turned to Violet. “Did you say something?”

“No.

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