How to Hide a Hollywood Star by Avoca Gardener

Author:Avoca Gardener [Gardener, Avoca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-10T22:00:00+00:00

After breakfast with Arch, we found Rush in the dining room watching a video on his phone. He looked up when we came in. “A video message from Anissa,” he said.

“Excellent,” said Arch. “About time.”

“Yeah, I’m relieved.” Rush sighed, and I could see by the way he slumped in his chair this was more than an ordinary phone call.

“She kept me waiting deliberately.”

“I know you don’t like me saying it, but she’s a bitch, Rush and it’s way past time you were done with her,” said Arch.

Rush stood. “I’m done with her now. I’m truly done with her now.” He gave us a smile and left the room.

“Arch, it’s none of my business, but you called an eight year old a bitch.”

“Ah no, I just called Cecily a bitch,” he corrected.

“Cecily, the ex?”

“Oh yeah, of the prize variety.” He paused. I waited. I could see he was debating what to say next. “You know this is your business. It’s time you knew the whole story, and if Rush isn’t going to tell you, I sure as fuck will.” He sat down at the table. “Ready?”

I sat too. “Reluctantly.”

“Here goes. Cecily and Rush went to Julliard together and they were best pals with another student, Josh Freedland.”

“The scriptwriter?” Freedland was famous too. Mostly for an edgy TV series about shape shifters.

“Yep, that’s him,” Arch continued. “He wanted to be an actor then. So, the three of them go to class together and rehearse together and room together, and both the guys are in love with Cecily. Everyone’s in love with Cecily. But they compete and one day she favours Rush and the next day she favours Josh and she keeps them both on a string.

“Of the three of them, Rush is the one with talent and money. Everyone thinks he had family money, but he didn’t. He had a job, a couple of them: he parked cars, he bussed tables, he poured drinks. He paid the rent while Cecily and Josh went to auditions. Anyway, he gets a break, a role in that hospital soap and next thing you know he gives up parking cars and has a regular salary and the three of them move out of the dive they’re living in to a decent apartment.”

I waved a hand at him. “Not my business. It’s just not.”

He copied me, waved back. “Do me a favour and listen.”

I nodded. I had no idea why Arch thought I needed the deep background on Rush.

“Not long after that Cecily is in Rush’s bed and Josh has moved out. Everything’s going well. Rush gets Cecily a part on the same soap, then he gets a part in a Broadway play, and then a movie offer, and they marry, become America’s favourite couple, and before you know it, Cecily is pregnant and they have Anissa.”

“Most of this is public information.”

Arch wagged a finger at me. “Fast forward five years. Rush is building a serious career and Cecily is starting to make progress but it’s patchy. Then he figures out she’s had an affair with a producer.

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