In Pieces by Sally Field

Author:Sally Field
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2018-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

When Steve appeared at my front door, slightly out of breath and almost instantly after he called asking if we could talk, I felt like smiling. Here was my best friend, my fingers-crossed, King’s X spot in the world, standing in front of me. We’d been filming the second season for weeks and I hadn’t seen him in all that time. Nor had I seen him during my hiatus, spent mostly at the Actors Studio. In reality, I hadn’t seen him in almost a year, except for the few times I’d come home to find that he had broken into my house and was waiting, wanting to talk to me—something he did no matter how completely I tried to lock him out. This time he’d called.

Without any catching-up words or “how’ve you been” chatter, we moved directly into the living room to sit on my new green velvet couch, purchased at Bullock’s department store, and looked at each other. Then, as if preparing to give me the results of a biopsy, he carefully told me that he’d met someone at a Sigma Chi party, that she was a wonderful person, and that he was going to marry her. All the blood went out of my body.

It was the last thing on earth I thought he was going to say, and in a state of stunned confusion I asked him, “Why?” over and over. It made no sense. He was going to school, living in a house with a bunch of other guys. Where was he going to live with his new wife? How were they going to live? I didn’t know what made me more upset, the fact that he was going to attach himself so completely to someone else, or that he was forcing me to deal with something completely removed from all the things I was actually dealing with. And no matter what I said, no matter how logical I was, he kept repeating that he wanted to get married and simply wanted me to know. “She and I have discussed it; nothing’s decided yet,” he continued. “But I told her I had to talk to you first and that’s hard on her. She’s a little sensitive about you.”

He then went on to tell me that, oddly enough, he was going to marry the actress Screen Gems had hired to play the Flying Nun after I’d originally turned the part down. Unbeknownst to him when he met her, she was the same person who had shot for two days on the pilot before being abruptly fired when I suddenly changed my mind. As mind-boggling as that was, I could barely hear him, much less register how Steve’s new girlfriend must be feeling now, knowing that he was in the midst of meeting with me. I was rapidly flipping through all the stages of grief: disbelief, then anger, then haggling, then sadness. Finally, after mindlessly arguing back and forth, trying to convince him that this was a ridiculous idea,

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