Not Here to Stay Friends by Kaitlyn Hill

Author:Kaitlyn Hill [Hill, Kaitlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2023-04-04T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

I left the cucumbers from my spa treatment on the counter for too long, and we got fruit flies. Take it from me—you can’t avoid your problems forever.

—The Cove, Season 2, Episode 15

Liam

I really wish I’d never given Aspen Woods my phone number.

Actually, while we’re making wishes, maybe I’d start with wishing I’d had more of a backbone and hadn’t agreed to this job this summer. Or wishing that my dad gave a shit when I expressed my actual interests, which have nothing to do with working on a TV set. Would I go back so far as to wish my parents had never separated? I’m not sure, though it was clearly when they both started to go off the rails.

But presently, I absolutely wish I’d turned the movie star down, or told him I didn’t have a phone or something. Anything to stop him from texting me his stream-of-consciousness-style musings about my best friend he’s trying to win over.

I was doing pretty well tiptoeing around yesterday like a double agent. It was an off day from dates, Kristi had the day off entirely, and I was only scheduled for the morning, so I was instructed to “float” and see where help was needed. I had clamps clipped to my T-shirt sleeve if any grips or camera operators needed them, I set up apple boxes as required by camera operators, and in my back pocket were some batteries I traded out for dead ones in mics and walkies. All in all, I succeeded at avoiding Aspen so he wouldn’t make me talk about Sloane and avoiding Sloane so she wouldn’t try to talk to me about Aspen.

Up until I got to the parking lot, about to leave for the rest of the day, and Aspen finally tracked me down. He wanted to get a present that he could surprise Sloane with before the Casting Call, so he asked me if she has any favorite foods or drinks. Cokes in glass bottles came to mind, and he loved the idea.

And immediately asked if I could go buy him some Cokes in glass bottles.

That’s how I, an idiot, spent my time off still working for my dad—not that he knew. I guess when you’re one of the biggest celebrities in your generation and happen to be starring in your own reality show, it’s not so easy to inconspicuously pop over to the grocery store. Or that’s what I’m choosing to believe, anyway, as it’s better than the alternative scenario, in which I’ve actually become Aspen Woods’s servant boy.

I hauled my ass to three different stores before finding what I needed, then carted the bounty all the way to the set, snuck the six-pack into a bush outside Dorian’s house, and got back out as quickly as possible.

Hopefully it was worth it.

But what would constitute “worth it” in this case? This is what I’m wondering as I pull into set the next day, feeling my phone buzzing in my pocket and somehow knowing that it’s Aspen.

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