One Wild Night: A fast, funny, rockstar read by MacIntosh Portia

Author:MacIntosh, Portia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

‘What’s the matter, don’t you want to look beautiful for Dylan?’ Kitty asks me in an aggressively sarcastic tone.

I don’t know what I was expecting, when Pat said he had a special job for me, but being taken to Kitty’s room to help her with her coursework was the last thing I expected.

It turns out that Kitty wants to be a make-up artist so she is currently in training and, as such, needs models to practice on and take photos of. Pat told me that even though Kitty had been trying things out on her mum, she needed – and I quote – ‘young skin’ for the photos.

I know what you’re thinking, sitting indoors where it is warm, having my make-up done, sounds much better than being outside shovelling snow, but this is Kitty we’re talking about. Not only can she not hide the way she feels about me, which doesn’t make for the friendliest of environments, but it is hard to relax when she’s in my personal space, brandishing tools, some of them millimetres from my eyeballs. My life flashed before my eyes when she came at me with some eyelash curlers.

‘Come on, hold still,’ she insists, losing patience. ‘You’re not exactly a great canvas to work with. Are you sure I can’t shave your eyebrows?’

‘Absolutely not,’ I say for the fifth time.

‘Ugh, fine,’ she moans. ‘But it’s not making my life easy at all.’

I chew my lip for a moment, as Kitty rubs wax through my brows.

‘So, what made you want to be a make-up artist?’ I ask in an attempt to make normal conversation.

‘Probably the same thing that made you want to be a journalist,’ she replies. ‘To meet famous people, obviously.’

I furrow my brow, unimpressed with her words.

‘I said hold still,’ Kitty reminds me.

‘Sorry, sorry,’ I reply. ‘That’s not why I became a journalist.’

‘It got you a famous boyfriend,’ she points out.

It didn’t, of course, but I can’t tell her that.

‘There is more to life than celebrities,’ I tell her. ‘And, to be honest, they are not the best people to have relationships with.’

‘What do you mean?’ Kitty asks, stopping all at once.

‘I just mean that dating “normal” people, going out with boys who aren’t in the public eye, who have quieter lives – they are a much better choice, to start a relationship with,’ I explain.

‘Why?’ Kitty says, not sounding like she believes a word of it.

‘Because men who are in the public eye don’t always have the best intentions,’ I explain. ‘They have everything they could possibly want, and they’re not used to hearing no, and there are rarely any consequences for their actions so the likelihood of getting into a loving, healthy, faithful relationship is slim.’

Kitty leans in to look me in the eye, her face only a matter of inches from my own.

‘I’m sure Dylan will be pleased to hear that you just said all of that,’ she tells me with a smug smile.

Oh boy. This really isn’t the smoking gun that Kitty believes it is.

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