Pretending to Be Us by Taylor Holloway

Author:Taylor Holloway [Holloway, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

29

Lucy

“The flight’s boarding,” Daniel told me. He looked as tired as I felt. “Let’s go home.”

I looked up groggily at him. We’d been stranded in the Paris airport for two days with an increasingly irritable Bill. My back hurt from trying to sleep upright and I doubted my neck would ever be the same. It turns out that when you take a private plane to France, they don’t stamp your passport the right way. Then, when you try to fly home commercial, it’s a fucking disaster. And bringing a large dog without the proper paperwork? They don’t like that much either. The embassy had to get involved and there were fines and delays and lectures. But now, finally, we were going home.

At great personal and financial cost.

The way home from Avignon drained the rest of my bank account. And that paycheck? Somehow Darcy managed to find another loophole in the contract. I hadn’t worked enough hours on the production to actually “qualify” for the parts of the deal that happened after filming wrapped. It was like some kind of horrible practical joke.

I was right back to where I started. Only worse, because now I was in France.

“My mom’s power got cut off this morning,” I said as we shuffled our exhausted way down the aisle. “I’m not there to fix it. And even if I was, I don’t have the money to do anything.”

The money from selling my car was just enough to pay for my ticket home. The rest was already being paid to the hospital for my grandmother’s wrist surgery. That left me just enough to maybe make it through the month. Daniel was now just as broke as me. But he’d be okay. He could get his law license back. Or get a job as a paralegal for a while. He was educated. He’d recover a lot faster than me. At least financially.

“I heard from Santiago,” he replied, reminding me that he was going to be rehabbing his heart, too. “He says he’s sorry.”

I winced. “Oh?” Sorry hardly seemed sufficient.

“Darcy wants to sue us. He keeps texting me but I...” he trailed off. “I just don’t know.”

“Are you angry at him?” I asked. Daniel seemed weirdly conflicted about what to me seemed like a very straightforward betrayal.

“Of course, "he answered defensively. “You were right all along. He must have known what Darcy was up to. He just let me believe everything was going to be alright.”

“I’m sorry,” I told him, wishing I hadn’t been right. “I know you liked him.”

“Do you think she’ll really sue us?”

I shrugged. “Probably. She knows we’re broke. But I don’t think she cares. It’s not about the money.”

“I can’t believe he would let her do that,” Daniel said. “I thought he was better than that.”

“She probably has something on him, you know?” The more I thought about it, the more I considered that it might be true.

Daniel looked over at me. “You think so?”

I nodded. “She’s got a real talent for dragging people down to her level.

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