Riven by Lissa Del

Author:Lissa Del [Del, Lissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Amazon: B0714HFFWD
Goodreads: 35195593
Published: 2017-06-08T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

We didn’t report the attempted mugging, although I became a lot more vigilant after that. Leo’s hands healed and we put the incident behind us.

Time seems to have sped up during the winter semester. It’s almost impossible to keep up with the workload and even Jess has cancelled Game Night three weeks in a row. Apparently all the mentors are trying to compete with Dianna and the library seems to be permanently packed with fifth-years. Thank God for Leo. He has taken to getting home early and doing the cooking, which tastes far better than anything I usually concoct. Most nights I get home late, fork up a few mouthfuls of dinner and then spend two or three hours at the small dining-room table, working on my thesis. Leo and I have both agreed that our London trip will have to be taken during the summer break – a celebration of my being awarded the advanced placement, he says. Or a commiseration if I’m not, I point out.

Despite my hectic schedule, I elect to bunk the day after Valentine’s Day. It turns out Tom Hardy really is featuring in the new Mission Impossible movie and his namesake, Tom, has it on good information that a scene is being filmed downtown on the 15th.

Feeling nostalgic, guilty and thrilled all at the same time, the three of us pile into a cab and make our way downtown. We can’t get near the set so we walk the last few blocks.

“This could be it!” Tom is leading the way. “The beginning of the rest of my life!”

“You still think you’re going to convert two hundred pounds of pure British testosterone?” Jess teases.

“You never know, Jess, my dear, you never know!”

We reach the edge of the crowd gathered around the set. There are barricades in place to keep the adoring fans out but somehow we manage to squeeze through the masses until we’re pressed right up against them. There are strict ‘NO ENTRY’ signs posted at five-yard intervals.

“Oh my God, there he is!” Tom squeals, pointing at a short man with a baseball cap pulled down over his eyes. An excited ripple runs through the people nearest us at this proclamation. Jess squints at the man intently, ignoring the jostling.

“That’s not him,” she says. “He doesn’t have a beard.”

“Maybe he has one in this movie,” Tom drawls, his eyes practically rolling up into his head at her ignorance.

“I don’t know, I think Jess might be right,” I say. The suspected Tom Hardy looks a little too rough around the edges and a little too old.

“You two are hopeless. You wouldn’t know a megastar if he bit you in the ass.”

Suddenly, Jess lets out a shriek of pure excitement.

“That’s where you’re wrong!” she gasps, waving her hands frantically to the left of a large trailer. “Holy shit!” I exclaim, as I see what she’s spotted. Tom Cruise is standing only a few hundred yards away, dressed all in black and taking instruction from a man who I can only assume is the director.

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