Star Shine by Constance C. Greene

Author:Constance C. Greene
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media

CHAPTER TWELVE

The day wore on sluggishly. Jenny’s stomach growled. Storm clouds gathered in the west and fought with Jenny’s stomach for attention. The two old men who had played cards so jauntily early in the day had long gone. The flat-haired lady told Jenny she had once worked with Gloria Swanson. Jenny pretended she knew who Gloria Swanson was, and looked impressed.

“They want you to put down your age,” said a fat man, emerging, blinking, into the brilliant light. “I lied. I took off five years. That’s all right. What difference does it make? Who cares?” No one answered, and the fat man ambled off into the shimmering heat.

A pudgy boy came out with his mother. They were arguing about who had the better chance of being chosen as an extra. “But, you see, Ollie, I’m the logical one,” the mother said. “I have presence. I have worked for years to gain presence, and now I have it, and you do not. You are far too young to have presence.”

Behind his mother’s back, Ollie made faces at her and at Jenny and Mary.

“You think they’ll give us lunch today?” Jenny asked.

“Not unless they hire you,” Mary said. “I’m starving. I wish I had a chocolate bar.”

“If I don’t get out of the sun soon,” the flat-haired lady said, “I might pass out.”

“Scott Borkowski said he heard they were picking between fifty and a hundred extras today,” Mary said. She hadn’t stopped talking about Scott Borkowski since she got back in line. Her lips twirled in a strangely unfamiliar way as she said his name.

“Scott said he heard they wanted people who could do break dancing. He said he and Neil and Joe have been practicing break dancing all summer. He said they were pretty sure they’d be picked. He said Joe sprained his neck and had to go to the hospital, and Joe’s mother said he couldn’t do any more break dancing so Joe had to sneak out to come here today. Scott Borkowski also said …”

“Give me a break.” Jenny rolled her eyes. “Once more with the Scott Borkowski bit and I might throw up.”

Mary’s eyes flashed. “Scott Borkowski also asked me where I lived. He said he might drop in sometime. He’s thinking of becoming a corporation lawyer because he’d rather be a little fish in a big pond than a big fish in a little pond.”

“Woowee,” said Jenny in mock amazement. “Maybe he’ll settle for a middle-size fish in a middle-size pond.”

“All right, girls. Which one’s first?” The scruffy little man snapped his fingers at them. Them. He was talking to them. They had reached the head of the line, and it was their turn to have their pictures taken and fill out the forms. They had arrived.

“You go first, Mary.” Jenny gave her a little push. She needed time to pull herself together. Now that the big moment was here, she wanted to turn and run.

“That’s right, Mary,” the man said. “You first and little sis will wait with me.

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