Table for Two by Sienna Carr

Author:Sienna Carr
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sienna Carr

Chapter 22

She looked hideous.

And did she really sound like that?

Did she look like that? Have those mannerisms? Was her mouth set that hard when she was displeased?

Roxy squirmed behind her sofa cushion and averted her eyes. Watching the first episode of the show was becoming more painful by the moment.

At this rate, she would suffer from PTSD once it was over.

Mason didn’t look any different. He was exactly as she saw him in real life. Loud and commandeering, as he had been in the earlier episodes. It would be interesting to see how different he was in the later episodes, like the one they had filmed a few days ago.

She watched for another five minutes before planting her face into her cushion and screaming.

It was in a moment such as this that she wished she’d taken her parents’ advice.

Oh, dear god.

Her phone rang and, grateful to have something to distract her from watching herself on TV, she grabbed it immediately.

“Are you watching this?” Hailey asked.

“I’m trying hard not to scream. I look awful. I sound so bad. Do I really sound like that?”

Hailey giggled. “Relax. We always sound different than how we think we sound in our head.”

Roxy was horrified. “My voice isn’t husky,” she wailed. For years, she’d thought her voice was sexy, raspy even. It had been her one good redeeming feature. “I sound like a man!”

“You do not.”

She thought she heard someone in the background asking, “What’s she saying?”

“I hate it,” she insisted.

“Hate what?” Mason came on the phone. She sat upright, in shock.

“Are you watching the show?” She could just see Hailey, Jax and Mason huddled on the sofa watching the show on Hailey’s huge plasma screen.

“You should have been here.”

“This is the reason I didn’t want to. I ... Oh my god. I look awful. Do I always look so angry?”

“Jax and Hailey were discussing that. They blamed it on me and said it must be my effect, because you don’t look that angry ordinarily.”

“I hate it.”

“So … do I? Is it because of me?”

“Is what?” she asked, watching her face as she scurried around the diner kitchen checking up on her staff. She recalled the day that scene was shot. It had been a particularly busy day, and it had been hot. Which would explain her greasy face. Maybe she should have taken her mom’s advice and treated herself to a facial? Or at least gotten a haircut and color. Both of these things were only-for-a-special-occasion, at least the facial was. But if going on TV wasn’t a special event, then what was?

“I wouldn’t be so hard on yourself, Roxy. That’s what everyone thinks the first time they see themselves on TV.”

“But this is bad. Reeeeeeeally bad.”

He laughed.

“Don’t laugh. I don’t think I want to watch any more of it.”

“You should watch it. We’re very good. We have chemistry. This is what I keep hearing, from the producers, from everyone on the show. From Hailey and Jax.”

“Chemistry?” She had no idea what he meant. She remembered that episode.

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