The Road to Her by K.E. Payne

Author:K.E. Payne [Payne, K.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, lesbian, Young Adult, romance, Celebrity, Actress, TV Show, Coming Out
ISBN: 9781602829268
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2013-07-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

“Girls, focus.” Stuart pushed his glasses up onto the top of his head. “Nine retakes in a row does not make me a happy director.”

It was the next morning. We were out on location in Hyde Park filming wedding scenes, normally a favourite thing for me to do on PR because it meant leaving the confines of the studio to go on location, which always felt something like going on a school trip.

“My bad, Stu.” Elise held her hand up. “I came off my marker and it threw me.” She glanced at me and mouthed, “Sorry.”

I hadn’t seen or heard from Elise since our heart-to-heart the previous day. She looked tired, I thought. Tired and defeated, as if every look we exchanged was agony to her.

“Shall we go from my last line?” I said, avoiding eye contact with her.

“From I wish it could be like this forever?” Elise walked back onto her marker, her back to me.

I stepped beside her.

“I don’t want there to be any awkwardness between us, Elise,” I said, glancing back over my shoulder towards Stuart and Laura, our make-up girl, who were standing talking next to the camera. “I still don’t understand this decision that you’ve come to for yourself, but I can work through it,” I said. “You said yesterday you wanted us to be professional. I can do professional.”

“We both can.” Elise wrapped her arms around herself. “When we have to.”

“Ready to go again?” Stuart called across, not waiting for our answer. He called the take, pointing his pen at me and nodding me into my cue.

I took Elise’s hand and walked with her up a short hill towards a tree in the distance.

“Are you happy, Jasmine?” Elise said her lines slowly.

“Very.” I squinted up into the sun. “Are you?”

“How could I not be?” Elise squeezed my hand. “I’m with you, aren’t I?”

“And you’re not scared anymore?” I asked, aware of the camera moving quietly behind us. “Especially after what Tim said when he saw us?”

“Tim’s an idiot,” Elise said. “So in answer to your question, no. I’m not scared anymore. I have you, and that’s all that matters now.”

We stood and held one another’s gaze while I did a mental countdown until I heard Stuart call “Cut!” and I knew I could move away from her again.

“Perfect!” Stuart called up the hill to us. “That’s in the can.”

“See?” Elise smiled weakly. “Professional.”

“Do you want to sit over there until the next scene?” I pointed to an unoccupied bench in the sunshine.

“Sure.” Elise started walking over to it, not waiting for me.

We sat down, the sun in our faces as we watched runners and make-up girls scurry around a little further down the hill. It was a typical early summer’s day, warm and cloudless. Elise and I were both dressed in our smart wedding clothes, having changed in the trailer on arrival. Elise was wearing a stunning summer dress, which showed her long legs off to perfection, and I was in a slightly longer, more flowing one.

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