The Sex Was Great But... by Tyne O'Connell

Author:Tyne O'Connell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Dress Ink
Published: 2004-02-13T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

LEO

“Thumbprints on my windpipes, flashbulbs in my face, tassels on my shoes…these foolish things remind me of you.”

The plan was to open preliminary discussions about the show based on my makeover with Jack Harris, the big-shot head of the network, at the charity dinner tonight. The idea was that he would mistake me for a player and then Nancy would do her stuff. I had a bad feeling about the whole thing. I think even Holly was having second thoughts.

Yesterday she interviewed me on camera about my makeover and what I feel I’ve got out of it. She didn’t laugh when I raised one eyebrow suggestively. I did laugh, though, when she asked how I thought I looked. I laughed so hard they stopped filming so I could have a glass of water and they could reapply my makeup. Yes, I had to wear makeup.

Auntie Lucy used to say that my dad Mike hated interviews. He said interviews were like thumbprints on your windpipe, and in the grip of Holly’s clinically professional interest I knew exactly what he meant.

Nancy was certain that Jack would go for it big-time. Whenever Jack’s name came up the girls started talking in italics. Holly and Nancy and their various agents and managers wanted a new time slot, so that MakeMeOver wouldn’t be competing with Holly’s mum’s show. They also wanted to air their first season a week earlier than scheduled.

I was key to achieving all this.

Apart from a good vibe on the dance floor, I had never been anyone’s key to achieving anything before, and while I did kind of enjoy the feeling needed part, I couldn’t quell the fear that I was an experiment that could go wrong at any moment.

I was going to let everyone down. That was the only thing I knew for sure.

The big unveiling—as Nancy and Holly referred to my last night—was to take place at this charity do at the Sky Bar at the Mondrian Hotel tonight—where I was to be officially presented to “the people who matter.”

If I passed muster, it was game on. The show would air, hopefully a triumph. But even though one part of me wanted to do anything I could to help Holly (the part of me that held her in my arms at night and would do anything for her), another part of me wanted to destroy any chance she might have of making the show. Maybe it was the part of me that was being made to wear those tasseled shoes.

All in all I was becoming less and less convinced that this show was a good idea.

I could smell her hair as she pressed the keys to the Porsche into my hand. “Sorry I can’t come with you to pick up the tux, Leo, but I’ve got this meeting with Larry to prepare our pitch with Jack and the network, and after that I’m seeing Wilhelm to get psyched. You know how it is.”

I didn’t know, and she knew I didn’t know.

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