The Nearness of You by Dorothy Garlock

Author:Dorothy Garlock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2017-07-10T16:00:00+00:00

As she and Boone stepped out of the theater, Lily was nearly bursting with excitement. The film had been everything she’d hoped it would be and more. Gary Cooper had been heroic and handsome as the marshal of Hadleyville, while Grace Kelly had been a vision of beauty as his new bride. Even the villains, with Ian MacDonald as their leader, had given incredible performances. Lily had been captivated, completely absorbed by what was up on the screen.

Well, maybe not completely…

All through the picture, Lily had been acutely aware of Boone sitting beside her. She’d stolen the occasional glance at him, his face illuminated by the movie, more attractive to her than any Hollywood star. She wasn’t the only one looking at him, either; from the moment they’d entered the theater, members of the audience had been checking them out, likely wondering who Lily Denton was with. When the movie had reached its climax, the villains making their move to gun down the hero, Lily had been so wrapped up in the story that she’d been momentarily startled when Boone had reached over and taken her hand. She’d glanced at him, his face illuminated by the light of the screen, and made no move to take her hand away, instead enjoying the pleasure of his touch.

“That was great!” Lily gushed as they passed beneath the lights of the marquee and down the sidewalk.

“You won’t get any argument from me,” Boone said.

“I loved the outfits!”

“And that shootout was something else.”

“To say nothing of Grace Kelly! She’s so beautiful!”

“Yeah, she’s pretty easy on the eyes. Nice to talk with, too.”

Lily’s eyes widened. “Nice to talk with?” she repeated. “Wait, does that mean you’ve met her?”

“Last time I was in Los Angeles, as a matter of fact,” he explained. “I had a shoot on the United lot and she was there. It’s no big deal.”

“But she’s a movie star!”

Boone shrugged. “With my job, I’ve met all sorts of famous people. Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Joe DiMaggio, the list goes on and on,” he said. “But the thing is, the more time you spend around folks like that, the more you realize that they really aren’t that different from you and me.”

“I find that awfully hard to believe,” Lily disagreed.

“It’s true. They get nervous, have money trouble, and they want other folks to like them more than they’d admit,” Boone told her. “They might be able to sing one heck of a tune, hit a baseball a country mile, write a book, or look pretty up on a movie screen, but once you get past the glitz and glamour, most of them are kind of ordinary.”

Lily had never thought of it like that, but she supposed that if anyone would know, it’d be Boone. Still, in one way it was hard to believe him.

“Ordinary, huh?” she said, her voice teasing. “I bet that when you were taking Grace Kelly’s picture, that word was the farthest thing from your mind.”

Boone chuckled and held up his hands.

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