Unlucky Break by Kate Forster

Author:Kate Forster
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hardie Grant Egmont
Published: 2012-01-21T05:00:00+00:00

12

‘Why didn’t you take my calls?’ cried Jess down the phone.

‘I was doing my job,’ said Andie. ‘I can’t just leave, you know.’

‘I needed you,’ said Jess. Andie could visualise her pout.

‘I’m sorry,’ said Andie, as she pulled one of the mailbags of fan letters from James’s room into the study.

‘I need to see you,’ said Jess. ‘Can you come over?’

‘Now?’ asked Andie, sitting down at the desk.

‘Yes, now.’

‘Now’s not really great. Can it wait?’ Andie put her head into the enormous bag of letters. She pulled out a handful. Heart-themed stationery seemed to be very popular with James’s fan base.

‘Oh my god. I thought you were my best friend,’ cried Jess.

Andie put the letters down. ‘Jess, listen, I like you and everything but I have known you, what? A week? It’s a bit hard to be besties after a week.’

‘Bullshit, I knew as soon as I saw you that you were my BFF.’

Andie tried not to laugh. ‘Why was that?’ she asked kindly.

‘Because you had no idea who I was and you still wanted to hang. You don’t need me for anything but friendship and don’t want to see me fail. At least I don’t think you do. That’s hard to find in this town.’

Andie thought about Nikki and how easily Jess could have taken that path. She stood up. ‘Okay, I’ll come over now,’ she said.

‘Yay! Thanks babe, you’re the best bestie ever.’

Andie didn’t say that she never wanted a best friend again, after Marissa. She was like James, she trusted no-one anymore.

Andie hung up and walked onto the deck to find James reading a script in the afternoon sun. They had done their clean-up – or actually, Andie had done it while James pointed and argued, trying to keep things. She managed to convince him on most of them, but he stubbornly refused to let a few things go. She compromised, putting them in boxes to store in the garage.

‘I just have to whizz over and see a mate. Back in a jiffy,’ she said.

James looked up. ‘Huh? What now?’ he asked, frowning.

Andie rolled her eyes at him. ‘I have to go and see a friend quickly. I won’t be too long,’ she translated sweetly.

‘Your people speak in odd ways,’ he said in a pompous tone.

‘Says you, Mr Dime Piece,’ said Andie, tossing her greasy hair at him and walking inside the house.

‘She was a dime piece,’ called James after her. ‘The girl of my dreams.’

Andie drove to Jess’s house. As soon as she parked in the driveway, Jess was outside, practically dragging her from the car.

‘Thank God. I need your smarts,’ said Jess, pulling her inside and taking her to the white room. She plonked Andie down on the sofa and took up her usual position on the egg-shaped chair.

‘What?’ asked Andie.

‘It’s the movie, the war one,’ said Jess.

‘Okay,’ said Andie, leaning forward.

‘So I met with the director, he was nice. Kind of London-cool you know? Anyway he told me that I was the one for the part, like my manager said.

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