Acting Lessons by Adele Buck

Author:Adele Buck [Buck, Adele]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quiet Confidence Press

Cath settled herself into the bistro chair with a small groan.

“How are you feeling?” Freddie asked.

Rubbing her rounded belly, Cath said, “Tired and spacey. But at least I don’t have morning sickness anymore. I can’t believe I have five more months of this. Except it’s only going to get worse as I slowly grow to the size of a planet.”

Folding her lips together, Freddie suppressed a smile. “Hey. My mom did it five times.”

“No.” Cath lifted a hand as if to halt Freddie, her expression pained. “Not again. This is enough. One child per New York couple. I think it’s a law or something.”

Freddie picked up her menu. “The dual strollers I have to dodge daily say otherwise. Yet the real estate expenses alone would be on the…well, the much side.”

Cath rolled her eyes. “Oh, you have no idea. Paul is already talking about moving to a bigger apartment and I’m like, ‘Hey. I’m going to be as big as an elephant in a few months here. Can we have the kid first and then think about the moving thing later?’”

“Oh wow. Yeah. I can’t imagine trying to move and being pregnant at the same time.” Freddie considered for a moment. “Of course, moving with an infant can’t be easy either. How’s Paul settling in to impending fatherhood?”

Cath’s big green eyes sparkled with suppressed laughter. “Well, we learned we’re having a girl, so he’s… going slightly caveman on and off. I have to keep reminding him that he’s a feminist and a pacifist and to calm the hell down.”

“Paul? Caveman?” Freddie couldn’t think of anything less likely than the kinetic, distracted, artistic Paul acting like a caveman.

“I think there’s a protective instinct in men that gets triggered by the damnedest stuff. He was kind of the same way around me when we first got together. It didn’t help. Anything.”

“Man-woman stuff. Even if the woman isn’t even born yet.”

“Exactly.” Cath’s eyes went thoughtful. “Speaking of which, how’s James? Looks like his show is getting some serious buzz.”

Freddie rolled her eyes. “It’s…complicated.”

“How so?”

“Well, there’s starting to be some buzz about him, too. He’s getting all sorts of attention. And we’re in a kind of a funny place. Good, I think–maybe–but funny.”

“And you don’t want to share him with all these strangers?”

Freddie barked a short, mirthless laugh. “No. But I’m not a hundred percent certain how he feels about me, so I don’t know what’s going on.”

Cath’s eyebrows crimped together. “Adults have this thing called talking. You might want to give that a try.”

Letting her head loll back, Freddie groaned. “I know. But I don’t even know how to bring it up.”

“You say, ‘James. I’m a little freaked out by this—okay, a lot freaked. I need to know how you feel about me.’”

“If only it were that easy.”

“Why isn’t it?”

“Because…”

“Pride? Fear? Suck it up and put your big girl pants on.”

“Yes, Mom.”

One of Cath’s hands settled on her belly and the other pointed at Freddie. “Hey. This one is the only one who can call me that and she can’t talk yet.

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