Busy Woman Seeks Wife by Annie Sanders

Author:Annie Sanders [SANDERS, ANNIE]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: FIC000000
ISBN: 9780446550604
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2009-04-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Frankie picked up the phone again, just to check it was working. He checked his e-mails again: a few offers for Viagra, or rather vi*a*gra, a cunning spam ploy his computer seemed powerless to repel. He sighed and looked around at the flat to distract himself. There was nothing left to clean or to tidy. Frankie tugged at his normally neat hair as he paced around the room, leaving it in spikes and tufts. Today’s audition had been his big chance—maybe his one and only big chance. And he had blown it. He couldn’t face anyone—not even Ella at the moment. Her perkiness just made it worse. And she certainly didn’t understand how the whole Alex thing had thrown him. Apart from the obvious loss of income his dismissal caused, Ella didn’t even see it was a problem. At breakfast that morning, she had been positively breezy.

“You could work in that cinema, like I did. You’d be perfect for it—you never fall asleep in films, do you? Always staying on to see the last boring credit, that’s you! Just change your surname, perhaps, if you do apply. Anyway, look on the bright side. You’ve got more free time. You don’t have to do that woman’s ironing anymore. And you don’t have to hang out with that weird old lady. Yes, I know you liked her. That’s ’cos you’re weird too. But in a good way. See you later. Off to work, tra la la!”

Frankie sat down and tried to read the paper. He’d gone out to get it earlier as a way of trying to get the phone to ring but not even that had worked. Unemployment figures up! Great, even more people to compete with. Frankie thought again about the other actors who had been at the rehearsal rooms in St. John’s Wood going up for the part of the angst-ridden Joel. They’d clearly all had more experience, even after applying the bullshit formula. Frankie knew, because he’d done it himself, you could discount around thirty percent of what anyone said, rising to forty percent before an audition, and as much as sixty percent if it was film or telly. He should just have left there and then, and not bothered to have humiliated himself. But after such an awful confrontation with Alex, everything the Bean had taught him had gone out the window when it came to reading for the part.

Frankie pushed Alex out of his mind. He had his own problems and it wasn’t as if he hadn’t tried to apologize. He’d left three answerphone messages and had even written a letter. If she was too pigheaded to see that everyone had just been trying to help her and her precious career, that was certainly not his problem. But the Bean. Frankie stood up and started to pace again. He really had to go and see her, but he’d let her down too, and after she’d pulled so many strings to get the producer to see him.

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