Off the Record by Camryn Garrett

Author:Camryn Garrett [Garrett, Camryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2021-05-18T00:00:00+00:00

@JosieTheJournalist: really wish i were in bed right about now

The entire cast is supposed to go to a cocktail party at this fancy hotel today, but I’ve been spending all afternoon thinking of ways to get out of it. I could say that I suddenly caught the flu. Or that I don’t want to be around alcohol because I’m underage—even though I’m sure no one would actually serve me. Or I could just hide in the hotel and hope that Penny doesn’t notice I’m missing. Because Penny is the only one who would notice.

Penny and maybe Marius.

Maybe it isn’t fair that I’m avoiding him right now, but I don’t feel like being fair. I’m angry. Actors who work with Lennox have to sign nondisclosure agreements, but I’m sure there are stories swirling around. There have to be, if Penny and Julia know other women Lennox has hurt. Marius must have heard something.

I want to know why Marius would even consider working with Lennox when there are so many stories. If I got an offer to be in his movie—which I wouldn’t, but still—I would say no. Even if it meant that I didn’t get to be famous.

“That’s not really fair, though,” Alice says after I explain all of this to her. “Because you aren’t an actor. Acting isn’t your big thing, but it is for him. You don’t really care like that.”

“I care!”

“I mean,” Alice says, “not like an actual actor does, though.”

She’s already dressed, wearing this fancy black dress that’s so low-cut you can tell she isn’t wearing a bra. It’s really hard not to be jealous of Alice’s body sometimes. She has curves, but in the right places—her hips and her ass and her boobs look the way they’re supposed to. Or the way girls on TV and in magazines look, anyway.

I, on the other hand, am half dressed—which means I’m sitting on my bed in my underwear and have not actually put any real clothes on—my stomach and boobs and thighs too big for me to ever look like her, unless I dig the Spanx out of my suitcase. I pout.

“I guess,” I say. “But it’s like…if a gigantic magazine gave me the opportunity to write a cover on Ava DuVernay or something, but I knew the editor of the magazine had done horrible things to women, I wouldn’t be able to say yes. I’d feel too shitty about it.”

“But that’s a hypothetical,” Alice says, leaning toward the mirror to put on an earring. “You say that now, but you’d probably say something different if you actually were faced with it.”

“I don’t think it’s that hard to say you won’t work with bad people.”

“It’s not a contest, Josie,” Alice huffs. “I’m just saying that not everything is black and white.”

I stare at the bedspread. Sure, not everything is black and white, but there’s a difference between working with someone who might’ve done something normal bad—like made a nasty comment—and someone who consistently harms other people.

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