Secrets of My Hollywood Life: There’s No Place Like Home by Jen Calonita

Secrets of My Hollywood Life: There’s No Place Like Home by Jen Calonita

Author:Jen Calonita [CALONITA, JEN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Poppy


TWELVE: Everything Is Not What It Seems

Austin is standing right in front of me, and my good foot is glued to the sidewalk in a mixture of panic, terror, and pure adrenaline-fueled excitement.

I don’t know what to do. My initial instinct is to burst into tears, throw my arms around him, and sob “Thank God you’re okay!” over and over along with “I’m so, SO sorry.” I want this Austin and the other one out there in the universe to know that even more than I want to get out of here. But freaking out like that would be a little dramatic, even for an actress.

“Uh, could you take your crutch off my good foot?” Austin asks bluntly.

“Oh, yeah! Sorry.” I can’t stop staring. There are so many thoughts running through my head, like the one saying I should kiss Austin as hard as I can and not let go. But that would be inappropriate.

Darn.

“That’s better,” he says when I lift my crutch, and then he smiles. Smiles! “I was wondering when I’d see you,” he adds, as if we’re friends. Are we friends here? “I wanted to talk to you before this whole thing spiraled out of control, you know?”

I’m not paying too much attention to what he’s saying because all I can think about is that after almost a week of imagining this moment, Austin is right here! Standing in front of me! I take in every inch of him from the top of his blond head to his toes—okay, his cast. Ouch. His whole left leg is in a cast, and he’s on crutches, just like me. I did that to him. I put Austin in a cast, both here and probably in the real world too, and the guilt of that will never go away no matter how many times I apologize. The rest of Austin appears fine, thankfully. His hair looks exactly the same—long bangs, sort of wavy locks—and his face has that sun-kissed glow you get from spending hours on a muddy field. I don’t recognize the outfit he’s wearing, but I like it. He has on a red Abercrombie pullover and navy wind pants that are rolled up on his left leg.

“I… I… are you okay?” I ask nervously.

“If you call being in a cast okay,” he says, acknowledging his leg with a small shrug. But the way he says it, it doesn’t sound mean. Just matter-of-fact. This conversation is going better than I expected.

“I’m so sorry,” I blurt out. “I don’t know what happened!” Literally. “One minute we were driving, and the next the world was upside down. The last thing I’d ever want is to hurt you.” He looks at me curiously. “For anyone to get hurt,” I clarify.

“I know.” He exhales sharply. “You kept saying that when we were being put in the ambulance. Why would you want to run me down? We’re sort of friends.”

We’re friends! This is a good sign, and yet, we’re just friends. Hmph.

Austin sighs. “At least we were friends.



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