Chapter 8
"Hey AJ, you seen Lowe around anywhere?" I look up from my coffee to see Francis towering over me. "Yeah i-uh think he went into hair and make-up and few minutes ago." Francis rolled his eyes and stormed off mumbling something about being late.
I stared back down at my coffee thinking about the kiss that Matt and I shared. He hasn't spoken to me since and i can tell he has been trying his best to avoid me. If i walk into the room he disappears, if i say hey he replies with a nod or just ignores me and when all of us go out for dinner or something he stays as far away from me as possible. It was really starting to piss me off and i wanted to know why for the past week he had been ignoring me.
"Hey Autumn why so down?" I looked up to see Rob smiling down at me adorned in full costume and make up and boy did he look gorgeous. I avoid his question not wanting to answer it scared he might judge me or think I'm just over reacting. "Ahh Francis wants to see you and he doesn't seem to happy either so I'd go now before he gets even grumpier." Rob just shakes his head. "Don't try to change the subject AJ. What's the matter?" He took my hand in his and looked me straight in the eyes i sigh and try not to give in by looking away. "You know you can tell me anything AJ. You're my friend." I look him back in the eyes and give in knowing how badly this could end but i needed to tell someone, get another opinion or just for someone to tell me i wasn't over reacting.
"Matt kissed me last week after a shoot and well i thought it was good but obviously it wasn't because he hasn't talked to me since and has been trying his best to avoid me. I know I'm probably just over reactin' or somethin' but i don't know." For a split moment Rob has an unreadable expression but he quickly covers it with a smile.
"Hey don't worry about him. If he is avoiding you instead of asking you out then it's his loss. Trust me...I'm a guy i know these things." I manage a small half smile "are you sure?" "Positive. Why don't i take you out for pizza tonight? Get your mind off it?" I shake my head "Are you asking me out on a date?" He smirks and looks up at me from our hands "Maybe." Again i shake my head "I don't think that'd be such a great idea Rob." He rolls his eyes and chuckles "Come on AJ if you get bored just say the word and i will take you back to the motel BUT if you have fun and last the whole night i get to kiss you at then end of the date." I sit there to think about it for a moment. Should i really go on a date with Rob? It could just make things messy...i mean i thought i liked Matt. Do i like Rob to?
"What the hell?...Sure." he grins "great i'll meet you here at 6." I smile and nod indicating yes. I was still really unsure of this. Should i really be going out on a date with Rob? Especially with what is going on with Matt? I probably should have sorted things out with Matt first but the problem with that theory is he isn't speaking to me so even if i tried he'd probably just ignore me.
After finishing my coffee i hear some yelling coming from the set. I walk over to see what it was as my curiosity got the better of me. I see Francis yelling at Rob for being late; Rob apologises but Francis just rubs his temples and turns to me. "I'm already on my way Francis." Knowing he was about to ask me to get him a coffee. He mumbled thanks and then turned to Susie and started pestering her i could tell she was already bored by the roll of her eyes.
"Francis!" I call and hand him his coffee he does nothing to acknowledge it but goes back to grumbling. I get lost in my thought sometimes when i think about how less then 2 months ago i was such a fan of Francis Ford Coppola and i never thought i would ever get to keet him. Now I'm working for him and sometimes I can't stand to be near him.
I walk over to Susie who is leaning against a metal frame. She looked gorgeous the setting sun was shining on her at all the right places, her eyes were glistening and her hair red hair shining to make it look like those models off ads back in 2015.
Her skin was glowing and I was quite literally distracted by how nice she looked. I stopped staring like a creep though to go and talk to her. "Hey Susie." I smile and lean against the frame next to her.
She smile back but it looked as if i had disturbed her from a deep thought.
"Hey sweetie. What's going on?"
"I have a problem to do with boys and well i don't really have any girlfriends I'm close to so i was hoping you wouldn't mind if i talked to you about it." She made a sort of sad face and then hugged me.
"You can talk to me about anything. Even boys....us girls got to stick together." "Thanks Susie...that means a lot to me." We both smile and she puts her arm around me; we start walking to nowhere in particular.
"So what's this boy dilemma?" "You see last week I kissed Matt and well i sort of liked him and liked the kiss but ever since then he has been ignoring me and it hurts. But now Rob's asked me out tonight and I said yes because i think i may like him to but I'm not sure. I am just so confused and I don't know what to do. Should I confront Matt about the kiss or ignore it and go out with Rob?"
She doesn't reply for a while and i can tell by her expression she is really trying to think of a solution. "Hmmm that is quite a problem you've got there." She went quiet again and by now we had done a full lap of the set walking past everyone rushing about.
"Here's my advice go on your Date with Rob and see if you really do like him if not then there's one part of your problem solved. If you do then come speak to me because then we got a real problem." I hug her "Thanks so much Susie." I then run off to meet Rob as it was 10 to 5.
I was waiting at the bench for Rob; he was 15 minutes late and I was beginning to think he stood me up. I started to bite my nails a habit I picked up from Regina. Whenever she was nervous she would bite my nails and over time I realised I would start to do it to. So I sat on my hands to stop myself from doing it.
I decided if he wasn't here in another 10 minutes I was going go back to my hotel room. To distract myself till then I decided to watch the sunset, the sky was a blazing orange almost as if the sky was lit on fire. There were clouds scattered throughout the sky that you couldn't really tell the colour of but they were bordered in a glowing orange almost as if heaven were behind them. The sun had disappeared behind the horizon and still Rob was nowhere to be seen. I decided to leave sick of waiting and a little hurt that he had stood me up.
I was about 8 feet from the bench when I heard my name being called out from somewhere in the darkness of the night. I waited for a few seconds but nobody showed up it was followed by some sobbing "Hello?" I called out waiting for anybody to answer but no reply came it was just sobbing that slowly started to fade away I began to freak out and I raced out of there.
My breathing was shallow and my heart was racing like a horse it's beat like the feet of the horse galloping against my rib cage. "AJ?" I jumped when I felt someone touch my shoulder. "Woah...calm down. You ok?" I turned to be face to face with Rob his face full of alarm. "Yeah I...just thought I ahh...never mind it's just my mind playing tricks on me." I chuckle to try to reassure him I was fine but to be honest I was actually really scared but felt safe now I was with Rob.
"Fair enough, sorry I am so late the filming went over time. I'm surprised you're still here actually." "To be honest I was just about to leave. I thought you had stood me up." He shakes his head and snickers "I could never stand you up. So you ready to go?" I smile he takes my hand and we start walking towards the pizzeria in town.
"So I was like yeah but that's just you compensating for something and he didn't reply after that." "You-didn't!" I reply in between fits of laughter "I really did." He said taking a bite of his pizza. "I can't believe you said that to Francis." "Yeah but we're all cool about it now."
"Thanks for tonight Rob...I had a lot of fun." "No problem...I had fun to." It was quiet for a while and you could feel the awkwardness hanging in the air. "Can i kiss you goodnight." I bite my lip unsure of what to say. "I don't know...you're not gonna avoid me like Matt are you?" He looks at me sadly almost like a puppy who knows it has just been abandoned.
"You really think I would do that to you?" I shrug and sigh "Well i didn't think Matt would do that to me but he did." I say softly unable to look him in the eyes. He puts his hand on my cheek and i feel as if I now have to look at him as if his hand is a forcing me to.
"AJ I would never do that to you." He then leant in and kissed me enough for me to know he meant it. He pulled away and smiled slightly "see I'm still here." I then kissed him "What was that for?" "I just had to make sure you would't run." I grinned.
Sorry for any spelling or grammatical errors i am on my phone so it is a bit harder to pick them up. Anyways hope you guys enjoyed the chapter please vote and comment. Xx
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