Page 16 (2/2)

"Better get used to it"

"Yeah, we’ll see" He glances at Bob, iives hi shake I know from experience and barks, "Bob" Walt doesn’t even flinch

"Groovy" He looks at , ht was a bitch--the air wasn’t working right or so It was like hell in the sky" He stops, pulls out his boarding pass and scribbles souess is lyrics

I check the tiht "We can drop you at your hotel, coet back to my hotel, Bob says the car will be ready at 9:40 He lumbers off the elevator, less effusive than usual, and turns left towards his roo his Call of Duty guy I shake o down the hall tointo Brooke’s roo up

Emma’s room is a fen from Brooke’s, and since I knohere Graha her to go out with Walt andday than I did--more scenes, which equaledup with the te shiny Plus she has to film touy Okay, that’s bullshit… but I can be patient with good reason The concert to Emma’s and my off-screen cheroup Brooke is a totalhotter breakout bands like Walt’s She’ll definitely be there, and will no doubt keep Graha a couple of vodka shots in , I was too tired to think clearly, let alone do any e into boxers and a t-shirt, order a bowl of fruit from room service, take a few bites, and collapse Thank God ht

I could have sworn Graha, and I wanted him to, but instead, he turned away Or ran away, more like Because of Brooke? And then I went on set and Reid was attentive and flirting withI don’t think that’s what I want

I fell asleep way too early, thoughts of Reid and Grahah es of a Nirvana video on the TV--Co for two hours, and I can tell I’et back to sleep for another couple of hours, at least I putter around the room, restless, eat some peanuts from the mini-bar, brush rab my room key, open my door and peek into the hallway No one’s out I pad down to Graham’s door and knock softly, wait twenty or thirty seconds and knock again, a little harder Nothing As I turn to go back to lance back and see Graha to my room, I jareen and I’ the door behind me Dammit Dammit Dammit

A minute later Graha I chewHe , and he just ca actually happened this , and it’s silly to refuse to talk to him because he was in her roo every acting skill I possess to fix a pleasant expression on my face His arms are propped on either side of the doorfra up the space I’ but how casually sexy he is: barefoot, in jeans and a white t-shirt

"Hey" His dark eyes search hton my door just now…"

"Oh, no I , and yeah, I knocked on your door, but it’s cool I’m just bored I fell asleep for a while, and now I’m awake and kinda wired…" Shut up, Emma "and… uh… that’s all"

"Bored, huh? What did you have in mind?"

I try to push away the answers that crowd in,

"I don’t knoas just thinking ht" He s the top, his shirt teasing up and displaying a sliver of skin "So Can I come in?"

"Oh," I back into the roouess I’m still a little fuzzy from the late nap"

He walks past me and drops into one of the chairs and I sit on the bed, folding ?" he asks, tilting his head towards the television "Or… I could interrogate you, find out all your secrets"