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"Oh! I’e at both this seitimately connected to me at all

As I dream of trap doors and the benefits of quicksand, Leslie and Tim turn towards me, and I try to h the last thing I want is for these two distinguished actors to have a poor opinion of ht and it isn’t fair for thee me based on Chloe

Leslie recovers first "Well, I’m sure you’re proud of her She’s so talented At the et this scene set up If you’d justEmma work…" She leads Chloe to a chair off-set and et Mrs Pierce so to drink As she turns from a stunned and silent Chloe, Leslie winks at me

I think I love her

At the end of the day, I’ on five or six non-consecutive hours of sleep, but Chloe insists on going out to dinner since they’re leaving early in themore than roooing on, and soht," reat you were today" Unable to helpmy head on his shoulder as he pats my knee

Over dinner at a local barbeque place, Chloe talks about hoesoht whileto text Emily There are two missed calls and two texts from her; the restaurant was so loud that I didn’t hear the phone alerts The first text says: CALL ME That’s scary, considering the all caps, but the second, sent half an hour ago, is way : GOOGLE YOURSELF AND THEN CALL ME

Once in my room, I boot up my laptop and type my name into the search box And there, spread across the Internet, in e, are indistinct photos and rampant speculation about Reid Alexander and his current costar, E, offscreen, at a club in Austin

Oh Shit

I’d texted with Eht, but there’s a vast difference in getting the unadorned facts via text, and seeing it in grainy color on a 17-inch monitor, accompanied by assorted enhanced close-ups of the action

"I had no idea anyone could even see us Oh, God"

"No reason to panic Let’s be logical Okay, Reid Alexander kissed you, for real, not lights-camera-action And like what practically ninety-nine percent of girls would do if faced with Reid Alexander’s lips, you went for it"

"Yeah"

"So what’s the proble outed to the world? You said he was an a kisser"

"He is… but… there’s this, uh, coht, before I knew all of this Reht?"

"Yeah Well, he kissed ht"

"Okay, back up What?" I visualize her waving her hands around E, and she’ll wave both hands around She says it helps her think "Is this the same Graham you said was ‘just a friend’ or some other Graha mechanism Go on Spill it"

I curl on my side in the middle of my bed, exactly where Graha attraction to hi, and then atching a one"

"So Talking in bed on Saturday Interesting And then Monday, what?"

"I couldn’t sleep, and I knocked on his door, thinking we could talk, or so bullshit onhow she’ll react to the next part "So I alking back to my room… and he came out of Brooke’s room"

"Hold on Brooke Cameron, aka Kristen Wells--evil incarnate?"

"Emily, you know she’s not as horrible in real life as her character on Life’s a Beach"

"Yet she’s got this Grahauy in her room Why?"

"I don’t know I didn’t ask" Wow, that sounds even worse out loud than it did in hs, and I know she’d shake me if she wasn’t several hundred ed sans explanation from Brooke Cameron’s hotel room?"

I take a deep breath and leave out the huhtened rabbit scurrying for a hole in the fence "He ca around, and so" I see her dubious expression in rim line, one eyebrow raised just so

"I know It sounds ridiculous"

Eainst her front teeth, which drives her uys are you interested in?"