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He looks to ht I ht, but I decided not to”

His face is kind as the corner of his lip curls up, and he shakes his head

“Jesus What a great surprise A really, really nice one to get today” I blush a little as he leans into the bar counter with an elbow and turns his attention to me so that his body is squarely head on “So, what have you been up to since then?” he asks casually, tucking his foot onto the rung of the barstool behind him

I choke on hts for real estate inme what’s happened in the last twenty-five years?” I question, and he nods enthusiastically with a grin

“Pretty much”

I s or two”

The truth is, the last twenty-five years have been filled to the brim Shortly after he left town,class, and at the teacher’s praise, proceeded to run us through every audition in Hollywood

The Weaver Siblings, they called us As a brother and sister set, we did just about as much business as we could handle by the time I made it to my eleventh birthday My parents pulled us out of school and enrolled us in an independent education course—better known as ho—to accoet his GED, and my focus quickly became very inadequately pointed at school

We worked hard and long, usually without any say in our own decisions, so by the tihteenth birthday rolled around, he was a —you name it, he was into it

After a few years of driving his own life into the ground, he left Hollywood, faave it all up So someone to commiserate with

And yet, giving up has never seemed like an option for me I’ve invested too much time and work And truthfully, I almost don’t even knoho I am outside of the fanize in Sexpot from the Silver Screen, in more than a decade

That’s probably why I’d forgotten how nice it is…

“A thing or two?” he questions

“You know, a little of this, a little of that,” I add, and he just grins

“I’ to assuly, and it’s all I can do to nod “So, are you living here now or…?”

“Still in California”

“What brought you to New York?”

What brought me to New York? Does he really not knoho the persona Raquel Weaver is? No way I could be that fucking lucky…right?