The Actor's Contract

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e of the blue cylindrical columns that support the roof of the terminal. I

es up in my throat; my nerves are not only raw but bleeding. I swallow down the burning sensation and look down to find a pair of tired teal eyes fixe

e just takes it in her stride. She now proudly wears all these bold-colored fabrics even though I know it was a miser

ge if that would save my little sister. So, this is nothing, and it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for u

- everything I need right now handed to me on a platter. The best treatment possible, a home, a new start, and family to help me out … what more can I ask

being in the public eye, the press. I hate the spotlight. I’m clumsy and someone that will sa

nd I guess 99.99% of the female population would gl

onclude that he’s a massive player and man-whore just judging by the fact that he gets photographed with more than one different girl a week.

t just to make sure it’s still there. I can’t afford to

eship hidden in Area 51, or placidly more – nobody knows except for Enrique and

op and decapitate my soul. I hate lies, and now we’re lying to

need, give us a home, and in return, I must act like his girlfriend until his new movie premiers. The fact is we’ve only Skyped once and it wasn’t my prettiest moment

cretly dating online for the last three months. And he also, allegedly, came to visit me a few times covertly. (Truth is I have never seen him face t

ort, never even stopping for obstacles, but swirling around them. Every person in the crowd moves as if unseeing hands are dragging them

ticularly patient in any part of my system. How will my

understands my mood, her voice moody, something I got used to since

way in the cacophony of sounds and the loud interr

89B to Chicago. Please have your boarding pass and identification documents

of here. I’m not sure why, but I feel almost claustrophobic as if the inevitable encoun

ir broad shoulders, boosting with confidence and swagger – typi

alright, and he knows it. Leyla waves innocently at him and he winks at us, his face clearly impressed. I bite my lip

on his face is surreal and I can’t hide my smile anymore. His friend’s laughter echo’s through the building and instead of helping his buddy up, he

since they boarded the plane – sitting just behind us - I couldn’t help but overhear the whole, long, unfrui

ven put a dent in his overbearing ego. How nice must it be to not worry about anything? He blows me a kiss before getting hammered by the square lady’s handbag. He protects his head with his

his mouse-brown hair is combed back in a sleek wet-look style that went out in the 60s. He’s not exactly the double-take hunky bloke girls would give a second

mind and I shake my head to get rid of it. I can’t even dare to catch feelings or else I won’t walk away from this freaking contract un

s red probably from not taking enough breaths between the slander of words she’

now that I might do something crazy, stupid, and

ot-tempered is part of your DNA and saying stupid things is part of your anatomy. If I had any good sense

ps? What the fuck! Scratch the awesome personality – he’s a little perverted gum-sucker and no wonder he has porn on his

ants your boyfriend … that’s why he’s with you,” I try to be polite at least and wipe my

ning to purple and her hands are clenched in fists along her side. She doesn’t move

tap her softly on her nose with my index

cucumber,” I mention carefully, but it seems this girl doesn’t ap

rects me like usual, and now the boxy lady

out of it, aunty. Statistically, a red face is a sign o

ing again. Enough for her to shout at me and make peopl

nd she now really looks like a purple fruit.

ays, slumping down on the nearest chai

a boyfriend doesn’t even try to intervene, but his perverted gazes are starting to make me feel rather nauseated. I pull my cream suit

first girl that tries to

rny piece of shit, and that in a fully packed airport terminal. We’ve already attracted even more entertained onlookers. Shit. What if th

,” I pull out the last words, hoping that she wo

more, so I turn my back on her. Don’t get me wrong, I have loads to say to this square, but not with Leyla and a growing crowd

sister thinks it’s a great idea to join the conv

n. He’s an actor.” She somewhere got up and is now sticking her little

olls protruding over the woman’s pants. I turn my h

g my poor eardrums and definitely causing my heart to skip a beat

s wrong with this person that she needs to shout like a fox in heat? Even my sister

e … Blackburn … the model

Everybody in a 20m radius that was not already looking at us, i

unt my pubic hair, having a serious porn moment. I swear stupid people were put on this earth to test my anger manage

om him by dragging her behind me again. His girl is preoccupied with digging her nails into my arm while jumping up and down, screaming like a teenager at a rock concert.

hen luck throws me a little bone and our apple green suitcase comes traveling around the corner, rocking like a boat on the conveyer, and I l

hick-soled converse barely touching the ground. Suddenly I’m very glad for making jeans part of my outfit this morning. I nearly throw out my back

d doesn’t seem to be in that girl’s vocabulary. No, her dictionary lost some o

stare and the muffled sound of

pleas

a lovely couple … Lucky ba

not so

layer … She won’t last long … The bitch

ncert I went to with some friends. I’m dead … buried, covered by concrete and a

ckly as possible to the exit, forcing Leyla to keep up with me. It’s her fau

have you been going ou

teresting thing I’ve seen for a very long time. The brown tiles have a wooden effect an

ng questions that I don’t even know the answers to. It’s discerning to think that

fame and attention?” “Where do you come from?” “

ear in bubbles above our heads like in comic books. If these people kn

icking out close to the exit and I take in a deep breath to oxygenate my lungs again. I stopped

to his little sister, Superman got nothing on Noah. No, to her he’s all the superh

she’s clinging to him like a nut. The crowd is growing, and the noise increasi

that my brother came to fetch us. Just imagine the chaos if he showed up here. At first, I thought he was just making excuses, that the media could

ile occasionally nodding to something a chirping Leyla is saying

ing to love the new hospital,” s

s while lowering her onto the

, w

her is a doctor there

lights up even

truck. He told me to use it because Enr

this excited for a very long time. It’s a good th

smiles warmly at our little s

!” she

d the youngest brother, Logan, has a blue Porsche.” I know Noah must

lip. And then she frowns slightly as if something just came to her mind. “Hell,

brothers and one sister,” I say

here’s Melaena. You’re gonna love her ‘cause she

ng! I must show her the painting of a Hungarian Horntail dragon I just finished

ays comes up with some sort of abbreviation or something. And Mo is short for Nemo … apparently our brother’s orange hair is the same color as the l

settle into your new home and rest a bit.

t?” Leyla interrupts h

ow would it?” Leyla pulls her mouth into a thi

rrow everybody plans to come over, dying to meet the most prettiest girls in

brothers and sister?” At l

’re not alone anymore … these people are our new family. And Luke is about your age … I thi

e age of 18 is stupid and childish. I think I agree with her surmise … but it’s not only under-18 boys … it’s all ages. This sex just neve