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Playing By Heart
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“How old are you, James?”
“Uh, I’m 25."
Bette pursed her lips and nodded her head slowly, as if she was contemplating his last revelation. Her stare was making James nervous as he raised his eyebrows and gave her a tentative half smile.
“Is that…a problem?” he asked, unsure of himself.
“That you’re 25? No, not at all. I was just curious.” Bette answered. “So you started your own talent agency a year and a half ago, but tell me what you did before that?”
“Well, I did a stint as an assistant to an agent up in L.A. after graduating from USC…”
“Oh, what was your major?”
“Communications.”
Bette chuckled, thinking about Tina for the first time since she arrived at the restaurant.
“What was that?” James asked.
“What?”
“That little ‘humph?’” He imitated.
“You just…reminded me of something.” Bette said, shaking her head slightly as images of her distraughtly singing girlfriend invaded her mind’s eye.
“Kay. So during college, I had a job working in the mail room of this really big music agency. Man, I saw more naked people in photos than I care to admit.”
Bette’s eyebrows knitted in confusion as she smirked at James’ declaration.
“Groupies. They’re crazy. The company represented some big time rock acts. There wasn’t a day that went by that I didn’t see a few racks and sacks of both men and women. Some were nice to look at, but the vast majority of these folks were images that will haunt me forever. And their requests were equally disturbing.”
Bette held up her hand signaling the end of James’ forthright descriptions. “It’s okay, I can do without knowing the requests.” She said with a giggle. “When you graduated, did you assist one the agents with the same agency?”
“No, I was unfortunate enough to land a gig working for this horrible agent who was just a piece of work.” The waitress came back with refreshed beers on tap for the lunching duo. James didn’t hesitate to take the first gulp as soon as she set it down in front of him.
Bette couldn’t help but laugh. James was the typical fratboy attempting to play grown-up.
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This is sogood and love it!
Well written chapter. See, cooler heads are prevailing and hard hearts are softening. They love each other.
Hahahha…good one you hold up your side of the bargain but I fear that the blanche is not right! I have 7 pages…you have 3! you owe me 4 more chuckle! Loved this chapter and to be quite honest if you only gave us one page I would love it just as much…. So happy they are talking again… By whatever means! Hope Friday is good for you and the weekend even better ;0) The day has already started here so in about 10 hours the w/e should start for me! Thanks kx
Omg , I can’t wait till you post again !!!!
Well it can be such great experience, but so exhausting at the same time!!!!!Starting on monday, I’m on holidays!!!!! Like this chapter, thanks for update!!!!
Gotta say – still lovin’ this story. pps
Yeah, they are textibg again. James ex boss has to be Jodi.Loved it. PPS
Great chapter. So glad they are at least talking to each other by some means. I gather from Bette and James’ conversation that they were talking about jodi and maybe Tina, but definitely jodi, too many descriptions of her behavior that matches her to a tee. Hope Bette asks him who he was talking about. But I just know it is jodi. Glad Bette has made the decision to go to Austin with Tina. They do need the time together. Thanks.
Again-I love your story.Thank you for the update.