“We wouldn’t miss it for the world.“Right, Tim?”She tosses her knuckles back, lightly smacking Tim’s chest.
“Yes, right!”He seems distracted by his phone, which is unusual for him, but also none of my business.I open the door to a small room.There is a beaten-up couch on one side and a vanity setup on the other.Two people in all black smile when they see us.
“Which one of you is Tate?”
I raise my hand.
“Alright, Miss Tate, let’s get your glam going.”
Callie and Tim head to the sofa and I got to the chair.The gal doing my hair—Rhonda, I come to learn—drapes a large cape over my shirt.
“How do you want your hair?”
I look at myself in the mirror.“Can we do loose waves?”
Just then, a knock at the door has everyone looking left, and in walks a man carrying a bush of roses.I literally cannot even see his head.He peers around it.“Is Tate McGregor in this room?”
Chapter 38
Levi
Gabriella reaches acrossthe back seat to lay a hand over my bouncing knee, the diamond on her finger somehow glimmering sans any actual light.
“You good?”she asks.It’s become almost like a code between us since news of our engagement broke.The unspoken rule is if either of us answers no, the other has to find a way to get us out of the situation.Take last week, for example.Jan sent us to some fancy grocery store on the west side of LA to get a couple things for the house.Lo and behold, everyone and their mom was there, including about four paparazzi.I don’t fault them for what they do, but I do have a problem not being able to walk on a public sidewalk.Anyways, Gabriella talked to them while I went in for the stuff.I’m starting to think maybe acting is her calling.
“Hmm.I was just hoping Tim would call me before we got to the studio.”
“Oh, this is about Tate,” she teases, scooting closer to me in the process.I see the driver’s eyes flick up once before dropping back to the road.
“I just wanted to watch her first show, that’s all.”
“Why don’t you just call him?”We both stare at the black screen of my locked phone.
“Is that weird?”I ask, turning to face her.“He said he would call me.”
“Well, weird or not, we’re almost to the set and you won’t be able to see any part of her performance at that point, not that I’m entirely sure why you would want to.You left her high and dry in Nashville, remember?”Gabriella’s makeup is over-the-top tonight.Her eyelids have pressed-on glitter so thick you can’t see any skin.
