“Shit!” I let go immediately and shake my head. “Sorry. Are you okay?” I whisper.
She nods. “Are you?”
I look back up just in time to see Danger pull back from Ria and look into her eyes, mouthing the lyrics to “I’ll Take Your Breath Away.” Her hand comes up to his cheek to caress it, and I shift my body. I am completely uncomfortable watching the scene play out.
Sure, I’ve only known her for a short time, but in that short time, she’s understood me more than most people have my whole life, and here she is, getting cozy with my lead singer, with my bandmate, with my friend.
It’s weird.
It’s like watching your new girlfriend cheating on you, but with your permission.
It’s fucked!
In all kinds of ways.
“Cut,” the director calls out again.
I sink into myself thinking,thank fuck, that’s over.
Danger pulls back dramatically as if Ria is diseased or something.
“Jesus Christ,” Lunar murmurs under her breath.
I look at her and exhale dramatically.
“You two okay?” Oliver asks.
“Mm-hmm,” we both murmur as he looks between the two of us.
“Okay. I’m going to check on Danger. You guys behave yourselves. Tillie, you’re in charge.”
“Yes, boss,” she says, fake saluting him as he walks off.
Matt looks at me and tilts his head. “You good?”
I nod and exhale. “Yeah, as long as I don’t have to watchthatagain.”
“Have you read the script, Nate?” Tillie asks.
“No, why?”
Ryan, Matt, and Tillie wince.
Lunar grabs my hand again. “Nate, man, it gets worse… lots worse.”
“Great, did you know?” I ask Lunar.
She nods. “Yeah, Danger had me approve everything before he agreed to do it.”
“Shit! I didn’t think about it ’cause we weren’t athinguntil yesterday, and then I didn’t want to know about what I was going to be seeing. But now, standing here, maybe being forewarned would have been better?”
“Probably, yeah. See, I knew what would happen in the scenes, so I’m not surprised by any of it. Maybe sit down with Zaria tonight and go over the script for tomorrow, so you know? Can’t say it doesn’t make me squirm anyway, but having some knowledge is helping a bit.”
“Yeah, might just do that.”
“Quiet, please,” someone calls out, and we all turn to see Danger and Ria in the same starting positions as before.
“What the fuck?” I murmur.
