"John Mayer and a couple of local acts. It's an intimate show compared to his normal venues. It's in an old auditorium with two thousand seats. He was excited to play there, and there's not a bad seat in the house, so the audience is in for a treat. It's going to be beautiful. I'm excited about it. It's going to sell out."
"That's amazing, Ty. How impressive. And you're the promoter? You're the one in charge, doing marketing and everything?"
"Yes," she said, laughing a little. "I have no idea how I ended up here. One thing led to another, and suddenly I'm making ads and talking to venues and managers."
"That's so cool."
"Thank you. Sometimes I get overwhelmed, so please be honest with me if I'm falling behind. I'll try to be a diligent actress for Alex, so please tell me if I'm doing something wrong or need to change something. I’m open to all the instruction I can get, so please don't be shy about correcting me."
Who was this woman?
She was so intriguing.
She smiled and shook her head shyly. "Enough about me, though. We should probably get to these questions Cameron sent."
Chapter 3
Ty
"Yeah, of course, the questions…" Sam said.
He shifted his focus, concentrating on his computer screen instead of the phone. He was an utter heartthrob, and he was a much better actor than me, but I didn't have time to be insecure or have my own feelings come into play at all. I was happy that Sam was an experienced actor. That would only help me through this process. It was only mildly distracting that he looked like an actual movie star. He was better than one. I stared at his image on the screen, wondering if there were any other actors in Hollywood who were this handsome.How was it even possible that he looked good on FaceTime?
I had no problems being loyal to my boyfriend, though. I would pretend to have feelings for this guy for the sake of being a good actress in the series, but I would not develop any actual feelings for him. That wasn't a factor for me. I was around college guys constantly. I was often in environments where people were drinking, and therefore, I got hit on quite a bit. I never had a problem with looking at other guys.
I had my own personal struggles with anxiety, and no one in my life knew anything about it besides Jacob. I had developed the condition after we had been together for a while, so he knewme before I had trouble. Jacob was the only one who knew. I hadn't even told my sister. We were so close that I knew it would worry her if she knew I was struggling. I didn't want her to worry about me, so I never told her. I trusted Jacob to know my struggles and weaknesses and not expose them, and he never embarrassed me by telling anyone else. I owed him a lot for that.
All this to say that I was comfortable with my boyfriend and loyal to him, and in spite of my co-star being gorgeous, I was not checking him out. That was why I decided to keep us on track. We had questions and answers to read about our characters.
"I guess I'm supposed to ask you a question first," he said, glancing at his computer.
"Yeah, I have an answer before a question. So, you just read the question to me, and I read the answer, and that's it?"
"I think so," he said, with a smile and a shrug. "It looks like a little script to me."
"Okay, I guess we just read it."
"Yep, okay, first question… Where are you from and what's your family situation? How long have you been traveling?"
"I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. My father died when I was a baby. My stepfather is a struggling farmer, and my mother is busy caring for my four younger half-siblings, one of whom, my three-year-old brother, was not born like the rest of us and needs special care. He's been sick and miserable the whole time we've been on the road. Whoa, this is heavy," I added, looking at him.
"I know, life was hard back then," Sam said.
"Is any of this true? Did Alex's relative really have five kids, and one who was special? Was that all true?"
"I have no idea how much of it is true," Sam said. "I know Alex did a ton of research and interviews, but I really don't know how much is accurate. It doesn't seem like any of this is evenmentioned in the script. Is that all for your answers on the first one?"
"No, the last part is that we've been in the wagon for more than two months. Can you imagine? Two months to get from Virginia to Missouri? Two months on the road with those little sick siblings and everything."
"Yeah, I don't know how much of it is true. I think he's probably setting the stage for how ready Chloe was to get off the road by that point, even if it meant becoming someone else."
"Yeah, I see what you're saying," I said. "And so I guess it's my turn to ask you… Tommy, what about you? What's your family situation?"
"I'm Lottie's neighbor and her brother's best friend. We grew up together, and I am a staple in their house. I've been close to her brother my entire life and have always thought of Lottie as a sister. I'm the youngest of three boys. My father is a sheriff, and my oldest brother followed in his footsteps. My next-older brother left town a year ago with a group of cattle ranchers from Mississippi. I've been working at my grandfather's feed store since I was fourteen, and now, at the age of nineteen, I help him run the place and have taken over a lot of his responsibilities…" he paused and glanced at me. "I knew some of this from Tommy's character description. I guess he wanted you to know it. Okay, I'm just going to keep moving on. What's your full, God-given name?"
"Trinity Jane Lily Banks."
"No, your character. And what did you say?"
