Hate Burns || Drew Starkey

Chapter 12

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"We should probably go back before the guys think anything," I say after a few minutes. Drew nods, agreeing, and we both head to the break room where we ate lunch yesterday. As we walk in, JD looks at me curiously. I smile, and he makes a thumbs up, and a thumbs down with both of his hands, sending a questioning look. I laugh,

"Good, we talked about it like adults," I say, laughing, and both JD and Rudy smile. We all sit around talking, waiting for the other half to come back with lunch. When everyone walks in with food minutes later, Bailey pulls me aside.

"Please tell me you guys talked it out," She whispers, almost pleading. I laugh and nod, and she silently squeals but plays it cool, walking away, causing me to chuckle. I sit back down next to Drew as he smiles at me. I smile back and unwrap my burger, digging in. We all talk, and soon our break is over.

The entire cast picks it up and starts moving back to the table read room. Drew and I fall behind slightly, causing me to smile to myself.

"So, what are you doing after work?" He asks, causing me to look at him.

"JD asked me to hang out, but I think the entire cast is going over to their place," I say, secretly hoping he's coming now as well.

"Yeah, Rudy sent me a text earlier about it, I guess I'll go," he says, pretending not to be interested. I gasp and shove him, but he doesn't even flinch.

"Yeah, I don't think I'm going to go actually now that you mention it, It seems pretty boring," I joke back, and he laughs.

"I guess I'll go if you go, ugh," He chuckles.

"Fine," I sigh, laughing.

"Can you guys stop flirting back there?" Rudy says, turning around to look at the two of us. We both immediately spread from each other, and my face instantly becomes red. JD slaps Rudy on the back of the head, causing us all to laugh. As we all sit at the table, we notice Jonas looking a little bit too excited.

"Yo Jonas, you good?" Chase asks as we all laugh.

"Okay, so remember how I said we weren't going to be able to actually travel somewhere tropical to film because of covid?" He asks.

"Yes?" Rudy responds as we all nod along.

"Well, I just saw that flying has been opened up to Barbados." He says as we all start to get excited.

"Yes, this is exciting, but there's a bunch of stuff that needs to be switched around, and we're going to be put back a bit on our release date, but it will be worth it," He starts explaining. I look at Drew and notice he's already looking at me smiling.

"Barbados?!?!" I whisper scream, and he chuckles, shaking his head. I smile at him and then turn back to pay attention to Jonas.

"they're extremely strict about covid protocols, so here's what we have to. Everyone needs to quarantine for two weeks, normally we would table read one episode and then film it, but we're going to switch it around this time. As everyone is quarantining, we're going to jump around to episodes that include Nassau Bahamas. That way, when we get there we can jump right in. I have a hotel rented out with a room for everyone already reserved. I think we'll be there for roughly one month. In two weeks, everyone gets tested, and we all fly to Barbados." He explains the rundown step for step as we all listen closely, well, at least the girls.

"Soo with that being said, you guys have one night of freedom left, and starting tomorrow morning your two-week quarantine is in effect. I need everybody to take this seriously so we can all effectively get to Barbados and make this season even better than the first," He exclaims happily. We all cheer and he gets out a big stack of papers.