When The Curtain Falls

20 ~Jealousy, Jealousy (pt 2)~

"Hey, Josh, have you seen a tin canister anywhere? It has a picture of chocolate rolls on the front."

"Oh, was that yours? I threw it out, sorry."

"You... you threw it out?" Jenna yelled, her nerves jumping from 10 to 100 in a split second.

"I can buy you more chocolate rolls if they mean that much to you," Josh said, putting his hands up, chuckling.

"Josh, there weren't any chocolate rolls in there. I used that container to keep my undeveloped film rolls in." Jenna ran her fingers through her hair, tugging a little on the strands. All her hard work from last night was gone.

"Well why the hell would you keep something so valuable in an empty food container?" Josh exclaimed, his energy now matching hers.

"That doesn't matter. You shouldn't just throw things out if they don't belong to you!"

"You left the container on the floor with a bunch of other clutter. How was I supposed to know?! What kind of an idiot uses food canisters to hold things anyways? There are plenty of organizational things you can buy anywhere."

"First of all, I'm not a fucking idiot. Second of all, I like to reuse and repurpose things."

"Jenna, look, I'm sorry that this happened, but I can't do anything about it."

She looked at him, unsatisfied with his answer. Sorry that it happened? He should be apologizing for what he did, not sympathizing with me.

"What?" Josh grew uncomfortable as she looked into his soul.

"Un-be-lievable." Jenna rolled her eyes and stormed out of the room.

A few hours had passed when Jenna heard a knock at her hotel room door as she was editing pictures from night one of Bridgeport. She got up and looked through the peephole to see Josh with something behind his back.

"What do you want?" Jenna asked, opening the door a crack.

"I got you something," Josh brought his hands in front of him to reveal a brand new, high end film case.

"Do you not realize how fucking insulting that is!?" Jenna said, not caring that the entire floor could probably hear her.

"What? I don't want you to lose your film again! I thought I was doing something nice, helping you out," he said.

"I can take care of myself! I don't need you buying me things out of pity. Why don't you go do us both a favor and go flaunt your wealth around some other girl." Jenna slammed the door in his face and locked it, going back to her editing.

*******

"Ugh, no!" Jenna groaned looking down at two tickets in her hand.

"What's wrong?" Bella asked, looking over her shoulder.

"I got Nate and I dance lessons and I paid a lot of money for them."

"You can still use them."

"Do you want them? You and Jake would have a lot of fun," Jenna asked, showing her the tickets.

Bella read it for a moment. "Sorry I have plans then," she lied.

"You know you could've just said you didn't wanna go. You're not gonna hurt my feelings."

"What, I-"

"Save it. I can read you like a book. It's okay though, don't worry about it. I'll just ask Danny or Sammy."

Jenna went over to find Sam while Bella rushed to Danny.

"Danny! Whatever you do, don't let Jenna give you her dancing tickets!"