When You Meet A Man

Between Us

Remembering the weekend's party, Beck lies in bed Sunday night texting Gina and their friend Kyle. Kyle was a long time friend of both Gina and Beck but most "gossip" remained between the girls. Every now and then they slipped some gossip into the group chat so Kyle could keep up to date.
"And that's when he kissed me." Beck finished typing up her story about the party.
"On the cheek right?" Gina confirmed.
"Yes."
"Okay but like isn't that a European custom?" Kyle texted back, asking.
"DO HE LOOK EUROPEAN?" Gina sarcastically texted back.
"Deadass, he's Italian American or something." Beck responded.
"Is Italian European too?" Kyle questioned again.
"Don't kill my vibe..." Beck responded.
"He gon kill the whole KGB chat." Gina said.
"Excuse me?" Beck responded, confused as ever.
"KGB. Kyle, Gina & Beck. I just came up with it." Gina proudly texted back.
"Or... 'Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti' some Russian spy shit." Beck responded.
"Ya'll really vibe killers tonight huh?" Gina responded.

Beck woke up the next morning looking forward to going to work, as she would see James again. She jumped in her car and headed over to West 16th street, where they would be shooting that day. She looked for parking, parked and proceeded to head to the make up and hair trailer. She walked in to see James sitting down getting worked on by a new artist in training. It was a young man who appeared nervous to be working on James and constantly looking at Dana for reassurance without actually anything. James didn't appear amused, as the process was taking longer than usual.

"No Mina today?" Beck asked as she sat down to wait. "Nope, so we have Walter here taking some of my workload off me today." Dana responds, watching intently. "I wouldn't say the beard makes him look older, perhaps more homeless." Beck chuckled a bit and James looked at her with a bit of a scowl. "Walt, Red would have it well maintained, he just needs dark and light greys blended." She directed him based off Beck's comment. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to intrude like that, I just know today their filming that fast forward part." Beck shyly said seeing how her comment affected his work.
Once they finished his beard, James took off the towel around his neck and stammered off seemingly upset. He didn't even hold the door open for Sami who just bumped into him as she entered the trailer. "Is be grumpy again?" She asked Beck. Beck shrugged, unsure of what to tell her young co star. "Don't bother with him kid, men get mad when they get called out." Dana responded, regarding James. "Ooh? Did Jon say something?" Beck asked, thinking there was a disagreement about The Blacklist script. "No, during the first half of the session here," Dana began explaining as she motioned to the hair and makeup  station "I think Leslie called complaining about something. It was a woman hollering on the other side of the phone, I know that, and she didn't sound happy. Afterwards he just kind of kept quiet about everything. Something about drinking I think? James didn't respond much to her though. It was a tad awkward." Walter continued to clean off the chair, then let Beck sit down. "I'll start on her, you start on making little Sami here look like a woman!" Dana said as she got behind Beck. She ran her fingers through Rebecca's short black cut. "I'm going to clean it up a bit, give you a sharper more sophisticated look, I'll give you a few age lines and send you on your way." Dana said, beginning to comb through Beck's hair.
Beck arrived back at her trailer when she heard Diany's voice calling her from outside. Beck opened the door and let her in while saying, "girl get in here, you can't be out in these streets." They laughed together. "So you're all good with today's script?" Diany asked. "Yeah, I mean, I think it's a bit stereotypical but if it's in the script, I'm down to do it." Beck replied. "The two short haired "masc" women in the show having to kiss is stereotypical? I didn't notice." Diany joked. "Okay so, I feel like you give more 'dom' energy so I'm sticking with it." Diany said laughing as she opened the trailer and walked out. "The fuck D!?" Beck said shouting outside her trailer and laughing.