Lights, Cameras, Love

Chapter 4. | Our Stories

We all have a story. An explanation of what happened during a certain period of time in our lives. In all of our stories, we have a climax or a time something completely life-changing thing happens, and yes you can have multiple times of something like this occurring.

For me, my life-changing moment was being hired as an actor for my very first movie. The funny thing about Climaxes is they always have a way of creeping up on you, so truly you never know when something could ruin you or be the best thing to ever happen to you.

Right now feels like one of those moments. The car is pulling up to the big building that had people standing around talking on the outside. I never thought I could come this far in my career. I mean of course, I dreamed of it but I never truly believed in myself. Never have actually.

But whether I believed in myself or not, it happened. And it still is. Gracie lets out a loud gasp when she sees the building, followed along by a whispered 'Holy fuck' that I don't think she expected me to hear. "Drinks first, talking, then whatever else the night leads up to" she asks frantically like she's still trying to gather herself.

"As you say" I say calmly as I push open the door and hop down the SUV's height. I shut the door behind me without looking back and I look up taking in the moment, the air, and most importantly the feeling.

Gracie throws her arm over my shoulder pulling me away from my trance. "Let's do this" she says with a beaming smile, "Just like when we were kids." I stated instead of questioning. "Just like when we were kids." she assures me.

We walk towards the door I lay my head on her shoulder. I grab the large door tightly and pull it open to showcase a beautiful large room that was tinted with tons of different colored neon lights. My jaw fell to the floor when I saw the huge bar and I instinctively nudged Gracie to grab her attention from the people surrounding us.

"Holy fuck" she pauses for a second "if that doesn't tell you that we're gonna need a uber tonight then I don't know what will". I nod slowly still in shock and before I could pick up my jaw from the floor Gracie pulls me towards the bar.

There weren't as many people as I expected there to be but it was probably just the size of the bar making it seem to be less. I place my hand gently on Gracie's shoulder to shift her attention from her phone that had the drinks pulled up.

"I'm gonna walk around for a bit and probably use the restroom" I begin walking but before I could get any further I call out to her "Text me if you move around anywhere!!" and then just like that I lose sight of her.

I dodge the people walking and go straight to the back of the event. When I get to the door I quickly push through the small crowd of people surrounding it and open the door. I walk on the large patio and through the grass, that's at least 10 feet away from all the sound and lights.

I spot a small tree that is just a few feet away. I walk towards it and plop down under the lowest branches hoping no one would catch me here. But before I could get comfortable Gracie comes walking down with two drinks in her hands.

She plops down beside me with a slight grunt. She sighs and then looks at me pulling her hair behind her ears, "Hey Vic" she waits for me to answer before continuing. "Yes, Gracie?" I furrow my eyebrows slightly, she never acts like this.

"I love you a lot Victoria." she looks off into the distance now trying to avoid eye contact. I lean back on the trunk of the tree and look at the big building in front of us. "I love you too Gracie" I tell her as calm as I possibly could. She laughs so hard that you couldn't even hear her anymore and of course, because of this I start laughing too.

I don't know why we laughed but all I know is we laughed for a good minute. "Alright" Gracie says still trying to contain herself from a few minutes ago, she hands me my drink, and I immediately down the whole thing and so does Gracie. "Hey I'm gonna head back inside, need anything?" I say.

"Nothing at all Vic, nothing at all." Gracie assures me and then I'm off to the inside of the building. Alone.

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I walked back to the bar to get some more drinks. I honestly have no idea how I ended up sitting in a chair drinking more than I already have. I haven't seen Gracie in at least 10 minutes but I knew she would call me or text me if she needed me.

The music was blaring but I eventually got it to fade away slowly. But the only down part was my brain started to be coated in thoughts, but not any regular thoughts. Bad thoughts. About me, my body, my life my existence.

Before I could get any further into my thoughts I felt a person sit down behind me. I slowly turned around in my seat still not showing any emotion, and of course it just had to be Apollo Moore. he was looking directly at me only like he had a mission that wasn't necessarily getting a drink.

"Well if it isn't Apollo" I break the silence before he could stare any longer at me. "That would be me" and for the first time he grins, it was honestly shocking that this man can smile every now and then I was starting to get worried. He looks down like he's fighting that grin on his face "Enjoying the party Ms. Smith?" he says more quietly this time "Why of course" I let out a small giggle.

I pull myself back into character before I continue our small conversation. "Hey what's the most important thing to you?" I ask in a more serious tone this time. He looks at me confused but he sighs and answers anyways "Loving everything and everyone for what they are no matter what" I furrow my eyebrows. "Sorry, you just shocked me a bit there" I tell him shyly.

"I know I come off a bit more different than I want to." he trails off "But I'm actually completely different than that". My mind is scrambled with so many thoughts about him now, if he could say that could I have been wrong about his personality?

"Hey, I'm gonna go to the bathroom" I try to wiggle my way out of the 'deep conversation' of being a man that acts "see you on set?" I say hopping down from the stool. "See you on set" I begin walking to the bathroom avoiding anyone who looks like they could talk about their Christmas from 17 years ago. And quite frankly I don't care what anyone has to say right now.

I must've not been paying attention because I bumped into someone and fell on my side with my bag coming down right beside me. I grunt looking up at the man who had been waiting for me to open my eyes, and when I did I felt my heart skip a few beats. It was Theo.

Theo was my best friend during high school, we would always go to the beach together and talk about people at lunch that we hated. We had the same dream and we were convinced that we would do it together but he ended up having to leave for college and eventually we faded away.

"Theo?" I said still in shock that he was here. "Oh my god Victoria" he pauses shaking his head in disbelief "Wow you look beautiful Vic" he says smiling slightly with those little dimples of his. I missed those more than I expected.

"You clean up nice" I said. He smirks and I can see that cocky attitude about to come out, "Well" he trails off "That's my way of catching eyes" I instantly roll my eyes. He hugs me making me have to get on my tip toes just a bit. I'm assuming Theo must've grown at least 5 more inches than the last time I saw him.

He releases me from his hug or more like places me back down on the floor. He's still smiling at me with his little dimples. "What brings you here Theo?" I say with my brows furrowing, "Well just like you, I made it into acting, our dream when we were little kids".

My mouth opens slightly but no words seem to come out. We both made it. "Speechless aren't you" I close my mouth and just give him a reassuring nod instead. "What brings you here?" I ask, my voice coated with shock still.

"I'm very good friends with Mr. Bryan, he's the second reason I made it this far" he smirks a bit leaving me confused. "Well, what is the first reason?" I pause with a puzzled look, "You". And with that, I felt something no other soul has made me feel in maybe a decade. My heart was filled with the most overwhelming feeling. Love.

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