The Good Life

Chapter 101

"It's Saturday, what are you doing in the studio, Bruno?" Marla asked him half-awake the next weekend. A fully functioning and repaired Bruno was standing by the closet getting dressed.

"It's for the movie. I need to do the voice overs. I told Rosie I would take her with me, too. So it's you and the babies again." He smiled kissing the top of her head.

"When will I ever get to see my oldest daughter? You steal her away from me all the time, Bru." Marla laughed sitting up in the bed.

"I tell her she can stay here with you, but I think her head spins when she's not doing something. I was like that too." Bruno explained. Even at the age of 2 he would take Rosie to the studio with him and let her play on the couch and watch him. She loved the lights and the sounds and the excitement. By now the studio had turned into an extra playroom for every kid that came in there. It was a big change from what it was 2010 when they would stay up until 5 in the morning drinking and laughing. Even though they did do that on occasion, studio sessions usually ended in a big pizza and contraband Mountain Dew for the kids. Now that Bruno had agreed to voice an animated frog in the next Summer's Pixar movie about a rapping frog prince Rosie wanted to be involved in everything. She held onto him as he left the house and pleaded to have her voice in the movie. He knew he spoiled her by having her sing songs whenever she wanted, but now he would have to put his foot down and say no because it wasn't his studio. It was a big studio in the thirty-mile zone and he was going to use that pricy SAG card he got the past year when he had a five second cameo in a Judd Apatow movie while he was on tour.

"I know. She's going to be a mess when she starts first grade in a few weeks. The teachers are going to hate her because she's going to be dancing and singing and not doing her homework. Miss Vela called me earlier this week telling me that she has a nonverbal warning system with Rosalia. It works but I just worry that she's going to get herself in trouble one day." Marla told him.

"I'll talk to her today." Bruno told Marla as he walked into the babies' room picking them up walking past Rosie who was sitting in her bedroom with Barbies. "Rosie? Do you want some breakfast, mi amor?"

She turned around seeing Bruno with her babies frowning. "No."

"Come on. You know it will be just the two of us later today." He told her matching her sad face.

"Okay...." She sighed getting up.

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"Hold my hand, Rosalia..." Bruno said as they wlaked through the big studio lot past outdoor stages that left his 5 year old daughter in awe. "Rosie?"

"Daddy, I'm fine. Jessie said that only babies hold their dad's hands. I'm not a baby anymore." Rosie told him walking next to him.

"Oh. Okay." Bruno said looking at her. Woah. She really isn't a baby anymore. He thought to himself looking at her with wide eyes as they continued to walk. They walked through a fancy building ending up at the large studio.

"Dad....there are a lot more buttons here. How do they know how to use them all?" she asked him.

"Lots of practice, baby." Bruno told her. "Sit right there for a second, okay?" he said pointing to a chair. He walked into another room to speak to the director.

"Oh. You did bring Rosie! That's so nice. She's precious." The female director told him with a slight sarcastic tone.

"She's going to just sit and watch. It fascinates her. " Bruno told the director.

"Okay." The director answered with a bit of skepticism in her voice.

Bruno walked back to Rosie handing her a tablet computer. "I'll be back. Make sure you laugh at my jokes, okay?" he said kissing her curly hair.

"Okay, daddy," she said watching him walk into the recording booth.

"I'm gonna do that when I get big." Rosie told everyone in the room.

"You are?" the director asked.

"Yeah. Uh-huh. I'm going to be like Selena." She told them.

"I know you are," the sound engineer smiled at her directing Bruno to start.

By the end of the day Rosie had fallen asleep in the chair not even paying attention to what Bruno was doing. He picked her up still slightly cringing in pain walking down the hallway when a young woman who he knew to be in charge of several current projects in the studio stopped him.

"Bruno?" she asked him.

"Yes ma'am?" he turned around looking at her.

"Everyone is saying that your daughter has something special. We might have some opportunities for her. Just give me a call on Monday if you think that's something she would want to do." She told him.

"Like what?" he asked her.

"We're working on a new Disney show. It's about a family in New York City. The father owns a pizzeria and the mother is a fairytale princess. They have three kids and he would be the young one that gets in trouble all the time." She told him the plot that sounded exactly like her.

"I will talk to my wife." He told her still holding Rosie in his arms.

"Wait...come with me." She said to him leading her toward her office. "I have the casting call script here. Have a look over this and give me a call. I think she would be a shoe in." she smiled handing him a card with her name, Genesis White in big letters.

"I will talk to Marla, Miss White." Bruno said turning back down the hallway.