There I Go Again

Chapter 34

Bruno knocked on Kassie's door a few hours later dressed in jeans, a grey t-shirt, black jeans and green boat shoes. He twirled around showing off his outfit making her laugh.

"Get in here..I saw Nick just came in." she told him as she closed the door.

"He called me, telling me I had to come." he told her sitting down on the couch. "He wants me to flirt with all the other girls and get you all jealous and shit."

"Do it." she told him. He made a sad face contemplating her response. "It's all part of the game." she said make a mean face. "I might even yell." she told him.

"Oh, lord. Kassandra." he answered. "You yell like your mother."

"Shut up!" she yelled at him pushing him toward the door. The door started to open with Nick and Mary, the writer, catching Bruno as she pushed him

"Oh...sorry..." Bruno said catching himself before he fell.

"Save that for tonight." he told them. Kassie smiled at them as they handed Bruno and Kassie their mics.

"And please make sure you talk about why y'all broke up..." Mary said pulling away from Kassie.

"I don't like talking about that." she told them.

Mary started scribbling in a notebook as Kassie showed her discomfort in the conversation.

"Here..you can talk about this..." she said handing her a piece of paper.

"But that's not what happened." Kassie said.

"It's called reality television, kid. Not reality." Nick told her.

"Fine..." Kassie answered.

"Turn on the mics before you come in...in 10 minutes.." Nick said closing the door behind him.

"Bruno..they want me to acuse you of cheating on me..." she said handing him the note.

Bruno grabbed his phone flipping through his address book.

"I slept with all of them." he said pressing the button a bunch of times.

She took the phone from him clicking through the names, boobs, ass, vodka, jiggly, hot ass...

"That doesn't make me jealous. That makes me want to go get tested." she made an ugly face at him handing the phone back. He took the phone back moving the phone to a text message.

Had a great night, Brubru. See U morrow.

"That was two nights ago...." Kassie responded saddened by what she saw.

"You said you didn't want to be with me..." he told her.

"Oh shit..." Nick said under his breath listening to their conversation. He had turned them on to hear what they were saying. "Come here, Mary.." he said handing her a headset.

"I said I didn't want to jump into a relationship, Peter. I didn't say I wanted you to fuck Ass, Jiggly and Boobs."

"It happened." he told her.

"Ugh. We'll talk about this later." she said walking out the door. He stopped her in the hallway grabbing her back to cover her mic.

"Kittie..remember the game." he whispered in her ear.

She pulled his arm away from her back.

"I hooked up with David on Thursday..." he told him winking at him.

**

After Bruno and Kassie did their reality TV thing they walked back to her apartment.

"Kassie...I have to go home...I have a meeting with someone at Atlantic tomorrow..." he told her.

"Wait..." she said taking his hand as he turned around.

"Were you serious about that girl? Because I was totally bullshitting you."

"Yeah. I was serious." he answered.

"Fuck." she sighed letting go of his hand.

"But Kassie..." he took her hand back. "It didn't mean anything..." he told her.

"No games, Brunito. Not when it's just us." she asked him.

"I don't understand you, Kass. One minute you're all over some half assed celebutaunt and the next you want to only be with me? What do you want, babe?" he asked brushing her hair out her face.

"Bruno...I don't know what I want." she said pushing his hand away from her face. "I just got out of a two year relationship. I need a break from this shit."

"Whatever, Kassandra." he replied turning toward the door.

"B....don't be mad at...." the door closed behind him. "me."