Love & Secrets (Hartbig)

Ch. 5 Moving On

Grace woke up the next morning wondering if the event's from the day before really happened.  She tried getting up but it felt like a truck smashed into her head. She slowly got around deciding that she wanted to get to the studio before Hannah so they could talk about what happen.
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Hannah was on her way to the studio hoping she would get there to avoid Grace. Hungover and trying to piece together the night before she drive as fast she could, knowing it was going to be a long day.
She pulled her Ford focus into her spot and noticed Grace sitting in her car gathering her stuff together.
Grace ran out of her car heading towards Hannah while Hannah tried to gather her stuff and get inside before Grace could say a word.

"Hannah wait, can we talk?" Grace asked. Hannah didn't even look at Grace knowing it would be to difficult to look at her gorgeous friend.

"What's there to talk about, can we just act like yesterday never happened."

"But I want to talk about it, that way we can go back to how things were."

Hannah looked up at Grace and took a deep breath before she talked. "Things will never be the same don't you see."

"But everything was great before yesterday." Grace exclaimed.

Hannah's voice started to raise. "Great? Me hiding how I feel about you everyday is great? There were day's it was to hard to even look at you. I love you and I probably always will, but you don't feel the same way about me. This is where were at so let's just go in there and act like nothing happened."

Grace stood there shocked at what she just heard. "How can you act like nothing happened?"

"Well I've had a lot of practice trying to hide how I felt about you the past couple of years so a couple of hours will be easy." Hannah turned around and walked into the building leaving Grace standing there on the sidewalk frozen in her spot not knowing what to say or do.

As Hannah walked away she felt bad for what she said but how else is she going to say, she knew Grace was never going to feel the same way so she should move on sooner then later. Hannah kept her head down as she walked into the conference room, she sat on the opposite side of Mamrie. She didn't want to hear what Mamrie had to say about the whole situation. Hannah ignored as many people as she could looking on her phone acting like she was doing something important.

Grace entered the room five minutes later and re-filled her coffee mug trying to keep herself together. She sat by Mamrie quietly whispering to tell her what Hannah told her outside the building.

"Okay everyone settle down let's get this meeting started." Gill commanded. "Everyone did well at rehearsal yesterday, we are going to start filming today. A schedule on when we are going to film what scene and when is going around the table. It will take us about three weeks film everything.  Remember not everyone has to be here everyday for shooting, so look at the schedule on when you need to be here. If there's a schedule change we will let you know. I am also passing out the final script only a few things have changed but I am happy to see these changes and I hope you are to."

Hannah quickly looked over the schedule and the script. She noticed that during the fight scene between her and Grace she was suppose to kiss Grace.

"So if anyone has any questions just..." Hannah cut Gill off in mid sentence.

"Yeah I have one, you actually want me to kiss Grace?" Hannah asked.

"We decided that it would be more dramatic instead of just trying to kiss her, you made contact for just a second and then she pushed you away. We think it will make your feelings look more realistic. Is this a problem?" Gill questioned.

"No it's cool looking forward to it." Hannah sat there as Gill's voice faded answering another question, she was lost in her own thoughts. How was she going to kiss Grace, she has dreamed about it a hundred times but it was actually going to happen. On camera with a few dozen people watching. She finally snapped out of her day dream when Chris walked over to her and put his hand on her shoulder.

"So your going to steal my girl in real life and in the movie we will see about that." Chris said half laughing. Grace and Chris Riedell stared dating shortly after the first Camp Takota movie. He was one of the directors and Grace's love interest in the movie.

"Ha, never she's all yours, just don't hurt her."

"Never, besides she might be the one." Chris stated as he walked to Grace giving her a hug and kiss and hello. Grace has never been big into PDA but with Chris it was different. She would kiss him in public and didn't care what people thought, he was great for her and maybe he was the one for her. Hannah just knew that Grace was the one for her, maybe Hannah wasn't the one for Grace.

Hannah started making her way into makeup when she got a call from someone she had a date with last week, she just thought the girl wasn't interested but she took the call anyways.

As Grace was talking to Chris she noticed Hannah talking on the phone she looked happy, she was laughing and smiling. She wish she knew what was going on she just wanted to talk to her best friend.

Mamrie stopped outside the makeup room to wait for Hannah she wanted to know what was going on. First she looked like she didn't want anything to do with anyone and now she was smiling and laughing on the phone. Mamrie was able to talk things through with Grace but now she needed to talk to Hannah.

"Hey Hannah who was that on the phone?" Mamrie asked.

Hannah turned to her and answered, "do you remember that date I went on last week, well it was her. Apparently she's been out of the country for the last week and this was the first chance she got to call me. Were going on a date tonight."

"Wait what about Grace? Yesterday you told her you loved her and now your going on a date with someone else." Mamrie stated looking confused at Hannah not knowing what she was thinking.

"Look at her Mamrie." They both looked at Grace laughing with Chris and he told a funny story. "She's happy and besides that's all I ever wanted is for her to be happy. I have been in love with her for five years. It's obvious that she doesn't feel the same way.  It's time for me to move on and I am going to do that with this date tonight."

Hannah turned and walked into makeup Mamrie stood there watching Grace and Chris going over there plans for latter that night. She didn't know what to do but she knew that sooner or later her two friends were going to get together, they are perfect for each other, even if they didn't know it, she knew it. 

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