The Acting Project

5 Years Later

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5 YEARS LATER.

    I sit in my apartment. Not the old crappy apartment, that took over an hour to have hot water or heat in the building. This is my nice new apartment, penthouse apartment. I moved in a couple years ago. It over looks Time Square. What a view! I have a giant closet. It is bigger than my old kitchen! It has a couch in there it’s so big. Why would a couch be there? I have no idea, I had someone come and decorate it for me.

    I’m 27 now. I’m sitting here with my 3 best friends Piper, Camille, and Brian. I have done 5 movies all with at least an award nominations, each. I have received 2 Oscars and a Golden Globe. I have been on a few sitcoms. I was in 3 Broadway musicals. I recently received a Tony award! That was on my bucket list!

     I took my brother as my “date”. He was so cute in his little tux. I rebuilt the Boy’s and Girl’s Club in Alabama. Did I mention I was on the Ellen show? It was awesome! I got to perform and she talked with me.

    My Ex Charlie is married now….. To a dude. Yeah that’s right he is gay. I wasn’t surprised. Camille said she caught him trying on her shoes once. My other Ex Greg is in jail, again and my ex Harry is doing ok. Man, I sure know how to pick ‘em.

     I still talk with Red and Eddie. Michael and Piper are dating so I talk and see him a lot. One time I walked in on him in the shower! MY EYES! But he had an amazing body, just saying! Then Piper peaks her head from around the curtain too! MY EYES!!

    Red got us girls Maroon 5 tickets. We were so happy. It was awesome. I never would have thought that I would still be friends with the guys. I miss seeing them, I don’t miss Harry. Would you after what he did? Just the guys, they are like big brothers. Goofy, obnoxious brothers. If I take a whiff of a boy or look at a guy too long, they will scare the crap out of him with questions. Yes, I said whiff.

    I remember a year and a half after I split with Harry, Piper and Camille came running into my room. I was out really late; when I am out late you don’t wake me. I like my sleep. I have this remote control in my room that can open and close my windows at the push of a buttons. I like it dark.

    Anyway, they came running in my room and jumped on my bed yelling and screaming, “GET UP! GET UP!” Piper has her laptop and Camille opens the blinds.

“LOOK! LOOK!” They scream. “Wake up! LOOK!”

“What’s wrong? Unless someone is dead or on fire, GO AWAY!” I grumble. My hair in my eyes. I turn over and place the pillow on my head to cover my ears from their ear shattering screams.

“It’s about Harry.” Piper says more quietly. 

“I don’t care.” I throw the covers over my head. “What time is it?” I mumble. I really don’t care.

“3 in the afternoon.” Camille says. She lies next to me. I let out a moan.

“I don’t care about Harry. It’s been 2 years.” I say. I sit up. I give up they wont leave me alone. 

“A year and a half, to be exact.” Camille says. Wow, she knows more of my relationship then me. 

“Look at the laptop and you can go back to sleep.” I slowly rise a little more and look at the computer.

    Over the years there have been so many rumors about me, Harry and his lovers, Harry and me. I didn’t believe a lot of them. Unless they had a lot of pictures of them 2 together. It sounds bad like I shouldn’t be looking at all of this tabloid trash. When there is stuff on me I don’t even look at it. I think once I read online about me, what people where saying about me. It hurt. I cried my eyes out for days, people hating me, for something I didn’t do. So I vowed never to read that trash again.