Against The Grain

Chapter 2

#WhatAmIDoingWithMyLife? Also, sorry for the slow start, but I need to set up the backstory and characters before we start to dive into the good stuff. ;)

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Of course Crystal's name on Kik is CrystalRays. Quickly finding Jack's name, she sent him a message, Jack responding back with a 'hey' and about five exclamation points. He seemed like such a loud and energetic person, and Crystal couldn't help but feel inspired by his enthusiasm. They quickly made plans to meet for lunch, before Crystal had to call it a night. She was surprised by how quickly her infatuation for him became. She would have much rather stayed up all night talking to him than getting actual sleep, but her job came first before any potential relationship.

Six o'clock rolled around, Crystal getting out of bed with a groan, pulling up a YouTube video of her daily yoga routine, following along with the instructor for about thirty minutes. Afterwards, she took a quick shower, forgoing to wash her hair since she just did it the night before, moving to get dressed, picking out a sundress, the top half molding to her breasts well, but flowing out around her knees. She curled her hair into light waves, again only putting on the minimal amount of makeup (it would get washed off and replaced with the makeup for the shoot regardless), before grabbing her purse, slipping on the nude heels from the night before, and heading out. She had breakfast at the hotel with her manager, Marshall, as he went over the events for today.

"So, I met a guy last night," Crystal blurted out randomly during a lull in conversation, twirling her fork around in the air as she did so, a smile on her face.

"Oh really?" Marshall chuckled, pulling his sunglasses down slightly in order to stare at her eye-to-eye. Marshall was a man in his late-forties, a porn star himself back in the day, now just managing other guys and girls in the business. Crystal was his pride and joy, however, considering she was the number-one selling actress in all the business for two years in a row now. He had black hair that was always slicked back, and was the type of guy to always wear sunglasses, even indoors.

"His name is Jack. Pretty fuckable too."

"Well, I'd assume so since he caught your eye," Marshall laughed, watching as Crystal rolled her eyes at him before taking a bite of her pancakes. "Hook up or relationship?"

"Hmm, we'll see by how well we connect when we meet tomorrow. I still don't have any plans the rest of the week, right?" Crystal confirmed, pointing her fork at him accusingly.

Marshall nodded. "Not until Saturday when we have that photo shoot to promo these new films." Marshall checked his watch, cursing when he saw the time. "We gotta get going soon. You almost done?"

"Yeah yeah..." Crystal waved him off, taking a few more bites of her meal and downing the rest of her water before the two stood up and headed off.

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Today's shooting went a lot better than yesterday. The director was different, and just that made things all the better. Today it was a hetero scene, although the director decided to throw in some anal at the last minute. The guy was cute too, so that was a plus~

"Okay..." Crystal mumbled to herself as she opened her laptop and brought open Chrome, now back in her hotel room. Something felt very familiar about Jack's name that he used on Kik, almost as if she'd heard it or seen it before. It sounded like a YouTuber name, to be honest, so that was the first place she checked out, only needing to type in the letter 'j' before results for his name started to pop up. Ahah! She has heard his name before. He was a let's-player; she knew him through Markiplier. She remembered skimming through a few videos where Mark would mention Jack. Glancing through a few of Jack's videos, it seemed he played a lot of the same stuff that Mark did; hence why she probably never felt the need to check out his channel.