The Chronicles of Two Broken Wings { Robert Downey Jr.} [First Book]

Chapter 14

Today was the day of my big break. Today was the day of my first photo shoot for the magazine. I woke up feeling nervous. Sure, Robert was a celebrity, but he was also my boyfriend and that was what I saw in him : the man that I loved for all his perfect imperfections.Chris Hemsworth on the other hand, well, I saw him only as a celebrity.

As I drank my coffee and smoked nervously on the back porch a lot of things were running through my head. What if I screw up the photos? What if I can't find anything interesting to talk with the Hemsworths? What if Elsa won't like me? What if I have a nervous breakdown in front of them? But then, my thoughts were interrupted by the pair of lips pressed against my temple.

"Morning honey! Slept well?" a lazy husky voice asked.

"Morning. As a matter of fact I did sleep well. There's coffee waiting for you in the kitchen"

 I watched him as he was making his way to the table to pick up his coffee mug. He reached the table, but then paused, looking in the abyss.

"Robert is everything okay?" 

"Yeah. Everything is just peachy. Maybe tonight we can have some dinner somewhere . You know like we did last night?"

"Of course honey. Come by my office at about 6." I said as I made my way to the door. It was time to face my demons and be the best damn photographer that I can be.

"Great. I'll see you then lovely. Good luck and don't worry they will like you and you won't screw up anything" he said while kissing my lips over and over again.

It was almost like he was living inside my head. He always knew when I was having second thoughts about myself or when I was scared. He knew it every freaking time.

As I got in the car and turned the radio on,  "Back in Black" came on. I was rocking it out in the car when I see 2 pair of eyes looking at me amused while I was waiting for the lights to turn green.

I turned my head around to see who was staring at me and I was shocked. Chris and Elsa were looking at me trying not to laugh. Chris just showed me the rock on sign and I laughed lightly. 

Minutes later I pulled in the parking lot at the same time as the Hemsworths.

"Morning! I'm Chris and this is my wife Elsa " 

"Hey guys. I'm Jo! Sorry for making a fool of myself back there. I just love me some AC/DC in the mornings." I tried smiling as wide as I could.

Elsa just let out a sniffle while Chris was searching for something in his phone. Seconds later he was looking at me shocked.

"Oh My God Jo! I'm so..so...sooooo sorry for not recognizing you. I'm such a prick. Of course you looked familiar and the car plates looked familiar. You are Roberts girlfriend. You know...the one he won't shut up about. The photographer and executive editor for the Rolling Stone Magazine."

"Yeah that would be me. The crazy woman he described." just as I said that Elsa continued my sentence.

"The one listening to AC/DC and jamming at the same time. Actually you fit Roberts description pretty good. You are adorable and a little shy. I think you and I should grab some coffee sometimes."

"Sure will do Elsa. Shall we go inside and start the photo shoot you guys?" I asked nervously.

"Let's go!" they both yelled taking me by surprise.

The photo shoot went better than I expected. I got some crazy shots of them and some pretty family  ones. We laughed and joked around the 3 hours we were together.

"Want to come up so I can upload these in my computer? We can have some coffee and maybe you'll have a sneak peek of the photos.That's if you are not busy, of course"

"Yes. We would love to come up and see how these turned up. Maybe we'll get to know each other a little better." said a very happy Elsa while hugging the life out of me.

"Easy woman. Don't break her. Robert would kill me. Speaking of Robert, why don't you ladies go up and fix us some coffee's and I call Robert and maybe he'll join us. We leave in 3 days anyways." 

What Chris just said hit me like his freaking Thor hammer. They were leaving to film in 3 days? Robert didn't say anything about that. Maybe that's what he wanted to tell me at dinner tonight. But still, he was leaving in 3 days.

"Yeah sure! Great." I said with an almost ripped voice.

Chris just shrugged as we left in the direction of my office.

Moments later Elsa pulled me into a tight hug saying " He didn't tell you, did he?"

As tears were streaming from my eyes I only managed to say " No...he didn't"

We entered the office and I turned on the espresso machine as Elsa found a comfy place on the couch.

"You know they only found out this morning through a message on their phones." she said trying to break the silence.

"I'm sure it was a rushed thing for them too and I certainly know what I got myself into, you know by  dating an actor. I just...I just didn't think he will have to leave this soon. I only moved a couple of weeks ago." I said while struggling with my emotions.

"You'll be fine honey. I'm not leaving anywhere. We'll hang out, have sleep overs. Those months will fly . You'll see" she said smiling.

Just as we finished our discussion about our men leaving, the two of them entered the office. Robert came straight to me looking sad. I think Chris told him that he might have slipped the fact that they are leaving to me. 

"I was about to tell you tonight at dinner babe. I'm sorry. I just found out this morning myself. I'm sorry honey. I'll be home before you know it." . He was trying to get a hold of his emotions as well.

"How long?" I asked simply.

"Almost 7 months. I'm sorry." 

"It's okay Robert. You are an actor after all. I can't just plead you to stay here and put your acting on hold. Let's just make these 3 days the best we can." I said while hugging him.

We stood and talked for hours. Chris and Elsa had to leave at some point and so did I and Robert. As we were heading towards his car he grabbed me and pined me onto the wall, kissing me hungrily. I red his desperation and the sorrow in that kiss. I knew he wanted to stay, but I can't ask him to do that.

"I love you Jo! I'll be home before your birthday in August. I promise"

"Don't promise something you can't hold onto" I half whispered.

"I don't. I will be here" he whispered into my year. His voice was calm and low. He was sweet and I knew he cared for my feelings. I knew he loved me.

Instead of getting inside the car we just walked for hours in the city taking pictures during night time, making memories for me to hold onto as he put it. He kissed me and held my hand. He wasn't wearing his cap. I noticed that after 2 hours.

"Robert someone will see you!" I half screamed.

"Are you implying that you don't want people to see you with me?" he asked jokingly.

"No silly. It's just that ..you want people to see that you are mine? Do you really want that?"

"Jo, I want the world to know that you are the one who has the only key to my heart. I want the world to know that you became the center of my Universe" I smiled the whole time he talked, because, let's just say that he actually yelled it in the middle of Times Square and people started looking in our direction. Some of them actually came in our direction.

I heard whispers like *That's Robert Downey Jr.*, *Is that his girlfriend?* *I'm so glad for them*, *they look so cute together*.

We smiled at each other and with that we started waking back to the car. The weather wasn't warm at all, but Robert made everything feel great. I'll really miss him in these 7 months. At least we still have Viber , Twitter, What'sApp. At least I'll have Hannah and Elsa with me.