Mamma Mia - The Reunion

Chapter 7.

AMANDAS POV. 

I could see Meryl was really REALLY nervous as we sat on the plane. I nudged her a little in her arm to get her attention. 'You okay?' She smiled as I asked her.. she could tell I was trying to look after her, but, she thought she didn't need looking after... I just wanted to make sure she as okay. I mean, she was like a mother to me. She'd 'played' my mother on screen in Mamma Mia, but... we had just gotten so so close on and off set. I just wanted her to be safe. 

'Amanda, I'm fine.. please, stop worrying about me. I WILL tell you if I'm worried. Please just trust me' She gave me a warm smile to try and reassure me that she was fine, but, I could tell that she as worried about heading back to the place where trolls found out where she as staying, somehow got access into her room and tried to kill her.. if it wasn't for Pierce and Stellan walking in when they did, I think the 'fans' as they called themselves to the police, would have gotten away with it! That would have been it! The film wouldn't have been able to be finished, we would have had to sort out everything and notify Don and her children. I don't think I would have been able to handle that, if that had happened. I shuddered at the thought. 

MERYLS POV. 

Some time later. In my room, my mind wandered back to that fateful evening, the evening when the attackers forced their way into my hotel room and tried to murder me. Honestly, it shook me to my core. That doesn't happen very often, but, they managed it, somehow, someway... I feared for my life! '-They burst through the door, shouting in Greek.. I couldn't understand most of what they were saying. That scared me even more. I got pinned to the bed, the men, still shouting and yelling at me, one began to strangle me... It was, what felt like a lifetime... I began to black out, before Pierce and Stellan came bursting through the door...-'

I pulled myself out of my thoughts as Christine and Julie came walking in.. they must have knocked before, but, me being me and being lost in my thoughts must have not heard it. 

'Hey, you okay? it's just, you didn't come down for the big whole cast meet up and drinks..' Christine chimed in as she sat on the side of my bed. 'Uh, yeah, yeah. I'm fine. Just a little jet lagged.. that's all..' It was this point in the conversation that I was glad I did acting as my profession.. although, so did both Christine and Julie, they knew me too well and knew when I was, or even began to lie. 'Oh come on, Meryl!! We know when you're lying! And THIS is one of those times.. So, come on! What is it?' 

JULIES POV.

I knew Meryl was lying.. I could think of a few reasons why  she was a little.... off.. but, I wasn't sure exactly what... then it hit me! They had put her in the same room as the one that she was in the last time she was here. The one the attackers burst into... the one she nearly died in. I hadn't realised until now.. Room 432.. Why didn't it ring a bell as myself and Christine were making our way up here. 

'Meryl.. I.. I didn't realise.. this is the room that it happened in.... isn't it?' I looked at her as she began to cry. Not many people ever got to see THE Meryl Streep cry. Myself and Christine were one of the few which had the privilege of seeing this kind of side to Meryl.. the vulnerable side. 

'Im sorry I didn't say anything sooner, I just didn't want to make a scene and it wasn't until I got up here that I realised what room this was' She said through the tears.. I moved in to hug her and so did Christine.. We had a little group hug, one which could relax you in a matter of minutes. It came to a point in which people would be wondering where the three of us were, but, I didn't care much neither did Meryl or Christine.

We carried on hugging, and enjoying the moment and making sure our Meryl was okay...