Not Like The Movies

Chapter One

A/N Hey! As this is a joint account, and there are two authors (used to be three, but the third bailed) on here, it may get confusing. At the end of each chapter, there will be an author's name; either @Helenista or @PinkDoggie. Feel free to follow any of us! This book is really important to me, so please vote. It doesn't take much - just one click and you'll make my day! HAPPY READING!!! (I know I'm like bipolar or something, but that's just me! =D)

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There I am, the guest of honor at the red carpet event I'm attending with my BFF, Nancy Carter, although I have no idea where she is right now. I wave excitedly at her, as she finally steps into view at the bar. At nineteen, she's too young to drink, so she's just chatting to a cute guy who probably is old enough to drink. I get her attention and she hisses in my ear,"Bianca! I just got him to believe I was twenty! Now that he sees you, I bet he doesn't think so anymore; you look barely older than eighteen!"

Even though she's actually younger than me by a few months, with, her white-blond locks, hazel eyes, and petite figure, she looks way older, at least twenty-one. "That's 'cause I am barely older than eighteen!' I answer playfully, nudging her.

She rolls her eyes and scoffs," Well, to make it in this industry, when you're younger than twenty-five, you gotta look older, experienced. When you're older than that, you try to look younger, brighter."

I shoot back,"You say that like you know what it's like! Have you turned 40 without me noticing?"

Nancy teases,"Of course I have! You haven't been here the past 20 years?"

I let out a fake gasp, clasp my hand to my chest, and say in mock hurt,"Oh no, you didn't!"

We've exchanged this playful banter for years, ever since we met at film school when we were sixteen. Her first, blunt (but ever so life-changing) words to me were,"Well, aren't you dolled up. Unfortunately, you don't have any taste." And she escorted me to her mom's shop, where we shopped for ultra-stylish clothes that her mom designed! Then she rushed back to film school with me before I could even learn her name! She really saved me that day, because the instructor, my now close confidante, Antonio Raflage, scrutinized our attire to decide which of us he would let in. So in a way, without Nancy, I would still be that poor Minnesota girl who had a big dream but a sad life, without my flourishing acting career that is mine today. Yeah, I really owe her one.

Now, both of us are huge stars in the acting industry (but we still get tongue-tied at auditons), with the help of our amazing publicists and instructors of course, and are loaded. We've got everything a girl could ever want, right? WRONG. I was broken-hearted, and somehow, Nancy still hasn't found her life's passion (we all assume her passion is acting)! We've vowed to help each fulfill our destinies (sappy, right?), or die trying. Of course, if both of us want out, the vow is off (because we don't really want to die - a bit extreme, don't you think?). The vow was made a year ago, but we haven't had any luck. I've signed Nancy up for lessons on (this is a more or less accurate list of what I've done so far) waterskiiing, bungee jumping, skiing, surfing, cooking, baking, computer programming, soccer, hockey, football, a 9-5, playing piano, guitar, flute, violin, ukelele, drums, cheerleading (although we didn't see much of high school, we understood it was a crucial point in becoming popular), and dancing (honestly on the screen, she's like a ballerina, but on the actual dance floor, she's about as graceful as a hippo). For her part, Nancy has set me up on so many (failed!) blind dates that I now keep a "Blind Date" book with a list of their names, number of guys with the same name (Harrys are quite popular; I've gone out with seventeen of them), and their most disgusting quality (one was so self-absorbed, when he met me, he looked me up and down unashamedly, and announced plainly with his head held high,"You'll do." And he wasn't even that cute!)

Helenista

A/N: Also, if ya didn't know, none of us have any idea how an audition or the movie making process works, so sorry for any mistakes!