The Actress' Husband

Episode 4: Attention Seeker

Episode 4: Attention Seeker

Early the next morning every news outlet and entertainment programs were covering what went down last night at the fashion show.

Emily was being dragged everywhere for her disgraceful actions.

Some even went as far as accusing her of being an attention seeker, a "dead" actress who didn't know when to stop and more explicit ones like "bitch", "whore" and "slut".

The main character of their discussions sat in her living room unfazed by their words knowing how untruthful they were.

She sipped on her mug, feeling a little more relaxed by the strong smell of her favourite coffee. Her phone caught her attention as it started ringing off the hook again, this time it was not Jake whom she had purposefully been ignoring, but her sister.

"Good morning, Chelsea."

"Morning? Good morning?! Emily, have you not seen the news? They're all talking about how you're an attention whore!" Chelsea exclaimed, forcing Emily to remove the phone from her ears for a while, afraid she might end up deaf.

"Oh, I've seen it alright." Emily stated simply, going to mute the television before her.

"That's it! We're getting back at them for all the bad stuff they're saying! I know you're not that type of person. Let's sue them for defamation of character, sis!"

Emily giggled, feeling a little lighter in the heart. "One year of law school and you think you actually passed the bar exam. Sure, Chels, let's sue the entire country for defamation of character."

"Might as goddamn well! They're all making you out to be the offender! Not one of them talked about how you were probably forced into this-you were right?"

"Hmm." Emily just hummed.

"Is that a yes?" Chelsea tried to confirm.

"Hmm."

"A no?"

"Hmm."

Chelsea huffed on the other line growing frustrated. "Ems, is this your way of showing me how much the news has affected your brain?"

Emily grinned. "Hmm."

"Ah, forget it!" Chelsea sighed.

"You know, mom and dad are worried sick about you."

Emily's smile dropped at the mention of her parents.

"I know that they and the elders cut you off because you gave up on acting so easily after working so hard to reach where you were, but they're really concerned. Mom even went as far as telling me to give you a call to check up on you a minute ago. You should've seen their faces while watching the news, Ems. Dad got so mad he turned the T.V. off, mumbling about those 'darn slumbags' that 'have nothing better to do with their lives than report garbage'."

The atmosphere grew dim and dark.

Emily had given up on acting partially because of the continuous coaxing by Jake. About how she didn't have to work after they got married - that he would take care of her.

Of course, her parents were no fools and argued with her about it. They had asked her why she had spent so much time begging them to make her attend acting school only to become such a disgrace in the end. And over such an arrogant boy too! How pathetic she had been.

Her parents never liked Jake.

They always spoke out about how he had a certain bad vibe surrounding him. That people like him were to be cautious of.