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Chapter 70: Stressed

Aaron POV
Yesterday was great. A family day was well needed and wanted and I'm glad that I got to do it. A little bit of relaxing before what's going to happen when I get back to Washington is good. I know that so much stress is coming.

I say my goodbyes at home even though I really don't want to. Seeing how upset the twins are that I'm leaving really makes me sad. They miss me every time I go and I miss so many things with them that I really wish I didn't. If I could do my job without traveling everywhere for long periods of time, I would have the dream. Unfortunately, that's not how acting works. It's all about playing a scene and a character and I can't do that without being at the destination of the movie, so I'm stuck at this hard moment.

Although the goodbyes at home were hard, I'm excited to be on the plane with my coworkers again. I kind of missed them. We've built a bond outside of just coworkers since it's many of our first movie. Even though I'm only seeing my coworkers that live in and are leaving LA, it's nice to see them and kind of get back into the vibe of filming. I can't wait to see my friends Alex and Jahmir. They've become way more than coworkers. They've become best friends to me and I've been staying in contact with them during the whole break.

The flight was long and I slept most of the time, like usual. It has become a never ending cycle of me getting in a long flight, sleeping, working, getting on another long flight, sleeping, relaxing, and then starting all over again. It has been a restriction on my life and I think about that all the time. I love freedom and as much as I complain about it, I love my job too. Sometimes I have to sacrifice my freedom for my job. It is totally worth it. I try not to complain about it because being negative never helps anything, I had to learn that the hard way.

We make it to Washington with no disruption. That's always good to hear on a plane. I make it to the area that I'm staying in by Uber. I unpack my stuff and just get reacquainted with the place that I had just stayed in before. I relax a little and text back and forth with Jahmir and Alex. Jahmir's flight is going to be the last one to get here and he's dreading having to rush and drop of his stuff and then get back to the restaurant we're having our meeting in. I can hear Alex cracking up through the screen at Jahmir's misfortune. That's the type of guy he is. He'll laugh at his friends but go out of his way to help them when they're in sticky situations. That's exactly what he does. He offers to save Jahmir's spot and tell our director that he will be late because of his luggage. It's the least he can do.

I get ready for the meeting. I pull of my comfortable flight clothes and change into a polo and some jeans. I spray on some cologne and style my hair so it doesn't look like I just woke even though in actuality I did, then I hop into the Uber. We meet at some hibachi restaurant. We get a private room in the back that is already reserved for us. We haven't released the trailer yet so no one really knows who we are. It comes in handy in times like this. We settle in and wait for everyone to come in. When Alex comes in I snicker, knowing the inside joke of the situation. He takes a seat I. The chair behind me and we do a quick role call. When the come to Jahmir's name, Alex says, "Not here yet because of his flight." The director nods and moves on. We start the meeting and our food gets cooked in front of us. Jahmir ends up coming in a little bit after we starts. Nothing drastic. He still looks mad as wet hen and that makes me and Amex want to crack up.

The meeting present so many good ideas. The bad factor of what made us go on break kind of weighed in. I hate that we had to lose a life and it's kind of engraved in our memory. Witnessing that was more than a little scarring. It's something none of us we'll ever forget no matter how bad we want to erase it from our minds. It's a traumatizing thing. We had to move on from it but it was something that was hard to move on. I'm so sad that had to happen for us to realize that we needed to stop being lazy and get our work done or things like that will happen. It was a careless mistake and none of us want anything like that to happen again. The guy who forgot to strap him in good is beating himself up everyday about it. He hasn't smiled once since the incident and I don't think he'll ever get over it. I feel horrible for him and the victims family. They've talked to the company that made the movie. They said they would never die but the company gave them money anyway. They said they would help with any expenses. They couldn't just leave his family empty handed like that, even though they said it was ok. With the death pushed aside I am happy to be back and see all my coworkers. Our movie is back in the making and we can finally continue this dream for everyone. With all this hard work I know that the product will come out good. I'm just ready to get back to work and get everything going again with work. Although it's going to cause some stressed, we're going to finish this.