Acted to Love

Part 29 Oh Gummy Bear

HIS POV

"Smile…." he said to himself and tried smiling but he felt it still fake so he sighed and paced on that carpeted floor.

"Smile…." another statement on his hush and looked at that mirror and tried smiling. He rolled his eyes and shook his head afterwards.

What a mantra

But he needs to. He supposedly going to surprise Patty on that live guesting. The actress was already on the stage for an interview and he's already in that dressing room waiting for his call. Suit clad again, dark this time. He's on the process of practicing his smile again with that 'longing smile' Neil told him when his phone rung.

He exhaled big when he saw the ID. Shaking his head, he still took it and uttered a sarcastic tone of hello

"I was wondering," a female voice opened on the other line, "What do you call Patty?"

He frowned, "Ahm, Patty?"

"No no no," the woman said. "What I mean is endearment"

He sighed for a million time that day, "J, I don't need an endearment that's cliche"

"You need to call her something, it's gonna be cute," Jb insisted on the other line. She knew about the guesting too and now trying to impose again like she's a manager of a teenage love teams.

"Cute does not sounds formal J, what are you thinking?" pitchyness in tone was not his thing but the girl on the other line always makes him do that.

"You need to act as a normal couple," Jb explained. "People like it when they knew that a politician and an actress as famous as you two acts like normal couple. They need to relate"

"J, I don…"

"Baby sounds okay," Jb cut and he shuddered in embarrassment as he instantly thought about calling Patty with the same way they call infants.

"Oh, Luke would hate you because it sounds like babe, that's his endearment for Tin," Jb continued. "Honey was already taken so let's cross it out"

"Who adult couple would like to call as that diabetes inducing thing?" he said in another pitchy tone and his left hand was in the air

"A lot, because it's sweet," the girl reasoned, "In what kind of rock did you hid all this thirty five years of your existence?"

"It's not that in anymore," he started to explain. "As a matter of fact, only old women used that endearment. All the old congresswomen call their staff honey…."

"Simon call Frida honey," Jb stated lowly and he embarrassed himself that early.

"No, not honey. As you said it's normal," he tried to reason on gritted teeth.

"Oh, how about sweetheart?" Jb continued

He rolled his eyes, "You call kids sweetheart"

"Aha, Sugar?"

"Nooooooooo," a long negative reaction from him. It's Luke's favorite endearment to all blonde women in the world.

"Wait, I'll research about it. Something different but cute." Gab heard clicking sound in the background. The girl might be in front of her computer again, making a habit in research due to boredom. Carl Thomas should make a maze inside that house so Jb would be busy solving it instead of interrupting his important time.

"No," he forcefully said. "Jb, I don't need this thing. Jesus!"

"Pear?" Jb said again. "Oh no, you don't want announcing to everyone that Patty's body is pear shape"