Dreaming Hollywood

Chapter 17

Martin also contacted me on WhatsApp to ask me to go for a ride.

We met in Central Park and went for a ride.  It's amazing how life takes on a different color with him -and it's even more incredible that I said this.

We talk a lot, I feel complete with him, I feel I can tell him everything without secrets, yet I have a secret that I cannot tell him.

We talk about many topics among which also my family and I automatically get dark, I love my family but I had to undergo many things about her and thinking about it hurts me but I can't hide this from him too.

I start talking but my voice is broken so he stops me immediately.

"Sorry, I didn't want to make you feel bad, I didn't know-", I stop him I don't like talking about my family, but since my dad died I only talked about it with the psychotherapist who was treating me and my doctor told me  having said that it would have been good for me to talk about it with someone else too, so this was the right time.

"Don't worry, I want to talk to you about it. I see my father died when I was only eight and until I was fifteen my mom and I were alone. We were very wealthy since my dad worked as a computer engineer for a very important company, he was known all over the world and was also paid very well but then a lightning heart attack cut him off without us being able to do anything and my mom was etoile at La Scala in Milan but a knee problem forced her to abandon the scenes and  so without a job the money went out but did not come in and while my mom was looking for work she met Sergio, her new partner who has been living with us for three years. He has really saved us, he is sweet and kind both with my mom and with me, he made me a father in the last three years of adolescence and I am very grateful to him. He is also very rich and we moved here because he had a very important engagement. Here is the story of my life, it isn't very exciting I know ... "- now that I think about it I can play the weapon of the dream of being an actress ...-" I want to keep up the name of my parents, I would like to be an actress, it's mine dream since I was a child but I am too shy and therefore I will never succeed "a tear falls, both to make the story more credible, and because rethinking my story hurts me.

"Claudia, I understand you ... I lost my mom as a child due to an accident in the car and I lived for a long time with my dad and his girlfriend, she always hated me and always made my life impossible but I always have sent down to make my dad happy. Acting is the only thing that saved me. I auditioned for fun then they took me and spending the days on the set away from Laura made me feel good so finished filming that movie  I immediately did another audition and they took me and I was away from them for a long time, I continued for a while, my fame grew and the directors were also inclined to take me for this reason and it is always for this reason that  I've already made a lot of movies. The money was coming and so I bought a house and now I live alone, I only see my father because I can't see Laura anymore. And this is my life, mine hasn't been  a great deal ... "

"Are you joking?! Your life is fantastic, I don't know what I would give to audition ...", I reply.

After a few seconds of pause he says to me: "Hey, tomorrow I'm going to audition for another film, would you like to come with me? If you want you can try a part or just come to see how the auditions work".

I nod because I don't know what else to say, I'm practically paralyzed by happiness, I instinctively embrace him because nobody had ever said such a beautiful thing to me.

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Hi guys, here's the seventeenth chapter.

Hope you like it,

Altea