✦ ✧ ✩ Curtain Call ✦ ✧ ✩ - Charlie Gillespie

Chapter 46

Charlie turned and slowly walked towards her. After taking a seat he held her hand and looked into her eyes, then looked down and fidgeted with her fingers. She was smiling brightly, expecting his answer.

"Are we even ready for that?" he asked, and she let go off his hand.

"I don't think these are normal circumstances Charlie"

"No, I get it but - "

"It's ok, you don't have to. I'm sorry I asked" She cut him off and then gave him a kiss on the lips that triggered her tears, which slowly started streaming down her face, making her lose breath as she fought them. He felt her tears on his face and pulled away to wipe them off. She just let him cup her face for a second before slowly taking it off.

She stood up and without looking at him folded the blanket that weighted her down and put it down in the couch.

"Eri, I'm sorry." Charlie muttered as she grabbed her keys which she threw on the kitchen counter in excitement when she got in the apartment. Eri slammed the door behind her, and he watched her take a cab from the window.

[Eri's POV]

As our lips separated I caught a glimpse of his eyes, that were looking directly into mine, and I felt the weight of the world falling on my shoulders.

I was lost.

I was his.

And as much as I wanted to fight the feeling, at that moment, I felt that we didn't belong to each other.

It was just me that belonged to him.

It felt like he took the parts he could have fun with but pulled away the minute it was time to face hardships.

Once again I fooled myself into believing I was worth more than the first thing.

I got into the cab and ran upstairs to pack my bags again, defeated when Kenny called me.

"Hey Eri" he said, in his fatherly loving voice "I just wanted to check on you. See how things were going back home"

"Kenny!" I chipperly replied, fighting the knot in my throat "I'm actually in Vancouver right now, probably flying out tomorrow tho"

"Oh you HAVE to come to set then. We're filming a super fun scene today, I updated the details in the calendar we share. You should come, I don't think you've seen Cheyenne perform yet"

"No I haven't! I'd love to be there"

"See you in a bit then"

I hung the phone and opened the calendar, which led me to the details of when and where they were shooting the scene. I was searching for the address when Maeve came out of her room with her bag packed and left it next to mine that was still in the living room.

"I'm guessing Owen called you" I said, looking at her defeated.

"Yes, he heard a door being slammed and gave me a heads up, do you wanna talk about it?"

"Not really"

"Ok" she simply replied "So we are leaving tomorrow to visit our family" She said, and gave me a hug when she noticed I was about to cry again, "You don't ever have to fight tears with me ok?" she continued, as she ran her palm through my back.

"I don't know what I would do without you." I uttered.

"Hey, we are soulmates. I don't know what I'd do without you either."

I just let myself be in her arms for a while before heading to set.

"Wait til you see Cheyenne's and the other performers costumes. They are out of this world Eri" she said, clapping and getting all giggly. Just being around her made me forget whatever dumb thing was going through my head earlier. I have to have done something right if she wanted to keep me around.

"Let me introduce myself, we've got some time to kill"

A voice sang from the back of the set, and I was immediately shook to my core as I saw this handsome ass man hovering over me in the most fabulous suit. They were fixing the last details of the choreography when Kenny turned to me and put his arms up in the air.

"Isn't this a great pick me up?" he said, and then turned to Cheyenne who tipped his hat at us while smirking. Both Maeve and I had our jaws on the floor.

"Go sit over there, we'll go through the whole number now in 15" Kenny said, and we walked to stand behind the monitors. We watched Cheyenne perform, and he did amazing, as expected. We were so pumped we started to feel almost drunk on the adrenaline of seeing someone with that talent and experience perform. As he finished we clapped and cheered like fan girls. Kenny congratulated them and said they were filming the next scene scheduled before going over it again.

Maeve looked at me and smirked

"What if we dress up as extras?"

"No Maeve what if we fuck up the shots?"

"Come on! How hard can it be, we just have to look pretty and clap"

"This is going to be so bad" I said, rolling my eyes as she jumped in place.

We walked behind where the dancers and extras were getting ready, and she handed me one of the costumes, grabbed one for herself and told me to go change in the bathroom. It took me a lot of effort to fit into the costume as it had zippers and mesh and a whole lot of ruffles. Once I was in it, I walked out and Maeve looked at me confused and then started to laugh.

She was wearing an elegant black dress, saying it was different from what I was wearing was an understatement.

She was walking towards me when a swarm of dancers walked between us and I felt a hand pull me into it. I turned around to stop it, but they just kept coming and coming and like that I was pushed into the scene.

As the dancers did their thing and Maeve chatted on the corner with another extra giving it her all for the camera I was pushed in front of the cameras. I looked up and saw Owen hanging from a hoop.

"When did he get up the-?" my train of thought was interrupted by a hand grabbing on to my waist as Kenny called action. Our eyes met and we both lost our ability to speech as he brought me closer to slow dance. I tried to pull away but his grip got tighter, as he placed his fingers in my lower back where the dress cut.

"Hey, it's supposed to be seductive" he said, laughing in my ear.

I felt shivers go down my spine as I felt his breath when he finally spoke. It almost made me mad but my body was too busy reacting to his scent to even think about anything else.

He then went on to say his lines, and they finished the scene.

"Cut!" Kenny yelled, and I took the opportunity to walk away "Let's do that again, now with the twins ok?" he continued, and laughed as I smiled at him.

"Are we even there yet?" his words replayed in my head. And so did the last 2 minutes after it.

"God, I'm so pathetic." I thought, again fighting the urge to cry. I was getting really good at it.

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I'm dying to see what you guys think it's going on with this dumb mf lmao byeeeeeee