"Yes?" she said into the phone, as soon as the call connected.
Silence ensued for the next few seconds, before she continued, "Totally. I will make out ti to do that... Yeah, I’ll be waiting for the email. Sure; I can manage with that ti."
The call didn’t last a full minute she hung up with a beep, and before Jodi could even ask who the caller was, she said, "It’s CS Agency. They say they no longer need to evaluate my performance after Broken Hearts is concluded before accepting . Apparently, their team has already finalized an image for , and they would like to et up to discuss it further."
"Oh my god, really?! Congratulations, Ava!" Jodi exclaid, cupping her palms over her mouth to stop herself from screaming, "But, isn’t that good news? Why do you look like a child that got his candy snatched from him?"
Avery could not help but roll her eyes at that. Yes, she knew she wasn’t expressing as much excitent as she should, but it wasn’t as bad as Jodi was saying.
"I do know it’s good news and it makes happy but why do I feel like sothing has gone wrong sowhere? Like I won’t be happy with the image their team wants to project," she wondered out loud.
Jodi shrugged. "That’s still no reason not to celebrate. If you end up not liking the image they present, then you refuse it and wait for them to judge with Broken Hearts end result. Trust , you’ll get signed with them. And it’d be on your own terms, not theirs," she reassured.
Flashing her an appreciative smile, Avery nodded.
"Uhm...to celebrate this, I’ll buy lunch today," she succumbed.
Jodi wriggled her brows, her eyes glinting with genuine astonishnt.
"Really? I can order whatever I want?"
Avery nodded, the smile on her face matching her partner’s excitent.
Within minutes, they had arrived at the floor Leroy had ntioned to them in his email earlier that morning. The 6th floor of the entire building. Jodi led the way through the cluster of crew mbers setting up the props and costus, towards the door at the end hallway which she guessed led to the apartnt they would be using.
"Leroy and the others should be in there. I hope they are busy so we get enough ti to rest before starting," she murmured beneath her breath.
"I’d say enough ti to touch up on the lines," Avery corroborated. She called out greetings to the crew mbers along the way, "Hey... Good morning, Rae." She waved at the make-up artist who had helped her the other day on her first shoot at the beach. That was the only worker whose na she knew among the crew, and therefore, the only person she addressed directly.
It didn’t matter that no one returned her greetings but by the ti Avery was halfway through the hallway, she could already sense sothing was wrong. The suspicions in her eyes were mirrored in Jodi’s; the latter also stopping dead in her tracks.
"Is it just or everyone looks like they are hiding sothing?"
Avery shook her head slightly, instantly unlocking her phone and muting the incessant beep of notifications.
"Doesn’t look like they are ready to talk though. We’d have to find out ourselves," she stated.
Still standing in the middle of the hall, Jodi had her phone out in a second. As she had fewer notification alerts than Avery did, it was easier for her to comb out the one post that was the cause of their search.
Not even a post; it was a comnt left within a section beneath the selfie Avery posted earlier from the userna: Valentina, and a trending post from the sa person. Seeing the blue tick mark right beside the na was enough for both ladies, Avery and Jodi, to confirm who the person behind the na was.
Valentina McCAllum; soone that was supposed to be their colleague on this movie set.
"I found it," Jodi announced.
Avery humd, "I just did too. Makes sense why they didn’t want to tell us, but acted suspicious enough to help us guess sothing’s wrong." She had a slight smirk tugging at the corners of her lips as she talked, but the low tone she used made Jodi think she was downcast.
"Don’t take it to heart, Ava. The bitch is only desperate," she cussed. "It’s obvious she only did this to chase clout. She’s hungry for people’s attention, and needs it to be directed back to her."
"Why did she have to use then?" Avery asked, pretending like the comnt deeply affected her. Her voice increased in pitch as soon as she noticed the people around were now starting to look at her, "It’s more than enough that her family aren’t saying anything to debunk the rumors that I am a murderer; And now, I have to take this from her too?! Do I look like a fool who doesn’t know her right?" she yelled.
Jodi took a step back, glaring at anyone who attempted to speak up or signal Avery to calm down. She needed this show down. If she couldn’t fight a bitch by herself, then she would be more than elated to fight the bitch through her more powerful friend, who also happened to have more reason to challenge the bitch.
Especially when she had had to endure the past few days watching Valentina talk down about her friend at every single opportunity she got. If she wasn’t scared of making Ava feel worse, she’d have told her everything.
"Don’t take it this ti," she whispered, loud enough so that Avery could hear. "You have to make her apologize for doing this or she’ll only continue to get on your nerves. And don’t worry about Manager Leroy, the comnt was left just 6 minutes ago so he most probably doesn’t know anything about it yet. He won’t scold you for this."
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