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“Oh…” I rasped, catching onto what she was saying. “I didn’t know he was playing that role. Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Why would we? I need to know why he’s so adamant for you to play opposite him?”
I played it off. “Maybe because I’m the highest-paid actress?”
“Don’t bullshit a bullshitter, Bailey. There’s more to it than that. Now tell me the truth.”
“Ummm…” I inhaled a deep breath.
“Bailey.” She grabbed my hand. “I’m going to need you to trust me.”
“I… well…” I licked my lips, my mouth suddenly dry. “He took… the fall for me.”
“The fall for what?”
I bowed my head. “The Molly he was arrested for.”
She gasped loudly.
“Yeah…” I looked at her again. “I feel so bad. I haven’t been able to talk to him or thank him or anything.”
“Why would he do that?”
“Because… we sort of… you know… have this history…”
With a stern expression, she questioned, “More than justThe Kids Club?”
“Way more than just that.”
“What are you insinuating?”
I abruptly stood and started to pace. “We were young and thrown to the wolves. What do you think happened?”
She stood, grabbing my shoulders to stop my mindless pacing. “Are you telling me you two had a thing?”
“I guess that’s what you could call it.” I shrugged. “We didn’t really have a label for us. We just… hung out, and sometimes that included making out and…” I murmured under my breath, “Taking off our clothes.”
She gasped again, making me feel hesitant about what I was confessing.
“What?!” she shouted. “You’re telling me you had sex with Nicholas Aires?”
“The III.”
“Wow.” She sat back down. “I did not see that coming. I know that opposites attract, but this is on a whole other level, Bailey. Does your family know?”
“You think they would have allowed me to continue on set if they knew something was going on between us? Of course not. They thought what everyone did. We were just colleagues on a hit TV show.”
“How long has this been going on?”
“Nothing is going on now. We hadn’t seen each other since the show was canceled and coincidentally ran into one another at the party that was raided and he got arrested at.”
“Oh my God.” She put her head between her legs. “If you had gotten arrested with drugs?—”
“I know! That’s why he took the fall for me.”
She glanced over at me. “That’s quite the way to profess his love for you.”
I shook my head. “It’s not like that.”
