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Victor goes quiet. He turns the steering wheel and slowly shakes his head.
Something changes in that moment... he doesn’t want to joke around anymore. He doesn’t want to talk about his secret passion. He doesn’t want to ruin his cool actor image.
I really can’t figure him out sometimes.
I walk downstairs to stumble across Victor making coffee in the kitchen. It’s the morning after the night spent driving around LA. We barely spoke when we arrived home after the drive – we were just so tired from all our traveling.
I didn’t expect him to make coffee.
“You had a good sleep?” the actor asks me as he handles two mugs.
I nod and rub my eyes, still waking up.
“Yep. That bed is so comfy. I didn’t want to leave, but then I smelled coffee, and then I was wide awake.”
“Here.”
Victor passes me a mug, and again we stroll out to his amazing balcony and look over the city.
“Thank you for this.”
“I still owe you for that almond croissant,” Victor says. “I guess we’re even now.”
“Yeah, I guess so.”
Now spending so much time with him, the actor seems so different - he’s human and not just the unreachable star on the screen. He has an inner life. He’s not just vain and arrogant.
I smile at him.
“What?” he asks me, blue eyes narrowing in suspicion at my smile.
“Nothing,” I reply, feeling blood rush to my cheeks.
“You’re very funny, Josie. You know that?”
“Thank you again for the coffee. I’m surprised you made it. I would’ve thought you hired someone to do that for you, like how you got a driver to bring our luggage here.”
Victor scoffs playfully.
“I’m not that high and mighty to have someone brew my morning caffeine. That’s a task I love to do.”
“Sure.”
Something buzzes. It’s his phone. Victor quickly checks it, reading a message.
“We have to get going,” he says to me somberly.
“And go where?” I ask, blinking in confusion. He didn’t tell me his plans.
Victor pockets his phone and takes another sip of his coffee.
“We’re going to an interview,” he says. “An important one. An interview to reveal you to the world.”
27
VICTOR
I stroll up to Josie and nod at her approvingly.
