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“I might never stop!” Adam says.
“I’ll believe it when I see it,” I say.
Adam is a notorious grump.
Evie gives me more details about the proposal, and the more she tells me, the more I smile.Imay never stop. They’re so cute together.
“We can talk more about wedding plans when I get back on Wednesday,” Evie says, and I feel a change in subject coming. “Right now, I want all the details about the first day of shooting. I saw all your posts. They’re soooo good!”
“Stella did a great job. I knew she would.” Just thinking about the pictures, I’m tempted to look at them again. “We worked hard, and a lot of it was repetitive stuff, but it was so fun.”
“Yeah, itlookslike you had fun,” she says in a suggestive voice.
I cringe a little. I know what she’s implying, but I pretend not to.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” My voice is about as convincing as a bad used car salesman’s.
“If I didn’t know you were friends, I’d think you were together,” she says, echoing the exact thought I had not thirty minutes ago. “Even Adam is wondering if something’s going on.”
“Come on! You know nothing is going on.” Obviously, she doesn’t, but I will fix all this tomorrow. I’m not letting anything happen that will lead to pictures like these again.
“Was it Shakespeare who said something about protesting too much? Because, yeah, that.” Evie laughs. “But this is good, Georgy. Did you see all the comments? People love the two of you together!”
“That’s what Stella said too.” I put Evie on speaker and pull up my social media account again. There are even more likes and comments than there were the last time I checked.
“I’m going to tell you the same thing you told me when people went crazy over Adam on my posts,” Evie says. “More Zach content, please.” The humor in her voice doesn’t soothe the worry knotting in my stomach.
“I agree, but we’ll be playing up the only-friends angle. Zach’s agreed to play a bigger role on the social media side of things, but tomorrow, we’ll make it clear there’s nothing going on between us.” I talk business-y to put any ideas out of Evie’s head that there’s anything going on between Zach and me.
“Uh-huh.” That’s all she says, but there’s enough subtext in the sound that it could be an entire literary novel.
“I’m just giving the people what they obviously want—which is Zach. And a single Zach is going to be a bigger sell than a Zach they think is attached to me.”Or Carly.
I quickly push that thought aside—and the one about Zach thinking she might be the one—then continue. “And that’s why we’ll clear up that misconception with tomorrow’s posts.”
I don’t know why I’m scrambling to explain myself to her. There’s, literally, nothing to explain.
“Uh-huh,” Evie says again, still unconvinced.
“He’s head-over-heels for Carly. He told me today he thinks she’s the one.” So maybe I haven’t completely banished those thoughts.
“Ha! Okay,” she laughs, then repeats what I’ve said to Adam, who also laughs. And Adam never laughs.
“Look, there is nothing going on between us. Period.” My armpits are damp, my palms sweaty. I don’t know why. This is all ridiculous. “And there’s not going to be anything going on between us. Even if we weren’t pretty much best friends, we’re working together. Falling for each other would make everything weird. Worse. If things didn’t work out the whole project could blow up.”
What I don’t say is that in a romance-gone-wrong with Zach, I might lose Evie and Adam too. Before Adam met Evie, he was engaged to Dakota, a friend of mine. I got Adam in their break-up, which I’m totally fine with, but it still sucks to lose a friend.
And even though Adam and Zach don’t always get along, blood is always thicker than water. An end to a relationship with Zach would mean an end to my friendship with Adam, and by default, once they’re married, my friendship with Evie.
Too risky.
“Flip or Flop,” Evie says.
“What?”
“The El Moussas. They got divorced and still worked together.”
I scoff. “Not anymore.”
