Fake Fiancée - Season 1 - Episode 49

4 years ago

Fake Fiancée - Season 1 - Episode 49

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As Henry and I entered the film set for the day, we immediately came face-to-face with a young woman. I think she was Peter’s personal assistant.

“Mr Parker, you must get your make-up done now,” she announced, giving both of us a bright smile.

“Of course,” Henry replied. He then flashed a charming smile. “Just give me a minute.”

As the woman walked away to talk to some other people, Henry kissed my cheek. “I guess I’ll see you later?”

I nodded and tried not to show how excited I was to have him gone. Sure I wanted to spend my time with him, but I wanted to start snooping around and maybe finding clues if Veronica is really conspiring with the media against us.
“You sure will.”

I watched him as he left, and when he entered the ‘make-up trailer,’ I started to pace around and find Veronica. I didn’t know what I was going to do exactly, but I would watch her like a hawk … hopefully.

After walking around aimlessly for about ten minutes, I spotted her. She was talking with Peter (who looked pretty good even though he was drunk last night), so I decided to hang around and strain my ears to hear their conversation. It turned out to be boring though, so I sighed and gave up.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, I saw Keith approaching me with his blonde hair slicked back neatly. A smile instantly lit up my face and I walked towards him. “Hey Keith!”

He stopped and seemed taken aback. “What’s up with you?”

I frowned, offended. What was he talking about? Seeing the confusion on my face, Keith chuckled. “You just seem … happy.”

“Was I not happy before?” I questioned, raising my eyebrow, basically daring him to defy me. He did.

“Yep. Wait … have you and Henry stopped fighting?” He asked.

I couldn’t help but let a smile cross my face as he asked me that because my love life was officially amazing. “Got it in one.”

Keith smiled hesitantly and pulled me in for a hug. I was shocked at first, but then I eased into his presence and patted his shoulder. As we both let go, I gave him a smile. “What was that for?”
He bit his lip and after a few seconds, he murmured, “I’m happy for you, Lainie.”

Aww, how sweet of him! Before I could say anything though, a hand came around my waist, making me jump. Henry was standing behind me with his face rested in the crook of my neck.

“I missed you,” he mumbled quietly, so quietly that I nearly missed what he had said.

For some reason, I ended up laughing lightly. I knew it was hard for him to probably say something so ‘non-player’ and I found it cute. I then realised that Keith was still here, so I was about to carefully ease out of Henry’s arms and apologise to him, but instead, I found that he wasn’t here anymore. He had walked off.
“Are you looking for Keith?” Henry asked, taking his arms off my waist and tilting my chin to meet his gaze.

I nodded. “He was just here …”

“Yeah, well he’s gone now,” Henry muttered. I sighed because I really couldn’t take Henry being jealous.

“Keith is definitely not a threat so you have nothing to worry about. The only person who we do need to worry about is Veronica and … speaking of the devil!”

Out of my peripheral view, I saw Veronica hurrying across the cement, her eyes darting from side to side. Due to my superior detective skills, I figured that was definitely suspicious activity.

Forgetting about Henry behind me, I followed her around the busy set and wondered where on Earth she was going. I weaved and ducked around everyone and I could hear Henry behind me, constantly asking me what was wrong.
I saw her up ahead, and she made a right turn and disappeared. Panicking, I rushed after her, only to find no one around, except for a few people painting a set off to my left. I groaned because I had been so close to finding her.

“What is up with you?!” Henry demanded as he caught up to me.

I sighed and explained about seeing Veronica rushing off suspiciously. To nobody’s surprise, Henry sighed exasperatedly. “I told you before, Veronica -”

“Shh! ” I immediately exclaimed. I could hear a conversation going on behind one of the large trailers up ahead and I knew it was Veronica. Bingo!

“Did you just tell me to shut up?” Henry asked, offended.

I rolled my eyes at his idiocy and crept forward so I could hear more of the conversation going on. My back hit the trailer door, and I peered my head around the corner to see a tall, dark-haired man talking to who must be Veronica. I couldn’t see her though, because the man was blocking my view.

“Do you have it?” The deep voice of the man made me shiver. Who was he and what was he doing here?

“Yes, right here.”

The voice of Veronica made me frown, because it sounded somehow different. The voice sounded familiar, but I couldn’t place it. Did the voice really belong to Veronica or did it really belong to someone else? And the biggest question of all was: what was being exchanged?