I sighed. This was the third application form I had filled out that month. It was hard to find someone who wanted an aspiring actress. Sure, interning in the New York City State Police Forensic Investigation Unit was a lot of fun, since I was going to the local community college for forensics, But just being a lowly intern, I only got paid a little. So I worked the odd job, earning enough money to pay half the rent for the apartment that my twin sister April and I shared. We didn't have to much but we never went hungry.
Since I was normally the one who worked, I didn't get much time to go out. Except at night. April would go out and work as a bartender at the local club, and I'd get my chance to go out, and occasionally try to meet a guy…
My sister April already had a boyfriend. He was a real sweet guy….
Though I felt sorry for him. See, April had been taking drugs for a while, but we convinced her to stop taking them, so she was going through a period of withdraw, and I'm not so sure that she wasn't going out and buying more drugs behind my back, and faking withdraw So I won't bug her about going to a clinic. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'Hey April, I'm going to the club. '
April laughed.
'Going to try and pick up a guy 'Lettie?'
It was a thing April and I had, since my middle name was Scarlette, and hers was Ashley, she called me 'Lettie, and I called her Ash. See, our mom was obsessed with "Gone with the Wind" and she named my middle name after Scarlette O'Hare, and my sister's after Ashley Wilkes.
I laughed.
'How'd you know Ash?'
'What did you expect 'Lettie? We're twins, I have a little bit of your brain, and you have a little bit of mine…I know your secrets…"
She smiled.
" You working tonight Ash?"
She finished folding the shirt that she had been ironing.
" Surprisingly not, they hired a new girl, so I get a few more nights off…Wanna go to the club? Roger's band is playing, and his roommate's kinda cute. You know, Mark Cohen? The one I've been telling you about?"
" Oh yeah, the filmmaker right?"
"Definitely. You two have so much in common….I mean seriously, you made the odd film back in high school. Get your jacket 'Lettie, let's go before they get too far into the concert"
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