Chapter 2

I rushed out of bed, hurried into some clothes, brushed my teeth and grabbed an apple sitting in the lobby on my way out. I dialed the number got for the taxi company, and asked that it could come quickly. It did. I was at the studio in under 20 minutes, just making it in before 10. I spoke with the lady at the front desk, who thankfully knew English, and got directed down the hall to a door marked "Chancy Jackson." I knocked at went in.

"Hello?"

A man with a strange accent saw me and said "Hello, you would be Jo Taylor?"

"Yeah, that would be!"

"Welcome! I trust your flight was well!"

"Yes, it was great." I lied.

"Where are my manners? My name is Joseph Clark, I'm the director for this movie!"

"Great! So what are we doing today?"

"Screen tests!"

"Sounds great! Let's get started."

For the rest of the morning, I was running around the entire building,meeting people, being measured and just about everything else you can imagine. At noon Joseph said that we were going to take a lunch break, and I was ready. I went across the street to a fast food joint and sat down to eat lunch. Then, as I sat down, my phone rang. At first, I hoped that it was Kendall, but then I realized that it was the middle of the night in California. It was Stephanie. Not a much better reason to be calling in the middle of the night. I answered. "Hello?"

"Hi Jo, how's it going?"

"Good," I said with hesitation. "Isn't it the middle of the night there?"

"Yeah, but I needed to check on you, I'm fine really. Did you meet Joseph?"

"Yeah, he's great, I'm eating lunch right now, and I only have 20 minutes,

So could I call you later?"

"Sounds great, see you Jo!"

"Bye."

She'd only left me 11 minutes left to eat, so I scarfed down my food and got back to the studio. I wasn't even half past 12 on day one, and I was already exhausted.

Well, it had definitely been a crazy day, and there were still another 15 like it before we started shooting. I was just getting back from another five hours over work. Really though, even if I'm complaining, I do like it here, I left LA for a reason, this sounds so fun. Mostly. And now I'm thinking about Kendall. Again. All day it's been all I could think of, except people buzzing around me. And right in the middle of that thought, my phone buzzes, it's a text. I look at my phone, it's from Kendall! It says

How's it going Jo?

Quickly, I reply Great, but I miss you so much I decided that I wasn't going to try to hide it, it was true. He replied

I miss you too

I looked at that, I thought about him, all he had done for me, every time he'd been there for me, how sad he'd been about me leaving, our face talk the day before, everything. So, when I texted him back, I said what I really knew was true.

What I texted was I'll be back soon. I know it.