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Worlds Away
Chapter Twenty Five – Pimp My Ride
Eva dropped her bag to the ground and rushed towards her car…her car that was now um bright fucking pink with Barbie insignias all over it, plus frangipani stickers and a whole lotta trimmings. Someone had 'pimped' Eva's ride in the worst kind of way. I wasn't sure if I should laugh, hide until the time bomb that was Eva was done exploding, or start trying to make peace. Hell maybe I should start puking at the grossness that was now Eva's pride and joy.
Eva came to a stop in front of her car, frozen as though she was in total shock. I had never seen her like this before. I thought she was having an aneurism. I was about to say something when she spun around and bellowed, "Who did it! Who the hell touched my fucking car? What kind of sick fucking joke is this? Which one of you is fucking deranged enough to destroy my poor innocent Baby!"
"Eva, language," My Dad reproached her, at great risk to life and limb I'd imagine. She looked at Dad incredulously and then moved her eyes back to her car.
Eva's car was her greatest possession, it meant more to her than most people did. The once red Mustang was her longest and most committed relationship ever. That car was her baby and you did not fuck with her baby. I was starting to get scared that someone would be in a body bag before the night was over.
Eva tentatively reached out and rested her hand on the now hot pink bonnet. She took a few big gulping breaths and then said in a scarily emotionless voice, "Ashley fucking Davies, sorry Mr. C, you have gone too fucking far this time."
Ashley folded her arms over her chest and laughed, "Oh is the right Eva? And who do you think drove me to this? If I took it too far Eva, it's only because you showed me the way."
Eva walked around her car, touching the very pink bonnet and poking at the Barbie decals. She whimpered like a kicked puppy and leant against the bonnet…for about 3 seconds and then she was off running towards Ashley who had the forethought to kick off her high heels and to start a running!
"This is how your life ends Davies! This is where I fucking kill you and use your blood to repaint my car!" Eva bellowed as she sprinted after my girl.
I stared around at everyone else in shock, "Um do you think we should do something?" Like get a tranquilizer gun or something.
Dad stepped forward and put a hand on my shoulder, "Let it run its course Spence, this will be ok, Eva is just getting a little much deserved pay back."
"Oh my God, you were involved in this? Dad!" I shrieked. Oh man Eva was going to kill my girlfriend and then kill my Dad! I was going to end up a girlfriend widow and practically an orphan!
Dad just shrugged and looked back over to where Ashley was sprinting back towards us. She ran up behind Tilly and used her as a human shield, "Ok Eva if you want to get to me you are going to have to go through your girlfriend," Ashley gasped out as she tried to catch her breath.
Eva grumbled under her breath and stared intently at Tilly and Ashley, trying to figure out a way to get to Ash while not hurting Tilly. Ashley had been rather clever using Tilly to hide behind, anyone else Eva would have gone straight through…me included.
"This is so much worse than the fucking hole on the beach Ashley! And the Ellen stunt! This is beyond anything I have done to you!" Eva yelled, her face getting all red.
Ashley leaned around the side of Tilly to respond, which Eva saw as her opening and lunged forward. Dad stepped forward quickly and lifted an angry, squirming Eva off her feet.
"Ok I think this has gone on enough, Ashley why don't you make the call?" Dad said as he held a still struggling Eva.
"Wait, Mr. C you knew about this?" Eva asked as she looked up at my Dad with big sad eyes. You know that scene (well many scenes) in Shrek 2, 3 and 4 where Puss In Boots looks up at someone with those big sad kitty eyes and your heart just breaks a little? Well that is the look Eva was giving my Dad.
"Eva I did know about this, but I think this is about on par with the hole on the beach," Dad said calmly. Eva kinda went limp in his arms and pouted as Ashley pulled out her cell phone and spoke quietly and quickly into it.
Ashley stepped out from behind Tilly fully and said with a little smirk, "They're on their way Arthur."
Dad nodded, "Ok good, I'll just hang on to Eva until they get here." Eva just pouted more, she was so cute! Little crazy midget!
We stood around for a minute or so when the familiar purr of a Mustang engine caught our attention. We all looked over to the edge of my driveway where a very familiar, immaculate red Mustang was driven slowly up the drive.
Eva's mouth fell open and she wordlessly pointed at her car. Ashley chuckled and motioned to Dad to let Eva go, she was too stunned to do any real damage to Ashley at the moment.
"Wha…what…what the hell is going on here?" Eva stammered out, her eyes glues to the Mustang as it came to a stop in front of us. A good looking Latino man climbed out of the car and handed the keys to Ashley with a grin.
"Thanks Jose, she looks great," Ashley said, keeping her eyes on Eva as she slowly advanced towards her car.
"No problem Ashley, we fully detailed her and even fixed that sound system which you mentioned hasn't been right since you jammed a CD in it. We serviced her and gave her a thorough going over, she should run like a dream," The young man shook Ashley hand, smiled at the rest of us and then walked down the drive way to where a pick up truck was waiting for him.
"My car isn't pink?" Eva asked in a small voice.
Ashley smirked, "Nah, I couldn't actually destroy such a kick ass car Eva, I just kinda wanted you to think I had."
Eva stood flabbergasted, just staring between the two cars. She tentatively stepped forward and looked at her car, opening the doors and examining it super closely, making us all laugh. She ignored us and continued her inch by inch inspection of her much loved car.
"I promise you Eva this is your baby and I am returning her to you in even better condition than I 'borrowed' her in," Ashley said, with finger quotes included. She then added what I had really hoped wouldn't come up, "although Spencer and I may have snuck out here this morning while everyone was eating lunch to have a little quickie in the backseat."
Eva froze and looked between the two of us in disgust, "You had better be kidding! I haven't even had sex in that car!"
Ashley just shrugged while I blushed and Dad, Glen and I all determinedly avoided each other's eyes. Eva sighed and shook her head, "Eww! Spencer! Just Eww!" Eva pouted while we all laughed (some of us nervously, I do not like my sex life mentioned when my Dad is around) and then said, "I am too tired to keep fighting with you tonight Spit Roast. In my head there was no sex in my Mustang, you hear me? No sex!" Everyone chuckled as Eva frowned and stepped as close to her car as she could get.
Eva rested her cheek against the bonnet and whispered words of love to her car that quite frankly I am glad I couldn't hear properly. Everyone else was practically wetting themselves laughing, I think most of that was hysterical relief that no one had been murdered. I had images of being on the news holding my jacket over my face and yelling 'no comment' as I fought my way through the reporters. Not fun!
Eva removed her cheek from the car and strode over to Ashley, holding out her hand for her keys to be returned with a cute little pout on her face. Ashley, rather childishly, held them up over her head and clearly out of my midget best friend's reach. Eva growled and leapt up to try and get them, each time Ashley moved the keys just out of reach. I must admit it was pretty fucking hilarious to watch. They are two of the shortest people and any one of us could have easily plucked the keys from Ashley's hands. We, of course, opted to let it play out.
Eva scowled and then suddenly launched herself at Ashley's mid section, sending both of them tumbling to the ground…in their very fancy outfits. Harrison's girlish squeal sent the rest of us into hysterics as he tried in vain to get them to get up out of the dirt.
Eva pulled some pretty epic wrestling moves on Ashley, forgetting she was wearing a dress until our hyena like laughter alerted her to the fact we could all see her Pokémon underpants. Harrison adamantly stated that he had given her instruction to wear pretty girly underwear that would suit her outfit and Eva had ignored him. I don't doubt that version of events one bit.
Eva glared at us all, snatched the keys from Ashley, who was rolling around on the ground clutching her stomach as she laughed her head off, and stood up. She straightened her dress with as much dignity as she could muster and then rolled her eyes and cracked up laughing like the rest of us.
She held out her hand to help Ashley up, but as soon as she had started lifting Ash she dropped her hand and sent my still chuckling girlfriend to the ground. Eva crossed her arms and said with a fierce glare, "That was for scaring the mother fucking shit out of me…sorry Mr. C!"
Dad waved off her apology as he continued to laugh along with the rest of us.
Ashley shrugged in a 'fair enough' kind of way and willingly accepted Eva's hand a second time. This time Eva pulled Ashley to her feet and grabbed her in a hug.
"I gotta give it to you Spit Roast that was pretty spectacular. You certainly have balls! Respect!" Eva said as she and Ashley walked towards the house arm in arm.
The rest of us rolled our eyes and followed along behind them, maybe, just maybe this would be the end of all the pranks….
"I can't wait to start thinking up how I am going to get you back for all of this!" Eva exclaimed.
…or maybe not.
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It had been two weeks since the film premier, the Toni mishap and the pimping of Eva's ride and tonight it was time for the official release of Tilly's first single. We had deliberately planned to release it during the festival as it was one of the main songs used in the film.
I am happy to report that there were no pranks in revenge for the car incident the night of the film festival, I suspected that Eva was busily plotting away though. I can also tell you that the car that actually got 'pimped' belonged to Ashley's friend Jose and was really just a Mustang shell he was going to rebuild. The damn thing couldn't even be driven. He came by the next morning and took it out of my front yard on the back of a truck.
I am also happy to report that Toni's little stunt and her accidental confession had been broadcast on the majority of entertainment media sources and the rumour mill claimed that she has been dumped from the one role she had been able to get (a commercial for a fast food restaurant) and that she was being blacklisted from the majority of production companies and casting agents. My heart just breaks for her…that was sarcasm in case you couldn't tell.
Eva had also leaked the story to a few tabloids and to all her contacts in the industry, she was determined that Toni would pay for how she had treated me. Eva was a crazy, but she was the crazy you wanted in your corner when shit went down. Loyalty was Eva in a nutshell.
I think it was safe to say that Toni would not be booking any acting jobs for a good long time. However if she should happen to pop up in…let's say…an adult film, I would not be at all surprised.
Since the premier Ashley and Tilly had been in meetings and in the studio with Ethan and Kyle to get Tilly's first single, Lost In You, ready to launch. We had utilised all of Ashley and Ethan's contacts to organise the single to go pretty much viral once it was released. It would be getting launched on YouTube, iTunes and released for sale in stores.
We had been promoting Tilly in s major underground kinda way, hitting Facebook and MySpace as well as all the music mags and clubs we could. We were postering and handing out flyers and had even gotten a billboard up in Santa Monica near where the single would be launched.
Eva and I had conceptualised and produced the music video, filming it over two days and then spent the next three editing it. It was a relatively simple music video as it involved a lot of footage from the film. The song also lent itself to simple rather than a big production.
I was proud of how it was working out. I had written the single at a time in my life where I thought I had lost the love of my life and I was really struggling. I had poured my emotions and pain into this song and by doing so found a small measure of peace. I was honoured that an artist like Tilly had agreed to perform it and was really looking forward to getting the song out there.
After a lot of hard, and often times emotional, work it was time to get this single launched.
We had organised to hold the launch at a club just near the film festival in Santa Monica. We had timed it so that the film screening that night would be over and done with and then the launch would happen, that way people attending the festival could also attend the launch. It was all neatly tied together.
I headed to the club early with Gemma and Peter, my two interns from UCLA film school, to get everything set up. I had left Ashley with Tilly who was having nervous conniptions and had sent Eva and some of the other staff off to the festival to check out the competition. We had been sending a few people each night of the festival so that we could get an idea of what the field was looking like. So far it was scarily good.
I got Gemma and Peter to get the promotional materials (posters, banners etc) all organised while I went to harass the sound and lighting guys. There was no way I was leaving anything up to chance on this one, those tech guys would do a top job or I'd unleash Eva on them.
Once all the se tup was completed to my liking I sent the interns off and headed home to get ready. Harrison had picked my outfit, but meanly left the hair and makeup to me. I was starting to forget how to do my own hair and makeup, I was a little too used to Harry doing it for me.
I walked in my front door to find Dad, Tilly and Ashley sitting on the sofa in my living room having a cup of coffee together. Dad was laughing at something Ashley had said and it was about the happiest I'd seen him since before Clay died. My whole family lost so much the day that car accident happened.
I wandered over and plunked myself next to Ashley, snuggling into her side until she rolled her eyes and wrapped her arm firmly around my shoulders. I smiled in triumph and cuddled in.
"Everything set up for tonight?" Tilly asked nervously.
I nodded and stole a sip of Ashley's coffee, making a face of disgust when I realised it was black coffee sans the sugar. Yuck!
"Yep all set up, the interns did a great job. How are things here?" I asked softly, noticing how tense Tilly seemed.
Tilly shrugged and my Dad patted her soothingly on the shoulder. "Well everything is going ok Spence, Tilly and Ashley went over the plan for tonight again and we had some lunch…" He did keep talking, but after the word lunch I stopped listening.
Dad shook his head and laughed, "Go ahead Spence, there are leftovers in the fridge." I squealed in excitement and nearly took out Tilly in my haste to get from the living room to the kitchen as quickly as possible. What? I was hungry! And a hungry Spencer is not the nicest one to be around.
I opened the fridge and to my delight found enough yummy goodness to make me one very happy and full Spencer. I pulled it all out onto the counter and started putting together my lunch. I was so engrossed in my task that I jumped when a familiar pair of arms circled my waist and a warm body leaned into my back.
Ashley let out a husky chuckle and kissed the back of my neck, "Sorry Baby, I didn't mean to startle you."
I just sighed and leaned back against her, I was just enjoying being in her arms. We stood like that for a while until the growling of my stomach alerted us to the reason I was actually in the kitchen in the first place.
Ashley giggled and said, "Eat your lunch Baby, I'll go and try to get Tilly to relax. She was fine until about half an hour ago and then it was like she just flipped a switch and lost all the calm she was holding on to."
I laughed and pulled her closer so I could kiss her gently on the lips. Ashley grinned her nose-crinkling smile at me as she slipped out of my grasp and headed off comfort Tilly. I beamed at my gorgeous girlfriend's retreating form and started shovelling food in my mouth.
Not overly lady like I'll grant you, but I did have a single launch to get all prettied up for!