The rest of that week was long on set and Allison was relieved that on Friday they got to film at the school some more. It wasn't that she didn't enjoy working on set, she just liked the change of pace it offered. She walked out of the hair and makeup trailer and went over to see Chris talking to the director, waiting to watch as Chris started filming some of his scene before she was to come into it. Soon she was to walk onto the set, filming the scene where her young stalker first sees her. She scene was set so that when she came, Chris would be talking to a student at his desk, the student sitting at his desk and him standing with his back to the door. Allison would take a step in towards the room and knock on the door. From there Chris would ask for a moment to talk to the student about his grades before turning around to talk to his wife. Allison stood waiting for her cue to walk in, and as she heard it, she walked in and knocked on the window of the classroom door, and then the glass on the window broke. Allison looked at the shattered window, but never broke character.
"Sorry Finn, you should tell the janitor thought to come with supplies to help clean this mess up." Chris stood in shock, as did everyone else on set, and soon they had someone rushing over to get the glass cleaned up.
"Maybe you should be the one playing a superhero, how hard did you hit that?"
"Not hard at all. I don't know what happened." Chris and Allison sat there looking at the shards of glass on the floor before they both started chuckling.
"Well I'll have to make sure I keep the door open for when you come to dinner tonight, I don't want to be replacing our door because of the Ninja."
"Shut up Muscles. So, I was thinking of sending Tom a birthday gift, but we haven't talked so I didn't know if that would be too much or not."
"Allison, send him a gift, let him know you still care about him and your still thinking about him." Allison smiled as she thought about it, knowing Chris still talked to Tom often and that he wouldn't steer her in the wrong direction.
At the end of the day, Allison went to have dinner with Chris, Elsa and India, and she stayed with India while Chris and Elsa went out for some alone time. When Chris and Elsa got home it was late and they found Allison sleeping on the sofa with India laying on her sleeping sound. Elsa took India and carried her upstairs to put her to bed and Chris covered Allison up on the sofa, not wanting to wake her. Early the next morning Allison was woken up by India giggling. She smiled as she picked up the little one and took her into the kitchen to have breakfast. She joined them for breakfast, thanking Chris for letting her crash on the sofa. She then headed back home to get ready to go out, she was determined not to stay home on a Saturday night.
Allison put on a cute black long-sleeved dress, gold shimmery tights and a pair of purple leather booties and headed out a club she had heard about. She ended up at Emerson Theatre with Brie, even footing the bill for bottle service. The two girls had a V.I.P. table and Brie soon grabbed Allison by the arm.
"Oh my do you see who is just over there?" Allison looked up and scanned the room for who Brie could be looking at.
"No, I see tons of people Brie, who do you see?"
"I think that's James Franco over there talking to Chris Pines."
"What no way, where?"
"Shit, don't look now but I think they are coming over here, well Chris Pines is, yup he is walking this way."
"Good lord your just like Ceci, I'm sure he isn't coming here Brie." Just as then Brie's expression changed and Allison looked up to see a pair of sparkling blue eyes looking back at her.
"Hi, We haven't met, but I believe I was supposed to be your best man."
"Oh, so you stole his lighter that night." Obviously Allison, you say that to him.
"Guilty as charged, I'm Chris." He reached out a hand to Allison who shook his hand.
"I'm Allison and this is Brie. So." So, so what...damn it Allison keep it together.
"I just wanted to stop by and introduce myself, even if the wedding isn't happening."
"Never say never. I mean, for him. I don't know that there will be an us again considering. Anyway, You could join us for a spell if you want. I got this big table and it's just the two of us." Damn twang coming out again, what the hell voice. for a spell, what are you some sort of magician.
"I would like that, but I do have Zachary floating around here somewhere, he went to get a drink and I lost him."
"He could join us too, I'm just putting the offer out there." Yea, like that didn't sound like you wanted him. why can't I just keep my damn mouth shut.
"You know what, I think he'd like that. Let me go find him." He was just about to walk away when Brie spoke up.
"Isn't that him over there by the girl dressed like a cheetah." Allison couldn't help but crack up laughing and when Chris spotted it, he did too.
"Oh god, let me go rescue him from that." Allison shook her head and she tried to stop laughing at Brie's observation.
"Allison, are you flirting?"
"No, just being nice. It's this damn southern hospitality I grew up with. I blame it on my mama." Brie chuckled as Allison just smiled as the two were joined by Chris and Zachary Quinto. Chris had taking a seat next to Allison and he was the first one to speak up.
"So, this your first time here?"
"Yea, I'm going to be in L.A. another two maybe three weeks then I'm working on a film in Louisiana so I decided I at least had to go to one night club."
"What, in all the time you've been out here this is the first you've been out."
"Yea, I um. Well after Ben I kinda went down a bad road, but I'm in a better place now so I thought why not go out and live a little." Zachary looked at her.
"Oh, you are the Allison, the one Ben still talks about." Brie could see her eyes light up, no doubt Chris and Zach did too.
"He still talks about me? Really?"
"Yea, we ran into him just yesterday and he told us that you two had gotten back together, but he let it all fall apart again over something senseless."
"Really. He wasn't the only one. So, something different please."
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable."
"No, it's fine."
The four sat and laughed and talked for nearly two hours when Allison got a phone call from her mom's cell phone. She excused herself and found a semi-quiet place to answer the phone.
"Hey mom, i hope you can hear me it's loud in here."
"Allison, this isn't your mom, it's Carl." Allison could feel her heart stop and jump to her throat.
"Is everything o.k.?" He could hear the pleading urgency to her voice and felt bad for her.
"Yea, I mean well your mom is fine, but she is in the hospital. She's at University because she had a mini-stroke and they are keeping her for observation. She refused to let me call you earlier, I had to wait until she was asleep. She didn't want to worry you, but I thought you needed to know."
"Carl, thank you. Did they say what caused it?"
"They can't really say at this point, but she had promised me she would go to the doctor and talk to him about what she can do to prevent herself from having a real stroke."
"You will have to make her go. She is so damn stubborn. God, what do I do now, do I come out there?"
"No, you know if you show up out here she will be pissed at both of us. I will keep you updated, I won't leave you in the dark."
"Thank you so much Carl, you can call me anytime, I almost always have my phone with me and if I don't answer, I'll call you back. Thank you so much again, I just don't know if you didn't tell me if she ever would."
"She would, at next Christmas dinner." Allison couldn't stifle her giggle.
"You know my mom well."
"I do. Allison I really love your mother, and I will always be here for her, and you kids. Speaking of which, I was going to call Damian, is that alright?"
"Of course you can. Thanks, take care of her for me. I'll let you go, but I'll talk to you later. Bye Carl."
"Bye Allison." She hung up the phone, and Brie could see the concern on her face as she came back over to the table.
"Is everything alright sweety?"
"Yea, I guess. That was my mom's boyfriend, she's in the hospital, but she doesn't want me to know. I guess she had a mini-storke and now they keeping her in for observation."
"Are you going to go see her?"
"And piss her off, lord no. She'd unleash all seven kinds of hell if I showed up, on me and Carl. No I will act like I know nothing, and Carl will keep me posted."
Allison and Brie stayed for another hour, still talking to Chris and Zach, then they headed home. Once Allison laid her head down that night she thought about what Chris had said. She dreamt of Ben that night, and when she woke up her heart was racing from thoughts of him and her together.