After eight hours in the warehouse, Allison finally emerged with Jay. Shannon, Tomo and the rest of the production crew Jared had put together for their music video had already left. Jared's vision for this video was something Allison was scared to do, but she was going to take that opportunity. The concept of the video was for us to see the thoughts of a man and woman who are presumably meeting for the first time. Jared would show you the two talking, getting to know each other, then as they would think about the questions or comments made, their thoughts would be shown. The sequence Allison most looked forward to shooting was her dressed in all leather, being tended to by her pets, i.e. Shannon and Jared. Apparently the girl who was originally going to do the video dropped out when Jared told her what she needed to do in that scene, but Allison never gave it a second thought. Jared didn't know if Allison would be able to pull off being dominate, but was pleasantly shocked with how well she fell into it. Allison would hopefully be able to finish the video with Jared Saturday, and she knew it was going to be a long day. The band would be heading back out on the road now that awards season was over, and this time they were headed to Europe.
On Saturday Jared and Allison put in 16 hours, making sure Jay would have plenty of footage to use in his video. Finally she was back at her apartment, and she took the opportunity to sleep in on Sunday. As the afternoon wore on, Allison was woke up by the sounds of her phone ringing. She picked it up and answered, not caring who was on the other end.
"Yea."
"Darling, are you alright?" She thought for a moment, not fully awake yet.
"Um, yea. Wait, who is this"
"I thought no one in their right mind could forget me."
"Tom, I'm so sorry, you woke me up, I think, this isn't a dream is it?"
"Do you need me to let you rest?"
"NO. I mean no, I need to get up so that I can sleep tonight. Happy birthday by the way."
"Bless you, that is actually why I am calling. I got your gift and I wanted to call you and thank you."
"My pleasure Curly."
"I know I haven't phoned, but I have been rather busy, and these fans. They are waiting sometimes for two hours for me to leave the theater."
"One of the downfalls to being one of the world's sexiest men I'm afraid." His chuckle came across the line and Allison couldn't help but smile.
"Oh well, I suppose. How have you been?"
"Good, busy working. And you?"
"I've been well, exhausted but it sounds like you may be as well, isn't it only three in the afternoon there?"
"Yes but to be fair, I worked until midnight two nights ago, then put 16 hours on the clock yesterday, so I am tired."
"Really, Chris said you didn't have to work with him this weekend."
"I didn't, I did another video for Jared and we finished it up yesterday. I wasn't originally going to do it, but the girl who was, dropped out last-minute and I was the next best thing."
"I could hardly imagine that you were second best."
"You're too sweet. So after the show is done, what are you going to do? Crimson Peak in Toronto right?"
"Yes, but how did you know? Chris?"
"No, Elsa."
"Well what about you, you're nearly finished with Object, so onto Louisiana?"
"Yes, I will admit I'm sort of nervous about it."
"Really, why?"
"Well I play this single mother of two girls and we move into this house that is haunted apparently and some of the things that we are going to have to do and see, I just don't want to have nightmares, and I get them easy."
"Darling, it is just a movie, and when you are on set, it will just feel like a movie I'm sure. You will be just fine."
"Thanks." There was a moment of quiet as Allison stretched. Tom finally broke the silence.
"Oh, and I want to say thank you for the wonderful glass set, the whiskey stones and that bottle of Jameson. I will have a glass for you, and the t-shirt, thank you for it as well."
"T-shirt?"
"Oh, perhaps that was from Chris then. It matches the ones you and he have, mine like his says I love the ninja."
"Yea, safe bet would be that it is from Chris, although I should have just claimed it."
Allison and Tom spoke for nearly an hour and when they hung up, it was as if no time had passed. Allison had explained then entire Ben situation to him, even the part of her still secretly wanting to be with Ben. Tom tried to give her advice, but she told him that she was afraid to go back down that road, afraid of Ben rejecting her. She enjoyed a quiet evening at home reading over the script for her upcoming project. Later that night she talked to her mom and she had to try really hard not to mention the hospital, but some how she got through without a slip up. The next day was a long day at work, but she enjoyed it, she was finally working with Josh, they young man who was playing her stalker. He was smart and witty, making working with him easy. He was only a few years younger than her, but he looked so much younger, that Allison decided she would call him kid. They spend the next three days working together and Allison started to get the feeling that he didn't care for her, so she dropped the nickname and tried to keep things professional.
Another few days later and she was down to one week left in L.A. She started packing up the few things she had and had them shipped to the place she was renting in Baton Rouge. She was at home one night, just trying to relax when there was a knock at her door, she got up and answered the door in her yoga pants and AC3 hoodie, shocked to see Ben standing there.
"Hey, everything alright?" She opened the door to let him in, his eyes giving away that he had been crying. He came in and as she shut the door he pressed her back against the wall and kissed her deeply. She melted into his embrace, but soon her mind started working again as she pressed against his chest. When he finally pulled away, they were both breathless. She wasn't upset, instead she was incredibly turned on, but she didn't want him to know that.
"Hello to you too."
"Your friend Jared sent me a video. Is it true, you're missing me?" She had no idea what video he was talking about, so that didn't register with her yet.
"Is it true you still talk about me to Chris and Zach? WAIT, what video?" Ben had a disk in his hand and he gave it to Allison. She sat down on the sofa and popped the dvd into her laptop, Ben taking the spot next to her. They watched the video Jared had put together, and she realized he had planned this since Mexico. There was footage of her working the guys on the video, her singing in the sound booth and a three-minute clip from Jared telling Ben he was sorry for what he said, but that he still meant it. At the end of the video was simple message from Jared.
What happened that changed this? a few mistakes, we all make mistakes. She is miserable with you, your miserable without her, change that.
As the video ended, Allison realized that she was leaning into Ben and he had his arm around her. She looked up at him, and in that moment the spark between them was rekindled. Allison got up on her knees next to him, her lips crashing into his. His large hands slid around her back pulling her onto his lap as he deepened the kiss. Allison let her fingers glide down his chest as his hands moved up her back while she rotated her hips against him. She heard his gentle groan as she took his lip between her teeth, pulling at it slightly. His hands slid under her hoodie, sliding over her skin as he slowly pulled it off her. She leaned down kissing his neck as his hands soothed over her skin and down to her ass, gripping it. He pulled down on her hips letting her feel his need. She pulled as his shirt, pulling her lips away so that she could take his shirt off of him. She tossed it aside and let her lips fall to his chest, she smiled hearing his voice.
"God fuck I've missed this."
He put his arms around her and pulled her to his chest, both of them falling asleep.
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