Chapter Eleven: ....She's so Lucky

That night, Gloria showed up at the house. A yellow pant suit that day with glitter around the cuffs. Ava couldn't look at her, it literally hurt her eyes. Nathen arrived shortly after and the four of them sat at the small table in the kitchen. Gloria and Nathen had gathered together all the stories the magazines had ran and summarized them all in an 'easy to read' format.

"Thankfully it isn't as bad as we first thought. Although all the magazine's have ran retractions of Justine's story they are beginning to speculate how much truth was in the rumour."

"We'll have to wait until tomorrow to see how they take what you said today."

Gloria and Nathen spoken as a unit rather then two separate people that hated each other.

"Well, we've done everything we possibly can." Ava said.

Gloria shook her head as she imagined Gloria would.

"There is only one thing that is going to fix this."

And don't we all know exactly what she's going to say....

John saw the news, he heard the sound bite and he laughed. He laughed and he secretly thanked whatever higher force had made him watch the news and hear that. It brought him back down to Earth. What was he thinking? How many other men in the world would claim they where in love with Ava if asked? Though, hadn't it been different with him? Hadn't he been sure there had been some spark between them? Wasn't Ava, god forbid, herself, around him? Well sometimes at least. John had to remember who she was, who he was and all the things in between. All the things that had happened which meant they could never be together.

1) Ava was married.

2) Ava didn't feel the same

3) Ava denied even knowing him

4) Ava...

John stopped at number four, what was the point of going any futhur with it? He just at to look at her on the tv screen to know all that. Dressed up in designer clothes, with the perfect husband, too much cash and too many people trying to turn her into something else when what she originally was, was just fine. Yeah, John was glad she said what she did.

Yeah right.

"Am I the only person who can see a problem with this?" Ava asked, safely back in Hollywood. She was gesturing so wildly she almost knocked her glass of water over. "They will call it the Band-Aid Baby!"

"Maybe not," Nathen told her. "We have two choices here. One we wait six to eight months, once this has all settled down. Or, and this is the option me, Gloria and Josh already discussed, you get pregnant immediately and we tell the press you where pregnant before all this."

He smiled. Gloria smiled. Josh smiled. Ava knocked her glass onto the floor where it smashed.

"Where anyone of you going to tell me? Or where you going to wait until I fell asleep?"

"Ava, calm down!"

"I will not calm down!" Ava screamed.

She was frowning. Wow, she must have been pissed. Josh noticed.

"Ava you'll give yourself lines."

"Fuck lines! I will not have a baby to fix a marriage that isn't broken! I'm not going to defend myself against lies. I'm not going to do any of this."

She stood up, with Josh pulled her back down.

"Ava! We're doing this for you."

If it had been a cartoon, there would have been an image of the inside of Ava's head, a little man sitting at a computer desk would of screamed and exploded, steam would pour from her ears.

"Me! No you're doing this for yourselves, because if my career fails, so do all yours."

"If you hadn't started this mess with John..." Nathen began.

"There is no mess with John!" Ava replied. "He's my friend and I have no idea why you take the presses side."

"You're married." Josh cut in. "If you have friends like John people will jump to conclusions."

"Funny how no one makes that conclusion with you and Scarlett Johansson ."

Ava rubbed her head.

"Stress." Gloria said. "That's all it is Ava. I think we should put both films on hold a futhur two weeks so you and Josh can have a break together."

"No. I think I should have a break alone, to think everything over."

"There's no time." Nathen told her. "You and Josh need to go away together if we even have a chance of pregnancy option 2."

"Make time." Ava warned, then she swept out the room.

Here we go, this is what you've all been waiting for. She's about to blow.

Ava Carson seemed to be all people could talk about. John found himself watching E! They where playing 'It's Good To Be....Ava Carson'. Someone claiming to be a 'close' friend was talking about her.

"Ava is just beautiful." she was saying. "She's got everything! She's talented, has a beautiful husband. She's so lucky! What else could she want?"

"Me." John added, forgetting that he was suppose to be glad.

But she didn't. Like the women said Ava had everything and as long as she was in Hollywood or shooting movies John could get on fine.

But if she did that we wouldn't have a story would we?