EPOV
"You love me, right?" She asked me when I finally got a chance to call her.
Three days... It was the longest we had been without talking to each other. I was missing her, and I knew so would she, but I didn't expect her to ask me this question!
"What?" I chuckled, "What kind of question is this?"
"I don't know..." She sighed.
Wait... Was she getting insecure because we weren't spending too much time together?
Or maybe because there was too much noise about Tanya and me?
She had no reason to be insecure!
"Is everything okay, babe?" I asked.
"Hmmm... Yeah..." She said.
"It's just a matter of a few days..." I said, "Once the movie releases, I'm done! We are gonna go somewhere... Just you and me! I've planned a surprise for you!"
"Oh, what's that?" She asked.
"It's a surprise!" I said.
I had already decided what I was buying with my first big fat paycheck...
I smiled as I looked at the ring on my laptop screen again.
Yeah... I was going to do it!
I was going to take her to the Amalfi coast and I was going to propose to her...
I didn't care if we were young...
We had been longer with each other than most of the couples and I doubted if either of us wanted anything else...
The only problem was my fucking publicists and the bullshit image they are trying to create for me...
But I guess it should be okay...
They said it was only until the movie release anyway, right?
"Those contracts are a fucking trap... Everything is a fucking trap... Once you fall into it, it's very difficult to get out of it..." I said angrily.
I was so mad at myself... Even after all these years...
How did I screw up so badly?
How did I manage my life to slip away like that?
"And the success and fame... They are even bigger traps..." I said, "Once you have them, they change you... They ruin you."