Chapter 14
14
Well. Life could certainly change quickly. Somehow, Aubrey had finally gotten Greer to spill the beans—while Ayla had been at the premiere of Padiran Cole and the Sword of Vellis, starring Hunter Luis Clark and Quade Davis. It was one of their first full length movies together that wasn’t part of the Wonkus and Rufus series.
She’d greatly enjoyed herself. It had been a small crowd, but she had even known a few people in the audience. Including Ronnie’s brother, the cop who had been there after her house was vandalized. He was there with his wife and two beautiful children. And Aubrey’s boss and his family, of course. And Dr. Alvaro’s twin brother and his family. His wife was the actress who had actually played Jilly Silly on Scraggle-Popps . Of course Ayla had gotten her autograph. How could she not? She was a big Scraggle-Popps fan and really wished they’d do picture books, too. She thought they would be super awesome for the kids. Jake and his wife had been there, too, with their kids. He’d agreed.
TBFN owned the rights to Scraggle-Popps and that man said he would seriously consider it. If he could work out details.
The movie had seriously been good. TBFN had produced it, and it was one of their first major productions. It had been really fun to be a part of the atmosphere.
Gunn had introduced her to the producer personally—she hadn’t known he was related to Jo-Jo, but he was.
But the best part of the night hadn’t been the other people at all.
It had been sitting in the dark theater, his arm around her shoulder, as they had watched the movie together. She had felt him all around her and she had felt like she was exactly where she had been meant to be.
Now… though.
Total crisis with his baby sister. And this… was a big one.
Greer’s whole world had changed now.
Ayla didn’t really know what was going to happen next. Except… she was going to be there if her bestie needed her, no matter what.
She just stayed where she was in the backseat. Aubrey was driving. Greer was a bit super-clingy with Aubrey right now. Ayla thought it was because Aubrey had the whole “I know what I am doing” thing. And Greer really needed that right now.
Greer’s friend Cody was in the big moving truck. They couldn’t stay in the car forever.
She could see Gunn and his brothers and his parents on the porch now. With Genny and Chad and Ronnie, too.
“Great. My parents are here, too. Life just got even more complicated.”
But well… Ayla had a more pressing need and it wasn’t like she could exactly run or anything. “You know, we’re all going to have to get out of the car eventually. I really have to pee; I don’t think I’m going to be able to wait much longer. I can’t exactly rush inside, you know. Rushing is so not my thing.”