For the Cameras | Chapter 11: All Eyes on Us
a collaboration fic with @muttpeeta
Halloween. Right. In all the drama of the past twenty-four hours, he’d completely forgotten to tell her. He palmed his forehead. “Bollocks. That reminds me—Arianne’s having a big Halloween bash at her place next weekend. The whole cast and crew are invited. She does this every year, apparently. It’s a big media circus. I wasn’t planning to go, honestly, but Marg said it would be a good thing for us to do together. You wanna come with me?”
Her eyes widened. “Oh, sure—I mean, am I actually invited, though?” she fretted.
He snorted. “You’re invited if I say you are.” Arianne might not like it, but she knew better than to throw a fit about it.
She smiled. “OK. I guess that saves me the trouble of having to plan my own party.” She frowned abruptly. “Of course, that only leaves a week to come up with a costume.”
He didn’t get the problem. “Plenty of time, right?” She gave him a dubious look, and he held up his hands. “Or not.”
“I’ll figure something out,” she said, mostly to herself.
“Well, when you do, let me know, so we can coordinate,” he told her, surprising her.
“Like…a couple’s costume?”
When she put it like that, it did sound pretty intimate. Feeling his face grow warm, he scratched his beard. “Aye, I suppose so. It’ll be good press, right?”
