“I had such a great night, thanks for talking me into coming,” I smile at Derrick. Yvette’s show was a success. Sitting there in the front row watching the beautiful designs go down the runway was exciting. I was so happy for her.
“I’m glad you are feeling better, you had me worried there for a second,” Derrick declares, putting his arm around me as we moved through the crowd making our way backstage to congratulate Yvette. I smiled as I saw Charlotte running around taking photos. I’m happy I was able to help her with this. The photos she took while on tour were fantastic.
There was a break in the crowd, and Yvette waved us through.
“Congratulations,” I greet, giving her a kiss on each cheek.
“Thank you so much. The reaction has been crazy.”
“Some of those dresses are going to be on the Hollywood red carpet this season,” Derrick smiles.
I can see the pride in Yvette’s face. She has done such an amazing job. It’s not long before someone else grabs her attention and she’s off again. I’m sure we will catch up at the after party, I think to myself as I make my way over to where Charlotte was.#p#分页标题#e#
“How did it go?” I ask her, her blue eyes reminding me so much of her brothers, it hurt.
She pulls me into a hug. “Thank you, thank you, thank you,” she squeals, excitedly.
Charlotte naturally was on her brother’s side but when she asked if she still had the job with Yvette and I told her, of course, she melted a little more towards me. I would never hold something like that against her.
“Spoke to Evan earlier,” she mentions, her eyes trying to gauge my reaction.
“Yeah, how is he?” I ask, plastering on a smile.
“Good. He was off on his way to some party tonight.”
My stomach sinks. He’s a single guy again, of course he can do what or whoever he wants.
“Oh well, I’m sure he will have fun.”
Derrick made a choking sound beside me while Charlotte frowned at me. “You can be upset.”
Shaking my head at her, I replied, “No, I can’t. We broke up, he is a single guy.” But the thought of him taking someone else home makes me nauseous.
“Well I’m hoping he checks his emails in time because I sent him something that he might find interesting,” Charlotte continued, with a big grin on her face.
“What did you send him?” I ask, worry curling around my stomach.
“I may have made a couple of calls to some photographer friends and found the sequence of photos from that day, between you and Beau, showing everything that happened. It showed you slapping your ex.”
Covering my mouth with shock, I couldn’t believe Charlotte did that. “Why?”
“Because my brother is miserable and because something didn’t seem right. The last couple of months I watched you and Evan together, you were different to all the others. You loved him. I know you did, and maybe still do. I just wanted to know that you were telling the truth so I could maybe help you to get back together.”
Tears build in my eyes. “Thank you, Charlotte, but I think your brother and I just had a great summer romance.”
Shaking her head, she disagreed. “Just you wait, when he sees those photos he will realize.”
I love that she has such faith in me and that this will change what has happened between her brother and I, but I know it won’t.
“I’m going to head home, think I’ll skip the after party, just not feeling well,” I announce.
Derrick looks at me and says, “I’ll come with you.”
“No D, stay and have fun, I’ll grab a taxi, I’m just too tired.”
I give him and Charlotte a hug before I head out the front and jump into a cab.
There was banging on my bedroom door; what is it with my friends and their need to bash my door down? They didn’t even wait for me to get out of bed to answer it before barging in. Christian had a funny look on his face.
“You alright, Chris? It’s a bit early for you to be busting my door down,” I comment, while I watch him shake his head.
“There’s been an accident, Evan.”
My stomach sinks, my mind fills with dread. “Who, who is it?” I can see Christian take a moment before he continues.
“It’s Sienna, her taxi was hit by a drunk driver”
My world stops. No! No fucking way. I jump out of bed in a panic throwing on some clothes.
“She’s alive, Evan, she’s alive” Christian quickly adds. “But I think she is pretty banged up, broken bones and shit. Vanessa is getting ready to fly to Paris, did you want to go?”
Frowning at my friend “Of course I want to go” Rubbing my hand over my head “I should have been there.” I called Kane our pilot last night to organise the plane but we gave him time off after the tour to be with his family otherwise I would be half way over the Atlantic now. “I booked myself on the first flight out of LAX for today. Fuck! I should have been there, Chris”#p#分页标题#e#