He
turns away from me, breaking our image together in the mirror and reaches back
grabbing my offered hand. He leads me into the living room of the suite where
my beauty team, and Brad, Jenny, and Aiden are waiting for us.
Everyone
but Jenny and Aiden swarm me, like they’re in a pack of locusts. Someone’s
touching up my lipstick. Someone else is fussing over the hem of my dress. I
hear the makeup artist say to the hair stylist, “She certainly doesn’t need
more blush, does she?” That makes me smile, which earns me a reprimand from the
makeup person.
Jenny
and Aiden are surrounding Colin, whispering like middle school girls with a big
secret. I try very hard to hear what they’re saying, but all I can make out are
a few syllables. I glance at Brad, asking him for a clue with my eyes.
The
best assistant in the world mouths, “Security.”
Oh!
I give Brad a small head nod. Even though there will be heavy security tonight,
Colin has been anxious about today. Every week since the interview aired with
Allison Katz, the amount of interest in Colin has increased to an even more
frenzied pitch, if that was possible. The public is clamoring for answers to
the world’s most important questions. When is our wedding? Is he a drug abuser?
A painkiller addict? As he has told me
numerous times, “I created the Colin McKinney brand monster, and now we’re
suffering the consequences.”
Jenny
thankfully announces that it’s time to head to the Nokia Theater. That makes
the little mice working on me move that much faster, until they’re finally
convinced that I’m as pretty as I’m going to get. Brad grabs my purse, if it
could be called that. It’s not even large enough to hold a phone. And Jenny
(whose hair is bright red), Aiden, Brad, Colin and I head downstairs to our
waiting limo.
Brad
mouths at me when in the elevator, “You look fabulous.”
I
mouth back, “I feel like a clown.”
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