Hollywood (我就是好莱坞) Part I

CHAPTER 15 - RUNAWAY

"Eric, this is really amazing." Drew who was sitting in the passenger's seat, played with the T-shirt that Eric had converted into a dress with great interest.

After last night's puking episode, Drew's clothes were dirty and the two of them were both in a hurry to join the crew, so Eric thought back to how his wife had once used one of his large T-shirt to make a dress, the process was fortunately not too complicated.

Right now Drew was wearing a remodeled sky-blue T-shirt, with Eric's three fingers-wide brown leather belt attached to her waist. This kind of dress-up in this day and age, was very avant-garde, so when they arrived on set, many people couldn't help but stare at her.

Some of their glances turned even more meaningful when they noticed she had come together with Eric.

"Hey Eric, what's up with that, when I saw you being so gentle and considerate to Annie a few days ago, I thought you were a good guy." While organizing the day's shooting schedule, Penny Marshall said to Eric. Her tone of voice was casual, in this circle, this type of thing was normal.

"Penny I still like Annie, as for Drew, it just kind of happened."

Penny quipped: "And her clothes also 'kind of happened' ? Look Eric, I'm honestly too lazy to care about what you young people do, but you should still have a sense of proportion, Drew is only thirteen years old right now, you know ? Well, you get what I'm saying."

"Thank you for the reminder, Penny." Eric realized that Penny's opinion had already been made and so he just helplessly said as it was better to end the topic.

A month passed and nothing really special occurred, the 17 Again shooting was going smoothly, and Drew still kept trying to entice Eric at every occasion she found. Aniston came on set from time to time and very easily noticed her behavior.

So when the girls appeared at the same time, infighting surrounded Eric; the crew became nervous during the filming process, and all his male peers envied him. The young man who played the bad boy Stan had even begged him for the secret of his "chick-picking technique", to which Eric replied some nonsense that the guy actually believed.

And soon, something happened that completely dumbfounded our protagonist; the nonsensical stuff he had told the young man actually started to spread among the crew, and even to Drew, who confronted him during a break once, her voice half-joking and half-resenting: "Ah, so I was played from the start, you big bastard, playing with a girl's feelings and not taking responsibility, you thief ! Give me my heart back !"

Aniston was still undergoing her harsh self-created diet, but it wasn't very effective as she suffered more than she ate, and had only lost 5 pounds in a month.

Eric was really worried about her, but he decided to wait until the filming was over to talk to her about it again.

However, things don't always happen the way we would like them to, and finally one day, in the middle of a shooting, Aniston fainted thanks to her low blood sugar. Eric dropped everything to accompany her, he didn't have any scenes the next day, so he took Annie to the fitness consultant that Susan Sarandon had talked to him about.

It was a very high-grade fitness club that mainly targeted Hollywood actresses. When the two of them went in, they saw Sigourney Weaver, the lead actress of the world-famously acclaimed Alien, on her way out. Ah, another goddess from his past !

From Annie's point of view, Eric looked like he was about to grovel to the woman's feet and ask for a signature.

The fitness consultant was a Russian woman whose age you couldn't see through, her name was very long so she just told the two to call her Natasha.