Hollywood (我就是好莱坞) Part I

CHAPTER 48 - KIDNAPPED

The taxi stopped in front of Eric's mansion, and Drew paid the bill. The black driver who looked a little like Michael Jordan noticed her injured knee and couldn't help but ask: "Miss Barrymore, do you need help ?"

Drew shook her head: "No, thanks."

Having limped towards the door, she rang the doorbell.

The black driver couldn't help but look at the high walls. Thanks to the recent tabloids mania and noticing the paparazzi in their parked cars, he soon realized that this was Eric Williams' newly acquired mansion. It didn't really matter to him though as he was only a cab driver, he only shrugged, started his car, and left.

"Yes ?"

Hearing the familiar voice coming out of the intercom, the absurd pain in her knee hit her and Drew felt like crying. It was only in front of Eric that she would show this side of her, because she knew he was the only one who cared.

"Eric, It's me." Drew said.

"Drew, wait, I'll be right there."

After a while, the door opened and Eric saw a distressed Drew hastily come in. He shut the door and assessed her before asking in concern: "Drew, how did you hurt your leg ?"

The girl said in aggrieved tone: "That crazy woman locked me in my room, I didn't have a choice but to escape from the second floor, so I tied some bed sheets together, and when I was climbing down, one of the knots got loose...."

Eric felt he really couldn't understand Drew's mother, what a silly woman. He squatted to check the girl's knee and found out that it was a little bruised and scraped on the surface of the skin: "Let's go in, I'll handle it."

Drew held onto his sleeve and they walked two steps before Eric turned his head to look at the girl limping next to him. He sighed, bent his back, hugged her and walked towards the house.

On the living room sofa, Eric got a first aid kit and started to clean Drew's wound as he spoke: "Don't do this next time, it was really dangerous, it's fortunate that you only got yourself a minor injury. And about your mother...." Eric suddenly halted his words, he really didn't know how to evaluate the woman, so he said: "It won't always be that way."

Drew outstretched her white leg and allowed Eric to take care of her knee. After a while, she suddenly asked: "Eric, did something happen ?"

Eric who was about to bandage her, froze and said: "Do you know something ?"

Drew nodded her head: "I feel something is off these days, that woman is secretly getting phone calls and she also locked me in. When I made the headlines for my drug and alcohol addiction, she didn't even bat an eyelid."

Eric knotted the bandage on Drew's knee and put the rest of the gauze and the alcohol back into the first aid kit. He said: "About that, I don't know whether I should tell you or not."

Drew didn't speak but looked uneasily at Eric, quietly waiting for him to go on. She understood that the matter was somehow related to her.

"At noon, Annie called me from New York and said that someone wanted her to testify.... To testify that you and I had a sexual intercourse."

Drew was really smart, and with only that single sentence, she quickly figured out the whole matter.

She stood up, her face contorted in sorrow and anger as her voice shook: "Yeah it's definitely her, she's been so sneaky these days, locked me up and told me it was for my own good. She sounded like she was better than me, I'm so done with this, I want to sever my relationship with this bitch...."