A Summer to Remember(30)
“Not good. That last episode of True Blood was such a waste of my f*cking time!” She snatched the earbuds out of her ears. “I swear to God, I’m so through with that show it’s not even funny. It keeps getting dumber and dumber.”
Talia began to dissect the latest episode for Paul’s and my benefit before I laughed out loud at her crazy gesticulations and the perfect imitation of Anna Paquin, a.k.a. Sookie Stackhouse’s voice.
“Relax, babe, it’s just a show,” I said after I’d finished giggling hysterically.
“It is not just a show. The first three seasons were absolutely brilliant and last three have been an exercise of supreme and utter masochism on my part because I keep waiting for the show to get better and it doesn’t. I swear to God I am only watching The Walking Dead, Sons of Anarchy, Mad Men and Breaking Bad from now on out. I’ve had it. They have lost me as a fan forever.”
“You and your pop culture…jeez, how do you find the time to do anything? You work mad hours at the studio for musicians you hate and in your spare time, you catch up on shows and novels—”
“Hence the reason why I don’t have a love life,” she interrupted crudely. “Jesus Christ, Jerrica, if it wasn’t for the odd casual encounter here or there, I’d never get laid.”
“Uh-oh…what’s going on here?”
The look on her face said it all and I wasn’t even sure I wanted to know what she was going to tell me. “Um…I kinda slept with Seth and it was great and all but we are keeping it casual.”
“Wait a minute. Seth Delvecchio of Winter’s Regret? Doesn’t he have like some perfect girlfriend or something and I thought you two were friends only?”
“Ex-friends and yes, he does have a girlfriend which makes what I did that much worse. I am an awful human being, right? I mean, giving in to my base desires because I can’t forget our puppy love at the age of ten when neither of us knew what the hell love was. We have nothing in common and he wasn’t even supposed to be in town. But one thing led to another and…now I feel like the world’s biggest skank and I thought a few episodes of my favorite shows would make me forget but they haven’t and I can’t or don’t want to forget and argh…I’m going mad.”
“You’re going mad?” I questioned incredulously. “Seriously, when we get to Martha’s Vineyard, you and I are going to sit down together—alone—and have a major talk.”
I turned back around and looked at Paul who stared briefly at me and shrugged his shoulders. “A bit like the pot calling the kettle black, isn’t it?”
“What are you talking about? I have never shoplifted dick in my whole twenty-four years of life!” I exclaimed.
“Actually, you did. When you had that one night stand with what’s his name…it came out in the New York Post a few days later he has been dating up and coming actress Christine Cooper. They’ve been seeing one another for six months and yet no one knew it but their closest friends,” Paul explained in a casual manner.
I suddenly felt like the one person in the room who was the last to get the joke except we weren’t in a room but his Range Rover and the thought made me sick to my stomach. No wonder why he couldn’t face me after the fact. His leaving Jude’s and my place like his ass was on fire suddenly made perfect sense.
We arrived at Martha’s Vineyard late in the afternoon but thanks to the large estate owned by Gerald Capshaw’s family in Edgartown, everything was prepared and the wait staff had a wonderful assortment of dishes they were preparing for us while we unpacked and went to our various rooms to refresh.
I washed my face and changed into a pair of jeans and pale gray cashmere sweater while Paul took a shower.
“Are you sure you don’t want to join me?” he questioned out loud in a very seductive voice.
“No, because if I do that then we won’t make it to dinner on time and I really want to have that talk with Talia. Seth is nothing but bad news.”
The shower stopped and Paul stepped out before grabbing a lush cream towel to wrap around his narrow waist as he walked into the bedroom from the large en suite bathroom.
“How do you know so much about this guy anyway? He’s a rock star—aren’t all rock stars man-whores and bad boys? I mean, you get involved and you know what to expect. You take your chances either way.”
“True but Seth isn’t just any rock star and Talia has known him for a very long time. When he was up and coming, his band had a concert in Poughkeepsie. Talia dragged Autumn, Savannah and I to the show and they were great. It was some little dive bar but the place was packed. I mean, they already had a reputation for being a great live band.