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disapprovingly.
     
    Angered Caroline quickly swept her leg back up and this time she turned from the mirror to look at Josh directly.
     
    “You don’t normally moan when I take my clothes off!”
     
    “Caroline, not now-” he sighed.
     
    “Then when?” Caroline demanded. “Last night you came to me and wanted me like a man possessed; now it’s as if I’m invisible. I’m tired of playing these games with you!”
     
    “Then have some respect and stop opening your legs!” Josh told her bitterly as he rose from his chair and angrily exited the trailer.
     
    Caroline was quickly behind him, only one of her eyes fully made up which made her appearance appear uneven.
     
    “Josh, what is going on with you?” she demanded.
     
    Stopping and turning, Josh looked at her and felt the eyes of the rest of the cast and crew upon him. It wasn’t the first time he and Caroline had participated in a public spat; it always drew equal interest and he felt embarrassed to be airing his dirty laundry in such a crude manor.
     
    But Caroline didn’t care. She loved the dramatics and thrived on it. Being an actress was her whole identity. Any opportunity to scream and cause a scene, she took it, believing it her right to be volatile as she was an actress. If she was a good actress, it would be a passable excuse, but she wasn’t. She was a sex symbol, nothing more. And Josh hated how she didn’t care if people took her seriously. He yearned to be a serious actor, to have his peers see him as more than a handsome face.
     
    “Are you seeing someone?” Caroline asked, her eyes wild and desperate. “Is that where you were this morning?”
     
    Neither Josh nor Caroline had been faithful during the few months when they’d been dating in the loosest terms, but she loved to bring up any indiscretions as they were yet again an excuse to be dramatic. Josh began to wonder if she actually liked the fact that they cheated on each other for that very reason, which sickened him a little.
     
    “If I was, it wouldn’t be any of your business.” Josh replied harshly.
     
    Caroline looked genuinely hurt by his response and he saw her visibly deflate before his eyes. She held back tears as she pondered the unthinkable that Josh had perhaps found a woman he preferred to her. But that was impossible. She was the sexiest woman in the world. A magazine poll had declared as much!
     
    “So are you?” Caroline asked her voice small.
     
    “Go finish getting ready,” Josh told her dismissively.
     
    “Whoever she is, I’ll ruin her,” Caroline’s entire demeanour suddenly changed from hurt to wicked as she delivered the threat, her uneven eyes darkening as she did so.
     
    A shiver ran down Josh’s spine and he jogged away from her, desperate to create some distance. It wasn’t the first time he had heard the threat, but it was the first time he’d feared it.
     
    ****

Between classes Amy hastily tried to get her papers in order at her desk when she spotted a male figure appear in the doorway.
     
    “I can’t give you that tour now!” she shouted, assuming it was Josh Roberts.
     
    “What tour?” a familiar voice asked and Amy felt her heart sink.
     
    “John, what are you doing here?” she asked the man she’d previously agreed to marry.
     
    John Daniels entered her classroom looking uncomfortable. He looked good with his lean frame fitted into a smart charcoal suit which set off his dark hair. A designer watch sparkled on his wrist, a reminder of why Amy had ultimately left him.
     
    “I was on campus securing some funding for student development in my factories and thought I’d stop by.”
     
    “I’m kind of busy.” Amy explained curtly.
     
    Since their messy break up almost eight months ago, John was constantly making impromptu trips to both Amy’s place of work and home. He always had a legitimate excuse but she saw right through them all.
     
    “You could at least pretend to be pleased to see me,” John said,