A talk with Judie part 1

I realized it was high time I have a good talk with Judie. But I needed some guidance on how to deal with her, so I called Keith. He agreed to meet with me and Judie to discuss and give a fair warning to her about what she did.

After sending the message to Judie, I went to my room. She was sitting on the bed hugging her knees and looking at the magazine on the bed. After I had a bath and wearing a short I went and sat beside her. I shook my slightly wet hair to splatter droplets of water onto her.

"OHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" she screamed trying to push me away but ended up falling onto my embrace.

"Happy with a little rain?" I asked holding her tight.

"No... see I am wet and I have to change clothes.."

I let her go and change. While she was at it I checked the magazine she was reading. An article about us and the new movie was there, with a candid photo of me kissing her forehead while holding her tight in my embrace. I don't know who got this pic, because we never were like this in front of the media.

"Who must have given this photo?" She asked snuggling on my chest, with a sleepy look.

"I think this was a photo taken by Keith while we were having the beach party at his mansion," I said while playing with some of her hair.

"The photo looks so beautiful,"

"Hmm..."

"Did you find out who caused today's fuss?" she asked at last.

"Yes, I will meet up with Keith and make the decisions on what to do,"

"Was it Judie?" she asked looking at me.

"Hmm.... how did you know?" I was curious, about how she guessed.

"Well a few days ago, she met me and made a fuss about you not giving much attention and even Gilbert was talking to her only on a professional level. And I told her to calm down and just focus on the job at hand. But she got angry and cursed me."

"Why didn't you tell me before?" I was so worried and angry at the sametime. Maybe that's why she spent a lot of time near me the last few days.

She starts fidgeting with her fingers. I hold her hand and kissed her softly. I know I should have listened to her, the gut feeling she has about things is really strong.

"Hi, sorry I scolded you. But I wish you told me, so I could do something about it." I said to her.

"So what will happen tomorrow?"

"We will see what Keith will say. I think I will let him handle this."

"That's good."

"What's on your mind? You seem to be thinking of something?" I asked her as she was thinking about something.

"Nothing special. just thinking about what we should do after the filming is over,"

"What do you want to do?"

"Go on a hike, have a campfire near a lake, and star gaze all night."

"Hmm.... nice idea, what else do you have in mind, sweety?"

With that encouragement, she went on to talk about a few places. It was nice listening to her and looking at her expressions with a twinkle in her eye. She was quiet after about half an hour, only to find her asleep in a tight curl.

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By lunchtime, everyone on set knew about the accident. There were small whispers here and there.

Mr.Keith came at the scheduled time for the meeting with me, Judie, Gilbert, Brother D, and the Art director.

"Gilbert, how are you?"

"I will be fine in a few days. Luckily, nothing big happened from the accident."

"But I want you to recover well before heading back to shooting,"

Gilbert nodded in agreeing.

"Mr.D, can I see the clip of the incident?"

We all watched the recorded tape, only to realize if something happened, he could have lost his life even. I saw Keith's grip getting tighter.

"Ms.Judie, do you have something to tell us?" he asked making her look at him surprised.

"I don't know why you all think I did this?," she asked angrily.

"I am just asking Judie?"

"Mr.Keith, I am a professional actress, why do you think I would do such a thing for a co-actor?"

"Judie, don't you even have a guilty feeling about what you did?" asked Brother D.

"I can sue you for accusing me without evidence." She said.

"You think we suspect you without evidence?" I asked her at last. I played the video of her damaging the rope.

"You did this at the time we were discussing the shooting. The only time no one was not paying any attention to the harness," I said.

"How?" she started shattering.

"Little Moon had been fussing about something was not right since morning. And as usual her predictions can come true. So I asked Mark to set up secret cameras on set,"

"I see that you are lost for words Judie. How could you do such a thing? Did any of us do anything wrong to you?" asked Gilbert in anger.

"WRONG! DID ANY OF YOU PAY ANY ATTENTION TO ME? YOU ALL WERE ABSORBED IN THAT STUPID WOMAN. BUT NOT ME. Other film crews gave me the spotlight here I never got it, so I had to take it somehow," she screamed and the art director looked shocked.

"We were giving you attention on a professional level, Miss Judie. And please be kind enough not to bad mouth my wife, she never did anything to you." I said.

"BUT WHY DO YOU ALL JUST LISTEN TO HER? GIVING IMPORTANCE TO A NOBODY?"

My patience was almost running out. "Do you know Miss Judie, when Mr.Keith recommended you to be the lead actress, Little Moon was the one who first had doubts but gave in because of Mr.Keith," I was so angry, that Gilbert held me to calm me down.

"You should have told me, George," said Keith with a smile.