Free Dark Angel 03: Broken Dream by Eden Maguire Page B

told me.
    I checked and at last there was a text. Great news.. Natalia got me an actual internship in the make-up section.. Come to park, bring your new buddy. Collect passes from Security. See you on set xox
    ‘Show me,’ Macy said when she saw me frown. After she’d read the message she practically cartwheeled across the plaza. ‘A pass for me!’ she crowed. ‘Come on, Tania, let’s go.’
    I couldn’t have stopped her even if I’d wanted to. I had to run to keep up as we dodged traffic, ignored the crossings and made it in record time to the volleyball courts in Central Park, where there was the usual crowd hoping for a glimpse of Jack Kane.
    As it happened, we arrived at the exact same moment the star’s helicopter flew in. People forgot whatever manners they might have had and shoved forward to get a picture, leaving space for me and Macy to approach the security guards.
    ‘My boyfriend said to collect two passes from you,’ I told the nearest one – not the same guy as yesterday but a similar bulked-up bodyguard type with a shaven head and no neck.
    ‘Look, Tania, look!’ Macy was practically squealing with excitement as the chopper blades clunked to a halt and her hero stepped out.
    The security guy shrugged. ‘That’s the first I heard,’ he muttered. ‘Hey, Mike – you got any passes?’
    Mike shook his head and turned away.
    ‘He’s so gorgeous!’ Macy breathed, following Jack’s every move as he crossed the courts and headed for the row of trailers.
    ‘But my boyfriend is already on set,’ I begged. ‘He told me there were passes.’
    ‘Yeah, you have to let us through.’ Macy joined the argument by ducking under the security ribbon and pushing right up against big Mike.
    It could have got ugly, until a familiar figure strode across the courts towards us. ‘It’s cool, guys,’ Charlie said as he produced two precious pieces of card in their plastic covers. ‘The girls are with me.’

    ‘Good to see you, Tania.’ Jack Kane’s lookalike steered me and Macy past the film crew setting up for an exterior shot of the boathouse. We were headed straight for the trailers. ‘Orlando’s busy making a name for himself with my sister in our make-up department so he sent me to find you.’
    Macy was doing what everyone did when they first saw Charlie – she was staring at him open-mouthed, even though today he had played down the Jack Kane similarity with a grey knitted hat pulled down on his forehead and a thick grey fleece jacket.
    ‘Cool,’ she breathed when Charlie left us outside Jack’s trailer. ‘Actually, he’s cute in his own right!’
    ‘With Jack Kane you get two for the price of one.’ I grinned then looked round again for Orlando. I saw him at last, heading in our direction with Charlie’s sister, Gwen.
    ‘Tania, where were you?’ he exclaimed.
    ‘Where was I ?’
    ‘Yeah, I called you three times before I finally left you a text.’
    ‘I was in the lecture room. Anyway, where were you?’ I countered. ‘Why did you switch off your phone?’
    ‘I was busy working. There’s a no-phones-on-set rule.’ Orlando was high on adrenalin, obviously dying to tell me the details of his morning’s work experience, which meant he didn’t pick up the silent signals that I needed to speak with him alone. ‘Gwen was explaining how they get continuity in the wardrobe and make-up departments. It’s incredibly detailed and technical, really cool.’
    Any other time I would have loved to share the excitement that shone in Orlando’s grey eyes, but not right now. ‘Macy and I went to the cops,’ I muttered under my breath. ‘I got mugged again.’
    He came down to earth with a bump. The light went out of his eyes. ‘How come? Are you OK?’
    ‘It was the same guy.’
    ‘Tania has a stalker!’ Macy’s voice was loud enough to attract the attention of Charlie Speke, who had gone into Natalia and Jack’s trailer and come out again with the three kids. ‘We told the cops