Free Mr. Hollywood by Tracy Tegan Page B

I could see she was finally starting to relax.
    The handlers moved us along, and we repeated this process over and over again. We posed, answered a few questions and then repeated it for the next group.
    Finally, after almost an hour we made it to the end, the last spot on the red carpet. We posed as we did all the previous times but this time at the end, Grayson turned to me and kissed me. The crowd went crazy and they started to surge forward.
    His handlers rushed us inside the theater and over to the VIP bar. A group of people quickly came up to us all in a tizzy.
    “What were you thinking Grayson? That kiss is going to be on the front page of every gossip website within the hour.”
    Grayson turned to me. "Alison, Andrea this is my agent, Harvey."
    “Hello Harvey, it’s nice to meet you,” Andrea said as she stuck her hand out to shake his. He reluctantly shook it but didn’t seem all too happy about it.
    “Are you guys kidding me? That was brilliant. This is huge,” this tall woman standing next to Harvey said.
    Grayson grinned. “That’s my publicist.”
    "Hi girls, I'm Cat," she said as she waved to us. "So after the premiere, I'll issue a short bio of Alison," she continued.
    “No. Absolutely not,” Grayson said. “She’s not part of this.”
    “Hey, you are the dumbass who kissed her in front of all those cameras,” Cat said playfully.
    Grayson sighed. “I wasn’t thinking.”
    “Apparently not,” Harvey sniped.
    “It’s fine, really,” I assured Grayson.
    “No, it’s not. You don’t know what the paparazzi can be like. They will hound you and you’ll eventually get sick of it and blame me and …”
    I stopped his tirade with a kiss. “It’s fine.”
    He put his arms around my waist and pulled me in for another. After I sat down on the bar stool next to him.
    “So what’s the movie we are going to see even about?” Andrea asked.
    Harvey threw up his hands in disgust and walked away while mumbling something to himself. My sister, Cat and I all burst out laughing at the same time.
    “No but seriously, what is the movie about?” Andrea asked after we all settled down.
    I play an FBI agent sent in undercover as a hit man for one of the bigger Mexican drug cartels. They've been using the guy for years but don't know what he looks like so when the FBI captures him; they use it as an opportunity to replace him with me.
    “What’s the movie called?” I asked.
    “ Terminal Assassination ,” Cat said as she broke into the sales pitch for the film. “It’s directed by the same director as Double Punishment . You’ve seen that, right?”
    I just shrugged, and my sister shook her head no.
    Cat didn't let that deter her; she just kept on going. "Well, he's a genius. I think he'll get an Oscar nom for this movie. He is just brilliant. Oh and Grayson's love interest in the movie is Selena Gomez. Don't tell me you don't know who she is."
    I giggled. "Of course, we know who Selena Gomez is."
    “This is her biggest movie to date and if the rumors are true, her real comeback to acting,” Cat continued excitedly.
    Grayson put up his hand to stop her before she could go on. “Alright, I think they’ve heard enough. They don’t need the whole press packet on the movie. Let’s just relax before we have to go in.”
    After we had finished our first drink, the lights dimmed for just a second and Grayson said that was our queue to head in so he escorted my sister and me into the theater. We were given assigned seats up front, along with the rest of the cast of the movie.
    I was excited to see that I was only two seats away from Selena Gomez. I wanted to pull out my phone and take a picture for Jennifer, but I knew if I did that, Grayson would probably kill me for embarrassing him like that.
    We sat through a bunch of promotional trailers for each of the main stars of the movie, the director, the studio and then finally the movie began.
    At first, I had a hard time picturing Selena Gomez as