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“They want to make a movie about us?” Sophie whispered.

“Apparently,” Bryce said.

“Sorry?” Eloise asked.

“Oh, sorry. Sophie is with me. We’re going to dinner.”

“Oh, great. Can you ask her?”

“For her rights?”

“Yes,” Eloise replied. “I have boilerplate contracts I’ll send over, and you can have your lawyer review them, obviously. I usually call first before I send the email to let you know it’s on the way because of spam filters and everything, but I’d like to maybe talk over the phone with both of you later, or we could do something virtually since I’m in LA and you’re in New Orleans.”

“You want to–” Bryce shook her head. “And you have contracts ready?”

“Yes,” Eloise replied with a laugh. “How about this? It sounds like I’ve caught you at a bad time. Why don’t I email you the contracts we typically use for this kind of thing? You two can review them when you get a minute and let me know if you want to set up a time for us to chat. We’re really serious about this, so let me know soon, okay?”

“Um… Okay,” Bryce said, shaking her head at Sophie, who clearly wanted to know what they were talking about.

“We love your writing style, Bryce. I read some of your non-Sophie blogs. You have a way of making people feel like they’re right there with you at that restaurant. Your delivery stories are great, too. We can easily see that as being part of the script when you’re apart from Sophie in the story. It’s relatable.”

“Thanks,” she replied.

“So, you enjoy your dinner, and I’ll get this email sent out. We’ll talk later?”

“Yeah, okay,” Bryce said and hung up.

“That was a prank call, right?” Sophie asked. “Someone’s messing with us.”

“I don’t think so. She sounded legit. She sounded like one of those Hollywood types you see in the movies, at least. And she’s going to send an email with a contract.”

“A contract?”

“For the rights to our story.”

“Our story that has just begun?”

“I guess not really,” Bryce said. “For a movie, it would be ending right about now, with the big kiss after we found each other.”

“Good thing we’re not in a movie because we never would’ve had sex,” Sophie noted.

Bryce laughed and said, “This is crazy. I just wrote a blog.”

“And I just walked across the street from one bar to another, but because I did that, we met.”

Bryce kissed her and said, “Let’s just have dinner with your friends. We can talk about this later. Maybe itisa prank, after all.”

“Donottell Jill about this. We’ll never hear the end of it.”

Bryce laughed as they started walking again.

CHAPTER 29

“How do you feel about that?” Melinda asked her.

“It’s weird, right?” Sophie replied.

“No, I wouldn’t say it’s weird. I think it’s cool.”

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