Page 33 of Searching for Sadie
"So, how was your day? Ya know, before the cow?" Sadie asked as she sat in a chair on his patio.
"I can't complain," he said as he took the top off her beer and handed it to her, before rethinking. "Do you need a glass or anything?"
Without answering she raised the glass bottle to her lips and took a long pull from the beer. "Nope, this is good."
He knew that a big dopey grin had to be covering his face, but he couldn't seem to help it. "What about you?" he asked. "How was your day?"
Her eyes connected his as she took another long swig of beer before answering. He didn't like the dark look in her eyes one bit.
"It was fine," she said with a dismissive shake of her head.
"Was it though?" he asked as he made his way over to the table and pulled out the chair next to her and sat down.
She just blew out a deep breath as he popped off the top of his own beer.
"That bad, huh?"
Her brows creased and she still remained silent.
"Sorry, you don't have to talk about it. I'll stop being nosy."
"No. It's fine. I'm just not sure what I can talk about."
He looked at her and cocked his head. He wasn't following, but he wished he could help because the dark cloud seemed to dim her light. She seemed to grow a bit heavier when she talked about it. But she couldn't talk about it was different than she wouldn't talk about it and he wasn't really sure what she meant.
"What do you mean?"
She sighed and ran her hair through her auburn hair. "Well..." as her brow pinched. Whatever had that look on her face could fuck all the way off.
"If I tell you something, can you please keep it between us. I mean the news is dropping tomorrow, so I think it would be okay if I told you, even though the scary lawyer was here today."
"Woah. What lawyer?"
"Mums the word until the post goes live tomorrow. Promise?"
He gave a tentative nod.
"Well... part of the reason I moved here was because I was on a reality show."
His mouth fell open. A reality show. That wasn’t what he was expecting.
"Reality show?"
"Yeah, I was on Before First Sight."
"Isn't that the dating show on Streamflix?"
"Yeah," she said on a long exhale before tucking her feet up underneath her. "That's the one."
"And it didn't go well, I take it."
"It did not."
"What happened today?" he asked as he stood it go flip the burgers.
"Some people from the show came to find me to remind me of my contractual obligations to the show, and of course, of my NDA, which is why I'm being so careful with my words."
The sizzle of the burgers filled the silence as he searched for what to say. "Well, I'm here if you need to talk. I'm not talkin to anyone for the rest of the day and I have a solo job tomorrow, so…" he mimed his locking his mouth and throwing away the key.
