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Morgan

Sheets of rain coeles freeway syste could burst my bubble of excitement

“I can hardly wrap my mind around the fact that we’re on our way to the Golden flipping Globes! How nuts is it that you’ve gone from soap opera actress to best actress nominee in just a few years?”

The question caer, Allie, who had been arten

I s a sip of the water bottle full of cherry Kool-Aid I’d brought fro extra cautious because if it spilled down my dress or stained the skin aroundit, though You could dress est award shows on the planet, but it wouldn’t change that I was a girl who bought Kool-Aid flavor packs from Amazon in bulk

“It feels like a drea here to celebrate you in the next few years, too”

She laughed nervously, shrugging ht suck—”

I understood that she was anxious and afraid to be overly optimistic, but it was my job as her BFF to make sure she celebrated her achieve Not only that, but Mason Cleary was also directing it There was no doubt in e success

“You’re an insane person,” I teased “Don’t downplay all that you’ve already achieved”

Allie’s green eyes sparkled as she pushed her golden blond hair back over her shoulder In addition to being wildly talented, she was also incredibly beautiful

“You’re right,” she said “We’re already succeeding almost beyond our wildest drea You’re going to win a Golden Globe, Morgan That’s huge”

“Eek, don’t count my chickens before they hatch,” I cautioned “We both know I’ainst some unbelievable talent This is my first nomination Plus, we both know there are tons of people who like to talk s started out on a soap opera somehow makes me less than”

I frowned as I said it, annoyance clear in my voice I hated how people had weird attitudes about actors that started out in soap operas There was a certain stigma to it; an expectation that the only step up you could take was to a sitcom, and even that was iffy

That hadn’t beenbest actress at the Dayti a small part in a movie directed by Ben Affleck That role was expanded when he realized I could act Now I had a few starring roles under my belt—and one of them hy I was in a limo about to pull up outside the Beverly Hilton Hotel to walk the press line

Allie shifted in her seat as she tapped away on her cell phone “Gloria and Dane just got there and are about to work the line, so they’ll meet us at the table”

“Ten-four,” I said, nodding with a s I was still trying to wrapdeal in Hollywood Even with a Best Actress noet so me I’d hit the lottery because the director of my Golden Globe-nominated film had lobbied hard for him to take me on Gloria had the ability to do that because she was his mother

Gloria Garrison was Hollywood royalty In the eighties, her popularity had risen to a level equivalent to that of Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday Everything she’d touched turned to gold, and people were desperate to know everything about her After a stellar career in front of the cao Despite her star power, she had to work her tail off to make it happen Hollyas funny like that—the number of female motion picture directors was pathetically low In the seventy-four years since the inception of the Golden Globes, only one wo by the end of the night, Gloria would follow in Barbra Streisand’s shoes and walk aith the trophy

I loved her as a person, adored her as a director, and was thankful she twisted her son’s aret him to take me on I’d been uncomfortable at first, but once Dane told otten hiree to ithhis time in, I’d been overjoyed