King of Hollywood

“Right here, let me down.” As the street became familiar, Sarah finally opened her mouth, silent from the moment she got in the car. She wanted to refuse Adrian to send herself back, but Adrian was not comfortable doing so and promised to send it only two blocks from her house, so Sally eventually acquiesced in his behavior.

Adrian parked her car on the street, and Sarah unbuckled her seat belt and got out, but Adrian called her, “There's something I want to talk to you about, Sarah. ”

Sarah's body was stiff, retracted the hand that opened the door, and sat upright at the end, her eyes flat in front of her.

“Your agent now is Chelsea? Perkins, right?” Adrian didn't seem to notice her move, "I asked her to form a team for you to design your image and all kinds of PR. Although youth idols are the fastest to become relatively famous, it also takes time, and your current age is in an awkward period, the smaller girl role doesn't match your image, and the larger mature image doesn't necessarily grasp well, so you can only play some supporting characters in this time.

But don't worry, by the second half of next year, I'll have a proper youth idol movie for you, and before I do, I'll try to arrange for you to play some of the regular characters in those big productions, like Real Lies. You can take this opportunity to learn something under the guidance of your team, and I'm going to make you the finest idol star who can leave a trail of his own in the entertainment world even if it doesn't go well in the future, you understand? ”

Sarah glanced at Adrian and did not return to God until she understood again.

“I get it.” She nodded her head and understood, seeing that Adrian had no more to say, so she opened the door and left, and Sarah turned back and whispered, “Thank you. ”

After walking a few steps in the street and looking around to see who she didn't know, she turned back to look for Adrian's trail, and the car parked on the street had started, and she turned around and drove away.

Sarah finally relieved herself and her heart, which had been pounding and pounding, finally calmed down, but an indescribable flavor also poured into her mind. She laughed bitterly in her heart and walked in the direction of her home.

Only two blocks away, she quickly arrived outside the house and watched carefully as she pulled out the key to open the door. Although she and her mother moved to the best neighborhood of law and order after getting paid for the Ghost Pokémon movie, some habits can't be changed for a while and a half.

“Mom, are you back?” Once in the living room, Sarah found her mother's handbag on the coffee table.

“Yes, baby.” Roseland came out of the kitchen.

“How early today?” Sarah was just beginning to be a little surprised, but then she became confused.

“Because… there is not much work to do today, I came back early on leave.” Roseland said a little bit, an embarrassment flashed off his face and followed the conversation: “Where have you been? I think you left your bag at home, so you should go home after school. ”

“Yes, I went out with some friends.” Sarah replied with a smile and didn't keep asking.

“Great, you should hang out with your friends more, don't worry about that all the time," Roseland said, following her daughter's words. “I hope you're happy, Ceci. Ed always says you look too gloomy sometimes. ”

When she heard Adrian's name, Sarah tranced for a few seconds, but she adjusted and smiled at her mother: "Okay, Mom, I'll take care of myself. ”

Roseland looked at her daughter for seconds and suddenly reached out to hold her, but only halfway to find herself wearing an apron for cooking, and suddenly she awkwardly retracted her hand. Sarah grabbed her mother with an arrow, holding her tight and resting her head against her shoulder.

“Ceci, oh, Ceci.” Roseland screamed softly, wanting to touch her head, but had some oil stains on her hands, so she had to leave her daughter to hold herself.

“Mom, I love you.” Relaxed Sarah looked at her mother and said, her eyes flashed with a hint of determination.

“I love you too, Ceci.” Roseland looked at her daughter softly and responded, turning to the kitchen with what she had in mind: “By the way, I'm making your favorite sushi, which I learned to do last time in the restaurant, to make sure it tastes good. ”

“Great, I'll help too.” Sarah said, "Go grab her cuffs.

“No, no, no, no, baby, you just go back to your room and rest, and when I call you, you come down, okay?” Roseland shook her head and refused her daughter's help.

“Why?” Sarah asked puzzled, “I can do well, I've cooked for you before. ”

“Yes, I know, but not today.” Roseland laughed. "Listen to me, okay? ”

She also wanted to insist that Sarah captured the cry that flashed in her mother's eyes and felt a slight pain in her heart, still smiling on the surface and nodded obediently: "Then I'm going back to my room. ”

After watching her mother enter the kitchen, Sarah walked upstairs, and as soon as she entered her room, she fell on her back on the bed, staring at the silly ceiling, which she had not remembered for the first time. While the father was still alive, the mother was a full-time housewife, so after the father had left for no reason, the mother, who had nothing, searched for work four times and bumped into the wall.

She has sat in every job, cleaner, waiter, promoter, etc., and in addition to all this often helps Sarah get the role of a fancy agent (Note), God knows what their lives would be like if Sarah hadn't been a little famous by then and made some money each month.

Even so, life continued to be difficult for them, and every job that a mother had acquired had never been completed for six months, and she would always be dismissed for such problems. Every time a mother is fired, she hides it from her, and then, as much as possible, she finds a new job before she finds out. Once or twice she can hide it, but for a long time, how can Sarah not be aware of it? It's just that she never exposed her mother, just like that.

While Sarah constantly relies on acting to make money to cover up her own grief and grief, she has not always been as good as some of the girls of the same period until she met Adrian. Although the performance in "Memory Fragment" was never shown at all, "The Grinch Pokémon" made her truly a high-profile audience, and those interviews with journalists stopped saying that there were several times more fans in school alone.

Of course, her reputation was still minor, and the film gave her almost 800,000 dollars, plus Adrian Feng's first money after the movie was sold. Sarah and her mother moved to the Sillim district and bought a lot of things for her, the happiest part of her life so far.

But the next audition for Real Lies gave Sarah a heads-up, and even though she did what the director asked, and she got another chance through Adrian, she still missed.

There are things that are hard to think about when you taste sweetness, and Sarah doesn't allow it, and she doesn't want her mother to go back to the way she lived. But she had no idea what to do. Although the agent had plenty of opportunities to comfort her, how did she know about her deep sense of insecurity?

No matter how independent and opinionated Sarah was, she was always just a teenager, thinking about it, thinking about something she'd heard. As someone who has stepped into this circle since the age of 4, of course she has heard a lot of such things, she was disgusted at first, she became numb after hearing too much, and she didn't care, but she didn't expect that one day this road would become one of her choices.

People are always like this, when it comes to their most important things, they always get out of shape, and when they find a viable path, they find it hard to look elsewhere, no matter how intelligent they are. After all, only the best people, or Adrian, can predict the future, can jump out of the game and think from the standpoint of the bystander or God.

But Sarah didn't know what to do, she couldn't tell her mother, she couldn't ask for advice, so after a long time of thinking, she jumped into her mind.

The girl lying in bed suddenly jumped up and sat down in front of the dresser. She stared at herself in the mirror for a while and sighed bitterly, then lowered her head and covered her face. Whether it was the robbery or the shooting of "Memory Shards," or later the Ghost Pokémon crew visit, Adrian gave her a different feeling, which was... a sense of security. Yes, the sense of security, especially at the party that night at the Golden Globe Awards, was evident when he took her upstairs and shrunk into his arms.

Besides, what happened at the restaurant was that she was making unreasonable noise, but Adrian deliberately rewrote a character to compensate herself. And the Grinch Pokémon also recommended himself, and the Real Lies recommended himself for audition. Although Sarah knew something about his vague private life, she still thought he was a good person. So you can only look for him if you want to, at least... she doesn't hate him.

I can't... I really can't... Sarah looks at herself muttering in the mirror from between her fingers.

She had the courage to go to Adrian's office, and the moment she heard him say yes, she was both relieved and lost, and there was a shame that she could not speak of.

What the hell does he think of himself? Contempt? Sarah bit her lips, and even before in the car, he told her that making her the finest idol star wouldn't make her feel any better.

Forget it, it's okay, that's it, just... just Mom...

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