"Well let's get going!" Chris pulls me along to his car and Seb trails behind which I assume means he's coming with us to dinner as well. 


                          
We arrived at the restaurant in less than 10 minutes and were promptly escorted to a private room towards the back of the building. I walked in behind Chris to find Tom had saved me a seat between him and Anthony. As soon as I sat down, Tom was filling me in on everything I had missed within the 20 minutes he was here before me. 
                          
"So Olivia, let's hear it" Lizzie looks across the table at me after we've all ordered. 
                          
"What?"
                          
"Oh you know, the life story, why you're here in Atlanta" Anthony chimed in from beside me. 
                          
"Well I've been wanting to branch out in the industry for a while now and I got this opportunity while I was filming a Netflix show in Vancouver.". I was cut off by an overexcited Anthony Mackie. 
                          
"Wait- you were mid-production and you dropped it to come here?" Anthony was talking loud enough that everyone at our end of the table turned to listen. 
                          
"Yeah, I managed to figure out a deal with my director and I'll be back in time to film my scenes for the season and hopefully my other show won't start filming until after that" I laugh lightly to try and end the conversation. I feel like this is going to venture into my personal life which is a sore subject at the moment. 
                          
"Wow! Two shows? Both Netflix, I assume. Which ones?" Lizzie asks and I then realize there's no way of steering this conversation away. Over the month, I've only really talked to Tom and Chris about my life and things. Although they don't know everything, they know enough. 
                          
"Outer Banks and Julie and the Phantoms! They're both shows aimed at teens so you might not have heard of them" It's not that I'm embarrassed of my shows but sometimes I feel like other actors won't take me as seriously since I'm in "kid" shows (especially Julie and the Phantoms). 
                          
"No way! I love Outer Banks! That was my obsession during quarantine, I even talked Seabass into watching it" Anthony exclaimed and clapped Sebastian on the back. 
                          
"That's awesome! But we should talk about something else, I think I'm all talked out" I say quietly, trying once again to get the attention off of me. 
                          
"Oh Liv, you're so modest. Anyways, who saw Mark fall on set today? I have the video!" Tom intercepts the conversation and I nudge him with my shoulder to say a silent thank you. 
                          
"We're not done, we'll talk later" Anthony leaned over to whisper in my ear. I looked at him and nodded with a tight lipped smile. 
                          
Dinner carried on and it was going well until about dessert when I felt my phone buzzing. I pulled it out to see Owen's name spread across my screen so I excused myself from the table and headed to the washrooms before sliding to answer the call. "Hello?" 
                          
"Hey, is this a bad time?" Owen's voice comes across crackly. 
                          
"No, I'm just a dinner but it's okay. How's it going?" I push through the doors to get somewhere quieter, luckily the washroom is empty. 
                          
"You're at dinner? With who?" His voice became defensive and I knew this wasn't going to end well. 
                          
"Just some of the cast, it's a friendly group dinner, no big deal" I try my best to mitigate the situation because in reality, it is a harmless dinner but not in Owen's mind. 
                          
"Oh so you're too busy with your A-list friends now. Alright I'll talk to you later"
                          
"Owen-" I start but am quickly cut off by the dial tone. He hung up on me... awesome. I turned to the mirror to fix my hair a bit before opening the door that leads back to the restaurant. I step out and immediately collide with a large body coming from my right. I stumble in my heels and luckily he catches me, colluding his chest into mine. 
                          
"You okay?" I look up to see Sebastian right in front of me and luckily not some random guy. 
                          
"Yeah sorry, I should've watched where I was going" I step back from him awkwardly while trying to walk back to our table. I haven't talked to Sebastian much, he seems like a reserved guy. We've spoken in passing or in a group setting such as dinner tonight but other than that he usually stays quiet around me. I've been told by Chris not to take it personal and that he takes a while to warm up to you but it's always awkward when we're alone and right now is a prime example of that. 
                          
He holds his arm out to help me walk back since I'm a little wobbly still from the incident and I happily link my arm in his. It seems like a sweet gesture for him and I don't want him to get the wrong idea from me in terms of me not liking him or something.
                          
"So, I couldn't help but overhear you were on the phone? Everything okay?" He asks while we walk back across the restaurant. 
                          
"Oh yeah all good, I was just talking to a friend" And that sentence may have been the thing that ruined us forever.



                          
a/n !
i promise i didn't forget about this again ! i'm back for a while at least 🤞🏼🤞🏼 i've written a bunch of chapters so i'll update whenever i get views/votes:))