Driving Miss Daisy

 

For the first time since being home, I took real steps to fix the mess that is my love life.

I gave Daisy a ring from my dad’s study.  She said she’d be over in a few.  So I decided to shave off the stubble I’d been trying to grow for my movie project (now that I know I can grow it, I don’t need to look like a wolf LOL)

I met Daisy at the art gallery, and I was shocked by how different she looked.  “You like it?”

Um…

“Seriously, you like it?”

I pretty much stood there with my mouth ajar. 

“Say something!” she shouted.

“Um, you look … different,” was all I could manage to mutter.  She was stunning.  Gone were her braces and somewhat wild waves. 

“I went to Francy yesterday when I found out you were in town.”

“Uh…you look great!  Seriously…”

“Um… Daisy … there’s something I have to tell you.”

My heart was pounding at about ten thousand beats a minute. 

“Daisy, I can’t keep lying to you anymore.”

“Lying about what?”

“I don’t expect you to forgive me for what I did, what I did was horrible.  I did it without thinking and I’m sorry.”

“You leave and you don’t even say goodbye.  I hear nothing, NOTHING, from you for months.  I had to wheedle the truth out of Savannah.  Then I happen to pick up a tabloid and it’s broadcasting that you’d found someone else…”

I let out a deep sigh.  “I know.  Go ahead, beat me up.  I completely deserve it.  I was an idiot and I’m sorry.”

“So, are you with her?”

“Look, Daisy … I need to come clean and tell you the truth.  I didn’t tell my girlfriend in Bridgeport about you… and I didn’t tell you about my girlfriend in Bridgeport.”

“What are you saying?”

“I haven’t figured out who I want to be with – and I think I need some time.”

Daisy nodded.  “Time,” she repeated.  “Time.”

“My family is in turmoil right now.  My parents are divorcing, my sister is about to go mad, my nephew’s about to have a kid – my head is spinning in about ten thousand different directions.”

Daisy stopped.  “Noelle’s pregnant?”

“Yep.”

“Gosh, I forgot Neil was your nephew.”

“Things are pretty crazy right now, and I think I need some time to sort them out.”

“I understand,” Daisy whispered, “I understand.”

As a parting gift I left her with some flowers. 

Back in the S.V.

Hey guys, it’s me, Sebastian.  I know it’s been awhile since I updated.  But some important things have happened.  Notice I’m growing some stubble.  Don’t worry, it’s for a movie role. 

First and foremost, I’m back home in Sunset Valley.  Only for a little while, anyway, until filming starts on my new movie.  Feels pretty good to be sleeping in my own bed and looking at the sunshine for the first time in millennia.   I mean, Bridgeport is nice and all, but it’s not home.  You know? 

But despite the pretty pictures, all isn’t well in the valley of the sun.  My sister covered the bases here: http://justplumbnuts.blogspot.com/2011/06/scenes-from-marriage-and-family.html

To sum things up here, my dad cheated on my mom.  He had a mistress, and my parents started sleeping in separate beds.  My sister called me at three in the morning the day she found out, and she was crying.  And you have to realize, my sister never cries.  Ever. 

In response, my sister recommended them to the counselor who treated my brother-in-law’s midlife crisis.   The therapist has recommended family counseling for all of us so I’ll have to sit in on some sessions eventually.  I really don’t want to see a therapist, but I love my parents and want them to get back together, so I’ll do what I can to help.

My dad has the worst sweet tooth on earth, I swear.  He eats sweets for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  While I was in Bridgeport I had actually been making improvements in my diet but coming back home was disastrous for it. 

“I wrote a new song,” dad said over the butler’s key lime pie.  “Wanna hear it?”

“Sure,” I shrugged.

“Join in,” he said.

“What to play?”

“Just any note that sounds like it’ll go with the tune.”

So, right when I had dad, I cornered him.  “What’s the deal about the mistress?”  I asked. 

“Started out as a collaboration at work and it went on from there.”

“Who is it?”

“Dena Hart,” he sang.  I’d forgotten that dad had a beautiful singing voice.   When I sing I sound like a croaking frog.

“I’ve ended it though.  I told her I wanted to work on my marriage.”  Why did I get the feeling he was lying?

“I’ve hurt your sister, your mother – and yoooooouuuuu,” he sung again. 

We’re going to family counseling in the morning.  The four of us – me, mom, dad, and my sister. 

We used to be so close and do everything together.  How did we ever let it get this bad?  How did we let this happen?

-- Bassy

Chat with Audrina

 

 

I went to school with a girl named Audrina Hill.  We were in drama club together.  Apparently she arrived in Bridgeport around the same time I did, and we caught up on Facebook. 

 

Audrina Hill  Hey, we havn't really talked much in a long time,
How are ya? .
Sebastian Ryan Plumb June 1 at 12:06pm Report
My life has been pretty crazy. The Bridgeport life is starting to wear on me tho. I'm actually thinking about going back home to Sunset Valley. I don't know how folks would take it with me going back tho. lol .
Audrina Hill June 1 at 12:40pm I went through that exact same problem.. I was living alone and felt completley unsafe with the crazy paparazzi following me around, but my family recently moved to Bridgeport and that made things alot easier.. My boyfriend on the otherhand lives in Sunset Valley following his sports career.. I hope I'll get him to move here with me soon, but I visit alot (: .
Sebastian Ryan Plumb June 1 at 7:39pm Report
I mean now that I'm an actor and all, it's going to be weird going back. My sister, bro in law, and her kids are there, as well as my parents and my childhood sweetheart from HS, Daisy Ramsey (Savannah, historian that she is, says she is the grand daughter of a Dave Ramsey and a Gage Briody who used to live there). .
Audrina Hill June 1 at 7:42pm wow. yeah.. that's a really hard decision :/ .
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Sebastian Ryan Plumb June 1 at 8:31pm Report
Yah, the gist of the sitch is, I'm not sure either Kyra or Daisy will want to see me at this point. I've basically screwed over both of them. Neither of them deserve that. .
Sebastian Ryan Plumb June 1 at 8:36pm Report
i feel terrible about what i've done... and i'm not even sure how to fix it. .

Me:  i'm between kyra and daisy and not sure i want to face either right now.

Report · 9:04pm

Audrina:  sounds really complicated :/

Report · 9:05pm

Me: oh it is. it usually is. i am a plumb and most of us have had complicated lives, lol

Report · 9:05pm

Audrina:  loll

Report · 9:06pm

Me:  so while i was in bridgeport i was throwing myself into my work making movies, learning lines, etc learning how to actand of course hitting the party circuit
the tabloids linked me to just about everyone but i was only dating kyra

Audrina:  go figure! ive had sooo many rumors roll around about me

Report · 9:09pm

Me: well bridgeport can do that to you.

Report · 9:09pm

Audrina:  yup.. leave it to the big city

Report · 9:10pm

it's what happens when you leave a small town and go to the big city. i left s. v. right after graduation

Me: got a role in a soap

i have an album on my page here with all the roles i've played

Report · 9:11pm

Audrina:  same, and nice! i'll take a look at it (: you should check out mine, i have photo shoots and club appearances..

Report · 9:11pm

Me: my sister has way more pics than i do

i just put up a page not too long ago

she's had hers up almost a year

Report · 9:12pm

Audrina: wow, i havnt had mine very long, but i take alot of pictures. lol

Report · 9:13pm

Me: i do a lot of costume photo shoots if you've noticed, lol

stuff in costume as different characters

Report · 9:14pm

Audrina: oh wow thats always fun.. ive never really done a movie

im more a tv actress

Report · 9:15pm

Me: i did TV when i started

this one character i played... he was absolutely disepicable but he was fun to play

he married this one lady, then slept with her sister and her mom, and then schemed to take the mom's business

really awful guy this was

Report · 9:17pm

Audrina: hah sounds like it

i usually just do realitiy

but ive been looking into alot of different roles.. not sure which ones to take

Report · 9:19pm

Me: whatever suits your fancy :)

one rule of thumb in picking roles... is connecting to the character

if you can't relate to the character, chances are you're not going to do a good job with the part

Report · 9:21pm

Audrina: yeah.. exactly

oh goodness, if you want to continue talking maybe you could message me? I have a date in a couple minutes

Report · 9:22pm

Me: haha

well good luck with the date

Report · 9:23pm

Audrina:  well its not like a date date

 

Report · 9:23pm

Me:  kyra is supposed to be coming over ina few

 

Report · 9:23pm

Audrina:  just dinner with a good friend, (: lol

Report · 9:25pm

well/ g2g talk to ya later!

 

 

Addy McKnight

Clear Window· Report

Today

 

Me: remember i said my love life is complicated?

Report · 9:53pm

 

Addy: yes

 

Report · 9:53pm

Me: here's the stich. when i left the s. v i had a Gf, childhood sweetie named daisy

i didn't tell daisy i was leaving
savannah did after teh fact

 

Report · 9:54pm

Addy: oh

 

Report · 9:54pm

Me: when i got to bridgeport, a few months after i got to bridgeport i started dating a girl named kyra

 

 

Report · 9:54pm

Addy: hmm

: ?

: / *

 

Report · 9:55pm

Me: so a couple of week sago kyra asked me to move in

i didnt' ahve an answer for her

Report · 9:56pm

Addy:  i see

and let me guess she took no answer as no

 

Report · 9:57pm

Me: i haven't given her a response yet

because i don't have one

 

Report · 9:57pm

Addy: hmm

 

Report · 9:57pm

Me: i haven't told her about daisy
at all

 

Report · 9:57pm

Addy: i see

well do you still have feeling for Daisy?

 

Report · 10:02pm

Me: lol

i'm not sure actually

i mean i care deeply about her

we've been friends since we were kids

and we started dating as teenagers

i guess it was kind of expected that we'd marry

 

Report · 10:04pm

Addy:  hmm

and what about Kyra?

what are your feelings for her?

 

Report · 10:08pm

Me: i care about her too

that's just it

they're both great girls

the fact that i've hurt them badly by giving them half of me...

is just tearing me apart

the lies and the secrecy

i can't do it anymore.

 

Report · 10:09pm

Addy: hmm

then don't

i think for what you've said it might be best for you to be alone for a moment , talk to both of them though , explain everything

Report · 10:10pm

Me: that would mean i'd have to return to sunset valley

that's where daisy is

 

Report · 10:10pm

Addy: you said you where thinking of coming back anyways

plus you don't have to stay

 

Report · 10:13pm

Me: i mean going home is going to be awkward
i haven't been back since leaving for bridgeport

 

Report · 10:13pm

Addy: call her ?

 

Report · 10:15pm

Me: i can't. i don't have her number anymore. i kknow they moved around

i do need to go back
my paretns sare still there

my sister, bro-in law, nieces, nephews, all there

 

Report · 10:16pm

Addy: then come back

 

Report · 10:18pm

Me: but for how long. i mean, possibly long enough to talk to daisy about what is going on

i can't lie any longer.

thank you addy :)

 

Report · 10:18pm

Addy: your welcome

 

Report · 10:21pm

Me: sigh going to pack my bags. wish me luck.

 

Report · 10:22pm

Addy: good luck

 

Report · 10:22pm

Me: this has to be sorted out.

 

Report · 10:22pm

Addy:  talk to Kyra before you leave though , you really should talk to both of the,

 

Kyra

Invited my GF Kyra over on Sat nite.  We’d been dating for a few weeks.  We exchanged our niceties (sp) and then she shocks me.

Kyra’s body language changed suddenly.  I knew something was wrong.  I had all sorts of scripts in my mind – was she going to break up with me?

I couldn’t blame her – if I were a girl, I wouldn’t date me.  Especially with my schedule the way it is. 

Then she let it out.  The photo in her thought bubble let me know that her roommate Annabelle was the issue. 

“Sebastian, we had a MAJOR fight.”  Kyra was on the verge of tears. 

“It started innocently enough, when we were at the hair salon.  She was going on and on about how miserable her life is and how she can’t get a break with her writing and how publishers keep rejecting her manuscripts…

…and then she went on to criticize everything about me, especially my music.  Reminds me of my mother, sheesh, it's not as if I can't look after myself.... I mean, that's the whole reason WHY I left home in the first place.... plus she whines about just about everything, makes SUCH a drama out of it....I mean, it was cute to begin with, but now .... it's getting so OLD!  So, how about it? Can I move in ... or what?”

My feet were rooted to the ground and I wasn’t at all sure what to do, so I told Kyra I’d think about it.

In the meantime I did let her spend the night.

The boss lady

Most people who have read this blog know who she is.  She is Kristin Amalie Verhoeven, a screenwriter and director at Plumbob Pictures, known in most parts as Kris or Kristy. 

She is also my boss. 

She has a motorbike she likes to call ‘Beast’ but she doesn’t ride it to work. 

She’s pretty famous, actually, mostly due to the stuff about her love life.  Oh yeah, and she wrote a few screenplays, a couple of which got made into movies.  Had to sue once because someone spread a rumor about her digging through trash cans.  Don’t think she is the type. 

She enjoys kicking my butt in chess the way my sister Savannah used to.

She makes a fool of herself on the dance floor.

We connected because she is as much of a food connoisseur as I am.

And this month she gave the mother of all interviews to Caroline Custard at Celebrity magazine.  There were some things in here that I didn’t know.  (As an aside, I have to say she looks nice on the cover, too. Rumor is Joyce Ward – the photographer Savannah hired to document our family – is now on at Celebrity.) 

As I’ve told you guys, Kristy was born in Utrecht (that’s in the Netherlands).  Her dad was a Dutch movie director, her mom, a German actress. 

That’s her mother, Magdalena.  Kristy doesn’t talk about her.  In fact I don’t think she ever mentioned her, except to say she was German.  The article goes on to say that she and Kristy’s father divorced when she was three and she disappeared to Sweden where she remarried. 

Kristy and her mother had a difficult relationship and they are now estranged.  They haven’t spoken since Kristy was a teenager.  Her father, in the gray jacket, is Jan Jakob.  Her relationship is better with him but not by much.  Since this pic was taken he got involved with a much younger woman – yes, another German actress.  Kristy tells me the woman is younger than she is. 

Anyway, one of the reasons she got this huge spread in Celebrity – is because she’s making a milestone birthday this year. 

I took my promotion money and splurged on a few things, like an outdoor grill and fridge. 

I also bought an outdoor table and chairs.  As it was, my surprise was complete.  Except for one thing. 

The people hadn’t arrived.  But that would change soon enough.

Lola was first.  She was overdressed in her coat but I excused her.

Annabelle came too, armed with her cell phone to take pictures and rub shoulders with the rich and famous.

Devin Ashton found his place in the hot tub. 

Soon it was time for the honoree to blow out her candles.  With my GF Kyra by my side and several others joining us later, we all joined in song and dance. 

Transition time!  The YA to adult transition isn’t as noticeable as others.  The only difference is the adult’s skin has a few more wrinkles. 

Meanwhile, Lola was entertaining Annabelle and an unknown guest with her bass playing. 

“I can’t believe he did this,” I overheard Kristy say. 

“He throws pretty good parties,” Devin muttered while eating his German chocolate cake.

Several hours later guests headed for the exits. 

Meanwhile, Kristy headed … to the gym??? Maybe to burn off the cake.  And since when did Kristy go to the gym?