Episode 661: Believe

His glare, however, was actually directed more inward. He was being an idiot, sitting there, letting her be that way. She was his wife. He shouldn’t be afraid to say something. Just because she’d left him for dubious reasons in the past, it didn’t mean it would happen again, it didn’t mean he needed to walk on eggshells around her for fear of hitting a nerve. He didn’t want to live that way, and it wouldn’t do her any good either.

"You’re driving me crazy," Ryley finally said. It was such a relief, particularly when Adria smiled at him, a clear sign she wasn’t taking his words too personally.

"Sorry, crazy is what you get when you marry an actress." She wasn’t apologizing for being an actress, thank goodness. Maybe she really was truly over that. "I’m driving me crazy, too. I know this script."

"I can attest to that," he said. "You’ve run the same lines eighty-five million times."

"Right, you’ve heard me. I have it down, don’t I? And I had it down before. I don’t know how it went away during the audition. I told my parents I nailed this part."

"You put too much pressure on yourself."

"It was supposed to help, but it so didn’t."

"You probably weren’t as bad as you think."

"Trust me, it-" Her cell rang and she frowned. "That’s probably the call to officially confirm the role belongs to someone else."

Minutes later however, a stunned Adria related a very different outcome.

Ryley launched out of his chair and pulled his wife into a celebratory hug. "See," he said. "I told you, it wasn’t as bad as you thought."

Adria shook her head. "I don’t see. It doesn’t make sense. My audition was as bad as I thought. Why would they hire me?"

Episode 662: All Too Well