Tuesday morning, March 24, 2020
"I think it goes without saying that we loved your scenes," Carla, told Dani the next morning, "or we wouldn't be here." Dani, Amanda Browning, and I were sitting in a large office at a studio in downtown Tampa with several of the movie executives: Carla, the casting director; Anthony, the director; Kathleen, the executive producer, and several others. Each introduced themselves but those were the only names I remember. Name remembering is not my strong point, I'm pretty proud to remember those three.
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"Tell us about this dream your husband had," one of the women who'd introduced herself as a publicist asked Dani.
Dani took a deep breath, she was so damned nervous, her hands, one of them gripping mine, were shaking, "Last October he had an accident, slipping in the bathroom and hitting his head..."
She went on the next ten-fifteen minutes relaying the anguish, the doctor's prognosis, and how I'd finally awakened four months later. Everyone in the room sat quietly, just listening. She finished with, "It was the most horrible four months of my life!" squeezing my hand when she finished. She followed that with, "I'll let my husband tell you about his dreams during those four months," she said.
I sat at that big round table, all these high-powered movie executives looking at me, I had no idea how detailed to get, do I even mention Alan Ryder's name?
ooOOOoo
The night before
We were on the water taxi on the way to dinner when Amanda's phone rang. She'd talked for a few minutes, sounding depressed, then clicked off her phone and turned back toward Dani and me with a serious frown on her face, 'What the hell?' I thought, she'd sounded so confident earlier. Dani looked stricken, her face going white, "What?" she finally asked.
Amanda took a deep breath, giving Dani the bad news, "That was Carla, the casting director," she hesitated what seemed like forever, Dani and I both holding our breath, "She asked me to tell you..."
"That they'd like to see you tomorrow at nine," breaking out in a huge grin, "She didn't outright say it, but they want you for that part, I know! They wouldn't be asking for you again, otherwise."
Dani jumped up, throwing herself around Amanda, then me, almost tipping the boat.
"We have something to celebrate tonight!" Amanda finally said, her excitement coming through in spades.
A few minutes later, we were sitting at a table outside Jackson's Bistro and Bar. How does someone who had never been here before or never looked it up on the internet know what it looks like? That it even exists? How did I know there was such a thing as a Pirate Water Taxi? How the FUCK did I know any of this shit? Funny thing was that I didn't know anything past that night of Dani's party where Betty told me to open my eyes.
The only reason I knew that Dani would get that movie part is that Amanda had been so certain about it in my dream. Even the fact that there was a real-life Amanda, just like in my dream. Hell, she even looked like I remembered, except that I'd had no clue that Alan Ryder was going to be the costar in that movie, no idea about the movie beyond the little bit Amanda had told me.
I ached to ask Dani about him but didn't know yet what Amanda knew.
There wasn't long to wait, as soon as we sat, Amanda told Dani, "I was amazed that you and Alan knew each other. You really went to school together?"
Dani nodded, "He hardly knew I existed, though, except for being my escort homecoming night, he probably hadn't said ten words to me other than that night."
Amanda laughed, "Sure didn't seem that way, the way he greeted you, I thought you might have been old lovers or something."
Dani blushed, glancing at me, "It was just the surprise," she told Amanda, "after so long. Almost our only interaction was that he was my escort at the homecoming game and dance our senior year, nothing more... oh, and he was at a New Year's Eve party that I was at, but he was with his girlfriend."
I noticed she forgot to mention the crush she'd had on him back in school and all those years after.
"Well, whatever, but the producers loved the instant chemistry between the two of you," she said.
ooOoo
Later that night, in bed, Dani's body was on fire. "That kiss..." she started to say as she ground her pussy down on me, "it was like... oh God!"
I couldn't take it, rolling us over so that I could fuck my wife. I pushed Dani's legs up on my shoulders and plunged inside her, once... twice... three times. Then, breathing hard I hesitated inside her, Dani whimpering, "Like... what?" I asked her. I remembered my dream, that first time in our hotel room, this very hotel, one story below where we were, 'I've dreamed of this for years,' were Alan Ryder's words as he'd kissed my wife that night in my dream.
Dani groaned, "Fuck me!" she demanded.
My cock was aching to do exactly that, yet... I'd asked her, "What was it like, his kiss," before we'd climbed in bed, right after our soul-searing kiss. She'd slowly taken off her clothes, slipped her bra off, and her thong down her long, sexy legs, and given me that sexy 'come-hither' look as she'd climbed on the bed.
"No... not until you tell me, like... what?" I repeated, giving her short, hard jabs, pressing her head against the headboard.
"Like what?" I asked her again more forcefully when she didn't answer.
She let out another whimper, "His lips... so soft and sultry... it was like... bringing back the memory... what I'd wanted him to do that New Year's Eve... like that high school girl with a giant crush on the boy she knew she couldn't have... except he's a man now, not the boy he was then. The power in him, I could feel his strength... and even more handsome," whimpering, her breath panting between virtually every word, "I could tell... he was as turned on as I was. That made it so much... more!" she exclaimed. "I was just aching to be touched, his hands... his mouth... everywhere... wanting so much more."
I groaned, thinking about Dani's kiss I'd witnessed with Mark just two days earlier, and how much more Alan Ryder had affected her. I should have been jealous, infuriated, I knew. But Dani wasn't telling me anything that I didn't already know... and was secretly hoping for. I knew, from my dream, she was mine, no matter what, and I was just plain, fucking turned on! "And you're going to be kissing him naked... on camera... aren't you?"
Dani screamed, her pussy squeezing the cum from my cock, my orgasm exploding inside her, both our bodies shuddering together.
"Aren't you?" I asked again after we'd collapsed on the hotel's bed and regained enough strength to talk.
She groaned, obviously thinking about that very thing, being naked with her wannabe lover that she'd fantasized over, unknown to me, for so long.
"Dani?"
She was trembling beside me, "Yes..." she finally said, and I rolled over kissing her, cupping her naked breast, pinching a nipple like I could envision Alan Ryder doing to her.
A few minutes later I was inside her again.
ooOoo
I tried to answer the question, took a deep breath, probably more nervous than I'd ever been in my life. I knew we were here because of Dani, not me, and what I had to say wouldn't make a whit of difference in whether or not she got this gig, but still...
"It's a really long story..." I knew I could go on forever but was sure they had no idea the dream involved Alan Ryder, "We were visiting one of Dani's high school friends here in Tampa, he introduced us to a woman named April, a friend of his, the makeup artist at a big studio..."
They looked around at each other, a surprised look on their faces. Dani said the makeup person who'd worked with her yesterday was named April. "She took Dani to the studio a day that a model didn't show up and... " I went on, explaining how Dani sat in for an advertisement for Winsome Naturals Cosmetics, how well it'd been received, and that April had sent her to Amanda Browning, who'd signed her to a contract and told her about this movie to audition for.
By the time I finished, they were all asking the same question that had been asked so many times, how had I known?
I shrugged, "I have no idea, Dani and I have asked ourselves that dozens of times since. There are so many things that I couldn't possibly have known."
The publicity woman, I have no idea her name, said, "We can use that, that publicity will get us tens of thousands of curious moviegoers." Then she looked directly at me, "I'd love to spend time with you, explore that dream, how it all came about, I want every detail."
Every detail? Damn, I wasn't ready for that! I nodded to her, "Okay," I said, "it'll take a while, though, there's a lot... I think I could write a thousand-page book."
"You might someday," she said, looking around the room, "It might even make a good movie," she added.
I shuddered at that thought, that would be an XX-rated movie!
"Okay, Daniella, or do you prefer to go by Dani?" Anthony, the director, asked.
"Well, my friends all call me Dani," she said, "but either is fine."