Eric firmed his tone, "Annie, I'm not breaking up with you, can't you just tell me your address so that I can come see you in New York for Christmas ?"
"Don't even think about it." Aniston replied. She couldn't help but think: Even Drew Barrymore was able to find out where I am, but you can't ? "Besides, don't you don't you have a new girlfriend ? The one that was photographed coming out of your house."
"You mean Julia ? She has good potential, I'm going to open an agency and I want to sign her."
Annie shot a disapproving glance at the tabloid still spread on the table not far: "Do agencies have their talents sleep with their boss right away nowadays ? That shirt I've also worn that shirt, you bastard !"
Eric hesitated for a few seconds, before whispering: "I'm sorry, Annie, will you forgive me ? It won't happen again."
Hearing his feeble tone, Annie's voice softened some: "Eric, I think the distance between us has just grown too big for us to get along. Every time I'll see you, I'll be hit by a sense of insecurity."
"Annie, I just bought a villa in Beverly hills.."
"I'm not talking about physical distance, Eric. Maybe it's just my imagination but I feel like you're as ethereal as a dimension traveler, and it makes me restless. Sometimes I can't help but worry that you'll just up and disappear."
The two of them stayed silent for a while.
"Eric, the reason I'm calling you today is to tell you that, this morning, I received an anonymous letter, the author said that he wanted to tell me things about you. The address of the meeting was in Central Park, it was a public place so I felt there was no danger and went.
The stranger asked about our relationship, then he asked me. asked me about what had happened that morning. I stayed quiet, but I don't know if it was to test me or if that fellow really saw something, he said that he was willing to appear in court and testify against you and Drew on my behalf.
He said that you would have to give me a lot of money if I succeeded. I refused."
Eric listened quietly to Aniston's story. Once she finished, Eric nodded and asked in understanding: "Annie, thank you for telling me this, now I'm pretty sure; you still love me, don't you ?"
"Then there's no problem. Eric, rest a.s.sured, I'll go back immediately to deal with this, you have nothing to worry about.
Although the fact that the public opinion is still slightly against you remains, without evidence, even if someone were to falsely accuse you, their likelihood of success would be near nil."
Eric eventually calmed down and bid farewell to Edward Lewis when he suddenly remembered that, since the incident a few days ago, although Drew hadn't visited him, she had called a few times. However, for these past two days, he hadn't heard a single peep out of her.
After giving several continuous call to her home to no avail, Eric started feeling anxious. He wasn't worried about Drew teaming up with people to frame him, but it was hard to say the same about her greedy mother.
Los Angeles, on the second floor of an apartment in Culver City, Drew was locked in her bedroom, watching the television and listening to the incessant ringing of the phone in the living room.
Although he had never taken the initiative to contact her before, she was somehow sure that the one calling was Eric.
These days, Ildiko Jaid, who usually couldn't care less about her, had suddenly become a good and responsible mother. Using the excuse of the mediatic storm to ground Drew, even phone calls weren't allowed.
The teenager had obviously argued against it, so the two of them quarrel and came to blows. In the end, Drew with her small arms and legs couldn't hold a candle to Ildiko Jaid and was locked in her room.
Moreover, Drew knew that her mother was plotting something with someone as she had overheard her whispering on the phone for a long time last night. No matter when, even when she was sweet talking her lovers, Ildiko Jaid had never bothered to lower her voice before.
"That woman is definitely up to no good."
Drew turned off the TV and paced back-and-forth in her room as she muttered to herself. She looked at the time and realized her mother would be home soon; she felt she couldn't wait anymore.
She went to her closet and tied a few bed sheets together until it reached a length of 34m, before tying one end to the legs of her bed. Then, she opened her window and carefully climbed down the rope.
When she was about to land, one of the knots got loose and Drew fell when she was a meter above ground. She groaned a bit at the abrupt pain but didn't have time to care about her bruised knee.
She hobbled out of the yard, hailed a cab and made her way towards Eric's.