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script.
    “Yep.” I took a deep breath, trying to get
myself back to the heightened emotional state I was in this
afternoon. Joseph and I sat side by side on the ground, our backs
against my bed and our shoulders touching lightly. I cleared my
throat and began the lines I had already gone over today in the
audition and about a thousand times in my head on the drive
home.
    “Cutter, I know all the evidence points to me
and you really have no reason to believe me, but . . . you can’t
think I’m capable of something so . . . so horrible,” I began, the
dialogue sending a chill up my spine as I remembered the look in
Lukas’s eyes.
    “Listen, I know Charles can be kind of
intense, but he means well,” Joseph said, smiling as he read the
lines. “I just can’t get over the fact that you’ll be saying these
lines on the show,” he said with a grin.
    “So unprofessional, breaking character like
that,” I said in mock seriousness, shaking my head and closing my
eyes. Joseph pulled a face at me and went on reading his lines.
Joseph and Lukas definitely approached acting differently. Lukas
seemed like he stayed in character and didn’t really like to break
it when reading his lines. Joseph, on the other hand, was all fun
and games until the second he had to be in character, when he
somehow magically turned into someone else completely.
    “He just has to follow through with every
possible lead. If he got distracted by every pretty suspect we had,
he wouldn’t be a very good detective, now would he?” At this line
Joseph tried to suppress a laugh but ended up snorting.
    “What?” I demanded, wondering what he could
possibly find so funny.
    “You didn’t tell me Cutter was going to be
all smooth toward you on the show. It’s a little disturbing,” he
said with a shudder.
    “What’s wrong with it?” I asked, now a little
defensive.
    “Well, for one thing, his character is named
Cutter. I don’t really need to expand on that. And for another
thing, aren’t you supposed to be a murderer? Isn’t he the good
guy?”
    “I am not the murderer!” I exclaimed, trying
to defend myself as if Joseph were actually accusing me of being a
killer. “They just suspect me. A suspect and a murderer are not the
same thing.”
    “My mistake,” Joseph replied, though I could
still see the smile in his eyes. He was teasing me. “Sorry. Back
into character now,” he said, his face instantly melting into an
expression of the utmost seriousness. I followed suit and went
on.
    “But do you think I did it?” I asked
Joseph, now turning to him and gazing into his eyes. The moment
didn’t hold the passion of my audition, but that probably had
something to do with the fact that Lukas wasn’t in the room,
sending chills up my spine every time he breathed. “That’s all that
matters to me.”
    Joseph held my gaze for a moment before
looking back down at the paper to read his line. “Maybe this will
answer your question,” he said before pausing abruptly. A look of
great concern passed over his face and he looked up at me
questioningly. For some reason the look made me very
uncomfortable.
    “Don’t worry, Joseph, you don’t actually have
to kiss me. We’re just reading through the lines,” I said, trying
to play off how heavy the room had suddenly gotten.
    “This is the scene you did today?” he asked.
I nodded silently, not sure why that mattered. “With Lukas
Leighton?” I nodded again, this time with a grin spreading across
my face. “You kissed him?”
    “No, I didn’t kiss him,” I said, as if that
were the most obvious thing in the world. Joseph visibly relaxed at
that news. “I was so close though,” I said sighing and laying back
against the foot of my bed, closing my eyes. “I know you’re a guy
so you don’t care, but it was honestly the most exciting experience
ever. We were this close,” I said, turning and showing him an
almost nonexistent space between my finger and