#and i have a glass of wine and I'm gonna roast salmon for dinner

[docholligay]

Sometimes it strikes me that my life is just, so good, and it blows my mind

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Day 5: High as a kite. 

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Day 5: High as a kite. 

 Your apartment was modest by some standards, but it was perfect for you. Austin loved it, smiling at your one of a kind art on the walls, the view of a park across the street and the old school charm you had insisted on keeping. 

Austin had cooked, making due with your little used hardware. He made the most delectable brown sugar salmon with roasted baby carrots. He had picked up a bottle of wine, which was quickly drained by you both as he cooked. 

After the air had been cleared between you, it was like old times as you caught up. 

You tell him about how you worked in Milan for several years after graduating with your MBA in fashion management.  Opening a second bottle of wine that you had on hand, you explain that now you do sustainable fashion consulting for several of the big houses as well as some of the smaller start-ups. 

After dinner, he tells you about his latest projects playing Elvis then a WWII bomber pilot back to back. He’s on probably his third or fourth glass of wine as apposed to your two and you can tell he’s feeling it.

“I have one other big budget one lined up that I have to really get in shape for and another one that looks really cool where I’ll get to ride motorcycles. I’m really excited about them both. I’ll have to prepare them, like at the same time and one is a villain, oh my god I'm so excited! I feel like it might actually be really happening for me but I’m trying to just like.. Put my head down and work and not to get my hopes up because what if Elvis is a flop ? I mean it would seriously mess me up if it were, not that I’ve not been a part of things that didn’t do well, it’s just I spent so much time obsessing so hard on him and I didn't really think about anything else for like years. But I don’t know, Tom says that I did great and he’s got real big hopes for me!” He chatters on, you had no idea he was so talkative with a little drink in him. 

“Tom?” you prompt, sipping your wine, enjoying the info dump of his brain. 

“Yeah, Tom Hanks, didn’t I say that?” his brow creases as though he’s trying to remember what he just said. 

“Wait, wait, you worked with Tom Hanks??” you said incredulously. You had heard about a new Elvis movie coming out, but you really hadn’t paid it much attention. 

“Yup, and for him with the pilot thing” he says slurring his words a little, “he is amazing. And  Elvis, I could not have done it if I’d not done the play with Denzel-” 

“Denzel…. Like the Denzel?” you ask? What the actual fuck, Austin was getting his big boy acting pants. 

“Uh huh, that was here in New York. They both like fucking changed me, changed my whole acting…. thingy thing,  It’s like he was with me the whole fucking time. In shutdowns and shit… kept me sane,” then he starts laughing. “If… if wandering the beach laughing like Elvis is at all sane.”  

You shake your head.

“Oh hunny, I think you are as high as a kite,” you get up and get him a glass of water. 

“What? I’m not! Three sheets to the wind maybe, but I wouldn’t count it as high!” he giggles. 

“Here drink this,” you giggle back. 

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