What was she doing? Kira waited in the back seat as the Uber driver weaved his way through the streets of L.A. She was going to the premier. Nervous jitters assaulted her and she stomach felt unsettled, like she might throw up.

She’d been devastated after the whole ordeal with B.C. walking in while she was kissing Spence.

It’d been awful, she’d gone after B.C., but he wouldn’t stop. She’d tried to call him, but he wouldn’t answer. She’d gone to her room and cried and looked out over the ranch and felt so hopeless. Then Kevin had called her downstairs and, to her complete surprise, Dr. Schneider had been there.

“Usually, I don’t get involved.” The doctor had scowled. “Especially because I don’t encourage patient-staff relations.”

She’d felt guilty.

He sighed. “But you are Lulubelle’s granddaughter.” He’d flashed her a smile. “And, B.C. shared a lot of things with me.” He cocked an eyebrow. “Things that led me to believe that, while he was doing a lot of changing on his own, he was also falling in love with you.” He sighed. “He told me about how you two would joke about the love potions, and I don’t believe a potion can make someone fall in love, but … I do believe in love.”

His words filled her with hope. “At first I was worried you might replace drugs for B.C., but I want you to believe I don’t think that’s the case at all. And after I heard what happened between you two, I just knew I had to get involved.”

She had been completely floored. “You did?”

Then he handed her a phone number and address. “I contacted B.C.’s agent, they’ll have a car for you at the airport to take you to the premier if you still want to go.”

At that moment, she felt like Nana had been there, watching over her, guiding her to this night – back to B.C. because she had to believe she would actually make it back to him.

Kevin, of course, had doused her with All My Heart before he’d dropped her off at the airport and told her to ‘get her man back.’

When the car stopped, she saw lots of cameras flashing and people dressed beautifully getting out of limousines along with one person she never thought she would run into tonight.

B.C.’s mother.

A guy wearing a tux reached out and opened the door for her. “Hello there, you must be Kira.”

The guy was one of those overly polished types. His hair slicked back a bit too much, his shoes a little too polished.

She took his hand and got out.

The guy put on, what she immediately knew, was a fake smile. “I’m Jake, B.C.’s agent.”

Her heart rate kicked up a notch. “H-hello.” Where was B.C.? She tried to look for him but couldn’t see him.

His mother gave her a fake smile and moved to her, looping her arm with hers. “Jake called me and told me you were coming. Naturally, he thought I would want to be in on this surprise for B.C.”

Uncertainty pulsed through her and a heavy scent fell upon her, like the kind one would smell when walking through the perfume part of a grocery store, after teenagers had been messing around. She coughed.

Suddenly, she was being taken, pulled onto the red carpet by B.C.’s mother. She put on a phony smile and posed for the cameras. “It’s a whole new world here,” she whispered to Kira through her fake smile. “I don’t know if you would fit in here, princess.”

Trying to smile and do what B.C.’s mother was doing, she felt like she had bricks for feet. “Where’s B.C.?” She asked, looking desperately for him.

His mother continued to yank on her arm. “Oh, he’s inside. Come with me.”

As they got closer to the entrance of the premier, there were more people and they started getting closer to her, pressing in on her and asking all kinds of questions.

B.C.’s mother would bat them away dramatically. “Leave room for my baby’s girl please.”

Tacky.

That’s what this whole show was to Kira and she could not wait to find B.C.

When they finally got through the door, B.C.’s mother was closer to her, keeping her in some kind of vice grip.

“Oh, look there’s B.C. with … the star from the movie, doesn’t Sheena look amazing!” She said like some teenager.

Sheena, his co-star, was draped around him, like some fur coat.

She stopped. It felt like she had taken a punch to her gut. All the air left her.

There he was on stage, quite a distance away from her. Kira felt ill and wondered what the heck she was doing here. B.C.’s mother laughed and kept pulling her down the red carpet, on their way to him.

Practicing slow breathing, Kira told herself she could last until she got to him. She could. She had to.

Everything happened so fast. She saw B.C.’s agent on stage with them. The agent whispered something into the woman’s ear and then she gave B.C. this look.

Kira saw the look on Sheena’s face and knew she was going to kiss him.

“B.C.!” She yelled out, wanting to get his attention, to warn him.

His head jerked, but it was too late. The woman’s lips were all over him before he saw Kira.

It made her stumble, to see him kissing another woman. Granted, yes, she’d seen it on the big screen before, but this felt so … disgusting now.

The audience went wild, people all around them were clapping and shouting out.

B.C. pulled away from the actress and someone shouted they needed a picture.

She could tell he was upset, but he held still for the pose.

Kira wasn’t moving forward any longer. She felt like her arm would break from his mother yanking on it and finally, she pushed the woman away. “I can’t do this.”

Devastated, sickened, and angry with the way she was feeling, she thought again, about the Hollywood lifestyle. “This isn’t for me.”

B.C.’s mother jerked her head back and laughed like she’d heard the funniest joke in the world.

Kira’s heart raced as she watched B.C. still posing. This couldn’t be her life. A tear fell down her cheek.

B.C.’s mother gave her cheek a little pat. “No, darling, you best head home. Driver’s waiting.”

Part of her wanted to call out to B.C. again, but the other part of her. The one who felt like Cinderella at the ball, turned and ran.