SF Chapter 190: Daily life
The day after the Oscar ceremony, Dani was having breakfast with the three girls.
Prudence poured herself some more coffee. "Dani, now that I'm actually going to live here, are there any rules?"
But before he could reply, she lightly tapped herself on the head. "Oh, who am I asking..." she corrected her 'mistake.' "Obviously, I should ask the wife."
She turned her head. "Lexi, are there any rules here?"
Mischa laughed while Lexi just stared at her, unfazed.
"Or his second wife," Mischa added, remembering Natalie.
"I'm so lucky," Dani grinned, obviously completely okay with the joke. "And you're right, Prudence. Lexi is the only one who can keep things in order around here."
"You're not better than me and Mischa's even worse."
"Heyy! No way I'm worse than you two!" Mischa totally disagreed.
Lexi took a sip of her coffee. "Jokes aside, we don't really have many rules here. If there's a problem, we talk to each other. And most problems Dani solves with money..."
Dani raised a finger. "That's my motto in life. If it can be solved with money, and I can more than afford the price, it's not a problem."
"And there's only one absolute rule in this house: keep Dani happy!" he declared.
"That's something I'm very good at doing!" Prudence winked at him.
Then his phone rang. "Oh, speaking of making me happy. The car is already coming today."
"What car?" Lexi stared at him oddly.
"Lexi, you actresses have those people who do that method acting thing. Living like the character. I won't do that, but I bought an old red Camaro to help me come up with ideas for Transformers!"
Lexi rolled her eyes. "Just say you wanted to buy another car..."
"When did you do that?" Mischa frowned.
"A few minutes ago. I just texted Alice, who works at H&P: 'I need an old red Camaro in perfect condition,'" he revealed.
"Voilà! Problem solved. In a few hours, a Camaro will be sitting in the garage."
"Oh," Dani remembered something else. "Hilary is coming over later. For the Paranormal and The Climb negotiations."
"Have fun," Lexi remarked, "but not too much fun," she soon added, knowing how he liked to tease the goody-goody girl.
"Mischa," she called to her friend, "we need to leave soon so we won't be late."
Mischa nodded.
[Mischa commentary]
"I think Lexi really influenced me positively when it comes to being professional: always being on time, knowing my lines, treating everyone well... just being someone people can rely on." Mischa commented.
"Which should be the bare minimum... but sometimes that's not what we see in Hollywood - especially with stars."
[Commentary ends]
The two girls gave Dani a kiss and left for work.
"Prudence," Dani called to her.
She tilted her head. "Hmm? What is it, Dani?"
"I had one of the rooms converted into a mini professional recording studio," he revealed. "You can use it to your heart's content!"
She looked surprised. "What? When did you do that?"
Back in January, the last time she'd been here, there hadn't been anything like that.
"I had them start working on it after the Super Bowl. They finished it last week," Dani said nonchalantly.
"You want to be a singer, and I like singing too. Even if you hadn't actually come to live here, it still would've been handy!"
Prudence walked over to him and jumped into his arms, wrapping her legs around his waist.
After giving him a passionate kiss, she whispered, "Do you have enough energy for a quickie?"
"My answer will always be yes to you!" he proclaimed.
"Besides, you've had a girlfriend. I have empirical evidence that Little Danny isn't mandatory. There's no way I can't do better than her!"
Prudence just laughed and kissed him again.
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Sometime later, Prudence was practicing in the studio while Dani worked on his scripts.
[Daniel commentary]
"I'm working on three scripts right now. I'll leave the books for later," Dani commented on his current work.
He went on. "I'm only going to start Transformers once all the deals have been finalized."
"About the car... even if the deal doesn't happen, a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 is a cool car to have!"
Dani went back to the scripts. "Percy is the easiest script for me. Adapting my own book just feels ridiculously easy - I can finish it in a few days!"
"Mamma Mia!, on the other hand, is a pain in the ass - adapting it is way harder than I thought. And we had to pay good money for the adaptation rights!"
"Pitch Perfect is coming along nicely. I just have a little more to do before I reach the end. Also, I need to write some original songs, while the studio negotiates the rights to some famous songs for us to use."
"So yes, I've started working four hours a day now! Jesus!" He made a face. "A 33.3% increase in work!"
If Lexi heard that, she would contest the so-called extra hour.
[Commentary ends]
Then the doorbell rang, and Dani went to answer it.
"Beer Girl–" he started, but stopped. "Huh?"
"This is my older sister, Haylie Duff," Hilary introduced the blonde standing beside her.
"Nice to meet you. Dani Harper." He shook her hand and gestured for them to come inside. "Make yourselves at home."
While the two of them did so, admiring the house as they went, Dani hugged the third blonde. "Mandy, miss me already?"
"Not really," she said playfully.
But then Dani whispered, "Aren't you really close to Lindsay? Are you playing for both teams?"
Amanda pinched him. "I like Hilary. And Lindsay is one of my best friends. I'm not playing for either team - that's their problem."
"And it was your girlfriend who invited me here," she revealed.
Dani raised an eyebrow but shrugged it off. He did the honors and showed the Duff sisters around the house.
Prudence soon joined them, and they gathered in the living room, with Prudence sitting at the piano and Dani beside her.
"Let me sing first, then you can do it, Hilary," he said, and started.
♫♪I can almost see it
That dream I'm dreaming, but
There's a voice inside my head saying
You'll never reach it
Every step I'm taking
Every move I make feels lost, with no direction ♫♪
♫♪... ♫♪
He sang the entire song.
The Duff sisters were very surprised.
Amanda was too, but she soon teased him. "Aww, Dani. Aww, that was so cute!"
"Awww," she mocked, putting a hand over her heart before bursting out laughing.
"Come over here, Mandy." He immediately went after her.
Amanda ran, but he quickly caught up with her and started tickling her.
"Stop it, Dani," she said, lightly slapping his arm.
"Nope," he continued. "Apologize!"
They kept at it for a while longer, even ending up on the floor. "Stop, stop, Daniii," Amanda was laughing, but now because of his tickling.
They eventually returned to the other three.
Amanda straightened her clothes. "See? Now Hilary's sister is going to get the wrong idea about us. Like something happened between us."
"I wish!" Dani exclaimed.
He looked at Haylie Duff.
"Nothing happened between Amanda Seyfried and me. Not even a kiss!" Dani spoke as if he were being interrogated.
"And I want to put it on record that this happened exclusively due to her stubbornness and pettiness!"
Amanda just rolled her eyes.
"Well, when I wanted you to, you treated me like a dude," she provoked.
Obviously, that was a lie. Not that she didn't think of him that way, but she would never do that during the film's production.
He ignored her since he received a message in his phone. "Oh, look at that! I've found a way to see my wife again!"
Prudence hugged him. "That's nice. I had a great idea - why don't you write a song for her?"
Meanwhile, Haylie where staring at her sister, because of all the madness that just happened.
"Girlfriend, wife, suspicious friendship," she started listing.
Hilary looked a bit awkward. "I told you he's the weirdest friend I have..."
"But the song is pretty good..." she tried to point out the good stuff.
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