"Come here," his voice is gentle again.
She gives in, placing her small hand in his. Lifting the cloth, he sees her blood spill out from her palm. He inhales sharply through his teeth and presses the rag back down. They sit there like that for abo...
Sandra leaps over the final three steps of her stairs as she makes her way down to the kitchen. Her cheeks are filled with color after a run on the treadmill. She pulls her refrigerator door open to retrieve a pitcher of water with lemon slices floating amongst the ice. As she pours herself a tall glass, she can taste salt from a drizzle of sweat making its way down her upper lip. She wipes her mouth with the back of her hand, then twists the lid of the pitcher closed. Her chest is still heaving with heavy breath as she guzzles the entire glass in mere seconds, replenishing the fluids she lost while running.
"Sandy! Get in here, quick! Keanu's on Entertainment Tonight!" Gesine calls out from the living room.
She pours herself another glass of water before returning the pitcher to the fridge. Carrying the glass into the living room, she joins Gesine on the couch.
There he is, sitting in the warehouse dressed as Jack Traven and discussing their project. Seeing his promotional interview makes it all feel so real. She can hardly contain her excitement about her work.
*"You're introduced to, uh, Jack Traven and Harry Temple. I'm Jack Traven, and, uh, Jeff Daniels is playing Harry Temple and Herb MacMahon, who's Joe Morton. He's the lieutenant of the SWAT team and we come into the building, et cetera et cetera, and uh, you know, we try to get the people off the elevator."
Sandra turns to Gesine. "Omigod, did I tell you they actually filmed up this chick's skirt for that?" Gesine rolls her eyes at the cliché as Sandra continues, "No, for real. It was dumb. There's a bunch of hostages they hafta get off the elevator and how can you do that without pushing her pencil skirt all the way up to her bare ass, am I right? And she just moves along like that's just what happens to us every day."
"I mean, kind of it does." Gesine replies dryly.
"Fair," she shrugs.
Keanu moves on to Dennis Hopper.*"Great fun! He's really great. He's clever."
"They worked together on River's Edge, too. We should rent that, have you seen it?" Sandra asks her sister, taking another sip of water.
The journalist moves on. "Tell me about your love interest, Sandra Bullock."
Gesine drove her knuckles into Sandra's arm, who pushes her fist away and yells, "She really knows how to drive the bus! Born to drive it!"
"I'm madly in love with her!" Gesine tosses out. "She'll have my babies one day!"
Sandra turns to face her sister. "Well, you know, they all are. They can't help it. Happens everywhere I go," she jokes. "Really embarrassing for them."
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*"Ahh, she's a beautiful lady."
Sandra's eyes dart to the side, unsure if she heard correctly.
"Oooooooooh," Gesine cries out in a playground tone.
*"Yeah," he pauses before quietly repeating himself, "yeah, very beautiful. Giving. And, um..."
