Legends

The Girl of Another Name - Part 2

So, for each story, there will be three parts. Just FYI. They're short stories.

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It was decided that I would sing "Can't Help Falling in Love" for this film, not the other song about falling in love that they were originally wanted to be sung. I was having a hard time trying to convince them to not put that song in this film since it was supposed to come out in 1964, not in 1936! I was really changing some things while being here, and I had no idea what that would do to the future.

"Elvis, it looks as if you have a bad headache," Robert commented as we sat in his dressing room a couple mornings after I was put into the film. The restaurant scene was already filmed, and I already sung the song. It was done, and my mind was whirling up a storm.

I was sitting in the sofa in his dressing room, and I was rubbing my index finger and thumb over my temple. "This is changing history, you know. That song comes out way later, not now."

"Hey, I tried to tell them, too, that you would rather sing the original song for the film, but people were just so moved by you singing that song."

"I could've learned the other one. Now 'Can't Help Falling in Love' will be a classic, not a new song when I go home. Oh, well. Nothin' I can do now."

"Just don't stress too much about it. You've had a constant crease in your brow since Barbara rejected going out and having fun the other night. Try not to be so down about that, too. She's a busy woman, being an actress by day and a mother by night. Her time is completely occupied."

I recalled what she said to me after I asked her to come with us to have fun the other night. "It's not just the fact that she's busy. She said somethin' to me... I think it's real reason why she said 'no' to me. She has a crush on me, but she doesn't like that she does."

Robert gave me a quizzical look. "Crush? As in, you think she's interested in you?"

I saw the disappointment in his blue eyes. He clearly had something for her, it was obvious. Maybe she told him the same thing she told me, that she wasn't interested in romance right now. "Have you ever asked 'er on a date?"

He shook his head. "No, I've been too scared to. I think she knows that I'm interested, but... she's just an amazing woman. I feel a bit inferior to her."

"That's no reason to give up, you know. So, I take it that she's never mentioned to you why she doesn't want to go steady with someone."

He sat up in his seat, interested. "Why? Has she told you?"

"I'm askin' you. Has she?"

"Not to my face. What'd she tell you?"

He was smitten with her, but she didn't seem all that interested in him, and that was why she had never told him. Poor guy. Should I tell him this and make him feel worse? I never liked making people feel bad. "Well..."

"Out with it."

He was eager to know. "Fine. She said that she doesn't want to start up with any other guys after what she went through. She was divorced, so I can understand that."

Robert nodded in understanding as he let out a long sigh. "I figured. Well, there's no mistaking her interest in you, and that's why she pushed you away. She's never done that to me. You're a lucky man to have her interest."

I stared at him for a moment, and I tried to remember if Barb ever told me about her past husbands. Was Robert one of them? Not now, but later on? She did mention that she married a guy that she acted with in a film, but was it this one? And was it Robert who she married?