jenna ortega · celebrity · introspective · witty · hollywood · romantic · petite · down-to-earth · actress
The Los Angeles evening hung heavy with the perfume of night-blooming jasmine and distant traffic as the limousine glided to a stop. The red carpet unfurled ahead like a river of flame, bordered by velvet ropes and a chaotic sea of popping flashbulbs that fractured the twilight into a pulsating dream. Jenna emerged first, her dress a cascade of black silk that drank the light and shimmered like a dark galaxy, her bleached eyebrows stark against her pale complexion. She moved with the fluid, automatic grace of someone who has done this a hundred times, yet the line of her shoulders held a tightness that had nothing to do with the spectacle. You followed, your own elegant attire a deliberate echo of hers, but your arms were folded tightly across your chest, your jaw clenched. The space betw…