Chapter 118 - Does Something Connect These Two?

Dominik blushed even more, not realizing that even in this old lady he was starting to induce a certain hunger. It was not an erotic desire, Janina Pasek was too smart and too mature for that. It was a desire to have something to do with this man, even if it was the same yoghurt for breakfast.

"Dominik, I know that you are going through a difficult stage right now and you have made a decision not to act in the movies anymore. Forgive me for saying something that upsets all people of a certain age, but you are still very young and may change your mind. I'm not saying that you made your decision rashly, but I know circumstances change in life and people make decisions that they hadn't planned before."

"I'm not angry and I understand," he replied warmly. "Yes, you are right. One day I may get a very interesting offer, or I will be so poor and desperate that I will take anything, but today, as it is now, I want to end the movie world. From now on."

"Are you going to completely give up public life and hide somewhere? What am I asking?" she laughed, "You're hiding all the time. Rather, I should ask, are you withdrawing completely and completely withdrawing your face from the media? If so, you shouldn't be shooting this ad. However, if you are not completely hiding, I still want you for my campaign."

Dominik was genuinely amazed. After all, if he withdraws from the film, he will lose popularity and...

"Why?" He asked.

"Dominik, you have extremely charming eyes. They are pure and shiny like jewels. Magic even. You also have a wonderful smile and you are very photogenic. You're short so you're not a model for catwalk, but you can be a photo model."

Mrs. Janina's statement surprised Dominik, who did not even try to hide it. The woman smiled sweetly at him. She was no longer a strict math teacher, but a nice tutor.

"I've been wanting a contract with you for a long time," continued Mrs. Pasek. "I saw you in every campaign we did, but Marek Marczak jealously guarded access to you. I'm not surprised, he wanted to have you exclusively, but I don't think he even told you that you are such a tasty morsel for so many industries."

"It's true, he didn't tell me," admitted Dominik, surprised.

Śliwiński trusted Marek in everything related to the development of his career and his private life, having no idea that Marek Marczak was actually blocking certain paths for him. Was he doing it for the sake of Dominik's career or for himself? It didn't matter now. Let the past remain in the past.

"Thank you. I admit you surprised me. You know what the acting community says about colleagues in commercials, so I think Marek could have protected me from this kind of situation. But now I am responsible for myself, so if you still want me to be in this ad, I would be happy to do so."

"Lovely, Dominik! Really wonderful! You don't have to worry about anything, I will prepare everything and set a date. Do you like a particular date particularly?"

"No," he said. "I have no specific plans for the coming months."

"No?" Mrs. Janka was surprised. "I thought this new Werner movie... Ah, right, you made the decision to pull out of the movie."

"Yes," he confirmed. "But something tells me that this Werner project can be greatly postponed in time ..."

***

Dominik let out a long yawn and propped his elbow on the kitchen table. He was tired, very tired. Since he had overcome his uncertainty about his physical relationship with Andrzej, they both wanted to make up for lost time, and when they went to bed together, they made love without restraint. Never in his life had Dominik been as happy and calm as he is now, which did not change the fact that he was seriously sleepy and battered, so much so that he did not even want to change from his bathrobe, even though it was almost eleven. He yawned again and rested his head against the table with his arms.

"I would make you coffee, but I have to find those damn papers," Nowicki's feverish voice came from the living room. "Haven't you seen them?"

"Which one?" He asked lazily without looking up.

"The ones in the green folder..."

Dominik thought for a moment. Yesterday, when they returned from the photo session to the yogurt advertisement, Andrzej had it in his hand. They started kissing right at the front door and when Andrzej hugged him, he no longer had them.

"Check by the dresser next to the hangers!"

"But I've already looked there ... Oh, never mind!"

Dominik smiled happily. For the first time in years, he was living with someone, and those little everyday troubles like lost documents and keys, those little things he could share with someone else, made him want nothing more at that moment.

Because who would really want more than to share life with the person you love and know that the feeling is one hundred percent mutual?

It wasn't always like that, he recalled with a smile. Although he has been living with Andrzej since August and they are already November, they have only recently become a couple. It took some drastic events for Andrzej to realize that he loves Dominik, but ever since that happened, Śliwiński was happy. Yes, they had temporary problems, but now they acted like newlyweds. If he could, the actor would stop time at this point.

"Hey, what are you doing here?"

Śliwiński raised his head. Andrzej is talking to someone? Yet the doorbell was not heard.

"I have something for Dominik."

Is that ... Marek? The actor looked up, listening carefully.

"I was just leaving ..."

"I know you don't like it when we talk without you, but don't be so jealous. I will also find time for you. My proposal is still valid.

"You would finely give up."

"Never. Not after what we've been through together."

What did they go through ... together? What are they talking about?

"Shut up at last. What do you want?"

"I said, I have something for Dominik. Script."

There was silence. Śliwiński tried to hear the tiniest sound coming from the living room. The last time he saw the two together, they were trying to tear each other's eyes, but now they talked like a pair of good friends or like people who share the same secret.

Has something happened between them?

"I'll be good. I promise."

The voice of Marek Marczak, his former manager and former lover, sounded as soft as if he were seducing one of his actresses. Why is he talking to Andrzej this way?

"Hold on. I will ask if he wants to see you."

"Sure."

Are they really… nice to each other?

"Dominik, listen" Nowicki appeared at the doorstep of the kitchen "Marczak came and wants to see you. He says he has a script."

"Script? I'm not going to be in movies anymore."

"I can tell him that, but you said yourself that you don't want to act because you don't like the proposals. Maybe it's worth checking what he brought?"

"You think so?" Suddenly Śliwiński felt a twinge in his heart.

"Yes. I don't want you to do something you don't want to do, but you are a really good actor. It would be a shame if you rejected the offer without reading it. Only I have to go and I don't know ..."

"Don't worry" Śliwiński smiled radiantly. Weird, he thought, but he didn't feel the way his expression was showing. "I'm already a big boy and Marek will not hurt me. Right, Marek?!"

"Right" Marczak appeared behind Nowicki and clapped him on the shoulder. "I wouldn't do that to either of you."

Andrzej let Marek touch him? Andrzej, who had murderous flashes in his eyes every time he saw Marczak, even when someone mentioned him?

Another twinge in the heart. Wait a minute, am I jealous? Do I really think that Andrzej, my Andrzej, could have slept with another man? Neeee ...

His hardly forced smile became natural. After all, Nowicki had never been interested in men, and had Dominik not seduced him, he would have still paid attention only to women. But on the other hand, if he was seduced by Dominik, it might as well have been someone else, and such Marek knew dozens of ways to wrap someone around his finger. Śliwiński already paved the way, broke the first resistance and showed his lover the pleasure of being with a man, so Marczak now had an easier task. Dominik awakened these passions in Nowicki, and then refused him sexual closeness, so maybe then ...

No! Whatever happened between the two (and something for sure), Andrzej did not betray him. Never!

"All right," he told them both, "I'll see what you brought. Just wait a second and I'll change."

He immediately ran upstairs. He didn't want to leave them alone any longer than was necessary. Of course there was nothing suspicious about them, but ...