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performance? It sounded callous. He retyped.
    Les and I thought you were really great.
    Now he sounded like an overeager teenager.
    Les and I both thought you would be a great fit for the Newport project.
    Better. That was less agog schoolboy and more mildly approving and professional.
    We don’t have any contact information for you other than e-mail, so my phone number is 970-555-6054. If you could give me a call as soon as possible, we were hoping to go over the details for transportation and how the shoot is going to work once we get into Newport in four days.
    Hope to talk to you soon,
    Noah
    Now he would just have to wait for Evan to get in touch with him. He walked back into the kitchen to go down the rest of the contact list for the guys. There was still a lot of work to do that day, including shot lists and scene layouts.
    The guys had been provided with an acts list during their interview. A few of the guys had said they were willing to do almost anything, and some of them had taken the list home to look it over. All the guys with the exception of Evan were seasoned and knew the ins and outs of the business. He hoped everything would go smoothly once they were at the house.

Chapter 5

     
     
    E VAN woke to the sound of the door on the unit next to his slamming. A few moments later, the sound of a car with no tailpipe vibrated the walls of his tiny room. He couldn’t wait to get out of here. It had only been three nights and he had already had more than enough of this transient lifestyle to last forever.
    Four more days and he would be out of the crappy hotel with the peeling wallpaper and filthy carpets. Four more days of greasy takeout food and ramen noodles. Four more days of listening to people having sex through the paper-thin walls. Scratch that. He had no idea if he would be able to hear people having sex at the house. He thought it was pretty likely. Did porn stars have sex with one another after the camera stopped rolling? Evan wasn’t sure. He guessed he would find out soon enough, though.
    The fluttering in his stomach started again when he thought about what would happen a few short days from now. He hadn’t been able to think of much else lately, and hoped beyond hope that Noah would be the one he would do his first scene with. The prospect of getting naked again on camera was a bit unnerving, but at least he felt like he knew Noah. He didn’t even know any of the other guys’ names.
    Noah had said there would be seven of them altogether. He wondered who the other guys were. Then he had a frightening thought. He wasn’t expected to have sex with all of them, right? He remembered the interview and that Noah and Les had told him he didn’t have to do anything he wasn’t totally comfortable with. Would he be comfortable having sex with six different guys in the span of a week?
    There weren’t many eighteen-year-old virgins left in the country. He was a member of an endangered species, but that was about to be quickly remedied. He had given a lot of thought to what he would be willing to do. He hoped he would be able to go through with actual sex. The mechanics of it seemed a bit scary, but the more videos he watched, the more intrigued he became with the whole idea. When he pictured it in his mind, it was Noah fucking him, not the other way around.
    Ignoring the niggling feeling that he should be analyzing his reactions a little more closely than he had, he once again decided that ignorance was bliss and chose not to examine the new fantasy.
    Everything was ready to go and now it was just a matter of passing the time. He had gone to the clinic the day after the interview. Evan had never been to a clinic before. There had never been a reason to get tested. It was different than he thought it would be. He imagined a seedy building in a bad area of town, with a waiting room full of drug users and prostitutes who sat until a cranky woman behind a desk called them into the back room.
    Instead the