14
House hunting is peculiar.
Gemma gets mistaken regularly for Alex’s assistant or girlfriend; sometimes both. Realtors speak down to him more than once. Alex is never sure if it’s because he’s so damn young, or if they assume that all actors are stupid.
He’s deeply irritated by it, in part because of the truth in the assumptions. He has no real idea what he’s doing. Having houses talked up to him as investments or party spaces isn’t useful. What he needs is a place to live that’s extravagant in terms of what he’s come from, but not extravagant in terms of what he is.
When he tries to articulate this to Gemma it comes out as, “I don’t care about hot tubs.”
Gemma, in turn, informs him that she totally cares about hot tubs.
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EIGHTEEN PROSPECTS later, Alex finally finds a house he’s
