Gena/Finn by Kat Helgeson Page B

departs hastily through rear door. A minute later, ZACK follows.]
    TF: Uhhh . . . Who wants to hear a story about Carl Casden driving a golf cart into a snack bar?

    Group Text
    Mallory: HOW DO YOU
KNOW TOBY!
    Sara: can you introduce us?
    Jen: OMG what just
happened?
    evie, are you okay?
    from: Finn Bartlett
to: Charlie Thomas
date: Thursday, June 10 3:16 PM
subject: Drama
You won’t believe what happened today. It’s insane.
We were at the Zack and Toby panel (where the stars talk about the show and acting and answer questions from the audience) and some girl asked what they’d be doing if they weren’t on Up Below, which led Toby into this tangent about Zack’s past acting jobs. You probably know he was the star of Man of the House when we were kids.
But then Toby pointed to the back of the room – I swear, I thought he was pointing at me – and goes, isn’t that Genny Goldman? And Evie jumped up like her chair was on fire and ran out of the room. I haven’t seen her since.
    from: Charlie Thomas
to: Finn Bartlett
date: Thursday, July 10 3:22 PM
subject: RE: Drama
Googled it. Genny Goldman played the little sister on Man of the House . Is this her?
    from: Finn Bartlett
to: Charlie Thomas
date: Thursday, July 10 5:34 PM
subject: RE: Drama
...holy shit.

    Text with Evie
    sorry I took off. mad?
    no. come back okay?
    have to tell you something.
    it’s okay, I already know.
    July 10, 8:20 pm
    want to skip the cocktail party?
    do we have to talk about it?
    not if you don’t want to
    okay
    come to my room
    on my way. love ya.

Genevieve: hey i’m home
    or, you know, the illustrious home of my aunt and uncle
    Finn: me too. not the illustrious aunt and uncle part.
    Genevieve: they have seven dogs
    like, i like dogs
    but there’s a time and a place
    and apparently they’ve decided that all the times and places are right here and right now.
    Finn: I see what you mean about illustriousness
    Genevieve: absolutely
    Sent at 11:05 PM on Tuesday
    Finn: So...you doing okay?
    Genevieve: yeah
    it’s so weird
    i mean i’ve gone to the same school for almost half my life
    being a child star was a big deal for like...three days, seven years ago
    Finn: he shouldn’t have called you out in front of the whole room like that
    Genevieve: at least it wasn’t zack
    Finn: that was sweet of him to go after you
    Genevieve: he’s always been nice
    i can tell you lots of stories now
    he took really good care of me. that was kind of a bad time in my life
    Finn: somewhere mal’s shitting herself. I saw her at checkout and she was SO PISSED not to know what’s going on
    Genevieve: ha! i’m sure she’ll figure it out.
    i don’t suppose you remember nina’s awkward write-off from man of the house
    Finn: I remember wondering why she wasn’t around anymore. I don’t think I ever saw the episode where they explained it
    Genevieve: it wasn’t even a whole episode, it was the five minutes before the first commercial break
    they said i went off to beauty school
    and zack had this line like “good thing, she needs it!”
    laugh track
    Finn: ...beauty school?
    Genevieve: right?
    Finn: you were like four
    Genevieve: nine, but exactly, makes total sense, right?
    anything for a cheap joke
    splendid writing on that show. makes up below look emmy worthy
    Finn: that’s shitty
    why’d you leave really?
    Genevieve: hallucinations. plus i stole scissors from wardrobe and cut all my hair off in the boys’ dressing room.
    no one wants that on set
    the crazy, not the chopped-off hair, though someone had to sweep that shit up. i think about that ALL the time.
there was a lot of cover up. it would have been really embarrassing for the show, my parents.
    Finn: that’s