The One With the Balloons for Jennifer Lawrence

Date: 10/15/2023

I’m at a party at night with a big group of girls and Brody. At some point, Bethany Williams comes out of a room looking like she’s been crying. She tells me that one of the girls here just miscarried in the bathroom and that she wants to get all the girls together to talk to her. She puts her hands over her face and I hear her say, “It’s just so horrible.” I start to feel a little sick. I’m the last one to walk into the room and see everyone hugging the girl. When she gets to me and the girl who came in before me, she doesn’t get up and I figure this is because we don’t really know each other. I want to say something to her, but I don’t know how … I’m in a room full of people setting up for some kind of party. There are hundreds of balloons — some normal, some half-deflated, and some completely popped — hanging around the perimeter of the room. People are frantically trying to decide what to do when I hear Brody — doing that high-pitched, loud voice he does when he’s being goofy — directing everything. I suddenly remember that this is my own baby shower. I start to get hot. I walk into a corner where Jake and Jeremy Lampinen are and take off my denim jacket so that I’m just wearing the orange dress I borrowed from Renee (in real life). I try to keep my armpits down, because (in real life) I haven’t been able to shave one of them because of the weird breakout I’ve been having in it. I keep sweating more and more, so I grab a paper plate and start to fan myself with it. It doesn’t seem to be working very well, which Jeremy points out as he takes the plate from me and starts to fan me himself. I find this sweet. I end up saying hi to someone at a table when Torrie Crytzer comes over to hug me. She grabs me tightly around the throat and nearly chokes me out … I’m helping produce a movie and want to ask Jennifer Lawrence to star in it. Because I don’t know how to get in touch with her, I get a bunch of helium balloons and tie a note to them. As I’m getting ready to release them, I wonder if it would be easier to just try to contact her through her agent. I vaguely wonder how I ever expected these balloons to make it to her … I’m telling someone about how Flex Seal really works because they think that the commercials are a scam.