13 Double Disaster - My Sister the Vampire by Sienna Mercer

Author:Sienna Mercer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781780312767
Publisher: Egmont Books Ltd
Published: 2013-06-02T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

‘Aaaaand cut!’

Olivia’s shoulders slumped with relief as the cameras stopped recording. She could barely breathe. How did real Victorian women wear corsets every day without suffocating?

But wearing corsets all the time still couldn’t have been more annoying for Victorian girls than Olivia’s afternoon had been for her – thirty-seven takes of walking into a room and gasping, followed by twenty-two takes of her looking out of a window ‘wistfully’.

At this rate, I may graduate from college before we finish this film!

‘And with that, we are wrapped tight and cosy for today!’ Jacob Harker bellowed – even though calling an end to the day’s filming should have been Tom the director’s job. ‘Out-race dawn to the set tomorrow, folks.’

I assume he just means ‘bright and early’, Olivia thought as she made her way off the set towards her trailer as quickly as she could. Unfortunately, that wasn’t very quick. Her burgundy silk dress might have been drop-dead gorgeous, but between her fluffy bell-shaped skirt and tight ankle-length petticoat, walking was suddenly a serious challenge.

And tomorrow I have to somehow dance in this outfit! She let out a groan. How is that supposed to happen?

As she walked through the maze of production trucks and trailers parked outside the posh mansion where they had been filming, Olivia spotted Jackson standing with his back to her outside one of the trailers. He was dressed in his ‘poor’ Victorian costume, flipping through a script, and his shoulders were hunched.

Olivia frowned. Was he just concentrating hard? Or was he nervous? That’s so unlike him. She hesitated, looking at his hunched shoulders. Could he be nervous because of us?

Their afternoon in London had been wonderful, but things had turned awkward again as soon as they’d started filming yesterday. Then again . . . Olivia sighed. They were playing people who were supposed to be in love with each other! For a real-life ex-couple, that was a tense situation to be in. How could they not feel awkward in this situation?

Maybe if she could lighten things up somehow . . .

All of a sudden, as Olivia stared at Jackson’s back, she felt an overwhelming urge to sneak up behind him, cover his eyes and say, ‘Guess who?’

Don’t be ridiculous! she told herself. Why would anyone, in the history of anything, ever think that was a good idea?

She turned away, shaking her head, then stopped. Because really . . .

She’d seen it in so many movies that it was actually kind of traditional, wasn’t it? Especially on a movie set! And even if it wasn’t . . . I have to do something to break this tension between us!

Finally making a decision, she crept up behind him. Her big skirt rustled as she moved, but Jackson was studying his script too intensely to notice, even when she was less than a foot behind him. She stood up on tiptoe to reach out and cover his eyes . . .

Oh no! Her feet were tangled in her tight chemise. Olivia lurched forward, hopelessly off-balance .

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