Forever Glimmer Creek by Stacy Hackney

Author:Stacy Hackney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2020-04-07T00:00:00+00:00

Rosie didn’t move. Tingles rushed up her arms and legs. Her plan had actually worked. Her father was coming! Her father was coming in six days … to see a documentary that didn’t exist.

Yet.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

It was impossible to eat at a time like this. Rosie ignored the waffles Mama had left out on Monday morning. She still couldn’t believe her father was coming to Glimmer Creek. It was less than a week before she finally met the person she’d wanted to meet her entire life, and she couldn’t wait.

Although … Rosie wasn’t sure why Michael hadn’t e-mailed her himself. This was the very first time she’d contacted him, after all. He could have taken a few minutes to e-mail back. Still, he was coming to her premiere; that was the important thing. The bigger problem was figuring out a way to tell Mama. She imagined Mama’s face in extreme close-up when she saw Michael and Rosie together at the festival. Would her forehead furrow with worry, would her mouth fall open with betrayal and shock, or would her eyes look sad? Rosie shivered and shook the images from her mind. Right now she needed to concentrate on finishing the documentary. She would figure Mama out later.

Rosie opened her spiral notebook to the storyboard of scenes. Skimming the list of cutaways and interviews and live-action features she intended to do, she froze. For one second she worried she might throw up. It was worse than she thought. She didn’t have a single completed scene.

How was it possible for a one-girl film crew to be this far behind on production? Rosie had shot snippets of interviews with Mr. Waverman, Mr. Carson, and Mrs. Grant that maybe could work with a lot of cutting. Dr. Rhodes and Deputy Cordell had canceled their interviews, both claiming they weren’t sure a documentary about the Miracles was good for the town. Mrs. Dellarose and Mrs. Vickers refused to return her calls. Her demonstration scene with the Rodgers brothers had ended in a fistfight, and her reenactment was a total disaster. She hadn’t even started editing yet because there was nothing to edit.

If that wasn’t bad enough, the entire point of the documentary was to prove what caused the Miracles, but she still didn’t have a single clue how to do that. Cam’s words about the Miracles—they were only based on luck—kept running through her head during every interview. What if she was right? Rosie’s arms itched as if covered in poison ivy. Keeping all this bottled up inside was enough to make her explode.

The hands on the kitchen clock clicked to eight, and Rosie propped her chin in her hands, trying to think. It was almost time to leave for school. An entire day spent staring at a blackboard was the exact opposite of what she needed. She had to interview Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Moore, refilm the Rodgers brothers, and come up with another live-action sequence. She wanted more time, period, and there was no one to help.

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