No Place Like You by Emma Douglas

Author:Emma Douglas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

chapter eleven

Leah watched Eli and Zach laughing in the recording booth and tried not to grit her teeth. The two of them had been horsing around for nearly ten minutes, since Zach had finished his first run-through of “Air and Breath” and Eli had left the board, supposedly to talk to Zach about the setup. Instead they’d been trading inside jokes like a pair of fourteen-year-olds, leaving Leah twiddling her thumbs at the board, awaiting instructions.

After the last week with Zach, knowing the producer’s seat was all hers, for some reason, sitting meekly at the soundboard now, waiting for Eli to call the shots, wasn’t sitting well.

She leaned forward and pressed the intercom button. “You guys about ready? We only have two days here.” The studio was becoming busier in the lead-up to CloudFest. Every year some of the acts performing at the festival decided to try out the studio Blacklight had made famous. They’d come for a few days, then release a version of an old song—or a whole new song—recorded on the island to go with their appearance. She’d managed to block out chunks of time here and there in the schedule for her and Zach to keep working over the next six weeks or so, but this was going to be the longest continuous block they’d have for some time. And it was Eli who was getting to use it instead of her.

Eli turned to face her. “Hang on a second,” he said, and then leaned in and said something to Zach too low for Leah to catch. Zach laughed in response and Eli turned back to face the booth window. “Okay, got it. I’m going to change the set up in here a little.” He started to reel off a list of gear he wanted.

Leah’s jaw tightened again. Zach was using the same guitar he’d been using for the songs she’d worked on with him. The studio was perfectly set up for it.

“Got that?” Eli said.

“Yes.” She turned the intercom off. Neither Zach nor Eli had made any move to leave the booth. So apparently she was the one who was expected to go get all the stuff Eli wanted.

Normally that wouldn’t bother her. After all, it was part of her job. But Zach and Eli both knew the Harper studio well. They’d spent chunks of their childhood here just as she had. They knew where the damn storage cabinets were.

But they don’t know how everything is organized. She tried to push down her irritation as she walked into the gear room and started pulling things out of cabinets, working methodically. She might be irritated, but there was no point taking it out on expensive equipment. She lifted out the last mic and then made herself take three deep breaths, still feeling twitchy. Stupid, really. She’d known that Eli was going to be at the studio eventually. Zach hadn’t pretended otherwise. He’d told her from the beginning he still wanted Eli to work on a couple of songs.

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