The Girl Who Knew Too Much by Tiffany Brooks

Author:Tiffany Brooks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2021-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

20

“Trouble in paradise?” Deb asked. She motioned me to sit on the log across from her. I took my time, going around the long way instead of stepping over it. Sitting for a one-on-one interview was really not ideal right now, not if I wanted to keep pretending everything was fine.

“This whole paradise is trouble,” I said after I’d sat down. “So yes, you could say that.”

“Whoa. For someone who just won a challenge, you’re in a pretty bad mood.”

“But that’s the way you want it, right?” I asked. “All of us feeling a little bit like we’re on the edge?”

“Is that what you think I want?”

“Don’t you?”

The air had gotten noticeably cooler, and a breeze was starting up. I wished I had a sweater.

I brought my knees up to my chest. “There’s been some speculation that the best outcome for you is one where we’re all rolling on the sand punching one another out and calling one another sluts,” I said.

“I’m not going to lie. That would be pretty great television,” Deb shot back. “Reality gold, as they say. It would certainly live up to our show’s title. Is a scenario like that in the works? Let me know when, and I’ll make sure our best crew is there to capture it.”

“Yeah, I’ll get right on that.” The camera light was shining on me, lighting up my face and every bit of my sour expression. I didn’t care. It actually felt good to be openly cranky.

“Whoa. Joking! Did your sense of humor fly back to San Francisco?”

I flinched. What a cruel trail of words: San Francisco led to Frisco, which led to Porter, which led to, what? Dumped? Ignored? Ditched? Nothing good at the moment, that was for sure.

“Porter asked me if I was running some story line with him. Where would he get that idea? It sounds like something you or someone on the crew would say. And he seemed to know about me. You said you wouldn’t tell.”

Deb was silent for a minute. From the team huts, I could hear Porter’s voice and Willa laughing. Not the most pleasant soundtrack.

“Let me ask you something, Riley. Put yourself in my shoes for a second, and look at what we’re doing here from my point of view.”

“What do you mean?”

“What do you think I want from you and the other players? If you were me, the producer of a television show, the very first one that you are getting executive producing credit for after many, many years working way down low on the ladder, what would you want?”

“I’d want the show to be good.”

“Obviously. And not just good: great. But specifically, what would you hope for so that the show turned out great?”

I thought for a second.

“Everyone to do what I say? I don’t know.”

“Nope,” Deb said. “Bad producers micromanage the story lines. The good ones let interactions unfold. Yes, you go into filming planning things out, mapping the bones, structuring some of the action, but the bottom line is that for a great show to come together, great things have to happen along the way.

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