The Paradise Box Set by Leslie Pike

Author:Leslie Pike [Pike, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

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Day one of my intended sobriety, and I’m working hard to patch the holes in my dyke. Now it’s Steven I have to convince to give me another chance. He’s not going to fire me this close to wrapping the film, but he could influence my career going forward. All he’d have to do is tell the truth. And now I’m standing at his trailer’s door, hoping to persuade him not to do that. I knock.

“Come in,” I hear him say.

I walk in to find him sitting at the table, the script and the latest revisions spread out in front of him.

“Sit down, Finn.”

“First of all, I want to apologize for today. It’ll never happen again.”

He looks me in the eyes.

“I hope not, but your assurances don’t hold much weight. We’re almost finished filming, so just please stay sober while you’re at work. This is my chance at directing, and I’d like it if you don’t fuck it up for me. Don’t bring me down with you. What you do on your off hours is not my business. Bliss is one of your biggest supporters, and that’s saying something, after what she went through with you. She asked me to be respectful of you when I say, get your fucking shit together. So there. I didn’t say everything I want to.”

I can’t blame him for not giving two shits about me. He probably wonders what Bliss saw in me in the first place. I could tell him, but that wouldn’t help my case.

“I’m sure anything I tell you now won’t ease your mind. So I’ll just say I’m serious about quitting. And Steven, I’d feel bad if this is how it ended between us. I want to get back to the relationship we had before I fucked things up,” I say.

“That would be great. But it’s all just talk, before it isn’t. Is there any way we can help you? Are you planning on going to AA?” he says.

“I am. I will be anyway. I’m hoping to start tonight. Either way, the drinking is done.”

“Good. I hope that’s true, for both our benefits. Now let’s talk about this afternoon’s scenes.” We’ve still got a half day of light.”

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