Extra Credit #22 by Melissa J. Morgan

Author:Melissa J. Morgan [Morgan, Melissa J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2012-06-01T08:51:02+00:00

chapter NINE

Brynn sat on the edge of the fountain in the college quad, scanning the movie section of a paper she’d borrowed from one of the PAs.

Several drops of water splashed onto the page. Raining? It had been sunny—

No, not raining, Brynn realized. Chace had flicked some water at her. He and Sarah were standing next to her, smiling.

“Great, you’re here.” Brynn stood up. “The schedule was changed again today. They still need us, but not for two hours. We can just make it to the next showing of Danger Girl if we leave right now. It’s playing at the theater a couple blocks away. Remember how you were saying we should check out the technique of some extras?” she asked Chace.

“Hey, PA Dude,” Chace called to a guy standing a few feet away wearing a headset.

“Hey, Smooth Move Dude,” the PA called back.

“What’s the latest on the schedule?” Chace asked.

“We don’t need you guys here until five for wardrobe!” He waved and headed toward the coffee tent.

Didn’t he trust me? The thought slithered through Brynn’s mind. Is that because he lied to Lowell about the schedule change yesterday, so he suspects everyone else of lying as well?

Brynn tried to exterminate the thought. She had no proof against Chace. Things could have gone down exactly the way he said they had, with a PA making a mistake and Chace finding out the correct information when he came back to the set for his backpack. And Chace could have told the AD just because it was definitely something the AD needed to know. And the AD could have decided to put Chace in the scene just because Chace was handy. Everything could have happened exactly the way Chace said it had.

Her stomach twisted itself into a knot of protest. Brynn ignored it. “So, what do you say?” she asked Sarah and Chace. “The movie lets out at 4:50. If we hurry, we can make it back here right on time.”

Sarah and Chace exchanged a glance. One of those glances that contains a whole private conversation.

“Problem?” Brynn asked.

“Um, Brynn, Chace and I just went to see Danger Girl. We came here right from the theater,” Sarah admitted.

Oh, so that’s what the eye conversation was about. Brynn thought all three of them had talked about going to a movie together. Somehow three had ended up as two, without Brynn in the loop.

Sarah grabbed the paper. “Maybe there’s something else we can all go see now. I’m totally up for a double feature.”

“I checked before, and that’s the only theater close enough to walk to,” Chace said. “And it’s old-school—one movie only, not a multiplex. But you should go, Brynn. You’d really like it. There was this one scene where—No, I’m not even going to tell you. It would spoil it. Sarah and I will grab a slice of pizza or something, and then we can all meet up back here.”

Where you’ll expect me to be holding your places in the wardrobe line as usual, Brynn thought.

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