Fade In : A Tales of Bryant Novella #1 (Tales of Bryant Novellas) by V.L. Locey

Author:V.L. Locey [Locey, V.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-19T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

It was easy to avoid most everyone for the rest of the day. It might not have been wise, but I’d always been a man who pulled his worries inward. My mother used to say she knew when I’d had a bad day because I was eerily quiet. Guess Mom had been right about that as well as how I tended to make really bad choices. Or had that been Dad spouting off about choices? Did it matter? No, not in the least. I’d spent the day saying perhaps ten words to other human beings, and that included waiting on customers. They got a grunt in greeting, my edginess spurring Lou to make me stay in the back for the rest of my shift. It was even easier to not be sociable on the set. Things were two levels above the usual chaos. Time was running short, and we were behind on the production schedule. I’d spied Caiden having a heated discussion with a woman who, I suspected, was Don Diamond’s agent.

I lingered in the shadows, doing odd jobs, following the key grip that worked for Caiden around, trying to absorb what my job with Muffin Top would be like as my mind kept playing scenes from Philadelphia on a steady loop. Worry hung off me like a wet wool cloak. What if he was positive? What would I do? Die. I would die, here in the city, all alone.

My macabre thoughts were my only companion. I shied from talking to the others on the set, nodding dully when something was said to me, and I kept a wide berth from Caiden. Maybe it was lucky that he was so involved with the movie. It kept him from seeking me out. I spent a few hours getting an elevated camera secured to a skateboard dolly, which was simply a long stretch of rails and a wheeled cart. We use them to ensure smooth horizontal camera movement.

Once the lighting and cameras were ready, I stood at the back of the hundred or so workers and extras and two hellhounds who would charge into the scene when directed by the animal wrangler. This scene tonight was a dramatic one where Don confronts the knowledge that the man he loves has turned him into an undead bloodsucker. Lots of shouting to the skies and beating on the chest. Don, amazingly, fucking nailed it on the first take. Even the damn dogs raced in and laid down beside their new master in a perfectly choreographed moment of pure hellhound love. Everyone standing around applauded the moment. Don wiped at the tears rolling down his cheeks then bowed as if he were on stage.

“And that’s that. Now we clean all this shit up,” Wally wearily said as he left me to dismantle the trolley and track. Everything was loaded into vans and taken back to Budgie in the Dell until we’d haul them back for the final shoot tomorrow night. It was a huge pain in the ass but that was the downside of location filming.

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