Now a Major Motion Picture by Cory McCarthy

Author:Cory McCarthy [McCarthy, Cory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2017-12-17T22:00:00+00:00

IRIS & RYDER

Film: Elementia

Director: Cate Collins

On Location: Day 6

Killykeen Forest Park, Ireland

Filming Notes:

Magic hour shoot—NOLAN and SEVYN’s first scene together.

DOWNWARD DOG AND OTHER MISERIES

I woke up early the next morning, finally over my jet lag. Laundry was strewn all over the trailer, and Ryder had taped up our film sides like a record of our attendance. I fixed his copy of the Elementia trilogy and placed it beside him. He was sleeping like a baby angel, and I had to get out of there before he woke up.

Because then I’d have to tell him I’d choked.

I threw on my running clothes and went for a jog beside the lake. The sun came up with a dazzle of yellow light, the water sparkling and reminding me of Shoshanna and Eamon giggling like flirt monsters on that rowboat. I tried to listen to some raging Florence, but I wasn’t feeling it. Vance Joy hit the spot instead, his moody Australian voice highlighting how much I wasn’t looking forward to this day. “Fire and Flood” cut off as my phone started ringing. My dad’s picture filled the screen, the image true to life: him scowling at his laptop.

I swear I could sense how mad he was on the other side of the Atlantic. The credit card. Definitely one for voice mail. I stood there for four minutes, waiting for the message notification. When my phone buzzed, dread came with it. I hit play.

“I got a call from Visa to verify a one thousand euro purchase at a recording studio in Dublin? You better explain fast, although I can’t imagine a viable excuse. This is coming out of your allowance.” There was an audible sigh-pause. “I know you’re mad I’m not coming to take over with Ryder, but if you pull any more of this Jaded Iris crap, I’ll cut off the card.”

The message ended, and I screamed, “You probably forgot that much money in your dinner jacket, you cheap jerk!”

My voice echoed around the lake, and in the quiet aftermath, someone cleared their throat. Shoshanna was doing yoga on a mat barely a stone’s throw away. I’d been seriously out of it not to notice her.

“So,” she said, balanced in warrior two. “Things aren’t going well for you either?”

I scowled. Did she have any idea how much her gorgeous, superior presence was trashing my feelings for Eamon? “Why are you doing yoga out in the open?” I snapped. “Aren’t you worried creepers might be watching you? Anyone could walk by.”

“Maybe I was hoping someone would walk by,” she said. In my silence, she added, “Not you, Iris. But if you’re going to stand there, you might as well join me.”

I dropped into downward dog beside her, wondering if Cate had put her up to this. Bonding exercises, Julian had called it. I followed her sun salutation; it was different than the one I did in gym, but similar enough that I didn’t seem like a total elephant doing karate.

“That was my dad,” I finally said when I couldn’t stand the silence.

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