The Ruins by Mat Osman

Author:Mat Osman [Osman, Mat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912248728
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2020-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

There were lots of replies, at least half remonstrating with others for engaging with the troll, which just prolonged the discussion. People speculated on the thread’s author and Brandon got mentioned but plenty of others did too. As for the similarity between the tracks, there wasn’t much disagreement — they were basically the same tune, but without a timeline the most common response was “so what?” That was Rae’s take too.

“He’s just fucking with them — I bet he knocked that up over there. If he had any way of making money from Dillon I would have heard about it. It’s just one more little hand grenade thrown into the record he’s making. More publicity, more sympathy.”

“And the rest of it? The party? Did he make that up?”

“Not at all. I was there, just for a while. It was wild.”

“Is that where you met?”

“No. Well, yes but no. I saw him, briefly, but we didn’t really speak. I’d been at a party over in Malibu with a bunch of girls from the agency. Y’know, go, look pretty, pretend to be interested if some old guy talks to you about the movie business. We went for the free food.” She looked around her room. “I was so broke. We’d go to these things and take it in turns to fill our handbags with canapés. This time it was paté and those little rice balls and a half bottle of Champagne and everything. And I was thinking ‘all I want to do is get home, get my pyjamas on and eat paté in front of the TV’ but the girls were all going on about this party being thrown by this crazy English guy and he’s trashing the place and Flea and Johnny Depp were there yesterday. It was on the way home so what the hell.”

She jumped up and opened the fridge. “Now I really want one of those rice balls.” She returned with a plastic pack of carrot sticks.

“You could hear the party from a block away. The police kept coming by and shutting it down and then Bran would open up the doors again, put a record on and the next shift would arrive. So we wandered around, hoping to see Johnny Depp and watching people come out of the pool looking like Carrie because they’d coloured the water red somehow. And I was starving so I went upstairs to find somewhere to eat in peace and I went into a room and there was Bran watching the party below, though I didn’t know it was him then. I was totally embarrassed because I had this bag of fish-sticks and stuff, so I said hi and he said hi and I went and sat on the toilet and ate sushi.”

She nibbled on a carrot. She was looping the two tracks as she talked, one after another. If Brandon had faked his then he’d done a good job, you could hear the bones of the finished track in his acoustic version.

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