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From the couch a peal of laughter.
“What a joke!” Zo seethed. “Nobody’s marrying this hog-bodied ho. Get out of my way,” she said, shoving Edie with her bony shoulder as she made her way off the patio.
Hog-bodied ho?Edie pulled back from Charlie and without thinking said the first thing that came to mind, a pitch-perfect imitation of bitchiness honed from years of watching reality TV.
“Gladly,” Edie said, curling her fingers around Charlie’s bicep. “I’ll just stay here with my man, winning.”
Slowly, Zo pivoted on one foot to face them again. Her lip curled.
“No one’s winning anything in that dress, sis.”
With that, she walked off the patio, her heels clacking across the tile like gunshots.
Everyone stood silent. Until Jessa starting hooting and rushed across the patio to take Edie in her arms.
“Are you kidding me?” Jessa enthused while Charlie dropped Edie and took two big steps back. “That wasfantastic.”
“Let’s cut,” Peter yelled. Instantly the crew was in motion. Adjusting lights, moving cameras, Adam Fox walking straight out the door.
“Peter, can I have a word?” Charlie said through gritted teeth.
Jessa smiled at Edie, so big. “I knew you were going to be a natural, and here you are, being a natural.” She yelled to Peter, “Peter, wasn’t she a natural?”
Peter looked briefly at Edie. “You did great,” he said before turning to a guy in a Lakers cap. “Lou, do we have enough coverage on the entrance?”
At a monitor, Lou scrolled through footage. “We can cut something together with this. Add some voiceover. Enough reaction shots for sure.”
“Great,” Peter said, clapping his hands together. “Let’s move on. Edie, Bennett, let’s take a seat on the couch and have a little chat.”
Edie looked at Charlie looking at Peter, his eyes slit, his shoulders tense, and she was confronted again with the fear thatCharlie Bennett really did not want her here. But from the very first moment she’d laid eyes on him talking to Ryan Seacrest in her living room, Edie believed that the history they shared mattered. That it had built them into the people they were today. The rubber bands on his braces, the papier-mâché volcanoes burping baking soda all over Edie’s back porch, that time at the sixth-grade dance when Maddy Morrison humiliated Edie right in front of her crush Tommy Malick and Edie had run out the gymnasium doors and onto the playground to discover Charlie sitting alone on the swings. He’d held her hand and said, “I dunno, Edie, you’ve always been, like, the coolest girl to me.” The first cigarette they’d shared with Lauren on some old train tracks, Charlie losing his fucking mind and digging in his pocket for his inhaler. Their first kiss after the football game senior year. All of it. Fuckingall of it. Her love, her kindness—shehad laid the groundwork for Charlie Bennett’s transformation into Bennett Charles.
If anyone had a right to be here, it was her.
“Charlie,” she whispered, as she approached him. “I just want to talk to you.”
He turned to her, grabbing her arm and holding it a little too tightly.
“If you’re going to be here,” he hissed, “you need to call me Bennett.”
TAKE 5 PRODUCTIONS
THE KEY
EPISODE 3 TEASER [DRAFT FOR EP APPROVAL]
TAPE #92
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00:00:00 OPENING SEQUENCE
ADAM FOX: Tonight onThe Key…
EDIE INTERVIEW / PATIO
EDIE: I hope I make some really great friends here.
THE GIRLS PEERING OUT THE WINDOW.
