Chapter 16 - She's F*cking Crazy!
Hunter's POV:
All staff is crowding the monitors area with unmatched curiosity. Even the firemen and medical staff has come in to see this as they’ve heard it all. George is sweating but acting his director part. We’ve got cameras inside the cars and outside, all the way for the scene.
“ACTION!” George gives the start with his right hand shaking, sitting on his chair.
I’m standing with my arms crossed, all tensed up, frowning with a bull stare, clenching my jawline at refusal. My breathing is fucked, and my heart is beating the shit out of me!
Don’t you fucking make a wrong move or I’LL FUCKING DIE WITH YOU! FUCK!
Both cars drive ahead with maximum speed, starting with a screeching sound of tires. George is streaming to Brenda, yeah. Lacey is speeding further to go in front, the other guy is playing the car as per scene to get her.
I’m seeing her face on the monitor. She’s like playing a game on a simulator. She’s smirking and she’s so damned relaxed. The other guy, though a pro at this, is so fucking tensed.
“First drift is approaching!” George has just made his cross on himself. “Please, God. Watch over her.”
The cars are playing among each other and it’s a tight spot. They need to be in line when the first drift occurs as they are racing around a mountain-like, and each drift is a layer upwards.
When she takes the drift, her car is at maximum speed, unlike the other guy, and the back of her car is in perfect diagonal to the mountain. She’s laughing like crazy.
“JESUS CHRIST! LACEY!” George.
“Man! I forgot how fun this is! Ha-ha! Good, kid. Keep the car steady, boy. That’s it.”
She’s fucking crazy! YOU’LL GET SO FUCKED! LIKE YOU’RE FUCKING ME RIGHT NOW, BABY!
I’m silent outside, watching everything like I said I am, but inside I’m undergoing death because of how worried I am. The one who was supposed to drive is jaw dropped and his director has just slapped the back of his head.
I would fucking kill him! It’s his fault!
To each drift there’s a cheerleading choir from everyone, just me and George are on the verge of having a heart attack. She’s fucking skilled and doing it like indeed it’s nothing to her. She’s waltzing the fucking car, but in a tango beat something. I can’t even think anymore. I’m just praying to God for her to finish this. When she’ll finish? I don’t know what I’m going to do, but for sure I won’t control myself. My heart is at explosion point.
“Shit…. Fifth and most dangerous one is approaching. I can’t watch this….” George is shit scared; I’m keeping appearances….
No, he’s watching as he must do it as the director. The entire footage is perfect. This scene, from how it’s coming, will be the highlight of the trailer. You don’t get to fucking see this, from how she’s driving the fucking car. Brenda was right, it’s nothing to her. The other driver is getting cold feet from his face for the next one.
DON’T YOU FUCKING LOSE IT, FUCKER! CONCENTRATE ON YOUR FUCKING CAR! She’s turning THE FUCKING CAR! JESUS CHRIST!
She’s turning the car before the drifting part on the highest peak so far, and it is so fast and so perfect, yet so fucking dangerous as her car is for a second on the edge of the road. She’s now with the gun out the window shooting, getting the drift at the same time, with the cars facing each other; she’s driving backwards in full speed.
George is screaming, jumping on his feet.
“MY GOD! MY GOD! SHE’S FUCKING CRAZY! SHE’S CRAZY! AND THIS IS THE MASTERPIECE IN MY ENTIRE FUCKING CAREER! NO FUCKING MISTAKE! NO ERROR! FROM FIRST TAKE! JESUS CHRIST!” Everyone is applauding and screaming in victory. My heart has skipped several beats….
They are moving the cars, in full speed, at the same time on the road, with her shooting the other car, with blank bullets of course. But this is going to enter in the history of cinema. This stunt is fucking impossible. But she made it real….
The other driver is also a good one as he’s hanging in there, dancing with her car on the road.
Now the cars are moving on opposite sides of the road, facing each other, simulating dodge of bullets, switching lanes for a few times, and the sixth drift is approaching.
My baby is still with the car driving backwards. She’s so fucking serious at face and controlling that car like she’s taming a lion at her feet. And yes, she’s in her stilettos…. The way she’s holding the gun and shooting…. It’s like she’s done it all her life.
These are the missing parts from her files…. It’s sealed because she’s an important person…. Who are you, baby? And what happened four years ago? It’s more than just your dad…. I can feel it. And Clinton. You said he’s like you, but you seem to have put him down in something…. These three months you barely went outside…. And when you did, you were fast about it, always watching your surroundings…. You’ve shut down your entire life back then. Never going outside even with Brenda. But she knows you for you…. Only lack of money for your dad fished you out from a monk life.
“WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO HER CAR?!” I’m asking the technicians as she’s having a red flash alert on her board.
They’re zooming in the board to see what that is, and the seventh drift is approaching which is as dangerous as the fifth!
“Fucking shit!” She’s saying in the car, seeing the alarm on the board.
“SHE’S HAVING A CRACK ON NITROGEN! GOD! STOP THE CAR!” The chief on their team yells and I’m now freaking out!
They’re calling her car through the audio for her to stop the car. The other driver is kept away from this to not lose it and provoke a deadly accident as their cars are an inch distance from each other.
“Madam! Stop the car! It’s the nitrogen! It seems broken! Flash the driver twice and he knows to stop the car at the same time!”
“SHUT UP AND KEEP ROLLING! I’VE GOT THIS! STOP SPEAKING TO ME RIGHT NOW! AND DON’T TELL THE KID TO FREAK OUT AND LOSE CONTROL OF HIS CAR! It’s not fucking first time I’m improvising out of nothing….”
George is on his knees praying but glued on the fucking monitors with his stare as we all are. The firemen and doctors are taking positions to intervene if it goes south.
“Georgie?! Ha-ha! You want Oscar, babe?! Here it goes, motherfucker! You owe it to me big time, son of a bitch!”
I don’t know what she has done with her left hand on the inside car’s panel under the board, but there has been a low explosion which makes the women on set scream in fright and she’s now FUCKING TURNING THE CAR AROUND BEFORE THE DRIFT!
LACEY!
THE CAR IS SPINNING TWICE THAN THE FUCKING SCRIPT AND THE OTHER CAR HAS STOPPED AS IT SUPPOSED TO! SHE’S STILL SPINNING WITH IT BUT KEEPING IT ON THE FUCKING ROAD TO MY FUCKING DEATH!
“FUCK! COME ON, YOU PIECE OF SHIT!”
George has passed out, receiving medical care and the second director is taking his place…. I’m muted and fucked….
“YEAH! Now we’re talking! Ha-ha! You don’t fuck with me, babe…. Oh yes…. I’m too old to get fucked on this….” She’s controlling the car and speeding to the last drift while I’m fucked and done!
I’m breathing with difficulty and I see some other women have passed out, too. THE ROAD IS TOO FUCKING TIGHT FOR THAT SHIT! AND THE CAR HAS SPINNED ON THAT TINY ROAD HAVING THE CAR ALMOST LAUNCHED OFF THE ROAD DOWN A FUCKING MOUNTAIN!
Everyone is breathing and applauding. The technicians are on their knees.
“Georgie? Hope you haven’t passed out, babe…. He, he, he….”
He did, baby. He fucking did…. BECAUSE OF THE CRAZY YOU! SHIT! MY FUCKING HEART!
She’s fucking amused, like nothing big happened. I’m raking my fingers through my fucking hair, between rage and scare for her. Oh yeah! SHE’S FUCKING KILLING ME!
The other driver has just come down to us, and she’s next to arrive.
OH! COME, BABY! COME! I’M DONE!
Yeah, everything is covered for the movie scene. She did an outstanding job, and this will be the movie of all action movies in the genre.
George has regained his conscience, but he’s still out, asking about Lacey. The second director tells him everything is under control and the scene is a masterpiece.
The initial driver is waiting for her car to come. He’s fucking pale. I don’t know how I fucking look, but I feel like I’ve died and came back.
“Wow! Never had such team player!” The other car’s guy is all smiley and blown away for what happened. “She’s amazing! And how she kept the car on the fucking road! Man!” He’s telling his director. “I would have lost it in her place for sure….”
She’s breaking the car in a drifting manner with a squeal of tires. Everyone is whistling and screaming in happiness at her. I’m inflamed….