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Next Time, Don't Bother Showing Up Chapter 10
The day before I left for North Ridge, I went back to campus to shoot the last batch of footage for the new project.The winter training field was nearly empty. The grass that had bleached white under the summer sun was deep green again. I set up the camera beside the bleachers where it had all begun. Lucas held the reflector and asked, "Saving a spot for anyone?"I knew he was joking. I finished adjusting the frame and shook my head with a smile. "I'm never saving a spot for anyone again."Halfway through the shoot, a small crowd gathered at the bulletin board. As I passed, I saw a notice confirming Claire's transfer to another campus. I heard she'd made new friends and stopped faking illnesses. Maybe she really had changed. Maybe no one enabled her anymore. I had no interest in finding out.Noah stayed at Bay State University. His name still appeared among my Story viewers now and then, but he never sent another message.The last time we saw each other was at the university's media e
Next Time, Don't Bother Showing Up Chapter 9
A month later, Twelve Days in My Own Frame won the Gold Award in the Campus Division at the National Student Short Film Competition. My exchange application to North Ridge Film Academy was approved too.The day the notification came, I called my father. He said "That's wonderful" three times, then quietly sniffled on the other end of the line."Did you choose this one yourself?""Yes.""Don't ever give up the path that's right for you for anyone else.""I won't."Lucas invited me to join a campus media documentary project about first-year students adjusting to college. After our first planning session, I walked out of the academic building and saw Noah again.He was holding a cardboard box. Inside were old hard drives from our high school photography club, hand-drawn storyboard notebooks, and the Polaroid camera I'd once given him."These are yours," he said."I already copied the shared footage from the drives. You don't need to return anything that belongs to you.""I'm not here to r
Next Time, Don't Bother Showing Up Chapter 8
At the closing ceremony, the university screened an excerpt from my film.When the big screen showed the sunrise on day twelve, the entire venue erupted in applause. The film club's faculty advisor announced on the spot that I would represent the university at the National Student Short Film Competition.Noah sat in the front row, eyes fixed on the screen the entire time. I didn't look at him.Next, the program coordinator read the completion list. The fourteen-day outdoor orientation was a required one-credit course for incoming students. Anyone who missed more than three sessions without valid medical documentation would receive no credit and have to repeat the program the following year.Claire's name appeared on the "Incomplete" list, with a note: eleven absences, eight without valid documentation.A low murmur rippled through the crowd. Claire shot to her feet. "This isn't fair! I was really sick every single time. Noah can vouch for me."Every pair of eyes landed on Noah. His fac
Next Time, Don't Bother Showing Up Chapter 7
Noah truly started to panic the day before the closing ceremony.I removed myself from the backend of the couple account we'd run together and moved every video I'd planned, shot, and edited since high school to my personal page. I changed my page's name from "Noah & Erin's Journal" to "Erin Bennett Films."He sent dozens of messages."Why didn't you ask me before changing the name?""Those old videos have me in them too. What gives you the right to move everything?""Erin, are you really cutting me out completely?"I replied once: "Videos we both appeared in are set to private. The original files, scripts, and copyright registrations for everything else are under my name."He didn't write back.That evening, Megan told me Noah had spent the entire night in his cabin going through our old videos. For the first time, he'd noticed that most of the popular ones credited only me for everything from concept through post-production. His idea of "running the account together" had really meant
Next Time, Don't Bother Showing Up Chapter 6
Claire soon published a long post.She said she'd been frail since childhood, that being away from home had triggered severe anxiety, and that she never imagined reaching out to a childhood friend would be twisted into something malicious. She said the filmmaker controlled the edit and was an expert at using selective footage to manipulate emotions. At the end, she attached multiple clinic photos and chat screenshots, tearfully claiming she was the victim of cyberbullying on campus.In the orientation group chat, some people took her side."She really did report sick. Erin's film doesn't name names, but the implication is pretty obvious.""Relationship issues should be handled privately. Putting it online for clicks isn't exactly classy.""Fifty thousand new followers overnight means ad revenue. Who's to say the whole thing wasn't scripted?"Noah didn't post anything publicly, but he texted me: "Take the film down for now. Once it blows over, I'll help you reshoot something new."Same
Next Time, Don't Bother Showing Up Chapter 5
That evening, I sat alone on the bleachers filming establishing shots. The lens swept across the white lines of the track, the camp flags rippling in the wind, the rows of water bottles, and the long shadows stretched across the grass.Lucas Grant walked over while I was swapping batteries. He was a junior and president of the film club, in charge of the campus media crew covering orientation."Your two-person plan's off?" he asked.I looked up. "How did you know?""You've listed a two-person setup on the request form eleven days straight. Every day there's one camera and one person on site. Today you reframed the shot around one person at center.""New format. From now on, it's a one-person setup."Lucas was quiet for a moment, then sat beside me. "Mind if I look at some of your footage? Campus media needs a closing film for orientation. I saw your high school track-meet coverage. You've got a real eye."I pulled up a few clips. After he watched the night-hike footage, he took off his
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