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“I know.” She turned to face the corner of the room where she knew Leo’s camera was hidden. She looked directly into the lens, and for the first time in three years, she spoke to him. Not to the microphone, not to the future audience, but to the man behind the machine.

“Then let’s make a documentary,” he said.

He held up the phone. Leo zoomed in with his camera. On the tiny screen, Haze’s Instagram story was a black-and-white photo of Kira, maybe nineteen, crying in a studio booth. The caption, in elegant serif font, read: The Diamond is a fraud. Her new album was written by ghosts. I have the receipts. -GirlsDoPorn- 18 Years Old - E320 -27.06.15-

He raised his own phone, the one with the audio file, and held it up to the camera’s microphone.

Leo leaned forward. This was it. The thesis statement. “I know

“He’s so predictable,” she said. She set down the water and walked to the mirror. She began to unclip her earrings, methodically. “He thinks that’s the bomb. That’s just the warning shot.”

“He didn’t steal my song,” Kira said, her voice steady now. “I wrote ‘Gravity’ in a hotel room in Osaka while he was passed out from a Xanax and tequila bender. I recorded him the next morning admitting he’d tried to sell my demos to his producer. That’s the bomb.” “Then let’s make a documentary,” he said

Chloe looked at Leo, alarmed. “That breaks the barrier. You become a character.”

His assistant, Chloe, nodded. “Green and recording.”

“Leo. Are you getting this?”