Rush List

The calm before the party

"Dalia" I scream "Did you find the SD card? I can't find it anywhere" I'm looking under the bed with half my body still on the bed and the upper half dangling to look under when she storms inside the room triumphantly holding the SD card in her hand.

"got it!" She smiles at me and starts laughing "I don't think doing yoga right now is very helpful to the cause"

I lift myself a bit too fast and get a bit dizzy. Dalia sits next to me and hands me the SD card and I kiss her on the cheek "bless you woman you just saved us a world of pain, and by that I mean having to hear Finn say once again how we can't handle anything"

she laughs "you really don't like him huh?" I get up and walk towards the camera backpack making sure I store the SD card safely "no, I don't hate him, I'm just not particularly fond of people who nit pick every single thing I do. Like come on, unclench a bit and breathe my good dude."

Dalia laughs at this while handing me some extra hdmi cables "honestly you're one to talk Kay. The semester hasn't even started and you already have everything planned out and are now dragging me to get some footage for a segment that doesn't even have to be done in 3 weeks. If you ask me you have more in common with Finn than you think"

I bring my hand to my chest as if she's just stabbed me and gasp "how could you even compare us! With thy mortal enemy?!"

"I thought you said you didn't even hate him" she eyes me down, I laugh "I know but let a girl have a little flair" she rolls her eyes while smiling.

"Whatever drama queen, now hurry up remember we promised the boys we wouldn't be late this time so we have to get this done soon"

"shoot you're right I really don't want another mini lecture from Derek of how important it is to be punctual and blah blah blah"

she laughs "spot on impression, or have Diego standing next to him arms crossed and head nodding like yeah that's my boy" she says deepening her voice as best she can and mimicking his pose while nodding her head.

I laugh "dang we really have perfected our boyfriends impressions haven't we" "well if after 8 months we haven't gotten it down then there is something deeply wrong" she says while grabbing part of the equipment and I follow her out the door with the rest of the bags.

"And cut!" Dalia yells "that's a wrap folks" I start packing up as Dalia grabs a tripod that's almost half her size and makes way towards me when one of our department writers Nate hurries after her and offers to help but Dalia waves him off and keeps going straight towards me. Nate shrugs, grabs his bag and makes way towards the door. This girl really has no idea how head over heels that boy and like 10 other ones are. "You really are clueless huh?" "What?" She asks half paying attention from mostly concentrating on not dropping the tripod. I help her set it down and we start storing it.

"Hey, btw can you pull up the footage really quick, I want to confirm we got that last shot because if I don't it'll bother me all night" Dalia asks "sure but make it quick because we're already running late" I go and pop in the sd card in the laptop

"oh don't worry, Diego texted me that they would meet up with us here, actually they should be arriving any minute now"

I look around and everyone has left already "here?" "Yeah, why?" "No, nothing it's just they never come to the studio" I go through the clips looking for the one she wants to see, and she plops down beside me handing me a water bottle. "It's just, haven't you noticed that they never really seem interested in what we do?"

Dalia takes over looking for the clip while I open the water bottle and take a sip "you know how boys are, they are into their dumb stuff and that's all they care about" she says.