In this scene, we’re in my dorm room.
I keep telling Keatyn how pretty Ariela is. How I’m scared to text her after hanging out with her the night before. Keatyn telling me she thought she had a boyfriend at home, but I didn’t care. I was here. He wasn’t. And I was freaking Riley Johnson. She was so pretty. A cheerleader with dark brown hair, gorgeous eyes, and a perfect body.
I had no idea at the time that I would fall totally and completely in love with her.
Or that she would break my heart.
Thank god, that’s not in the movie. It was bad enough that I included a photo at the end showing the real Keatyn and Aiden with the cast and crew of A Day at the Lake 2. Keatyn’s stalker was obsessed with her mom’s first movie, the cult classic, A Day at the Lake. Because of Keatyn’s resemblance to her mother, he wanted to remake it with Keatyn. And while you’d have to watch the movie or read the books we just released to understand it all, Keatyn managed to pull off a hostile takeover of the stalker’s movie production company. At seventeen, she was named Chairman of the Board of what would become Captive Films.
It’s hard to believe that my career as a director, producer, and CEO started with a friendship and a music video. The naughty video we did to make my brother mad turned out so well that when Keatyn’s childhood friend, Damian Moran, needed a music video made in a few days, she suggested me. I didn’t really have a clue what I was doing, but went with my gut. That video, and the fact that Keatyn looked damn hot in it, took his band, Twisted Dreams, to the top of the charts and I went on to produce many more videos. The summer before our senior year, Keatyn and I teamed up to make our first movie, the remake of A Day at the Lake that Captive Films owned the rights to. With Keatyn’s connections, her acting ability, and my direction, we had our company’s first hit.
In the eleven years since then, Keatyn’s become one of today’s hottest actresses and together we’ve built Captive Films into what it is now. A multi-billion dollar company.
Keatyn is sitting in front of me with Aiden. Her head is on his shoulder and, knowing her, she’s crying as she relives their love story.
Little does she know, he’s going to ask her to marry him tonight.
Movie Premiere - Paris
KEATYN
Aiden puts his hand on my knee and whispers to me as The End rolls across the movie screen in front of us. “It’s really hard to believe we’ve been together for over ten years.”
I give him a kiss thinking how crazy it is that a silly wish I made on the moon led me to the love of my life. It’s even crazier to think we just watched the story of that love on the big screen with other people portraying us.
The audience is clapping and cheering for their favorite characters as the credits scroll across the screen.
I think the audience feels the same way we do.
We can’t believe it’s over.
It feels like an era has ended. Three movies in three and half years.
All produced by Riley and me.
And all based on my life.
The biggest cheers, though, are saved for the actors who played Keatyn and Aiden.
I clap loudly and whistle, thrilled at how much everyone loves them together. In the first movie, most viewers were torn between all the cute boys. It’s kind of funny to me that most moviegoers didn’t realize it was based on a real life couple. They’ve been heating up social media sites and online forums claiming that if Keatyn didn’t choose Aiden they would all die. Millions wore four-leaf clover T-shirts and tweeted #ifly. It’s hard to believe his simple sweet gestures of giving me a four-leaf clover for luck before my dance team tryouts and texting me ifly—which stands for I fucking love you—have affected so many people.