Emily Eyefinger and the Secret from the Sea Read Free

leg.’

    â€˜But I don’t want you to break a leg.’
    â€˜It’s just something you say to actors,’ Janey said. ‘It means good luck.’
    â€˜Okay, break a leg – but I hope you don’t.’
    There was a long wait for the star to come out of her dressing room. Three cameras had been set up to film the action from every angle. Emily went to the back of the room to be out of the way. She watched over everyone’s heads with her eyefinger.
    Bright lights lit up the huge greenhouse, which was filled with all sorts of plants. Emily could see Janey and the other kids looking out through the bars of the cage.
    When Melody finally came on set, everyone clapped. Then the director spoke.
    â€˜This is the last scene we have to film in the whole movie and it’s the most important one. If we mess it up the movie will be a flop. So, please, everyone do your best! Okay? Places everyone! Action!’
    Melody came running from the back of the greenhouse with the aliens chasing her. She startedripping plants out of their pots, looking for the key to the cage. The kids in the cage stretched out their arms screaming, ‘Save us! Save us!’ Emily could hear Janey’s cries above all the others. Pots and dirt flew everywhere as two of the cameras moved overhead. Melody started swinging a big stick at the aliens.
    Suddenly a frown came over Melody’s face. She stopped and just stood there. The aliens stopped chasing and the kids stopped yelling. Everyone was looking at the star.
    â€˜Cut!’ the director yelled. ‘What’s the matter, Melody?’
    But Melody didn’t answer. She put her hands over her face then ran past the director and the crew and past Emily. In a flash she’d disappeared out a side door.
    â€˜What’s going on?’ the director yelled. ‘Find out what’s wrong with that girl and bring her back. She’s probably in her trailer! Honestly, stars,’ he added, shaking his head, ‘why do they have to be so difficult?’
    â€˜She’s not in her trailer!’ someone yelled.
    â€˜Well find her! People don’t just disappear into thin air!’ the director shouted back. ‘Okay, cut the lights, we’re wasting electricity.’
    â€˜What do you think happened?’ Janey asked when she joined Emily.
    â€˜I don’t know,’ Emily said. ‘One minute everything was going perfectly and the next minute she ran away.’
    â€˜Maybe she got dirt in her eye,’ Janey said. ‘There were plants and dirt flying everywhere. Or maybe she was about to throw up. Acting can be very scary. It can make you sick.’
    Emily thought for a minute.
    â€˜I don’t know what happened,’ Emily said, ‘but I’m going to try and find out. I’ll be back in a minute.’
    Emily went out the side door and headed towards the star’s trailer. Instead of going in she slipped around behind it and climbed the back fence. Then she ran along a path through thewoods. Soon she heard the soft sound of someone crying. She made her way through the bushes and around a big rock. There was Melody Wu, her head in her arms, sobbing.
    â€˜Melody?’ Emily said. ‘Are you okay?’
    Melody looked up, startled, and quickly covered her face with her hands. ‘Get away from me!’ she shouted. ‘Leave me alone!’
    â€˜Are you sure I can’t help you?’
    â€˜Yes, I’m sure! Just go away!’
    â€˜Okay, I’m going,’ Emily said.
    â€˜Wait a minute,’ Melody said, sounding less angry. ‘Can I use your phone?’
    â€˜My phone? I don’t have one. Sorry.’
    â€˜You don’t have a phone? What kind of person doesn’t have a phone?’
    â€˜A person like me,’ Emily said, ‘and you.’
    â€˜Of course I have a phone! I’ve got four of them! I don’t have one with me because I’m acting in a movie! Are