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trained myself not to do that a long time ago.
“The interview is just part of it!”
“There’s more?”
“There’s so much more.”
Don’t tell her, Teddy.
“Tell me, Teddy.”
I wonder whom I’m going to listen to: my subconscious or the
beautiful temptress.
“Well, see, I’m devising a plan to get close to you, to
force you to like me, maybe even to fall in love with me.”
I guess that answers my question. Oh wait, I’m still
babbling.
“Then I will metaphorically pull down your pants at recess. I
will learn all your secrets and then, when I have taken what I need, I will
expose you to the world. That’s one of the perks of being ridiculously wealthy:
people listen to you. But, and here’s where the real thinking comes in, in
order to make you trust me, I will need to open up to you first. I will need to
seem as though I need you. I will make you feel like an equal, make you think I
care.”
Apparently I gave her my full plan word for word. No wonder
it never worked. No wonder she was always one step ahead of me. This time, she
wasn’t a mind reader. This time, it was all me.
“I’d love that interview.”
“Now?”
“No, I’d be afraid that you’re so drunk you might tell me
something you didn’t want to tell me.”
Okay, she was good.
“Tuesday at six?”
“Tuesday at six it is.”
And then I winked at her and left.
There it was! The wink and the leaving: I knew they happened
at some point.
Better late than never.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
HUNTINGTON HERALD
Interview with a Bad Boy
By Ashley Leigh
When you desire to be a journalist, to uncover the truth,
to offer a strong point of view, you know interviews are a large part of the
job. You read them, you watch them, you study them, but nothing prepares you
for sitting knee to knee with someone while you dig to the core of their being.
I could sit here, days after the fact, and analyze the interview, analyze every
word he said, every move he made, and I could bring my voice to the piece. That’s
what I do. I look at a situation and comment on it.
But when that situation is right in front of you, when
that situation has a face, and breath, and a silly nervous laugh, that
situation becomes a human being. That situation is a person.
That situation was Teddy.
Here is the interview I conducted with Theodore Vincent
Stoneguard IV this past Tuesday at six:
AL: So Teddy, I’ve heard you say before that you look
forward to the day your father hands his company over to you. What makes you
deserving to run a company of such magnitude?
…
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Teddy
…interview continues
“So Teddy, I’ve heard you say before that you look forward
to the day your father hands his company over to you. What makes you deserving
to run a company of such magnitude?”
“Wow, okay, you just want to jump in like that, huh?”
“I do.”
“I think we need to talk about the terms of this interview
before I answer any of your questions.”
“What terms? You offered me an interview; I took you up on
it. This is me interviewing you.”
“And what do I get in return?”
“Your story gets told.”
“Nah, not good enough.”
I had invited Ashley to my home that evening with the
intention of giving her the interview I had promised, but as I stared at her
across from me, I didn’t want to talk about myself. I wanted to talk about her.
She was still a mystery to me, and something about that just didn’t sit quite
right.
But I had a plan, and that plan started with me. I needed to
make her trust me, and the only way I could do that was by opening up to her. But
opening up to her in an interview? She could take that information and twist it
in a way that would most certainly sell papers. No. I needed to get her off the
record.
Even looking back at it now, I’m not sure if I ever truly
believed I’d be able
“The interview is just part of it!”
“There’s more?”
“There’s so much more.”
Don’t tell her, Teddy.
“Tell me, Teddy.”
I wonder whom I’m going to listen to: my subconscious or the
beautiful temptress.
“Well, see, I’m devising a plan to get close to you, to
force you to like me, maybe even to fall in love with me.”
I guess that answers my question. Oh wait, I’m still
babbling.
“Then I will metaphorically pull down your pants at recess. I
will learn all your secrets and then, when I have taken what I need, I will
expose you to the world. That’s one of the perks of being ridiculously wealthy:
people listen to you. But, and here’s where the real thinking comes in, in
order to make you trust me, I will need to open up to you first. I will need to
seem as though I need you. I will make you feel like an equal, make you think I
care.”
Apparently I gave her my full plan word for word. No wonder
it never worked. No wonder she was always one step ahead of me. This time, she
wasn’t a mind reader. This time, it was all me.
“I’d love that interview.”
“Now?”
“No, I’d be afraid that you’re so drunk you might tell me
something you didn’t want to tell me.”
Okay, she was good.
“Tuesday at six?”
“Tuesday at six it is.”
And then I winked at her and left.
There it was! The wink and the leaving: I knew they happened
at some point.
Better late than never.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
HUNTINGTON HERALD
Interview with a Bad Boy
By Ashley Leigh
When you desire to be a journalist, to uncover the truth,
to offer a strong point of view, you know interviews are a large part of the
job. You read them, you watch them, you study them, but nothing prepares you
for sitting knee to knee with someone while you dig to the core of their being.
I could sit here, days after the fact, and analyze the interview, analyze every
word he said, every move he made, and I could bring my voice to the piece. That’s
what I do. I look at a situation and comment on it.
But when that situation is right in front of you, when
that situation has a face, and breath, and a silly nervous laugh, that
situation becomes a human being. That situation is a person.
That situation was Teddy.
Here is the interview I conducted with Theodore Vincent
Stoneguard IV this past Tuesday at six:
AL: So Teddy, I’ve heard you say before that you look
forward to the day your father hands his company over to you. What makes you
deserving to run a company of such magnitude?
…
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Teddy
…interview continues
“So Teddy, I’ve heard you say before that you look forward
to the day your father hands his company over to you. What makes you deserving
to run a company of such magnitude?”
“Wow, okay, you just want to jump in like that, huh?”
“I do.”
“I think we need to talk about the terms of this interview
before I answer any of your questions.”
“What terms? You offered me an interview; I took you up on
it. This is me interviewing you.”
“And what do I get in return?”
“Your story gets told.”
“Nah, not good enough.”
I had invited Ashley to my home that evening with the
intention of giving her the interview I had promised, but as I stared at her
across from me, I didn’t want to talk about myself. I wanted to talk about her.
She was still a mystery to me, and something about that just didn’t sit quite
right.
But I had a plan, and that plan started with me. I needed to
make her trust me, and the only way I could do that was by opening up to her. But
opening up to her in an interview? She could take that information and twist it
in a way that would most certainly sell papers. No. I needed to get her off the
record.
Even looking back at it now, I’m not sure if I ever truly
believed I’d be able
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