After a spot of bargaining.

“Five thousand and it’s a deal,” Emma quickly snapped back at Ian’s offer. She’d always been the shrewder of the two when it had come to getting a guy to pay for things she wanted.

“Four-five and I’ll get you rooms at the resort while we finish filming,” Ian offered back, not in the least bit offended by the negotiation.

Emma and Robyn quickly turned to look at each other but the decision was already made.

“Deal,” Emma said happily before reaching out a hand to shake on it.

While Ian got all the paperwork in order Robyn and Emma were able to watch much more of the footage. A tingle of excitement running up Robyn's spine at the thought of the huge stack of money she had just made simply doing something she’d loved. Hell, if it had been just her, she’d probably have turned the video over for free. Simply being out there sharing the water with the Brazilian pros was compensation enough for her.

Having wrapped filming for the day the crew began packing up the equipment just as the girls were coming out of the production truck. Renato and Pedro had already left being driven personal everywhere by Kevin, so the girls were stuck until another minivan was ready to go back to the resort. As one of the drivers signalled he was almost ready to leave, Robyn and Emma crammed their boxes full of merchandise into the backseat with them. Just as the car was about to drive off Ian joined them in the van taking up the last seat.

“Here’s the contracts,” he said handing over two bundles of papers with a cheque for $4500 written to each of their names stapled on top, “if you can initial at the bottom of every page and then sign where it says on the last page and get them back to me before filming tomorrow that would be great. Also, you girls are over 18 right?”

Emma and Robyn nodded.

“Cool, if you could bring some ID with you tomorrow that would be great. Where heading to a new location, Four Bears I think it’s called.”

“What times that?” Robyn asked knowing the spot and having surfed there before.

“We want to be in the water no later than eight am,” he told them, “wake up’s at five-thirty.”

“Eesh,” Robyn made a grimace at the time but not how early it was. “Four Bears gets an easterly around seven – seven-thirty and closes out. You’d probably want to be arriving no later than six if you want to have enough time before then.”

“Well you didn’t go wrong today so I’ll take your word for it,” Ian said as he pulled out a mobile phone and started some calls changing the rise time for the entire crew to three-thirty in the morning.

Robyn felt proud of herself that she was listened to and trusted by this movie producer who had only just met her an hour ago.

“Rob! Do you have to wreck my sleep-in every time? I want to stay up a bit later tonight,” Emma complained to her friend.

Robyn knew Emma meant that she wanted another night with one of the Brazilian. Early to bed and late to sleep.

When Ian had finished with his calls Emma had another question for him. “Are we able to use our own boards tomorrow?”

“What brands are they?” he asked as Emma told him the two manufactures they surfed on.

“No.”

At the resort, Ian took Emma and Robyn to the reception where, true to his word, a pair of key cards were waiting for them. Their rooms were right next to each other so that when Robyn opened her door Emma made a beeline for the bed, jumping and screaming at the amazing day they had just had. Robyn joining her in celebrating.

The life of a movie star. All finished up before noon.