Page 117 of Broken Hearts
“Record her for what?”
“I want to show Sienna how great she could be teaching yoga online.”
I’m sorry, what?!
“You’d be great at that,” he says definitively. “You can get me in the shots. I make yoga sexy.”
Dakota rolls her eyes.
“Don’t deprive the world of my mad yoga skills.”
“What do you say?” she asks me, grinning hopefully.
It’s time to start class and I don’t have time to think through everything she’s throwing at me right now. “Fine. Yes to recording, but try to make it look casual so it doesn’t disrupt the class and only me and Maverick.”
“Yay!” She does a little happy shimmy.
“And no posting anything until I see it.”
“Of course. It’s going to be amazing. I promise.”
“Mhmmm. I’ll believe that when I see it.”
My class doesn’t seem to notice Dakota filming from her mat, but I do. I spend the first five minutes stiff and robotic in my movements and instruction. Soon enough though I’m able to get into the flow and mostly forget that someone has a camera aimed at me.
When class is over, I cringe as she approaches with her phone.
“It’s okay. I don’t need to see it to know how awkward that was.”
Mav stands beside her staring at her screen.
“It’s a little shaky at the beginning. I had trouble finding the right angle, but there’s some good stuff here.”
“Look at that perfect form.” Mav grins.
“I hate to admit this, but the camera loves you,” she says to him.
His smile couldn’t be any bigger as he throws an arm around her shoulders.
“Is the room free? Can we try a couple of things?”
“You don’t have to do this,” I say.
“I want to.”
“Why?”
“Because, as your friend, I see potential in you that you cannot see.”
“There are so many yoga videos out there already.” Most of them crap, admittedly.
When I’m not convinced she adds, “You have a story. That makes people want to like and follow you. And you’re a really good yoga teacher.”
“Plus, you’re hot,” Mav says.
I laugh, but Dakota nods. “He isn’t wrong. That helps too.”
“Let me take some video and play around with formats. You’re right, there are a ton of yoga videos out there, but they don’t have you.”
