I stiffened a yawn as I left the dressing room heading towards the set to shoot the next scene. I still couldn't understand how this year has been the most tiring of my career. I still can't believe that I have a career to complain about! After filming The First Time I wanted to take a sabbatical year and finish my last year of college calmly and without stress. However, I was offered to chance to be the co-star in Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn's new movie The Internship. There was no way that I would lose such a chance, those two were geniuses! It was a bit hard to juggle with taking care of my family, the movie and my last year of college. But at the end I made it, I even was the best graduate of the class! I needed a complete week in a spa afterwards, but it was worth it. I had a lot to thank Derek for that, ever since we got together I didn't feel as if I was raising the kids alone, and if I still had doubts he proved me wrong that year.
The next year was easier, I just filmed one movie… but not any movie, James Dashner's best seller: The Maze Runners! When the books got out I was obsessed with them, I even read them to the kids during our story time before bed. So when I heard that there were auditions for the movie I just had to try it out. It would be the first big project in my career, but at least I had to try and see if I could land a secondary character. So after a long and stressful period of auditions and a long wait for an answer, Malia and I had lost hope. We began looking for another project to invest in for, but halfway in our search we were interrupted by Malia's phone ringing. It were the producers, I didn't just land a secondary character, I was the protagonist! I couldn't believe it, I was so happy I could explode. After signing the contract for three movies I went out with my family and friends and their husbands, to celebrate my success. A dinner that turned out to be one of the best nights of my life when Derek asked me to marry him. An event that was held only a month before the premiere, to which we assisted just gotten back from our honeymoon through Europe.
Last year was to say the least, complicated. Not only was I filming the sequel of The Maze Runners, but also was approached to be the co-star of Deep Horizon an event that I studied and made reports about in both, history and economics. I just couldn't turn down the offer which only complicated my home life cause I wasn't the only one with a work life. Derek had only started branching his business not only in women and children clothes, but also men clothes just a year ago, and last year he opened his first International store in London. To sum up to the mess our kids had just began high-school and were at the doors of, in my opinion, the worst stage of life: adolescence. Even when my work life was succeeding rapidly and marvelously, my home life was getting each passing day more and more complicated.
I hated it, especially when I had that huge life with my newlywed husband. We didn't talk to each other or sleep together for a month! It killed but I was prideful and didn't want to admit that I was being overachieving as I always am, not paying enough attention to my family as I should have. But Derek wasn't any better! He also spent a lot of time in the office and traveling to London to make sure that everything was going fine as the reports said. At the end none of us made the first move, but the kids did… well, sweet adorable Isaac did it. One day during dinner, while we both were asking the children about how school was going and ignoring each other blatantly, Isaac blurted if we were getting a divorce and if our family was breaking apart as his friend's Boyd did. We were so focused on our careers and our anger at each other's inability to comprehend how important our jobs were that we didn't notice what we were doing to our children.
We sent the kids to Aiden and Cora's house (We are still waiting for them to get engage) and had a long talk that night. We screamed and accused each other of cheating, him with one of his models and I with my co-star and good friend Thomas Brodie-Sangster, we cried, we reconciled and kissed while falling asleep in each other's arms. It still wasn't perfect, but after a couple of months from taking more time off work and spending more time at home we finally got back to how things were at the beginning: perfect. Both Derek and I arranged that we were moving too fast in our careers, my husband had to learn that he wasn't alone anymore and spending extra hours at the office and making new projects every year wasn't acceptable. I turned down the offer from MTV for one of the principle roles in their new T.V show Teen Wolf, even when I knew that it would end up being a huge success. After a lot of convincing Derek finally got through my thick skull that I don't have to strive for fast success and making my name known to be worth him and our family. Also, the kids needed us more than never.
I even decided to take a year off acting after the third movie of The Maze Runners and had planned a whole vacation to Disney and Universal with the kids and Derek, but that was still a secret for me to give later. As well, someone had to make some time for Erica to help her organize her sweet sixteen that year. But I still had time to decide how to break the news to them, I haven't even finished filming The Maze Runners: The Death Cure yet.
"You are late Stiles!" Scolded me Malia, while the rest of the crew just laughed at me when I fell on my butt in surprise at her loud yell.
"Cut me some slack woman! It's the first time in all this years" I didn't pout, I complained no matter what anyone might tell you I just complained and absolutely didn't pout.
"Just make your stunt so we can finish the day" ordered me a moody Malia, which meant that she was tired and wanted to go home and have sex with her sexy husband.
"Yeah, yeah" I replied absentmindedly as my last thought brought a lot of incredible memories of my own husband and I in bed, making me wish I were at home right now so I could get some.
But all those thoughts started to go away as I noticed that something was wrong with the safety precautions placed for the stunt, but shrugged it off. This was the third year I work with the same crew and nothing had happened to me, I trust them. However, I should have followed my gut as I normally do. In middle of the stunt I heard the horrible sound of metal hitting metal and felt myself falling. The last thing I heard was Malia's scream of 'Stiles!', before I hit the ground and everything went dark.