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Chapter 1: The Chase
I've always been looking for something more. For something bold, something new…something that would make people want to watch what I've filmed. To see the beauty and value of the thing I see through the lens of my camera.
Nobody sees for nobody wants to see.
They like what's normal. They call what I film bold but hard to connect. They say that it's not worth their time for they want something that will win a boring award. Something to hang on a shelf where they can talk about it to other people who when they view the video they stay silent for the movie is boring.
I want them to talk. To be awed by what I made and instantly start to ask questions about each and every part of the scene.
Mostly I want them to ask about the actress.
But first I had to find that actress. The one who would send my audience into awe.
And yet when I've finally found her…
"You idiot! I thought I told you I'd punch you my right hand if you dared to film me without my permission!" Suddenly my subject was getting extremely close. "Come here Senpai!"
"W-wah…hey now! You've hardly cared before. Oh I get it, you saw Hiro with-"
"Shut up!" She did a wonderful right hook no doubt intended for my stomach. Thankfully my evasion skills have rose ten points since I've got involved with my current subject. "Big jerk!"
Her next swing nearly hit home though, thankfully I ducked just in time and angled my camera upward getting a lovely shot of her upset face. God she was beautiful, even angry and ready to knock the snot out of me she was still like a war Goddess.
That is until she kicked me in the stomach. I landed on my back hugging my camera safely to my stomach. Safe.
I allowed myself a sigh of relief. The pain slowly faded with each agonizing breath but to be honest it was worth it for that one shot of her face.
"Idiot." She sneered.
"Maybe so but I refuse to let that stop me. I will overcome my idiocy and make the film that I've been dreaming of."
I could almost hear her roll her eyes; she was always cute even when angered.
She was always at her cutest when she was blushing though.
"You're right though…" Kei sat on the scuffed gym floor, bringing her knees up to her chins. She wasn't looking at me so I suspected that she didn't expect me to listen. "I'm still jealous. I wonder if it'll ever get easier. I mean…she just came in and wrecked everything! I've never done anything wrong. I just don't understand…"
It's time like this that I could get my best film. That said…I always put my camera away at times like this. There was no need for other people to see her like this. Besides I liked being the only one there for her.
"That's life Kei, you'll always have something with Hirono that she'll never have. Likewise…" I didn't have to say it. She would always have a physical and emotional relationship that Kei wouldn't have with him and that ate at her.
She had closed herself and was still slowly opening herself up to me and everyone around her. They could text without her glaring at her phone or holding back tears now.
"Yeah well…no one will have what we have."
Her words snapped me back into the reality that we were living. I couldn't have heard her right, but at the same time I knew that I had. She was looking at me with a slight smile on her pretty face.
I lifted up my camera just as a part of her bangs slid off her cheek to hang down drooping onto her knee. She looked at me with this loving smile that sent my heart beating rather fast.
This is what I lived to capture.
I live to capture her.
Forever running I'll give chase, my lens catching all.
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