"Woah... How'd you do this?" Charlie asked, coming back into the room with more food and drinks to keep Amber occupied.

"I put on a movie and she just kinda...shut up," I said. We were quiet for a few moments.

"You're from the east coast, aren't you?" he asked.

"How'd you know?" I asked.

"Lucky guess...and you're extremely pale," he said. I laughed. "You're lucky, you know."

"Why is that?" I asked

"People don't recognize you...yet..."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"You can do whatever you want and go wherever you want without people seeing you and being like, 'Hey, isn't that the kid from What About Bob?' or 'Look, it's the kid from Dick Tracy!'" he replied.

"So...you don't like attention?" I asked. He shrugged.

"I LOVE attention! My mom says I am going to grow up and be the prettiest actress ever and I am going to have boyfriends," Amber said. I giggled. She stood up and started skipping in a circle and singing, "Charlie is my boyfriend! Charlie is my boyfriend! Charlie loves me! Charlie is my boyfriend!" Now, Charlie and I were both laughing. I thought it was cute that she had a crush on him, and he thought so, too. "You know, my mommy made me watch one of the movies that you were in, but it was boring so I didn't like it. I only watched the parts that you were in. I liked that big explosion at the end. Boom!" she said, mimicking the explosion, and throwing her arms up in the air. What about Bob. Bill Murray. A classic.

"Really?" Charlie asked. She nodded.

"I can't wait to be in this movie so I can explode!"

"Amber, you aren't going to explode," I said.

"Oh, I know, but a girl can dream," she said, still skipping in a circle. I rolled my eyes. Monkey see, monkey do. "CALLIE!" she screamed.

"WHAT?" I screamed back. She laughed.

"I met one of the Lost Boys. His name is Thomas. He's six and he's cute," she replied.

"That's weird. I thought Steven was only casting nine year olds and up," I said.

"Yeah, but he said he went into Stevens office, banged his fist on the table and said, 'You want me in your movie!' and now he's here," she said. I laughed. Cute. I picked up my phone and noticed the time.

"Ten-thirty?!" I said. "Okay, children. Bed. Now!"

"Excuse me, but I'm the boss here," Charlie said. Our eyes met. It's on.

"August 20th," I said.

"July 20th," he smirked. I pouted, defeated. He was a whole month older than me, therefore, he was the boss.

"Okay, children. Bed. Now!" he said.

"My birthday is in October. I win! Okay, children. Bed. Now!" Amber replied. We laughed.

"Amber, if you go back to my room, I'll give you extra ice cream before bed," Charlie said. She gasped and ran out my hotel door as fast as she could, but not before running into my mom, Trinity (who went chasing after Amber), and a tall woman with brown hair, who I assumed was Charlie's mother.

"Charles! I told you to stay in the room!" his mom said.

"I know, but-"

"He was having trouble looking after Amber, so he brought her here and we watched a movie," I said.

"Oh, well, that was really nice. Thank you, Calista," my mom said.

"Calista. That's a cool name," Charlie said. I blushed, annoyed that my mom had told people my full name, yet again, and even more annoyed now that Charlie knew it, but happy that he thought it was 'cool.'

"Thanks," I replied. He got up to leave with his mom, and he looked back at me. I shot him a joking look that said, 'You owe me!' and he smiled and nodded. Once they were gone (Trinity followed closely behind Mrs. Korsmo), mom shut the door and squealed.

"That fun, huh?" I asked.

"That fun and more!" she replied. "Dustin was super nice, Steven was...Steven, and ROBIN! Don't even get me started on Robin," she said. "I also met a lot of the kids' parents, like Debbie, Charlie's mom. Oh, and I met this woman, Amanda, whose son was on Cheers! You know that show. He got the part of a Lost Boy by banging a fist on Steven's desk. What was his name? Timmy? No..."

"Thomas?" I asked. She nodded.

"Yeah! Thomas. I saw a picture of him. He's really-"

"Cute?" I asked.

"Yeah. How'd you know?"

"I've heard," I said. She gave me a confused look. "Anyway, did you meet Julia?" I asked.

"No, she wasn't there. Steven said she has a stalker, so security is really tight for her. The only people that are authorized to work with her are Robin and Steven at the moment," mom said. I frowned. I felt kinda bad for her.

On Saturday (two days before filming began), all of the kids met at a restaurant near the hotel. Charlie and I stood off to the side and it was apparent that we were the only two socially awkward people there, as everyone else was talking and having a great time as if they'd known each other for years, rather than a few minutes. Charlie and I didn't even talk to each other and avoided eye contact whenever possible. Soon, a tall boy came up to us and tried to make an effort to get us to join everyone else.

"Hi! I'm Dante," he said.

"I'm Callista," I said, smiling.

"I'm Charlie," he said quietly. What happened to him? Just the other night, he was so much fun. Now he seemed different. Deflated. Maybe he just didn't like crowds or something.

"Cool. I heard you're Pan's kids. Sounds like a pretty sweet role," he said.

"I'm sure it will be," I said. I glanced over and saw Amber running over to us with a little boy chasing her. He had fuzzy hair and brown eyes.

"Callie!" she said when she got to me, out of breath. "This is Tommy."

"I'm Tommy," he said.

"Hi, Tommy," I said.

"I like your shoes," he said before tagging Amber and running off. This time, she went chasing him. Cute, I thought. Dante laughed. A few minutes later, Steven got a microphone and started talking.

"Hey. Is this thing on?" he asked, joking.

"No!" some little kid from the front joked back. We all quietly gathered around to hear what Steven had to say.

"As you all know, you are what we call the 'kiddie cast' of Hook," he started. This was followed by a bunch of cheering from the child audience. "Now, shooting starts on Monday. Not everyone is going to be in the first few scenes, but we think it would be a good idea if anyone wanted to come and watch the scenes being filmed. You can stand behind the camera if you want. Just wanted to make sure you knew that." Dante seemed thrilled about this. Charlie stayed very quiet right now (obviously). I noted this, as some other kids were whispering or quietly laughing, but he didn't make a sound.

"Now, since we are going to have a lot of children on set at one time, we needed a way to keep you all in check. We expect your best behavior, but if you do start misbehaving on set, you will get a red card. If you get one, we take five dollars off your paycheck, per card," he continued. All the whispering stopped and everyone was quiet at the mention of a paycheck. Steven smiled, sensing this. "Any questions?" Many kids raised their hands (but not Charlie and I, of course). Steven answered any of the questions the kids had. He didn't seem like a mean director, but I knew that all directors got up-tight when filming began. After Steven had answered all of the questions, he stood in a corner and waited for our parents to come get us. Well, now I decided to be more social. I walked up to Amber, who had made friends with just about everyone in the course of the last half hour or so.

"Oh! Guys!" she called. The boys all turned to look at her. "This is my friend, Callie!"

"Hi, Callie!" they all said. I smiled.

"I'm Jasen," one boy said.

"I'm Raushan," another one said.

"And I'm Isaiah!" said another, who seemed really hyped up. Amber laughed.

"Isaiah says he always has too much sugar when his mom isn't around," she told me. Then, Isaiah ran away. Thomas was standing there, too.

"Hi, Tom," I said.

"Hi, Callie," he mimicked.

"Wouldn't you rather be at home? Playing with toys?" I asked, thinking that a six year old would hate show business.

"Nope. I kept bugging my parents to take me to an audition. I really wanna be here. What's your excuse?" he asked. I laughed. For the first time that night, I was actually having fun. Weird, right?

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but Hook came on this weekend and I had to write. Also, the last two chapters were just one long chapter, so I cut them in half. That's why you get two chapters at once. I'm working on the next chapter as you read this, so enjoy! I really like writing this story. It's different from any story I've ever done.

PS: I stole the red card idea from the set of Harry Potter. :P