When Monique walked in the kitchen she sat her purse on the counter and walked around the open-spaced kitchen. She was amazed by the pretty décor and sat down in one of the kitchen chairs. Michael was getting some champagne from the cabinet and grabbed two glasses.
"You want a drink Monique?" Michael asked.
"Yeah, that would be nice thanks." Monique watched Michael as he filled up their glasses.
"So what made you go for this role?" He walked over to the table carrying the two glasses and sat down across from Monique. He handed Monique her drink and they both took a sip.
"Well I really liked the story line, when my agent came to me with the script I was like I have to do this show; this is a project I must be a part of." Monique responded after setting her glass on the table.
She watched as Michael's eyes went down to the big rock on her finger. "You married?"
"I am, I'm married to a wonderful man, we been together for four years." Monique smiled down and played with her wedding ring.
"Congratulations." Ealy said as his phone rang. He got up from the table and walked out of the room. Taylor took this time to walk around the house some. She walked upstairs and looked all around in the bathrooms and the bedroom she was staying in when she heard her phone ringing.
"Hey babe." Monique picked up the phone and was the first to speak.
"Hey, how was your flight?" Corbin asked.
"My flight was great; I'm actually at the house that I'll be staying in for the time being." Monique responded. She decided not to tell her husband that she would be living with Michael just because she felt it wasn't necessary.
"I miss you, a lot." Corbin's voice was soft and deep and Monique smiled. "I'll surprise you one day and I'll come and visit you."
"Alright baby, well I have to go so I can unpack but I'll call you before the night ends, okay?" Monique said as she sat on her bed.
"Alright, I love you." Corbin said. Monique responded, "I love you too."
She hung up the phone and ran downstairs to get her bags. She grabbed one suitcase and tried to roll it up the stairs. Michael, who was coming up the stairs from the basement saw the struggle and walked over to her and grabbed the suitcase from her hand and began to easily roll it up the stairs.
"Why is your suitcase so heavy?" He asked.
"Because I'm a woman." Monique joked and followed behind him.
"Make sure you go to bed early, we have a table reading tomorrow at 7 in the morning so be ready." After Michael brought up all her stuff and stood in the doorway.
"Thank you for the information." Monique was looking towards the floor. She couldn't look that man in the eyes. He was just so cute, but she had a husband and she loved him.
The next Day
Monique was up at 6 in the morning getting dressed for the table reading today. She updated her twitter posting a picture of herself and tweeting words of wisdom to help people get through their day. She walked downstairs and met Michael at the door and they walked out to their car together and both got in the backseat. While the driver drove, Monique was on her phone texting Corbin, even though she knew he wouldn't be up this early in the morning. She snuck a picture of Michael. (We call that lacking ladies and gentlemen.)
"Michael, take a picture with me." Monique smiled and looked at him.
He moved closer to her and they both smiled for the picture. They looked at it when they were finished. "Beautiful." Monique commented.
The pulled up to the studio and went inside the gate. The door opened and Monique hopped out of the car along with Michael and they both walked inside the studio. When they walked in, there were pictures of shows that were previously filmed at the studio and there were pictures of famous people. They walked the room for the table read and people greeted them automatically.
Monique noticed all types of celebrities who were in the room and she knew the talent that each one of them had individually and she knew right then and there that this was going to be a great project.
She sat in her chair that had a note card with her name on it and the script was sitting on the table right in front of her. All of the cast mates weren't there yet so she sat around and looked at all the other note cards with names on them to see who else is doing this project with her and she smiled once she read the name on the notecard in front of her: Tyrese Gibson.
Monique heard that he would be on the show but she wasn't sure if it was really true or not and when she read the name she was just really happy. Tyrese then walked in the room with a smile on his face and he greeted everyone. He walked around the table and then looked over at Monique and he smiled. Monique turned her head so that he wouldn't see her blushing. He came and sat down next to her. Monique then opened up her script and began to highlight all of her lines.
"I don't believe I ever met you before. I'm Tyrese, what's your name?" Monique looked to the side to see Tyrese sitting down next to her and he was flashing that gorgeous smile. She had to wipe the smile off her face and decided to play it cool.
"No we haven't, I'm Monique, and it's nice to meet you." Monique and Tyrese shook hands. It wasn't till seconds later the writer walked in, Kerry Smith (made up name) came in and the two released hands. She greeted everyone as she sat down in her chair.
At 7, the doors closed and the work began. "Okay, everyone I am Kerry Smith, I am the writer of World War (Made up TV show name as well.) I can now wait to begin shooting and having you guys read the script. But before we do I would like us to go around the table and introduce ourselves."
It was quiet for a second until Monique heard Tyrese's voice. She looked over at him while he spoke.
"Hi, I'm Tyrese; I am a singer and actor. I have been in many movie productions but not many TV projects so I'm really excited about this and I just want to thank you Ms. Smith for having me." Tyrese looked over at Monique and they stared into each other's eyes for a second until Monique turned her head and began to speak.
"I'm Monique, I am a young and inspiring actress and this is my first professional gig ever and this is a project that I really wanted to be a part of so I thank you, Ms. Smith for choosing me to be a part of your production." Monique smiled and listened as everyone went around the table and introduced themselves. It went around to the last person at the table which was Mr. funny man himself.
"Alright guys if you don't know me that's a problem. I am Kevin Hart and I am a comedian but don't get it twisted okay because I am an actor too and I'm here to bring the comedy to the show and I feel we are all going to make this a successful show. We're going to get awards, okay well maybe not you guys but me, I will get an award for this show. And thank you Kerry for putting me on the show." When Kevin got through speaking and sat down, everyone was cracking up. Some people tried to hold it in, but they failed.
After the table reading, everyone got up and walked towards the set for their new show. Monique was very excited and she couldn't wait to start filming. She looked back at her script and was going through it once again when she realized that this wasn't a show that airs on the CW or some other channel that kids can watch. But it's the role she wanted, it's the project she wanted to be a part of and she accepted it.
"Today was great, the table reading was awesome. Now, I have some business to handle but I think it's a good idea if you guys go out somewhere just to hang out, get to know each other more because you will be a family for the next four months." Kerry said before she hugged everyone and left.
Monique's cell phone rang and she answered to hear Lexi yelling in the background.
"Hello?" Monique was confused.
"Hi Monique I'm sorry about that, people can't ever get my order right. How was your first day?" Her agent asked.
"It was fun, I met everyone and now we're all going to go hang out." Monique explained and then she slowly walked away from the group.
"Lexi, did you know about the cast?" Monique asked.
"No why is there a problem?" Lexi asked.
"Tyrese is a part of the show. You know I love that boy." Monique explained as she saw everyone slowly beginning to walk off the set and out of the building and she followed behind.
"Look, you'll do fine, I'll be down there soon to assist you, but right now I have to go so bye Mo." Lexi hung up the phone and Monique got in the van and rode with the cast, who was on their way to a bowling alley.