~ & ~ Lights, Camera, Kiss Me ~ & ~

~ Jasper ~

~ Heroes of Olympus/PJO ~

~ Little Talks ~

Piper McLean is a very famous singer, thanks to her roots. But she is pushed to manage new stages so she lands a role in a very important up-coming movie. She soon meets her co-star, Jason Grace. New feelings rise and she finds her self falling for him as the time passes. But she also finds out he is taken by Reyna Anton. How will she cope with the flourishing feeling towards him? Will she get her chance?

The next morning I woke up just as the sun did. I decided to get dressed and ready for the day.

Dad had told Silena and I over FaceTime that he would be dropping by for an interview. He was still filming a new movie but a postponed film had been released a few days ago and was getting high reviews. That meant that if he had spare time after the interview, we would have a day with him. I loved the time I spent with him and my sister. It was more laid back than with Mom. Mom was great but she was always in a rushed vibe. Maybe the runways and fashion shows made her like that. Add to that the movie producing. I get it.

I head into my bathroom and pull out my curling iron. As I begin to curl my uneven hair, I see Silena come in from the corner of my mirror. She was in her flannel pajamas and grey sweater. Her hair was in a tangled bed head ponytail. She was grasping tightly a rolled magazine. Her expression was sour and undetermined.

I knew that look and my response to that look was, "What is it?"

She walked over to me and leaned on the marble counter top that is my sink. She began to play with the bathroom decorations and avoided the situation.

"Lena, what is it?" I asked once more putting my curling iron down.

Instead of talking to me, she turned to face me with a smirk and passed the magazine to me. I took the magazine and took a look at the front cover. I was on it, obviously that is why Silena gave it to me, but there was someone else with me. Jason. It was when I gave him mouth-to-mouth. But it was taken in a bad angle in which it seemed that I was kissing him. My hand that held his chin was not showing. Heck, mouth-to-mouth is like kissing!

"And I thought TMZ's website was faster. This is my monthly subscription. They send these by mail a week before. But this happened yesterday. I'm shocked." Silena said. That's my manager for you. She lightens the mood with her press observations.

"Lena, this is bad." I told her, seriously.

I bet I looked very concerned because she chuckled as she talked, "Yes, yes it is. Jason barely broke it off with that bitc-,I mean, witch yesterday. This could ruin your image."

Of course she worried about that. She is supposed to, but what worries me is Reyna. It's not that I am scared of her- okay maybe a little but I mean look at her. She has the glare… I wouldn't doubt she'd blow me to pieces and blame me for their break up. And forget the mouth-to-mouth thing; she will wonder why Jason came to me. He has plenty of friends to come to me…

I shiver at the situation, "Lena, forget that. Reyna is the problem."

She raised an eyebrow and muttered, "Sure let's forget about your career."

I rolled my eyes at her.

She continued, "And that Dad will be pissed…"

My mouth dropped. Dad. He is laid back but he will freak when he finds out about this. He'd be mostly freaked out because he will be hearing Mom saying 'I told you so.'

Just then my phone rang. I jogged to my bed and saw that Jason had sent me a text. I looked at it and saw hat it contained. He had taken a picture of the same magazine I had and sent it to me along with a question mark.

I groaned and threw myself on my bed. I grabbed a pillow and tried to choke myself.

"Pipes, that won't help." Lena said, leaning against the door frame. I took the pillow off my face and glared daggers at her. She seemed to think it was okay for her to continue, "But to make you feel better, here. Pay attention to this. The news is trendy on Twitter."

She showed me her phone and slapped it from her hand. She chuckled and I grabbed it and threw it on the floor. "Hey, iPhone screens are very fragile. Oh and look at this. You guys even have a couple name; Jasper!"

She burst out laughing and leaned on me for control. I glared once more and smacked her arm.

"Ow!" she whined and stopped laughing. The smirk didn't wipe off though.

"This isn't funny. This could ruin Jason." I said, looking at my phone.

"Oh I see…" Silena smirked.

It took me a moment but I got into her head, "No! It's not what you are thinking."

"You are supposed to care about yourself. Not him. But you are." Silena looked at me with her signature playful glance.

"Lena, shut up and get out of my room. You're my manager. Figure out what to do." I demanded.

"Which one: your crush on Jason or your career?"

I glared at her and threw a pillow at her.

"Okay!" She left my room and I threw myself on my bed. I lifted my phone above me and saw his text.

I texted, they took a bad angle of yesterday!

He texted back, I guess… Chiron told me 2 tell u that he wanted 2 meet with us… sumthin bout the script

Okay… wat time?

At 3

Chiz…

"So glad you could make it. Come in and sit down. Get comfortable but not too much because these couches really make you sleepy." Chiron chuckled as he let Jason and me in his house.

Jason and I had arrived at the same time, something that to the press cannot be more than a (not)coincidence. Of course different cars. His hair was wet and mine not. I came in a floral knee length dress (Link on Profile) with ankle boots. He came in a plain colored shirt and jeans. Different but try telling that to the press. We sat in the couch. By accident we sat way to close that when sunk into the couch, our legs rubbed against each other. With both of us blushing, we settled in our own spot. Thankfully, Chiron didn't notice.

"Dionysus is in the kitchen getting a coke. Would you care for one?" Chiron asked us politely.

"Sure," we said in unison. We stared at each other and nervously I looked away.

Chiron smirked, "Be right back then."

As Chiron turned the corner, Jason leaned to see if he was out of view. As he confirmed it, he scooted over to me.

"What do you think he called us for?" he whispered. I leaned my back to the arm rest of the couch to prevent any misunderstandings if anyone comes in.

I frowned. "I didn't want to tell you but I'm guessing they have included thescene."

He chuckled, "What?"

"When they called me for the movie, the by-then producer told me that they were going to see if they needed a love scene. First they wanted to see 'on screen chemistry'." I told him, "So I am guessing it's because of that. I mean they have been watching us very carefully when we shoot."

"Oh," he backed away. "We've only done a week and half of shooting and we have only shot the scenes where Hunter and Camilla meet… Oh I get it now." He chuckled.

I nodded, obviously. An uncomfortable silence settled over us. Soon Chiron came in with two expensive-looking glasses of coke. Dionysus came in after with the bare can in hand and his signature bored expression.

"Kittens…" Dionysus waved his hands dismissively.

Kittens?

"So why are we here?" Jason said then seemed to regret what he said. "Sorry, that came out rude."

Dionysus smirked and muttered under his breath, "Don't you always."

He sat lazily in a couch chair.

"That's alright, my boy." Chiron said to Jason, giving the death glare to Dionysus. "We'll we have called you both to ask you a very important question. But first we have to give you some background."

"Of?" I asked.

"Filmography." Chiron stated simply.

Jason and I looked at each other. What?

Then Dionysus squealed? "Oh, they do do it."

Chiron looked ready to explode. You can tell Dionysus is very annoying and Chiron is not one to tolerate much longer.

Jason spoke first, "Do what?"

"That look… You both do that look where-" Dionysus started but Chiron shushed him.

"Enough, Dion." Chiron said carefully. Dionysus smiled into his can of coke and let Chiron continue. "Well in the past week we have chosen to film a few scenes mostly where the protagonists interact. We did that to choose if we need it: the love scene or not."

Knew it…

Dionysus continued for him, "Those scenes are not for the movie just yet. Some but not all. So we were analyzing the scenes. You might not… what's the word… bond much off screen but on screen, the sparks are a-flying!"

Chiron glared once more in Dionysus' direction, "Most adaptations of this famous playwright include a love scene. Even the 1968 version and that one included a fifteen year old. Now both of you are in your twenties, right, so that's not the talk. We would like to know if you'd be willing to film that scene for the movie."

I shifted in my seat. I reached for the coke on the table. I let the droplets that formed of the surface of the glass soak into my hand. I took a sip of it and set it on my lap.

Jason passed a hand over his hair.

"I know it's an outward question but we need to know right away. The deadline for the actual filming is this following week." Chiron expressed with his hands.

"I would have to talk with my manager." I managed shyly.

"Me too, but if the movie requires it then…" Jason managed as well.

"I guess…" I said.

"Why don't you talk to them with those tappy thingies you use?" Dionysus snorted, "It'd save you a trip back here. Besides, clock is ticking here…"

He tapped his finger on his watch.

I sighed. I really don't feel like talking to Silena about this of the phone. Besides, she would tell me to jump for it. We talked about this, days ago. I guess I have to accept. And well it's a 'new stage'. Mom and Dad said to try the movie biz. This is what they asked for, right… And who knows where my sister is. She told me that she had to do an errand and that wouldn't be able to come with me to the meeting.

"A call with my sister will lead no where. I guess I'll do it." I admitted.

Dionysus smirked. Chiron smiled gratefully. They looked at Jason.

"Uh… eh what the heck." He smiled a winning smile.

"Great. Now we can include that in the scripts and give it to the cast by Friday." Chiron laughed. "I'll fax the contracts to your managers so you can revise it."

"Now evaporate. Shoo. Minimize. Go away. We have matters to attend here." Dionysus said annoyed.

"Oh-uh-ok-um-yeah-I'm going-bye." Jason and I stuttered and stumbled to comply the lazy producers orders. That and well the mood was really uncomfortable by then.

"Exit through the back door to your cars. The paparazzi won't get you there." Chiron told as we left.

"Thank you."

Thanks."

Once we got passed the door frame, I breathed in and enjoyed it.

I am never doing a movie again, period. Getting that through my parent's head will be tough but it has to be done.

After a few moments of calming down, Jason said, "Would you like to get something? I don't know about you but I am starving. On me."

"I don't think that is a good idea. With the press and all; we won't get a bite in." I told him.

He frowned but insisted. "Oh, come on. We are not doing anything. It won't be on our conscious."

He smiled childishly and I couldn't help but grin.

"On me…" he repeated.

I took me a while but I complied. "Okay. With one condition."

He frowned playfully, "Oh a condition… dun dun dun…"

"We ask each other things we want to know. Of ourselves… And by the time we get out of the place we are the best of friends." I told him.

"Hmm, you want to make it uncomfortable don't ya. Is that a gift?" he asked.

I chuckled, "No. Now I'll meet you there. We came in our own cars."

"Kay, meet you there. Wait where?"

I was about to leave when we said that. "Ha, ready to leave and we don't know where. Classic."

He laughed, "Yeah, so…?"

"Um…" I said. "Cheesecake Factory! I haven't been there in ages!"

"Okay um, we are not far from the one in the Glendale Galleria. Seems like your wish's coming true." Jason smirked.

Was it just me or is he flirting again…

"Not working…" I told him, playing at annoyed.

"What's not working?"

"That," I waved my fingers in front of his face, "The smirks, winning smiles, twinkling eyes, charming words… Not working. You can't be out of the it-couple's list, huh?"

He scoffed and pretended to be hurt, "Well…"

"Oh lets go… I'm hungry too."

"Don't you think it's weird when everyone says that we have chemistry when we barely know who we are?" Jason asked me as he takes a sip of his drink.

I laughed, "Yeah, and the Instagram pictures. I mean don't they see that we are barely touching?"

Now he laughed.

We had arrived at the restaurant. The lights were dimmed out. We were given a table without a window and at the corner of the restaurant. A glass division was set. I bet they have this table for celebrities or something because it's really cozy. And besides, we were attended quickly.

"Okay lets start with the round of I-don't-know-how-many questions." Jason said, biting into his cheese enchiladas.

"Okay, I'll go first." I began to think, "Do I ask personal or general questions first?"

"Does that count as a question?" he asked me.

"Does that count as a question?" I retorted.

His eyebrows scrunched up in confusion. We ended up laughing.

"You know what? I'm going to ask you something I have wanted to know for some time now. Did you want to be a singer? I mean you sing so beautifully but you always seem to have something hidden." He asked, pretending to have a microphone in his hand.

I smiled, "First, thank you and second, we'll my parents are big in show biz. Dad's an actor and Mom's a designer. And plus they both do producing, directing, and all that. And I guess that I have always want to do that. But my parents wanted me to 'expand my voice'. I did that and I love it but want to go 'behind the camera', you know?"

I shifted in my seat and pretended to take the microphone from him, "Now did you always enjoy stealing millions of girls' hearts?

I remembered my high school years. Girls had collages of pictures of Jason in their gym and regular lockers. Since Jason is a child actor, I always heard of him. And I have to admit. I had tiny beginnings of a crush on him in eighth grade. I don't know where it went but now it seems to be coming back.

"Well it's a natural hobby. Enough said." He responded. "Can we include truth or dare?"

"No. I always get beaten down at those." I protest.

"That's the point. Truth or dare?"

"Do I have say in this?"

"No, not at all. Truth or dare?" he insisted.

I scoffed, "Truth."

Truth is safer right?

"Did you have or had a crush at some point in your life?"

No, it's not.

"Yes." I said plainly. I smiled grew on his lips. "Don't get comfortable. I didn't say how much or how big it was. Truth or dare?"

He chuckled, "Dare."

"Since we are playing at this, I dare you to tell me if you had a crush on me."

Before Jason could respond, my phone vibrated. "Sorry, got to take this."

I saw on my caller ID that it was Leo.

I stood up and walked to the women's restroom.

"Hello?"

"Beauty Queen! Guess where I am standing?" A quirky voice said at the end.

"Leo, don't call me that. You know better! And where?"

"At Chiron Brown's front porch."

Piper stopped dead in her tracks. "Why?"

"I have been chosen to become Chiron's prodigy for a whole movie. Can you guess which movie?" Leo dared.

"Mine?" I squeaked.

"Yep. Yours. Now gotta go. I'm ringing the big man's doorbell." The call ended with the sound of a doorbell.

Great. Now my best friend will be in the crew seeing me bare in a bed with Jason in front a bunch of cameras… Just fabulous…

I walked back to the table. "Sorry about that. My best friend called."

"Everything alright?" he asked.

"Yeah… so answer the question. Don't think I forgot. I am determined to make you my second best friend."

"Ouch. Second? You are putting me in levels." He smirked. "And no."

I stayed quiet for a second. I had this weird feeling in my chest in which I felt something drop.

He seemed to notice, "Pipes-can I call you that-you said had. Past tense."

I caught on quick. "So you have a crush on me?"

"Of course. You are so cute. You make the most awkward scenes easy, like those kisses. I always get twisted in those. And besides, I see that there's more to you than meets the eye. I like that in girls. Just saying." Jason clarified.

I bit my inner lip, "Nice save."

"Now who was you first kiss?"

"And you took that turn," I laughed.

"Yeah I did. Who?"

"My best friend," I told him, "We were in seventh grade. Some boys at school made fun of him when he admitted to them that he never kissed a girl. To make him feel better I confessed that I never kissed a boy too. I proposed to him that we should be each other's firsts. We agreed and yeah."

"And I'm tearing up now." He chuckled nervously.

"Now I'm gonna make you cry for real. Tell me something deep. Something that you never forget." I told him.

"I was six when my mom died. I was given to my dad. Zeus Grace. He had had another family while he was with my mom. So when she died I met my sister, Thalia. I never knew she existed. My dad was never around so Thalia and I grew up together with the occasional maid. Then he decided to move to Europe. By then we were eighteen. We stayed here in California. I don't know how I managed to become a child actor with all that chiz. Where I am going with this is that I don't have a sense of family. And I am scared for when I settle with a family. I won't be able to give my children that father they need." By now Jason's blue orbs were glazed. I knew he wanted to maintain his ground.

"I'm sorry. But I know that won't be the case. You want to be there for them, something your dad never did. You learned from his mistakes and look at you. A real eye candy." I encouraged him.

He bellowed a loud laugh. "Thanks... Now your turn. Tell me something. We are going to be best friends right."

I stayed silent for a while. "I don't have much to say. The worst thing that could have happened to me is that I'm always controlled by my parents. They have like this plan out for me. My sister managed to escape it but I am not like her. So I am always attached to their wings."

"We'll everyone has the pain burden. Hopefully, that's the biggest you'll get." Jason told me.

"Do you think we are best friends now?" I ask him.

"Do you?"

I think for a while. Maybe with this little talk, we are.

All I can do now is nod.

A/N: Sorry for the long wait! Hard life, here. (Who's isn't, right?) I am finally catching up. Truthfully, the only story I am having trouble with is "Fearless Heart".

Anyway thank you for my faithful followers. You are my best friends now. Thank you! Hope you like that little Jasper exchange. I needed to do something to get them together somehow. Don't worry I won't make them date just yet. Leo, hasn't been personally presented yet. Sorry if there are some mistakes, I'm doing this at 11:26pm. I'm tired and sick and tired, oh and sick.

Please review!

~BeautiWind –heart-

PS – Long chappie here: 3,368 words. Wow!