Chapter 6: I must find out
It has only been a week since the filming of 'Devil's Daughter' was delayed; due to the Director having to go away for some business as well as his vacation which gave the actors and actresses a break from the film. Ren on the other hand, didn't have a break that week since he had to do some small scenes with the assistant director while Konoe was away just so the film could be completed upon his return.
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Ren had today free as for the last week other than the small filming he had to do for Konoe he was also, always booked up with either interviews or modelling gigs. He planned that today he would find out some more information about who 'Rosa' really was as he barely knew anything about this co-star. Every time he saw her she would avoid eye contact and wouldn't give him a second to speak as she'd always walk away to meet with a man, that he assumed was the same one she met at the studio before.
He was sitting in his study behind his desk with his laptop open, looking at the LME website to see if he could get any general information about her. The first thing that he notices while surfing the site was the page about rising stars he notices Kyoko's profile that used to be there had been recently removed.
"This is odd, for 3 years her profile remained in the risingstar section but now it's gone. Did something happen to her?" He thought to himself then, lets out a sigh not wanting to believe what Rosa told him about Kyoko being dead.
Ren continues to search the site till he gets to the section Top Stars where his profile was located and to his unexpected surprise he finds her profile in there as he remembers what Lory said about her only staying for the movie filming. He clicks on her name to open the profile; first thing the sees was her main picture of her with her arms neatly in front of her. She smiles so sweetly.
"That's unusual. I was expecting a picture of her with her icy glare, but her smiles look so innocent and sweet." Ren then smacks himself for just having the thought that Rosa could be sweet since she didn't act that way when she's around him.
He continues looking at her profile notices the pictures of her roles that was under her main picture, there were 9 but the first 3 images were grey with the word "Classified" which just confused him more. As those images would have been about her first few acting roles, "More questions of what this girl is trying to hide."
Ren then looks at the chart with her personal information but sees that real name and birthday was blank and where it mentioned Birthplace it only says Japan with no town name. Being unable to find out what he wanted, he gets frustrated. "She is really hiding stuff from everyone except Lory, he must be in on it to employ her as one of his top stars…"
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After some more attempts at trying to find out something about Rosa, Ren gets up and walks out of his study heading towards his living room grabbing a glass of scotch before laying on the couch.
"I hope that woman is wrong about Kyoko… I was so close but she slipped through my fingers… I need to ask President Lory what he knows even if the last time I asked he just told me that he had no information about her whereabouts… I need to know." Ren thought to himself before suddenly his phone begins to ring.
"Hello?" Ren says as he didn't look at the caller ID before answering the call.
"Hello Ren…" A man spoke on the other end which was none other than his Manager Yashiro Yukihito.
"Is something wrong Yashiro-san?" Ren asks as his manager rarely calls for any personal reasons.
"Oh, no no. It's just that your schedule for tomorrow has been changed to finish your movie filming. I guess one of the actors are taking a vacation or something so they had to move the scene from a week to tomorrow." Yashiro says to Ren over the phone with a feeling that he won't be too pleased with that change.
"What about Director Konoe, I thought he was on vacation?" Ren asked confused about this since last he knew Director Konoe was away.
"Oh about him, he is coming back to film the scene then he will go away again." Yashiro says.
"Do you know who was the one that needed to finish this film sooner than originally planned?" Ren asks his manager trying to figure things out.
Yashiro sighs, "I believe it's the leading lady…I forgot what her name was…"
"Rosa is her name... Do you know why she needed the filming date changed by any chance Yashiro-san?" Ren asked more curious, due to it involving the girl that he is trying to find out about, in order to find the information he needs about his lost girl.
Yashiro sighs, "Sorry but I don't know why Ren. I was only informed about the date change." When he heard the silences, he takes the opportunity to ask a question, "But Ren why are you so interested in this woman?" He asks, as the last time he saw Ren being interested in a woman was Kyoko.
Ren groans that neither him nor Yashiro knows anything about the woman but then heard his manager's question, "There is just something about her that I don't trust like she hiding something from everyone. I want to find out just what it is."
"Well I wasn't informed about anything about that girl except for what has been published about her in a few magazines." Yashiro says but like Ren he was having a feeling that Lory would know something, "Well Ren I will see you tomorrow at 9 o'clock."
"Okay bye Yashiro-san." With that Ren ends the call with his manger with still a lot of question.
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Ren goes to the kitchen to pour himself another glass of scotch before returning to his spot on his couch once again.
"What is going on…why does no one know anything about that women or anything that she could be hiding behind those golden eyes of hers…She might have everyone else believing in her lies of who she's trying to be. But not me." Ren thought to himself not realizing that he's been lying about who he was for years so he takes his glass of scotch and drinks it down quick.
He was drowning in confusion on who the women he plays opposite to really is and the sadness of wanting to find out about what happen to the girl that got away from him years ago. He gets up again to fill up his drink and returning to his spot.
"I really hope Rosa was wrong about Kyoko being dead. Even if the LME website is just backing up her point that Kyoko was indeed dead I don't want to believe it." Ren sighs taking another sip of his scotch before laying on the couch staring up at the ceiling.
"Tomorrow after the shoots I need to confront her about what she knows so I can get the answers I want of where my Kyoko has ran off to before Rosa takes her leave… I need to find out everything that has to do with Kyoko to give me some closure especially if Rosa is linked to her." Ren thought to himself as the alcohol sets in erasing the sadness and broken heart with the thought that the girl that meant everything to him may have gone farther than his hands ever could be as Ren falls asleep on the couch.