She let out another sigh and decided to focus on each task as it came her way – for now she could just enjoy having her face made up by the professional.
Mirroring the position Tsuruga Ren had taken in the trailer the moment Kyoko had jumped away in nervousness, Sho Fuwa sat in one of the supplied seats with a fury boiling deep down in the depths of his stomach. The first task this morning had clearly been a failure, it destroyed him the fact he had been so close to getting exactly what he wanted. One of the biggest reasons behind the actions was not only to be able to tastes Kyoko's lips again, but he knew, if they had, the girl would be skittish with her tall acting senpai for the entire day; which would have given him plenty of opportunities to get deep in under that guys skin.
Who had that little blonde brat been anyway? She definitely wasn't a real relative of Kyoko's… that girl had always been an only child. It irked Sho that Kyoko had such close affiliations with people he wasn't clued in upon – he was so used to her life revolving completely around him that for an unknown factor to appear in the equation disturbed him deeply.
The singer looked back down at the sheet of paper in his hands revising the schedule in place for today.
The first scene of the promo was going to be the first scene that they were going to shoot, they planned to capture the shot on the corner just around from the entrance of the amusement park, so that it would look like it was just a normal street corner but so they could make use of the area for the amusement park date shots a little bit later.
The park has a later opening on Monday mornings, so it was a good opportunity as the shot wouldn't be affected by the sounds of the general public on the rides inside the vine covered walls.
After that they would be shooting the two different dates for Kyoko. The one with the ex and the one with himself. The director wanted all the shots to be as natural as possible so the plan was to just have a couple of cameras observing from different angles and letting us react naturally to the surroundings.
There was a rough guideline to the sequence of events to take place, typical "Date" kind of set up. Do a rollercoaster ride, eat some ice cream, do something like maybe one of the tea cup swirling rides, the haunted house, win her an over sized stuffed animal and then take a ride on the Ferris wheel – the most stereotypical romantic ride.
Usually these kinds of stereotypical behaviours made the teen idol nauseous, but the opportunity to do them with Kyoko prompted a self-satisfied smile upon his face and found him having to control himself from doing a little happy dance out in public and embarrassing himself.
The best part about it is that Kyoko has to respond accordingly, she can't struggle and push him away or yell at him… she has to be in love with him
Kyoko exited the trailer in time to see Sho form a self-satisfied grin on his face and give the subtle vibration that gave away to her that he was clearly trying to suppress a happy dance. What over? She had no idea, and well, considering it was Sho-Baka, she didn't really care.
She had also exited in time to see Takarada Lory and Tsuruga Ren come out from the shadows they had hidden themselves in for their private conversation.
The president looked positively frustrated, so it appeared that Ren hadn't divulged the details of last night to him then. Kyoko let out a quick sigh in relief because she did not want to deal with the president on that issue today!
Now if Sho had not been staring at Kyoko, admiring her slender body in the pale pink, delicate sundress, he might not have seen the little tremor run through her body when she saw Tsuruga Ren. In alarm, Sho looked up to her face to try and to figure out why she was thinking when the shudder went through her body. To say he was pleased with the look he saw, would be underwhelming; without even acknowledging that obviously something had happened to make her so nervous around the tall actor, Sho revelled in the thought that although his plan had been slightly altered in the beginning, it was starting to turn back to his favour again.
CUT!
"Ok, guys that was better… but I want to do one more take… Sho could you tone down your hatred for Tsuruga Ren's character… you of all people should know that the song is not about hating the ex but relishing the jewel you have that he threw away. Ren… the sadness in your eyes was perfect – I could really feel how you wished that she was in your arms again and Kyoko, the tension between you and Tsuruga-san was perfect, but can I get you to relax a little more into Fuwa's presence?"
The young teen bowed to the director
"Yes, of course, I will get it perfect this time!"
The actor smiled down at the girl with a tender affection that was not missed by anyone standing by watching. The musician on the other hand just gave the actor one quick glare and grunted a "sure" in response to the director's instructions.
Before they parted to go to their respective starting positions on either side of the corner, Sho made sure he got one little parting shot in to set Tsuruga Ren on edge.
"I guess it's pretty easy to act wishing she was in your arms. It must suck to think that every time she is with you, in some way she is thinking of me, you'll always be her Senpai, but I will be her first love, her sworn enemy and the one who broke her heart – that is until she decides to come running back"
With a little smirk Sho stalked to his starting position, pleased by the tension in the slightly older man's eyes.
Ren took a few breaths to calm the blood boiling in his veins from the little twerps' comments. He reminded himself, that last night in his apartment, it was his name Kyoko called when she was semi-unconscious and his name she had gasped into his ear. He was the one Kyoko turned to when in need. However, no matter how hard he tried to convince himself, the blonde's words had struck a chord deep within himself that harmonised along with the one telling him he wasn't good enough for her.
Around the corner, Kyoko herself had to take in a couple of deep breaths, in order to focus herself back into character. She unfortunately had let herself drift too deep into Ren's eyes, losing character focus, and well, out of character, Kyoko's body did NOT want to be in intimate contact with number one Jerk, Fuwa Sho. She calmed her grudges down and reminded herself that she was a professional and that she was currently in the middle of a job – what kind of a kohai would she be if she could not act accordingly on set, letting her personal life influence her scenes.
The signal was given that the camera was now rolling and it was time for the scene to begin.
A tall, boyishly handsome Blonde dressed in an mostly unbuttoned cream, casual dress shirt, matched with slacks in a dark and richly coloured dark brown had his arm wrapped around a petite fairly like girl, whose hair was a light brown, bordering orange colour, spiked lightly to create a pixy affect. Her dress was a spaghetti strapped pale pink sundress with matching low heeled pumps. Her eyes appeared to glitter like facets on a diamond catching sunlight and everything about her seemed slightly more than human in elegance.
On the other side of the corner the couple were about to walk around was an incredibly tall and mysteriously dark man. He wore a well worn, long dark brown leather jacket over a pair of what appeared to be equally well worn rustic looking leather pants that formed a second skin over his long legs and a black sheer tank top, that if he were to have removed the coat would have shown arms that were well toned and would make most girls met a little inside. Attached to his black belt on his pants were three chains that hung from the front of his left hip to the back of the hip.
As the young girl from the couple and the man bump into each other there is moment of recognition in each others faces as the Blonde just looks down at his girlfriend enquiringly.
"Hey…"
The girl softly says, almost afraid that speaking would make the man in front of her disappear as if he was only an illusion her mind conjured up. The dark man responds with an acknowledging nod.
"I've missed you…"
She responds tenderly, the man just looks her in the eyes with a flash of regret and resignation.
"I'm sorry for everything… I hope you're happy"
The man's voice is deep with affection as he caresses the girls face ever so lightly, before stiffening, taking a step back, nodding reservedly to the Blonde man accompanying the lady and with one last yearning look into the girl's eyes he turns the corner and out of their sight.
The blonde pulls the girl into an affectionate hug, seeing that she was clearly affected by the presence of this man. After a moment, her pulls out of the embrace to hold her at semi-arms length and looks deep into her eyes.
"Are you ok?" he asks.
The girl just demurely nods her head in reply
"Who was he?"
The girl takes a deep breath before responding to the question
"My Ex…"
Both the couple look back to where the mysterious looking man had been standing just before, the boy with a look of shock and an odd shimmer of sympathy, the girl with a look of sorrow and remembrance for a love long ago.
The boy brings the girl back into a side embrace and the two continue on the path they were walking, albeit a little more sombrely this time.
Hey guys!
sorry for the update taking so long... I wish I could've made the chapter longer... but this has been one of the hardest chapters to write - don't know why exactly, but it wasn't really flowing to me... =(
I'm really sorry if it's not up to top standard, but I don't want to look at it again for a while, but figured you guys would want to read it now, dodgy or not... rather than in another weeks time when I have to tolerance to re read through it and fix any mistakes.
Reviews have been making me very happy and inspire me to keep fighting, especially during a chapter like this in which the imagination juices just weren't flowing!
I'll try to make the next chapter quicker and longer... but as I can't promise anthing!
Also please keep throwing ideas my way - they really do help!
