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"AND...ACTION!"

Sabrina and Skandar take off down the beach, the redhead's hair flying in the wind behind her as she laughs and shouts after the boy in front of her. Sand flies up from beneath their bare feet.

"Edmund!"

Grinning widely, Skandar glances over his shoulder when he hits his mark and immediately trips over his feet, crashing to the ground and rolling through the sand. Sabrina hardly has to force her laughter at the comical sight. She stumbles to a stop next to him, catching her breath between laughing while Skandar, absolutely covered in white sand, makes pained noises and drapes his arm over his eyes, trying not to laugh with her.

Sabrina looks up suddenly towards the marker further along the beach when Anna calls out her line. "Are you two alright!?"

Skandar rolls over and lifts his head to shout in response. "We're f –!" A violent coughing fit interrupts him mid-sentence, a strong gust of wind throwing sand right into his face and prompting Sabrina to swallow her hysterical laughter and shield her eyes. Somewhere offset, Andrew can be heard howling while the two teenagers endure the miniature sandstorm, one of them coughing and the other holding in her laughter to keep from inhaling sand.

"Cut!" He manages, the wind dying down at last. "Let's try it again, guys!"

Still laying on his back on the beach, Skandar groans loudly. "I have to fall again!? "

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"Will!" Anna shrieks, throwing her hands up to shield her face from the flying water droplets. He stops messing around with the oars in the water and shoots her an apologetic expression.

"Sorry," he says, trying not to laugh.

Anna shakes her head at him and tries to smooth down her frizzy hair. "You better not have ruined my makeup or Anita's going to be cross with you."

Will waves her off. "She won't; it looks fine."

Georgie looks up from fussing with her dress and giggles. "Skandar, you have a leaf in your hair."

"What?" He reaches up and runs his fingers through his hair in search of said leaf. "And nobody told me?" He accuses, absolutely ruining his carefully-styled hair in the process.

Anna sighs. "Well, you got it," she says. "But now you look like a bushperson."

Will glances between the two of them and shakes his head. "Don't look at me," he chuckles, holding his hands up. "I'm not styling it."

Sabrina sighs and pulls herself half out of the water to help. "Here, turn around."

The dark-haired boy shoots the occupants of the boat accusatory, fake glares. "Oh, see?" he drawls. "Sabrina's willing to help me."

The french girl laughs and flicks water from her hand to dry it. "Anita is going to lose her mind when she sees this." Skandar smiles sheepishly and bends down for her to reach him from her place floating in the river behind the boat.

The walkie-talkie onboard the little boat beeps and Andrew's voice pours from it. "You guys ready over there?"

Peter, sitting at the front of the boat and watching the teens' antics, picks up the device to reply. "We're experiencing a bit of a hair crisis," he says, earning some laughter from Georgie, who was running through her lines.

"It is under control! I have taken hairdressing courses before." The redhead insists, wetting her fingers in the water to help style Skandar's hair a little nicer. "See?" She leans back to examine her work with a satisfied grin. "You cannot even tell!"

Peter laughs and relays her message through the walkie-talkie. "Sabrina's handling it."

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Anna watches the ashes from the fire drift through the air before turning toward the girl sitting a few feet to the left of her. "I'm glad you're here with us, Arryn." She pauses to let a grin take over her face. "And so is Edmund."

Sabrina smiles shyly and opens her mouth to respond when light snoring comes from Skandar lying in the grass beside her. The two girls laugh quietly but manage not to break character.

Sabrina continues with her lines, hoping to successfully make it through the scene this time. "I'm glad too, your majesty," she says, keeping her voice low. "Although I wish I could do more to help."

Anna smiles. "You are. Really. You didn't have –"

A second, particularly loud bout of snoring from Skandar interrupts her line.

"Oh my god," Will exclaims, giving up pretending to sleep. Georgie sits up as well and bursts into a fit of giggles.

"Cut!"

Anna flops tiredly onto her back while Sabrina stares incredulously at the dark-haired boy. "I cannot believe he actually is asleep."

"Let's take five, everyone!"

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Skandar holds a handful of vibrant blueberries in his palm as they walk through the set of the Lost Rocks. He picks one up and Sabrina quickly slaps it from his hand.

"Those are eurichberries!" She hisses. "They're poisonous, imbecile!"

Skandar grins at her state of alarm. "I know," he replies. "Watch."

While the girl stares at him in blatant confusion, he begins throwing them at the back of Will's head. After a few tries, he still hasn't managed to actually hit his target as he's supposed to and Sabrina is starting to look genuinely baffled.

"Are you missing on purpose?" She asks.

His sheepish chuckle quickly turns into a dramatic, frustrated noise. "Would you quit moving so much!?" Skandar demands.

Will laughs and turns around. "I'm walking!" He protests. Skandar hurls a blueberry at his face and Will quickly leaps forward to catch it gracefully in his mouth, throwing his hands up in victory at the perfect catch. The five teenagers on set simultaneously erupt into excited cries of disbelief.

"OOHHHHH!"

"YES WILL!"

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Laying across from one another in the grass, Sabrina's pale hand rests delicately in Skandar's grasp. The fire next to them crackles quietly while he runs his fingers over the girl's freckled skin, looking terribly awkward and forced with his movements.

Andrew lifts the microphone from his lap and turns it on. "Can you try to make it look a little more intimate?" He deadpans. "You guys are friends, you both think the other is hot, you're really connecting — having a really touching moment."

Sabrina rolls over in uncontrolled laughter, her hand still in Skandar's.

"She's not a case of the plague," Andrew continues teasingly. "Don't be shy, Skandy."

Skandar's shoulders shake with laughter. "My hands are sweating so much," he admits. "I think I've wreaked the scar makeup."

This makes the redhead laugh harder, tears forming in the corners of her eyes while she struggles to catch her breath.

He chuckles at her hysterics. "I am never going to live this down, am I?"

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Sabrina races through the trees, following the unmarked path burned into her memory from running it so many times. Behind her, Anna, Skandar and Peter follow in a line.

From behind her, she hears Anna calling Will's character, Peter, a 'daft twit.' This never fails to make the redhead smile, and she looks down to dodge anything that might be hiding in the tall grass when she sees movement.

Screaming at the top of her lungs, she dances away from it, crying, "Snake! Snake! Snake!" and causing Anna to react in the same manner. The two of them sprint seemingly for their lives in the opposite direction.

"Cut!" Andrew announces through his megaphone. "Let's get a snake wrangler in there, please!"

Skandar, looking both amused and mildly panicked, follows the girls, who are now holding onto each other with barely-contained laughter.

"I'll make sure that makes it in the bloopers reel, Sabrina."

She looks over at Andrew with a teasing grin. "Mercí."

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"Action!"

Heavily armoured in an over-large suit, the barely recognizable Sabrina sidesteps and lifts her sword to strike the 'flying arrow' out of the air. Quickly, she reaches up and grasps the helmet on her head. As she yanks it off to dramatically reveal her long red hair and freckled face, the leather chin strap that was done up too tight doesn't fall open and instead causes her head to jerk back as she pulls.

"Ow!" Sabrina reflexively drops both the sword and the helmet from her hand in shock. One clatters to the stone ground while the other lands jarringly against her skull. Anna, Will, and Ben's laughter carries across the courtyard while the french girl rubs her sore neck.

"Cut! You okay, Sabrina?"

She smiles at the stupid mistake. "All good!"

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author's note

hey guys! here's a quick bonus chapter to tie y'all over until I can get the next *real* chapter out! I'm having a lot of fun with these and definitely plan on writing some more once i have my life back lmao school is a bitch i cannot wait for summer. literally. i am so sick of winter.

idk how cold it is for everyone else right now but here, it is literally -49ºC (-56F). school buses are not running tomorrow. i can't remember the last time they ever cancelled their routes. i am so glad school is online and i dont have to leave the house lol i miss doing homework in the sun.

anyways, i'm probably going to unpublish this chapter once the next real chapter is posted, just to make everything easier. then i'll post it later with the rest of the extras at the end of the book. unless you guys want me to leave it? idk haha let me know!