AN: So I've decided to continue but one thing that made me a little annoyed was that there were people who cared more about my emotional and psychological health (love you guys) but there were others who didn't care and wanted a continuation. So, even though more people want me to continue this against my emotional wishes, than will consider reviewing this chapter, here you go.

Anyway, better continue with the chapter then.

Act Thirty-Three – A Little Too Real

After some time, the two of them were sitting down and Kyoko was looking at the script quite confused. Something on this page was making Corn uneasy but she wasn't sure what it was. Corn had spent a number of years on Earth already and so he should have picked up the Japanese language. Of course, Bo wasn't supposed to know that Corn was a fairy prince or she would give herself away.

"So, you came here to shoot a film, but when you arrived the director told you they had made some changes and suddenly handed you this script?" she asked just to get clarification on the situation. She wasn't sure what the problem was. She just knew that it was bothering Corn and she really didn't like that idea.

"Yes," Ren sighed as he looked at the rooster. He was feeling quite embarrassed about such a problem given his status in Japan.

Kyoko hummed before taking another look at the script, "So?" she asked still a little confused about why Corn needed help – no, why Ren needed help. "What part are you confused about? I don't understand why you're having trouble."

Ren sighed and bowed his head, "That's what I figured," he told the rooster. "That's why I didn't want to ask anyone. For this dance to be included in the script, it must be something that 80% of the population knows?"

Kyoko took another look at the script. There wasn't a dance written down in the script? Was Corn able to see something with his fairy powers that she couldn't see for herself. Did fairies have a different form of reading that earthlings weren't aware of. She wouldn't be surprised. The fairy kingdom was such a magical place after all.

Ren continued and Kyoko tried to mask her confusion out of respect. "I didn't want anyone to know that I had no idea what it meant, so I tried to find out on my own but unfortunately…I forgot my cell phone."

Kyoko sighed. She wanted to help him but she wasn't able to read in the same fashion that the fairy royals did. She didn't think that she would be of any help to him. She would have wanted to do something to aid him but he was seeing a dance in the script and…was Corn using the word dance correctly? Maybe the fairy kingdom used a different language entirely and he was talking about the movement of the words on the page. Did he mean flow instead of dance?

"So," Kyoko said slowly, hearing Ren sigh as she asked this. "What part don't you understand?"

Ren sighed again before tapping the script and Kyoko stared at it. There was only one word that she thought he would have trouble with, given that Corn was a very intelligent fairy prince.

"Tentekomai?" she asked confused and Ren nodded.

"I have to respond to this line with 'That must have been tough'" he said and Ren looked ahead of him. Kyoko hated seeing the shame fall over his features and she wanted to help. It made sense that Corn would have difficulty with this word but she would have to figure out how to hide her character. "I have no idea what kind of dance this 'tentekomai' really is. I honestly have no clue."

Ren sighed, he could see the way that the rooster was looking at him and wondered if he was being judged by the person inside. He didn't want to feel that he was looking bad in his choice of acting. He sighed before deciding to continue explaining his problem, "If it's a dance with wild moves, then my line should express surprise. If it's a rhythmic dance, my line should express a sense of fun. So, my acting depends on the meaning of this dance. As long as I have no idea what this dance is about. I'll never be able to say my lines properly. So can you help me?"

When he looked at her with his expression turning softer Kyoko had to hold herself from laughing at how adorable he seemed. He was four years older than her and yet his face looked so full of innocence. It was strange seeing him in such a condition.

"What is tentekomai, what kind of dance is it?" Ren asked and somehow the rooster broke down into laughter. Was he really this foolish as to ask for help? Of course help came with a side order of judgement.

…..

…..

After a lot of laughter, Kyoko looked up to see Yashiro standing there with a very relieved expression on his face.

"Oh, Ren, there you are. I don't have a cell phone right now, so can you please stop running off without telling me?" he said and Ren smiled softly.

"Sorry, I wanted to be alone to rehearse my lines," he apologized and Kyoko couldn't hold back her laughter again despite how flustered he was and how much it annoyed him. Yashiro turned to Bo, "Who's this? A friend of yours?" he asked and Ren didn't know how to respond. He didn't want to keep friends in this country, actually he didn't really want the concept of friends in his life apart from Kyoko and that had been a friendship made before everything turned dark.

"You don't have to laugh that much," he scolded as Kyoko waved her wing in apology. "It's embarrassing."

"It's not really something that most people would get confused about," she told him trying to cover up the fact that she was laughing at him because he had looked so sweet and innocent. She was really trying to brush away her feelings for him. "I mean," she lied, "You were born in this country and you've lived here for over 20 years, yet you've never heard of it?"

As she followed Ren instinctively, her eyes caught onto the bright light that was being used on the set and she froze. She saw Ren turn to her and his eyes had a lot of shame in them again. Was there something else? Some other word in the script that she could help him with?

"I know that I just met you," he told her, "and what I'm about to say, I would prefer you not to repeat but perhaps you could help me with a personal problem as well," he told him. "I don't want to burden you with too much though so you're welcome to not listen."

Kyoko attempted to look away from the light and nodded, she was having flashbacks of Shotaro after all.

"I have a very important girl in my life, a very important friendship that I'm trying to keep," he told her and Kyoko felt her heart pinch. So, Corn was attracted to somebody else and she just wished that she could help him and that this girl wasn't going to take advantage of him. "I've tried to tell her before but she wasn't listening or something distracted her and I don't know how to tell her that I've been lying to her."

Kyoko froze, Corn was lying to somebody important to him. That was something that he shouldn't be doing whether fairy or human. Hopefully it was a small lie that wouldn't be too painful to this woman. "What kind of a lie?" she asked and he froze.

"You can see that I'm a human, right?" he asked her and Kyoko nodded, her eyes widening as he said this and her mind trying to tell her that he was a human right now, he had traded in his fairy wings to become human. "I was born a human and I'll probably die as a human," he said and Kyoko felt her heart thumping in her chest. "She thinks that I'm a fairy," he said and Kyoko felt herself become weak.

She laughed a little, "What do you mean? What kind of a fairy?" she asked although now she was terrified of who this man in front of her actually was. She laughed a little more, trying to hide behind her character, "That's ridiculous. The girl must be insa-"

"Please don't insult her," Ren said and Kyoko could see the panic in his facial expression. "She's not crazy, she's unique sure but she's extremely important to me. I don't know how to break the news to her that, at least in my mind, fairies don't exist. She's really dedicated to her beliefs in the fairy kingdom," he told her and Kyoko paused as she fell to the ground.

Fairies don't exist. Fairies don't exist.

Kyoko wanted to scream. Who was this man in front of her? If Corn wasn't a fairy then what did that make him. Ren looked to her concerned.

"What on earth?" he asked as she was on her hands and knees. "What's wrong?" he asked as Kyoko tried to come up with some excuse that would make him continue to think that it wasn't her that he had admitted this to. First she had seen Shotaro rise above her making her climb seem even harder and now she had the person she had trusted the most tell her that he had been lying to her this whole time.

"It's my anemia," she lied.

"Well," Ren said and Kyoko didn't want to look at him. She didn't know him anymore. She had never known the proper him. "That's hardly surprising seeing as how you've been wearing that costume the whole time," he told her and Kyoko tried to block out her pain. "Wouldn't you feel better if you took off your headpiece?" he asked her and Kyoko knew that right now she didn't want to feel exposed to this stranger.

She slammed her hands down as he reached for her head. His touch was gentle but it was still that of a stranger. "I thought you weren't feeling well," Ren told her and Kyoko felt nervous looking at him.

"Oh, um, well no, it's just that today," she said nervously, "I got fired from my job playing this mascot. So, I'd like to stay in this costume just a little longer," she tried to beg him not ready to admit the real reason for this change.

"You're hopeless," Ren told her and Kyoko paused, "If you can't even get over this one lost job, you'll never make it in show biz. You…did you even like being a mascot?" he asked and Kyoko shook her head. She didn't want such a low-position in the first place.

"What's there to like about it?" she asked quickly and Ren sighed, looking at her in disappointment.

"Then get rid of that costume already," he told her, "You're so unmanly."

Kyoko wanted to snap at him for lying to her and that she was having a hard time even listening to his voice not knowing who he actually and truly was. She didn't want to give herself away and so, instead of saying the things that she wanted to say, she yelled something else at him, "What do you know!? You've never been fired!"

"Actually I have, since you mentioned it," he told her and Kyoko shook her head. He was lying to her again, he was a compulsive liar, he didn't know when to stop lying. Reading her body language, Ren continued to watch her. "Why would I lie about something like that?" he asked, enjoying the thrill of having an actual conversation. "When I first got into show biz, I wanted to get famous quickly so I made a lot of mistakes. I had no experience but I wouldn't listen to any of my directors so I kept getting fired."

Kyoko saw him counting on his fingers going far over a dozen times as he talked about how often he had been fired. Was that why he lied to people? Was he really a conman that chose a fake identity each time he got fired so that people would still hire him?

She sighed. He was still someone she didn't know but it wasn't as if his life had been easy, it wasn't as if he had gone through with no trouble because of his lies and she had to admit that since he had reentered her life, he had provided for her and given her more than she felt that she deserved. Maybe if she learned about the real him, the lie wouldn't seem so bad but underneath all of it, who was he really? Why had he told her such a ridiculous false name the first time that they had met?

End of Act Thirty Three

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