"Alright..." Mai began as she glanced at her boyfriend and two coworkers. They were at the studio but had snuck away to some place quiet before work began that day to concot a plan to teach Amy a lesson.

"Does anyone of us have any idea what she would find unpleasant or terrifying?" Masako asked. She and John were good at this, but as it was Mai and Oliver's idea so they should have a plan.

"How are we suppose to know?" Mai questioned, frowning. "We barely know anything about her personal life, like fears and such."

"You plan to take her down a peg and you don't even have a plan?" John asked. "We thought you knew what you were doing, otherwise we would have just done it on our own."

The bruentte's eye twitched in anger. "Now listen here, you little—"

"Mai." Oliver spoke, interrupting the girl before a fight could break out. Reluctantly, the brunette bit her tongue down. Oliver took a hold of the conversation instantly. "We need any information any of us can glean. We've worked two days with her already, surely we've noticed something we can use."

"She's always barefoot?" Masako proposed. "Or wearing flip-flops."

"Or that she hates tea. I heard Nia talking about it yesterday morning when she was drinking it that Amy didn't like it." John spoke up next, listing things about their oldest director.

"She has a hand in her pocket when she doesn't think anyone's looking," Mai piped up. "And it's not her phone. She has that out on her director's chair and off during rehearsal. I think she's holding onto something."

"And that something would be...?" Masako droned, raising a brow slightly.

"I...don't know," Mai admitted.

Masako rolled her eyes. "Well, this is getting us no where." she mumbled, moving to lean on John.

"There has to be something we can do..." Mai mourned. She looked up at her boyfriend questioningly. "What do you think, Noll?"

Oliver fell into thought at this question. With the scarce information they had, could they really prank the director back?

"Perhaps we should wait a little longer and see if we can find out more about her." he finally replied.

"Who knows...maybe an opportunity will come staring us in the face..." Mai said. The others thought her too optimistic, but she would stand by her thoughts. They just needed to wait to see what the day held for them.

"Alright, everyone! Let's start!" they all just did hear Nia's voice calling for everyone to come on set.

"See if you guys can find anything more out by lunch," Oliver ordered. John and Masako, however, scoffed as they went to the set.

"Who died and made him boss?"

Lying on the floor in the postion she was suppose to, Mai opened her eyes. Only a moment later did she try to draw her head further away from Oliver in surprise. "Woah, I didn't expect him to be that close..."

"Oh, COME ON! The. Very. First. Scene?!" Nia yelled angrily, her eye twitching. Mai gave a sheepish smile.

"Sorry..."

XxX

"You should rest a little longer," Oliver said gently, laying his girlfriend back. She complied easily enough and then turned her head to look at her boyfriend.

"What's come over you? You're being so nice, Naru..." she said.

"I'm always nice," he returned. With that, the scene was broken and it was now Amy's turn to hold Nia back from raging. However, without the interference of either of the directors, the duo continued to debate whether or not Oliver was always nice to his girlfriend or not.

This was going tobe a long day.

XxX

"So you want to run away?!"

"Need I remind you that it was your own boss who ran away first?!" Ayako demanded Mai hotly. "He probably went home and cried himself to sleep."

"That is not true! Noll would never to something so petty! Don't think so lowly of him!" Mai retorted, her tone a bit harsher than Ayako's. As she felt the directors' glares on her, she realized she accidentally got out of character again. She gave a sheepish smile and apologized, seeing her boyfriend shaking his head off-set. "Oops..."

XxX

"You mean that incredibly swollen-headed, self-assured, world's-greatest holier-than-thou narcissist?" Mai asked curiously. She would not mess this up, she would not mess this up, she would not—

"In Shibuya-san's case, he probably got mad and went home to make up some straw effigy straws, don't you think?" John asked. The remaining trio looked worried for a moment before Mai deemed it was okay to laugh.

And so they all laughed. She laughed because she had finally not gotten a scene wrong. The Takigawa siblings laughed because Mai had no idea she had toilet paper on her head. John was trying to stay out of the way of the glaring directors moreso than the glaring black-haired actor who was standing right off-set and heard every word.

XxX

"You'll never believe what happen to us." Michiru began, only for Keiko to continue.

"Kazuya just called us up out of no where! We talked for like ten minutes!" she exclaimed excitedly, which caught Mai's feign interest.

"He called?!" Mai demanded, placing her hands on Keiko's shoulders.

"Y-yeah, last night..."

"Last night? He's been missing since yesterday afternoon! What did you talk about?!" Mai said her lines perfectly. Everyone could see Keiko paling.

"U-um, you k-know... About the s-school house... And-and...please don't hurt me, Mai!"

The brunette blinked in surprise, instantly removing her hands. That wasn't suppose to be the girl's lines...

Nia sighed. "It seems Miss Taniyama has frightened the girls now with talking about Mr. Davis... Despite those being her correct lines..." she muttered.

XxX

Mai stared at the glowing light for a moment, allowing her features to relax as they ought to.

"Please focus on the light," Oliver said from his spot near the principal's desk. "Please match—directors, I think you gave us bad equipment."

"Seriously? It's brand new," Amy grumbled as she went over to inspect the light that had just gone out. She hit it on the bottom of her hand a couple times before the light resumed its normal pulsating. She set it back down on the desk. "Okay, then. Let's try to get this done before the prop fails again."

XxX

"I heard that you got injured." Oliver stated as he and Mai walked down the hallway of her school.

"Oh, it was no big deal. It was just styrofoam." she replied nonchalantly.

"Miss Taniyama!" Nia's angered voice rang out, causing Mai to cringe and hide behind her boyfriend.

"Well, it was!"

XxX

"Don't you have to get back to class?" Oliver asked as he kept walking. Mai trailed behind him as she was supposed to.

"Never mind that," she said.

"I get it. You want to be stupid," he said, looking her dead in the eye as he continued to walk. Mai's eyes widened.

"Oliver, look out for—"

Mai's warning came too late as her boyfriend slipped on something that had been left on-set. He fell backwards and—inevitably—into Mai. The girl had the wind knocked right out of her.

"Can't...breathe..."

"Who had the candy bar?" Nia asked with a huff, taking the offending chocolate wrapper off the floor. No one answered her.

XxX

"Were you the one who set up the microphone on the second floor last night?" Oliver asked, one hand on the earphones that were on his head. Mai straightened her back up when she realized he was addressing her.

"Y-Yeah. We were getting good video of Lin and his wife goofing off backstage, but I thought we should have a mike in there, you know so the directors could hear what they were saying and yell at them for once." she replied. Amy let out a frustrated sigh.

"Miss Taniyama..." she warned.

"Well, they were!" Mai pouted. How is it that when she tried to bust someone else, she was the one to get in trouble?

"Brat..." Lin mumbled, his arms crossed.

XxX

"Oh, Mai-san's here, too," John said, coming out from behind the van.

"John?" she asked in an oblivious-like tone.

"All right, should we get started?" Oliver asked seriously. Mai blinked.

"But I thought we needed more—"

"That's just his line, Taniyama," John said, completely breaking character. Mai fumed.

"I knew that!"

The directors sighed. At least they could cut that last bit out and still salvage the scene...

XxX

John and Mai began hammering the nails in the boards as Oliver had instructed them to do. John did his carefully, but Mai pounded her nails harshly into the wood.

"You know, this really is danger— OW! I just hit my finger!" she cried out, dropping the hammer and cradling her hand to her chest. "I told you!" she addressed the directors.

"Just don't have your other hand so close to where you're hammering..." Nia gave a sigh while Oliver came into stage when his girlfriend called for him.

XxX

"All finished..." Mai panted. John looked pleased with his work—given that he was the one who didn't bend any nails. The man who had sat on his rear the whole time—literally, the whole time! The directors had filmed Mai and John boarding up the entire room!—offered them a marker.

"Both of you, sign all the boards," he ordered. Mai smirked.

"Oh, so you want my wonderful autograph, Noll?" she asked. Although the scene was ruined, Oliver smirked.

"No, it's so someone as idiotic as yourself doesn't forget their own name."

"That's mean!"

"It's a good thing they're only goofing off when we've got our scenes down, huh?" Amy asked, attempting to remain optimistic. Nia sighed. They both knew how gloomy and depressing it was to work with these actors.

XxX

"What are you doing here so early?" Oliver asked as Mai walked towards him and Lin.

"I couldn't sleep because I've been up all night thinking about the experiment... But we all know my character really wanted to come and see you. The not sleeping thing had to be an excuse."

"If you mess up another scene one more time...!" Nia angrily threatened.

XxX

"A-are you feeling better now?" Mai asked of Lin. The tall man turned towards her.

"I am obviously in perfect health given the fact that I am using a crutch," he deadpanned. This time, it was Nia restraining Amy from going up to the tall man and whacking him over the head for ruining yet another scene.

XxX

"Would you two please confirm that the paper you signed yesterday hasn't been tampered with?" Oliver asked Mai and John.

"Yeah, okay..." Mai agreed as she and John turned towards the wall which had their names written on it. "I don't see—" she cut herself off before looking more closely and began laughing. "Wh-who wrote 'Nia has major anger issues' on-on the w-wall!" she asked between giggles. Said director abruptly stood up, slamming her hands down on the table, glaring at everyone.

"WHAT?!"

Masako smirked. "It's true, isn't it?"

"Do you think she'll be all right?" Mai whispered to her boyfriend, gesturing towards Masako. The girl was undergoing heavy lecturing from Amy, surprisingly. Said director had told Nia to cool her head while she 'dealt with Miss Hara'.

"She's fine, she's got earplugs in," John said, grinning at his girlfriend. "Gotta say, though. That was pretty ingenious."

"Hopefully she uses this opportunity to gather dirt on Amy," Oliver said. "Given that she'll even think of it."

"Are you saying that you think Masako is stupid?"

Oliver and Mai sighed while Amy continued to rail at the teenager who was most obviously not listening.

Having the crowbar in his hands, Oliver stepped up towards the door that was covered with wooden boards. He pried one of the boards off and slung it to the side, making it look like an accident when it hit John.

"What was that for?!" John demanded fiercely as he held his shin. Oliver stopped what he was doing and looked at the blonde man.

"Oh, did it hit you? Sorry about that." he replied sarcastically.

"You just did it on purpose because of what I said about her," John pointed to Mai. "after you called Masako stupid!"

"He what?!" Masako screeched in growing anger. Since replying to that was beneath him, Oliver simply gave a small smirk and continued on with his scene despite it being totally ruined now.

XxX

"That was poltergeisting," Oliver said.

"If you know that, then how-"

"What else could he do?" Ayako interrupted her brother. "He's incapable of driving the spirits out, right?"

"Like you're any better..." Mai said on the side. Ayako's facade deflated and it was up to her brother to defend her.

"I don't see you rising to the plate!"

The directors were busy making effigies of each cast member.

XxX

"...often caused by people craving for attention. When stress is introduced, a self-defense type mechanism reacts on the brain..." Oliver said his lines perfectly, as did the last several scenes, which the directors were extremely thankful for.

"Craving attention... We all know who that is," Nia mumbled under her breath so only Amy could hear. "Miss Mai Taniyama."

Amy let out a sudden laugh.

XxX

From the start, I felt like you were drawing my attention," Oliver said as he moved into position. "For—Mai, stop that."

"What did I do?" Mai asked from behind Kuroda, where she was making funny faces.

XxX

"...you told yourself there was no other way. You simply couldn't face the truth." Oliver finally ended his long explanation to everyone, although mostly to Kuroda. The bespectacled girl began to fake-cry afterwards, as she should have. However, when Houshou gave a loud whistle, the directors glared at him, already knowing he wasn't going to give his lines correctly.

"Man, how did he memorize all of that?" he asked Mai, bending down to her level slightly. The brunette shrugged, amazed as well.

"Your guess is as good as mine..."

"Yes, and now thanks to you two, Mr. Davis has to do that again!" Nia stated in irritation. Oliver glared at his girlfriend and the man beside her. He'd like to see them try and say all of that without messing up once."

XxX

"Then, what about me being shut up inside that classroom, and the video being erased?" Ayako asked. Kuroda looked away shamefully, as she ought to have.

"Miko-san, in your case, it's because this was stuck into the door's groove."

"A four leaf clover?" Ayako asked. Oliver looked at the item before putting it in his pocket and retrieving the nail instead.

"No, a nail."

"Noll, you realize you're going to have to do the scene over anyway, right?" Mai asked. Her boyfriend frowned in her direction, while she merely grinned back.

XxX

"So someone did that on purpose?!" Ayako demanded. Then she looked towards Kuroda accusingly. "Was it you?!"

Kuroda's lip trembled. "It was!" she cried. "I'm so sorry, and I was the one who erased the tape too!"

Nia sighed, rubbing her temples once again. "You're not suppose to confess Kuroda... Or even speak." But she was ignored by a crying Kuroda and Ayako trying to console her.

XxX

"The principal hired us to make this place ready for construction." Oliver turned to the remainder of the cast. "I plan to report this: The haunting was a result of two incompetent directors and a crew filled with actors, each of which had no prior acting experience. Thus, it was also the result of a hair-brained romance—"

"Hey!" Nia shouted.

"Don't bash the plot! Ono-sensei is friggin' amazing!" Amy shouted as well.

"So stuff it and get the scene right!" the two yelled in sync. Everyone blinked. These two were scary when they tag teamed.

XxX

Take One.

"Oh, I had no idea you were so sensitive. Do you have a girlfriend?" Ayako asked flirtatiously. Though inwardly embarrassed and awkward beyond belief, she managed to pull through alright. Oliver gave her a blank look.

"Yes, I do. And if you don't remove yourself from me now, I'm afraid you'll be missing an arm very soon." he said, giving a small gesture to Mai, who was sending Ayako a death glare. The actress paled and quickly let go of Oliver, then went to hide behind her brother.

"Miss Taniyama!" Nia reprimanded.

Take Three.

"Hmmmm, Naru, you're qu..quite... Hoshou-nii, I can't do it!" Ayako wailed, running away from Oliver and to her brother. The rest of the actors on-set paled as the girl got emotional support.

"Don't worry, I won't let the mean ol' Mai-chan hurt you," he said.

"Hoshou-nii, that's not helping!"

XxX

Take One.

"And Mai?" Oliver asked, and Mai came sprinting up to him.

"I already know, boss! 'Don't mess up another scene again'!" she recited his words with a grin while he frowned at her.

Take Two.

"Mai," Oliver said. Mai hopped up energetically.

"I know," she responded, holding a finger to her lips. Pretending as though the sight were not cute, Oliver turned to the man with the crutch. "Lin, let's start breaking camp."

"Can we talk about how the fully abled high school girl wasn't asked to help and now he's telling this injured guy—" Ayako pointed towards Lin. "—to help him break camp?"

Everyone sighed.

XxX

"I can handle it. Why don't you head back to class? I'd hate to see you plummet further into the depths of dumb." Oliver said nonchalantly as he packed away a tripod. Mai instantly became angry, as she should but that was not the reason why.

"Gee, you sure don't have a problem saying those lines to me, do you?!"

Oliver smirked, looking back at her. "It's true, isn't it?"

XxX

"I'll work as hard as I can to smarten up!" Mai yelled as she glared at her boyfriend out of her peripheral. She began to stalk off as she was supposed to. Right to the school. Without saying the rest of her lines.

"Miss Taniyama, did you forget the rest of your lines?" Amy asked. The girl chose not to respond.

XxX

Amy and Nia had just put the finishing touches on their 'haunted building'. In all actuality, it was a scale model that was designed with specific breaks along the center so the building would crumple in a specific way once the platform beneath it was adjusted to a certain degree.

"How do you even come up with these ideas?" Nia asked. Amy shrugged.

"Film club teaches you to think outside the screen."

The former director shrugged at the answer—it was the best she was going to get—and led the way off-screen. Amy turned to the cameraman and technician.

"Just go on the count of—"

"Miss Taniyama, what are—"

"RAWR!" the actress cried out, stomping around the fragile set. The two directors ran forward, hoping to stop the girl in her tracks.

Their efforts did more harm than good.

Nia grabbed one arm and Amy grabbed the other, each intent on dragging the girl away from the set. However, the girl kicked and flailed, her left foot colliding with the set. She kicked it with such a force that the collapsible roof was sent flying into the hands of her amused boyfriend.

"Having fun?" he asked.

All three girls glared at him.

XxX

"Yeah, what the heck, Mai?" Michiru began. "Kazuya's gone forever and you didn't think to ask for his address? We couldn't even find his phone number in the book."

Mai, who was leaning her head against her hand for support, opened her eyes with a small glare. "So you were stalking him?" she demanded. Keiko and Michiru immediately clung to each other out of fear.

XxX

"Hello?" Mai asked, a subtly confused expression on her face.

"Is that you, Mai?" Naru's voice asked from the phone. Mai grinned.

"Now who's the one asking obvious questions?" Mai asked.

Amy and Nia sighed as they realized they would have to film the scene over again.

XxX

Take Six.

"So, to what do I owe the pleasure?" Mai asked, a small blush perfectly adorning her cheeks.

"To stop goofing out and get this right so we all can go home."

Now, the brunette's cheeks turned red from anger. "Well, you're the one messing up the scene now! Idiot!" She yelled, then hung up on him as if he wasn't just off-set.

XxX

"Your fee," Oliver said.

"Huh?"

"Your payment for assisting me. If you don't want it, that's fine, too," Oliver continued. Mai frowned and held the phone away from her ear a moment, glaring at it as if it had offended her.

And glared.

And glared.

She brought the phone back to her ear and stared intently at her boyfriend who stood beside the directors. "How can you honestly forget your lines when you're not even on-screen?"

"Shut up."

Nia had to hold Amy back from smacking the boy upside the head.

XxX

"And thank you for your help, you were an excellent assistant." Oliver said. "...Even though you hardly did anything, kept arguing with people, and—"

"You can stop now." Mai deadpanned.

"Did any of you guys get something while we were filming?" Mai asked, looking at her coworkers. She was saddened to see them all shake their heads.

"She didn't hint anything when she was yelling at you, Masako?" John asked his girlfriend.

"She just kept blathering about integrity and to treat people with respect. I wasn't really paying attention to it," Masako said, shrugging her shoulders.

"She doesn't bawl people out for ten minutes when we do that to each other," Mai pointed out. "There had to be something that made this different... Something we can use..."

"Well, sorry to break it to you, but we got noth—" Masako's words were cut short when the four of them heard a frightened scream.

"What was that?" Mai asked.

"If you ask any more obvious questions today, I'll say the script is getting to your head, Mai," Oliver said as he began to walk towards the sound of the scream. Mai frowned as she followed him.

"And I'll start calling you Naru in real life if you keep that attitude up," she returned.

"Shh!" John said from the front. He beckoned the others forward so they could see what was happening.

"Seriously, Nia?" Amy muttered as she massaged her heart. She was looking at something the four could not see, but it was obvious that whatever it was had frightened her something awful. "Why, why, why would you do this to me...?"

"Can you see what it is, John?" Masako asked, seeing as how her boyfriend was up in the front of the group. But he only held up a finger, a sign of telling her to be quiet. Amy remained looking at the one thing out of sight for the actors, backing up as slowly as possible. Only when the girl was at the door did she tear her eyes away, and that was only to shut the door and lock it firmly.

Good news: they knew something scared their director. Badly.

Bad news: they had ended up locked in to get this information.

"So... anyone got a flashlight?" Mai asked.

"Oh, yes, because we all just carry a flashlight on us." Masako said sarcastically, rolling her eyes. Not that anyone could see, of course. Suddenly they saw a source of light. They turned their heads towards it to see Oliver's face illuminated by his phone.

"I was gonna do that," John frowned as he pulled out his own phone.

"Obviously," Oliver said as he turned around. They were going to find out what had made their director scream in fright. Mai clung on to Oliver's sleeve as did Masako with John since the two men were leading the way with their phones.

"What if it's a spider?" Masako asked. Mai gulped.

"I hope it's not..." Mai whispered back. "I hate spiders."

"Tell me about it..." Oliver muttered under his breath, causing Mai to hit his arm. The four actors and actresses finally turned the corner, the lights of the phones guiding their path. There was only one thing out.

"This is it?" Mai asked, looking the object over. "It's not so scary."

Masako gave a sardonic laugh. "I can't believe she's afraid of this!"

Naruisawesome: Sooo, wha'cha afraid of Amy-chan? XD

AmyNChan: Ehe... ^^; Everyone will just have to find out in the next chapter.

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