~ & ~ Lights, Camera, Kiss Me ~ & ~
~ Jasper ~
~ Heroes of Olympus/PJO ~
~ Flashes ~
Piper McLean is a very famous singer, thanks to her roots. But she is pushed to manage new stages so she lands a role in a very important up-coming movie. She soon meets her co-star, Jason Grace. New feelings rise and she finds her self falling for him as the time passes. But she also finds out he is taken by Reyna Anton. How will she cope with the flourishing feeling towards him? Will she get her chance?
"Action!" Chrion Brown yelled. I have gotten used to it now.
In this scene, Camilla Mayfield asks Jasmine to help her to reencounter with Hunter. She needs to see him.
"Camilla, I can't do that. I don't want Carter finding out I am helping you see his worst enemy. You know Carter has always despised the Norwoods. You are to, also." Jasmine whispered to her. At the moment they were at their usual hangout; a coffee shop down the street from the Mayfields' tourist company.
"Oh Jasmine. Please. You are my only hope." Camilla insisted. "I need to see him."
"Why the hurry? Why do you seek him? And why does he seek you?" Jasmine asked, exasperated.
Camilla's eyes twinkled with sweetness. "It's just something unexplainable. It's a feeling."
Jasmine sighed.
In the film, the viewers flip to a scene where Hunter is talking to Julian and Cameron about Camilla.
"Man, I have never seen you actually fall for a girl. You are known to be a player. And now you are getting sappy. Have you seen yourself? You have that lost look in your eyes and stuff. It's creepy." Julian tells him.
Cameron reinforces his statement. "Yeah, man. Is it the trill of the chase?"
That question dropped Hunter down from his reverie. "What do you mean?"
"It's the trill of the chase. You know you can't date her. You know your family won't approve. You know you guys have to do everything in secret. And you are engaged. It's the trill." Cameron said to him, "I'm your cousin, and I'm saying this cause I care about you."
"No, guys, it's not the trill. Every girl I date has either been a psycho or maniac or arranged by my parents like Audrey. I don't care about Audrey. I don't love her. But I do feel something special for Camilla." Hunter said.
Julian smirked, "She must be an amazing kisser, bro."
"And she is an amazing kisser," Hunter confirmed jokingly, "to top it off."
"So why you called us here. To listen to you talk about the good kisser Camilla is or what?"
"I want to marry her. In secret." Hunter said in a hushed voice.
"You want to elope?" Cameron asked incredulously.
Hunter nodded. "But she doesn't know yet. We are planning to see each other tonight and that is where I will ask her. I got the ring and everything. See?"
He takes out an engagement ring, simple yet elegant.
"Whoa, dude. You are serious. What about Audrey? You can't just ditch her when she is practically almost standing on the altar." Julian says to Hunter while Cameron nods in agreement.
"Guys, I am going to break up with her." Hunter assures them.
The guys only shake their heads.
"I love him/her." Camilla and Hunter say at the same time but in different scenes.
"Cut!" Chiron yells. "Take five."
This scene was fun to film was the only thought Piper got in her mind. The scenes were practically filmed in the same location but in different times and levels. Jason, Nico, and Luke were in one side of the café and Annabeth and I were in the other.
Annabeth got up and I followed. We headed to the boys on the other end of the café and sat down at their table.
"May we sit? Thanks." Annabeth asked then answered her own question. The boys were about to refuse but were too late.
"Why do we have to have you guys with us every time Chiron yells cut?" Nico whines.
"Oh you guys have to admit you guys like having us around." Annabeth said.
"Ha! We never said that." Luke assured.
"But you have to admit it." I said back.
Throughout the filming, I have stayed by Annabeth's side. She does most of the talking and I just stick around giving minor comebacks that support hers. I don't really talk or do anything really. I just do.
Percy and Luke have grown to treat me like a little sister, teasing me, playing minor pranks on me, etc. Luke smirked. He was sitting next to me so I just groaned inwardly.
"Oh, wook wittle Piper plays back." Luke babied me.
I glared while other smirked and chuckled. "Don't baby talk me. It's annoying."
Luke pinched my cheek and I slapped his hand away. "Ow! What can I do, Piper. You are the youngest here."
It's true. I am 20, whilst others are 21 and up. Jason, Percy, Nico, and Annabeth are 21 and Luke is 23.
"Oh shut up!" I gave up trying to reason with him.
He smirked. Suddenly a phone rang and Jason stood up. "Sorry. Got to take this."
He walked away from earshot and pressed the talk button.
I turned to the group.
"So you have a press conference tomorrow morning?" Luke asked me.
"Yeah. I hate those." I told him. "They always ask you about things you don't even know."
"Why do you have one tomorrow?" Annabeth asked.
"To inform the press of my up-coming projects." I told her.
They all was about to talk when we heard an exasperated voice to our side. It was Jason. We all looked at each other and a silent connection came through. We leaned a bit over to hear his conversation.
"—Reyna, I can't." Jason said into the phone.
We all leaned into the table.
Nico chuckled. "It's the third time she's called to complain about something. I think they are going to break up."
Luke and Annabeth nodded. "Yeah."
"Why is she mad?" I asked.
"First it was about a picture he took with a fan. Then it was that he didn't call her back. Later it was that she wanted to go to lunch but he was filming." Nico inform us.
Hey! Hey!" Said a voice behind me. Then that person pinched my cheeks.
Percy. I thought annoyed. I slapped him away.
"Wittle Piper. Luke. Nico." I said hello. Then he stopped at Annabeth and gave her a kiss on her cheek. "How's it going?"
"Jason and Reyna: Heated." Nico said. Percy gasped inwardly, pretending it was dramatic.
"What? But they make a cute couple. Oh what will the press say?" Percy dramatized. "I can see the headlines already: Jayna? Real or fake?"
We all chuckled and Jason came back. He sat in his chair and had a cross expression.
"Lighten up, dude. There's plenty fish in the sea." Percy said, with a goofy grin. Annabeth glared at him and hit him with her elbow.
"We are not fish." She argued.
Percy cleared his throat and kissed her cheek. "You are right. But let me just say, I made a good catch with you."
"Butt-kisser." Annabeth muttered.
"I do admit. I like to kiss your toochie." Percy joked, "Emphasis on the 'your' part."
"Shut up." Annabeth said. I couldn't help but smile. They make a 'happy' couple.
Later that day, I was in dressing room getting ready to leave. I packed my sweater in my bag and headed out. My dressing room was next to Jason's and I heard something fall.
Worried, I knocked.
He answered.
"Is everything alright?" I asked.
"I'm sorry. Did I disturb you?" he asked me.
"No, I was on my way out when I heard something break. Are you alri—"
"Yeah, I am. I just broke up with Reyna." He interrupted me.
"Oh, I am sorry." I said, although an unknown feeling crept up my chest when I heard those words.
"Don't be. I you haven't noticed by the phone calls, things were not flowing right." He said to me.
"Yeah but still, you guys dated for a long time." I told him, "It must be hard. Listen, I need to go, but if you need to talk, call me."
He nodded, the little scar on his lower lip wrinkling a bit. "Thanks."
I smiled and headed to my car.
The next morning, I headed to where the press conference was being held. Thirty minutes later I sat in front off many people and cameras.
I breathed in and pointed to a reporter with blonde hair and green eyes.
"Lily Smythe, E! Last month, you released your single, "You've Got This Hold on Me." Is there any album coming out soon?"
"It's still a work in progress. I decided to release the single to leave my fans with something to hold on to while I finish recording and filming my new movie. The album is planned to come out in mid-October." I replied, blinking forcefully to not get blinded by the flashing cameras.
"Thank you." She sat down.
Others lifted their hands. I pointed to one.
"Jack Ford. TMZ. What movie are you starring in. Rumor has it, it's gonna be huge!"
I smiled, "Yeah, it's called 'Sealed with a Kiss. It's an adaptation version of Romeo and Juliet."
I pointed to another who introduced himself and asked, "You are staring with Jason Grace and Reyna Anton. They broke up yesterday. What do you have to say to that?"
"Jason and Reyna are my co-stars and friends. I don't really have anything to say to that, just that it's shame that a couple like them that have dated for so long, breakup. But it's not my business." I reply, slightly uncomfortable.
"But you are believed to be the third party." One asked with out asking to say anything.
"Third party?" I asked confused. These people are fast. They barely broke up yesterday.
"Yes. Jason and you play the main protagonists and lovers in the movie. Reyna plays the antagonist. By the sneak peak pictures, you and Jason seem to have chemistry on screen. That only triggers the fans to think that you two had something going on."
"Look, Jason and I only interact closely, like what you have in mind, on the film. Nothing more. I respect relationships and don't like to intrude. Reyna is a great actress and I don't want to become enemies. She is really professional and I admire her for that."
"But you two seem to close in the movie."
"You said it; in the movie. That's it. And lets please not talk about that. It really has nothing to do with me." I say to them but they refuse to stop.
"Miss McLean, in a recent picture you posted on your Instagram, where both of you along with other co-stars appear in, you seemed pretty comfortable in Jason Grace's arms. Care to explain."
I breathed in, "That picture was for pure entertainment purposes. It's was a cast picture and we all didn't fit in that little lounge couch. We had to move in closer. That is all I have to say."
The picture at steak here is a picture we all took during the filming and we decided to take a picture on a lounge couch sitting around on the set. Reyna was in that picture sitting on his other side. Percy, Annabeth, Thalia, Nico and Luke were in that picture as well.
The ball kept rolling off like this and didn't top any information on my career turn. Just on Jayna's split. Soon it was over and I practically ran out of there. My manager, Silena, went after me. She was also my older sister.
"Oh Sis. I hate it when they do that." She said to me as she sat put on her seat belt.
"Me too. I found out about their breakup just last night." I whined.
"And now it's Twitter's trendiest topic." Silena said, looking at her phone.
I groaned. I drove home, a nice big mansion near the beach. I needed the beach right now. Mom was in New York. Fashion week, or atleast that is what she calls it when she takes a week-long trip there. Dad is in Spain, filming an action movie.
The house is alone. And so are we.
I head to my room and change in to my sky blue bikini. I need to swim.
My parents, when they bought the house, they also bought a private part of the beach. I will always be eternally grateful for that.
I headed to the beach. I stepped on to the shore line of the water.
"Silena! You coming?" I yelled.
"No!" I heard her yell back. "Gotta work on clearing up the mix-up!"
I groaned and let her do her thing. I jumped in and swam for a bit. After a good while I swam out and dried off on a beach chair.
Today there was no filming. Chiron had called every one to not come because they were rewriting a scene. I don't have a good feeling on that. I think they are actually writing a love scene. I shiver at the thought.
I then hear a voice followed by Silena's. "She is out on the beach."
"Thanks." The voice says. It sounds familiar. I hear sandy footsteps approach me. "Piper?"
I sit up as I recognize the voice as Jason's. I quickly slip on my sheer white, short sleeved cover up. I stand up and say, "Jason? What are you doing here?"
"Well you said that if I needed to talk, to call you. But I preferred to come and talk to you." He said.
"Oh. Uh, I don't think that is a good idea." I say to him.
"Why?" he asks dumbfounded.
"Well, today I went to my press conference. They asked mostly if I was a third party in your relationship." I told him.
"What?" he said, incredulous. "I'm sorry you have to be a part of this."
"It's okay. So what do you need to talk about?" I asked him, gesturing him to sit down.
"Well, I just don't know what do. Reyna keeps calling me to give it a second try but I don't want to. She is always controlling me and not letting me take new turns. I want to explore new fields in the art industry, like music." He tells me.
"Maybe that can be arranged. Did you talk to her about that?" I asked him.
"Yes, I told her but she kept pulling me back." he says, his blonde strands of hair falling out of place. "I just don't want to keep something going that in the end isn't gong to work out. What do you think?" he asked he. The caught me off guard. It should be the other way around.
"Look I really don't know you but I have known you enough to say that you are a good person and that you don't want to harm any one. I am not saying that it was right breaking up with her but if you don't feel it, you just stopped there. That's good. No more doubt." I say to him.
"You think so?" he asks.
I nod. "You want to swim it out? I could lend you my beach for a while…"
He laughs. "Thanks but I didn't come prepared for a swim."
"No worries." I say as I get up and head to a trunk full of clothes my dad put for guests that come unprepared. I open the trunk and say, "My dad keeps these here. You can choose your size and jump in. I'll go get iced tea."
I start to walk off and before I reach the door frame I say, "It's good to swim it out."
He smiles and walks to the trunk.
I head into the kitchen and find Silena with her iPad. She seemed concentrated in it so I didn't say anything. I grabbed the pitcher of iced tea and two glasses. I put them on a tray and looked at Silena. I knew she was dying to say something.
"Say it." I told her.
"You liar." She smirked.
I raised an eyebrow, "How so?"
"You say you aren't the third party and yet he comes over." She says.
"You let him in, not me. See ya, manager."
"At least put shorts on, sista. You're showing to much eye candy." She teases.
"Shut up."
I head back to the beach to see Jason coming out of the changing booth and stripping off his shirt.
I gasp inwardly, almost dropping the tray. He is handsome, I'll give him that. Tanned evenly and well shaped. I breathe in and walk toward him.
"Iced tea?" I say as I put down the try on the umbrella-covered table.
"Sure." He says walking over. "Thanks for this."
"No prob." I say pouring him a glass. I hand him it and pour myself one.
"So how good of a swimmer are you?" I ask him.
"Why you wanna know?" he asks.
"Well I want to know if you beat me if I ask you on a race." I tease.
"Getting comfortable?"
"A little." I say to him, putting my glass on the table.
"You're on." He puts his glass down and heads to the shoreline. I follow. "Ready?"
"Yeah."
"On three. One, two, thr— Hey! "
I laugh as I jump in before he reaches three. I feel the water behind me moved and I know he is in.
He race to the water limit and back. I get out and see he is not out.
I laugh as I declare myself victor. Seconds pass and he doesn't come out. I grow worried and jump in but not before sensing a bright flash.
A camera, I think.
I open my eyes underwater and find him. He is floating helplessly.
Jason! I think.
I swim towards him and grab him. I pulled him the shore and lay him on the sand. I see that he is flushed and pale. I have to act fast.
I begin to press his chest down. I didn't want to come to this mouth to mouth is necessary. I open his lips and put my mouth on his. I force air in to his lungs and after a while of doing so, he came back. He spit out water and he became stable and chuckled.
"I remembered that I hate the water…" he said out of breath.
"Doof." I replied to that.
"How? I got you to kiss me." He says.
"Wow, you break up but only to become your player self. And for your information, its CPR not kissing." I stand up. He sits up.
"Kay."
Later that night I sit on my bed waiting for the tiredness to kick in. But it doesn't. Today was unexpected but in a good way.
At least now, it won't be weird on set. Filming can go okay. It used to be weird since I was the quiet one. Hopefully, it goes okay. For that scene that I don't doubt we will be doing. I still shiver at the thought of being exposed in front of a bunch of cameras and crew.
I sit back and soon the sleepiness kicks in, not expecting what would happen tomorrow.
That was long… 11 pages on Word. On well better for you guys.
Here you go, Dingy108. As you requested. Now I have to update my other stories.
So please review. I know you guys are used to me being a Percabeth writer but I would like to explore Jasper.
Anyways, I hope you guys don't think this chapter was speeding things up in Jasper. I needed to hurry it up. Not much has happened between Jasper but staring and smiles. This will mix things up.
Oh and did you guys pay attention to that camera flash near the end? Important for the next chappie.
~BeautiWind –heart-
PS – Excuse any typos. I just wrote and wrote. Not paying attention to mistakes.