~ & ~ Lights, Camera, Kiss Me ~ & ~

~ Jasper ~

~ Heroes of Olympus/PJO ~

~ Unsettled ~

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?

On Friday, the whole cast received the new and edited scripts.

Seriously, I have never heard or experienced — on the times I was on set with my dad — this type of management on films. Is this really how it's going to be? If it is, I am not one to continue this business.

We had received the scripts and were told to meet up by the following Monday. That meant that we only get three days, including today, to rehearse and memorize our lines on our own account. And I would be doing that if I wasn't at the moment lazy and bored out of my wits.

Trying to cure my unmanageable boredom I called up Leo.

"Dominoes. May I get your order?" his voice rang through the phone in a very un-Leo way.

"Yeah, um, can I get a large pizza with my best friend on it? Oh and chicken wings. Can't forget the wings. And a coke. Thanks." I said, with a fake voice as well.

The line on the other side went silent. "Hello?"

"That is not how we usually go along with what I just asked you." He stated plainly.

"I'm sorry?" I said.

"You were supposed to scold at me and tell me that I shouldn't play games. And that you're bored and need some entertaining. And to come over to your house. And… and… well, yeah." He said, in an obvious tone.

I chuckled. "Alright. But since you got to the point in less than thirty seconds, can you do as you said and entertain me?"

He hummed as if thinking. I rolled my eyes a bit and the sight in my head of him I had at moment. I could picture him pretending to think of way to ditch me. But I know he is not going to such action because as much as he knows me, I know him and he would not bail out.

Going along on with his game I said, "Pwease…"

"Oh alright. Be there in twenty." and he hung up in a second.

I looked at my phone and wonder what goes on his head besides directing and fidgeting with minor machines in his spare time.

Leo Valdez is a strange kid if you ask me. And I say it in the nicest way possible. I know him.

His mother was a casting director and his father was an editing technician. But in a car accident, his mother died when he was eight. His father who was the driver never lived with that grief. And because he never forgave himself, Leo grew up thinking his father the blame all along. That means they never get along despite the various things in common they both have.

Leo is not very social, either. He prefers to be in his "Hope" room. That is the name he gave his creative room were he does everything imaginable in the film-making business. Hope because his mother's name was Hope Spanish. Esperanza. It's like a memorial to her. After all she was the one who pushed Leo in the film-making business. Even at a small age.

Leo has done various homemade films, making me star many of them, and uploads them to YouTube. Nonprofit and all but it's something. He has the hope that he will find a way to make a living out this. His father offered him many gigs but with distance between them, Leo says it wouldn't feel right.

Returning to introducing statement, Leo is strange. He has lived through many things, hard things, yet he remains intact and untouchable. Happy, even you might say. He always finds the happy sparks in gloomy things. He has that gift. And his humor. Man, his humor is the medicine I require when I am sick or fed up with something.

He is almost a brother to me.

His mother met my dad during the production of a movie. Something Sparta. She was the cast director and my dad was the producer, director, and protagonist actor of the movie. Since then they had been invincible in the movie industry. They won many Oscars and all.

So since they were close in work, Leo and I became 'Boredom Buddies' on set for years. We went to the same private academies. Same church. Same doctor. Same everything. We created a familiar bond.

In record time, Leo made it to my house.

"Beauty Queen. Thought you'd forgot you had best friend. You've had me so lonely lately. But don't worry. A few one-night stands and late party dancing seemed to fix me right up." Leo assured me. Yet he had the playful, unserious tweak in his eyes.

I smacked his arm, "Shut up and grab a coke."

He chuckled maniacally. "Jealous, Piper-oo? Because according to various magazines, you have not had time to become jealous since to smooch it up with your costar…"

I glared at him. "You don't sympathize me one bit, Valdez. And it was CPR! Send a tweet about it, will you?"

"Right CPR…" He said, amused, "So why the emergency? Why do you require my services. Because hopefully, the pizza I brought will clear your head right up. Just how you like it, feta and spinach."

My eyes widened. "You are the BEST, Repair Boy. The BEST!"

"Could you please compliment me without the nickname?" he whined.

"I will when you do too." I said grabbing a slice of pizza from the warm box.

"The works." Leo said and grabbed his slice.

Whenever Leo brought pizza, he'd make sure to bring a pizza with one side feta and spinach and the other any type Leo desired. He was just special that way.

We got into minor conversation. He told me about setbacks with his father and that he just didn't want to see him. I tried to talk sense into him but he is not one to budge. He told me about a film seminar he took and we somehow ended up talking about how he got the gig.

"Well, you know how I don't accept anything the old hillbilly gives me?" Leo commenced.

I nodded slowly.

"Well, I accept this from him. Usually I would have said no but how could I refuse working with a director such a Chiron Brown for an entire movie. And a movie that my best friend stars in. I start his Monday." Leo smirked.

"So accepted something your dad gave you?" I asked.

"Really, Piper-ella? That's all you get from what I just said?" he scolded at me.

"Yeah. It's pretty hard to sink in." I told him.

"Well, while you let that sink in, help me sink in something I don't get. Why on Earth would you be doing CPR on the famed Jason Grace? Why was he at your house in the first place?" Leo interrogated.

I narrowed my eyes. "Do you want the real version or the version I make up to please you?"

"Surprise me." he said as he laid back in his seat.

So I told him everything that happened. I told him the Jason only came for friendly advice. He seemed to believe me but I know he was itching to clear his mind of something.

"Spill it." I told him.

"It creeps me out how much you me. Anyway, I believe you but just answer me something."

"Kay?"

"Do you feel something for that blondie? You know that I wouldn't ask you something so straight forward if it weren't something I need to know."

"Why do you need to know?"

"I need to know if my best friend if finally going to choose a good guy. Trust me, girl. With you're past ones… sheesh, no comment. But there is something about Grace that I like. I don't know what. A feeling." Leo shrugged.

I chuckled nervously.

He is asking me a question I have been trying to avoid personally. I had settled things as friends with Jason but internally, I wanted to create something more. Call what you please. Fangirling, misreading but I know I want Jason close to me. To calm me down, I decided to make bonds and be friends but I itch to be something more with Jason. There I said it. I like him.

But what will I say to Leo?

"Sleeping Piper, an answer would be nice although by your face I can sort things out."

"We barely know each other. You can't expect me to say that I am in love with him." I told him.

It's true but its in inevitable to deny that the staged kisses I've had Jason make me feel weak inside.

"I'm not saying that. I'm saying that wittle Piper has a wittle cwush on a certain costar of hers. He has blue eyes. Blonde hair. And a scar on his lip that she has had the pleasure of getting to know." Leo teased.

I stayed silent.

"Just say it and I'll be on my way. I have to meet Chiron and his right man, Dion. See? I can call them by their first names!" Leo exclaimed. "Say it!"

"Just cause you are my best friend. I think I like Jason more than what we have settled on. Think. Don't get you panties in a jam." I told him, carefully.

"I have boxers and you know that I will." He said getting up from his seat, to show me his red polka dotted boxers.

"Really?" I said.

"In my defense, it's Laundry day." He said and with that he lifted the pizza box with my slice in there and set off to see Chiron.

I got thinking. I like Jason. There was a time in my high school years that I thought I got to caught up in the chit-chat of him that practically knew his most intimate things. That far in. I even know his size. How did I get that in my head, I have no clue.

A few minutes later, my sister barged in.

"Lena?" I said, worried at my sister's frantic expression.

"You are doing the love scene!" she exclaimed, waving what I assumed was the faxed contract.

I smiled a wry smile and nodded.

Her expression was soon replaced by an impressed look. "I didn't know your desperation to get in bed with your crush would make you go to high extremes…"

That fried me up. "What did you say?"

"Nothing," she said quickly.

"Come here!"

Let's just say that after those words, she lost much hair from her scalp.

Why hello!

I know I took long to update but lets just say that I am very at many people. I am not easily angered so that's bad for whoever made me angry.

I am not happy with the way this chapter turned out to be. Hopefully you like. Next chapter, we are back on set.

Stay tuned.

~BeautiWind –heart-

PS – No edit. I come back and doing later.