Disclaimer: Skip Beat is not mine. I am merely a fan of the anime/manga comic. This is a fanfic from
Anime/manga: Skip Beat
PRISONER
by ffnprez
3rd Chapter
"Sho-kun! Happy Birthday! I made these chocolates; they're the ones you like!"
"Thanks Kyoko."
"Sho-kun! I took notes for you today since you weren't able to go to class."
"Thanks Kyoko,"
"How was your… audition?"
"Hn, they said they'd assign me an agent quickly."
"Oh… is that right?"
*SCREEEEEEEEECH!*
Fuwa Sho snapped back to reality when he heard the painful sound, he realized that they were already in the parking lot for his next schedule and his mind flew off to flashback-land for a moment. He sighed, Shoko's secretary, who was currently his driver, didn't even bother telling him that they were already on set.
He moved to get his guitar, out of habit, but caught himself remembering that he was there as an 'actor' and not as a 'musician'. He got out of the car in a cool and casual mood then, in a second, his body tensed when a sleek black sports car, five slots away from his, caught his eye.
"It's okay Mogami-chan," Tsuruga Ren leaned over Kyoko, while wearing his genuine smile he knew had a calming effect on the girl sitting on the driver's seat. "It's not okay Tsuruga-san. You've been teaching me since this morning! Still, I nearly hit the car in front of us… in a parking lot!"
"Haha," his laughter was deep and rich that Kyoko was baffled that he wasn't mad nor angry at her clumsiness, "I must admit, you're always so well-mannered and you have great control that I was surprised you had a lead-foot."
"Waaah! So don't make me do this!"
"I'm making you do this because I know you can."
"But there're TWO expensive looking cars BESIDE that spot!" she stressed out, looking behind her, checking once again the horror that's awaiting her.
"Look Mogami, this is just 'parking', all you need to do is step on the 'break' whenever you need to control the car since it will 'automatically' move by itself in a 'slow' speed once you put it in 'reverse'… okay?"
Kyoko's mind was spinning, but as usual, she collected herself, or forced to, since she wanted to make it easy for Tsuruga Ren. "Okay… but I need to follow your instructions; I can't do it alone since I'm not good with angles… and this wheel-thing."
"Fine. Here… now first, step on the break before switching onto reverse then…"
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Mogami Kyoko stared at her reflection on the mirror. Despite the masterpiece that is her make-up, (thanks to the hardworking make-up crew) shoulder length blonde hair, piercing smoky make up highlighting her now-blue eyes and a stylish uniform to boot, all she saw in front of her was an idiot and she couldn't help herself from crying out.
"Ahhh! Stupid Kyoko!" she pulled on her hair, sure that she's currently alone in her dressing room therefore no one could see her crazy-antics. "What must he think!? It's bad enough that the president had to impose on Tsuruga-san in my behalf! I had to be stupid at driving too?!"
"What was the president thinking making Yashiro-san manage me? A top star like Tsuruga Ren sharing a manager with a puppy like me? The old man is driving me crazy with pressure!"
"Get a grip on yourself Kyoko! You've never failed Tsuruga-san's expectations before!" The optimistic thought sparked a light in Kyoko's eyes. "I just have to do my best from now on!" she said, staring at her reflection intensely. She grabbed the script beside her and flipped the pages to the scene they were about to shoot that day.
"Focus, Kyoko… Prisoner," she said, "The series is about the love story between, Kat and Michael…" she flipped the 50-page-script for a single episode to make sure she got it right, "and Gin. Director Ogata has yet to finish writing the ending, but so far it's the romance between Kat and the theatre club teacher Michael. Then, there's the arrogant actor Gin who was forced to attend school because of a scandal and there he meets Kat, the two of them gets the lead roles in a school play while Michael directs them. The school play gets a lot of attention because Gin Onizuka's going to be in it, and Kat gets some attention from the press too. She gets in trouble in her part time job since controversy that she's dating the famous actor started to spread and fan girls started causing trouble, some fans who were also regulars at the café she's working at stopped visiting the café and the manager talked Kat into quitting her part-time job…"
Kyoko's eyes started to water. Poor Kat! Now I'm starting to empathize with her… She continued to read on with admirable focus and memory when she suddenly heard a soft knock on her door.
"Kyoko?" she heard Director Ogata's familiar soft voice and she quickly walked to her door to open it, finding the tall lanky man in front of her wearing an apologetic smile. The gentle smile he usually wears partnered with slit eyes.
"Good afternoon director, is something the matter?" she asked concerned.
"Actually Kyoko-chan, I came to inform you personally that the shoot today is cancelled. There's been a sudden shift in the schedule." His hands moved as he explained, "The resort we were supposed to use for the later episodes of the series informed us that they're going to be fully booked in the summer so we can only book the location this month." He sighed, "We can't risk not shooting an episode and we need their location so we'll be shooting the scenes there this week and the scenes we're supposed to shoot today here in the studio will be moved next week."
Kyoko's mind started to swirl. She was digesting the information and what everything meant. "Ah. Okay I understand."
"Good. So the team will pack up so we can transfer the equipments today. The actors will need to go home and prepare for a-week-long-shoot in Shinobu Island. We'll be there for a week, you'll all be picked up at each of your house by the company van at lunch. Got any questions?"
Kyoko immediately answered, "So we're jumping from shooting episode 5 to episode 16?"
"Actually, 17, since episode 16 are mostly shot indoors so we can do it here in the studio. Episode 16 was when Michael battled with himself, and Episode 17 was the beach party when he finally gave into his own feelings."
"Right. Well," Kyoko started to get nervous for some reason but tried to hide it with a smile, "Thanks for personally telling me Director Ogata, you're the busiest here yet you even stopped by."
"No worries Kyoko. Well, see you tomorrow and pack lots of sunblock!" he said in a now-merry voice, waving away as he walked back to the set. He was obviously embarrassed earlier by the sudden news for some reason, and to Kyoko, she seem to tell that he's used to schedules going as planned… she smiled to herself momentarily then again horror struck her thought. She walked towards the table beside her dresser where rough scripts for the entire series were piled up and got episodes 17, 18 and 19 to review them again. She knew those episodes all to well… she's being given a raise in her talent fee for some of the scenes.
"Be calm Kyoko! You're 18 and a professional actress! Buckle up!"
To be continued…
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Blanket
Time comes when nothing can make you laugh
All you can do is track back to yesterday
Hoping that you can get away
It isn't the way it was before
When you think of things you can explore
You can only think that you want more.
It's selfish
Always thinking of I, me, my, myself
What I like how I feel what I want and no one else