It had been a few weeks since Graham had outed me as his daughter. I was about to start filming because I was out of the hospital. It was a little bit nerve-racking looking at the results but it looked okay. I even let Kaitlin see and tell me what she thought about it. The surgery had been a success. I would still have to continue taking hormones but I was okay with that. I was glad that I was now officially a woman. I would still have to wait to do everything though, but I knew about it ahead of time.
Before I left to go film, I was having a session with Dr. Carter.
"So how do you feel about the fact that you're going to spending time over two thousand miles away from home?" She asked.
"I'm excited about this and I know that this is a big deal, even if it's supposed to be a fairly small movie." I answered. I didn't even know if the movie would be in theaters but it was still a starring role in a movie from a major production company. Not many people could say that they had done that and it would mean a lot to me.
"Have you tried to talk to Graham at all?" She questioned as she wrote something down. I wished that I could see what she was writing.
"No. He didn't have any right to tell the whole world that I was his daughter." I explained.
"Maybe he did it because he wants a relationship with you." She suggested.
"If he wanted a relationship with me, he shouldn't have abandoned me." I argued. He had 16 years to form a relationship with me and he bailed. "As far as I'm concerned, we have no relationship. I don't hate him as much as Dawn, but I don't really want anything to do with him. So if I give you a copy of the movie, will you watch it?"
"I don't think I'm really the target audience." She pointed out. I sighed, even though she was probably right.
I was a little nervous about going to film, but I knew that I was good hands. I would also have Theresa there with me and I had also already met my co-star. It was the girl from Moana whose name I could never spell right. I would have to kiss her, but I was pretty sure that I wasn't going to develop feelings for her. I was pretty sure that Theresa would help me with it.
I got on the plane to New York. I was a little bit nervous because it was such a long flight. Thankfully, we were going late at night so I would be able to sleep in it. Also, the plane was pretty small so there was enough room to sleep. I was also afraid of the plane crashing but those were pretty rare in the United States and really only happened with inexperienced pilots in small planes, something that I was assured that didn't apply to the aircraft that we were going to be taking.
I did end up going to sleep after a few hours. It was a little hard for me to sleep because I was kind of excited on top of being nervous. I hoped that I would be able to get on a normal sleeping schedule when I got to New York. Of course, I probably lucky because I wasn't coming from Hawaii. That was a place that I wanted to visit sometime because it looked pretty cool.
I walked onto the set and I was also nervous about that because I was just a guest star on The Valley but here I was the main character. This movie was going to be about me. However, this character was specifically not going to be trans. I didn't want to be typecast into only trans roles. I didn't mind playing those sorts of roles because they spread awareness, but I wanted to know that I could play any role and not just trans roles. The first person that I saw on the set was Harold and he took my hand.
"Rhiannon, there's someone that I want you to meet." He declared as he took me to her. She looked a lot like what I thought a real life version of Moana would look like. "This is Auli'i."
"It might take me a little while to get that right." I admitted.
"If you want, you can just call me Chloe until you feel you can say it right." She offered before she gave me a hug. "It's so nice to meet you. I've heard a lot of good things about you. I watched your episodes of The Valley and thought you were great in them. Are you going to be back for more?"
"Well I want to try to keep doing school. I may focus more on movies because it doesn't require me to take breaks from school to film them." I explained. "And the only thing that I've seen you in is Moana."
"That's okay." She replied. "Our careers are just getting started and I think that we have big things ahead of us. So do you want to do anything? We're not going to be filming for a few days so we can get a little used to the time zone."
"I should probably call my girlfriend." I declared.
"Maybe we can fly our girlfriends out here and we can go a double date sometime." She offered. "So how did you and your girlfriend meet?"
"My dad had just brought me home for the first time and she was hanging out outside. We started talking and the two of us just clicked from there." I explained. "So what's your girlfriend like?"
"She lives in Hawaii like me and she plays soccer. I'm not sure of the best way to describe her." She admitted. "It'd be easier if she was here."
"You know I can make sure that you get a reservation to one of the best restaurants in New York if you two are interested." Harold suggested. I would have to think about it. I was pretty sure that Kaitlin would like it, but I was a little bit concerned about the paparazzi. They weren't a thing in Newport, but I was pretty sure that they would be around New York. Then again, I didn't know if any of us were important enough to be targets for the paparazzi despite the fact that I was already nominated for an MTV Award. I didn't think that I was going to win, so I wasn't going to take a break from filming to go. I would record a video just in case I won. It was a little weird doing it without knowing if I won, but I supposed that was acting was.
I did end up winning and I watched awkwardly as my video played. I was really surprised that people thought I made that big of an impact from three episodes, but it might have also had to do with my viral video that had over 50 million views.
"Hey MTV. I'm sorry I couldn't be there tonight. I'm busy filming. I just wanted to thank Harold and my parents and my sister and my girlfriend. Thank you so much and I will see you soon." I said in the video.
Filming the movie was a lot of fun. The only parts that I was nervous about was the kissing scenes and I was pretty sure that those went okay because it didn't make me want to kiss Kaitlin any less. In fact, they actually made me want to kiss her more. Kissing another girl made me like I loved her more.
It seemed like it was only a few weeks before the summer was over and I was back in Newport. School would be starting soon and I knew that things would be different. I just didn't know how different they would be.
So I've finally started to write the sequel. Rhiannon had a taste of the big time, but now she's going to head back to Newport where she's going to meet a few new people. What will be in store for her and the rest of her friends? Please don't forget to review.