my lobster | phoebe x joey [completed]

Chapter 22: The one with the shooting

A phew weeks had passed and my belly had grown significantly. However, I was still working, because I loved being with Joey and acting. The shooting was going on great and we had a lot of fun doing it, but now we were at  a point in which it was difficult to hide my belly...

"And Cut!" Said the director after we finished filming the scene in which Joey and I had to kiss. We went back our seats and talked. 

- "Great jobs Pheebs!" I blushed

- "Thank you, but I will never be as good as you..." He gave me his hand and smiled at me.

- "Of course you will, you already are!" I chuckled

- "You only say that because you love me..." 

- "It might be.... the loving part of course...You're a great actress!" 

I blushed more. He leaned towards me and kissed me. I kissed him back and he started touching my hair with his perfect hands. "Ok guys. So now we're gonna start shooting the scene  in which your characters sleep together!" Said the director to us. "Ok!" Said Joey and we headed to the set. It was a big and elegant bedroom. 

"So that's how this will work: Joey you will be waiting here for her. Phoebe you will appear from the door and will kiss him. After a while you will start touching each other's hair, hips and chest heading to the bed. Then you will fall into the bed and we will cut there. The objective would be to do two scenes in a row, so you will get into the bed and put your shirts off. Phoebe you will turn around and Joey you will hug your hips. Any questions?" We both shook our heads and went into action.

I opened the door and found him there. "I thought you wouldn't come!" He said, acting. He was a really great actor and I sincerely was afraid of not being at his level. "I changed my opinion..." I answered him. "I'm glad you did!" He said, smiling. He was so into his character and was acting soo good. He leaned himself into me and started to kiss me passionately. We hugged each other and after a while, we fell into the bed. "And cut!" The director said, "Very good and passionate! I like it! Well done!" I looked at the floor, angry with myself because of not having done it as good as I could. "What's up Pheebs?" Joey, who had noticed my dissappointment asked me. "I was bad..." I answered. "That's not true, it was awesome!" He said, trying to cheer me up. "It was really bad... I wasn't acting at all!" I told him, frustrated. "Well, but that isn't that bad!" He explained, "It was a really romantic scene and we are in love! It doesn't matter!" "If you say it... I'll have to trust you...."I said and we kissed. 

It was a short but passionate kiss. Joey hugged me from behind and we stood so until the director gave us instructions: "Ok, so take out your shirts and go into the bed." So we did and when I turned around Joey hugged me. Suddenly the director made a weird face. "Phoebe, your belly is too perceptible.... We might have to cut the shooting..." She said. "Oh, it doesn't matters, I can do it like this!" I answered. "Phoebe,  a big part of the rest of the scenes will be like this one. You will have to take your shirt off and people will see your belly in the movie if we don't postpone the shooting..." "Isn't there any other option?" I asked, hoping to continue filming. I didn't want to quit, because it was so fun being with Joey and acting. "The other option is to put you a corset on and try to hide it with a body. 

I agreed to try it on and the staff put me it on. "How are you?" Asked Joey. "I'm fine, it's not a big deal!" I lied. It was horrible I felt like if all my organs were squeezed into each other. The director told us to repeat the scene and so we did. When Joey hugged my hips we started acting. 

- "This was amazing!" 

- "Yes, it was!" 

He started to put his shirt on and said: "Babe, I need to go to work, but I'll see you later!" I stood up and followed him to the door. "Goodbye..." I said and he went off the scene. Now it was the turn for my monologue. I had practiced it a lot of times before, but never with a camera, and this was turning me really nervous. "Ugh! I hate his work! He's always turning me down in the morning because of it, so...." Suddenly I started to feel really bad and nauseous. My face turned a little grey. "Wow, she's a really good actress! I would never be able to act like that..." said Joey, unaware of what was happening to me. "Actually, this isn't part of the script..." the director noticed. I started to cry, because I could hardly breath.

"Phoebe!" Joey shouted and went to where I was. I started to hyperventilate and he took the corset off. "Are you ok?" He asked me. "Yes!" I said, trying to recover from the exhaustment. After a while the director came and said: "Phoebe, we have to postpone the shooting..." she said. "No!" I said, "I can deal with the corset!" "No you don't! You almost swallowed again." Joey said. "I'm ok... Please let me continue the shooting! I begged the director. "No!" She said, "And if you continue with this attitude we will hire another actress to replace you!" "Hey don't say that to her! She's the love of my life! If you replace her I will quit from this job! And if she wants to continue filming it's her decision, because she's the one that's pregnant!" Joey yelled at her in a really angry tone. 

He cared about me so much. He wanted to make me happy at all cost, even if that cost him his dream role. "Ok! We'll figure out how we can continue filming!" The director said. And I kissed Joey. "I love you!" "I love you more!" He said and kissed me more. 

The shooting continued two days after that. The director found the solution of filming scenes that were near to the end of the movie and letting the others for later.  We were really happy and I was  really proud of Joey for having helped me  find a solution.