A Collateral

Partly Startled

WARNING: Slight cursing may occur.

'In the summer fields we go, to the sky is our goal. Discovering limits being broken, and new boundaries to arose. Strange things never before seen, heard, or even spoken of. A new way to change the game. A chance to change our way.'

'But at what cost...'

"CUT!" Wilbur shouted. "We got it!" He said grinning.

"What? Really? That was it?" I said in disbelief.

"Yes! George, you're up next." Wilbur motioned George to change up.

"Great." George said unexcitedly sarcastic. He grabed his costume and went to change in the other room, accidentally dropping part of his script.

I saw that he dropped it and took it as an opportunity to take a little sneek peak. I saw part of the script but I didn't know which scene it was from. I tried to remember what was in the script Wilbur to gave me but nothing out of the ordinary seems to be sticking out.

I read some of George's lines from that scene and what I saw made me blush bright red. I immediately hid the script and went back to my seat still flustered. Wilbur seemed to notice me at a very bad time and said, "You good there?"

"Huh w-what?"

Damn it! Now is not the time for that. I couldn't get my head straight.

"Uhh, yeah, it's nothing, it's nothing."

Great. I try to not hate myself sometimes.

"Well, why are you like a tomato then? You should be looking more gray and 'clay-like'." He had the sudden urge to tease again.

"Maybe because I turn human later on and these are just extra blushes."

"Oooh, so you're a make up artist now?"

"Pff, you know what?"

"What?" He said in an amused voice.

"Fuck you" I scoffed.

"Ding ding ding ding! We have a winner ladies and gents!"

"Hey! LaNgUaGe!!" Darryl said, comming out suddenly from nowhere.

I just call him Bad because first, his minecraft accounts name is BadBoyHalo, which that alone explains a lot actually, and second because he hangs out with us 'Bad Boys' and tries to influence us to be good, which explains the 'Halo' part. He used to swear but immediately stopped when he met Zak. Which was a little while back before we started this filming project.

"What did I do?!" Zak came in yelling at Bad.

"Not you, you little muffin head. It's Clay." Bad said reassuiringly.

"Ooh, what did he do this time?" He was getting really interested now. Great. Just great.

"I swear you guys, you all are drawn to gossip as a moth is drawn to a flame."

They all started looking at one another like they are a hive mind. They started laughing.

Zak was the one in charge of the sound effects and other sound dialogues in the scenes. He dropped by to give us some snacks. Unfortunately for me, he overheard Bad and our growing conversation and decided to join in.

"Here." He handed me some of my favorite snack.

Zak, also known as Skeppy by his Minecraft account, became instant friends with Bad. I really don't know much about them because they have their own friend group sometimes.

They always have this world they built together, which I kinda feel jealous of. Although Zak sometimes swears and Bad scolds him, he sometimes teases Bad because he thinks he's cute when he gets angry at him.

I rolled my eyes and try to calm my heartbeat down before George comes back.

"So what made you blush?" Wilbur said once again, clearly amused.

There's no point in lying anyway. Might as well tell the truth.

And the truth I told.

Wilbur started laughing uncontrollably followed by Bad and Skeppy.

"Haha yeah about that," Wilbur said in between his laughs was nervously about to say something then George appeared out of nowhere.

"What is this about?"

"GEORGE!" I said shockingly in a louder tone than usual standing up as quick as I can like a rocket launching up in the air.

Then they all started laughing harder than ever before.

He gave a surprised and confused look. He knew he seems to be stepping on a weird conversation I'm having with the boys and wanted in on the details.

I looked at his costume. He seemed to be wearing a mushroom inspired clothing with royal embroidery all over. He had a mushroom themed cape and a mushroom cap with golden bits pinted up for the crown. He looked like a true prince.

"Great! He's back! Okay. Back to filming." Wilbur enthustically said once the laughter died down.

I was still standing there dumbfounded until Bad shooked me, just enough to regain my senses.

"Clay!"

"Huh? W-what?"

"They left already."

Oh. It's just me and bad left here, i suppose. What a relief!

That was so embarrasing. I guess another one added to the pile at this point of time.

We waited for George's shot to end because I didn't know if I could handle myself seeing him looking so noble like that again.

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The shot was nearly done. We were about to do one last scene together. Then my phone buzzed.

"CUT! Clay, didn't we tell you no phones on scene.

"Yeah, sorry, I just have to," I took my phone and see who was calling.

It was Drista.

"Hello? Clay? Where the freak are you?!"

"I'm in the middle of the shoot, didn't I tell you that already?"

"Well, check your time." She sounded so impatient.

"Holy Shit! I'm late!"

"Yeah you better run. Mom's gonna pick us up in about 5 minutes. If you're not here you will have to walk back home by yourself."

"Okay, okay. Just- ugh, I hate you sometimes."

I look and see george and wilbur saying, "what's the holdup?"

"Guys, remember the thing i really need to go to? Like, right now?"

"Oh shit! I forgot the time. Damn it!" Wilbur said while smashing his hand on the table.

"What do you think I should do?" I was frantically looking for a solution until I felt a hand on my shoulder.

"Do what you think is right Clay," George spoke up.

"So, what do you want to do?" Techno asked, crossing his arms.

"I could take over your scene with George!" Quackity insisted with a menacing grin.

"What? Heck no! Plus you don't even know the lines, it will take you at least like an hour to get a straight sentence out."

Plus, I know what he wants and why he wants it. I wouldn't let him take it from me.

I made my desicion.

"I'm staying."