the place under the spotlight | soogyu

Chapter Two

The plot goes as follows: Kim Dohyun is in his early years of university, taking up a course he was not happy with but still wakes up to follow a boring routine on his way to his lectures. His family was nothing but dotting, turning him into a dependent brat who carries a lot of expectations from being the oldest son. Still, he languished the luxury that comes with wealth and ended up in an accident with his car for recklessly driving at the ass crack of dawn.

He ends up meeting Lee Taejun, a blind bystander and could-have-been-victim of the car accident if it weren't for the poor tree beside him. They started off on the wrong foot and were not on good terms as many more fateful meetings occurred. Eventually, Dohyun found interest in Taejun when he found out that he's a retired ballet dancer at a very young age. Then- "Ugh!"

Beomgyu throws the memorized script on his vanity as he's getting his makeup done. The atmosphere is still tense from his last fight with Yeonjun, but they were great actors. When Soobin signalled 'action!', they were as perfect as the director wanted.

"Which scene are you working on now?" Kai peered from behind him. Confused why he's still in the dressing area and not where cameras were all set.

"They're shooting Yeonjun's ballet sequence. I'm not part of it," Beomgyu answered nonchalantly.

The makeup artist got him done in a jiffy, Kai thanked her with unintelligible words and a bow. Beomgyu on the other hand was making his way to where the shooting was taking place: cameras and lighting fixed into one area, and in the center stood Yeonjun in an outfit that corresponded to the scene before this. It's an all black wear, definitely not for ballet, and he was barefoot to heighten his sense of touch in exchange for his loss of the sense of sight.

Yeonjun plays Lee Taejun and Beomgyu plays Kim Dohyun. They were supposed to live, hurt, and fall in love—and although acting in love was easy in front of the cameras before... doing it with someone you were actually in love with once is torture.

Beomgyu shakes his head. Separate work from your personal life, he reminds himself. He can't get into Choi Soobin's nerve again if he wishes to continue the following months with ease.

He turns to his manager and gives him a rare pleading look. "Kai, I'm hungry."

Taehyun knocked at Beomgyu's trailer door at the end of the day. "Good job today!" He said. It's always his role to give everyone in the set affirmations.

"You, too, I guess."

The writer beams. "Thank you. Are you heading home?"

"My manager is preparing the car," Beomgyu answered.

"I was wondering if you and Kai would like to join Soobin hyung and I's plans for dinner—that is... if you're free," Taehyun fiddles with his fingers. "We never actually shared a nice meal with the main cast before and I'm hoping that this can melt the cold walls a little."

Beomgyu shoots Taehyun a questioning look, his left eyebrow raised. "What did Soobin say about this?"

"I'm still, uh, yet to tell him."

A meal with the director and the writer. It's nothing new. Beomgyu knows how this one goes and should go—get on the director's good side, please him, thank him. Sadly, Soobin had seen Beomgyu's bad side far too many times that a game of play-pretend is useless.

It made Beomgyu wonder why they hadn't had a meal together at the beginning. Isn't that tradition? The mutual dislike must have been enough to cross out any potential bond there is to grow.

"So he doesn't know?"

"He will and he will agree."

Taehyun is a funny man.