The Wish

Chapter Twenty Eight

28: Wild Dream

(Neo POV)

Jimmy took me to the audition.

I perform a dramatic monologue for a director who's barely paying attention. I just happen to need an actor of my exact body type to act as a double for a bedroom scene in his next movie, but I'm not interested until I hear that the female lead is Davika Hoorne.

I'm happy because I can be with one of my idols.

After the audition, we went home and told our friends the good news and they congratulated me.

I ask Jimmy to help me with my diet and I offer to buy him a fancy new razor in exchange. Jimmy says he'll do it, but only if I follow his orders no matter what.

I also asked him about the script he was working on.

"It's okay and the director likes it," Jimmy told me.

"Jimmy's dream come true, I can be the same with Khun Davika.

That's right, there is no class apart from Apo, Pepper, and Boom.

So we can start my diet.

"I'll make you a diet meal," Apo said and I thanked him.

The next day Jimmy leads me through a montage of weight-loss tricks. He makes me wear multiple layers of clothing, traps me in a sauna, hot room, and forces me to work out until I collapse, chanting, "Davika Hoorne! Bed Scene!"

When we got home from the dorm, I went straight to my room as I heard Apo ,telling Jimmy about the diet he was making me do.

Several days later, Apo said that I am malnourished and half catatonic from exhaustion. In a weak voice, I slur that I'll just drink water, but Jimmy even forbids me that. He tells me to have a drink if I don't want to film that bed scene with Miss. Davika, and I push the pitcher away with a shaking hand.

"Jimmy, the diet you are making Neo do is wrong, maybe instead of the bed scene, Neo will be stabbed in the hospital bed," Apo gave me food.

"Apo is right, your method of dieting him is not good," Auo said as he looked at me.

"I'm... fine," I told them softly.

"Are you sure Miss Davika is the one in your bed scene, maybe she's a double just like you?" Boom said as he envied me for eating pizza.

"That's what the director said," while I think of Boom as fried chicken.

"Hey!" Pepper slapped me.

"Jimmy look what you did to Neo!" while Apo hugged me.

I think of them as foods.

"How can Neo get in if he's like that," I heard Jane say.

Dessert...Fried rice...Fried Chicken

Food was on my mind and I didn't even realize it was already on my table and Apo was trying my food.

Jimmy would have taken my food when I bit his hand.

I don't care about the bed scene anymore as long as I can eat Apo's cooking.

I don't want to!

Food is more important to me now than a diet.

"Are you crying?" I just nodded while I ate.

I miss Apo's cooking and Jane's dessert.

"Take it easy on the food, I've cooked a lot," I hugged Apo and Jane.

By the day of my bed scene shoot, I am so thin and I approach the woman sitting on the bed, excited to finally be meeting Miss. Davika, but she turns to face me and I gasp in horror because it is not Miss.Davika.