Long Live, Season 2 - A Short Story

Long Live, Season 2

"Cut!" Our director Jason calls from behind the cameras. Me and the cast waited anxiously for what he was going to say next, it could have been good or bad. "Everyone feel good about that take?" He looks around at the producers on set who all nodded with a smile. "Well, in that case, that is an official wrap on the filming of 'Long Live' season one!" The cast and crew applauded one another for the months of hard work we had put in. 

"Can you believe it!" Jonah, my childhood best friend, says coming across the set to me says. "We filmed a TV show together?"

"I didn't believe it months ago when we started and I don't know if I believe it now." I laughed while we walked with some other cast towards the cameras off set, his arm on the back of my shoulders. As we stepped behind the line of cameras, we heard screams and cheers coming from a golf cart outside the big barn doors of our sound stage. Two of our co-stars, Nick and Finn.

"Jiena! How we doing?" Nick yells to us.

"Who is 'Jiena'?" Jonah asks.

"You guys obviously." Finn pops his head forward from the back seat of the golf cart. "Siena and Jonah? It's your ship name!"

"We aren't together though?" Jonah asks.

"Your characters are together though." Nick shrugs.

"So if it's Rowan and Noah, shouldn't it be Roah?" I suggest.

"That's totally going to be the official ship name when the show airs." Nick turns the golf cart back on. "Now come on, get on the back, the after party awaits."

"After party?" I ask while Jonah walks willingly to the back of the golf cart sitting next to Fin. "There's an after party?"

"She's so cute, you can tell it's her first acting role." Nick teases. "Of course there's an after party! Now get on the back."

"I will not get on anything you are driving." I refuse. "Cast aren't even supposed to be driving the golf carts."

"You don't trust me?" He asks, pretending to be offended. "How rude."

"Hey don't worry, Sienna. I'll drive!" Kira, another one of our co-stars, pulls Nick off the cart by the back of his shirt. "Get in the back, Nicholas."

"Hey!" Nick says at the use of his full name and Kira settles in the driver's seat and I sit next to her.

"Okay we can go now."

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"Seriously, how did I not know there's an after party?" I turned around looking at my dress in the mirror of my trailer, in the middle of the rest of the cast trailers. "Like nobody told me, how was I supposed to know?"

"Yeah don't let Finn and Nick fool you." Kira laughs laying on my small couch. "There are parties to celebrate finishing the filming of movies and shows, but they aren't as big of a deal as those two are making it sound."

"So is this a little much?" I turn around to face her. "It's not overdressed, is it?"

"Oh no." She shakes her head. "Finn and Nick find any excuse to throw a party, I've worked with them for years, their parties are insane?"

"That still blows my mind. That you all have been acting since you were little kids, and this is my first role ever."

"Well in my opinion you can't tell." She stands from the couch. "You act like you've been doing this your whole life."

"Well, I probably have Jonah to thank for that." I remind her, clipping the back on my earring.

"You have Jonah to thank for a lot." She opened the door of my trailer and I followed her outside.