Sliding Doors - 2 (English Version)

Chapter 108 - The end (?)

Josephine

The last day of filming is always strange and rather chaotic.
Usually each actor finishes shooting their scenes at different times from each other. This of course also applies to us who are the protagonists.
Today is my last day and incredibly it is also the last day of Hero.
When we shot the other films we always finished a few days apart, but this time we have a scene together as the last take.
It's strange. Very strange actually.
I've been playing Tessa for years, even though I've made another film in the meantime, but this imaginary girl is a bit part of me now.
I'm sorry to have to say goodbye to her.

"Is everything okay?"

There he is, my hero.

The guy I literally met by chance and fell madly in love with.
Who would have thought?
Surely, not me!
When I boarded the plane to Atlanta, two years ago now, I never imagined I would find him. My him.

"Yes, now that you're with me," I whisper, pulling me close to him in a hug.
He immediately reciprocates, holding me tightly.

I love him. I have always loved him.
And today that our work together is coming to an end, I know that a chapter of my life is closing that will never return.
As with all things, we must always move on, but nothing forbids feeling a little melancholic.

"I will miss all this" I sigh as I look around "But most of all I will miss working with you, side by side"
My eyes are glazed over and I don't know if I will start crying anytime soon.
We have a few more scenes to shoot together and then it will all be over.

"Don't think you can get rid of me so easily!" He smiles hugging me tighter "You'll always have me around, Miss Langford!"

"Thank goodness!" I sigh again.
Thank goodness indeed.
I would never be ready to really let him go. Never.

"And then who knows, maybe in the future we'll work together again" I know, he's trying to lift my spirits but this sense of melancholy is hard to chase away.
I am convinced that all emotions must be experienced, whatever they are, otherwise we cannot really rationalise them.
And I love to rationalise everything, believe me!

I breathe in his perfume at the top of my lungs.
After has given me a dream, a career but even more so my great love.
When I think that I was one step away from giving up everything at the beginning, precisely because I was late for the selections, it makes me laugh.
I don't know if I can credit fate, but it seems that way after all.
I was chosen as co-star even though my audition had been for Molly.
Who knows how things would have turned out, who knows if we would still have found each other.

"Mr. and Mrs. Smith?" I look up at him, smiling.

He returns the smile and lowers his face to mine to leave a sweet kiss on my lips.

"Any movie, together with you, would be a big yes for me!" He kisses me again and I lose myself in the moment. I want to enjoy every moment.
What's more, we'll be shooting two emotionally charged scenes and I need some cuddling before I dive into Tessa.

"You know it will never happen, we'll never be cast together in the same film again" I sigh closing my eyes. I don't want to get my hopes up and then we'll be together in real life anyway, that's what's important.

"We'll keep rooting for each other from behind the screen in that case!"

"Always. Always and forever!" I smile with tears in my eyes.

Hero strokes my cheek gently.
"Let's go do our best and end this movie on a high note!"

I nod and take deep breaths detaching myself from him.