The Percabeth kiss🪷 (walker scobell x reader)

Preperations for the scene🪷

the day I've most wanted but dreaded at the same time has finally come, and I'm so nervous i feel like the world is ending. The Percabeth kiss. Oh my god. I've never even kissed anyone before, and here i am, about to do it infront of like 20 crewmembers, and cameras. But the biggest concern of them all: Walker.

We've been co stars and friends for years, with nothing weird happening, but now it feels like the world is gonna turn upside down, just like my stomach. It feels like someone's put a heavy weight on my chest, and i can't remove it.
Im gonna kiss him, oh my god I'm gonna kiss Walker. It's literally happening. Im gonna explode, this is killing me from the inside out. In our years of friendship I've had a crush on him since about day 1, i know, that's so incredibly soon, but i couldn't help it, he was just so likeable something immediately sparked inside of me.

But god, i can't even look him in the eye right now. I feel the need to avoid him, and i have this feeling he senses the awkwardness of the situation too.
We got to take a fifteen minute break before the next scene, you know, to rehearse your lines one last time and maybe take a snack or two from crafties. I take a donut from one of the stands, but as i take a bite, this huge knot forms inside my throat. I can't swallow. The nerves are just too much, and the heaviness of the situation really starts to freak me out. My breathing paces up and with a hand covering my mouth i make a run for the bathroom, wanting to escape this scene that's coming up.

I haven't been an actor my whole life, and i started with little to no experience at all, so making it this far has been a huge honour, yet makes me nervous as hell because of my lack of experience. Experience in actually acting on set i mean, i can definitely act or else i wouldn't have been here, but that's not the point. I'm gonna kiss the boy i fell in love with, without the confirmation that he actually even has feelings for me.
That's the hard part about being actors, you can never be too sure if your co star is just acting, or actually likes you for real. I've never understood that, you film a whole romantic scene with them, sneak a kiss or maybe even make out, and after the director yells cut you just move on with your life like you didn't care about it at all? It's hard to tell if they maybe even like you behind the scenes.

The thought of this all makes my stomachs twist, my head hurt and my heart pound. I can't do this, i wanna do this but i can't. It's just too much. I lean on the bathroom sinks infront of the giant mirror, trying to gather my strength again. My breathing doesn't slow down. Ten minutes. Ten minutes now until my dream comes true, or comes out a nightmare.

I feel dizzy from all the nerves and sit on the floor, i have to calm down or else I'll mess up, really bad. I'm supposed to be a professional, remember? I focus on my breathing and try to slow it down, when all of a sudden i hear loud footsteps coming towards the bathroom. I stand up as fast as i can, which wasn't a good idea, now my vision is all blurry.
I just stand there for a little while until my eyes finally make out a face. THE face. It's Walker.

"Oh, its you! Sorry, i couldn't really see for a few seconds." I try not sound insanely nervous, but my voice comes out all shaky.

"You okay? You just disappeared without saying a word, so i decided to look for you, see where you went off to." he says, with a smile on his face.

"Oh yeah, I'm fine. Just needed to fix my hair." i nervously start to touch my hair, not looking him in the eye.

"You don't look too good. Are you sure you're okay?" his blue eyes look at me with worry, but he puts on a smile.

"I'm just a little, you know.... Nervous.. about the scene." my eyes try to focus on anything but his, i cannot handle talking to him about this without my face growing lobster red. I hide my hands in my pockets to cover the shaking. I can see through the corner of my eyes that he's thinking. Then his face turns to look at me again.

"Ah. Yeah, i get that.. stuff like this is sometimes hard to do infront of a million people and with cameras shoved in your face. But hey, it's part of the job, and.. I'm sure you'll do great. We'll do great, i mean. Yeah. Sometimes you just gotta get it over with, plus it's all pretend ofcourse, no need to think about it too much. It's what we do." he stumbles over his words a little, but manages to let out a small chuckle.

I sigh, and decide to look at him. "Looks like you've got this all covered. I seriously don't get how you're so used to this already. Give me some of your talent please, im begging you!"

He looks at me with sympathetic eyes, and i melt once again. How does he manage to calm me down and make me freak out at the same time??

"Hey, no need to worry, im certain you'll do great. Besides, if we do mess up, we can always try another take. You don't need to be perfect right away."

He seems to hesitate before speaking again.

"And.. trust me, i don't always have things in control. I'm still not completely used to stuff like this. I'm nervous too. But, i also have trust in the fact that we'll do great. We wouldn't be here if we didn't."

He looks me in the eye for a moment, but he looks away quick, and gets his phone out of his pocket.

"Two minutes. I feel like we should get back. The team if probably looking for us by now. We can do it, promise." He waits for me to follow him out, as he holds the bathroom door open for me.

"Thank you. Fingers crossed." I let out a long exhale before heading over towards the set with him, the nerves practically taking over my whole body. I have to calm down,

this has to go well.