Lights, Camera & Action

Nueng

Conference rooms were always particularly boring, from the vomit stained rainbow carpets to the boring white, cement walls, Lingling couldn't help but feel like she was in prison when she attended various meetings.

A table elongated the room, black chairs pushed in only halfway, and a run down fan whirred in the corner of the room. Lingling sighed, glancing over at her manager, Junji who looked extremely pale under the fluorescent light, or maybe she was just going white from the awful stench of moldy books and moth balls.

Junji tapped her french manicured fingernails on the sticky surface of the white table, and she exhaled heavily, obviously annoyed.

"Orm and her manager were supposed to be here twenty minutes ago," Junji said impatiently, averting her eyes to the clock above a water cooler, eying the clock as it ticked slowly.

"I told you she was unprofessional," Lingling retorted, crossing her arms over her exposed abdomen, "Every day on set, Orm shows up late. Her manager always has some sort of excuse, like she's just a young star trying to enjoy the tropes of Hollywood, but the movie is almost halfway through. You think the director would get onto her by now," Lingling huffed, glad that she was able to vent about her less than perfect coworker.

Lingling had been in the celebrity business for as long as she can remember. On her first birthday, Lingling's mother put her in a baby beauty pageant, claiming that her daughter had eyes browny than a Victorias Secret model, and deserved to be in the spotlight. Lingling won the competition fair and square, and at that moment, her acting career took off.

At age thirteen, Lingling was cast as a leading role in her own Disney show about a teenager who was a spy, but also doubled as a normal high school student. The show had a long run, and by the time Lingling was seventeen, the creators ended it on a lighthearted note, leaving the her character, Nueng, to fall in love with her male best friend. 'Double Time' had broke the barrier for Lingling, and four years later, she had twelve number one blockbuster films following her name like a crazed super fan.

Her latest sure fire hit was titled "23.5"', which was one of the first openly gay friendly teen romance films to be expected to smash the box office. When Lauren had gotten offered the deal, she immediately accepted (she barely even read the terms and conditions, that's how pumped she was), and at that time, she was unsure of who her other leading lady would be.

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Orm Kornaphat was an up and rising star who annihilated the Billboard charts with her number one single, Taken Home. Before Lingling could even blink, the eighteen year old had turned into Thailand's sweetheart, and all of the cameras that weren't tailing Lingling's ass were now chasing after Orm.

Lingling had to admit that she was a fan of Orm's beauty at first, but after she had given her debut fan meet and she decided the young girl was too immature and sappy behavior.

Shortly following the fan meet event, Lingling found out that Orm would be playing the role of Faye Malisorn, a headstrong character who enjoyed wearing black and dating people who were unfaithful.

Lingling was acting as Yoko Apasra, a sultry Southern Belle who was a sheltered farmer's daughter and uber virginal. The characters were completely archetypical, and the story line was as well, but since it was the first real lesbian film to have larger than life celebrities starring in it, the typicality was overseen.

Orm basically had her entire success handed to her by having one catchy pop song that the radio still overplayed, and Lingling had to admit, she was a bit jealous. Lingling doubted that the cutesy starlet had to suffer through hours of drama classes at the age of ten, or that she had to stay up until three in the morning to get a shot perfect for a show on the Disney channel. Lingling despised how easily the stars had seemed to fall on top of Orm's shoulders, while the stars struggled to reach back to Lingling until she had gotten her big break.