Lights, Camera & Action

Hoke

Stolen glances, hidden touches, and late night phone calls ensued after Lingling and Orm's declaration of friendship. Most relationships usually don't escalate as quickly as becoming friends and then proceeding to make out all in one night, but ingling's life was already the polar opposite of normal.

Filming continued on for the next few weeks, eliminating almost all of the scenes but the dreaded finale, where Orm and Lingling shared a too intimate for children clip. 

Lingling got nervous just thinking about it, because public displays of affection were just like acting, but what would happen when she kissed her costar and faux girlfriend with all the lust in the world? 

Lingling was afraid that everyone might see right through her, and she and Orm's somewhat flirtatious friendship would be found out.

At the end of Thursday's shoot, Lingling was clutching her iced coffee in one hand and her cell phone in the other, typing a message to Orm out with her thumb. 

Orm was already back in her trailer with Susie, wiping away the thick eyeliner and dark lip stick that was required for her character. Lingling giggled to herself as she swiped her thumb across the phone, sending a message that would probably be considered too risque for girls who considered themselves just friends.

"Who are you messaging?" Junji asked from behind Lingling, causing her body to jolt from surprise.

Beads of sweat prickled under Lingling's armpits as she hid her phone from view, "No one interesting, just a friend from back home."

Junji stared back at the girl, her heavily dusted eyes narrowing, "You're lying to me. If it were someone that wasn't important, you wouldn't have almost sacrificed your coffee to hide your phone," Junj replied sternly, "I bet I can guess who it was."

"Go right ahead," Lingling responded, her voice laced with snark, even though her all too telling blush was already giving away who it was.

"Hm," Junji grunted out, tapping her chin with her index finger, "If I were to guess, and I only had one guess, I would bet every last dime that it was a certain fake girlfriend. Would I be homeless to suggest that?" Junj asked, a smirk dancing across her plumply lined lips.

Lingling lifted her shoulders slightly, grabbing her coffee as she hopped off of her chair, "A girl doesn't kiss and tell," Lingling riposted with a seductive wink, glad that she finally let the scenario off her chest.

Junji gasped audibly, speeding up her walk to get closer to Lingling, who had thrown her purse over her shoulder as she sauntered off the set.

"You mean you guys kissed? When?" Junji queried, her voice growing shrill and embarrassing like a mother who had just found out her daughter had experienced her first kiss and didn't bother to confide in her dear old mother.

Lingling couldn't help but smile at the memory, and how the moonlight felt on her face and the fruity taste of Orm's puffy lips. 

As Lingling got sucked back into the dreamy memory, she could feel her heart racing as she remembered how it felt to have her hands around Orm's waist, and she responded, "After the Badminton Tournament game. She told me she had never had a real first kiss, you know beside the one on the screen, and I hadn't either. So we just, you know, made out."

Junji grinned and squealed, grasping Lingling's hands in her own, "I knew it, this is going to work out so well! Maybe you guys can keep dating and eventually get married, and oh, Lingling, it's going to be so beautiful! I knew you would find love one day, I really did."

"Woah, Junji, slow down," Lingling removed her hand from Junji's, "We're not dating, we're just friends. Trust me."

"Friends don't kiss each other," Junji stated factually, "And 'just friends' don't fall in love with each other. Seng and I were what you would call 'just friends' before we started dating, and we've been together since high school. Lingling, the people you fall in love with aren't only your soul mates, but also your 'just friends'," Junji said, throwing air quotes around left and right.