"Pretending"

Parties

"Of course, you care about what other people say, that's just like everyone else." Hyungwon stood, clad in a white shirt, light-blue jeans, and white shoes. He looked around, breaking eye-contact with the person in front of him. "I guess it doesn't matter anyway. I had a feeling this would happen." He turned his heel and began to walk away.

"Wait!" The other called but made no move to go after him. The black sleeves covered his clenched fists and his legs, covered in the same light-blue jean material, stayed put but shook with an impulse to run but a command to freeze. Hyungwon stopped briefly, just to look back, before continuing.

"And cut!" The director called. Hyungwon let out a sigh of relief and made his way back to where the camera could see him. "Great job, Hyungwon, that looked perfect, you too Wonwoo." Hyungwon turned to praise his co-star, holding his hand out in apology for the previous scene.

"You were amazing, I almost thought you would start crying," he praised. Wonwoo took his hand gratefully, praising him as well.

"You've been shaking my hand after every scene your character makes mine feel bad, it's just acting. If you're feeling sorry you don't have to be." They walked over to the rest of the staff, all taking orders on what should be done now that the last scene was filmed.

"You have to make it seem real and that's pretty hard, plus I've heard you're a method actor so you must have thought of something sad."

"A puppy dying, calm down Hyungwon. I'm fine I promise." Wonwoo gave him a pat on the back, to further reassure him but Hyungwon still felt a bit of guilt in his chest.

"We're a little behind schedule but it's nothing too big to worry about." Hyungwon heard the director mention to himself.

"Jihoon you better not be worrying about it because we finished the episode two weeks before it's supposed to air and the next episode won't come out until five weeks from now." The image producer warned.

"Yes, but after that, we will need to be giving weekly updates which will give us five weeks to make every new episode, even less if we fall even more behind. we have to account for the weather and health of everyone here, plus there's the fact that the script can-"

"Jihoon." Soonyoung piped up from the sidelines, "Calm down, we finished this episode in less than two weeks, five should be way more than enough."

"Still, you know how things usually go and I'm not okay with having another event." Hyungwon looked around at all the sighing faces had a feeling it wasn't the first time Jihoon has brought it up.

He was dismissed and allowed to leave but Kihyun was still talking to some of the staff. He took the chance to walk around more, two weeks at the studios and he's still not used to everything. Just yesterday he got lost during the break because he needed to use the restroom.

"Hyungwon!" A gentle voice called him and he tried to find a face for it before turning.

"Jisoo, thanks again for helping me out yesterday."

"No problem, it's happened to all of us. Great job today, it's like you meant what you said." The slim man touched his earpiece but made no gesture to leave Hyungwon at the moment.

"Jisoo can I ask you something?"

"If you're wondering what Jihoon was referring to before, we were behind on schedule this one time and everyone, I mean everyone, working that night had to stay a whole two days without sleep so they could get it done. The actors were messing up from sleep deprivation, Soonyoung and Seungcheol became irritated with everything and got strict on what was to be done, but it really hit Jihoon the hardest, it was supposed to be one of his best shows but the viewers wanted something different than what he had in mind so he had to change everything. He's just a little paranoid of it now but you don't have to worry, we have a lot more people to make sure we don't get too behind."