Kyoko's Fear: My co-star is scary. (A Skip Beat! Fanfic)

Feelings and friendship

"Yes, I have been given the chance to film with Kyoko this coming month in her début film. I'm afraid I can't give away many details as we don't start filming till next week, but I can assure you that if Kyoko is playing the lead role it will be an amazing performance. She is one of the most talented actresses I've ever had the pleasure of working with." Ren smiled as the Ishibashi brothers all smiled too. They also knew Kyoko was an amazing actress and they all cared for her like a sister or in Hikaru's case he hoped for more. Kyoko couldn't breathe. She felt her lungs had been ripped out as she quickly waddled off the stage and out of sight. Yanking off Bo's head, she sobbed.

"You OK, Kyoko-chan?" asked one of the stage hands running over, Kyoko quickly masked her tears her head swimming with thoughts and feeling. Her grudges were desperately pushing through the keyhole of that dratted box.

"I'm fine, sorry I just got a little overheated and was worried I would faint on stage." she said with a very odd laugh. The stage hand smiled knowingly.

"I'm sure any woman would get a little flustered with Tsuruga Ren saying such nice things about them." she added with a small wink as Kyoko shook her head violently.

"Oh no, its not that. Tsuruga-san is always polite about his fellow colleagues it's just the suite seems a little more stuffy today than usual." she added not very convincingly. The stage hand knowing Kyoko for being modest said nothing. Who was she to complain? That's the reason they all liked her. She treated them with respect, not disdain as some famous celebrities would have. Saying that surely Kyoko was too famous now to be running around in a chicken suit?

"Here," she said handing the half girl half rooster a bottle of water.

"You will need to be back out on stage in 5 for the question eggs. Do you think you will be OK?" she asked kindly as Kyoko drank half the bottle of water in one long gulp.

"I'll be fine thank you." she said with a small fake smile. The stagehand nodded and went back to her work as Kyoko leaned back against the wall fighting back the inevitable tears that threatened her.

I'm Bo I can do this! I'm Bo... I'm Bo... I'm Bo...

The rest of the show passed in a blur. She must have performed OK as she wasn't sacked though she couldn't really remember what happened after returning to the stage. She just went with her body which seemed to know what it was doing without her interference. She never thought once as she trudged back to the props room. Her mind was empty and blank, she was forcing it to be so. Not wanting to think, not wanting to care. In the back of her mind she knew it was fate when she turned that corner. Her body had brought her here without her brain's help. What else could it be? Walking slowly, she sat down next to the man waiting for her.

"Yo!" she said masking her voice as always, but still the enthusiasm was lacking.

"Hey." Ren replied as he sat with his head in his hands, staring at blank nothingness.

"You sound as bad as I feel." he tried to joke as Kyoko attempted to get her mushy brain to function on at least some cognitive level, but it was failing her so she just decided to answer without thinking.

"Yeah, I'm not feeling too brilliant at the moment to be truthful. But enough about me you wanted to talk?" she said as she watched the hunched figure next to her. Ren made a noise which sounded like a mixture between a snort and a laugh.

"You know it's sad really, a grown man like me having no one I can talk to, save for an over large rooster that dislikes showing me his face." he wasn't being nasty she could see. He was just trying to find the words he wanted to say, letting him come to his own speed she answered,