After the "CUT!"

Prompt

Maine has been acting weird for day now. She barely talks to the staff, her co-artists, and even her crew in between takes. She maybe an introvert, it takes a while for her to warm up to people but once she does then she will be this firecracker that won't stop unless you tell her so. And it's already been weeks since she bonded with everyone on the set, so keeping to herself is rare.

She does not even talk to Alden. Usually, those two are are inseparable so seeing them almost not talking to each other except for the occasional 'hellos' and 'kumain ka na ba?' – it's so uncharacteristic.

What makes it weirder and suspicious is that Alden does not seem to mind. Out of the two, Alden easily can be tagged as the clingier other half. It is Maine he seeks first whenever he arrives last at the set, and it should be him who would greet her first if it is the other way around.

Not that Maine is not clingy too, because she is. In fact, on good days her clinginess could rival Alden's. Maybe not as open as Alden's but still as clingy, if not more. There are time when she would just quietly sit beside Alden, share her earphones to him and make him listen to whatever she is currently listening while she lays her head on his shoulder. Or vice versa. Sometimes they laugh over whatever funny video Maine finds over the internet, with her head still on his shoulder.

The point is, whenever those two are together they create their own little bubble where it's just the two of them, only they can understand each other; damn everything else. That is what most people call their 'sariling mundo'; which, unfortunately, was noticeably absent the past few days and no one can really tell why.

Well at least they ate dinner together before the last take. If you could call sitting together but not talking and instead busily using their own phones, eating together. Another weird and out of character behavior.

Assumptions have already started circling among those who are part of the teleserye set (crew and actors combined), but for the sake of publicity – their teleserye hasn't even aired yet – they kept it amongst themselves. But the speculations are still there; from having another tampuhan up to those two already broken up, even though they never confirmed neither denied their presumed relationship.

It was the last take for the day and Alden was already packed up an hour ago. He was resting at their designated room when Maine came storming in without even knocking. Alden looked up from fiddling with his own mobile phone just in time to see her grumpily dropped herself in the settee by the foot of his bed.

"Buong araw ka ng busangot." He commented which earned raised eyebrows and a pout from her, "Oh ibaba mo yan kilay. Madami na nagtatanong, LQ daw ba tayo"

"LizQuen?" Maine quipped.

Her and her smart pretty mouth. Oh the things he wanted to do with that mouth.

"Baliw hindi. Lover's Quarrel kasi. Hindi daw kasi tayo naguusap mga three days na. Natawa nga ako na bilang nila eh."

Maine her stood up, placed her phone by the side table, and walked towards the bed where Alden is, "LQ? Dito ako dumiretso sa kwarto mo ngayong gabi, LQ?"

When didn't show any inclination of joining him in the bed, Alden gently pulled her to him so that she can sit on his lap, "Bakit nga ba kasi hindi mo ako pinapansin masyado the past few days?"

"Ikaw din kaya, deadma mo din ako." Maine sighed while still pouting, "Anyway... remember what I told you before? The Wattpad writer's convention our fans organized for us? Well I joined their 4th run."

"Go on." Alden urged Maine to continue while he gently worked on the knots on her shoulder, he knows that this would relax Maine.

"Well, I already got my prompt. One of the admins, Kat, messaged me my prompt today." Alden's gentle ministrations is already starting to affect Maine, "yes, right there babe." She moaned when Alden worked on a sore part in her shoulder.