On-Screen Lovers || Ziall Horlik [MPREG]

|| Prologue ||

EDIT: So I've misused the term prologue and it seemed as if the latter half of this chapter could serve as chapter 1. This could've passed as Prologue/Chapter 1.1 but yeah, please bear with it anyway.

[Niall]

:Acting • \ˈak-tiŋ\ - the art or profession of performing the role of a character in a play, movie, etc:

All my life, all I ever wanted to be was an actor. Since I was a child I had a thing for acting, I remember, I used to act sick when it was time for school because school was nothing but hell personified. I hated school.

I used acting in order to mask what I'm feeling, using it as a barrier to hide my feelings away from anyone because I always believed that if portray yourself as an open book where everything about you is known, people could easily hurt and destroy you because they will know what and where to hit you so it hurts the most. You may think I'm cynical but life thought me to be realistic.

Well, I used to be sociable enough and actually exerted effort to mingle with people until my dad died. It was something so unexpected, both mom and I were neither by his side during his time of suffering and that's what hurts the most. Mom had to go to work and I had to go to school, if by chance, that either one of us didn't then maybe...maybe, we could've saved him. Or if not, we could've done something to fight for me...or even say our goodbyes before life finally drained out of him but we were robbed of that chance.

Since dad died life got a little harder, my mom was the only one left to support me and she worked hard to raise me on her own.

Going back to school, my classmates used to tease me about having no father. This is why I didn't want people know a thing about me. They always knew where to hit worst. When the annual Family Day came, I was the only one who doesn't have any family at school. My mom later on found out about the event when the teacher notified her so she asked me why I hadn't told her about it. Why would I? Mom was very tired, she was crawling back home every night so instead of spending her time at school it was best that she should get some rest. I wanted her to.

Seeing my mom striving, I studied hard because I wanted to give her a good life and I did, but not in the way I thought it to be. One time, I got offered if I wanted to appear on a commercial. I accepted the offer. At least, I could use the money I would get if not for my education then for my mom.

I couldn't believe what happened. The commercial was a success. Indeed it was. The sales of the product increased and that's when people started to notice me. I was surprised and all because I've gained such warm recognition from the public and I've received offers to appear on TV, not for a commercial, but for a show, a supporting cast.

It was hard to balance studying and working at the same time but during those times, I somehow managed to do it. As the time passed by, I was rising. From a supporting cast to one of the main cast. My mom was overjoyed over what I was achieving and well, she wasn't the only one, I mean who wouldn't be overjoyed? I was slowly living the dream I was dreaming for back then.

I was slowly descending from my studies and focused on my acting career. People adored and supported me even though I was new to the business I guess you could say I was pretty liked.

They say it's fun at first but then it gets tiring as the time passed by and they were right, truly right.

Being bombarded with projects, TV shows and guest appearances was very shocking for someone who is new to the business. Happiness was replaced by exhaustion. It was a pain in the ass, to be honest. It hasn't been a year since I started rising - I know you must be thinking that being offered a lot of work I should be happy but how could you when you're tired that you almost can't feel anything, it's like you're a robot and money is your batteries.