"Kris? Why are you here?" Her words came out slurred.
"Amber, you're drunk."
Amber chuckled and slapped Kris on the lap, hard. Kris gritted his teeth and hissed, "Ow..."
Without warning, she scooted in close to him and pressed her lips on his. Kris'...
A thousand miles above the ground a plane was flying. Sitting in business class was Kris, watching a documentary about llamas with headphones.
He sipped his glass of complimentary champagne, slightly furrowing his on-fleek brows. Maybe it was because he was literally above the whole world, maybe it was because how awesome being Kris Wu was, he did indeed feel on top of the world.
The documentary was reaching its end. It was delightful to watch, plus it made Kris even more fond of llamas than he already was. He squinted his eyes and carefully observed one particular llama that actually looked similar to Amber. She (Kris assumed) came closer and closer to the camera, away from her big llama crowd. And she started to transform. Her eyes became larger, her face began to change into a somewhat squarish-almond shape and she grew taller as she stood on only her hind legs.
"What in the galaxy-" For a moment Kris couldn't understand what was happening. Then it hit him, the llama was turning into Amber herself!
To Kris' relief, Amber the llama was clothed(and properly swaggish-ly so). She smiled her cute llama smile and opened her mouth - and made a weird llama noise before snatching away the glass in Kris' hand and galloping away.
Kris jumped. The feel of his champagne glass being taken out of his hand woke him from the doze he didn't realise he had fallen into. The seatbelt sign came on with a ping telling him they had landed. He took off his seatbelt, thinking about how vivid the dream had felt.
***
Amber looked out the plane window and saw the familiar geography of America. The plane flew lower and lower, closer and closer to Los Angeles.
"Home," she said to her vlogging camera happily.
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The plane landed smoothly. Amber took off her seatbelt and stood up to get a good stretch, and her luggage. She didn't bring much because she was going home where she would have everything she needed.
"Thank you," she said while getting off the plane to the air hostesses who smiled as brightly as the hot summer sun in Los Angeles.
Being in business class, she was among the first off the plane. She found her cousin Leon already waiting for her with open arms in the arrivals hall.
"Vlog-hug!", she said as she hugged him. Leon offered to carry her luggage, to which Amber gratefully agreed. Before leaving, Amber took photos with some lucky fans who happened to be at the airport.
***
Kris stood by the carousel with his manager, waiting for their luggage to come round. While waiting, he took out his phone and switched it on. The most logical thing to do after a long flight was obviously plugging in one's headphones and listening to Amber's Need to Feel Needed. Being the sensible person he was, Kris did just that.
He put on his sunglasses with one hand and took his flight bag with the other while his manager found their luggage and loaded them onto a trolley. As soon as they walked out the baggage reclaim, clicks coming from professional cameras made Kris aware of the fact that LAX was packed with excited fans.
He kept his face motionless, picturing in his mind how cool he'd look. It was not like he was being unfriendly, he was jet-lagged, plus being cool certainly was a different type of fan service, right? People should cut him some slack! Kris' self-consciousness made him miss another small crowd not too far away from him, where stood the woman he so dearly missed.
***
After setting down her luggage at a hotel, Amber arrived at her sister Jackie's house. Jackie was squatted in her garden watering some herbs. At the sight of Amber she aimed the hose at her and sprinkled her wet.
"Jackie STAHP!" Amber shouted and shielded her vlogging camera from the water. It was her favourite thing right after Jackjack, Tuna, bobas, tacos, skateboarding...But the point is, it wasn't cheap to buy.
"Go away!" shouted Amber as she ran away hovering over her precious camera. She shook off her shores and explored into the house. After some time picking up small pillows and stuff on the floor she lost interest and settled down for some TV. Her eyes were closing as she half-stared at the flashing screen.
"Amber! Seriously. Disney Channel?"Amber jumped at her sister's loud voice. Jackie was standing behind her with her gardening tools.
"You scared the sh-" Amber said for a split second, then continued, "I mean, yeah, why not?"
She went back to glue her eyes back on the screen. She said doing her famous Stitch impression, "Ooh! Next up, Lilo and Stich!"
"Okay, whatever. Suit yourself. But we're leaving in half an hour for lunch."
"Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind. But if you want to leave, you can. I'll remember you though," said Amber in Stitch's voice.
"And aloha means move your fat ass this is my sofa," said Jackie as she sat down, roughly pushing Amber's butt aside despite that the couch was spacious enough to fit four other people.
While Amber was at her sister's place fooling around, Kris was writing a song with Kevin Shin.
He told Kevin, "The director gave me the opportunity to write a song as my movie's title track. I've already written one, but I didn't really like it that much...So I wanna write a new one..."
Kris picked up a pencil and wrote down the title, '从此以后'(From Now On).
He thought, maybe he really should move on now, because after all, he was the one who had left...
Little did he know that song they wrote will not only become the official soundtrack of his film, but also go on and win him an award in the Top Ten Tracks category in one of the most prestigious awards ceremonies in Asia, in fact the oldest music awards show in China, 东方风云榜音乐盛典(literal translation: Eastern Wind and Clouds Chart Music Ceremony)
