Behind the Screen (Rosa x Curtis)

The First Scene

"What was the line again?"

It was a simple scene that I had to do, all I had to do was sit on a fake throne in front of a green screen, my male Ampharos had to wear a dress and pretend to embroider. I had to watch a man come up to me, and complain about the bad living conditions. 

"BE OFF WITH YOU!" Someone yelled impatiently.

So why was I so nervous?!

After two hours of rigorous makeup and hair, and dress fixing, I was finally beginning the filming. I sat down on the large throne, and tried to get comfortable. Fluffy struggled to sit in his dress, and struggled even more to pretend to stitch the coloured thread through the pulled fabric. I sat really uncomfortably in my chair, fidgeting and moving in every way. Fluffy threw his shoe at me.

"AMPHA AMPHA ROS!" He yelled stop moving!

I threw his shoe back down at him, and decided to just sit up normally. I laid my hands down on my lap, and tried to look regal. It was so much harder than I had expected. All of the lights flashed bright into my eyes, and everyone was staring. I took a large breath. This was it.

"And action!"

I sat down as the man walked up in his poor looking clothing. He hobbled up, and said his extremely long line. But I couldn't hear it. I was freaking out so hard inside I thought I was going to pass out. Once he had stopped talking, I left a seconds beat, before delivering my line.

"Be off with you!"

The man reluctantly bowed, and left the scene.

"CUT!"

Wow.

That was easy.

AND I DIDN'T ACT LIKE A FOOL IN FRONT OF A FREAKING CAMERA! It made me wonder why Nancy didn't do the scene herself, as it was so easy, even I had managed to do it. I jumped up from my throne, and lifted Fluffy in the air. 

"Fluffy I actually did it!" I yelled excitedly.

Fluffy pushed his fist in the air, and I softly let him back to the ground.

"That's a wrap!" 

I stared quizzically at the camera crew, and everyone else packing up for the day. We had only done one scene, why had we finished so quickly? A woman huddled over to me, and told me to go to the dressing room to change back and collect my stuff. 

"Why are we finishing so early?" I asked her, as she practically pushed Fluffy into the dressing room. 

She simply shook her head. "Its already 6 hun, everyone is exhausted."

As I was shoved into my dressing room, I changed and slapped on my xtransceiver, briskly checking the time. She wasn't lying, it was 6:07. As I collected my bag, tied up my hair and wiped off my makeup, and couldn't help but feel proud of myself. I had actually done it. As I walked out of the changing room into the waiting room of the facility, I was greeted by a hug from Geo.

"You were amazing! Raw talent! Simply fantastic!" He exclaimed, squeezing so hard I thought I was going to pass out.

Nancy and Christoph walked up to us, hand in hand. 

"I was surprised you could actually do it Rosa!" Nancy giggled.

"You were amazing!" Christoph gushed. 

Nancy glanced at Christoph, and held onto his hand tighter. Her Ampharos and Geo's Incineroar walked in hand in hand as well. You could almost see Fluffy's broken heart on display. I felt bad for him as he sat in the nearest corner, plucking apart a flower he had found somewhere. Geo placed me on the ground, and walked up to Fluffy, patting him on the back. 

"You were simply fantastic! I've never seen a man play a woman so perfectly!"Geo said, laughing.

That seem to lift his spirits higher than the sky.

"AMPHAROS! AMPHA AMPHA!" He yelled that's right! I am the best!

Nancy pecked Christoph lips, and they walked off together. Geo and his Pokemon walked away to, not before turning to me and saying,

"See you tomorrow nice and early for filming, Tim will come and get you!"

I smiled and waved as he walked away. As soon as he was out of sight, I collapsed in the nearest chair, the receptionist briefly looking up from her book to look at me, but then look back at her page. I sighed and stretched out my arms. I glanced ahead of me, past Fluffy dancing around congratulating himself, and into the mirror behind him. My hair was back up. My face scrubbed clean. My dress to normal clothing. I was no longer a princess. I sighed, opening up my xtransceiver to watch Mewtube. (Authors note: heheheh) But I was distracted by the notification popping up on my screen. I clicked on it and saw that Curtis had responded from my dress photo that Fluffy had sent. My face went red in embarrassment.

Curtis: Wow, you look amazing! I wish I was there to tell you to your face. 

My face started to burn.

"Ampha?" Fluffy questioned, snatching my xtransceiver out of my hands.

He quickly read the text, before blushing.

"AMPHA ROS ROS AMPHA!" He yelled, waving around the xtransceiver, causing the receptionist to raise her eyebrow, HE LOVES YOU AND THINKS YOU LOOK HOT!

I felt my face blushing even harder as I grabbed it out of his hands.

"He didn't say that!" I yell in retort. 

Fluffy scrunches up his nose and pokes out his tongue. I sighed, getting up and heading to the exit.

******

Fluffy kicked open the door with gusto, and laughs to himself as I walk through. I poke him in the stomach.

"If you keep on doing that, it really will break!" I exclaim, twisting my ring. 

Fluffy huffs, and struts inside. I laughed, closing the door behind me and making a beeline for my room. To snuggle into my...

"Well well." A voice says, scaring me to death. 

After my mini heart attack, I see that Jackie is sitting at the table, sipping a coffee.

"How long have you been there..."

"Don't ask." She says, getting up. 

Fluffy walks in, and straight out.

"How did it go? How was it?" Jackie demanded, not being able to contain her excitement, spilling her coffee everywhere. 

I manage to coax her back into her seat, telling her everything about the amazing day I had had.

And how I think I have overcome my fear.