𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜. - 𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝚜𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚐

make her my girlfriend.

People start sitting on their seats and the talk is loud and messy. Everybody is waiting for today's episode and all the ones involved in the production are frenetic to get things done quickly before the show starts. Jesse Eisenberg is the host this episode and he seems to rehearse in silence, only lip syncing.

The musicians are at the back, doing their stuff with their instruments and I seem out of place. I don't see Akiva, or Jorma in the room and I desperately look for the food table, where I can drink a cup of coffee or something just to pretend I'm fitting in.

Andy comes walking with this weird Mark Zuckerberg costume and I silently giggle. At once, he doesn't see me in the middle of the crowd of staff but I keep staring at him. His smile is gentle, but when he sees me in the corner of the room, all alone but looking at him, the smile gets bigger. The make-up artist is almost pushed away when he comes walking towards me. I chew the pie so fast that my jaw will hurt eventually.

"Hey cutie" he says, taking a mini hot dog from the table.

"Hey, handsome" I instantly regret saying this, because he opens a sarcastic smile.

He gives me a peck on the lips and his arms embrace the back of my neck. We both lean against the wall we stay there, in complete silence. But it's not awkward silence. It's a moment we don't need to say anything, being close to each other says everything we could spend time trying to figure it out and put it in words.

After some minutes, a voice call all the crew to a rapid meeting. He kisses my forehead before leaving and for a moment, I miss him. I miss his hands over me and his attention for a quarter of a second.

They all get started and the music starts playing. The audience starts clapping hands and shouting. The show is about to start and I see Jesse getting ready to get in and host.

His monologue starts and everybody is quiet. In some moments, people chuckle and even laugh out loud with his jokes. "If he comes over to me I'll say sorry Jack, you know here's Jesse... I'm not gonna say that, no, even thinking of saying something like that is kinda... is actually giving me a panic attack right now. I feel like I'm misrepresenting myself hum..."

Andy comes right in and starts a dialogue with him, dressed and acting like Zuckerberg.

"Yeah, well, misrepresenting people is something you've got a lot of practice with." The audience starts clapping hands when they see Andy and Jesse.

"Wow, Mark Zuckerberg, hey how are you?" Jesse starts.

"Oh, how am I? I'm bad, okay? You got nominated for an Academy Award for playing me. What do I get, you know? What do I have to feel good about?"

"Wasn't Facebook just valued for like 50 billion dollars?"

"Oh, that's right yeah." People laugh so bad right now and I can see the goofy face Andy does through the little TV backstage.

"Well good luck on your dinky movie award thing."

Suddenly, a clip from the real Mark Zuckerberg starts in the little TV screens, as it is seen in people's home. He looks nervous, while Andy and Jesse still play there "characters".

"Okay, we're gonna let you in on the joke. This isn't Mark Zuckerberg, this is Andy Samberg."

A few people clap before Andy goes on. "Yes and may I say I loved your Zuckerberg. How you do yours?"

"Just speak in short sentences and I keep my head very still, like this. But I love yours tell me how you do your Zuckerberg?"

"Well I wear this sweatshirt," the audience just burst in laughter "and I say I'm Mark Zuckerberg." he says with a goofy sound.

The audience laughs again.

The real Mark Zuckerberg comes in and before even starting his line, the audience just begins shouting and laughing. Jesse acts like he's nervous and greets Mark.

Andy comes in. "Have you too not met?"

They deny, acting embarrassed. Then Andy jokes. "Awk-berg." his idiotic voice effect make everyone in the audience and in backstage laugh their asses of. He starts again. "Well I'll be going, maybe take some girl out, make her my girlfriend, I don't know. Samberg out." He leaves the stage jumping towards me.

Make her my girlfriend. I don't really know what's going on. He comes at me smiling and a bit breathy. He takes a wipe and dries his wet and sweaty forehead and I believe he's waiting for me. Waiting for my response.