When the Tables are Turned

Chapter 2

Gun's POV

I had been somewhat disappointed when I found out that my love partner in the LBC series was an actor who was three years younger than me. I hoped that I would get along well with him.

Mark who was going to play Kengkla to my Techno, was a good natured guy, not one to pick arguments with you, just easygoing but not too talkative.

When we had to have our intimate scenes, I had felt really awkward. Maybe if he had been older than me, or at least my age, it would have been easier for me. I really felt like someone taking advantage of his youth and it just felt awkward for me.

Fortunately, we had an excellent director who guided us all to make our acting as natural as possible.

Our fan meetings and promo events were a different ballgame altogether. There were a lot of moments where we had to think on our feet as the fans asked a lot of personal questions and made all kinds of demands from us to pose for their fancams and to show some kind of fanservice.

I tried my best to give happiness to our fans because after all, they were the ones who supported us and inspired us to do our best in spite of all the hard work and hardships that we had to go through, so when the fans wanted us to pose with arms around each other, we had to do so and we had to give our best smile.

I have discovered from puberty that I tended to get more attracted to boys my age or older rather than to girls. I was never attracted to boys who were younger than I was. I felt more comfortable interacting with boys of my age and older, preferably older.

When I had to do skinships with Mark during fan meetings, I found a way to do it without really doing it. When I was expected to put my arms around his back, I was actually suspending my arms without touching his back. I could get away with it because the fans could not see and the cameras could not catch it. That way, I did not feel like I was taking advantage of his youth.

It would have been so much better if P'Earth, who played the role of Tar, had been my partner instead. At least he was older than me. It would have also been okay for me if my partner had been Title, who played the role of Tum, because he was only some months younger than me.

I guess the reason I feel more at ease interacting with people older than me is because I grew up surrounded by older people. I never had a younger sibling. In fact I was an only child and my grandmother was the one who brought me up.

Among the rest of the cast, I got along very well with Title. We tended to interact more with each other when the cameras were not on us and when we were not in front of the fans. He and I were very close, like brothers.

When we had our first fan meeting where during the ending part we were all given a chance, one by one, to thank our fans, I got a bit emotional as I tried to hold back my tears during my gratitude speech.

As I was recounting to the fans the great hardships that I had to go through and how I got a lot of inspiration and encouragement from them, I found my voice starting to crack and my first instinct was to turn to Title who was standing close beside me. I tried to hide my face against his shoulder because my tears had already started to fall.

Title already had his arms around my back when I felt myself being pulled away from Title. Oh no, I had forgotten that I was supposed to turn to Mark, as the fans had been expecting.

"I'm sorry," I whispered to Mark, as he put his arms around me.

"It's okay, P'Gun, it's okay," he whispered back as he patted the back of my head to comfort me.