The Big Pretense

Chapter 8

A/N: The image above does not belong to me. It belongs to the person who uploaded it on the internet.

For those who don't know him, his name is Poss Plapodd or Podd. He played the role of Sun in Dark Blue Kiss.

Podd's POV

When Gulf was first introduced to me, I immediately felt some kind of electricity running through the tips of my fingers when he shook hands with me.

I wondered anxiously whether he and Mew were an item or were just close friends. If they were more than just close friends, they were very good at hiding it.

I felt so lucky that my role in the series was someone with whom Gulf was going to have a secret affair behind Mew's back. I was going to have a few kiss scenes with Gulf.

I couldn't help stealing glances at Gulf's plump and luscious lips. I felt my heart beating faster than usual as I tried to imagine the feel of his lips against mine.

I got up early the day after our first meeting in the conference room with Mr. Siripool. We were all going to meet up with him again today. He was going to give us scenarios to act out to prime ourselves for our roles in the upcoming series.

I took my time in the shower. I wanted to smell good for Gulf just in case I was going to have a scenario to act out with him which called for us to do some skinships.

I was the very first to arrive in the conference room. Mr. Siripool arrived shortly after.

He looked around the empty conference table with an annoyed look.

"Am I early or are the rest of you late for this meeting?" he asked, not bothering to hide the irritation from his voice.

I glanced at the wall clock.

"We are both early, sir," I informed him.

True enough, we were both exactly eight minutes early.

My heart jumped when Gulf came in, followed closely by Mew.

I nodded slightly to Mew when he walked inside the conference room but I reserved a bright smile for Gulf.

My heart did a few cartwheels when Gulf smiled back at me, although a little more reservedly. I could tell that he was a very shy person.

They took the chairs opposite from me across the table. They sat side by side.

I smiled at Gulf once more when he took the seat right across from me and looked at me.

Less than a minute after Mew and Gulf arrived the two ladies who were going to play some significant roles in the upcoming series also walked into the conference room.

The first one whose name was Sandy was going to play the role of Mew's secretary. She was the one who was going to catch Gulf cheating on Mew with me.

The other lady actress was going to play the role of the businesswoman who was in direct competition with Mew's corporation and was going to try her best to bring down Mew's business by doing some dirty tricks, including hiring me to steal Gulf away from Mew, thus making Mew unable to focus on running his business and making him lose multiple business deals. This lady actress' name was Preeda.

I glanced at the wall clock. It was five minutes before nine. Where was Art.

I was getting a little nervous about Art's possibility of not showing up on time for the meeting. Mr. Siripool was a stickler for punctuality. Art would definitely get an earful from Mr. Siripool if he came in even just a millisecond after nine.

I noticed Mr. Siripool looking up at the wall clock one minute before nine.

At that exact moment, the conference door was flung wide open and Art burst in, his hair still wet and uncombed. The front of his light pink shirt was not fully buttoned and the fragrant smell of the shampoo on his freshly washed and still wet hair wafted across the room. I noticed Sandy smiling widely at him and motioning for him to take the chair beside hers.

Art smiled back at her and took the seat that Sandy indicated.

Hmmm... it looked like there was going to be some romance getting ready to blossom between two people here.

Mr. Siripool greeted everyone before opening his briefcase and taking out several thin sheaves of paper.

He handed them all to me because I was the one seated closest to him.

"Please give everyone a copy," he instructed me.

I took one and passed on the rest to Preeda who was sitting beside me. She then proceeded to distribute the copies to everyone else present.

"Read through the first scenario and then let me know which role you would like to take on," Mr. Siripool instructed us.

The scenario was a confrontation between two lovers. The angrier of the two was going to confront the other about seeing him come out of a theater with someone else. The less angry of the two would be denying the accusation of infidelity.

As the argument heats up, the less angry of the two grabs the other and forces a kiss on her or him, whoever took on that role.

Sandy volunteered for the role of the accuser. She looked at Art expectantly, willing for him to volunteer for the role of the one being accused of infidelity.

Unfortunately at that exact moment Art's phone started to ring. Since his phone was an iPhone, it announced who the caller was. The iPhone clearly announced the name "AJ".

Art was about to swipe the phone when Mr. Siripool announced, "Mute all your phones right now."