Are You For Reel? (A Short Story)

Bright

Cut. My most hated word right now. This means that I need to go back to being Bright. An actor who's portraying Sarawat; a football player slash musician who likes Win...I mean Tine.

Whenever I hear the director yells cut, I want to shout, "Not yet!"

"Good take, everyone! Nice work, Bright and Win.
And Win, I like the ad lib! Great job.
We'll continue this tomorrow. 4AM call time."

"Khrap." We both responded.

I looked at Win and he just smiled at me and left. I don't know what happened. I don't remember anything, except that I kissed him. I kissed his lips.

I went back to the tent and packed my things and he was there changing his shirt. I didn't stop to look and continued on packing.

He went to me and asked, "Where are you off to?"

"I want to eat...and sleep."

"Let's eat at the cafe near here. I heard it's good."

My heart stopped.

"Yeah. Sounds good."

I immediately finished fixing my stuff and we walked to the cafe.

The bell rang as we opened the door and the cashier greeted us, "Sawasdee kah!" We both nodded our heads with a smile and I saw her turn her head to Win with glittering eyes. Win and I ordered and she handed us our table number.

We sat and I didn't know but my mouth just started talking.

"Was the kiss good?"

"What?! Hahahaha! That's a great way to start a conversation."

"Hahahaha! Was it?"

"I don't know! Do you rate it when you kiss someone?"

"Uhmm of course, not. I just, I don't know, I wanted to know your opinion since this won't be the last time."

"Oh. Ok. It felt-"

Two girls entered the cafe which interrupted our conversation. They were so loud. Tss. High school girls. Then one of them approached us and asked if we were actors. The cashier heard that and immediately went towards us blocking the high school girl.

"Here are your orders, sir." She handed our orders and smiled. She looked at Win and asked him, "Are you an actor?"

"Yeah, we are. We're actually filming in the school near here."

"Oh! So you both are the actors for 2gether?"

We both looked surprised.

"Yes! How do you know that?"

"I'm a fan of BL and I've read that. And when you guys started filming in the school here, I researched what show it is. I'm so excited! Can I take a picture with you both?"

"Sure."

After taking the picture, she went to the kitchen, maybe to show it to her colleagues. Then the two girls asked to take a picture with us as well. And then their friends came, and asked us for a picture too. Ugh, too many pictures.

When everything settled down, I wanted to ask him to continue what he was about to say earlier about our kiss, but I felt embarrassed, so I didn't.

He looked at me, smiled, and said, "Let's eat?"

I smiled and we ate.