Chasing Danger

27. Cast Beef

Ciara's POV

A few days ago we had a big Easter egg hunt at Coopers house. Even though it started out a little rough, I'd say it was a success.

Jace and I talked a little bit, and he finally seemed to come to terms with the fact that I only want to be friends right now. Or at least that's what I thought.

Jace hasn't talked to me since that night. I texted him the day after, and he never answered. He posted on Twitter about wishing life was perfect, not too long after I texted him.

In fact, there was still a lot of enmity amongst the cast. Cooper believed having the bonding day would help, but now that I think about it, it didn't. Riele and Kyla now have beef, and Riele is mad at me because she feels that the Kyla situation is my fault since Kyla was my friend first.

Suzy and Sean are now officially together. I have no problem with it, but the other members of the original four [Jace, Riele and Ella] seem to have their undies in a twist about it. They think that Sean and Suzy being together will make them forget about the rest of us.

Today we'd be going over a scene where Cara, my character, bullies Charlotte, who is Riele's character. Part of me doesn't want to rehearse the scene, because Riele has been super passive aggressive towards me lately. I remember I asked her over text if she could go over lines with me on FaceTime, and she procrastinated for the whole day. Then eventually she texted me back saying "why would I go over lines with you?"

Kyla wanted to come with me to the studio today. I told her that it definitely wasn't a good idea seeing that Riele wants to rip her head off. I consider both Riele and Kyla my friends, but if I really had to, I'd take Kyla's side. The only reason why I didn't pick sides in this whole feud, was because I don't want to be fired.

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"Okay Ciara, so Riele will try to walk past you, and you're going to grab her arm and twist it. Then when you have her arm pinned against her back, you're going to say "where do you think you're going, Charlotte?"

I nodded yes to clarify that I understood, but I didn't want to go through with that. Riele was still clearly mad at me, she even ignored me when I said hi to her this morning.

"And action!"

Riele started to walk past me, but instead of trying to walk around me, she bumped me. Hard.

""What was that for?" I asked, holding my right shoulder.
"Just doing my job" Riele said with a smirk.

"Okay" I thought to myself. Is that what she wanted? Because I can play the same game.

"Take two, action!"

Riele tried to do the same thing again, but I moved out of the way. This time, I was the one inflicting pain. I grabbed Riele's elbow with my left hand, and her shoulder with my right. Then, I yanked her arm back, completely out of of script.

"Oww!" Riele yelled out, holding her arm.

She turned towards me and shoved me. I was startled, did she really just do that?

I tried to calm myself. I kept remembering what my mom said about not fighting in the studio. I also didn't want me job taken away from me. However, Riele did hit me first. So I think if anything she would be in trouble, not me.

My thoughts were interrupted by Riele shoving me again. It was evident to me that she wanted to fight or something.

Without second thought, I smacked Riele across the face. As soon as I did, gasps were heard all around the room. Cooper, Jace and Sean came running over to keep us from hitting each other anymore.

Riele was holding her face, with tears in her eyes. Sean was trying to get ahold of her, but she ripped out his grip and ran out of the room.

Riele's POV

I could not believe that Ciara just smacked me. I've been nothing but nice to her. How does she repay me? By letting her friend sleep around at my party, and then smacking me across the face.

I ran to my dressing room after the scene. I was so mad, I just wanted to hurt Ciara and anybody that liked her. There was a hand print, in the form of a rash, forming on my face.

I heard Jace's voice approaching, and then I saw his face at my door.

"You okay Ry?" He asked me.
"Just leave me alone Jace" I said. "I know you're probably just gonna take Ciara's side anyways."

"Actually" he said. "You were both wrong."

"We were both wrong?" I asked. "How?"

"You were mad at Ciara for something that someone else did" Jace said. "That's not fair."

"You said it was her fault too" I said. "Did you change your mind or something?"

"I know I said it" he said. "But I only said it out of anguish. I was mad that Ciara didn't want me back. However, you and Kyla were somewhat cordial with each other, so her going wasn't necessarily Ciara's fault."

Jace actually had a point. All Ciara did was bring Kyla, but I was okay with her bringing Kyla. I guess I didn't want to accept the fact that it wasn't Ciara's fault, because then that would leave me to be the only other possible person at fault.

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Jace's POV

I called Ciara to tell her how my conversation with Riele went. Ciara's heart was so genuine, and I could tell that this situation was seriously bothering her.

Riele told me that she'd talk to Ciara on her own time, and that she wasn't mad at her anymore.

Ciara told me that she was going to apologize to Riele, and talk to Kyla about the situation. She said that she and Kyla have been avoiding talking about what happened that night, but they have talked since then.

I thought this would be a perfect time to ask Ciara out on a date.

I told her we don't have to consider it as a date. We could just chill at my place, or I could take her to the movies and pay for everything, and we could act like it never happened afterwards.

"I'm sorry Jace" Ciara said. "I think I'm gonna have to take a rain check on that one." She hung up right after.

Why won't she just take me back already ?