co-stars ★ chase stokes / john b

3. meeting

as chase walked into the casting office, he reflected on the past 48 hours in which he had not slept. he was pretty bummed about everything that had happened, but even worse, he felt like shit from the events that had occurred. his back was hurting and he was exhausted. when he walked into the waiting room, he noticed someone sitting on the couch.

"hey, this is probably the weirdest question you're ever going to be asked but i just sat in the middle seat of a red eye, will you walk on my back?" he asked her.

"uhhh sure, yeah." she laughed, standing up. he laid on the floor, and she stepped onto his back. "sooo i probably should've said this beforehand but i'm baylen, i'm playing sarah cameron." she told him.

"oh wow, okay." chase laughed. and at that point, josh, jonas and the rest of the creators of the show walked in from the conference room.

"okay... well... we should probably do a chemistry read real quick. i guess this is a sign that it'll go well." jonas said, laughing at the sight of the them as baylen hopped off of chase's back.

"oh, already?" chase asked, josh nodding at him. "alright, sweet."

they did their read and everything went great. jonas was kind of telling chase about their vision for the show and told chase to come back tomorrow to go over materials and that there would be a network test on wednesday.

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the next morning, chase walked into the office in jeans and a t-shirt, thinking they were just going over material this time.

"surprise, we're doing a network test today." jonas told him with a grin. in his head, chase knew he would not be getting this job.

the other dude who was reading for john b was a gorgeous australian guy, and chase thought he had no chance.

chase went outside, extremely overwhelmed over the fact that he was broke, and there was a massive chance he wouldn't be getting this role. he decided to step outside to basically having a mental breakdown in the front of the production office. jonas had walked out and saw him in a panic.

"this is your job." jonas said as he approached him.

"what? i dont understand." chase said.

"this is your job. so go fucking get it, chase." jonas said to him.

so they went in and did the reads. chase and rudy read together and they had baylen and chase read together again as well. it was a whole day of reading.

at the end of the night, it was time to leave and chase had maybe $25 in his account.

"can you guys get me an uber back to my hotel or something? because i'm broke and i'm trying to eat tonight?" chase asked. "i'm in a bad situation, i'm sorry." he laughed.

"i'll call an uber." rudy offered, feeling bad for chase.

so rudy sat in the front seat of the uber, chase right behind him and the other kid reading for john b was beside him. they had lied to the uber driver, saying they were there for a jeopardy taping. chase's phone started ringing, and it was an unknown number so he answered it.

"you got the job dude! go get fucking tan."

"oh shit!" chase said, quickly hanging up, trying to play it off as though he didn't get the job, not wanting to hurt the other guys feelings since he was also reading for john b.

rudy looked back at chase and chase gave him a slight nod, allowing rudy to understand that he did, in fact, get the job.

at the hotel, rudy and chase went down the one hall together while the other guy went the other way.

"i can't believe i got the part... this is where it starts."