Arctic Dogs: Metamorphosis

Chapter 18 - Story of My Life

Monday, the First Week of December

Week 1 (Day 1) of Filming

Ramen Satoshi, Beidongshan Coast

9pm

PB chose Ramen Satoshi as it was the Swifts' go-to ramen restaurant and that it always opens until late at 1am, convenient since the Swifts lived just a few blocks away from home. They always went for the spicy seafood Tonkotsu, the Satoshi signature.

The crew got their bowls of wheat noodles, an assortment of fresh seafood, and a fiery red broth. Making sure not to set Lemmy's taste buds on fire, Lemmy had a regular flavour while everyone else chose the spicy broth. As always, Swifty and PB also ordered an extra order of noodles since they did the most work for the day.

The group round up the day's events. Leopold had filmed the scenes they can execute today, which meant progress had been running smoothly. PB will work with the caterers tomorrow to find out what went wrong with the food today. Jade got a confirmation from her ex Dusty regarding the building of Professor Otto's lair. It is ready for its performance and they can start filming the lair this Wednesday onwards, well ahead of schedule. "We still need to install most of the interior stuff, so we'll only be starting the lair scenes from maybe this Thursday," Jade read the message from the Beidongshan builders.

"So that means the sleeping gas guns?"

"The procurement's coming in tomorrow."

"Sweet! We got a full day tomorrow, especially meeting with the younger versions of themselves," Swifty added his additional noodles into his bowl and slurped them up. The day had been a fulfilling one.

"I'll order the matcha puddings," PB recommend the shop's signature dessert. My brother knows best, Swifty observed his stepbrother ordering the good stuff.

After dinner, Swifty dropped the group at a two-storey cottage near the Beidongshan Istana that the Wilson family rented it out to them before he and PB returned home at the Beidongshan Coast to rest.

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It was nearly 11pm when Swifty and PB changed to their night clothes and spend one last moment together before tucking to bed. It felt weird they were sleeping at the same room they slept as kids. Nothing much inside the house has changed, and neither was their loving mother. The female arctic fox was there to say "Good night" to the brothers before she returned to her bedroom to sleep. Swifty told PB he needed to use the rooftop office and headed upstairs. "Don't stay up too late! We got a lot to do tomorrow," PB reminded his brother.

Getting upstairs to the home office, he brought out a notebook he always uses to write his songs. The notebook was reaching the end of empty pages, but he did not care. There was something he wanted to write about as he brought out his phone and a pair of wireless noise-cancelling headphones. Behind the scenes, he wrote chords that could form part of the movie soundtrack. While that is an optional requirement of the film project, he wanted to explore music genres he had not encountered.