Faking it

Chapter 4

JULY 2015

Michael ' pov

Today is the first day of filming another season of the series Kristen and I are in . I'm so excited, you can't even imagine. This season is going to be longer than the other seasons so filming will take longer too. I have literally no idea what's going to happen this season though.

Well, except for that our characters will get together. The writers were so happy when we announced that we were dating. 'Finally a relationship that will look extremely realistic,' they said. I guess Kristen and I really do look like a couple.

It's 3 months since that day I won't ever forget and until now it hasn't as big as a problem yet. Kristen 's still one of my best friends, we're barely hanging out more than we did before. Our families think we're actually together too which is hard sometimes, but when it's just the two of us we can be ourselves.

Actually all we do is give each other a hug occasionally just to keep the act going.

I'm arriving at set early in the morning. After I picked up my script for the day I sit down in the lounge to read it. It's still very early on set since just a few people had to arrive this early.

When I'm scanning through the script one scene catches my eye. It's a scene from the second episode of this season. Basically what happens is that our characters do a duet and after that they kiss. That kiss is like the beginning of the ship and after that they grow closer and closer to each other.

I read the few lines which include us kissing a few times over and over again. Is it weird that I get super nervous from the idea of kissing Kristen? I'm reading the lines again when someone storms into the lounge.

" Michael!" I hear Kristen say worried. I look up. "We've a problem," she says sounding really worried. "What's up?" I ask her calm. "We've to kiss," Kristen says looking like she's about to panic.

"We're going to be fine," I say trying to calm her down a bit, in vain, unfortunately. "No we're not," Kristen worries, "if that is actually going to be our first kiss they're going to know for sure that something is up."

"No they won't," I say, "they'll just think that we're amazing actors." Kristen sits down beside me on the couch.

"They can't figure it out," she says, "there's no way back anymore, we're getting all those great opportunities, we can't let them slip away." I take a deep breath. "I promise," I say, "we'll be fine."

The day goes by too quick and before I know it it's already time to do the duet and scene. My legs are shaky and I honestly can't remember a time I was this nervous.

"Okay," Frank, our director, says, "this is the last scene of today, but this should be an easy one so we can go home kind of early." He smiles happily. Easy?! If he knew...

Kristen is nervous too, I can see it on her face. She tries to hide it though and I hope the others all buy it.The first part of the scene, the duet goes smoothly and everyone seems to love it. Singing with Kristen always feels so natural, our minds click and become basically one.

But all good things come to an end. After about 2 minutes of singing the music ends and Kristen Kristen and I end in our ending positions. The moment has come and I truly wish it never came. Kissing your best friend is one of the worst things to do in my opinion. Unfortunately I don't have a choice.

Basically what happens in the scene is that our characters are very close to each other. Their eyes meet, they freeze for a few seconds and then they kiss, but Richelle is very surprised so after the kiss she runs out of the studio. How cliché...

I stare in Kristen's eyes while I mentally prepare myself to kiss her. "And kiss," Frank says announcing we've stared in each other's eyes long enough. In lean closely in until our lips almost touch. Then I close my eyes and kiss Kristen.

Ew.

After a few seconds we pull away and Kristen hides her mouth behind her hands. She then turns around and runs out of the studio.

"AND CUTE," Frank says loud and jumps off his chair as Kristen walks back into the room

"Good," he says, "that was good guys. It was very realistic, just as awkward as I wanted it to be." Well good to know, apparently our kiss was awkward, let's hope we never have to kiss again.

"We've enough footage so we don't have to do the scene another time," he says then, "see you guys tomorrow.

Kristen 's pov

"Do you think that was just as weird as I think?" I ask when Michael and I are walking to our cars. "That was horrible," he says, "no offence, but I hope I won't ever have to kiss you again."

I nod, "I feel exactly the same."

"I respect you and your personal space and this just goes against everything I stand for," Michael says then, "so sorry."

"It's okay," I say, "there little to nothing we can do about it."

"So just to be clear, you still don't like me?" Michael asks.

"Not a single cell in my body likes you romantically," I say.

He sighs relieved. "Good," he says, "me neither."

We say goodbye and go our own ways home. I may have said that that kiss was nothing, but I'm not too sure about that.

The kiss brought up some feelings I've never had before for anyone and it confuses me a bit. The kiss was soft and gentle. It was just a few seconds, but it felt like the whole world stopped for a while at the same time. Maybe it's just because it was my first kiss, or maybe I'm actually developing feelings for my best friend.