Fame

"Are we there yet?" I whine again, straightening my hat that wasn't warming my ears enough. We were trudging through enormous snow banks and although we've only walked like two blocks, it feels like we've walked two kilometers.

Luna smiles patiently at me, standing at the edge of the block, watching me me struggle to lift my exhausted legs through a particularly big snow bank.

"We're almost there, only two blocks more," she says warmly. I groan loudly and manage to pull my leg from the chilling snow. When I reach the end of the block, walking across the street is much easier, since the snow plows pick up most of the snow. It's the side walks that have mountainous amounts of snow.

People in Wisconsin need to learn how to shovel. Or buy a snow blower. Across the street, once again, I flounder to keep up with Luna's fluent movements. What's strange is that she can walk faster than me, yet she has shorter legs. Go figure.

We are walking to the movie set which was being filmed in a big house that was currently for sale so the director got permission to use it for a week. I'm actually really excited, I love doing music videos and commercials. I've never really done actual acting (I was once in a musical production in primary school) except on iCarly, but I was playing myself.

For this movie (called I Hate You, I Love You), I get to play someone other than myself. Even though I probably don't have many lines and this won't require much work, this is better than playing myself. I'll be the best 'Charlie' I can be. I wonder who's playing Emily...

If she isn't at least a least a C cup or 5'6" I definitely won't do this. And she has to be pretty decent looking. I am not filming a sex scene with someone who has acne, who is bigger than a 2 in jean size, has dyed hair, has a weird voice, or someone who's a fan. I'm not asking for much, just a typical actress/model.

"We're here," Luna announces and points to an enormous red-brick house. We walk up the long pathway to the front door and ring the glowing, plastic doorbell.

A thin women with a baggy sweatshirt and horrible bell-bottom jeans appears at the door. As soon as her eyes flicker to me, her stiff shoulders sag with consolation and a look of relief washes over her face and she ushers us inside. She talks to us while we begin taking off the many layers of winter clothing.

"Thank goodness you're here! We have a big problem! Morgan, the girl who was supposed to play Emily unfortunately got a horrible skin disease while she was in California and she can't come. We're auditioning some girls right now but they're not as good as Morgan. We were wondering if you wanted to do some reading with the possible girls right now, to do a chemistry check."

I froze, last night, Paul reassured me that the girl who was playing Emily would not be a fan and would not know that I was playing Charlie. He said the director agreed that it was best not to let anyone know that I was in a movie seeing that it would draw a lot of bad attention to the set while we're filming. Now, something could happen and the fans and paps could find out.

I gritted my teeth, I'm not going to let this opportunity be ruined just because 'Morgan' got a fucking skin disease. I quickly formulated a plan as the lady directed us to the basement. When I entered the room, I saw three wanna-be-type girls with matching Uggs, Lulu Lemon headbands, black North face fleece jackets, and Abercrombie skinny jeans.

When they saw me, their eyeballs nearly popped out of their eye sockets. They rushed over to me and began screaming stuff like:

"OH MY GOD IT'S HARRY STYLES!"

"I'M SUCH A BIG FAN, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!"

"CAN I PLEASE HAVE YOUR AUTOGRAPH?"

I swear I was about to run away before a nice-looking man put his hands on the girl's shoulders and nicely said, "Let's give Harry some air, okay?"

All three closed their mouths but stared at me hungrily like I was the last high waisted skirt in the world. I mouthed 'thank you' to the man and he gave me a grim smile.

"I am Chris Ames, the director of this film." He held out a welcoming hand to me and I gladly shook it.

"Really? You look so young!" I gaped at him, astonished. Chris laughed.

"I'm 28!"

"That's still pretty young!" His eyes shifted over to Luna.

"And who is this beautiful young lady?" He asks. Luna looks at me with big scared eyes, as if Chris was a hunter and she, a rabbit. I've only known Luna for a day and I already feel protective of her.

"This is Luna, she's my assistant for the week." I put a reassuring arm over Luna's shoulders but that only makes her more uncomfortable.

"What is your current job, Luna?"

"I-I'm a m-maid at Comfort Inn," Luna says nervously.

"How interesting! And how old are you?"

"Eighteen," she says uncertainly.

"Have you ever done any acting, modeling, or singing before?" I narrowed my eyes at Chris, where was he going with this?

"N-no." Chris nodded and rubbed his chin, looking like he was thinking hard.

"Would you ever consider doing any of those?"

"T-they're not very s-stable pro-professions." Chris chuckles.

"No, they're really not. Unless..." Then Chris pauses and turns to grab a huge bag.

"Would you be a dear, and help Harry run through his lines, he needs to remember them." Luna nods. Chis takes out two enormous packets and a box of highlighters and hands them to Luna. "Make sure he remembers what to do as well. And please remember Emily's lines and actions - just for a small experiment." Chris smiles at both of us before escorting the three wanna-bes out of the room, murmuring quiet things into their ears.

I take one of the packets from Luna and begin flipping through the pages, searching for a page with my lines on it. I stop at a page labelled "Charlie and Emily sex scene" and begin highlighting my dialogue and actions. Once I'm finished, I look up to see Luna has finished highlighting Emily's parts.

"Okay let's start!" I say excitedly.

"Harry?" Chris calls, I turn around to see him standing at the door. "Just remember that acting isn't just remembering your lines, it's about becoming your character as well. And your character is quite timid." I nod in agreement and Chris leaves the room.

"Alright, let's just read the lines first, to understand our characters personalities better and then we'll memorize the lines," I say and Luna nods again.

We go through the lines slowly (we kept getting interrupted by fans who were apparently extras on the movie set) and then begin discussing our characters.

"Charlie is your typical boy-next-door-type who is sweet and kind. I think he's a virgin before this and because he's so nice, he's pretty popular," I observe.

"Emily is out going, vibrant, cheerful, playful, and seductive. She's popular because she's funny, energetic, and gorgeous. And I'm pretty sure she's had plenty of sexual experience," Luna concludes.

"So it's like we switched personalities," I conclude and grin. This will be a challenge but I love challenges.

"But I'm not playing Emily," Luna reminds me.

"But you still need to remember her lines and actions so let's just pretend you are for now."

"Excellent idea Harry," Chris says behind us. "Luna, the replacement for Morgan isn't coming in three days but Harry is only staying for six more days. He needs to get a bit more experience being filmed so for the three days that the replacement won't be here, could you just fill in for her? I promise I'll pay for your time."

"I d-don't know," Luna says hesitantly.

"Come on Luna, it'll be fun! Besides, nothing bad could happen, you're completely safe, I promise," I say.

"Okay, I'll do it," Luna says and smiles at me. I can't help but smile back, Luna looks so beautiful when she smiles.

"Okay! Memorize your lines and rehearse the actions, tomorrow and the next day we'll do some filming to see how Harry looks on camera." We both nod in agreement.

"The scene will take place in room C5 (all the rooms are labeled), on the third floor, so you can practice there. Breakfast will be in the kitchen from six to nine, lunch from eleven to two and dinner will be available from four to seven. Snacks are accessible at all times in the living room. And please, if you need anything, I will be around the house, just ask for me."

"Thank you Chris," Luna says politely. Chris smiles brightly at Luna.

"Oh and don't worry about any nudity, your outfits for the scene are in C5, please wear them while you're rehearsing. Feel free to lock the door if needed." And with that, Chris winks at us before leaving the basement.

I turn to a horrified-looking-Luna and cheerfully say, "lets go find C5!"

Notes

Haha, <3 this chapter. The next chapter will definitely be R-rated, beware! Dedicated to sirenastyles who wrote the first comment. Thank you so much! But, I'm sorry to say that the updates will be slow, I'm a busy girl. Tell me what you think of this chapter!
-Rosemary