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Stars and Scandals Thirteen
|ATHENA|In acting, there was something known as bringing someone into a scene. And there was also something known as keeping someone out of a scene.Bringing someone into a scene simply meant acting in a way that the person you were acting with or against would believe in your acting so much that it would make them forget they were acting.It was the ability to bring out the true uniqueness of a character in the person you were acting with. Only really good actors could do that.As for keeping someone out of a scene; it was just as the name implied. It simply meant overshadowing the person you were acting with or against. Being so perfect that the other person felt overwhelmed by your acting.It was a good thing to be able to stun people with your acting, but a terrible thing for your acting to stun your co-actor very much in a scene where it wasn’t needed.I had to try my best not to fall into the latter category. Back in the day, I had a problem of overshadowing people. It was unco
Last Updated : 2025-02-05Stars and Scandals Fourteen
|ATHENA|I frowned as I read the text. What did North want now? I quickly typed out a message and sent it to him in response.[Why?] - A[Cause I said so. Be there.] - N[It’s written in the contract that if I want to see you, you get into a fucking plane and fly over to where I am. Even if it’s in the middle of night and the destination is at the bottom of the ocean.] - N[Fuck you.] - A[I’d rather not.] - NI sighed and stopped responding to his messages. North was annoying like that. The cab stopped in front of my building, and as I stepped inside it, the receptionist on the floor greeted me.It was a surprising action as I’d been living here for the past month and she hasn’t said a single word to me. I responded to her greeting casually and she said:“Something came in for you while you were away.”I raised a brow in curiosity.“For me?” I questioned, taking a step towards her.The young girl nodded her head vigorously, then bent down for a second, only to stand up straight holdi
Last Updated : 2025-02-09Stars and Scandals Prologue
|ATHENA|“You can’t do this to me.” I whispered, staring at the divorce paper agreement sitting on my lap. “This can’t be happening.”Our third wedding anniversary was coming up this weekend. Jason and I were supposed to go on a big dinner date to celebrate. This divorce… It couldn’t be real.“It’s happening, Athy. Sign the papers. Hurry.” Jason said with a snappy tone.I lifted my head to look at his face. There was no trace of the man I had fallen in love with in high school. I couldn’t even look into his eyes since they were covered with shades.“If I’ve upset you in any way or done anything annoying, please tell me. I’ll change. I promise.”As I spoke, tears ran down my cheeks. I put the divorce papers away and got down on my knees in front of Jason.“I love you. You love me, too, don’t you?” I grabbed onto one leg of his trousers.Then, I instantly felt a sharp pain on my head. It took me a second to realize that Jason had grabbed a fistful of my hair. He used his grip on my hai
Last Updated : 2025-01-03Stars and Scandals One
|ATHENA|Five years later:“I’m nervous. I can’t feel my throat anymore. Help.” I was all sweaty, and my hands were clammy from anxiety. I couldn’t do this. I should just go back home and—“Calm down, Athy.” Mina placed both hands on my shoulders. “Everything is going to be fine. Have some water.”Mina brought out a bottle of water from her bag and handed it to me. God, she was the best agent. I quickly gulped down half the bottle of water and thanked her.I hadn’t even walked inside the building, yet, I was already so nervous. I wanted to audition for the role of a female lead in an upcoming movie.This was going to be the start of a new life for me. If I failed this, then I’ve failed, period. The audition was being held in an extension building of Star Galaxy Entertainment, which I must add was the most famous and upstanding entertainment company ever created.Since they were fully sponsoring this movie, the audition was going to be hosted out here. I shouldn’t be so nervous about
Last Updated : 2025-01-03Stars and Scandals Two
|ATHENA|The audition was a bust. It wasn’t that I forgot my lines or stuttered, I fucking over-acted. In the second scene where I was supposed to play the part of realizing that ‘my’ lover was a bad person, I got too emotional.I even cried. As soon as I finished acting out the scene, I thanked the judges and ran out of the audition room before they could say anything. It was actually foolish of me to do so, but I already did it.Outside of the building standing beside Mina, I hit my forehead with my palm repeatedly.“Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.” With every self-insult, I facepalmed myself. “Stop it. That’s enough!” Mina held my wrist and put my hand down.“I blew the audition, Mina. What am I supposed to do now?” I whined without thinking.Mina let out a sigh and said, “Stop saying you blew the audition. It’s not over yet. You may be surprised. In a week or two, you might get a phone call informing you that you got the role.”I gave Mina a deadpan look. What she was talking
Last Updated : 2025-01-03Stars and Scandals Three
|ATHENA|“Tell me, you and Jason are divorced, right?” North asked casually.I couldn’t breathe.“Since you’re not responding, I guess I’m right.”“You don’t know anything.” I spoke with an icy tone.North scoffed, then said, “I think I do.”North began to circle around me as he spoke. “I can guess that it was about six, no, five years ago. What was the name of that movie of his that broke the box office? I can’t even remember. But at the time, no one even knew your name.”“Your fame was already as good as dead. It must have been a pain in the ass for him, who had just gained popularity, to be married to a has-been like you. I bet he left you as soon as he was set on the path to stardom.” North stopped circling me and looked at my face.He was right. Fuck, he was so right. It has been five years, yet I could still remember the day of my divorce vividly. I had been such a hot mess then.I had even begged Jason and cried for him not to leave me. I had been ready to change for him; to cu
Last Updated : 2025-01-03Stars and Scandals Four
|ATHENA|[Unbelievable News: Have you guys ever wondered about what Film Emperor Jason Lamar was doing before he became a film emperor? Well, let me tell you. I recently got a few videos of Jason’s life beforehand. Bro used to be one of those extras who hold umbrellas for main characters around the set. He also once acted as a rock in an action movie where the female lead stood on top of him. So many other little pathetic roles can be traced to his name. So, how come he never mentioned any of these roles beforehand? There are hundreds of visual proof of him saying that ‘Battlegrounds’ was his first movie and that he was lucky enough to get fame at a first try.Why is he trying to bury the steps he took to get to where he is now? Isn’t that disrespect to screenwriters and producers of the films he previously begged to serve water to the crew for?Tsk tsk. I always knew that the man was a fake. But let me hear what you guys have to say. What do you think about the goody-two-shoes imag
Last Updated : 2025-01-21Stars and Scandals Five
|ATHENA|[Suta drops Film Emperor Jason Lamar after finding out he lied during a private interview.]As I read through the article, my expression changed from surprise to happiness to satisfaction. The gist of it was that Jason was supposed to be the face of Suta—an extremely popular brand of men and women’s jewelry—and did a private interview with them.During the interview, he was asked a lot of questions about his past and how he worked to get where he was. Jason must have given them his regular bullshit of being lucky and having rare talent.Apparently, he was supposed to sign a contract with them lasting one-year during the week. Now, because of the viral clips, the contract signing has been cancelled.“Yes! Oh, my God! Yes!” I jumped up and down in the living room, clapping with excitement.Gosh, was this what satisfaction felt like? Only a few clips was able to pull him down this way. I could only wonder what the other items I had in my agenda would do to him.I just had to wai
Last Updated : 2025-01-21
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Stars and Scandals Fourteen
|ATHENA|I frowned as I read the text. What did North want now? I quickly typed out a message and sent it to him in response.[Why?] - A[Cause I said so. Be there.] - N[It’s written in the contract that if I want to see you, you get into a fucking plane and fly over to where I am. Even if it’s in the middle of night and the destination is at the bottom of the ocean.] - N[Fuck you.] - A[I’d rather not.] - NI sighed and stopped responding to his messages. North was annoying like that. The cab stopped in front of my building, and as I stepped inside it, the receptionist on the floor greeted me.It was a surprising action as I’d been living here for the past month and she hasn’t said a single word to me. I responded to her greeting casually and she said:“Something came in for you while you were away.”I raised a brow in curiosity.“For me?” I questioned, taking a step towards her.The young girl nodded her head vigorously, then bent down for a second, only to stand up straight holdi
Stars and Scandals Thirteen
|ATHENA|In acting, there was something known as bringing someone into a scene. And there was also something known as keeping someone out of a scene.Bringing someone into a scene simply meant acting in a way that the person you were acting with or against would believe in your acting so much that it would make them forget they were acting.It was the ability to bring out the true uniqueness of a character in the person you were acting with. Only really good actors could do that.As for keeping someone out of a scene; it was just as the name implied. It simply meant overshadowing the person you were acting with or against. Being so perfect that the other person felt overwhelmed by your acting.It was a good thing to be able to stun people with your acting, but a terrible thing for your acting to stun your co-actor very much in a scene where it wasn’t needed.I had to try my best not to fall into the latter category. Back in the day, I had a problem of overshadowing people. It was unco
Stars and Scandals Twelve
|ATHENA|I internally facepalmed myself after hearing Colton’s words. This man… He really didn’t know when to stop.“Oh, really…?” Henry drawled with interest, his eyes glinting mischievously.“Of course, Athy has been in the business way longer than you. Way longer than any of you here.” Colton raised the pitch of his voice at the second half of his statement, talking to everyone present in the room.“When you speak to her, call her senior, okay? She may look young but she knows allllll about the—”“Colton.” I called out with a restrained tone, pinching the bridge of my nose in embarrassment.That was when the man realized that he had been going overboard and reeled his excitement back in. I couldn’t blame him for acting over the top, though. I was also excited to be back in the game, but super anxious at the same time.Colton was making a big deal out of the entire thing because he was going to get the bragging rights of supporting my name from the start when—if—the movie gets big f
Stars and Scandals Eleven
|ATHENA|“Pardon?” I said, checking if I heard her words correctly.Billie’s dark brown eyes were devoid of emotion as she looked at me and said, “I won’t repeat myself again. Don’t talk to me.”My lips parted in surprise at the sudden hostile treatment that I was receiving from Billie. I had never met her in person before, and I don’t remember us clashing back then in my day. So why was she being like this towards me?Billie was staring at me coldly, as if to say, ‘What are you still waiting for? Go on and leave.’Not wanting to force myself to stay where I wasn’t welcomed, I nodded my head and walked away from her. I stared at the other people already seated and I suddenly lost the courage to speak to any of them.I resigned to an empty corner in the room as I began to arrange my scattered thoughts. Was I repulsive in any way? I sniffed myself, checking if I smelled of alcohol. Years ago, whenever someone was rude to me, I would blame it on my appearance and smell. But I didn’t dr
Stars and Scandals Ten
|JASON|“Well, for one, they were able to get their hands on materials that shouldn’t even exist.” My frown deepened as I said these words.No one except my family should know about those days of mine. How come someone was able to get those specific clips of me? How long have they been keeping tabs on me?“The malice the person has for me is deep. I can feel it.” I said, letting Bonnie collect her glasses from my hand and wear it once again.The thought that someone was holding a huge grudge against me, making them go as far as to blacken me in the eyes of the public, it didn’t sit well with me. At all. Why would someone hate me that much? I was totally lovable, wasn’t I?This particular person… I had to smother them completely before they got the chance to strike at me once again.“So, what would you like me to do?” Bonnie asked in a silvery tone, reaching for my shoulder seductively.I smiled. Now, she was speaking my language.I put my hand on top of her own and guided it to my ch
Stars and Scandals Nine
|JASON|[Lazy Blogger: Superstar Entertainment has finally released information about their top star, Jason Lamar, in response to the latest rumors about his past.According to Superstar, the rumors are indeed true, but not completely so. The thing is that Jason did appear in third-rate movies in the past, but they didn’t count as part of his acting career.Why? He wasn’t paid for them!Crazy, isn’t it? There is no proof of payment and it was said that the only things JL got from the sets were pieces of bread and sometimes, mint packets. In what day and age have you seen an actor get paid with bread and mint packets?! Mint packets, of all things!It’s safe to say Film Emperor JL really went through a lot. And the reason why he kept his past sufferings from the eye of the public was to protect the directors of his previous movies.Going by the law, Jason was overworked for nothing. That’s a crime punishable by the law, isn’t it?Jason is truly an angel among a sea of devils. So what
Stars and Scandals Eight
|ATHENA|It was almost ten when I was welcomed back into my home by darkness. Since I had munched on the snacks laid out in the private room at Zina’s lounge, I wasn’t really hungry.I had a brief shower and fell asleep. In the morning, I woke up to the sound of my phone buzzing.I didn’t remember setting an alarm. I pried my eyes open and yawned before reaching for my phone that was resting on the bed alongside me. I glanced at the screen and realized that someone was calling me.The caller’s ID read ‘Colin’. I didn’t hesitate to accept the call.“Hello?” I said with an inquiring tone.“Athy, you’re still asleep when the entirety of LA is alive and bustling!?” Colin exclaimed with an enthusiastic voice.Colin was an old friend from when I was still a young star. And coincidentally, he was the director of the movie I recently auditioned for. After coming out from rehab, I got in touch with him and our old friendship rekindled.So it wasn’t weird for him to call me at 7 a. m. to yell i
Stars and Scandals Seven
|ATHENA|A sponsor-celebrity agreement or relationship was simple. The sponsor was the one with the money, the celebrity was a… celebrity. The sponsor would find exclusive gigs for the celebrity, investing in any movie they starred in, making them the face of luxury brands and the likes.All of this was under the account of the celebrity selling their body to the sponsor. You see? Simple. Sex for favors. However, though this kind of dynamic was frowned upon by the general public, there were lots and lots of top celebrities who made use of this means. It was super rampant in the entertainment industry.But then again, it was immoral and disgusting.I, for one, have never and will never do such a thing. It wasn’t like I, myself, found it disgusting. I wasn’t a saint, but I wasn’t lazy either.Yes, I saw it as lazy. I’d rather work by my own means than take that path of freeway. But I had a double standard way of thinking. I would take any other freeway other than this particular one.I
Stars and Scandals Six
|ATHENA|North was standing in front of me with a glower on his face. I internally grimaced as I walked over to him.“You can blame your staff who didn’t believe I had an appointment with you.” I threw the bouncer at the entrance under the bus to save myself, but with the look on North’s face, I might have just doomed myself even more.“Come with me,” he said, but he might as well have said, “You’ve been sentenced to an immediate execution,” because of the stern look on his face.Nonetheless, my legs moved behind him as he led me deeper into the second floor. There was actually no one on it, unlike on the first floor where there are a couple of people relaxing.North and I reached a path where there were only four doors, two on each side. Then, he led me to the second room on the right side.I walked in to see that it was a private room with dim neon lights and a large-sized cozy couch against the wall. In front of the couch was a table that was set with drinks and snacks. I was a bi
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