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“Irene, don't you want to move to a condo? I know a condo near here, you won't be hassled if someone ever calls you a talent manager to hire you as their artist. It's actually close to the agencies here.""Maybe not, Eli. I'm already in control of the bill in the apartment I'm staying in, should I go for a c-condo? Nevermind...""I will pay.""And you also know that I will not agree to that," I looked at him."It's enough that you helped me before, Eli. Please, don't increase my fees to you anymore.""Who said I was paying you?"“I don't accept free---”"My helping you is voluntary, Irene. Volunteers help others without accepting things in return, and I have never seen that bad.That's what I'm doing now, but your pride keeps on halting you to accept it."I got out of the car to escape to answer him. He likes cornering me using his unpredictable thoughts, and I hate it.Yeah, it's all about my pride. I don't want others to help me when I can do something by myself.I'm also not the ty
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Because I was invited to handle a supporting role, a double celebration happened when we finally arrived at Harris' restaurant.To give you a brief background information, the past years of Harris working hard to be a marketing consultant before led him to fulfill his greatest goal in life... and that is to build his own restaurant. His restaurant is now successful knowing that he's a good cook, and he's also handsome.I've heard that Harris finished an engineering course way back, but he became a marketing consultant, now a chef and manager of his own restaurant.That might be because not all the time, it's not related to the course that a person finished that he will get a job right after that person graduated. Perhaps it's their choice not to apply for a specific job related to their degree, or it's not their choice to take that degree during college. Just like me, Hospitality Management is not my dream course but still, I choose to finish it. And now, surprisingly, I'm slowly intr
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I smiled having the thought of accepting the director's compliment for us. We're halfway through the drama, we're about to finish shooting it within just a week or two, I think.The day goes by so fast, and so far, what I'm showing is beautiful and neat. Almost every day I receive compliments because of my acting skills. But I remained humble, because I knew I still had something else to learn. I'm sure there are many who can be better than me, so I think I should be more motivated to do my best in the remaining scenes with me.Wishing myself all the best."How's your day?"When I got out of the shooting place, I just laughed when I saw Eli waiting for me. His schedule is busy now but he still managed to pick me up."You don't have to pick me up, okay? I'm aware that you're very busy right now, I don't want to bother you anymore.""You never bothered me." He opened the door and then I sat on the passenger's seat. "It's been a while since the day I confessed to you my feelings, Irene."
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"Could you tell us a brief overview about the movie?""Olympians are those athletes who compete in an olympic games. But in this movie, the participants were not athletes. And most especially, the participants won't compete in the olympic games... and are not competing with each other for a gold medal. Participants are selected by the game master, and the selected people are those beggars in the street.” Marco said. He played the role of the antagonist.“Are the participants street beggars?”"Yes," Echo replied. "And these beggars are going to play an online game, which is Mobile Legends, in order to survive and win the huge amount of money that awaits them in the end. There are many beggars involved, so in stage 1-4 the fight is by group. A team fight. The system has become a team, and the losing team will not go home in tears... because the losers will not be able to go home because they will be killed. Until it reaches the point where only six players will step on stage 5, that's i
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"I was the first to greet Dylan. What about you? I'm always an early bird, you know that!""Hug!" Dylan hugged Harris like a child while smiling with his eyes closed.They just look so cute, especially Dylan who I know is very happy today because of the surprise birthday party we planned for him. As Harris said, he was the first to greet Dylan by giving him a piece of tissue, then wrote his birthday greetings on it.Yeah, Harris is eco-friendly. (Insert the sarcasm.)"A while ago, you wrote your birthday greetings to Dylan on a napkin. Then now, on the tissue. Next year, where?”"In your brief, Yuwi.""I'm sure if Julia was here, she'd probably be silent because she hates what you're talking about." Uttered Magi, and now she's with Dylan, arm around him."Yuwi must have missed teasing her," Warren said, chuckling."That's just pretending to be Yuwi teasing Julia, but it's his type." Eli said before pulling me to a chair next to him. "What do you want to eat?"I shook my head. "I'm ful
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His forehead creased. "Excuse me? What are you talking about?”He hummed a little. "I'm quite amused that this is our first time meeting each other... yet you already know my name."I'm confused… wait, why doesn't he remember me? Is this really what I'm seeing or maybe it's just a dream?"Because I told him about you while we were on the trip. So he already knows your name," my manager politely answered.I looked at Theo in disbelief, because he hadn't mentioned Israel's name to me earlier. What the hell is happening?!"I see." Israel looked back at me again. "Nice meeting you, Miss Corrine-""Drop the 'Miss', please."As I came back to my composure, I forced myself to act normal. Pretending not to be affected because our paths met again."I'm now your employee and you're my boss. I should show respect. Don't be too formal, Mr. Villegas.”Even though I really wanted to hug him now because of happiness, I stopped myself from doing that. I don't want him to think I'm weird. One more thi
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Is this really how he treats his new employee? Or maybe he's just like me? I mean, I'm special to Israel to give me coffee.My eyes even passed the sticky notes on the cup... 'Good morning, gorgeous!'Well, why is that? It's like a butterfly flutters in my stomach right now. If I'm not mistaken, when a person's stomach feels like butterflies are flying like this, it means they're excited, right?Who wouldn't be thrilled if you were called 'gorgeous', right? Do I feel special or am I really special for Israel? Does this mean he remembers me?"Thank you for this, Sir Israel! You are really thoughtful as always!"I lost my attention on the sticky notes I was staring at when I heard what Cindy said. I gradually glanced at her; she's also holding the same cup of coffee that I received from Israel. Harvey and Jenny are the same."Cindy, can you look at that?" I approached Cindy to look at the cup of coffee she was holding."Sure."When I looked at the sticky note attached there, the same th
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"Are you, Corrine... on drugs?""I'm serious, Dylan. Even I can't believe that Israel is alive. Who would it be? He's been gone for so long and he's made us believe he's dead for so long, then just like that, he's alive all along?""How did you know?" asked Magi. "And sure, does Eli already know about that?""It so happened that he will be my boss for my temporary job." As I finished answering her first question, I looked down. "And not yet. Eli still has no idea about Israel.""How long are you going to keep this from him?"I looked at Dylan, I don't know if it's just me but I noticed a trace in the tone of his voice as if he didn't agree that I hadn't informed Eli about Israel yet.I still have no courage to bring this up to him, and knowing Eli for quite too long, I'm fully aware of the fact that the moment I tell him the truth, his performance for his upcoming concert has a hundred percent probability to be affected."Make a wise decision, Corrine. Don't wait for the time that he'
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ELIAS"I still can't believe she'll do such a thing." Standing beside me was Corrine's face, who couldn't stop herself from whimpering as she stared at a long, white coffin where Stacy's lying down. "Then you know it hurts?"I noticed that she was crying all the time, still she's trying to hide it by looking up at the sky. It's the day to take Stacy to her final destination. Corrine's family also decided to bury Stacy right away."On the very last day of our taping, I wished that night would be the last day I would see her face. As if she heard that... she made it true. My together , Eli."The one thing I know I can offer him right now is my warm hug. I first moved her away from Stacy's corpse as if I'm hoping she could calm down if she's no longer seeing the remains of her long lost sister."She did what she thought was best for you, Corrine." While caressing her back, her whimpers continue. "He's aware of how much you hate him since day one you two met, and from the day you implante
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"Honestly speaking, if we hadn't been lacking for time filming it, supposedly "Mending Alicia" is the newest Maple View original series this coming January. That's why we didn't have enough time for taping, and a unanimous decision has been made to just make this a movie, which will still be aired on the same streaming platform.”When I opened my eyes as if I had come out of a long sleep, a flat screen TV appeared before me. And Director Manuel's voice made my sleeping soul wake up."The reason why we really need to finish the taping in order to catch up with the January listing, it's because the lead actress of the movie, Corrine Desiderio, had a busy schedule entering the New Year. People will be waiting for him to star in a teleserye that we can watch together on television this coming April or May.”"Literally a busy schedule for me," I whispered.Even though my vision was blurry because I was just squinting, I inspected the surroundings where I got up, and the place is all white.
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"Good job, actors... everyone of you."As the ending scene sealed with a passionate yet short kiss between the lead actors, we started making arrangements, taking pictures... and now, Director Manuel started his soul-stirring statement."I entrusted Emily with the casting of this movie... that I can say that this movie is one that I will never forget. In the past movie projects and series I directed, Mending Alicia would seriously be one of the most unforgettable for me.""First of all, we were in a rush to finish it. We were all stressed from the few nights we had to stay up just to catch up with the January listing. But the best part of it is that... even though we rushed that it's over, while watching the scenes, it's a rush but I'm satisfied.""Because you know what? Producing a good movie doesn't always mean to have plenty of time filming it, or to have the privilege of being guided by an award-winning director of all time, or to have the best scriptwriter for almost ten years. T
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"Are you crazy?" At the height of my tears, I managed to speak. "No... That's not true. Because... maybe you remember me now, that's why you're saying that? You're still the Joker..."I slapped his arm lightly, but it didn't even move his stiff body that stood in front of me. "Don't trip me up... It's not funny-""Irene, I'm sorry," cried Israel as he vainly tried to stop the tears from flowing down his cheeks. "Forgive me if I kept you waiting for a long time when you believed I was still alive. Forgive me because I made you believe I didn't survive the accident... and now... I ask for your forgiveness again for lying to you... again... to be the person who no longer recognizes anything from the past."Just this once, I want this scene to be converted as one of the nightmares I had every night. I can't accept that this incident is real... because the pain we both now experiencing could be hard for us to endure. And I can't even imagine how Israel could ever handle the pain watching m
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"Does it look good to me, Corrine?" And Stacy happily shoved the cartier watch that was from me... Eli gave it to the witch."No," I replied sparingly. "Because that's more suitable for a man..." That's why I chose that design... that's because I'm going to give the watch to a man. And seeing it worn by Stacy makes her look like a clown.The anger I had recently, disappeared like a bubble because of the mixture of Stacy's face with what I threw at her teasing. At least, I recovered somehow."Maybe it just depends if the person who gave it to you thinks it's a man," I added.I didn't waste my time to fight with Stacy as I immediately left the dressing room afterwards. My service van is also waiting outside to take it to the SGN Music studio—of course for the rehearsing part of the song that we'll gonna sing on our upcoming TV guesting.The reason why we are going to the SGN studio is because Eli is there, busy with his concert and also rehearsing other songs. It would also be nice to v
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"To kill the issue that is spreading about my break-up with Eli, everything is just a rumor," my opening statement as I was keeping my eyes looking strong in front of the camera. "We have no idea who's the person behind leaking this fake news throughout social media.""As we are facing the cameras right now to leave a statement, we are pleased to clarify everything that Eli and I are still in a relationship." At least I'd still call Eli as my boyfriend even only in front of hundreds of cameras and thousands of our fans."I just want to add to what Corrine said, I can assure both of our fandoms that there were no collisions that would ever happen between us. Remember our promise to all of you?"I looked confused at Eli for saying those words that were not in the script. I mean... it's not in the conversation that he needs to say publicly giving assurance to the fans that there will be no break-up between us. He is moving away from the goal we should now."That... I am forever bound wit
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"Corrine!""Corrine, wait!"I stopped walking when Eli hugged me from the back. His hands wrapped tightly around my waist, as if he didn't want to let me go."Let's fix it. Let's talk, hmm? If you're not ready to get married, I'm ready to wait." He made his voice sound strong in between his sobs.But, I shouldn't be carried away. I shouldn't be fragile by hearing his words and by listening to his nonstop pleas.I forcefully removed his hand that was clinging to my body, and as I make sure that I can face him without tears flooding my cheeks, I faced him. "Eli, please... don't think that I'm breaking up with you because you surprised me with your proposal."Because in fact, I've been waiting for you to kneel before me and ask me to marry you."It's not like that. My intention for breaking up with you is because..." I couldn't think of anything to reason out."If not, then why?"He was trying to catch my beautiful eyes on him, but I couldn't even look at him in the eye. Because if I do
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My jaw dropped. "Y-You're threatening his life again? Is this a piece of a joke, Stacy?"I'm starting to feel my teardrops falling now, add to it the itching of my mouth with what Stacy said.I'm hoping she's fvcking kidding me!"Do you think I have extra time to mock you, Irene? I'm serious, okay?" She pursed her lips as if she was trying to kill me in annoyance. "I will really kill him if you don't break up with him.""N-No." Desperately, I immediately knelt before Stacy even though it was against my heart. "Please... not him. I can't break up with Eli. Don't kill him-""I thought that if you broke up with Eli, our lives would be better." Pointing her eyes at me, she smiled sheepishly. "You'll do me a favor, and eventually I'll return it to you.""Just think about it, Irene... if you divorce Eli, I won't hesitate to kill him anymore. You won't have to worry that someone will try to kill him on the very day of his concert. Your mind will be free to not that he remembers the moment yo
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Instead of arguing with Stacy and choosing to make the trouble worse, I remained my mouth shut instead. The shooting place is not the right place for me to let go of Stacy and for me to exercise my immaturity.For sure, Director's temper will only increase if there is a fight on the set. Our working hours may be more than 24 hours today if by chance.Director let us rest after shooting that imperfect scene, that eventually will be retaken after the short break. I must have missed Eli too much that's why I have mentioned his name during the taping.But the crying scene was still a broken puzzle to me. What were those tears for?"I'm the one you're looking for, Irene," I heard someone say… and it was Stacy. "Yes, definitely. I am the owner of the fan account and the one behind the death threats that Eli receives." And she was saying those words the whole time, smiling."Should I be surprised?""You should've been startled now. That's what I'm expecting." She laughed before going near me
