Over Miracting

"Good" News

Chloé Bourgeois POV

"And CUT!!!"

"Great job everyone!" "Music". The director Ms. Bourgeois walked towards the group of sound technicians and pointed her finger at Max Kanté's face "I could tell that you guys are naturals! Keep up the note-worthy work and I may as well send you off at the end of this shoot with a letter of recommendation and a Bach of cookies!" She strode over to the group of light specialist and eyed their leader; Alya Césaire "Miss Césaire, I can't say much except for that your lights were 'spot-on'" Ms. Bourgeois chuckled at her joke before turning to the sound booth at the back "I know you guys can't hear me but your sounds really had an 'effect' on me." She then glanced over at Alix and Kim "Ms. and Mr. Chiến Lê, it was risky but well played there. I loved how you guys kept the true names of all the characters, it seemed more natural" "what was really great though was how you smoothly incorporated the names of Ladybug and Chat Noir's kwami's in there" "It was amazing!"  She stopped abruptly then fell back into her chair, stuck her hand out to the side which was promptly pushed back to her with a smoothie inside her wrapped fingers from her assistant. She then sucked on the straw for a few minutes before noticing the uncertain stares she was getting from her crew. "What?" she looked at her assistant Sabrina for a second with a puzzled expression on her face. The assistant lifted her hand tentatively and pointed at the two actors she had not yet spoken to. The two in question were sitting as far as possible away from each other and looked like they wanted to rip each other's eyes out. "SCRIPT WRITERS!" Alix and Kim stepped towards their director uncertainly. "Not you guys!" Ms. Bourgeois said kindly " Oh, I'm sorry." she said, then she regained her angry composure "I meant those who refer to themselves as actors. Oops, my bad." For a few moments, all anyone who'd walked into the room at that moment would hear would be the ungodly guffaws of the director.

"Everybody Take five!" she bellowed once she had regained her professional composure. 

Then she turned to face Adrien who had decided that now was the perfect time to catch up on some daily reading for English class and started to yell. "Did I ask for an extended fight scene Mr. Agreste?" " No ma'am," he said putting a bookmark in his novel before mimicking a salute in her direction. Ms. Bourgeois swung around to Marinette "How about an apology. Did I ask for an apology Miss Dupain-Cheng?"  The girl looked up from her phone "Not that I know of" she replied hastily, before returning to the wonderful world of social media. The director did a quick scan of her surroundings and once sure that none of her superiors were near she hollered "DID I ASK FOR A BREAKUP SCENE?". When no one replied she looked down at her stars who were reading and texting once again. 

A Few Minutes, One Cracked phone and One Destroyed Novella later

"...You guys can't keep going like this" " You are professional actors not little children" " You cannot change the film crews' schedules so that we have to shoot the fight scenes first." "Why not Chloé ?" Marinette inquired not looking at the director but instead at her shattered phone on the floor. "Because you'll have to shoot the romantic ones sooner or later" "We just don't feel that way for each other," they said in unison "Does it really matter? you guys are top notch actors you should be able to break down and cry tears that were never there in the first place not to mention kiss a fellow actor" "Chloé, you try kissing someone you hate" Adrien said, twiddling his bookmark between his fingers "first thing Adrien- it's Miss Bourgeois to you and secondly I don't need to because I'm not the one who is starring in a movie about star-crossed lovers" 

"Shoulda read the fine print beforehand huh?" a cameraman snorted.  The two actors looked over at the man and glared. "Anyway" Adrien said once he was certain the cameraman wasn't going to make any more snide comments "we won't have to shoot the romantic ones if either of us changes the script" "By either of us you mean you" Marinette added "no way am I chipping my nails to do that". " Whatever" Adrien started  " No not whatever," Chloé cut in "we need the romantic scenes, and plus this wasn't even a romantic scene. This was one measly kiss at the end. You guys could've I dunno, ran to the bathroom and wiped off your lips three seconds after" "But noooo, you guys can't do that, instead you make the ending a breakup scene." Chloé paused and took a deep breath so she could continue but was cut off by Marinette"I'm just don't want to have that kind of intimacy with him."