Chapter 284 (2/2)

Jiseok looked at the shooting location, where lights were scattering, with an excited face.

“How did you get here?”

“Me? Mom drove me here.”

“Is she still here?”

“Yeah.”

“Looks like I should greet her. Where is she?”

“She said she was tired and went to get some sleep. I told her that I can get the bus back but she was worried about me. Geez, no one can stop her,” Jiseok smiled as he said that.

“Rather than that, you didn’t call me even once, huh.”

“What am I supposed to say to someone who declared that he’d do better than me? And also, no news is good news,” Maru shrugged as he said those words.

“You have your way with words as always. Rather than that, did you see senior Moonjoong acting?”

“I did. But I probably shouldn’t have. My confidence is hitting rock bottom right now.”

“Me too. You definitely feel that he’s on another level, don’t you?”

“He is on a different level. Now I feel how pressuring it must be to be on the same scene as him.”

Maru opened the script in his hand. He only had two lines. The direction of the movie was simple. He would approach Moonjoong, who was lying down on a bench, drunk, and steal his wallet. While he did so, Moonjoong would wake up and he would just say his two lines. That was it. Once he left the frame, the delinquent would no longer appear again in the movie.

“That’s why we must do well,” Jiseok said as he pointed at the script.”

“When I had a look at it, I discovered that we were chatting to each other, what do you think we should talk about?”

“Let’s talk about how we stole a motorcycle.”

“Do you have experience stealing a motorcycle?” Jiseok widened his eyes as he asked.

Maru hit the back of Jiseok’s neck.

“If the director doesn’t have anything in mind for us, then I’ll just say that I stole a motorcycle because I was pissed while doing a delivery job. You can take care of the rest.”

“Let’s make it so that we’re going to Haeundae to pick up some girls.”

“That’s good. It sounds like what an immature kid would say.”

“And it also sounds like what a delinquent would do.”

“Before we go on set, let’s make the lines. It’ll be impossible for us to make one up on the spot.”

Maru started writing the lines with the pen he stuck inside the script. The original novel mentioned nothing about the delinquent’s age, so Maru decided that they were around high school age since both he and Jiseok were in high school. The general character buildup was that of a moderately violent, restriction-hating, debauchery student.

“The delinquent probes around the elder’s body looking for a wallet. Getting the wallet in his hands, he raises it in the air and starts smirking. The smirk has a hint of childishness in it. At that moment, the elder wakes up. He looks at the delinquents around him and mistakes them for people that came to help him. He starts smiling. He feels that the world was still warm.”

Jiseok read the text out loud.

Maru had read over that bit several times in the past, yet they felt incredibly unfamiliar to him today. An ominous thought that he might end up making a mistake flashed through his mind.

“Wow, I’m getting nervous.”

Jiseok started hopping on the spot. He looked different from usual. It seems like even he could get nervous.

“It’s even more unnerving because it’s short. This is crazy.”

“Stop saying nervous. You’re ticking me off.”

“How else am I supposed to put it? Maru, do you have any calming pills with you? I heard that those work pretty well.”

“You’re young so you don’t need any of that. Rather than that, let’s try going through it. We should rehearse it even if it’s by ourselves.”

“Yeah, let’s do that.”

The scene was very short, but conversely, everything had to be compacted into that short moment. It was only a single scene in the movie, but it was the moment that changed the flow of the movie, so he didn’t want to hear that he did a bad job.

He might not receive any applause, but he didn’t want to drag everyone down either.

Not the best he could do, but the best possible.

“I wish we could get an okay sign on the first run,” Jiseok spoke just then.

“They say you shouldn’t dream of the impossible. Let’s think about this realistically, yeah?”

“Then how many times?”

“Let’s end it within five tries.”

“That’s pretty unrealistic as well.”

Just as they were drawing the picture inside their heads according to the script, the film set started becoming busy again. Some of the equipment was being reset. Geunsoo, who was talking to the director, came back to him and said,

“You ready, little ducklings?”