Action!

'Shoot! Shoot! Now what?'

For the first time in Lia's peaceful life she feels like she's going to be humiliated bad...real bad.

Even if she performs a piece or a skit, uhm hello? She doesn't even know how to act in the first place.

tap...ta...tap...

The only thing that can be heard from the room is Ms. Sasha's pen tapping on her clipboard. With her head bowed down, she seemed to wait for Lia's response.

'Shit! It's now or never!'

Ehem!

Lia cleared her throat and managed to slip in a dry gulp somehow before saying "I have prepared a small act earlier.'

Ms. Sasha was still flipping some papers over her clipboard without looking up at Lia. "uhuh, well then, why don't you perform now?'

Ms. Sasha said, her languid and calm voice sounded together with the sound of papers ruffling.

She managed to squeeze in a smile even though she knows that Ms. Sasha and the people behind her can't even see. She probably did that just to somehow assure herself.

"I-uh, ehem, in order to perform...the act, I need...." Lia cleared her scratchy throat to snap out of herself from stuttering. It was the first time for the business genius to feel pressured from performing when she could even present lectures and demonstration in front of a large crowd. But how the heck did she even get scared from performing a small act in front of six people? SIX PEOPLE?

"....a partner" Lia finally thought of something to make excuse of.

'Perfect! I could just act with Jason so that his 'clumsiness' would somehow overshadow my shortcomings, hehe.'

She already had thought of a scene earlier when she stood up. She just had to recall the lines for that short minute. And of course being a genius as she is, she recalled them and had them memorized already.

But no, it wasn't the one with the bed scene episode that she watched a few days before.

It was just something that she saw on the net while scrolling around. It became viral on the internet, so as she was curious herself why it became viral, she watched it.

Good thing her curiosity did her a good deed this time. No! It actually saved her.

Upon hearing her counter, Ms. Sasha turned her focus to Lia.

She stared for a good three seconds before propping her hands to her chin. She thought about it for a good moment.

"mm.... okay!"

'She agreed! Yes!' At this moment, Lia felt a 'little' bit accomplished and was about to call out to Jason before she heard Ms. Sasha's voice.

"How about Eric over there, he can help you."

It wasn't even a question but already a statement. To say the least that Lia was shocked is an understatement. Her heart was filled with doom and her mind somehow.... just shut down and gave up from arguing back and forth with herself.

But good thing even her nervous system was now in alarming state of malfunctioning, her outside face on the outside just looks like a little dumbfounded.

Now, that is why Lia doesn't have confidence to her acting. She looks like someone who has a facial paralysis.

No, not the usual cold main characters you see on books. But the opposite... the one who has a smiling paralysis. Except for smiling, she can't express certain detailed emotion on her face.

She's like a smiling doll.

That's what people hates about her. They'd better off face an emotional man than face off someone who's just smiling all day without knowing their own nature inside.

The sound of screeching chair pulled her out of her dazed state.

She looked behind her and she saw the man who was seated on the far left standing up.

Yep, of all people it was the man who looked like he didn't care at all.

'hmm....at least he's handsome.' At this juncture ladies and gentlemen, her system finally gave up and shut down on her.

The state she's in right now could be described as 'fuck-i-don;t-care-anymore-let;s-do-this-come-on-at-me-you-bish'

Exactly.

"Jason, surely, you know that scene from Violet's Dream right?"

As Lia already explained the scene earlier, Ms. Sasha already had the knowledge to what she is going to portray.

Violet's Dream became famous in social media not because of particular scenes brought by the main leads. But by this one scene of a side character.

The scene was a death scene of this side character's lover. It was a spy-themed action movie that has romance in it. The story of the scene was how the man blamed his lover for being the traitor due to his loyalty to his job. But he got into an accident after which led him to a comatose.

In truth his lover wasn't the traitor but the opposite, she risked her life to spy into the enemy's base and pretended to be one of them. The story skips into their last scene together.

It was the scene that broke many people's hearts.

It was the scene where the man woke up only to call his lover and hear her last words on the other side.

He slept believing the lies, yet woke up to the truth... only to find out he's all too late.

"Are you ready?" Lia looked unto her side in which the handsome ma- Eric was already stationed, speaking to her with his not-so-interested look.

Lia pursed her lips, kinda regretting that she hadn't plan on what emotions to convey, no she regretted she had no time to plan for all of this.

"Yeah, I'm ready" Lia stared at him for a minute before her entire face turned serious, meaning all of her attention and her mind is focused on her act at this moment. Without wasting his breath, Eric turned around and grabbed his chair towards a spot.

Upon seeing the look on Lia's face, the matured man at the back frowned his eyebrows.

Ms. Sasha with her hands propped up on her chin still was just looking at her movements. She looked at Lia's actions without even glancing unto the man called Eric.

Seeing Eric across her ready, she turned her heels and walked in calm manner towards the mirrored wall on Eric's side.

Why did you think she chose that spot. Everyone seated probably thought of this. If they were in her shoes, they'd probably choose the spot farthest from Eric. Why? Cuz it was what the scene's all about.

The man waking up with the girl dying on a mission on the other side of the world.

'Well, folks, that is why I precisely chose this spot. The nearer the better.'

She sat down with her back on the wall, waiting for Ms. Sasha's call.

"Ready..."

By now almost everyone in the room was awaiting for another great performance made by Eric. As they witnessed his performance earlier, they could say he was the 'honor student' from this class. He performed extremely well, already like a seasoned actor. Even the older matured man has to nod at this.

"....and...Action!"

Upon hearing the word, Lia's body eventually got limped and her face suddenly paled out. Even Jason who was sitting flinched and was about to ask her if she was okay. But then, he realized it was an idiotic act of him.

As Lia, right now, was acting.