Ch 3 - The First Step

In the morning...

Beep! Beep! Beep!

The sound of alarm was heard inside a room. A hand picked up the clock from the bed lazily and look at the time in it.

"..."

"SHIT!! IT'S 9 AM!!!" Will suddenly jumped out of the bed energetically as if being electrocuted. He hastily ran towards the bedroom to get a quick shower.

After he wore his clothes, he quietly open the twins room's door, carefully picked up both of them, and stormed out towards Michelle's house across the block.

*Knock Knock*

After a few minutes of waiting, the door opened to see Michelle still wearing a towel on her hair and body each, obviously fresh out of the shower or bath.

"What?"

"Can you babysit them for me?" As he mention at the twins.

"What are you going to do?" She picked up both of them from Will's arms.

"I'm going to an audition"

"You got an audition already?"

"No it's a public audition, I was informed by a friend I made in London, he came here before me so he got to familiarize himself. Okay, I'll leave them to your care!!" He said as he kissed both twins before he ran along the sidewalk as fast as he can.

"..."

"Good to know he made some friends in UK..." She mumbled as she go inside the house with the twins in tow and closed the door.

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Will took a rapid breath as he sat on the sparsely crowded bus.

"Sorry Michelle..." He mumbled.

The reason why he apologized to Michelle was because he lied about being informed by his friend about the audition.

In a matter of fact, most of his friends from college didn't even go to Los Angeles like him, most of them either stayed in theaters around London, or played some small roles in British showbiz. Even if there are some who came, they were too busy with their own career to inform him about a public audition.

So how does he know about this particular yet important public audition?

In fact the Will as we know him now, is a reincarnator. Meaning he came from the future. Inside Will body is a soul who came from the year 2022. His real name is Angkasha Naraya Putra from a developing country in SEA called Indonesia.

Angkasha died from a pandemic-level disease that swept the world since March 2020 called COVID-19. In the last 10 years before he died, he was a Movie enthusiast, he read all kinds of information about the movies that he liked from the publicly known detail to the smallest detail that he had to uncover from Reddit and other kinds of social media.

After reincarnated to Will's body, Angkasha, now named Will, had an ambition to earn an Oscar as his life goals. As he was reincarnated, he unknowingly got a gift, a gift to made it easier for him to memorize things in a glance and harder for him to forget those memories. Be it bad or good. People usually call it Eidetic memory.

At first he thought it was a blessing, but in that blessing, he found the worst curse he could ever get in the world.

Unable to forget bad memories.

This gift is one of the reasons why he still can't move on from his wife's death, even after a full one year trying to move on from it.

That and the fact that he loved her so much, and the twins who always reminds him of Laura.

As he was dazed because the lack of sleep from the night before, the bus stopped in front of a bus stop.

Will forcefully opened his eyes to make himself sober for sometime before standing up and walk out. Looked at the surroundings before he found the name 'James' Studio' and walked straight to the building.

Inside, he found the waiting room already filled by actors. Men and women were sitting with their own groups while those who were alone were sitting on the corner.

Will proceed to take his audition number "72" and sat down on the corner like other 'loners'. He sat beside a fine looking young man in his mid 20s. He greeted him ceremoniously.

But then he had a feeling that he somehow know the man beside him. He looked at him a few times before the man looked at him questioningly.

"Is there something on my face?"

"No, I just seem to know you somewhere... Are you the... Um... Fire boy from Fantastic Four?" Will asked hesitantly.

The man smiled proudly for a while and then turned into a bitter smile, maybe because of the fact that Will doesn't know the name of his character or the fact that Will doesn't know his real name.

"Yes I am, and the name is Chris Evans, you can call me Chris" He offered his hand at Will.

Will shook his hand and introduced himself, "The name is Will Coulson, you can call me Will"

Will lamented of how lucky he is to meet the current fire boy from Fantastic Four and the future Captain America actor just a day after he came to Hollywood.

"You came for the audition? I thought you were still shooting for the sequel of Fantastic Four"

"Yeah, the shooting was finished since November last year, and the dubbing was completed in January"

"Cool, hey can I ask you something? I heard a rumour about..."

"That's not true man, he was a cool dude..."

"Then what about the rumour that..."

"..."

"..."

"...And then she said, 'what the hell do you want me to do? Go naked on the sidewalk-'"

"NUMBER 64!!"

"HERE!!" Chris shouted.

"Man, I gotta go to the audition first, wish me luck" then he went to the audition room.

Will look at Chris' back as he disappeared into the audition door with satisfaction as he just got his first colleague in the industry and one of his favorite one at that.

Then Will look around him to see if there's another future famous actor/actress to befriend with. Unfortunately, there's no familiar faces around him, so he wait quietly on his seat.

After 5 minutes passed, like the others, Chris came out of the audition room looking disappointed.

"What happen Chris?" Will asked.

"Sigh... I've tried to impress the casting director and and the director himself. But none of them looked interested at my audition, chances are I won't be able to get a call from them"

"Hey it's okay mate, well I heard they actually needed a newcomer to save up the budget for the special effects, so it's not surprising that you won't make them interested"

"I know but, it's still disappointing you know. It's a James Cameron movie, nobody doesn't want to play in his film"

"Well maybe you'll be able to get a role in another movie, let's just say your luck is not good in this one"

"Well I guess so... I hope you have better luck than me man, hold on a second" he paused as his phone were ringing.

"Yeah yeah... Are you serious? Okay I'll be there ASAP!" He said before ending up the call.

"Damn man, your words came true!" Chris said excitedly.

"What? Did you get a role?" Will asked stunned.

"Yeah! The movie is called The Nanny Diaries. Although it's a low budget one compared to Avatar, but I will be paid for 800 grand!"

"Damn! Congrats man! I guess what they say in asia is true"

"What is it?"

"After a tragedy, there will always be a blessings"

"That's a good saying, anyway I gotta go to meet the director and producers, hope you got the role man!" then he grab something from his pocket and gave it to me, "Here's my phone number, we should go hang out sometimes, see you later!"

And with that he passed the entrance door and disappeared from Will's sights.

'I too hope so...'

"NUMBER 72!!"

"HERE! Finally..."

Will stand up from his seat and took a deep breath. With determination, he go straight towards the audition door...

Into his first ever step towards his ultimate dream.