With a speed that made my spine chill and a fancy drift, he managed to distract all the reporters and parked the car in the some kind of abandoned place. He breathed like he was dehydrated and told Mason something shocking.âWhat are you saying⊠Youâre kidding, right?âMason asked again with a shocked face. What did you just tell me? Mason asked like he wanted he heard it wrong, but Tony didnât care about his desperation and repeated what he just said.âYou are gonna go in and film a drama. âDid you memorize the lines?âMemorize them fast. Itâs hard to see during make-up.â He gave Mason the script and rushed him. Mason automatically looked at the script and looked at him right away.âWha, what film, what acting suddenly? Didnât I just told you Iâm gonna quit?ââEven if you are quitting, you need to do your schedule! Are you seriously gonna let them fire you? Even though you donât have your memory⊠Oh no, the time.âTony didnât even explain well to Mason. He just rushed him to get out of the car. Mason got pulled out of the car by him but still stepped back.âWait, wa, wait, Tony. Wait.âThis middle age obese man without any muscle, if it was my actually body, I couldâve just pushed him away, but whatâs wrong with this body? Every time he used his strength, he just got dragged. If I try like throwing somebody like usual, I think Iâm gonna break my wrists.âWait, huh? What acting? I canât do that this sudden. Think againâŠâMason was getting dragged and tried to convince Tony. Is this how Aaron felt when I went inside the Altaâs bunker? At least I didnât ask him to do anything. I just told him to stay shut.Acting in front of the camera. I didnât think there will be anything more absurd then waking up in a different body, but now I think I need to change that thought in six hours.Tony seemed like he didnât care that Haley lost his memory, but it was not same just because the face was same. âIf it was an actual amnesia patient, well, he might get his memory back by standing in front of the camera and act naturally but not me. I was always busy with my life so never even watched any proper drama. There is no way I can do this.âItâs okay. Itâs okay. Itâs not even that long.ââLong or short. I canât do it. Of course I canât do it. Itâs not something anyone can do? An, and I donât think I feel well suddenly.âUrghh, Mason held his head and pretended that he was in pain, but Tony didnât even look at him and just pushed his back.âIf you are able to walk, then itâs okay. And you werenât even good at acting before you lost your memory so donât worry about it.ââDoes that even make sense?âIâm getting dragged like a cow in a slaughter house. How can I not worry? Is he saying it like that because itâs not his situation? Tony was keep saying itâs okay, and Mason frowned and screamed at him, but Tony said it seriously.âNo, nobody is expecting a great act from you. Just show them your face and read the lines.âThey just want a hot issue and pretty face in the camera. The drama that they are filming right now is currently on season 10, and itâs an investigation drama that airs in the whole country. This is the only job he has right now. Even this is just a drama that he filmed since he was little, other jobs were all fired.There was one time he had to save his sleeping and eating time and did 6, 7 schedules in one day, but thatâs all old days.He is not even good at acting and causes trouble and has a bad personality, and the only good point about him was his face, but now it is fading away. Since his images are bad, no commercial modeling job come in, and almost all the jobs that were coming in were either semi-nude shoots or interviews about the gossips.And he became nationally hated.He can never lose this job. Since he is alive, he needs to hold on to this to live. Money is money, but he lived his whole life as an actor. It must be painful to be forgotten by the audience. Right now he is just comfortably saying, âIf my memory comes back, I can work then.â But if his memory comes back and people have forgotten about himâŠ.ââŠâŠâTony bit his lips and shivered. He can see how he will make a mess and be hysterical. It wonât be weird if heâs trying to chew and swallow Tony.âSpare me. Huh? Itâs not hard. You just have to say this to this line looking at the camera.âPlease, I beg you. Tony begged him with his teary eyes like he is about to kneel, and Mason just sighed and scratched his head. SeriouslyâŠâReally, really I just have to look at the camera and read the lines?âHe was wondering if itâll be that easy but still asked. If I just need to read the lines, I think I can just close my eyes and think of it as one of the mission in Zii. He felt embarrassed that he needs to do something that he usually does secretly in front of the cameras, but once will be somehow⊠Before Mason tried to convince himself, Tony grabbed his wavering heart.âYes, yes. Itâs late, so we should go in first. Once you are in there you wonât think as a big deal.âTony was like itâs nothing. He told Mason he just has to read few lines and grabbed Masonâs wrist and dragged him to the filming set. Haleyâs habit is to lock himself in his room whenever heâs in a bad mood, and heâs been Haleyâs manager for 16 years. It was easier for Tony to take Haley to the filming set than chewing a gum.They were middle of filming a shooting scene. Cut! Hold that thing well! People were screaming everywhere, and it seemed little busy.Mason winced little bit looking at a new environment. Tony left him in front of the entrance and ran to the director. Big man with a black sunglasses took a glimpse at Tony and quietly glared at Mason.âUh, the hospital said he needs to rest more. They stopped us because he was not ready to get discharged. Thatâs why weâreâŠ.âThe director waved his hand like he didnât want to hear it, and Tony was acting subserviently.âWait, Tony. The script changed.âAn assistant director who was standing behind the director stopped Tony who was keep saying excuses and gave him the new script.âThe script changed? Why suddenly?ââWhat do you mean why? Just do it as it changed. âWeâll start right away after getting ready. How about you check it and let him memorize it first? Itâs probably too long for him.âââŠ.âMason looked around while Tony was checking the script.There were some people acting in front of the director that Tony was talking to before. He couldnât hear their voice very well because he was pretty far away, but about four of the cameras were filming them very closely and some other cameras were filming from a far. A man holding a strange board and a man holding a stick with fur and more. Many people moved around carrying something heavy centering there.Mason catches things pretty fast. He quietly pay attention to the filming set. He kind of get how things were working, but more things were strange and new to him. Only cameras that Mason meets are reportersâ camera, CCTV, or small spy cameras.It would have been better for him if he watched some movies or dramas occasionally, but he didnât have that kind of hobby. I shouldâve watched some⊠At least pay attention to Clerk who likes to talk about back stories of celebrities. Then I couldâve understand some atmosphere around here.âOh my, Look at how he wore the patientâs uniform here. Is he protesting that heâs sick or somethingâŠââItâs probably all faking. There is no way he can look like that after he woke up from the heart attack.âMason turned around hearing people whispering, and women carrying props looked at him like what are you looking at. It wasnât only those women. Many staffs and actors in the filming set were frowning noticeably whenever they saw his face and whispered to each other. Somebody even said, âHe didnât even die and came out againâ loudly. Cold stares and whispers. He could clearly sense a sharp atmosphere surrounding him.ââŠ.âMason took a glimpse at them and looked at the filming scene with an indifferent face. People were whispering, âHeâs even more acting cool todayâ but it didnât even tickle his ears. Mason lived around people who just shoot at people if they are in bad mood, so this wasnât even a light joke for him.Mason felt more in trouble and uncomfortable because he had to act in front of all those people and cameras. Think of it as a mission. Mission. Mission. Mission. He did lot of acting during the missions. Actually it was more like a trick than acting, but Tony said its okay. It wasnât hard to read already prepared lines. This is part of a mission. He was keep saying it to himself to hypnotize himself.âI heard you were dead. Why are you here?âHe heard an indifferent voice next to him. He turned and saw an old male actor even Mason saw sometimes on the TV. âŠ.Whatâs was his name? Simon?ââŠ.I know. Why am I here.âMason stared at him little bit and sighed. The one who is most curious why he was here was Mason himself. This was not a place where I should be. What acting. What drama. He felt like Tony will come back soon and say, âSurprised? It was a joke.âSimon gave him a confused look looking at Masonâs bitter look, but soon he smirked.âIt was a show huh?âââŠWhat?â
âYou pretended you committed suicide because of the Raynoah incident. Right? And that didnât work, so you came out like this. Of course. There are some actors who come out even with their severe heart problem but⊠not you right?âYou came with a heavy hangover during the time you were supposed to come. âHe said it to taunt Mason. Mason just shrugged his shoulder and said, âWho knows.ââWhat do you mean who knows?ââCanât you just think whatever you want?âMason took a glimpsed at him and looked at the scene again. Actually, Mason didnât know if Haley was trying to commit suicide, or it was for a happy dream and overdosed. I wasnât at a state where I can just comfortably say something just because it was other personâs problem, but I didnât need to struggle and make an excuse for a something that I didnât do. I wasnât gonna do this job for a long time anyway.Simon looked at Mason strangely because Mason was too indifferent. He drank his coffee that he was holding. He held his word few times, but he asked.âSo⊠-Were you actually sick?âHaha, No right? âHe smiled like he was be careful, and Mason waved his hand.âDonât worry. I probably came because I can walk.âTo be exact I was dragged, anyway. Because I was nervous that I have to act soon, I said it very simply, and Simon frowned.âWhat, whatâs wrong? Did you get a deadly disease? Did the doctor say you are gonna die soon?â