THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 51 – 60
BY SIR ZACH
CHAPTER 58
“What does he have that I don’t? My parents have money too. I’m more handsome than him, I’m more talented, and you clearly like me better than you do him, so why can’t you love me, Xi’er? Is it because he… he was your first? I don’t mind that, I’m not a virgin–”
“No!” She immediately cut in and hurriedly shook her head. “That’s not true–”
“Then what’s the truth?!” He frowned in confusion. “Tell me, what?” He pulled her to his chest and rested his forehead on hers. Their breaths intertwined as they fought the urge to kiss.
Outside their world, the crew couldn’t help but be stunned and lost in the drama playing before them. This was absolutely more than just acting. No one would believe they were acting, it’s simply impossible!
Director Mathew and his Assistant glanced at each other with mouth agape. This was more than they expected. It was simply too awesome that he refused to yell ‘cut’ even though they’ve exhausted their lines.
“Director, shouldn’t you stop recording? They’ve ended their lines,” Feng Long said to the Director in a hushed voice. He was almost going nuts from seeing this. It was taking him all his self control to restrain from storming in and beating Brian up.
Brian’s two Assistants glanced at each other with worry on their faces. This is bad. They knew this would happen. They just hope he won’t act foolishly this time.
Piper’s heart was racing so much that she was scared it could compete with a sports car. She was anxious, excited, and bitter. It wasn’t easy being in this close proximity with her high school boyfriend.
The hate that he has for her cannot be put in words. She believed that if not for a reason, he would have long killed her, but ¹what she didn’t understand was that, why would a person who hates her so much, act this gentle and real with her? What is Brian planning to do?
The more she thought about it, the more anxious and unsettled she got. Before she could pick her mind back to reality, she felt his soft lips on hers.
Piper froze after a while, she wanted to push him away but for some reason she couldn’t bring herself to do so and instead, she locked her hands behind his head and deepened the kiss.
The Second Female lead who was supposed to shoot Piper after her dialogue with Brian stood behind them in a daze. This wasn’t a part of the story, what was going on?
Well, they all could tell what was going on but they just couldn’t believe this was real.
Feng Long couldn’t take it anymore and strode into the scene. He yanked them apart and greeted Brian’s face with a powerful punch.
Brian fell back and felt a warm liquid on his lower lip. He lazily passed his tongue over the injury and tasted his own blood. Brian curled his lips into a sneer and said to Piper: “As I thought, you are pathetic and cheap,” he turned around and left the scene without looking back.
Everyone finally returned to life after the wonderful drama to see Piper slapping Feng Long.
“Paah!”
“Who the hell do you think you are?!” She screamed before storming off as tears blinded her vision. Brian’s words hurt her deeply and she was mad at Fend Long for being the reason she was insulted.
Feng Long stood there in a daze, embarrassed and heartbroken. What did he do wrong?
Awkwardness filled the air as the crew tried not to make a sound. This was no longer acting and nobody wanted to be in Feng Long’s bad book. He might be calm and collected but he also has some nuts that were not properly screwed in his brain.
As for Brian, he had long lost all his nuts, so they try to avoid him as much as they could.
“Ahem, we’ll round up for today and come back after three days. By then, you would have calmed down.” Director Mathew called it a day.
The best thing about bringing Brian and Oliver together is that those two tend to make a splendid drama without the scripts. The fight that just happened won’t be cut out of the drama. Thanks to them, color was added to the last few episodes that were supposed to be boring with the Female lead living the remaining days of her life in sadness and mourning Brian.
Since the drama had been altered, Director Matthew thought he would leave the ending for them to make by themselves, after all, it has happened a few times where he made them decide the end of a movie with their freestyle acting.
Whatever happens three days from now will be the final ending to TIMELESS. So the director thought.
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Inside the black van that was speeding away from the set, sat Brian with his head resting on the seat. His mind flashed to the kissing scene of just now and he slowly touched his plastered lip.
A while later, his brows furrowed in disgust and anger.
“Brother Brian, where would you like to go?” One of the assistants asked.
“Don’t I have a deal to sign?”
“Yes, I thought you would like to postpone it.”
“No, it’s fine, I can’t risk that man yelling my head off.” He said lazily
“Hahaha… Your Manager is out of town, so he won’t be yelling anytime soon.”
“Does he not have a phone?” Brian raised a brow.
“Oh, that’s true…haha.”
Even though Brian is cold-hearted and indifferent, or arrogant to others, he has a good relationship with his team, which is why his Manager and Assistants are ready to die for him.
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Inside Piper’s white car, she looked restless and annoyed. She couldn’t believe she allowed emotions to get the better of her. Why did she think Brian would truly want to kiss her? Why did she think that he was genuine? Why did she forget that it was just acting and that Brian likes to go off scripts and make it real sometimes.
She traveled down memory lane…
Ten years ago, she was just a teenager who was under the Influence of her mother to gain the recognition of her father, Patriarch Xu, so she also attended the school for the elites.
There she met Brian and Feng Long. They were all classmates who turned good friends but before they knew it, she and Brian started dating.
They dated for five years until her mother found out and grew mad. Madam Caroline broke them apart and forced Brian out of school with the help of Feng Long.
To make it worse, when Piper entered the entertainment industry, she made Brian’s life a living hell because he still cared, until suddenly he stopped caring about her and instead, brought forth his hatred for her.
Brian became the dark horse in the industry and within a few years, he clinched the top actor spot, with the determination to show Feng Long and Piper what it means to be a bully.
Piper’s company wanted to use the relationship Brian and her shared in the past to take advantage of Brian and ride on his coattail but each time, he embarrasses her like never before.
How could she even think that he would reach out to her with warmth after all they did to him in the past?
Piper felt frustrated. She should have known better. She picked up her phone and called her manager. After a few rings, the call went through and she reported: “I created a mess in the set, I’m not 100% sure that no one filmed it, so get the PR team to be on the lookout for any scandal that might surface and take care of it.”
She put the phone down after that and rested her head on the headrest, lost in thought.
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The car arrived at a fancy restaurant and Piper walked in, wearing the school uniform with a nose mask and a face cap. She didn’t have the time to take off her costume as the time fixed for the date was already glaring at her.
Entering the restaurant, her Assistant went to make an inquiry about their reservation. Soon, a waitress walked them to a luxurious private booth.
Piper entered and made her assistant and two guards wait outside the booth for her, not a minute later, she texted her assistant to return home with the guards.
Meanwhile, Brian was in a nearby booth and saw what happened. Seeing them leave without her, he snorted, “hussy” he whispered under his breath and sipped his drink.
“Excuse me, you said something?” The middle-aged man sitting opposite him asked.
“No, go on, please.” He replied.
“Oh,” the man glanced at his clothes. Brian was still wearing his costume from the set and he looked a bit exhausted. “How about we postpone the meeting until you are less busy?”
“Don’t worry about my appearance, CEO Dang. I only have today to spare for this meeting. Unless your company can wait for three months.”
“Ah, that’s a long time. Today it is then.” The man smiled.
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Piper was sitting meekly and sipping her drink while thinking of the possible reasons her older brother’s best friend who had never spoken to her before would suddenly want to have a date with her.
Even though she never expected her brother to be here, she still felt disappointed.
Inspector Fin glanced at the obviously uncomfortable Piper and sighed: “What happened to your spirit? You look like a different person.”
“Because it’s awkward sitting here with you.”
He nodded and adjusted his black suit. He hates wearing these things. It makes him uncomfortable. He prefers wearing shirts, just like Maverick.
“I thought of that, which is why I won’t waste too much of your time… Do you have a boyfriend?… Are you into any serious relationship?”
Piper choked on her drink and he offered her a handkerchief to wipe the drink that spilled on her. She was indeed shocked beyond doubt.
“Ahem, Ahem… what are you talking about?” She asked in bewilderment after coughing a few times.
Inspector Fin sighed. He is a sucker at wooing women. Thanks to his job and the company he keeps, he doesn’t know how to use flowery words.
“I find you interesting and I’d like for us to go out sometime.”
Piper stared at him, lost in thought for a brief moment before she smiled with her lips sealed and replied: “You are my older brother’s friend. I don’t think it seems right, considering my relationship with him.”
“That’s not a problem at all… So, do you have a boyfriend?”
“I don’t have a boyfriend but I have flings… and someone I love.” She replied.
“Oh, mind going into details?”
Piper sighed and adjusted her sitting posture. “He doesn’t love me back… in fact, he has no idea I love him and as for the other men, it’s just a one-time or twice thing. No strings attached.”
“That’s nice and fine with me… do you care to know about me?”
Piper felt it would be a good start to be close to him and then walk her way to her brothers through Fin, so she nodded.
“I have a woman, but it’s not deep. We are adults, so things happened. I hope you don’t mind that?”
“Of course, I don’t. Do you intend for us to be two?” She wanted to know if he would leave the other woman or practice two-timing.
“I don’t do two. I’ll settle things with her. So you, what do you say?”
“There’s no harm in trying. I’m interested.” She smiled.
“Nice, here, cheers to a successful courtship.”
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 51 – 60
When Inspector Fin returned home, it was nighttime. He paused at the door to his villa for a while before he turned the knob and walked in.
Just as he thought, she was there, in his bedroom, lying on his bed.
“Welcome back, Fin.” Her soft voice greeted him.
“You are here… it’s late, you should be sleeping.” He said to her as he walked to his closet.
She got down from the bed in her red nightgown and walked to Fin, then hugged him from the behind. “Fin, have I wronged you?”
Fin stiffened for a moment before he peeled her hands off him and continued to take off his tie. “You didn’t.”
The lady smiled bitterly and wiped the teardrop from her sad eyes.
“Fin,” she walked to the balcony and stood in the cold wind, looking at the night city. “We used to be better than this.” She said like she was reminiscing about something memorable. “I was like a sister to you and you loved me dearly.” She wiped the tears that leaked from her left eye, then changed the topic.
“The night is beautiful, but the sky is starless.” She took a deep breath.
Fin stood by his closet with his hands in his pockets as he watched the lonely girl. She has no fault. All she wanted was his love but he couldn’t love her even though he had tried to. It was better to hurt her now than let her remain or be in a loveless marriage for the rest of her life.
“You’ll catch a cold,” Fin managed to say.
“Mn,” she replied and returned to the room to sit on the bed.
Maybe this was one of the reasons he can’t seem to love her. She’s too obedient and peaceful to remain in his life.
Fin’s life is too chaotic to allow a simple and sweet girl to be bathed in messy waters.
“I sold my houses and cars.” She broke the awkward silence.
Fin frowned. “Why?”
“I’m leaving the Country.” She smiled. Her smiles used to be very beautiful but over the years when she realized that Fin didn’t love her, she became a sad person.
“Why?” Fin didn’t feel comfortable hearing that.
“Nothing is left in the Country. There seem to be unending fights. I also feel like there will be a serious bloodbath soon, where you can’t help but get involved, so I’m worried that I’ll be a weakness if I remain. I don’t want to hold you and your friends back.”
Fin grew mad and he yelled: “When will you learn to live for yourself?! Why does everything you do always have to revolve around me?! Why must you be so gentle and kind?! Just why must you only care about me and my happiness and not about you?!! Why!!!” He was frustrated. Why can’t she learn to be selfish for once?
“Fin,” she hurried off the bed and hugged him. “Please, be calm. Don’t be angry.” She sniffed back her tears. “I’m sorry, you– you work a lot and most times forget to rest. I can’t give you trouble at home after all you’ve been through at work, please understand.”
Fin sighed in frustration. Why did he even think she’d understand him anyway. He likes fierce and defiant girls, not submissive ones, they are boring! At least be rebellious once in a while!
Even though he tells her he wants to get another woman, she won’t be angry. To try out his thoughts, he said; “I’m dating another girl now. We should break up.”
She broke the hug and took a step back. “Y– you still want to break up with me?” She grabbed his hand and shook her head. “Fin, if you love her, I won’t stop you. I promise I’ll love her too and make sure you two are happy. Just don’t throw me away, please,” she broke down in tears.
Fin took a deep breath to suppress his disappointment. “You should go to sleep. We’ll talk tomorrow.” With that, he went into the bathroom.
By the time he returned, wearing his night robe, she was still sitting there and silently crying.
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 51 – 60
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