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Selena was scared.
Mihai! Do you have any idea what are you saying? Me, in a movie? In a real movie? Not even in my wildest dreams I saw this coming.
She didnât expect that in real life, not from him at least.
Selena darling, he said with a soft voice, Iâm sure this is surprising for you. But donât be scared. It is just my idea, and maybe Iâm wrong. If you accept though, you have to do the casting, and from there we will see.
She was shaking; she felt she needed to sit.
Goodâ¦good Mihai, and what is the movie about?
The name of the movie is âLoreleiâ. It is a modern variant of the legend. Do you know this legend?
Selena sad yes, still thinking that she was dreaming. She had idea what was about but she wasnât sure. It was a sad legend about a blond girl and I tragic love.
Mihai was walking with his hands behind his back telling her about the movie:
Itâs a fantastic story but with realism in it; the love blooms between Lorelei, the princess of Rein Valley, and a poor guy. At the beginning he is charmed by the blond and fascinating Lorelei, but then he is intimidating by her beauty and richness and he abandon her for a village girl, poor as him. Lorelei full of suffer is passing her days next to the lake singing about her pain. One day, when her lover was passing on the boat next to that lake, he sees her and he gets distracted. He loses the control of the boat and he dies in the lake. This time, Lorelei is suffering way more and she decides to suicide herself to kill the pain. I know, Mihai said, the story is really tragic maybe too much for you, but you should go anyway at the casting.
Okay Mihai, Iâ¦I audition for which role?
Loreleiâs one, of course!
Loâ¦Lorelei? You meanâ¦the protagonist??? But⦠why do you think I could be good for this role?
I donât even know myself, he said preparing to go. Sorry, but I donât have time. He took his coat and other stuff and before he left he said to her:
Maybe because you have a lot of interesting and contradictory thingsâ¦Like attraction, a dreamer look and you have a femme fatal in youâ¦Please tell Emilian if youâre going to the casting. Maybe youâll be famous! And then he left.
At night, in her bed, she wasnât able to sleep. She just keep thinking about the movie. The protagonist? What if Mihai was just joking? She had no idea how acting in a movie was about.
Two days have passed and she was still thinking about it. To go or not to go? Anyway she will not be chosen. And with this thoughts she went to the casting, full of emotions.
Despite she thought, the crew was very nice to her. She didnât have to do so many acting stuff. They just asked her to walk, to sit, do adopt some melancholic gesture, and be dreamy ecc. She read some lines from Lorelei and she liked it. The only thing was that the movie was not a big budget movie: the director and all the actors were debutants. The interesting thing was that the movie was going to be filmed in the Rein Valley. The other girls were normal girls like her, and others more famous. She was happy it wasnât a super production because she didnât feel ready for something so important.
After one hour she finished and she came back to work. The casting was easier that she thought she did a great job. She didnât say anything at work to her coworkers. In a few weeks she would have had the answer. They will not chose her, thatâs sure. She liked the story though. And she felt happy because Mihai pushed her to do this.
More the days passed, more Selena was thinking about Mihai. At work she was more distracted than ever. One time she realized she was assisting to the wrong conference. Another day she almost felt and with two glasses of water on her boss. She had to apologize a lot and she stayed more at work that night hoping that her boss will notice that. Another time she did so many photocopies that they had to buy it new. Headaches and fights with Andreea. She felt so clumsy. She didn-t know what to do anymore. She had to be more careful. She started the day by asking herself what would happen to her again. All this time she wasnât able to not think about Mihai and his crazy decision on proposer her the leading role in a movie. Why did he do that? For him, she was just a stranger at classes. He could have recommended a million of actresses with experience, why her??
When she went at her class, it seemed that something changed: her colleagues knew something? Selena felt a little bit like crap because she was the only one to know about the casting. And now everyone will hate her.
Two weeks later and still no news about the movie, like it didnât even existed. Selena returned to reality and to her office job life. But she was still thinking about the casting. The crew liked her. She did pretty well there. If they would have given her a chance, what she will do? Will she have time to go filming? Mihai gave her already the solution: she would have asked pay free vacation. But Selena thought about her boss reaction and she was already feeling sick.
Days were passing and Selena was thinking if she would ever know the result about the casting. One day the phone rang:
Selena? Hi!
Emilian, thatâs you? Hiâ¦
Selena, I hope you have champagne next to you. Loreleiâs role itâs yours.
Selena couldnât speak. She lost her word and instead of happiness she felt scare. She couldnât believe it. It was even real?
She went to class scared as hell, hoping that everything was a joke. She needed a lot of courage to get in the classroom, and next to the door Emilian greeted her and all her colleagues started to applaud her.
Good job Lorelei!
Success in your new career!
Mihai came to congratulate too.
I told you soâ¦
Thank you. She felt on fire. I think I owe you a lot, she said low voice. He pretended to not hear her.
Actually you donât have the role yet. There are other three girls for Loreleiâs role. Soon filming will start and you will have to understand the role, the character ecc.. Just then they will decide who is better for this role.
She felt better after this news.
About thatâ¦the rehearsals⦠Do you know how itâs going to work? Itâs going to be a busy program? I work, you knowâ¦
Mihai looked at her quite serious
I know you work. You will have to call the crew about that but Iâm sure theyâre going to find a solution. Plus, you will rehearse here during classes, because I have news: Loreleiâs love itâs going to be me.
This time Selena didnât know what to say. Him? She looked at him like he was an alien. Soâ¦this meant that they will have to act play together??? She, an anonymous, next to the great Mihai Bohalteanu? She felt she couldnât breathe. She was going to end at the hospital in these conditions.
I see that youâre more freaked than I thought. You didnât get used with me, did you? Iâm your teacher but Iâm going to be also your co-worker now. Donât freak out, I may seem sever but I donât bite. Are you okay??? Open the windows please!
No, no, everything is okay. I just have to realize that Iâm going to play in a movie next to a famous actorâ¦I donât know if I can handle all that. For me⦠itâs something bigâ¦
Uh, donât worry, moon name, he said trying to calm her down. Donât forget, you didnât get the role yet. You still have to get it. Do you think though that you will find time to rehearse with me? You will have to study the role, to inform youserlf, to see how Lorelei is and understand her characterâ¦Do you think you will find time for that? And you will have to get used with me too. It is too much pressure for you?
Now he was provoking her. And he was doing it well.
It dependsâ¦Selena said. My program is really full, if theyâre going to ask me additional rehearsals I donât know how Iâm going to do thatâ¦I could just in the late afternoon and not until late or during weekendsâ¦
And during night, right? Selena blocked.
Oh..no. I sleep during the night or Iâll be a mess.
We will see! He said. We will decide the program soon.
Selena didnât want to think about it. Her free time will be soon zeroâ¦This man would have tiring her so much and she wasnât even able to think clear because she was feeling like a doll in his hands.
Meanwhile she saw again Mircea. He was still giving a class about television. He congratulate with her with enthusiasm:
Good job, Sel, you are super! I didnât expect you to obtain a role so soon, but youâre very talented and I always knew it.
Selena blushed. She didnât expect that but she knew that he was being friendly and nice, nothing else. But he warned her:
But be careful, Sel. Be yourself, always. Even if you get the role, you could find difficulties on your way, this job itâs not easy, you know? If youâll ever need something donât hesitate to search me.
She thanked him. She felt her heart melting about his kindness, she admired him so much and she was very happy with his words.
The problem now was Loreleiâs role andâ¦Mr Superstar. Rehearsals started the next day. He wanted her to be ready for filming.
Even if youâre not going to get the role, I want this to be high quality, he said without a shade of a smile. He sees me like an object, she thought.
They started with some relaxing games. In the room they were alone, but she was feeling more stressed than being in front of all her colleagues. Probably because she knew they would have played together and she didnât feel comfortable about it.
Selena, what moment of the day you feel the best? Mihai asked.
Best momentâ¦mmmm
Yes, when do you feel more relaxed? For me itâs the morning. When I wake up, I go on the balcony. I breathe the fresh air and I plan my day. I drink my coffee; I read the newspaper and my emails. I just pass time with myself. That is a quiet moment. Do you have something like that?
She thought about it but no. She didnât have something like that.
Maybe the night, she said. Before I go to sleepâ¦.I think what I did during the day and what Iâm going to next dayâ¦
Perfect, Mihai said. Imagine that itâs that time of the day. You finished everything you had to do, you can relax.
The rehearsals continued. Selena was reading the script. Her character intrigued her. But mostly, he was intrigued by another character: Mihaiâs one. Since they had to spend a lot of time together, she was fascinated by him. His authorial attitude disappeared and at his place there was a relaxed young man with a hot sense of humor. Selena didnât know what to think anymore. He let her to take breaks all the time. A lot of time they talked about arguments that hadnât any connection with the movie. They talked a lot about anything like childhood, dreams and about how she always wanted to play in a movie. He encouraged her so much. They they laughed a lot about her clumsiness at work. Selena almost forgot sometimes where she was. It felt like at a picnic in a nice park looking at the sky. She started to think that he was playing a game.
So, one night, before bed she had an idea.
IV Nocturnal Adventures
She watched an action movie about some thieves that entered in the house of a rich guy. In the movie they showed how they get away with alarms and bodyguards until the room where they have stolen values objects and no one saw them.
What if she would have tried that?
She was aware of the crazy idea, but during her childhood she felt in love with an older guy. He was living next door. He was very mysterious, he didnât talk to anyone, nobody knew anything about him, he just smiled sometimes to her. She decided then that she wanted to know him better, to see how was he in private, how his home was. In her child mind, enter in his house meant discovering his mystery⦠she didnât had difficulties to go up until the window of the mysterious neighbour. The window was openâ¦she went in without making any noise. She admired him sleeping and she let him a letter where she confessed her love and she sign: your neighbour.
The next morning she was waiting with impatience for him but he never came. She learned later that the neighbours moved. The young guy left, his very first love. She tried to inform about the letter but she never found anything. She learned in that moment that love itâs not just nice things and pinky heart, but itâs also pain.
Inspired by these childhood memories, Selena decided that also now the feelings for Mihai wasnât loveâ¦she didnât feel butterflies in her stomach when she was thinking about him. It was mostly curiosity; she needed to know more about the man she was spending time daily. She didnât know so many things about him, just that he was cold and bossy, a good actor and also a good friend to pass time with. She felt that seeing his house, she would have discovered his dirty secrets that media would have paid a lot to have. Like that she would have had him in his hands.
She found easily his address; she looked in Emilianâs office where he was keeping the dossier of each teacher.
Mihaiâs house was in city centerâ¦it wouldnât be easy. She was wondering if his house was a huge expensive one or a classic and simple one. She wasnât far from the truth; it was a one floor house, modern and simple. He had a huge garden though full of grass, flowers and trees. Selena thought it was a perfect place for children and a dog. She was thinking that should have been nice to live in a house with garden. Mostly in city center, next to everything.
Pretending that she was looking for an address, she did a couple of tours around the house. At that time of the day there was no one. She just was a little old man around that probably was the concierge of the house. She also saw the balcony that Mihai was talking aboutâ¦it was very beautiful. That would have been the point of her mission.
She decided to do it that same night.
It wasnât easy. She needed all the courage in the world.
Dressed like a ninja or like a secret agent in special mission, in the middle of the night she was in front of his house. The backyard of the house was less illuminated so she decided she would have entered by there. She didnât see anyone. Selena tried to stay in the shadow succeeding on passing unobserved.
All the windows were in the dark. She was just hearing the windâs noise. Perfect to attack.
It was very easy to cross the yard. She felt like a thief from movies. She passed next to the silent trees and she was expecting to fall in a trap because she was in enemy territory. Just like in the movies. She managed to get on the balcony. From there you were able to have a nice view of the city, a perfect place to meditate. She understood why Mihai liked to stay there in the morning drinking his coffee.
But there was no time for meditation. She took a thing from her backpack and she placed it on the iron table next to the fresh flowers. He would have seen this the next morning.
Then she heard some noises. She froze. Earlier there were no lights and zero noisesâ¦She stick on the wall and she slide in the garden. She heard steps. Someone woke up, probably Mihai and he was going to the balcony. Omg, he was going to catch her and she would have been ashamed all her life.
She started to run. She felt and hurt her knee but she didnât want to scream even she would have wanted to. She turned her head a lot of times because she had the impression that Mihai was following her. She took the taxi that was passing there. Perfect timing. Finally she was home after a while and she felt on her bed exhausted.
The next days, nothing happened. Mihai didnât really realize that someone entered in his house? Or her adventure was just a dream and never happened? That couldnât be because her knee hurt like hell. She felt like a hero from action moviesâ¦she managed to enter in a celebrityâs house without being caught. She was already thinking to tell Mihai that was pretty easy to get in his house and that he would improve his security.
Nervously, she went to Mihaiâs class. She blathered more and she was red all the time, but everything seemed the same. Mihai didnât seem to have something to say.
The answer wasnât arriving. She checked her email every day. Nothing. The message didnât arrive? She risked her life for nothing? She was frustrated a little bit.
Even if she didnât want to, she had to concentrate on her work.
The next days she studied the script of the movie. Mihai was one of the producers of the movie and still he chose her for the role. Such an honor! She was still trilled. He intrigued her more and more.
She was trying to feel deeply the sad love story that could be anyoneâs love story. She was scared by the role, but most of the time she felt trilled and she couldnât wait to play in this movie. The movie was going to be emotional and she was going to play next to a famous actor; but she was also feeling sad thinking about the tragic Loreleiâs role. She didnât expect someone like Mihai to contribute to this kind of project. She didnât know him at allâ¦If she would have seen his place that night maybe she would have known more about him.
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