Missing Pieces - Rehearsal: Day One
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TITLE: Missing Pieces - Rehearsal: Day One
AUTHOR: mscc6422
PAIRING/POV: Rob/Kristen [KPOV]
RATING: PG-13
SUMMARY: Random between the lines story between R/K since Twilight to Eclipse filming. I heard (and might be wrong) Rob & Kris did private rehearsal for two days before start filming Twilight. These two take place in Day one of that private rehearsal... :P
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing but the plot. Am not related with them, I just play with the possibility of what might happen and all these purely and simply my imagination.
NOTES: Thanks to mihosayuri for beta-ing for this story. She's truly rephrasing all confusing sentence to something that make more sense, even for me, lol... :) So yeah, I decided to dare myself and take the hugest challenge I could find.
Sexy
I jumped as I heard the bell ring, cursing to myself for being so damn nervous and jumpy. It wasn't like I was about to face a director or something; he was just a fellow actor.
I opened the door and there he stood, gorgeous and all. And a bit messy somehow.
"What happened?" I asked immediately, not even greeting him. I am a socially awkward conversationalist, apparently.
"Huh, what?" he asked, confused by my question.
"You look like mess." I said as I opened the door and gestured for him to come in. I walked toward the kitchen area and felt him following close behind.
"It's um, it's my car. I think something is broken and, um, I have to fix it somehow."
"You can fix a car?" I smirked. I grew up with boys around me. I could tell the athletic kind and the mechanic kind and the, err, the Robert's kind.
"I have no clue." He laughed a little. "My car is a joke, and everything has just gone wrong. I think the dealer lied to me or something."
"Beer?" I asked as I handed him the bottle. He took it and started to sip on it. "You should return it." I said. He looked confused. "The car? I think you should return them to the dealer."
"It's okay," he laughed again as he scratched the back of his head. "I don't really drive anyway and that car is good enough for someone like me."
I looked at him, my thoughts running wildly. He was, I assumed, quite a great actor. Well, great might sound biased considering the circumstances, but in respect of Harry Potter, someone couldn't be just a lousy actor or a good looking actor to land in Harry Potter movie, as an actor who actually had lines in the film.
Seeing him in the audition, knowing he had defeated almost five thousand actors who audition for the role of Edward (according to my manager), I could say that he was one heck of an actor. Not to mention, and this was fully based in what I heard from the people around (and, secretly, my own observations), he also was rather good looking. All of those facts usually got to people easily, especially his looks.
Hollywood is rather cruel when it comes to actors; it's a better moneymaker for films if actors are attractive. Yet his attitude and his actions were so down to earth, so normal. A bit awkward even.
"What?" he asked suddenly. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"I don't know, Mr. Pattinson." I shrugged, "I just think that you're a bit strange." I smirked, and I saw him shrug.
"And that's a good thing, don't you think, Ms. Stewart? After all, I'm in for a role as a strange vampire." He chuckled before he sipped his beer. I laughed.
"It's a vegetarian vampire, Robert and nothing strange with being a vegetarian vampire. Bella found it sexy, even." I laughed as I took his hand, leading us to my tiny living room.
"Are you suggesting that I'm sexy, Ms. Stewart?" he asked as he batted his eyelashes. I laughed seeing his reaction. Suddenly the awkwardness and the nervousness I felt earlier sounded silly now. And I think working with Robert Pattinson could be an interesting experience after all.
Tango
"What?" Rob looked at me as if I were talking in French.
"Last Tango in Paris." I repeated my words. This time he shook his head instead of fighting with words.
"Oh, come on." I said again, a little bit frustrated this time. "Brando? Legalized porn? You never heard anything about this movie? Anything at all?"
Well, I wasn't really one to brag, because, to be honest, the controversy of this movie, and the fact that I knew it, probably wasn't really something that I need to be proud of considering it's content.
I was just curious that Rob didn't know it, while I knew about this movie from some of my guy friends. I guess it was wrong to assume every man knows about this movie simply from it's NC-17 nature, and also from my guy friends, who introduced me to the film in the first place.
Also, I guess it wasn't really fair to compare and everything, but men were mostly into things like this and Robert just seemed so clueless. Well, I guess I'm supposed to be glad that he wasn't really that kind of man, right? I mean, this is the man who I promised to spend days together with, just the two of us. I'm supposed to feel lucky that he's not a pervert, right? Yet, I just couldn't hide my surprise.
"Wait, what? Legalized porn?" He laughed as he repeated my words.
I could feel my face starting to turn red. Crap. Of all the words I said, he had to remember the part about legalized porn. Maybe I was too quick to judge that he was a different type of guy. Or worse, why did I have to use that word to explain the movie anyway?
"Aren't you still under age, Kristen?" He raised his eyebrow and gave me teasing smile.
Despite the embarrassment I felt, for a moment I was mesmerized by his smile. Rob then, of course, took the absence of my response as a cue of speechlessness. He laughed and I could see the twinkle in his eyes that made me gasp inaudibly.
It wasn't the first time in the day I'd seen Rob Pattinson laugh, but it still hypnotized me in a way. I know this sounded silly. I mean, I had a boyfriend for God's sake, and this guy in front of me should not able to mesmerize me in any way. Yet I simply couldn't help it. I'd never met someone as open; and innocent, in a way, as Rob. Especially someone that's older than me.
"Earth to Kris." Rob elbowed me gently, "Don't get ideas now, kid. We still have a long day ahead before you can make out with your boy again."
His words felt like roar of thunder for my ear. Suddenly it snapped me back to the whole conversation I had with Michael last night.
Michael knew of course, about the two days with Rob that Catherine and everyone in Twilight Team had suggested us to do. Like most of the time, filming a movie, we would shoot in random sequence, not following the storyline. That meant that Rob and I needed to get comfortable with each other before filming started. We needed to rehearse and do things together so we could pull out the chemistry needed for any scene. That was why Rob was here where he's supposed to be for the next two days.
Michael wasn't thrilled with this idea. Not at all. I must admit that his refusal sounded ridiculous for me. This wasn't the first time I rehearsed. I know the location that we chose, my apartment, made the whole thing a bit awkward, but we had no choice. I couldn't do this at home, my brothers would disturb us all the time, and, well, Rob's place didn't sound too comfortable either. Yet Michael had been opposed to Rob since the first (and only) meeting they had, and he kept this crazy idea in his head about Rob. This, as I said, was ridiculous to me. 'Was' cause somehow now, it didn't feel that ridiculous anymore.
"You know what, just forget it." I said as I started to get off the couch.
"Hey, come on." He said as he touched my hand gently, his touch so soft, I could barely feel it. Feathery touch. That was the right word.
I smiled to him, tried to hide the sudden jolt of whatever that happened in my heart as his skin touched mine. I think I really was starting to go crazy.
"Why are you so eager to watch porn with a minor, Rob?" I teased, hoping he couldn't hear the trembling in my voice. What happened was more than what I expected. He was stunned, literally, and he took his hand off mine as if he was touching fire. I couldn't stop myself from laughing hard as I sat back to the couch. "You. Have. To see. Your face." I said between the laughing. It was a few moments until Rob pushed me gently as he too began laughing.
"You pervert." He said and I laughed even harder.
"You are, Rob. I'm just a minor remember." I grinned finally and got off the couch. "More beer?" I asked as I walked toward the kitchen.
"You will get me in trouble, Ms. Stewart."
"Yeah well," I shrugged as I glanced at him, "I am trouble magnet. What can I say?"
"It's danger magnet, Kris." He said from the couch. "And yeah, I guess that's the right way to describe you."
I just laughed heard his comment.
Maybe Nikki was right, Michael was simply jealous. But with Rob Pattinson? Come on... He's too sweet for my taste and I think, well I believe, he wouldn't see me in that light anyway.