3 Shooting my FIRST KISS SCENE

"Hello?" Mina answered her phone using her left ear. She arrived at the classroom that both Jiwon and her agreed to do their rehearsals togethee. "Kang Jiwon?"

"Sunbae-nim! Mina-sunbae!" Jiwon answered in a cutesy manner, his usual deep voice went to a higher octave. Mina found it so adorable that she forgot that she should be angry at him for making her wait. "Sunbae~"

'How can he call my name like that?' Mina sighed. We exchanged kakao talk messages last night and decided to rehearse their scene before recording it.

They still have to compromise a lot and come up with an angle and finalize their acting skit before meeting up with Jiwon's 'director' sunbae.

It was supposed to be at 2 pm, and it's currently thirty minutes past two and Mina hasn't seen any shadow inside the room. Well, she would rather not see any shadow that doesn't belong to Jiwon though.

"Is it that Mina-sunbae that you mentioned earlier?" Another voice came out and Mina also heard glasses clinking.

'Wait! Are they hanging out together while having a drink?! '

Now, Mina is getting angry. Mina waited here and now she hears her partner for a group project having fun drinking while she's waiting for his grand entrance?

'Are you kidding me?' She let out a deep sigh as she was kind of disappointed.

Mina was already prepared for battle. She wore a pretty A-line dress and a pair of 1-inch heels, getting herself ready beforehand, and arrived at the location before two. She practiced her lines and waited almost an hour, alone in the room.

The more she reminisced her efforts, the more she realized her agony.

"Kang Jiwon," Mina said in a menacing tone, "If you're not going to sober up and arrive here before three pm. I'm leaving."

"Oh, no," Jiwon became silent for a moment, Mina thought that he came back to his senses for now and realized what he has done. "Sorry, my friends invited me here and I momentarily forgot about our group project--"

"I don't care about that," Mina replied cutting him off, making it clear that she's getting annoyed. "I need you to come here, right now. Let's practice our scene first before we record it. If you're not going to arrive here before three, I'll be replacing you with someone else."

"Okay! I'm so sorry, sunbae" he whispered. "Sorry for disappointing you."

Mina smiled in relief. "It's okay. I'm okay now, I'm not angry anymore. Just come here now and let's get this project done! I want an A+ for this subject,"

And with that, she hung up her phone and stood up.

***

"I think it would be better if Jiwon holds your hand up and push you to the wall," Jiwon's director sunbae chimed while introducing himself as Kim Jeho sunbae. "What do you think, Mina?"

Mina stared at him for a second. "Yes?"

"I'll speak informally as I am older than you okay?" He glanced at Mina while trying to adjust the spotlight. "Okay, Mina?"

"Yes," Mina nodded. "Jeho-sunbae."

Anyways, he tried to adjust the reflectors aiming at Mina and Jiwon's direction. Since there were no people available to hold them, they just tried to put them on the desk and angled them towards their faces. The background is now at the side of the wall of the classroom, and the cameras were located on the opposite side.

That director sunbae walked back to his position, sitting down while adjusting the lenses. He was wearing a white T-shirt underneath his black leather jacket. He seemed to be over 185 cm but has an unkept aura and overall image that most directors have. He looks old as he has this beard that seemed to have not been shaved for a month or so already. He looked like he doesn't really care what people think of him.

"Okay, the camera is now ready to shoot." The director sunbae yelled, "You can rehearse first if you want to,"

Jiwon and Mina have finished shooting the small squabble among the two main leads, and now the time has come for us to shoot the scene after that small squabble.

"I think it would be better if the girl initiates the kiss first," Mina started to take a step closer to Jiwon. "The first kiss should be a peck, then the male lead will switch it up into a kiss. What do you think?"

"The idea is good," director sunbae chimed in. "Are you up for the idea?"

"Yes, I like it--I mean I'm fine with it." Jiwon stuttered.

"Okay, so first." Mina leaned in and gave a quick peck on his lips. Jiwon seemed to be flustered at first but received her kiss well, "You don't have to be nervous, Jiwon. You weren't like this yesterday. Is it because you're tipsy?"

Well maybe because the two were alone yesterday, now that there's a 'director' watching them, Jiwon. suddenly felt shy. He needs to be okay with that if he wants to become an actor someday.

"No! I'm not tipsy Mina-sunbae," Jiwon denied quickly but Mina saw his ears turning red. He was such a cutie. "Okay, I'll try to do my best."

"Good," Mina replied, "So first both of us will turn our heads to the right, and kiss. After a few seconds of that, let's turn our heads the other way around." Mina simply said as she stared at Jiwon's red ears. "You should also try to pull me closer to you," She guided his hands on her waist. "Like this okay? But only after I initiate the kiss,"

"I think it's also better to just go with the flow," Director sunbae-nim chimed in again, "I'm sure Jiwon has an experience in kissing, am I right? And it doesn't seem like it's your first rehearsal. We took the first scene perfectly, you guys are in perfect sync."

With director sunbae's comment, both actors felt awkward. The rehearsals that they did yesterday all came like a whirlwind.

"Now let's start!" Director sunbae then stood up and pretended to clap the slate using his hands. "In, 3, 2, 1!"

Jiwon held Mina's hands up in the air and pushed her on the wall. He stared at Mina's eyes and then on her lips, "No."

Mina eye-smiled at him, "Are you sure?" She tried to wiggle her arms out of his grip but to no avail, he was exerting a force greater than Mina's that she failed. "It hurts, oppa."

So instead of Jiwon kissing me first, Mina did it instead.

Mina closed her eyes and approached Jiwon's lips. It was soft and mushy, it tasted like minty fresh breath.

Mina did it, a peck.

"Oppa," Mina said in a very nasal tone as the female lead was supposed to be the younger one. "I just put you in a magic spell!"

The next thing Jiwon did was to pull Mina closer to him and kissed her. He angled himself to the right, just as both of them agreed and Mina did the same.

"CUT!"