I Accidentally Stabbed My Crush...
Chapter One
I Accidentally Stabbed My Crush...
FABIAN
“Body double number four!!”
Director Lee summoned me with his all mighty finger.
“Yessir?!” I replied, like a good little newcomer to the sounds of his menacing voice.
“Be prepared to stab and be stabbed. You are up next!”
“Just a few more minutes, Director! The makeup for the stab wound is not complete yet.” One of the makeup artist frantically responded while still covering my body with prosthetics and fake blood.
“Hurry Up! This scene is crucial and very dangerous. Safety first everyone!!” The infamous award winning Director Pang Lee was getting a little impatient with the long wait.
“We’re ready sir!!” Only after another ten minutes did the entire team finally got themselves ready for action. Not to the director's satisfaction by any means. If it wasn't for a certain favourite actor of his that's here today, he probably would have fired all of us on set.
How did I even get myself in this position?
I’m half naked covered in bloody makeup, and holding a prop knife that’s gonna be used to stab another actor for work!
I guess the answer was pretty simple for me.
Gabriel Gao
If it wasn’t for him - I’d be sitting at home watching a horror movie, rather than being in one!
The dumb and crazy things my mind would agree to doing when it comes to his handsome face... I’m so embarrassed I don’t even know what to say. Why am I even admitting it in my own head?
When my best buddy Mark stormed into my room with the job application form, he knew exactly what would happen. The fanatic in me would never be able to resist taking the job in an instant.
“Gunther’s body double, please lay yourself on the bed asap!”
Shit! That’s me. I’m the body double of the up and coming rising star Gunther - who’s paired with Gabriel as a couple in a new horror BL aptly titled STAB ME! (Which is basically an innuendo for you know... Fuck Me!)
Gabriel’s body double was Timothy - He’s the one I’ll be pairing with in this scene so the actors themselves won’t get their pretty faces and bodies hurt or worse - get horribly killed by a freak accident or something.
“Where the fuck is Tim?? He’s suppose to be here an hour ago! If he’s still not here in five minutes, tell him to just stay home cos he’s FIRED!”
Crap! If Tim gets fired, then what about me? What would I be doing without a scene partner? Will I end up getting fired too? I knew my life was too good to be true! A dream job like this was never gonna last long.
The dreams over before it even begun!
I’d have to go back to fantasizing over Gabe through my computer screen again! Watching him from a long ass distant, stalking his every social media account and live stories. Just seeing his activities made my life worth living and existence worth pursuing!
“If he’s not here... Then I’ll get ready for the scene!”
Gabriel Gao himself walked in and shocked the entire set to their core... Including myself. And especially Director Lee! He would never allow his precious baby be harmed in any way shape or form!! Let alone do the stabbing stunt himself!?
Preposterous!
Did I just hear him correctly?
He’s doing the scene himself without a body double?!
I was not ready for my life to end like this! Who planned this sorcery?
“Gabe! My boy... You know that’s against the contract that we signed, right? We do not wanna get sued, please...”
Without a seconds hesitation or any confirmation with anyone - his manager or the director himself - Gabriel just took his shirt off and sat there waiting for the makeup artists to do their job on him.
He was not even listening to a single word that was coming out of the director's mouth.
It put me in awe, in a trance like state of admiration that he could just ignore the big man like that without any consequences. Oh, how lovely it was to be him!!
“Don’t worry, sir... I will take full responsibility for this! If everyone just do their jobs perfectly, then everything will be fine!” Gabe said it with so much gravitas and confidence, while staring off into the distance, not even making eye contact with the director. It was more like he was staring in my direction? Almost like somebody important was standing right behind me.
I even turned around and checked. There was nobody! Just a whole bunch of wardrobe and props everywhere. Maybe it was the knife that I was about to stab him with?
Whatever the case, I was still in awe at the scene unfolding in front of me and everybody else working here.
Director Lee also looked pretty desperate. Five minutes had already passed, and there was still no sign of his body double anywhere!
We needed to finish this shoot by tonight - it was our last day renting the venue. There was no more time to waste.
“Number Four! Quickly rehearse the scene with Gabe! When you’re all ready let me know!”
Director Lee's order made me quiver in my pants. It was me (Number Four!!) again he was ordering!! This time it was to rehearse with the man of my dreams - the crush of my entire existence!!
What do I even do?
Do I just walk up to him and ask him to practice the scene?
This has got to be THE DREAM of all dreams!! Right?
Nothing better wake me out of it, I swear to everything almighty!
“Hello!? Are you OK? Fabian?!”
“Wh?? Yeah... That’s Me!”
In my own delirium, without me even realizing... Gabriel had already walked up to where I was standing and called for my attention.
How did he even know my name?
“Do I need to be careful of anything in this scene?”
He slowly walked towards me half naked with the blood makeup pretty much all completed and ready for me to stab!
I felt like I was about to pass out and fall all over him in the most embarrassingly spectacular fashion.
“Nope! I mean... Yes! The Knife...” I blurted out even more splendidly - so much so that I could bid my love life a fond farewell... “...Obviously... Haha!”
“Are you gonna be tackling me, then pushing me onto the ground, and then stabbing my heart with the knife?”
He asked with an extremely serious face, unlike mine! My face might have been twitching like a mad man with every word he kept directing towards my eyeballs.
“Yeah... But don’t worry, cos the knife is fake! I’ll be stabbing you on your shoulder, not the heart... You won’t feel a scratch, trust me... Look!”
I kept stabbing the fake knife onto my chest, up and down, to make sure that he could see with his own two eyes that it was a prop and that it worked without any issues.
“Great! That’s good to know you won’t be stabbing me for real...”
He laughed as his smile radiated the heavens like an angel.
It’s even more surreal now that he’s standing right in front of me - all flesh and hot blooded ready for me to tackle on to the floor and devour my hungry lips...
I could even pretend like we’re wrestling and no one would suspect a thing, and I’ll be living the Dream!! My own dirty fantasy coming to life for all to witness, but mine alone to experience!
“That would be silly!! Why would anyone wanna stab you? Unless it’s with something else...”
He looked at me for a second confused...
Why did I say something like that?
What the fuck possessed me?
Then he blurted out hysterically laughing, and spontaneously punched me softly on my shoulder. Like I just said something so comically funny.
If he kept stroking my ego like that... God only knows what else would happen in this fantasy of mine. I might just give in and turn into his man whore! Obeying his every desire!
“You’re hilarious, Fay!” He suddenly called me by my nickname, and I froze on the spot. Only my close friends call me that, and he doesn't even know me... Yet...
He just kept laughing and extended his hand out to tickle my chin. In such a nonchalant way, like he does that all the time. To every stranger that he meets? Or was it just me?
Like he was actually...
FLIRTING?
With Me?
Then it dawned on me again...
“You know my name?”
His sudden aura changed from confidence to panic in an instant. Like he got caught with his hands down his pants! In the worst of times...
“Yeah... I know the names of everyone that works here! Why? Is that a problem with you?”
He turned back and stared intensely at my face. Into my eyes, almost seducing me to comply.
I could sense that he was hiding something from me, but what was it exactly?
“Really? What’s the name of the makeup artist that just did your stab wound?”
I was curious to see whether he’s telling me the truth or was my hunch correct about him.
Why was he suddenly acting so suspicious?
He hesitated for a second and began scratching his head.
I definitely caught him in a bold face lie!
“Get in positions everyone! There’s no time to waste... Chop Chop!”
Fucking saved by the director... Ugh!
I’ll get to the bottom of this mystery! He can't get away with it that easily. Not under my watch...
“Take 1: Action!!”
We didn’t have time to practice even once.
There was no ways on this godforsaken green earth that it was gonna go smoothly without a hitch.
Something’s about to go wrong, I could feel it in my bones!
And just like that... Like I was predicting the future...
One little stumble and tumble over each other's poorly choreographed murder scene - We fell...
Well, actually... he fell - specifically - on top of me!
With an impulsive and instinctive reaction, I tried to push him aside as he laid on top of me.
Landing perfectly on to my body - our shirtless bodies connecting with our smooth exposed skin.
In a perfect wet dream, I’d probably be in ecstasy and a heightened state of euphoric bliss.
Our naked bodies touched, hence... I should probably be reacting with a boner erected in my pants.
Yet somehow it was anything but a wet dream.
It was more like something out of nightmares.
My hand was pressed against his shoulder as we fell, clutching on to the knife.
The knife that was suppose to be a prop - a Fake!
Turned out to have lodged straight into Gabe's shoulder!
Blood started dripping down on to my chest, slowly flowing through my fingers as I held on to the knife in a state of shock and horror.
“FUCKKKKKK”
A guttural yell and shriek filled the entire area we were filming with nothing but the echoes of Gabriel’s immediate reaction.
He stood up with the knife still stabbed inside his shoulder.
“Did you do this on purpose? Who sent you? Tell me!”
He lunged at me with his one good hand before he fell back down on to the floor.
I was still completely shocked, I didn’t even realise what was happening until it was already too late.
Before I knew it... Gabriel’s bodyguards were holding me down, like I just committed some sort of crime.
Like I was a Criminal!
“It was an accident!”
I yelled... as they kept pinning me down and then cuffed my hands up tightly around my back.
The wounded actor glared into my eyes and soul before he sealed my fate with his binding words.
“I will be the judge of that... Mr. Fabian Fan!"
