Arabella's POV

"No, no, no, you can't just do it, you have to feel it, make us, make the audience believe that you two are in love." Mark says, with over dramatized gestures. We both nod, before trying once again.

"Not quite." He says rubbing his hand over his face. "I need you two to figure out how to express the connection I need. Don't make me doubt my casting choices. We're done for today." He says, before walking into his office, leaving me to go to the locker room to pack up.

I sat down on the floor, untying my shoes when I heard Johnathan say something to me.

"Mmh sorry what? I didn't quite get that." I say, causing him to chuckle, looking up at him before packing away my shoes.

"Sorry- I guess we actually haven't had the chance to formally introduce ourselves yet. I'm Johnathan Galitzine." He says holding out his hand. I stand up before shaking his hand.

"Arabella Mendes." I say smiling back.

"Well Arabella, I was wondering if you wanted to go bowling?" He says, catching me off guard slightly.

"Because we need to get to know each other in order to portray some type of chemistry so that Mark doesn't give our roles away?" He says, obviously realizing that he had caught me off guard.

"Oh yeah, sure." I say nodding slowly. "I just need to change first." I say looking at him. 

"Oh yeah of course, we can meet there if you'd like? Otherwise I'd be happy to pick you up?" He says nonchalantly.

"Yeah, I don't have a car here, But I live two blocks down from here. I can give you my adress if that's okay?" I say shrugging, while holding onto the strap of my bag with both hands.

He nods and takes out his phone and punches in my adress as I recite it to him.

"Okay, see you later then." He says smiling, before walking out the locker room.

"What was that about?" I hear Sydney say.

"Oh you're still here?"

"Yeah of course, I haven't ditched my walking partner just yet. I just finished working on one part of the solo for my role. Guess it's convenient that most our schedule times clash." She says as I nod. "Okay but Johnnie?" She asks.

"Yeah, were going bowling." I say shrugging indifferently.

"Wait you're what? I thought you were dating that extremely hot guy. What's his name- Harley, no that's not it. Oh Harold." She says as we walk out the building.

"Harry, and yes, I am dating him. This is nothing but to get to know each other, because Mark said that we aren't making the chemistry between us believable." I reply

"Oh okay fine, but I think someone has a crush on you." She says squealing slightly.

"You are definitely wrong." I say shaking my head.

"Oh please, it wouldn't be a bad thing. Almost every girl that sees him is obsessed with him." She says pretending to fan herself.

"Including you?" I say smirking.

"Including me." She says giggling.

"Well it doesn't matter, I love Harry and I miss him so much. Great now you made me think of that again." I say pouting.

"Ahh I'm sorry, think puppies and unicorns." She says, making me burst into laughter.

I hear my phone ringing, causing me to stop for a second and reach into my bag to grab it.

"Harry's calling. You can meet him if you want." I say as I answer his FaceTime call, laughing at Sydney's reaction.

"Hi love, what's so funny." He says smiling into the phone. I turn to look at her as she mouths how hot his accent is making me laugh harder.

"Mmh nothing much but I'd like you to meet Sydney." I say turning the camera towards her, while her face is now red.

"Nice to finally meet you, I'm Harry." He says, smiling one of his big Dimpled smiles.

"Hi, Sydney, I'm Harry." She says as her eyes widen. "No wait that's not right. Hey Harry, I'm Sydney." She corrects herself as I try not to laugh.

"Okay well I'll see you tomorrow Syd." I say as we reach our doorsteps. She waves before going inside.

"Baby, give me a second, I just have to grab the key from my bag." I tell him as I scrimmage through my bag. "Found it." I say unlocking it and walking in before closing it behind me. "So what's up." I ask him as I plop my bag down and go into the kitchen, placing my phone balancing up so that he could still see me.

"Ahh so there has to be a reason why I'm phoning my beautiful girlfriend." He says pouting causing me to giggle and shake my head no.

"Well there is." He says, making me quirk my eyebrow. "And that is that I miss you so much that it's unhealthy." He says it so genuinely, that I know if I open my mouth to speak I'm going to burst out crying, so I just nod slowly.

"Are you okay?" He asks, looking into the camera. I nod my head yes until I can no longer hold the tears in anymore and my shaking slowly turns into a no, while I cover my face.

"No, no belle, you can't cry now, I'm sorry, please don't cry. I love you so much." He says, making me cry even more.

"I hate watching you cry and I can't even hold you in my arms. Worst thing ever." He says rubbing over his face. After a while, I Finally stopped crying, but I didn't want to say goodbye to Harry so I just sat talking to him for longer.

"Baby, I have to go shower, I'm going bowling with one of the principle dancers, his names Johnathan, and before you say anything, Mark is threatening to replace us if we don't have some kind of chemistry between us, which we will get by getting to know each other I guess." I explain to him and he nods.

"Okay love, go shower, I love you" He says blowing me a kiss, causing me to smile.

"I love you too."

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So it turns out that Johnathan and I got along really well, and I think that we could really become good friends. I mean after today we have already become so close.

I'm sitting in bed now after bowling, and grab my phone to message Harry even though I know he'll be sleeping since it's 2am there for him.

* to Harry *
Just got home, I know you're sleeping but just wanted to say that I love you. Also good morning ;)

I close my messages and open Instagram, posting a photo. I decide to scroll mindlessly for a bit, and also I took some comments and replied to them .

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- @arabellamae: Not my fouetté , but oh well 😊
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@Gray2882:what happened to Harry?

@lostinyou: you are insanely beautiful!
@arabellamae: thank you! So are you :)