Natalia looked at the few simple words on her screen and couldn't help it. With a "pfft", she laughed out loud.
Everyone at the banquet looked at her, taken aback.
She waved it off hurriedly. "Excuse me, go on eating. I'm going to make a phone call."
With that, she took her phone and walked to the corridor outside.
She was going to call Archie when suddenly, her phone rang. It was an incoming call.
She blinked, looked at the unfamiliar number, and frowned.
Then she took the call.
"Hello? Who is this?"
"It's been a long time, Seven. I'm back."
...
The people in the cast sharply noticed that, ever since the banquet that night, Natalia's mood hadn't been the best.
She wasn't as focused during shooting, and when her shift was over, she'd stopped hanging around everyone and chatting or having fun like she used to.
And every time she got off work, she went back to her hotel with Nancy in tow.
Even with the small gaps they got to rest during shooting, she'd stopped getting together with everyone and joking around, instead sitting to the side and doing her own thing.
At first, everyone thought she was still holding a grudge over her incident.
But she was polite and friendly to the two prop group members, and rarely brought up the incident.
Everyone was a little troubled.
Not only the cast members had noticed those changes. Even the normally blunt Nancy had noticed.
Nancy, of course, was worried, so the moment she found an opportunity, she asked about it.
"What's with you these couple days, Natalia? Why do you look like your mind's on something else?"
Natalia jolted, recovered her wits, and shook her head.
"I'm fine."
Nancy frowned, clearly not believing her.
Natalia pursed her lips, mumbling, "I'm really fine. Just haven't been feeling well these past couple days. I'll be fine after a while."
Nancy instantly thought her old wounds were hurting again. They'd healed up completely, but still ached whenever it rained or the weather got humid.
"I'll call the doctor."
Natalia hurriedly stopped her.
"No," she floundered. "I don't mean my hands, er... just treat it as a bad mood. It's nothing. Really, I'm fine, don't worry."
Seeing her say that, a bemused Nancy could only listen to her.
That day, the cast had finished the outside scenes, leaving only the interior shots.
Since they were interior shots, they didn't need to trek all over outside scenery, so the entire cast moved back to the Eqitin cinema park.
The shooting went well the first day. Early morning the second day, a flower deliveryman suddenly stepped on set with a bouquet in his hands, to be signed for specifically by Natalia.
Everyone thought it was from Archie. After all, ever since their relationship went completely public, Archie had kept on sending things over irregularly.
They were all used to this sappiness by now.
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