Method Acting || Joe Keery

T W E N T Y E I G H T

I walk onto set kind of nervous. How is Joe going to act around me in front of the others? How do I act around him?

I know he was affectionate with me in front of the others the other day. I know he was very affectionate with me outside the cafe, yesterday.

But, I can't help but worry. I still don't know where I stand. What are we? Can I call him my boyfriend? I know he wanted to take it slow, but I don't know how slow, and I'm too scared to ask him in case I'm disappointed in the answer.

I'm probably overthinking this.

Okay, I'm seriously overthinking this.

After everything, I should just enjoy our time together. A few days is too soon to do the clingy "what are we?" talk, right?

As I walk into the break room, I see Maya standing by one of the arcade games with a look of fierce focus plastered on her face.

I walk over to her and attempt to say hi, but she shushes me.

"Shhhhhhhh. Shhhhhut your face Charlee," Maya says putting one hand over my face for a moment, before bringing it back to her joystick, "Just shut it for one... more... second... Ahhh! Again? Seriously!?"

Maya slams her hands down on the dashboard of the game, and turns to me, her face red.

"Are you okay Maya?" I ask her nervously. The look on her face is... intense.

"I will be, once I beat Noah's score. How does that little shit have such a high score!" She groans, starting the game up again.

"Why do you want to beat his score so bad?" I ask.

Her face is intense again as she focuses on the game.

"Gloating rights," She says, as if that is a perfectly acceptable, and obvious answer to the stress she's putting herself through for this.

"Okay..." I respond.

"Well... How was your hike yesterday?" I ask her, hoping to dull some of the tension she's feeling. That intense face was scaring me.

She turns her face to me for a moment and flashes a smile, before going back to the game.

"Oh really good! We were walking for like 6 hours, plus breaks. Robert kept getting annoyed because I was beating him, and he claims it wasn't a race, but if it wasn't a race, then how did I win? Exactly. That's right. I beat him, case closed," Maya rambled.

"SIX HOURS!?" I blurt out, astounded.

"How did you have the energy to hike for so long? And race Robert?"

Maya finishes her level, then turns to me sheepishly.

"What?" I press.

She bites her lip.

"Maybe, I made more double strength coffee. And maybe, I put it in a one litre thermos and brought it with me," She tells me, turning back to start the next level.

My jaw drops in horror. One double strength coffee, plus a one litre thermos of double strength coffee equals... I'm not even sure I want to try work out how much caffeine she's consumed.

"Maya, you could have had a heart attack," I tell her.

Suddenly, a hand slips into mine. The fingers intertwining with my own, sending sparks throughout my body. I look over to the culprit, and see Joe smiling down at me with a grin.

"Hey," I say to him with a cheesy smile of my own.

"Hey," He says back, leaning down and giving me a soft peck on the lips.