a hilarious misunderstanding -- sterling

[kat]

filming was fun, ninety percent of the time. usually, kat had a great time because she got to portray a new person and explore them as a character, try new things and branch out. she got to meet new people and play up on new emotions. it was interesting and it kept her going, always wanting to come back to work. however, the other ten percent of her time was spent sitting around on set, waiting for something to happen, waiting in her trailer, waiting for makeup or waiting for her hair, or simply staying in her hotel not doing a damn thing. when this ten percent happened, it was sad for katalina. she loved acting, to be sure, but she was beginning to realize how lonely it was. so she had a talk with her director and producer and they worked out a deal--they would film any scenes with kat in them before the weekend so she could go to north carolina to visit her friends on their set in north carolina. she was looking forward to it so much that she almost skipped the last scene she was supposed to film and left, but she wasn't going to be that irresponsible. after all, hadn't she spent the past couple of weeks being irresponsible with corey and cash?

being that she was going to be flying to north carolina early saturday morning, she wore a pair of sweat pants and a t-shirt for maximum comfort. nothing was worse than being on a plane in uncomfortable clothes. besides, she would be getting there close to ten in the morning on saturday and kat figured she would just check into a hotel and pretty up then. the flight was pretty uneventful--kat supposed that was the advantage of flying first class on small canadian flights. a lot of the time, kat liked it when people didn't recognize her at all. she loved simply introducing herself as "kat," instead of being recognized as "kat stevenson" and whipping out a pen for an autograph. sure, the face and recognition had its perks. but sometimes it was nice to walk down a street, see a total stranger, and be a total stranger. what was the fun in meeting new people if they already knew who you were? so when kat got off the flight around nine and no one greeted her as a famous actress, she happily went on her way to the hotel she'd booked the night before.

kat checked in with no incident and dropped her bags off on her bed before immediately making her way to the shower. it was barely lunch time and kat would have plenty of time to pop up on the set and have lunch with kate and jules. she hadn't told either of them about the trip, since it was so last minute but figured it would be a nice surprise. and if it wasn't, then oh well. she was getting away from her set and if they weren't happy to see her then she would still be somewhat happy to be there. throwing on a flowy sundress, some flip flops and a pair of sunglasses, kat flounced out the door and took a cab to the set where they were currently filming "camp knockout." once or twice kat had thought about auditioning for it, since her two friends were also starring in it but her manager warned her that independent films didn't bring enough money to support her lifestyle and wouldn't bring the proper amount of publicity. so instead, she'd signed on with a vampire flick, which had so far been a great decision for her. it was interesting and fun, and gave her plenty of chances to branch out as an actress.

flashing her ID and a winning smile at a couple of guards and explaining her plans to those who were skeptical of letting her in, kat sneaked in. a back door to one of the sets that wasn't being used at the moment was open and kat slipped in quietly, wondering where kate and jules would be right now, if filming had stopped for lunch. maybe they'd already left? maybe they were still filming on a different set? just as kat had decided to turn around and leave, the door caught on her dress and shut. "damn it!" kat whispered, trying to open the door to free the skirt of her dress. this would be her luck, wouldn't it? the door wouldn't open for anything--her dress had jammed into the lock somehow and wasn't about to budge. what was she supposed to do? call for help? if she did that, not only would she die of embarrassment and this story would end up on the cover of at least three major magazines, kate and jules would know she was here and she wouldn't be able to surprise them. damn it.

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[sterling]

Sterling was absolutely knackered. Timezones would be the death of him. His body got the shock of it's life when he moved to Los Angeles a few years ago, from England and found there was an eight hour gap. But it became used to it after a short while. Travelling to a timezone much different to his own (such as that of New York or other east coast states) could sometimes be a bother. Not a huge bother, not a serious case of jetlag but it messed up his well scheduled sleep regime. Since he wasn't sleeping well and had been working hard, he felt like he was a balloon that someone had let all the air out of! So Sterling took a cheeky nap since filming for him was done for the time being (until later in the evening) and he could be found sprawled over a couch in one of the trailers, snoring lightly.

When he woke up, he staggered around looking for his shoes because he was in desperate need of a cup of tea. No, that wasn't him being terribly British (alright, maybe it was) but he didn't enjoy coffee as much as he enjoyed a brew. It was amusing to see that his hair looked no different, from going to bed and getting up, it still looked like a controlled mess. You'd never guess that he was an actor. If you didn't think he was homeless, you'd think he was some grubby musician or starving artist, or some penniless writer. Or you just figured he was in a serious need for a shower, a comb or a haircut. Or all three. He finally managed to locate the canteen where various crew and cast members sat lazing around enjoying food, a drink or some decent conversation. What Sterling needed was a cuppa and a cigarette.

And he got his cup of tea in a Styrofoam cup and took it with him as he wandered around on set, trying to find an appropriate place to have a smoke without clogging up someone's air or breaking the law. He'd save smoking his pot for a more private place! Sterling sat himself down in a secluded part of the set's area and lit up, rubbing his tired eyes as he looked around. He felt groggy as fuck, the humid weather didn't help. It was warm but it had this overcast and close feeling to the day. He read on the forecast that it might rain, it might even thunderstorm. But it would still be this stuffy temperature. He held onto his grey cardigan rather than wearing it, just in case a downpour occurred at all this afternoon, he had temporary cover. Really bad, non-waterproof cover. Why'd he even bother bringing this?

A man approached. A crew member or something, who informed Sterling that he couldn't smoke here. "Oh, alright. My apologises." he said politely and got to his feet, wandering off to the outside area away from the film set's fencing which kept people out. He was just walking along happily when he noticed the most amusing situation. A girl was trapped in the door, presumably he expected, by the dress she was wearing. It then amused Sterling to recognise the girl as an actress. She wasn't working on this film but he was aware that she had friends here in the form of his cast mates. One of which, really didn't seem to like Sterling at all for reasons he couldn't figure out. She was Kat Stevenson, and it amused him to come across such an actress in such a pickle!

Sterling approached and was unable to contain himself, he snorted with a light chuckle, running his hand through his tangled hair. "Well," he began, removing the cigarette from his lips. "You look like you could use a helping hand." he said with a smile, peering at the bothersome dress-in-door. "May I?" he asked, not wanting to tug at her dress unless she gave him permission to.

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OUTFIT: here. NOTES: dude, I love that song! And the one about the ladies all around the world. xD 475186

[kat]

kat only had a couple of options. she could call for help and die of embarrassment and risk having this on the cover of the e! she could also wrench her dress free and tear it, go back to the hotel and change and have a laugh about it later, since no one would be around to see it. well, the second option sounded a lot more accommodating than the first, so kat took to pulling at the dress. just as she began to relax a bit, she heard a low chuckle and kat's heart skipped a beat. looking up slowly, kat could feel the blood rushing to her cheeks as she blushed furiously. there were a couple of options now, in this situation. she could easily burst into tears and wrench her dress free and just leave the set out of embarrassment, or she could accept his help and hope he didn't make fun of her too much. glad to see that he wasn't making a big fuss about it, kat let out the breath she was holding and laughed, covering her face in embarrassment. "if you don't mind," she replied, giggling a bit through her hands. she was a bit mortified to be honest, but at least only one other person had witnessed this and not a group of people with cameras.

letting her hands drop to her side and indicating that he could go about freeing her dress, kat laughed once more. "well, this is embarrassing," she stated, hoping that this male would shrug it off and not hold her clumsiness against her. he seemed nice enough, kat supposed. he'd offered to help and hadn't laughed derisively at her, he'd just seemed to find the situation amusing--which it very well was. kat was just too embarrassed at the moment to really see the comedic merit of it all. she figured that if she and this man ever met again, they could have a casual laugh about it. it was then that she realized she hadn't even learned his name, even though he--whoever he was--currently happened to be pulling her dress from a door. "wow, i'm sorry," she said. "in all of this excitement i completely forgot to introduce myself." kat tried not to sound overly sarcastic in that statement but she couldn't help it, but at least she was able to joke about it anyway! "i'm kat. and you are?" she asked, hoping that getting in a traditional greeting would make up for their not-so-traditional meeting.

when kat's dress had finally been freed, she shook her head. how embarrassing a story this would be to tell jules and kate. "so my dress was caught in a door..." that would be great dinner conversation. "well thank you so much," she told him, a shade of pink still clinging to her cheeks. "i guess that chivalry isn't dead after all!" this wasn't an every day situation for kat, and she wasn't sure if she should just thank him and go about her day trying to find kate and jules, or if she should buy him lunch in thanks for not letting her fend for herself with her dress caught in the door, and for not making too big a deal out of the whole thing. kat figured the least she could do was to buy him a cup of coffee or something in payment, if he hadn't already raided the refreshments table. kat knew that she would have by now, if she was back in toronto on her own set, but she had to do something in return. in the very least, she could start polite conversation, since he was nice enough to help her and not make a big fuss of it.

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[sterling]

He couldn't help but laugh. It was an amusing situation but he tried not to roll out the giggles for the sake of keeping her embarrassment level at a low and to try and keep that shade of rouge from her cheeks. Given the go ahead, he put his cup of tea down on the ground by the door and jammed his cigarette between his lips in the corner. "Oh, don't worry," he said casually and surprisingly clearly despite the cigarette jammed in the corner of his mouth. "It happens to the best of us." Sterling told her and tried to gently tug her dress out of the door without causing any damage to it, her or him! It certainly wasn't going to come easy.

His brow furrowed at he tried once more to gently pull it out, even considering running around the lot to find this door on the other side and get it open that way. But a little persistence would do the trick. Sterling smiled lazily as Kat introduced herself, careful not to lose grip of the smouldering cigarette. He suddenly realised it was quite rude of him to smoke in her personal space and he momentarily took a step back and plucked the stick from between his lips and smudged it against the wall using his thumb. "Oh, I know who you are." he said nonchalantly, as you'd have to live under a rock to not know.

Or at least, be seriously out of the movie industry loop. Which he was not. "But it's nice to meet you, Kat. I'm Sterling." he said. And he couldn't have sounded more posh even if he bloody well tried. He couldn't help it, he just hoped he didn't come across as a snob! Saying his name always made him sound so high class, especially since he had no real nickname, so he was always Sterling. See! A little persistence went a long way. Somehow they managed to wiggled the fabric out of the lock's grasps and voila, Kat and her delightful dress were free! He felt accomplished and he smiled, running his hand through his messy locks. No wonder it looked a mess or it looked like it needed a wash - he didn't stop messing with it.

Sterling shrugged as Kat thanked him. He would hope that everyone else would have done the same thing had they stumbled upon her. Or maybe that was just Sterling hoping too much about the good in everyone, because they weren't all gents like himself. "It's not a problem, it'd have been a damn shame to ruin something so pretty." he said and chuckled. Flirting? Well, maybe only a little bit. He laughed a little at her comment on chivalry and shook his head. "Not yet, I won't give up my dream of riding white horses and suits of shiny armour without a fight." said Sterling, referring to that knight in shining armour take on the perfect man.

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NOTE: and the sexy hermaphrodite lady-man ladies, with their sexy lady bits and sexy man bits too!

[kat]

kat watched patiently as the man tried to free her dress. it didn't look like it was going to come without a fight. at this point, kat didn't care if he had to tear a bit of her dress off, as long as she wasn't confined to this door like an idiot anymore she would be happy. he commented that he knew who she was (this wasn't so surprising, but it had been nice to introduce herself anyway) and it made kat feel a bit more embarrassed. it wasn't enough to see her stuck in a doorway with her dress caught, but he'd also been able to identify her as kat stevenson, a-list starlet. great. his english accent drawled on as he said his own name and kat smiled. "nice to meet you too, sterling," she said. it was a good, strong name that might easily be perceived as pretentious. though, kat's name could be perceived the same way--katalina isabelle. it sounded very high maintenance just as the name sterling might, but kat liked it anyway. and a moment later, sterling had freed her dress. she'd been so caught up (no pun intended) in thinking about sterling and the circumstances of their meeting that she hadn't realized it.

chuckling at his comments, kat smoothed out the bottom of her dress. "well," kat said looking back up to sterling. "you're more than welcome to ride up on your white horse and save me anytime!" although kat had always been pretty independent, she still liked the romanticized idea of the perfect man, because hey--she was still a girl. all girls liked that idea, no matter how self-reliant they were. in light of everything, she was just glad he had found her, and it hadn't been someone else who would have made fun of her, or told everyone about it. even jules or kate finding her would have been embarrassing, and even though this was the first time she'd met sterling (and it was an unconventional meeting at that) she was glad it had been him. the pink slowly faded from her cheeks along with her chagrin. and kat realized, through all of the excitement that had just happened, that she still didn't know where kate or jules were. on top of that, she still hadn't eaten lunch.

"since i can't seem to find the people that i was looking for," kat started, doing a glance around of the set they were on. "and i'm still a bit too embarrassed to tell them about it yet, would you like to get some lunch with me?" asking a guy out? unheard of. well, really, kat didn't count this as asking sterling on a date or anything. if she'd known him prior and had an attraction to him, kat might be a bit more hesitant to ask him out to lunch but considering the circumstances weren't normal at all, then she would step out of the norm and ask him to join her. after all, it was too soon to go finding jules or kate. she was still stuck (metaphorically speaking) on the incident that had just happened and going to find them would only bring up the fresh memory in her mind. and besides, kat would very much like to get to know her savior after he'd just freed her from the dark clutches of the door.

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[sterling]

He turned his head upwards slightly, letting a pensive expression cast over his face and said, as if it was an internal voice. "Note to self: find a white horse. And...learn how to ride a horse." said Sterling as he looked back at Kat with a smile. "I never said I'd be the best knight in shining armour but I'd hope to get extra brownie points for effort." he cooed, trying to lighten the mood because he didn't want her to feel at all embarrassed. These things happened, things got stuck in doors, skirts got blown upwards by wind and cars drove through puddles which then showered you. At least she wasn't turning an unhealthy beetroot shade and dying of shame, always a good sign to laugh and joke it off.

It was as he thought, she must have been coming to visit her friends on set. Some people had spoke about having an a-list actress in an indie movie, and then others piped in and said that it wasn't unheard of for the genres to blend together. Which was true. Indie films were finding their way to bigger markets and audiences, or were finding more success years after it's release. He assumed the girls didn't know that their friend Kat was coming because they'd have probably been pretty exited about it and ready to meet her, rather than letting her get lost and kidnapped by a door.

Sterling had bent down to pick his dwindling cup of tea (he's so English, isn't he?) when Kat invited him to join lunch. He stood up straight and wore a pleasant smile as he contemplated. "I'd love to." he said, as he had no other plans and he just couldn't turn down an offer from such a lovely young lady like Kat. You could never trust what the media said about someone unless it was a very in depth interview. While you could think you knew enough about an actor or a musician to like them and admire them, you didn't really know them at all. It would be nice to know Kat on a more intimate level. "There's a delightful little café a few streets away from here." Sterling said, as a suggestion.

He'd been around long enough to seek out a few good places to eat. And also a really need used book and music store. They even had old films on VHS! He found a cute children's book full of short stories about elves, fairies and brownies which had been entertaining him on set during takes. "They do these really nice Victoria sponge cakes. I'd eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner if I knew I could stomach it!" he added. Instead, he'd probably put on a lot of weigh, cause his teeth to decay terribly and throw up a great deal. But it was really delicious cake!