"You can't deny it. I am more successful, more accomplished and way better than you," Kyo bragged light-heartedly giving Sadie and shove.
The rest of the band groaned. The argument had had a slight pause but they all knew that the pair was unstoppable.
"Really now?" Sadie retorted.
"How many people know your name?" he challenged.
"Enough to get me business."
"But not enough to get you famous."
"This isn't about fame! It's about success, as you decided - and in my field of professionalism, that is precisely what I am," she fired back.
Both had some sort of respect for the other - he was of course, a rock star, and she was a stunt woman, so it wasn't surprising. I mean, if he'd been an accountant, it would have been pretty different... but they both liked to flaunt their work and take their definition of daring to the extreme.
"How many films have you been in?"
"Too many to count. That makes too many to count more than you."
"More people have heard us."
"I bet I've been on more TV screens!" she said, sticking out her chin, adamant that she would 'win'.
"Can you two calm down? We're trying to watch a movie," Shinya said monotonously.
"What movie?" Sadie asked.
He held the box up with a finger to his lips, indicating for her to keep quiet, but the second she saw the box she couldn't hold back.
"HA!" she exclaimed, "I'm in this movie!"
"But this movie's good!" Kyo said incredulously.
"I'll show you when it's me - then you have to wait for the credits," she said smugly.
"Ssh!" came a chorus of voices.
"Sorry!" she whispered, shoving Kyo onto the sofa and perching next to him. They sat in silence watching the picture flicker, waiting.
"HERE!" Sadie exclaimed, and their eyes all locked to the screen as they watched her. She ran, she jumped, she back flipped, she shot a few guys down. She swung from building to building, she kicked some woman in the jaw. More back flips, more shooting, jumping through a moving car, hitching onto a helicopter and finally diving from the top of the building.
She stuck her tongue out at Kyo.
After the film, she stood in the kitchen with Kyo and half a bowl of popcorn and a glass of water. Sadie still held a smug smirk as she flicked the popcorn at him.
"Now you've seen what I can do."
"Well, I can do this," he announced before screeching into her ear.
She cringed before laughing.
"Well, I can do this," and she cart wheeled to the opposite side of the room performing a neat little jump at the end.
"Yeah, well," he began walking to the fridge. "I can do this."
He took an egg in each hand but she quickly rushed over before he could continue.
"No, nO, NO! I know exactly what you can do concerning raw eggs, ok!?" she yelled. "No throwing up eggs in my kitchen!!" she ordered.
He smirked and instead cracked one over her head, crushing the other against her arm. She promptly tripped his so he landed face down on the floor and quickly dumped the water on his head and opening the nearest cupboard to find anything else she could throw at him. Flour - that would be fine!
"All you can do?" she taunted keeping one foot on his back securing him, coughing on the air which was now cloudy with flour
"No," he choked, leaning up. She pushed him down. "God you weigh a ton…"
She gasped and opened her mouth to yell, lessening the pressure on one leg. He turned over quickly and grabbed her ankle grinning as she lost all her balance and tumbled onto the hard tiled floor text to him, causing another cloud of flour to rise into the air.
They sat in silence for a few moment, waving the flour away and coughing.
"Owww," she moaned, rubbing her side.
"Have I won yet?" he asked.
"Not yet!" she growled, standing up.
"Really now?" he retorted, grabbing her sleeve making her crash her head into him. She opened her mouth to yell again - or lash out at him with her new weapon - a single chopstick that must have fallen on the floor, when she suddenly froze her arms dropping as his lips collided with hers. Suddenly she wasn’t in her little kitchen, sitting in a puddle of water, breathing in flour, crunching popcorn with every movement she made as egg dripped down her face.
In the next room, the others suddenly realised it had gone quiet in the kitchen.
"Is it safe?"
And they crept to the door peeking in to see Kyo and Sadie still sitting on the floor, still absorbed in their kiss and Sadie still clutching her chopstick.
Toshiya raised his eyebrows.
"Well, rather in her kitchen than mine," he said.
"Let's find another film…it'll be a while before they start thinking about cleaning up…"
