"Mika, Henry, Henry, Mika." They shook hands "he's here to help us 'cause I can't carry outh the thing alone, don't worry you guys won't pay more because of it, I rent the studio for the day but we can't waste a minute "
"sure"
The sleep depraved Jake had the cave of Alibaba with him.
Mask on, with the help of Henry, they graffitied words on the white sheets covering the back wall.
"Mika, place yourself on this marks"
After some takes Jake overlapped the layed body for a close up "I want you to smile and raise your hand as if to grab something then Henry will pour black paint on your arms, keep smiling the whole time please, it might seems weird but the result will be good, believe me"
He believed him. Mika felt the concepts were getting more and more darker.
He liked it because that was what he wanted for this song. Overhelming pain.
The cameraman had shivers making his hair stand on the end at the view.
While the cold liquid was sliding on his arm like a snake, the camera was capturing Mika hurted grin, seeing his reflect on the lens he almost retracted but before he could do so it was over.
"you're doing really good" Henry comented, "do you do theater or something ?"
Mika responded with a negation to the guy's surprise.
It was the last one, the one that was supposed to be a reference to the title of the song 'smiley face got me throwing up my ache'.
They had take the time to clean and decorate the studio as a warm living room and also Mika, a frightful makeup on his face, straight out of a horror movie, a bloody smile going up to his ears as if his flesh had been cut to the cutter by a maniac scientist, his cheek fat carved up then patched up, his eyebalss looking crazy.
"wow" Henry said "I'm so good at this"
"Yeah" Jake chuckled.
They filmed for two more hours afterwhat they packed it all up as the sun was preparing to go to sleep, and went to a bar, not that Jake had planned it but he could hardly refuse when his helping hand had worked for
free so he accepted that however not the drinks.
They were sat at a table in a corner.
As Jake shaky leg was getting tired Henry facing the other two on a sofa said "I have to peeee" to then rush to the toilet.
Was it because of his special habits of every monday or that he was attracted to the guy since the begining, who could know the fonctionement of an exausted brain.
Anyhow, multiples times already, Jake's gaze had been dropping down the lips and the throat gulping beer.
Mika wasn't dumb enough to be oblivious. However he was pretending to be.
He witessed a drunk on tiredness face drawing closer. A weak mouth trying to kiss. Eyes fighting to stay open.
Mika didn't rejected it, he couldn't remember how long it had been since he had kissed someone thus he grabbed the oportunity.
Jake's bodyweight was falling on Mika who was looking at the sight of a desesperated Snow White, thereafter he distinguished Henry's red clothes entering his field of view so he broke their connected tongues, provoquing a suction sound.
Mika gently pushed away Snow White.
Unaware, Henry sat down, externalizing the relief "arrhhh feels better".
Jake was still a bit confused of what he had done but would fall asleep on the table with the sensation sticking to him.
"you know where he lives right ?"
Henry swung his head from left to righ. They quietly shaked him and his eyes opened in the blur to hug the first comer, a fox with a pretty fur.
"where do you live ?" the fox glanced to the snake aroung his neck.
it responded in a mumble at the verge of understandable but the other had good ears.
Jake meets Mika, Mika meets Jake, and then bit by bit all shatters. A messed up barman/video maker with an invading hobby and a complicated guitarist can engender a puzzling futur, even more when one of them cannot run away from his unhinged mind.
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