#and anticipate some continuation and or more scenes from that same vid

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A very much overdue father's day comic. Inspired by @bulbtree's piece on father's day.

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Ever After Chapter 10.7

Alex's POV

After my scenes, I walked back to my dressing room to have some rest before my next take. But when I made a turn in the hallway, I was surprised by my team with flowers and cakes.

"What is this? It's not my birthday, right?" My face suddenly brightens up. Is this the surprise I've been waiting for?

But they just continued dancing then pointed out something on my back. When I turned around, I saw giant marshmallow mascots with cakes and flowers on hand. I suddenly felt embarrassed with the huge fanfare.

"Ommo? Why are you here?" I was flustered and surprised. "Seriously, why are you guys here? Ommo! Stop it." I turned around out of embarrassment. The tall mascot is giving me my cake.

I was wondering who from my staff could be behind this mascot. I am pretty sure no one had the same built-in our company. I was actually hoping that someone else was beneath that costume but I know I was being silly, but I was secretly hoping it's him.

"Thank you. Thank you. Okay, give it to me now. Thank you."

"Who are these people?

They immediately calmed down afterward...

"Explain. Who planned this? Who are they? These people here. There's no one this tall at our company, I think?"

"Our team and some from the agency. It's just us. Relax." Mr. Jung said in a mumbled voice.

"Really? No one else? Where's Aira?"

"Are you expecting someone else, Elle?" Elvz asked playfully.

"Let's go, let's go. Sorry for making a fuss. We might interrupt the shoot. So embarrassing." Alex

"Mr. Jung, they are not from our company, right?"

"No, they are not."

"Who are they then?" I looked at the mascott again suspiciously then added,

"Just kidding. They really are from our company. Let's go out. We also prepared a coffee truck."

I was still suspicious as I followed Mr. Jung going outside. "Is he one of the mascots since he can't be seen publicly? Is this his surprise? Aira might have the answer." I thought as I walked to the coffee truck holding the big bouquet of white roses and made my picture taking in front of the truck.

After the pictorial, I immediately looked for Aira. When I saw her in the buffet area, which was also part of the surprise, I grabbed her to a corner.

"What happened? Aren't you happy with our surprise?"

"I really am surprised. What was that all about?"

"The CEO said he wants to congratulate you so he asked us to surprise you. He was so happy that your OST is topping the charts, the drama's rating is also high, and you are currently receiving a lot of offers from big brands because of your rising popularity in Asia. Let's just say that the CEO is starting to get on your good side because the renewal of your contract is just around the corner."

"So it was not from Sage? Is he not one of those mascots?" I asked in great anticipation.

"Aigoo. So you thought it was his idea all along? Alex Lee, it was only our CEO's idea to prepare something for you. But the surprise was planned by us. You thought we couldn't pull off a surprise for you, come on, are you underestimating my powers?" Aira responded with crossed arms as she dropped her cutlery on the plate, acting disappointed.

"I appreciate it, really. Don't get me wrong. Thank you." I smiled sweetly on her. I'm seriously thankful. "I just thought he took part in it, at least. Being one of the mascots was a great cover." My smile vanished after.

"Maybe he has other plans, don't be sad." Aira tried consoling me.

"What plans does he have? Oh, never mind, then so be it."

"He should never attempt calling me now because I am currently single. He did not visit me more than twice when he enlisted and now he'd expect me to welcome him with open arms tomorrow? Dream on Sage Kim! Fine! I won't come home tomorrow even if it's my day off! He can do what he wants and I do what I want! He won't see his wife this weekend!" I slumped to my seat while grinding my teeth.

"Oh-oh! Our tweety bird has become an angry bird. Okay, let me get your food. Calm down. Maybe you're just hungry." Aira immediately stood up to get me food.

I was looking forward to his day of discharge, and who would have thought that a happy occasion would be like this? Aish, Mr. Kim! I was feeling gloomy the whole day, luckily, the scenes were either a sad scene or a scene of me bitching out. At least I get to vent out during my scenes.

"Lesson learned, Alex Lee. Don't expect too much." I said to myself out of disappoinment.

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Photos grabbed from Edam Entertainment's youtube. Link of the vid: https://youtu.be/Q5gRQTcEqT8

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Thurs 9 May

The zladdin video came out today! Zayn and Zhavia duet on A Whole New World while wandering around Central Park and gazing out over rooftops. Zhavia gives a serviceable and pleasant enough performance but Zayn just warbles and soars and elevates the song, it's everything you might have dreamed Zayn singing a show tune could be! Fantastic! Info about the other songs on the soundtrack is out so it looks like just this one for Zayn alas, but it's the one we wanted! I mean we actually wanted Zayn to BE Aladdin, and by we I mean everyone who has commented on his posts, but this is nice too. We're told that he personally selected Zhavia for the collab; I'm still maintaining it was for her name. There's also a Spanish versus available ("Un Mundo Ideal") with Zayn and Becky G, which explains that confusion AND maybe a separate Portuguese version as well? Neat.

As the world speculated about Harry and everyone he went near the other night (Alessandro, Jeff, Kendall especially with big media coverage on that one) and whispered about his gay coding, Louis "hold my beer" Tomlinson busted on the scene to take his rightful place as king bear, and just straight up tweeted about Larry! At like 4:30 am London time (not home? jet lagged? too much red bull? jolted awake from a dead sleep with sudden urgent need to reclaim his throne?) he tweeted lyrics from a Catfish and the Bottlemen song, cool cool very on brand, probably the standout song on the album, NBD! Until you realize that the first word of the song is literally LARRY which honestly is not something you see every day and I'm sorry but I utterly reject the possibility that he just didn't know all the lyrics to the song or that he didn't know what any of it would be taken to mean. Now THAT is a true reach! This was A Choice.

So listen that was a big ass obvious move in a week of little moves, I think we need a quick SBB recent activity round up here. We got Louis in skull clothes twice recently, May 4 and May 7. On the 4th Eleanor was there and we got chicken-wrapped-with-Parma-ham, on the 7th Eleanor was there and within 24 hours he added some interesting new songs to his playlist (Laurel Wreaths, really?) and basically tweeted "Larry". It's all about that balance, baby, but if you ask me this seesaw is tilted pretty heavily towards Louis having fun talking about his baby... Like how long has he been sitting on that tune? We know he's been listening to that album for ages. In any case I don't know what his new promo cycle is gonna look like but I feel we can definitely say it's ON and we are getting that content!

Today in content: a beautiful behind the scenes from the show in Birmingham! Louis is in the aforementioned skull clothes (track pants) rehearsing, planning, hanging out, being cute. We see him with a nice wine glass full of possibly vodka red bull, or maybe just red bull, just like at TXF, raising the question; does this classy bitch just travel with wine glasses? Amazing. He also wears the merch we still can't buy thanks for that I'm not crying at all, and sings along to another C&tB song (for those who were distressed about the other lyrical content of the Larry song this one is also about a relationship and it's not sad, it's about making it through.) And! He is back on the MTV schedule with what looks like the real goods finally... or maybe not. The schedule clearly says "Brand New Video" for Fri but then talks about the Miss You vid so....? And they have the Louis Tomlinson and Friends program relisted for Sat which you would think would be new(ish... from March anyway) content if it actually airs this time, except it says it's him talking about collabs so isss it current? MTV have been shady af idk man. Frankly I don't think they have new content. Anyway also Helen Seamons (Louis' stylist) posted a studio pic of Louis' guitar, why? Idk.

An update account reported that Back To You had been taken off Louis' song lists on some platforms which prompted all kinds of interesting speculation but long story short it's not true so whatever.

Jeez I was hoping to get caught up with some backlogged Louis interview stuff today but he just keeps hitting us with new content! It's too much! So v briefly- he talked about playing guitar on tour ("I won’t feel like I’ve done what I want to do musically until I’m on stage playing guitar" I'M DEAD I CAN'T WAIT), he says he plays guitar in the video, he said TOU was ready to go before TXF, for like 6 months before it came out, that TXF took up more of his time than he'd anticipated, that he'll start by touring smaller venues not because he can't fill big ones but to hone the craft (of being a solo performer). Probably the most interesting interview yet, but alas so many content so little time helllllp.

Anyway yeah so the tabs are real excited about Harry and Kendall being in the same place but with nothing more than that to work with they're just straight up embarrassing themselves- a highlight? A pic of her phone screen, which is clearly and visibly a dog, like yes an actual canine, a Doberman to be exact I believe, and headlines about her having a pic of Harry on her screen. I'm ??? At least they know who he IS- at least two outlets now have announced that he's the father of the royal baby and mama Anne joins us in finding it hilarious. Harry himself has apparently been messaging with photographer Tyler Mitchell, who he publicly followed post gala, raising hopes for him to work on HS2, and he (Harry) showed up at the Strand bookstore in NY (miles of books!) and took a cute fan pic. Whatcha reading Harry?

Lottie posted a pic of herself and Gemma and some other influencer friends titled "the whole crew", yikes sorry Eleanor, Liam posted a beautifully lit photo (captioned "new light") that, some have noticed, echoes the colors and light of Zayn's new video (which was shot in the same place as Polaroid btw) nicely, and while Niall stans continue swooning over yesterday's pics he's busy promoing Soccer Aid and chatting about model life ("I AM FASHION")