Canon in D on Wednesday's Set.
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### My contribution to both the
"Karaoke 2023" Author Challenge
and the
Halloween Story Contest 2023
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The whole thing is pure fantasy, with no relation to people or events in real life.
English is not my mother tongue, so please forgive my mistakes. ###
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Chapter 1: Introduction (yes, this was precisely from the verb introduce).
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"Ah! Yes, THING, like this! Push your thumb near my clit, this way! Rub that finger in the anus, come on! More, more! Oh, yes, yes, THING... oh, T., you are my best friend, I adore you, you're the best... You're the best THING that ever happened to me in a lifetime!"
With my heart beating so fast, I desired to shout out loud all these words to the THING that was fingering me.
But I was in the midst of many people on a TV set and caught on professional cameras.
While he continued to masturbate me, I gritted my teeth and kept playing the cello, sweating and blushing.
The orgasm was approaching.
And I was almost there (yes, in addition to classical music, I also play soundtracks from animated movies).
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Chapter 2. Getting bored on the set.
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Often, the fans of movie or TV sagas live under the illusion that acting is nonstop fun.
Unfortunately, it is not.
My name is Imma, although everyone calls me Emma: the full name would be Immaculada Sanchez-Roledo. My jobs on set are many: I work as a Stand-in, a stuntwoman, a Double: with a precious specialization in classical music... a rather rare skill, I must admit. Often on stage, I stand in for the talented actress Jenna Ortega when she plays the character of Wednesday Addams in a very successful planetary television series.
This sentence would sound exciting... but it is not. Life on set is very boring, and often actors have to stand still for hours watching someone adjust lights or move mirrors to change shadows. Whole hours.
Some, in the past, used to kill time by basting flirtations between people in show business: producers, directors, actresses, make-up artists. But after the metoo, everyone is afraid of everything, and no one wants to kiss anyone.
I'm in my 20s and I feel very lonely and very bored.
The only good thing here is THING. Yes, the animated hand. Everyone thinks it's made with CGI, but instead, it's an actor.
It happened on Halloween night. We were supposed to shoot a night scene (you all know which one: no spoiler). For me, it was one of the first scenes on the first day of shooting. Next to me was this inert hand, standing still. It was raining slowly: not enough to urge the Director to call a Pause.
Suddenly a flash of lightning lit up the set. I closed my eyes and when I opened them again, THING was walking toward me, hopping on five fingers (even his thumb!).
I with eyes wide open said, "But... you are alive!"
With a vertical finger on my lips, THING asked me to be quiet.
I was very much in need of a friend, and I decided to put aside my fears and shyness. Thus began a great friendship between THING and me.
We became great friends.
We played chess or cards. THING was very skilled at chess, and I'm sure he sometimes let me win on purpose, to boost my self-esteem.
Once I jokingly asked him, "How old are you, THING?" and he held up three fingers, as in a Tarantino movie, with thumb and little finger bent. "Are you THREE years old?"
He said no, shaking his index finger. Then he pointed upward: higher.
"Ah, you are thirty years old, it's ok. Well, we can be friends anyway, even if you ..."
But he kept pointing upward vigorously, with the open palm.
"WHAT!? Three hundred years old!? Gosh, YOU ARE THREE HUNDRED YEARS OLD!? Oh, well, you know what they say, among friends, age is just a number..."
I finally had a FRIEND. Not a makeup artist, a hair stylist, a costume designer, or a colleague. That is: a person paid to pretend to be nice, but who as soon as you turn your back speaks ill of you and your thoughts, and reports everything you say to some other gossip queen.
THING was mine alone. The others didn't realize he was an actor. I was ... overjoyed.
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One afternoon we were supposed to film the scene where the whole school band played instruments in front of the mayor and the townspeople. For some reason, the director wanted us to film the whole scene, perhaps to teach some of the apprentices some avant-garde methods... all nonsense, so much so that in the projection we would see only a few close-ups and some shots taken with stand-ins.
But that day my stand-in had been sick: too much pumpkin pie.
The costume designers make me wear the costume. The stylist fixes my hair. They gave me my cello and a sheet of music: Pachelbel's Canon in D.
"Hey, THING, this piece is so easy (and boring), you could play it too! What are you saying? Has it always been your dream, to play the cello in front of an audience? Oh ... let me think ... maybe we can do it. If you learn this sequence of only eight notes ... and repeat it 54 times ... I can move the bow with my other hand, and you'll be the star of the concert! What do you say?"
With his fingers, he composed the gesture one makes at rock concerts, "I LOVE U."
"I love you to, THING."
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THING was phenomenal at the cello. And the Canon is very repetitious.
It just needs a repetitive pattern: seeing THING move his fingers on the violin neck was funny! My bow rubbed the strings as he memorized the positions on the keys.
There were only eight notes to be repeated about fifty times: D major (tonic), A major (dominant) B minor (submediant), F# minor (mediant), G major (subdominant), again a D major (tonic), again a G major (subdominant), and again an A major (dominant).
Enthusiastically opening all the fingers, THING pointed out to me that there were only five notes: because three notes are repeated twice (D, A and G). Usually, it was boring: but together with THING, it was exalting. After a few minutes, he had learned everything.
We were both ready to perform.
THING was ready to secretly perform in public.
I was ready to perform a public but secret orgasm.
Before we started, I took an anal plug from my purse and smeared it with lube. Then I stuck it into my rosebud. Tightening the anal muscles, I was sure it would not slip out, and then I already knew that during the concert I would be sitting the whole time.
The plug increased the sensations each time I masturbated, and from the past few months by now I was so used to it that I felt naked without it.
We went to the set together (he hiding in a big pocket of my stage costume). THING would fulfill his dream of playing in front of so many people, and I would fulfill my fantasy of masturbating in public.
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