Timeline: Early November to Mid-December.
Sorry for late chapter. There's family business that forced me away from my comfort zone, home.
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"So, do you agree?"
Tim was looking at him with a wide look on his eyes while his friend John had become a spectator was staring with ridicule at him.
His explanation about his plan to make the information sharing between everyone to be easier and more involved on a global scale was the same as him. They both shared the same vision.
Also, he didn't believe that Al could be so generous giving him a budget for developing this improved hypertext system.
He had developed software for CERN called ENQUIRE, which was a simple version. When he gave the proposal to the CERN board to enhance the software, they immediately rejected it.
He saw an opportunity served up on a plate in front of him and he was sure will regret ot if he did not accept it. But he was still in doubt about this boy.
His technology company seemed like a scam if he did not introduce himself as Alphonse Brandt.
"I need time to think, Al. The problem I had in CERN was just a funding problem, and I'm sure in about 1 or 2 years, they will approve it." Tim mumbled to him.
"But I doubt you have time to wait. The future will come sooner because of the internet and the sooner your project started, the sooner humanity will leap an improvement of the information-sharing era!"
Vivian was looking at Al in a weird face. Humanity? Since when did he care about it? All she had heard from him when he had a conversation with Uncle Steven about the internet as they would be able to play with all gamers all over the world at the same time in a different place.
Yes, she did understand the thing about the internet a little because of Al's constant mumbling with Uncle Steven at the release of the NOTE portable last Christmas.
Al turned out to cringe at himself while he was saying that and saw the look Vivian was giving to him was supported his guess.
But to rope up Tim who he assumed had an altruistic personality, he would say any ridiculous things.
'Sometimes you have something to learn from a politician, at least I saw a shine in his eyes.' He thought.
"But what I will be creating is a system that I will distribute to the public, your investment will return you nothing. Except... except that you want to monetize this." His eyes became vigil when he saw Al.
He just smiled at him in response, "I have my own reason Tim, of course, money was involved and a lot of that, but what our idea will bring a noble cause, Tim. Trust me."
He had very much hoped to bring the internet era earlier. The faster internet is popularized, the faster the world would be brought to globalization.
Although in the future, the internet would be evolved into an engine of inequity and divisions, swayed by powerful forces who used for their own agendas. He would make sure no one except him would be using it for that. Yes, Al had a dream to control the internet, if he can.
If he couldn't do that, well, at least he had infinite benefits from the early age of the internet, such as Google, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Pornhub, etc.
He knew which kind of webs would bring him an infinite profit.
He also will get gratitude and friendship from Tim because he was realizing Tim's dream. Tim was one of the genius computer scientists, it's not hurt to have him in his company.
"Let me think about it, Al," Tim said but Al knew that Tim was so eager to jump to his company immediately.
Finally, after their dinner ended and both of their bellies were full of these tasteless yet fulfilling dishes, they decided to call their day off.
He shook his hand and said farewell. "Here, this number is a woman named Nancy Smith, just tell her it was Alphonse Brandt who gave you this number. I thought you might want to call her sooner or later. You also had my number from that card, but don't call my godfather, Steven. He was kind of clueless with technology besides game console."
"Of course I won't, but I might have a question for him though. When the Legend Of Zelda will be released? I heard from the game review it was as good as Pokémon." Tim joked.
Al smiled at it and said, "Few days before Christmas, make sure you buy it for your niece and nephews."
When they got off from the pub, Al took a deep breath of the cold autumn air of London.
"Thank you, Vi, it must be boring there."
"No, it's not. It's a quite interesting conversation."
"Why, is it because of groundbreaking?"
"Because I don't understand a damn thing about anything you two were saying. Except for the internet thing." She giggled.
Al just shook his head and they headed home right away.
The next morning, he found a time to call someone very special who was currently residing in New York.
"Hello." Came a drowsy sound on his phone.
"Nancy, my queen, how are you doing? You just woke up?"
"Al? Asshole, it's 3 AM! Why the fuck are you calling me in this godly hour!"
"It is? Oh yeah, it is, sorry, I'm in England right now so I forget the time zone. I'll call you later okay."
"Wait, it's too late now. I'm already wake up. What're the urgent things that you want to tell me?"
"I got a person who will manage the technology company we will make." Then before he explains further, he heard a beep sound from the telephone and his line was cut off.
"Shit, I think I manage to piss off that woman." A black line appeared on his head.
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His vacation was over and he just ran back to the States and began again the shooting process.
This time, Robin did not come back to the United States with him. The last time he saw her was two days ago.
The post-production process they did always end very late at night and begin again in the early morning. It was the first time he saw Robin so tired, there were black lines under her eyes, her back was slumped up, her skin getting paler because the lack of sunlight shone through her skin. Yep, Robin had turned into a shut-in.
But it was also one of the moments where he saw her so enthusiastic, she was telling him about her experience in tutelage with Martin Hunter, the film editor, and Stanley Kubrick. Should he start to worry that Robin was there alone in those rooms with 2 old geezers?
When he teased her about that, she was laughing on her ass off because it was them who should be worry if anything happens to her and gave him an evil smirk.
He didn't know what she meant and knew it was something that she purposely hid from him, so he just shrugged it off.
But he wasn't traveling alone, Vivian was coming with him. She had done all of the scores for the film and she needed a vacation.
Following him to the Mountain Lake Resort may be a great idea for her. Vivian was also interested in knowing what kind of soundtrack this film used.
In the previous life, Patrick Swayze made a song called 'She's Like The Wind', and that song was featured in that movies.
Now that he was not in any part of this film, they need to choose another song. Eleanor who knew Al was a songwriter (Ehem) asked him to fill the soundtrack of this film and he was kinda confused about what song he would choose. With Vivian's help, it might lift his burden a little.
The winter would soon be coming to their doorstep. He thought that he should expedite the shooting process or else, when the first snow fell to this States, it may bring bad news to everyone in the crews.
There's nothing more fun than meeting everyone on set. With a month of shooting together, partying, dancing, and drinking. It felt they were more like close friends than working colleagues.
He greeted Emile, Eleanor, Cynthia, Jerry, and everyone on the set.
"You seem like have cooled down a little," Emile said with a smile.
"Yeah, thanks, director. There's still a little bit of residual effect though. How do you know?"
"From that bet." Emile laughed at his surprised expression. "Just joking kid, I saw you were looking at Ione like you were a guy who was falling in love, in and out the set, even when I had said cut."
"That obvious?"
Emile nodded and smiled along with the rest of the team that heard their conversation and Al just shook his head. "I would have said that it was great for the actors were going deep to their performance but the way you look every time the show ended was disturbing, it felt like you were conflicted.
Then someone told me you had a girlfriend and she knows your girlfriend very well then I knew where the problem lies. Be careful out there, your dancing scene with her will be intimate from this scene."
"I will." He smiled.
"Oh, also, the bedroom scene." He smirked and left Al behind with his paled face.
He went to the snack bars and got himself bottled water to calm himself from the shock that Emile gave him. Then a cough was heard behind him and he knew who would dare to do that.
As soon as he turned around, he was faced with a smirk of the tantalizing lips of the girl that was the source of that problem.
He was thankful to director Emile to give him a vacation he needs to blow some steams on his body. He could finally see the girl in front of him without each part of his body shook.
There was still a tingling feeling on his heart but he managed to subside it easily.
"You manage?" She asked
"Without a sweat." He answered it immediately.
She gave that wide beautiful smile again and hugged him tightly.
She ended her hugs and turned her head upward to look directly at his eyes, "Miss you there, how's Robin? She's not a bother right?"
"She? Never. But she lived her life in England like a hermit. Never going out of the editing room with her mentor besides eating and sleeping. I even quite sure she was spending the night there."
"Wow, she is serious when she said she wants to become a film producer and editor."
"You've called Gwen?"
"Not yet, but I better tell her in person."
"You better be, you don't want to hurt her feelings right?"
Before Al could reply, Emile called everyone to gather and would start the shooting.
Ione smiled and guided him to the crowd. The shooting finally started again and he could see the eager face of some actors to dance and act.
Day turned into weeks and weeks turned to month. Nothing noteworthy happened during the shots except for some of the scenes that the director found inappropriate and decided to cancel it.
Although it upset Eleanor, what could she do? It was so frickin cold this fall and if he and Ione did the dance training in the lake, they would be having hypothermia.
There was also a scene that made him have to use a stuntman. It was the scene where he had to balance himself in the big twigs to teach Baby how to keep her balance. Al said he didn't need that and he regrets it, he fell and fortunately, he was fine.
This time Al needed to be careful and he did it in a few tries. It succeeded gracefully.
One of the scenes that made him confused between uncomfortable and excited was the love scene between him and Ione.
In that scene, they were both dirty danced again, and the situation so heated until they both consummate their love for each other.
It was so awkward yet so exciting. It also did not help when Ione was having a nude scene and he could see her pink nipples were wildly pointing upwards in its glory.
And he felt not only her nipples were erected but also the thing between his groin.
He uncomfortably bent his body downward to cover his rising tent and he was not subtle when he was doing it.
Because it was a vulgar scene, Ione previously asked the director that this scene must be done in a more secretive environment or she wouldn't do it.
So anyone who saw Al bent his body was not many, but they did not want to make him uncomfortable and offended so they just held their laugh.
Al was embarrassed and rolled his eyes. And seeing them did that make him more embarrassed "Okay, I knew you were seeing me like this, laugh all you want, I won't mad." He huffed and pretended to be mad.
It did earned a chuckle from everyone else, "Relax Al, there are only a few people here and I bet any other men will have the same condition as you." Emile joked.
Al turned to Ione and asked, "Are you sure you want to do this Ione? Do you... you know, want to have that scene with me?"
"You kidding right? I don't want to be a half-assed actor, and it's just a film. It's not porn and we don't have to do it for real, or do you?" She teased.
"Ione." He whined.
"Okay, okay, sorry. But it's fine Al. I did some sex scene before, you know it's fake. And if I'm not comfortable, I will just say to the director." She assured him.
"You should remember, you have me. If someone treats you unfairly in Hollywood, they will be facing me."
"Thanks, Al." Her heart warmed up by his protectiveness.
"Whoa, that was sweet, are you sure not dating?" Said the director.
"We are not! Okay, director, please begin the shooting, or else I'm starting to get really uncomfortable at this time." He joked.
And that he did, the intimate scene with Ione, although just a light peck and hugging while naked, it was made his body blew a hundred degrees steam. He was a bit aroused and she was too, he knew it.
After this scene was finally over, and so their shots in this Mountain Lake Lodge. To celebrate this, they held another round of dirty dancing, a bonfire, and the barbeque on the lakeshore.
As he was looking at them doing dirty dancing from afar, he heard the sound of the twigs snapping behind him.
"You did great on the last scene."
"Really? I'm so stiff at that scene, like a string puppet. Holding your naked body in my arms."
"You don't like it?" She teased.
"Oh, I like it, very much." He laughed, "But a little bit uncomfortable, you know, holding your best friend like that. Sound like geh. But I still blush when I remember it."
"Yeah, my face always heated up when I remembering that moment."
She paused, "Hey Al, are you curious about it? You know, what will happens if we do that together."
Al grunted, "Don't give me any hope for that Ione. Cockteasing me for a whole day was enough for me."
She laughed at the new word he said, "Cockteasing? Really?"
They both became silent. Another month together and hot intimate scene almost change the dynamic between them again.
"Are you still reddened every time you think of it?" He asked.
"A bit." She whispered.
"Well, I think I have a solution for that." He gave a lecherous smirk.
Without any of her consent, he suddenly picked her up in a princess carry, "Al! What the hell are you doing!?" Ione felt her body weaken in his embrace, she suddenly felt a fear struck into her marrow. 'Is he going to take me to his bed? No way, he had Gwen!'
Her shriek was heard by everyone else and they all became vigilance. They thought someone was harassing one of their female crew members.
They were glad when they saw it was just the two love birds who were making a scene with their antics.
Al, with Ione in the princess carry, was walking towards the lake, much to everyone's confusion.
"Al, Al, what are you doing!" She finally knew when he said he had a solution. He wasn't bringing her to bed, he was bringing her towards the Mountain Lake.
Her face turned pale and she fought tooth and nail for her way out of his embrace, "Let go off me Al, the lake is so cold."
"Don't worry, I will also dive with you."
"It's not that you jerk! Al, please, I hate cold!"
"Nonsense, you love it!"
Saw her pleas weren't heard by him, she just surrender to the situation and prayed to the gods that she won't be having a cold tomorrow.
Al with Ione then dive to the shallow side of the lake and felt refreshed by the stinging sensation that stabbed to their backbones.
Everyone was laughing at the two. And soon, not only Al and Ione were in the lake, everyone was following them.
The one who ran away was dragged by them to the cold lake and only the old ones were spared. Quentin was the one who had it worse, he was the first one who ran and as many as 5 people caught him, dragged him, and threw him about 5 meters further than everyone else.
Everyone was having cold fun that night and a cold the next day.
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Last night was so hectic and fortunately, the hot water in each cabin was working.
Ione kept hitting him in her revenge, although everyone was seeing it thought it was really cute.
He immediately fell asleep after a long hot bath and awoke on his bed still reminiscing the things he did for the past 2 months.
A knock on his door awoke him from his musing. He opened the door to see Jessica, his assistant was standing with a worried look on her face.
"Jessie? What happened? It's 7.30 in the morning."
"Bad news, look here," She gave him the morning newspaper of New York Post.
An article that made his eyeball popped out from his socket.
-11 Year Old Who Put Genealogist to Shame-
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