10 November 2012
"Maddy, Where are you? You and Tom were suppose to be here 20 mintues ago!" Julie Plec yelled down the phone. "I know i'm sorry! We are on our way" I said as I opened my front door and stepped outside. It was the summer holidays which ment spending time with my family and friends, riding and filming for 2 months! After closing it behind me and saying goodbye to Julie I got into the limo where my boyfriend Tom Daley was waiting. "Hey Beautiful, Let me guess, that was Julie on the phone?" Tom said and he kissed me. I nodded. "She was ringing and texting me this morning!" Tom said as I leaned my head on his shoulder. "Me too!" our driver Matt said as he pulled out of my driveway and turned left to go to Yelverton. Julie Plec is the executive producer of The Vampire Diaries which me, Tom and alot of our friends had been lucky to have roles in. A few minutes later we arrived on set. Julie was pacing up and down the set while the crew were getting the cameras ready, I could see my best friends Ailis, Emily and Julia going over their lines. Incase you haven't guessed already I play 18 year old Elena Gilbert, Tom plays 17 year old Stefan Salvatore, my ex-boyfriend Jordan plays 17 year old Damon Salvatore, Ailis plays 17 year old Bonnie Bennett and Julia plays 17 year old Caroline Forbes. Then there is Tom's best friend George who plays Matt Donovan and my cousin Matthew plays Jeremy Gilbert. My other cousin Jessica plays Dana and also plays Anna. Emily who is my other best friend plays April, Emily and also helps Ailis by playing Bonnie in some sences. "Hey! You two hurry up, I want to start so we can have 3 hours of filming before lunch" the producer Kevin Williamson said shooing Tom and I off to make-up before we had a chance to speak to our friends. After getting changed in our dressing rooms we stop by the food trailer to get a snack for later before heading over to the make-up department. Once we are done we head over to the set and get into our positions ready to start filming.
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"CUT!" Kevin shouted. We all breathe a sigh of relief, we had been filming since 9am and now it was 12 so that means lunchtime! We drive into Tavistock which is the nearest big town and we are allowed to wonder off by ourselves to find lunch. "Where shall we go?" Ailis asked as we get out of the limo. "How about The East Cafe?" Emily said. We all nodded in agreement - it was our favourite place to eat. So after putting our hoods up so the cameras couldn't find us, we made our way over to the cafe. By 'we' I mean: Me, Tom, Ailis, Jordan, Emily, Geogre, Jess, Matthew and Julia, Sometimes the crew come and join us but today they went somewhere else. Julie texts Julia as we walk into the cafe. "Who is that?" Jordan asks. "Its Julie, she wants to know where we are eating!" Julia said and we all groan. "Hi, We would like a table for 9 please" I said as a waitress came up to us. We are shown to a table and we sit down. I sit on the end of the bench with Ailis next to me and Tom opposite me. After ordering our food we get our scripts out and start practising our lines - we do this every lunch time. By 12:30 we have finished our lunch, so after paying for it, we step out into the warm sun. I look at my watch, Matt won't be picking us up for another 15 mins so we make our way up the high street. Just then I hear a voice say my name, "Maddy?" I turn around to see Becky Jones walking towards me. Becky was my teacher when I was in prep school and she has become a family friend now that I have left. "Hi, Mrs Jones. How are you?" I give her a hug. "I'm good thank you, How are you?" Becky said as she hugged me back. " I'm good thanks. What are you doing here?" I ask. I expect her to say that she here with her family. But her answer shocks me, Emily and George who both went to Beachborough with me. "I'm here with some of the teachers from Beachborough" Mrs Jones smiled. George, Emily and I gasp as we see the teachers walking towards us. There was: Mrs Read, Mrs Best, Miss Stirrut, Mrs Herbet, Mr & Mrs Banks, Mr Southwick, Mr Smith and Mr Whybrow who is the headmaster at Beachborough. After saying hello to the teachers and introducting them to everyone, Mrs Read says "So, Maddy what are you doing here?" "Well we have just had lunch and we are waiting for our driver to take us back to the set." I said as I look at my watch again - Matt was 5 minutes late, Julie would not be happy. "How did you recognize me?" I ask Mrs Jones. "Your hoodie gave you away" She said and she pointed to my hoodie, I then realise I have my Beachborough Leavers hoodie on which I got when I left 3 years ago when I was 14. On the back it has 'Madz Hopson' which was my nickname at prep school and it still is now I'm in senior school at 16 years old. "MADDY!!" We turn around to see Matt drive up to us. "Where have you been? I've been waiting for you for 10 minutes!" Matt said looking annoyed. "Sorry, We ran into some teachers that are at our old school" George said. "Well, I've just had a call from a stressed Julie yelling at me down the phone!" Matt said. "You're not the only one!" said Tom, he pressed loudspeaker and then dialled voicemail. As soon as he had pressed the button, Julie's angry voice filled the air.
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"Is Julie always mad at you all?" Mr Banks asked. "She is when its the start of a season" Matthew said. It was now 5pm and we had finished filming for the day. We were sitting in a cafe in Yelverton having a drink and waiting for Julie and Kevin to come. After we had got changed Julie and Kevin went off to a meeting and told us to go to a cafe and wait there until they came back which resulted in 19 of us siting in the limo - it was a very tight squeeze. "Oh, here they are" I said as I spotted Julie and Kevin walk into the deserted cafe.
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