New Life : A Second Chance

Right after the slight strip tease, they went on a commercial break.

"Thank you for being such a good sport," Ellen said to Kyle off camera.

"Well, thank you for not asking me to take the whole sweater off," Kyle said as he leaned back in the chair.

"And thank you, Ellen, for doing something to make this boy fluster," Keanu said, "I kid you not, working with him was like working with a mini adult. It's nice to see him act all shy and such."

"I cannot believe you, Keanu!" Kyle wailed, hiding his face in his hands again, "How could you do this to me."

Keanu patted Kyle's abs and said, "This treasure should be shown to the world more often, you know."

Ellen laughed hard at that, while Kyle swatted Keanu's hand away. Keanu was about to grab onto Kyle, intending to mess up his hair but Kyle dodged it easily.

"You guys are really close," Ellen observed.

Kyle and Keanu stopped horsing around, smiling at Ellen and not answering the obvious question. Just then, the commercial break was over so the interview continued. This time, the questions focused on their working relationship.

"So tell me, Kyle," Ellen began, "What was it like, working with Keanu Reeves?"

"Oh gosh, it was surreal! Totally awesome," Kyle gushed, "I mean, come on, it's Keanu Reeves! It was pretty daunting at first, really."

"Really?!" Keanu said, turning to face Kyle in disbelief, "You hardly showed it."

"What do you mean?" prompted Ellen.

"This kid," Keanu said, "Is one of the most professional people I knew. He went into his role immediately, with such seriousness that I could have sworn he was a veteran in the field. He hardly showed the normal vibes of a new actor."

"Oh come on, Keanu," Kyle said, smiling shyly, "You're making me blush."

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Back at the audience, Xing Han was watching all of this his mouth wide open.

"Oh GOSH. Did you see that? Did you? Kyle acting all shy and such?!" Xing Han whispered fervently towards Kay, "What medicine did he take this morning?!"

Kay laughed softly, patting Xing Han's arm, and whispered back, "Just continue watching, Xing Han. Kyle's just having fun."

"There's still one more surprise Ellen has for Kyle," Sam revealed.

Xing Han, who was sitting inbetween Kay and Sam, turned to him and grabbed his arm, shaking it as he said, "What? What? What is it? Was it you that gave Ellen that picture?"

Sam pushed back his glasses up his nose, it having fallen down a bit due to Xing Han's vigorous shaking, and said, "Not technically. I got it from Chad and gave it to Ellen."

"Nice," Xing Han said, giving Sam two thumbs up.

"Wait till Kyle finds out you were the one behind that picture," Kay said with a smile, "But if you give me a copy, then I'll make sure you're safe."

"Not a problem," Sam said, sending her the file immediately.

Upon getting it, Kay put it up on Kyle's Insta with the caption 'Revealed at the Ellen Show', followed by a picture of Kyle pulling up his sweater and that big screen shot of his abs.

Kay smiled.

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The talk went on for a bit more on the movie, when Ellen asked Kyle, "So, Kyle, I hear that you're single and looking?"

"Where did you ..." Kyle started, then stared into the audience, "It was Sam, wasn't it?"

The camera panned over to the audience, zooming in on the trio. Sam gave a huge smile and a peace sign.

"I swear, Sam, you're going to get it from me later," Kyle hissed, his voice perfectly captured on the collar microphone he had on.

The audience laughed.

"For those not in the know, Kyle here is not only a new actor, but he's the top student at school, the Heir to the International corporation known as the Smith Industries, bouldering and parkour expert, knows martial arts and as you can see, drop-dead gorgeous with a body to drool over," Ellen said, reading from her cue card.

She looked at him in exasperation, "What's wrong with you? Young, rich, handsome and single?"

Kyle raised his hands in surrender then leaned forward, "Aren't we supposed to be talking about the movie?"

"Yes, we have and we did," Ellen replied, leaning forward as well, then putting up the cue card to cover the side of her face, as if covering her mouth as she whispered, "But your parents also wanted me to set you up on a date."

Of course, everyone could hear this as she had her microphone on and the audience went wild.

Kyle gripped the sofa armrest in horror, his eyes bulging wide open.

"They did not," Kyle gasped out.

Ellen gave a very serious nod, saying, "They did too."

Keanu started laughing like crazy now and said, "See? It's not even been an hour and you're already infected with the lame comeback replies."

Ellen tried hard not to grin and one could see how her lips kept going up but she brought it back down. Clearing her throat a bit, she then said, "So we have set up this little game. Ever heard of speed dating?"

Three backstage crew members then came out suddenly, bringing a table and two chairs, putting it into position on stage. They left as quickly as they came.

Keanu couldn't help it by now and started laughing, even banging his hand on his knees while doing so.

"Just look at his horrified expression!" Keanu said, pointing at Kyle.

Kyle just leaned forward, his elbows resting on his thighs while his head was in his hands, "This is so embarrassing."

Kyle then pointed at Keanu and said, "He's single, too! And has way more charisma than me What do you say, audience? Shouldn't Keanu be part of it too?"

Everyone started whooping.

Now it was Keanu's turn to look horrified and Kyle laughed.

"He has a point," Ellen said, "And we so happen to have a list of the single ladies here as well."

With that, the same three backstage crew members that came out earlier, came out again with another table and two chairs. They rearrange the earlier setting so now, the tables were side by side with some space inbetween, and the two chairs facing each other (with the table in between).

"When we get back, we shall have our own rendition of 'speed dating' with Keanu Reeves and Kyle Smith!" Ellen announced, her face sporting the biggest grin ever.