[fan account] Cyndi meets Rain, a prince of a guy, on the set of “The Prince” in Mobile, AL. (12/4)

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Alabama Cloud and CloudUSAer Cyndi (@4MYLalways) went looking for a rain storm in the city of Mobile and found it, you might say. No doubt, she was feeling somewhat like Dorothy caught up in a cyclone and whisked off to the magical land of Oz, haha! Dear Cyndi, thanks for sending your account to us to share with Cloud sisters around the world. I’ll have you know that I barely got it posted for laughing and laughing at your escapades.

“I’m so sorry, honey. I’m just so nervous. I think this thing is on video and I can’t think straight enough to change it over. Here. You do it.”

That’s when I totally lost it. I wish I could’ve seen Rain’s face at that very moment. LMAO! ^@@^

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[fan account] Cyndi meets Rain, a prince of a guy, on the set of “The Prince” in Mobile. (12/4)
By: Cyndi @CloudUSA
Video credit: Cyndi @CloudUSA / 4MYLalways @YT
Images credit: Cyndi Lacefield / Tammy Harriel / Gisele Winnier

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Many of you loyal Clouds are going to cringe when you read this. There is not a Cloud on earth who doesn’t want to meet Rain and hasn’t dreamed of it for years.

I really am in awe of all that has happened because one year ago, I didn’t even know who Rain was. Even though my cousin, Jessie, had sent me lots of pictures, it was around March that I first “noticed” him. But, I know that by May I was a total fan because I started making a few of my own fan videos for Rain, and my phone was full of his music and pictures. I was watching any clip I could find, and I had already watched all of his dramas and movies. I had also put his Army discharge date on my calendar and was waiting to see him just like everyone else. I do remember thinking how I was lucky that I only had to wait for him to get out for a few months! Rain definitely had an EFFECT and it was fast-acting! LOL!

There is sooooo much I still have to learn about Rain. I haven’t heard all of his music yet. I even realized yesterday that there was a song or two that Gee had that I had not heard before, but during the summer, I reached out to Cloud USA and they welcomed me with open arms. I also started looking for other Rain fans on Twitter. I finally had other people who understood me and my newfound love for all things Rain and not roll their eyes at me when I gushed on and on!

I met my Cloud USA sisters when we had a Cloudburst gathering in New Orleans at Gisele’s (Gee) house. So, I just got my first ever anything Rain 2 months ago when we all got goodie bags with Rain merchandise in them thanks to Terri, Stephe, Michele, Gisele, and Diana. I was over the moon to just own something from him, because that is one disadvantage USA Clouds have. We do not have stores with fan products that we can collect, so the things I got are precious to me. Rain’s Clouds are generous, like him! Gomawoyo, unnies! ♥

About a month ago, my childhood friend told me that they were gonna shoot another movie here locally (an hour from me), and that this time Bruce Willis would be in it.  “Okay. Cool,” I thought, and went about my business. After all… it wasn’t like he was Rain or anything, right?! LOL!

The week of the ZEPP tour in Japan, my girl and partner in crime, Tammy, went to Japan. When she was going to the first show it was my birthday, so she said she was gonna hook me up with some Rain gear. HECK YEAH!  That was so awesome, but it was like setting me on fire every time she told me details. “He did WHAT?  He moved how???” Oh, it had me all tore up!! 😀 After the third show, she told me about Rain doing Fiddy’s “Magic Stick” during the encore. (For those who do not know, Fiddy, or 50cent, is also in the movie The Prince.) “Oh, my word,” I thought, “I’ve got to see that man! It is official. I HATE TAMMY.” 😛

About 4 hours later, at 3:30 am, I saw a news story on a tweet that said Rain was going to Hollywood again. But when I opened it, it said he was going to be in a movie with Bruce Willis. I’m not sure if my heart stopped, or if all the blood in my toes just rushed up into my head, but I do know that even though where they were shooting the movie was not in the article, I knew where, instantly. Oh, my… SQUEEEEALL!!  It was 3:30a.m, and of course, I immediately texted Tammy, LOL! Rain is coming. HERE… as in HERE. Mobile Alabama, HERE!! Girl, we gotta go meet that man!!

(I LOVE TAMMY! 😀 )

Rain got to town last weekend, and there I was, an hour away and I couldn’t get to him. I’m finishing up final exams and I had obligations, so we waited, and it was almost too long! Suffice it to say Tammy, Gee, and myself all had to cross many obstacles to even get over there to Mobile, but we all finally did.

Tammy and I went to Mobile on Wednesday morning. We got to the hotel at about 9:30 am.  We met Rain in person at around 12:30pm.

I can’t tell you how we got on the set, I will just say we did. (Sometimes you just have to protect your sources.) We were there for a couple hours. We watched them shoot a scene, and then Rain left, and the crew set up for the last scene Rain would be shooting before going home. (Wow. We cut it close the whole day. Timing was such a hurdle, because timing is crucial to actually getting to Rain, but in the end, it was our day to be blessed.)

I still get rushes and feel a bit giddy when I think about it! Whew… Okay, where was I? Oh, timing.

We watched the crew change the sets over. We talked to some people there, and then, when I needed a cigarette, went out on the patio where the crew was relaxing. (Tammy was always keeping an eye on the windows to see if they started back up.) So, we just waited. They finally got the new scene set up. It was going to be in a hallway that had a door leading out of the building… Now, for the past two days, the Gulf Coast had been covered, covered, in this deep thick fog. So, with the way they had the lighting set up, and the “white out” effect of the fog outside the glass doors behind Rain… It almost seemed to me like heaven was behind him as he was bathed in that white light.

This is NOT a good video. You cannot really see Rain in it, just the shape of him a bit in the white light in the very middle of it, but it is all I have to prove we were there on set. On the set of The Prince watching Rain! :O

Anyway, in the scenes we saw shot, it looked like he came to say goodbye, so to speak. (Maybe he was a ghost oppa, maybe not.)  Then in the very last scene which was part of the clip I lost, he walked away from the cameras and toward the “light,” but not all the way out of the doors. The director called out, “Cut!” and Rain kept on walking… and walking… still walking… (kekeke, our funny Jihoonie! ♥) Someone yelled out, “Where are you going?” LOL! Everybody laughed, and Rain came back!

Of course he wanted to end the scene with a bit of mischief. 😀

THEN he started to leave, he talked to a few people, and then walked a bit further…  and came in front of the glass where I was standing, recording him. Just as he got past me, he turned his head really fast, like he was shocked, and he cut his eyes over and LOOKED AT ME… he like, STARED. And right there with him looking at me, I gasped and did the full-on jaw-drop shocked face. :O Yes, that one!!

All the dreams I ever had of being totally cool when I met Rain flew out the window. Flew. Gone. Bon Voyage!!

Tammy had already gone down around the corner to where he would walk by, to head toward the open part of the hotel and out of the filming area. Clouds, I was gone like a shot and I got my tail around there too!

I was extremely nervous, and I wanted to remember the things I was supposed to say for us Clouds. I went up to him a bit too quickly. Okay, y’all… I ain’t gonna even lie. Rain’s eyes got a tiny bit bigger for a second. I think he thought he might have another airport incident on his hands and that I was gonna throw myself at him any minute! ROFL! For that split second he looked like a deer caught in headlights. Oh, my. I can still see it clearly… Let me say this in my defense: Is his sexiness my fault? I think not! Rain’s sexiness is just too much to not be affected.

I held out my hand to him as I walked up, instead of trying to body slam into him.  Good choice, I’m thinking. “Hi. My name is Cyndi Lacefield, and I want to tell you that Cloud USA supports you and we love you.” He shook my hand and said hello, and he shook Tammy’s hand and said hello, too. I told him that we wanted him to come here in concert, and that meant down south, here (not only L.A. or New York), and he and the guy next to him said something to the effect that he would. I don’t remember their exact words, but they were shaking their heads in an affirmative way. (fingers crossed they really do)

At this time, I have to say again, Rain’s English… perfect, y’all. So perfect that we couldn’t even hear an accent when he spoke. His voice was smooth, buttery, and like velvet all at the same time. He wasn’t loud. His tone of voice was calm and not strained at all and very pleasant as he talked to us. Personality-wise, he was soft and caring. He could tell I was nervous anyway, and that is why I was rushing. He is used to crazy fans, but I am sure many of you have thought, as I did, that if you met a celebrity you would be cool. NO, it wasn’t that easy. I did not THINK. My mind… ? I don’t know where it went for the few minutes we spent with him! I wouldn’t remember as much if I had not watched the video of it afterward, but then again, maybe I wouldn’t have deleted it by accident if I had waited to watch it later!!  ㅜ_ㅜ

Anyhow, about that time, I think he actually realized we were Clouds, not just local “Lookie Lous”, and he said, “Oh, you are from Cloud?” and we said, “Yes.” Then he said to us, “Would you like to take a picture?” (^o^  SQUEEALLL ) “SURE!” we both said energetically, and we were already midpoint of dropping our purses and moving beside him to pose in a New York second, baby! But I still had my phone in my hand, and it was recording video. (The lost footage was of his chest part of the time because I was looking at him and I forgot I was even holding the camera or that the darn thing was on. I had great close up of him looking down at me from about two feet away, he was so tall next to me, and of course it recorded every lovely, well spoken word of his.)

Now, at this point I was still flustered, and I said, “I’m so sorry, honey. I’m just so nervous. I think this thing is on video and I can’t think straight enough to change it over. Here. You do it.” (Honey??  Oh yes, I am Southern to the bone!! I called that man honey! Yes I did!) So Rain took my phone. I think somewhere in that time I heard Tammy say, “Yeah, she’s nervous.” Bless her heart, that’s my girl… ♥ and RAIN said so sweetly to me, “Just calm down.”

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww 🙂

So, Rain had MY PHONE. He was working my phone so we could get a picture. His DNA was getting on MY TOUCHSCREEN THAT I WATCH MY FANVIDS ON… Ohhhhhh MY… I will never get rid of this phone!!!!! He had to do it one-handed though, because over on his other side, Miss Thang-Tammyams had gotten herself a grip around his waist and was rubbing his back!! And she wasn’t even trying to let go!! RIGHT!?!? Go, Tammy! 😀

So, he handed the camera to his guy there, and I got all up in there and put my arm around him too.  I was touching Rain’s body. *dying here* I wrapped my arm around his back and grabbed a bit of the Men In Black coat in my hands. When the guy took the first picture I was looking kind of sideways because of two other people who were all up on us taking our pictures (why, I don’t know). So I asked, “Can we take another one?” Now, mind you, Tammy and I had not released our holds on Rain at all yet (LOL!), but Rain just grinned. Our time with him was lasting quite a while. I was shaking however, and couldn’t stop, even though by then we had been talking to him for a couple of minutes.

We took the picture, told him thank you very much, and that we would be there to rock with him if he came to the U.S.A.  I got my phone from the other dude, and we were done. They left, and I literally don’t remember AT LEAST the following ten minutes. I can’t remember leaving the room. We even stayed there on set for a while longer. I don’t know why. We were still in shock that not only did we pull it off and see Rain, we got to watch him act, got to talk to him, and got some pictures taken. 😀

Within 6 hours, all three of us had our Rain encounters and he was leaving on a jet plane, looking oh, so FABULOUS after he got into his own clothes and put that hair down.  I loved that hat turned backwards. ♥

His Hair. We hated the hair, and there are a few sassy ladies out there who know that I have a thing against bad hairstylists.  That poof up on top made no sense and looked so wrong! Just wrong! His Skin. My eyeballs were 8 to 10 inches away from his jawline… Oh, the jaw. His cheeks were curved inward, and I looked up at his face and skin to see how perfect it was. And at his eyes, circled in Kohl eyeliner that matched his hair color… yes, he had stage makeup on, and it was tinted for better coverage, but that does not mean we couldn’t see the condition of his face. We could. Rain really has a flawless face, no bumps or blemishes, just smooth, beautiful skin.

That hair was awful, but it was not Rain’s fault. It was what the movie people wanted him to look like. That is his job.  Rain has a lot of demands on him. He is a superstar but he can’t always do what he wants or get his way. He is employed by whoever is doing the project he works on. He gets told what to do and how to do it all the time.  Tammy and Gisele witnessed that first hand a few hours later. Poor thing…

His smell… everybody wants to know what he smelled like. He smelled good, but not like cologne. And yes, both Tammy and I smelled him. You know it! There are just some things you do by instinct, no thought required! He smelled fresh like he had just showered, with a slight smell of a pleasant body soap. Ahhhh, Le Sigh…  It was subtle!  Yes. That is the word. He just smelled CLEAN, with a bit of stage make up but no cologne.

His voice was silky smooth. His eyes were gentle. His lips were plump and curvy.

So, I’ve been a full-on Cloud for just over 6 months, and it has already been an amazing adventure.  I can’t wait for MORE!

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I want to add that I am so glad that I experienced it with Tammy. From the moment we met, we hit it off like bottle rockets! I also want to say the same goes for Gee (Gisele). The only reason she is not in my story is because she wasn’t there at that point. She got there later, and she and Tammy saw Rain again as he left for the airport.

I was not part of the MNET interview for the “Rain Effect” reality show because I was in our hotel room, tripping out and trying to recover my accidentally deleted video of our meeting with Rain. No luck. I can say from my heart, openly and honestly though, I was not in any shape to be on TV because I was distraught over the video debacle. I believe everything happens for a reason. Tammy and Gee were perfect for the interview. They know so much more about Rain than I do, and they have both seen him or met him before. I was not meant to be in that show. I will watch my homegirls with pride though, as they represent Cloud USA and tell the world how much they love Rain. We are tired of people here saying, “Who is that?” We are ready for a RAIN STORM to flood the U.S. and for him to take over the whole world!

I can’t wait to become an official Cloud. I am waiting and watching like everyone else for official Cloud 9 registration, but yesterday, I already reached Cloud 9 standing there with him. Rain’s kindness and his sweet, sweet, understanding of my nerves is something I will never forget, and hopefully next time I see him, I will not be so discombobulated. Gee says it is easier the second time.  So I will go with that. I will see that man dancing in front of me, somehow… I WILL.

I know how blessed I am to have done this in only 8 months, but I really do believe that it was meant to be. Just a few days ago, I was thinking that even if I never saw Rain in concert, he has changed my life because I would not have my Cloud sisters, and for those of you who are waiting and dreaming of a day you can meet him, I sincerely wish that for you too. Again, I would like to say that several people helped us achieve this dream. We could not have done it without help from some great contacts, and as it turns out, without the three of us having amazing Rain-tracking skills. 😀

My heart is thankful.  Baby, JUST SAY RAIN! ♥

— Cyndi

~ by Cloud USA on December 7, 2013.