Book 1

Chapter 9: Turnaround

Right as I was leaving to meet John my phone rang. It’s Sam, I‘ m not sure if I should answer or just let it ring and then call him back later. UGh..In a hurry I answered the phone, I wanted to know what he wanted, I haven’t talked to him since I left Nebraska.

“Hello,” I answered the phone.

“Star. What have you been up to? Where are You?” Sam said.

“I’m a model now, and I’m not trying to cut this short, but I have things to do, I’ll have to call you back some other time,” I replied.

Sam hurryingly said, “Wait, wait Star. Let’s talk for a minute.”

“I don’t have the time either,” I replied.

“Well, call me back later then,” Sam said in a sharp voice.

We hung up quickly. I’m not going to let that phone call ruin what I have going on for me right now. I heard it in his voice that he doesn’t approve of this, but I don’t really care about his opinions of me.

Arriving at the diner, while standing outside waiting on John, I got to thinking. I’m going to start moving quickly in my career, this will prevent my family and Sam from talking me out of this. I’m going to tell John that I’m ready to start tomorrow and not in two days as Mr. Robertson told me to.

John finally arrived, we met at the front door and walked inside

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the diner together. The waitress sat us at a booth and I ordered a coffee for myself and John and ordered a glass of water with lemon. Suddenly asking John what he wanted to meet, he told me that he had a proposition for me. I looked at him and was like, “Ahhh.. What’s that?”

“I want you to come in tomorrow and take photos with me! The photo will go on the cover of my magazine.”

“WHAT, WHAT? Are you serious?” I replied.

“Yes. You’re so beautiful that I think this photo will sell a lot of magazines for my business,” John said.

“I’ll do it. If you think this will work, then I’m in.” I replied.

“Yes, this will be great to do,” John said.

“You could have mentioned this over the phone,” I said.

“No. I don’t do personal business over the phone, I like to meet with my clients in person,” John replied.

“Oh, Okay,” I said.

Once John had told me about the cover for his magazine, he told me to come into his office tomorrow instead of in two days. I’m excited about this, at first I thought he was going to tell me that he couldn’t use me because we knew each other, but he didn’t. He wants me to do a shoot with him, how much prouder could I be right now! This is so amazing and I will not stop at any costs, not even for Sam and everyone back home.

After we talked, we both left, we had to be at work in the early morning to start our photoshoot together. I went back to my

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hotel room. Once I got back, I laid down. It wasn’t really late but I had to get rest for tomorrow. While laying here watching TV, my phone rings again and it’s Sam. I thought to myself, “Damn, what does he want?” I answered the phone.

“Hey, so why didn’t you call me back?” Sam asked me.

“I said, I’d call you back sometime, I didn’t mean tonight,” I replied.

“Star, what is going on? Tell me please,” Sam said.

“I have a modeling job and this is very important to me, so I don‘ t want to mess anything up,” I said.

“What do you mean, “mess anything up?” Sam said.

“I mean, I can’t have any distractions while I’m modeling,” I replied.

“Well, I love you and you know that, so just talk to me and tell me everything,” Sam said.

“I gotta go,” I replied quickly and hung up the phone.

After I hung up with Sam, laying on my bed thinking, “what is he trying to do to me now? Is he trying to make me nervous so that I mess my career up? Does he want me to make a fool of myself?” Well, I’m not going to let him do that to me. I’m many miles away and his stupid phone calls will not mess me up. I’ll block him from my phone, then he’ll see that I’m not playing his stupid games.

I’m getting everything that I want here and NO ONE will ruin this for me. I’m going to sleep his phone call away and not even

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worry about it. I have an important meeting tomorrow with John and the photographer, so I will not let his call make me nervous.

THE NEXT MORNING:

Early the next morning, waking up and getting ready for the photoshoot with John, I did not let Sam bother me. I blocked his number from my phone and that’s the end of it. I’m so excited about this photoshoot with John, I’m not sure what type of photo they want of us together, but I’m sure we will look sexy as ever. John is a hunk and I know I’m a sexy woman, so this should be interesting. After I finished getting ready, I decided to give Haley a call. I haven’t talked to her in a while, so I’ll see what she’s been up to. I’m going to tell her that I got the modeling job, I’m sure she will be excited for me, at least someone will, not like back at home.

While I’m talking to Haley on the phone, I told her that I got the modeling job. She’s so excited, I can hear it in her voice. She congratulated me and mentioned to me that she wanted to take me out for a celebration drink. Then I told her that I’m doing a photoshoot with John today. He wants both of us on the cover of one of his magazines. Haley became quiet for a moment then said, “OMG. That’s a great Star! I knew you would be a great fit for the modeling position.”

“Thank you so much, Haley. That means a lot to me. I gotta get into the office, I’ll give you a call later.” I replied.