Silent Cry

CH50 - Path

3rd Person's POV

"Ok, gorgeous! Hold it. Ok, good! Wonderful!" The commercial shooting has started and the photographer is very much into his job especially when the model is that great and beautiful.

Everyone is watching her as she kill her stunning silver dress and casting her contagious wide smile. "What do you think of the set?" Josh stood beside Gabbie who's now very focused with the photoshoot.

"It's perfect. Nice job, Mr. Director!" and she gave him a thumbs up. Josh smiled at her, feeling relieved that Gabbie liked his plans.

"Ok, let's have a 15-minute break!" Josh clapped his hands to that and the model gave her smile again to the staff before she was escorted to her seat. Bunch of her personal assistants rushed to her to wipe her invisible sweat and retouched her untouched make-up.

Gabbie rested on one of the couches, too that is present on the set, together with Leia who is now fanning herself with the hectic work.

"Take it easy, Leia. You might faint at that state," Gabbie uttered.

"I'm fine, Gab. This is my very first project so I'm so thrilled to make this work." Gabbie gave her a pat of motivation, feeling apologetic for her full effort but at the same time, envious because she is doing what she loves to do. "I should check the schedule, wait a sec," she bid goodbye and went to Josh who's now critically checking the outputs so far.

Gabbie was left there observing the busy scene. Even though she is not part of the filming team, she is enough happy just smelling the whole set. This is where she wants to belong to but sadly, her path should be in another road.

"Are you feeling jealous of them?" Niki came spitting some facts as she sat there in front of Gabbie. The girl only gave her a look but couldn't answer her anyway. "If you were not involved in that family, you must have been in this line of work, too, holding scripts, cameras, and clapboards."

"I'm not that sad, though. I'm actually feeling happy right now."

"Yeah sure, as you should. Getting revenge is far satisfying by the way. I totally feel you on that."

"Wasn't modelling your dream career?"

"How did you tell?" Gabbie was silent after that and so Niki recalled something. "Oh right! You are my fan, hahaha! You must have stalked me then." Gabbie almost rolled eyes because somehow that was true.

"But you know what?" Niki started again, "I actually got this career thanks to Cole's father. He offered me this life in exchange of setting his son free."

"And you accepted it?"

"Yes of course! And I made the right choice. See? I have all I wanted in life. Attention, money, power, and respect."

"But you loved him. Didn't you?" Niki turned silent after that question. Her eyes hold so much words that Gabbie will never understand because the model doesn't want her to understand, either.

"Will you not exchange Cole over the things I've mentioned? Choosing him might give me all the material things but see for yourself the consequences that lie within. You fell into endless pain that you have to endure for the rest of your life."

"Were you not hurt when you left him?"

Niki gave her that unreadable eyes again. It was fucking painful, is what she would say to be honest. But she can't be honest, never in her lifetime. Faking everything has became her job that she needs to endure for the rest of her life. "I don't regret my decision. Though that rascal gave me so much difficulty while living my dreams. He made me experience a noisy, scandalous, and repugnant world because he wanted me to regret everything. You know, he can be so childish sometimes." Gabbie can see now why Niki has been always the topic of issues and scandals in the entertainment world.