the steinfeld effect

chapter ten : for you to find out

The bus ride was quiet, and I was informed by Mace that i'd be home by tomorrow to process the rest of the papers I needed.

"Charlie i'd call you in, in 5 minutes okay?"

We were at the venue and everyone was preparing the set up for the shoot, it was pool-themed for cosmopolitan. I was assigned to pick up a few clothes at the back of the bus.

I came back at the tent where Hailee was and took everything out one by one while she was busy doing her make up, i caught her glancing at me repeatedly so I stared her down.

"I'd be fine with this, thank you."

She spoke before the make up artist gave her a nod and left, the two of us were left again.

"Do you have in mind which do you wanna wear for the first takes?"

I pulled out three outfits, she went through all of them while I watch her pick but her hands were just going through it over and over again.

"I can't pick, you go pick one."

She grinned at me, i don't know what's up with her but she's been smiling at me a little too much.

"This one."

I handed her over diamond top that exposes her stomach and a matching bottom, her red lipstick compliments the outfit and it looks good on her.

"Yeah, whatever."

She told me to put them down.

"You owe me what happened last night."

I told her, folding the rest of her clothes that was stuffed forcefully inside her duffle bag.

"I thought you wouldn't want to know?"

"yeah but-"

"that's what I thought."

She turned her back on me facing the vanity mirror once again, her hand started tracing a layer of lipstick. 

"Yeah but I mean what I said, I really am sorry for what happened in the interview and I already made an apology on twitter if that would be enough for you."

I hand her over my phone, her fans are going insane over the quote retweets but I chose to ignore them.

"you could've asked me if I wanted I to post this, you could've said something wrong and it could ruin you and me."

Her eyebrows met as she read my tweet.

"I made sure i checked before I tweeted-"

"just be lucky they were all chill about this, the last thing I want the media and my fans to hear is that you were that girl in the video I hid from the paparazzi."

Now I understand why she has to hide me like that, and I think I owe her now as much as she owes me. 

"Hailee should be dressed up in 20 minutes!"

A guy with a camera peeked through the tent and gave us the calling time, so I went to pick up the outfit she made me choose.

She stood up while I zipped down her top, I asked her if she wanted me to assist her but she insist and got behind in a stall and changed her entire outfit. She came out just the way I pictured her in my head, she was wearing heels that made her even looked taller than she already does. 

"well look...I am sorry again for tweeting without your permission."

I noticed the zipper on her chest wasn't entirely zipped up so I took the chance to keep our conversation while I fix her clothes. My fingers slowly moved on her shoulders adjusted the band and in my surprise they were tense, probably because she's been working everyday for so many hours so I offered to give her a little massage.