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Narrator's POV
After the roughly 40 minute drive, Amina had finally arrived to work and thankfully she was only 5 minutes late.
"Amina finally you're here!"
Amina's manager Diana called out to her as soon as she entered the building.
Amina opened her mouth to respond but was quickly cut off by her manager.
"Hurry up and get into wardrobe. We've been waiting for you. The other model has already arrived. He is very important and we cannot afford to be wasting his time. You're very lucky that I stopped them before they could replace you with another model!"
Amina knew talking back and blaming her lateness on the traffic wouldn't help her situation so she said a quick "sorry ma" and scurried off to the makeup, hair, and wardrobe department to get ready.
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Wardrobe did not take long at all and Amina could not for the life of her grasp why her manager was so frantic about this other model. He can't be that famous She thought as her makeup session was coming to an end.
As Amina exited the wardrobe department, she heard small whispers from the other models.
"Amina is so lucky,
she gets to shoot with rema"
"What did she even
do to deserve this?
She's not even that pretty!"
"He's so fineeeeee"
Rema this
Rema that
Amina swears she's heard that name before but she still can't put a face to that name. As Amina turns the corner to finally reach the set of the shoot, her eyes meet the same eyes that she stared into this morning.
In a moment of confusion and shock. Amina turns around, closes her eyes for 3 seconds, turns back around, and then opens them up again, silently praying to any God up above that she was just hallucinating and that it wouldn't be the same guy from earlier this morning.
But despite her prayers, it was in fact him.
Amina didn't let this get the best of her and went on with the shoot with minimal interaction with him. Treating him how she would treat any other co-model.
After the shoot, Amina went to her trailer to remove her clothes and makeup. As she left the building, she was immediately met with the voice of her unnamed co-model.
(Bold is Rema, regular italics is Amina)
"Amina... that's your name right?"
"Yes it is."
An awkward moment of silence followed after...
"I'm sorry, do you need something? I have places to be"
" I just wanted to introduce myself. You know after what happened this morning and the shoot that we just had, I have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot more of each other. My name is—"
"I know you're name. Rema right? While it is nice to meet you, I do truly have places to be. Good bye."
With that, Amina ran off to her car and started the ignition to head off to her aunt's house.
What Amina didn't know was that on her way to her car she dropped her wallet.
Rema picked it up and put it in pocket. Hoping that he would see her again.
And not just to give her back her wallet.
