Pose

[Chapter 1]

'Okay! We're done, Everyone can head home!' My producer looks disappointed again.. He doesn't know how impossible he makes this. He's never pleased with any of the poses or faces I make, when just a second ago he told me to make it. I ignore it sighing and walking off to go grab my bag and a towel since I'm sweating like a cave man. I head out of the studio before I start to head home. When I get to my old crumby apartment, while walking up the stairs the producer's harsh yelling starts echoing through my head as I listen to the echoing of the stairwell and I go to stick my key into the door before I notice a paper stuck to the door. "Eviction notice." Great.. Can this get any worse..? I rip the paper off the door and walk into my apartment before tossing it on the kitchen counter and my cat Minx runs up to me jumping onto my lap as I crouch down. 'Hey minxy, How was your day?? Better than mine I hope.. We might need to move back in with Andrea.. Minx meows at me before she pushes my glasses up that are falling off of my face so I take a hint and walk over to her bowl filling it with food before I lean down petting her. I lean over grabbing my phone and call Andrea. 'Please pick up..' I sigh before Andrea answers at last. 'Hey Ash, Why are you calling so late? Did you just get off of work again?? It's 12 am. I swear that guy is taking you for granted. He has fucking star quality photos and you're just letting him walk all over you-' 'Andrea I got an eviction notice..' 'What?? Ash you live all the way in Castestile, How are you going to get back to Wolfshire??' 'I.. I don't know myself..' 'I'll worry about it.. I'll pay the plane tickets..' 'Andrea you can barely keep yourself on your feet-' 'At least I'm on my feet. It's okay Ash really, I'll just take an extra shift and You can just.. pitch in when you can.' 'I owe you big time sis..' 'You're my baby brother, Don't mention it.' I end the call before I put my phone down and go get dressed for my favorite part of every day. My stress relief. I grab my black outfit and my mask, along with my Pixelwhips and I start scrolling through my phone while I get everything set up until I finally find a good song to record to. Just a part-time job I have but it brings me joy at least. After I upload the video I grab my phone plugging in my earphones, taking my glasses off and heading to bed. The next morning I sit up after my phone starts pinging like crazy. I pick it up before I notice a couple messages and in my blurry vision, I unlock my phone before I grab my glasses and start going through the messages. "Hi, I noticed your videos and they're really good! You're a pretty great dancer." "Uhm, Thanks." I stop typing before I send the message and I go out of the chat to check out the person's profile. "Anubis" I look up at the profile picture before I notice he's literally a world famous model and I look to see if he's verified which. He is. SHIT did a fucking model just message me complimenting my dancing!? I go back to the chat and erase the message before I start again. "Thank you so much, what do you like about them if I may ask..?" I put the phone down on the counter staring at it. What am I thinking!? He's a celebrity and you can barely afford rent. He probably doesn't have time to talk to someone like me... The screen suddenly has movement and I notice a 'typing...' message at the bottom of the screen before I start to panic. Oh my gods a fucking model of highest ranks is messaging me!! ME!? I notice he finally stopped typing and he replied before I remember some of my videos were litterally a bit.. Pg.. Great.. now he probably thinks I'm some sort of Hooker! I move closer to the phone. "Just all of it really, You're a great dancer. A lot of people, actually back off on dancing with some of those songs, I guess I just really like your guts." So lucky I have the day off.. Because I am PANICKING. Do I reply Immediately!? Do I leave him on read and seem busy?? What if I come off as an asshole?? But what if he thinks I'm literally homeless and have nothing better to do if I text him back Immediately?? Well I am slightly homeless...It takes me a moment in my panic before I notice Minx walking across the screen of my phone and I go to grab her before I notice she sent him a picture on accident of herself. I start to panic and go to type before I freeze noticing he's typing and I realize I'm probably screwed.. My one chance thrown out of the window.. thanks a lot Minx.. "Oh you got a cat, that's really cute!" Suddenly a picture pops up of an australian shepherd. "I have a doggo, her name is Nora." I pick the phone up and text him back. "Minx. My cats name is Minx. You have an adorable puppy." "She's definitely not a puppy anymore." Added with a laughing face. "I just have the habit of calling dogs puppies sorry." And I add a laughing face. I sigh putting the phone down and going to start packing some things before I notice another message making my ears perk up. I walk back over to the phone curiously before I read the message from Zaiden. "So I was wondering, Me and some friends are starting a band together called Glitched Prisma. We kind of need a dancer and I was wondering if you'd maybe consider it?" Fuck.. If I say yes is he going to think I'm desperate?? Then again.. What if I make it sound professional?? Fuck I can't do that.. We just talked about my cat and his dog for fuck's sake.. 'Minx Help me with your tiny smart brain! Press a button or something.. If animals can actually talk now would be a great time!' I watch as Minx just sits down on the counter staring at me before she takes an interest in the phone again and I go to grab her before I notice she started typing in gibberish. 'So you can send a picture of yourself, but not a 'yeah sure' or something?' I cross my arms staring at her before she meows and hops away and I grab the phone fixing the message. "I would actually love to," no that sounds awful.. "Yeah sure, Can we meet up-" no no no! "If you're interested, Sure. We can meet up wherever is most comfortable for you." I put the phone down again before walking out of the room so as to Ignore the rest of the messages and I go pack a small bag for in case failure hits as it usually does. Then again this might be my big break. My break through. My shot, excuse the pun, for a brighter future. Again ignore the pun. Minx jumps onto my bed and lays down on my suitcase where I'm packing my clothes. 'Minx, I'm supposed to be packing clean clothes, Not fur-covered suits.' Minx meows before I smile picking her up and hugging her before I notice my phone laying in the suitcase. 'Minx! Did you really drag my phone here??' Minx meows again before climbing onto my head and purring while I take my phone unlocking it and looking at the texts. "Is it okay if I send you a location and directions to somewhere? And it'd be best if we met up.. at around maybe 3? If you're not too busy I mean." "No, no not at all. 3 is great." I put the phone down and before I know it I get a jolt of energy from excitement and start dancing around with Minx in my small living room. 'Minx you're a genius!' Minx just meows again screaming in my ears before I put her down on the couch and she turns onto her stomach acting dizzy. 'Really?? Drama queen.' Minx meows again before I look up at a clock and it's 12, so I head to my bathroom to take a shower and head back to my room getting dressed before I continue packing and leave at around 2 so I can have piece of mine while I struggle to find the place. I eventually do find it though, and I sit in the car staring at the house before glancing over at the radio. "3:24" I'm late but I've been stuck fighting anxiety off for the past 25 minutes.. I sigh before finally getting out the car and walking over to the house and I approach the front door but right as I go to knock I panic and pull back turning around to go home. It's such a stupid Idea! Then again.. I turn to face the house again. Maybe it'll be worth it and he genuinely likes my stuff.. No! Not even your professional producer likes you! Why would this guy be any different?? I stare at the hiuse before I hear a dog barking and I start to panic trying to decide to stay or leave and I just pick the ladder as I find a bush to hide behind and I sit on the groung with my knees to my chest as I listen to the front door opening. 'Hello?? Nora.. Are you sure you heard someone?' It goes quiet for a long bit before I feel something on my tail and I hear a bark so I quickly turn to the side noticing Nora, the dog from the picture. 'Ah!' I jump up from the sudden realization before I notice Zaiden laughing while staring over at me and I hide my face under my hoodie. 'So you decided to come after all. Nora go Pester Clide or something.' Nora haooily barks before running back into the house and I pull my hoodie back down before I head over to the guy. 'Good to finally see what you look like in person without the mask. Wait.. Aren't you the model from the news..?' 'The news..?' I look at him confused before he pulls out his phone holding up a news report. "Long awaited announcement of Model, Ash Stone, finally got laid off today. Producer and Famour model Rubin Hens, claims 'He just was not what I had pictured he could be. He refused to work with me, denying that I was right and fighting me constantly about what to do. I'd have better time trying to train a chicken for modeling.' People are conflicted whether or not to be Heartbroken for the model, or whether to hate him for being so stuck up.' I pull my ears back while reading it and Zaiden leans to the side on the door frame staring at me. 'Don't worry, I know that guy he's an asshole, I had to deal with him before. Boy does he hate me.' 'I.. I didn't want to get fired.. He's lying about all this- Why would he lie??' 'They do that to make money and get attention. C'mon let's head inside. If this goes as well as I assume it's going to, You may just not need that job anymore.' Zaiden walks inside and I follow shortly after closing the door behind me and handing him his phone back as he moves his hand over to a massive living area. 'Those morons over there who are drinking coffee and gossiping like a group of Karen mothers are Calem, Tannar and Noah, The two playing with the kid over by the stairs, who's asses I'm about to whoop after I told them no playing by the stairs, are Clide and Mike. And over on the couch, The two girls are my sister Lizzy and her girlfriend Freya. I notice as he points that he's wearing a gay bracelet but figured he probably didn't know and just wore it because the colors are pretty.. Then again his sister is a lesbian or bisexual.. Maybe he does know? 'What about the kid?' I get distracted by the little boy that comes running up to Zaiden hugging him. 'Daddy!' Zaiden picks him up hugging him and I stare at the two for a moment. 'This is Malikai, He's my son..' 'Aren't.. you like 21?' '23 actually. And he's not biologically my son he's adopted.' I smile as I realize and I nod at him. 'That's really sweet of you to adopt him.' 'He was uhm... In a really bad place when I found him. But we don't talk about it.' 'I see. That's alright.' Malikai yawns staring at Zaiden before Zaiden tilts his head. 'Tired bud?' 'Mhm.' 'Already?? You had a nao like 10 minutes ago.' Malikai shrugs before Zaiden sighs. 'Why don't you get familiar while I take the kid to bed.' Zaiden nods at me walking off and I kind of stand awkwardly staring around the gigantic house with my ears down. 'So, you're the Dancer Zaiden found on Tiktok?' 'U-uhm.. Yep.' 'I'm Tannar-' 'He's the mother around here you don't have to be scared of him.' Another guy chips in. 'Speaking of which, Mike on the other hand..' 'Hey! I'm not that bad Clide!' Mike replies yelling at him. 'Heathens..' I hear Tannar muttering before a few pillows get tossed around making me laugh before a pillow hits me straight in the face. 'Ow!' 'Okay who threw the new guy?? Who tossed that!?' I hear Clide yelling before I look up to notice probably a million fingers pointed at Mike. 'And I started it!' I hear one of the girls cuddling on the couch pipe up as she laughs looking pleased with herself. I roll my eyes before I notice Nora and I lean down petting her before she grabs me dragging me over to the couch. 'Minx does not have this much strength!' The dog suddenly looks up at me almost like a stare like she was judging me for bringing up my cat before she forces me to sit down on the couch. 'Oh alright then-' Nora suddenly jumps up and lays on my lap. 'Is she always this friendly??' 'Usually yes. But usually she's only that friendly with Zaiden or Malikai.' I let Nora before I get a really stupid urge a d I kick of my shoes picking up nora with all my strength holding her up yelling the intro to Circle of life from Lion king while standing on the couch before I hear a lot of laughter and people telling me I'm going to fall. Eventually Nora does wiggle a bit too much making me lose balance and fall down on the couch with her on top of me before she starts licking my face making me laugh and I hear Tannar commenting. 'I think he's going to fit in well here..' I suddenly hear Zaiden behind me laughing before I jolt upright lifting Nora off me and standing up before glancing at .y shoes and cussing under my breath. How fucking professional.. 'Alright, let's go talk about the whole... Dance thing in my studio.' 'You have a studio already??' 'Of course I do. I have money.' 'Fair-' I start to follow him before I freeze and turn back grabbing my shoes and run to catch up. Eventually we reach a room and he let's me go inside first before he enters closing and locking the door. What was I thinking!? He just locked the door.. I' going to be kidnapped and enslaved and probably murdered in the most brutal way possible- 'So, What's your favourite color?' 'Huh??' 'Well if you're going to be dancing you'll need a uniform so you don't.. dance in what you dance on tiktok with.' He has a poi t I can't just dance in my shorts and and omd black t-shirt. Especially if it's going to be more professional. 'Blue I guess.' 'Great, Alright, so If there's anything you need you can just ask. And.. If you want I actually have a pretty good Idea for a mask if you'll feel more comfortable dancing with a mask to protect your identity.' Geez.. Maybe this place wont be so bad after all..