Friends? / A Romeo Beckham Fanfic

chapter 20

Romeo and I stare at each other in complete silence. Loud applaud and screaming is surrounding us and we both fake a smile. Ronnie seems completely happy with the final result of the picture, but clearly, Romeo and I are not.

As we head into the theatre, I pull Romeo aside, and we walk behind the rest of the family.

"Did you see that picture?" I muttered. Security guards were behind us so I didn't want to talk loudly, otherwise they would be thinking I was unprofessional. 

"But didn't they give you the final three shots? That shot wasn't even part of the top 3. That isn't fair. They showed us the top shots and they asked us which one we wanted to be released," Romeo said. "It's my birthday too. Ronnie probably just wants revenge."

"What revenge?"

"On my mum."

"What? Why?" I was clearly confused. What did Victoria have to do with any of this? She even told Ronnie that she liked the laughing shot of Romeo and I. Did she change her mind or what?

"My mum had a fight with Ronnie, and now Ronnie's gone ballistic. He was really mad at my mum because she told him he wasn't paying me enough for my shoots. Ronnie just told my mum that I wasn't a high class fashion model and that I didn't need as much money as before."

"So what? He decides to scrap the top campaign photos and destroy our careers with this lousy shot? C'mon mate, cut some slack."

I kept thinking about that one photo; the photo that would be released as part of the Burberry campaign. The whole point of the shoot was to display some sort of chemistry between us, but that really wasn't working in this shot. Our faces looked emotionless . I mean, anyone could have taken a shot picture like this; a picture displaying zero chemistry and zero emotion. Ronnie took this too far. I came here to London for nothing. I mean, we look fine, but they told us to connect? In this photo, it was clearly not visible.

"I really think he should calm down. This is revenge taken too far. He's literally trying to take contracts off us," Romeo replied. We really couldn't do anything. We have no power in choosing a campaign shot. We're only 'little kids', according to the fashion industry, and of course, our opinion doesn't seem to matter.

My heart just breaks to think that this is Romeo's birthday and he couldn't even get a small favour done by Burberry. This just goes to show that even though he may be that perfect Burberry model, he has no voice. Dare I say it, he's like an ant compared to the supermodels; people simply don't care.

This really sucks.