Red Carpet Romance

Star Photoshoot

Chapter 14: Star Photoshoot

"I need those lights fixed!" Regina yelled.

While Benedict was filming extra scenes, Regina was in charge of the huge photo shoot today. Today, the entire cast- well the influential roles, were taking their profile shots and the big stars were shooting for the cover of Red Rider. There was about five photography directors in the studio and everything was rather chaotic.

"Ugh," Katie complained. "It's so stuffy in here," she complained. "I don't want Melissa to look flushed when she gets in front of the camera."

Krysti leaned against the table and watched everyone run around. "This is going to lovely day," she said, dryly.

"Smile!" a camera man said, walking by and taking candid pictures of everyone.

Melissa just smiled even though her hair was pinned up by a dozen metal clips. It probably looked ridiculous.

"I don't know what Benedict was thinking," Krysti said, sipping her tea. "Doing everyone's photos in the same day..." she muttered.

"It's just what made sense to him," Melissa shrugged.

"MELISSA!" a voice yelled.

Melissa looked up. "Julia!" she exclaimed, waving to her friend who was two tables down.

"How have you been?!" Julia called.

"Great! You?"

"The recording went really well!" Julia replied. "But I'm glad to be back on set!"

Erin and Katie finished Melissa and she left to go talk to her friend. Julia's makeup and hair took a lot longer to do. Melissa sat herself on an empty stool.

"So, what did I miss?" Julia asked as her hair stylist worked on getting her wig on.

"Just more filming," Melissa said.

"What about you know who?" Julia asked, looking over to the right.

Melissa followed her gaze. She blushed when she realized who Julia was looking at. Ryan, of course, looked up just in time to catch Melissa looking over. He waved and blew her a kiss with a smirk on his face.

"That freak!" Melissa exclaimed.

"What's wrong?" Julia asked.

"N-nothing," Melissa said, fiddling with her sword.

"Who's she?" Julia asked.

Melissa sighed and casually looked over again. Beside him was a blonde girl who was chatting with Ryan. She was dressed in a green button down and well-tailored black pants.

"Oh, Alice...uhh Smith?" Melissa said. "She's Ryan's manager."

"That is a young manager," Julia observed. "No offense," she said to her own manager who smiled.

Melissa shrugged but her eyes flitted back over to Ryan's station. Alice leaned in and whispered something to Ryan. He laughed.

"I need the following: Enchantress, Marina, Derek, Cypress, and Dark King!" Regina said through a microphone. "Please report to studio 5. I repeat. Enchantress, Marina, Derek, Cypress and Dark King, please report to studio 5."

Julia's stylist carefully rearranged her circlet and they headed off to studio 5. The studio was a green screen.

"This is the cover shoot," Regina told the photographer. She flipped through a sketch book. "You will be posing alone. They'll most likely edit you in the arrangement they want. Let's start with Melissa because you have the different costumes to change into depending on what Benedict wants.