California Dream

Chapter 44

I wake up to the loud sounds of my alarm. I roll out of bed and look at the time. 7:00. This is going to take some getting used to.

I get in the bathroom and take a quick shower, then change into a pair of leggings and a cheetah print button up tank top. I straighten my hair then pin my black beanie down. I quickly fix my makeup then but on my black vans.

I get my camera and my purse then go out to the car.

The car starts and I make my way to the Teen Vogue headquarters.

"Good morning," Samantha says.

"Good morning to you too," I say.

"Just follow me and we'll begin some of your training," she tells me cheerily as she begins to walk down a hallway.

"So how much training do I have to go through?" I ask.

"Well since you've only been to college one year for photography your training will last about a 3 days unlike the 1 day majority of the photographers we hire go through."

"That's not to bad." She brings me into a room with a camera setup on a tripod and different lenses sitting on a table. A backdrop sits in front of the camera and lights surround it.

"Your task is to take the model that we send in and have her do 3 different poses. You can have her do anything, so just get creative with it."

"Ok that sounds manageable." Samantha leaves and a short girl with curly blonde hair comes in. She looks to be about 15 or so.

"What's your name?" I ask.

"Allison."

"Ok well what I need you to do is just stand in front if the backdrop and just do the poses I say, alright?"

"Ok," she says.

She stands in front of the backdrop and waits for directions as I set the camera up.

"Ok first of I'm just going to have you jump as high as you possibly can," I direct.

"Alright." She begins to jump and I snap a few pictures.

"Ok next. Do you know what the YouTube channel o2l is?" I ask.

"Oh my gosh yes!" She squeals.

"Do you know the hand sign?"

"Of course!"

"Alright just turn your back to the camera and do the o2l sign over your head."

She turns and puts her hands in the air then forms them into the symbol. I quickly take some pictures.

"That looks great!" I say. "Next just turn back to where you're facing me and make a peace sign with your hands. Then just stick your tongue out or something like that," I say.

She does just as I ask then I take a few more pictures.

"Ok that's it," I say.

"How do you know about o2l?" she asks before leaving.

"I've always watched them but now I'm dating Kian," I say.

"I knew I recognized you from somewhere! You're Annie!" she says.

"Yup that's me."

"I love Kian so much he's my favorite out of all the guys."

"Yeah he's a cutie," I say with a laugh.

"Do you mind getting him to follow me on twitter I've been trying for like as long as I started watching his videos, it would mean so much to me."

"Sure I'd love to help, here just write your twitter name on my cast," I say as I grab a sharpie from my purse.

"Oh my gosh thank you so much this is one of the best days of my life," she tells me.

"Hey it's no problem. I love meeting Kian's fans, it reminds me of how I was before I moved to California."

"Thank you again, I've got to go though."

"No problem, bye," I say.

"Bye." She walks out of the room and Samantha walks in after her.

"So how was the shoot?" She asks.

"It was good. Everything seemed to go smoothly."

"Good, may I see the pictures?"

"Of course." I hand her the camera from the tripod.

"Come with me," she says.

We walk out of the room into another one full of Mac computers. She takes the card out of the camera and puts it into the computer. She silently clicks through the three different poses and picks out her favorite poses.

"I really like the one where she's jumping it puts some more action into it. I also really like the one where her back is to the camera and she's doing the hand sign."

"Thanks."

"Now would you want to do modeling, because if you do I can take you to our modeling manager," she says.

"I've been thinking about it and I think I'm just going to stick with photography I've always been more of a behind the camera kind of person," I explain.

"Alright that's perfectly fine.?"

"So what all does Teen Vogue have in it?" I ask.

"Well not only do we do fashion. We also have things such as pictures of room ideas, food ideas, DIY, or things you could do at a sleep over. Anything teen related really."

"So that's what the main basis of Teen Vogue is, just the teenage life?" I ask.

"Yes pretty much, have you ever read one of our magazines?"

"No. I mean of course I've heard of it but I've never actually read one," I say.

"Ok, just a moment." She walks out of the room then returns about a minute later. "Here's a copy of the newest issue. I want you to read through it and just get an idea of the things in it. Any picture in there is pretty much what you'll be photographing," she says as she gives me the magazine.

"Alright."

"For now though I'm just going to show you around the headquarters and that'll be it for today," she says.

She takes me around showing me the different departments. First modeling, then editing, next writing, then she shows me where everything is, in the photography department. We make our way back to the front of the headquarters.

"That's all for today, I'll see at 9:00 on Wednesday."

"Sounds good, I'll see you then," I say.

I walk back out to my car and check my phone just a text from Erin saying she needs to talk to me.

I drive to the hospital for my doctors appointment. I quickly scribble down Allison's twitter since my cast is most likely coming off.

The appointment takes about an hour. Overall my concussion is 95% healed and my cast is no longer on. Finally I can move my arm again.

"Hey why'd you need to talk to me?" I ask Erin as I walk through the door. I set down my purse and camera then walk into the living room. I find Jc sitting on the couch next to Erin.

"I'll be outside," Jc says as he stands.

"Ok," Erin tells him. "Come sit down," she says to me.

"You're starting to scare me. What's going on?" I ask worriedly.

"I have some news," she says looking down.

"Good or bad?"

"I mean, I wouldn't really consider it either one," she tells me as she continues to look down.

"Erin look at me, what's going on?"

A tear runs down he cheek. "I'm pregnant," she whispers.

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