A stroke of ungenius

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"Alright Erin, show me why you're the princess." He says.

"Erin, rest your hand softly in his, and smile, it's your wedding day."

"Uh, no not really, I just know this guy, you really remind me of him. Not that you're like a guy or anything, you guys just could be brother and sister."

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"Alright, alright" repeats the photographer as he looks at a paper that was handed to him by an assistant, "The first project is~, the winter theme wedding dresses with me, if you are in a wedding dress with long sleeves, please come to my background, it not please go with Zachary to the tea theme." He says pointing to a photographer who is shaking his camera.

I step onto the winter the winter set along with a few other females, while Hange and some more girls in shin length short sleeve dresses continue to a background on the other side of the room.

"Alright, I need the males," Harry looks at a list in his hand, "James Richards, Kacey Nobel, Levi Ackerman, Elijah Newman, Samuel Meese, and Michael Recardi."

I clench my teeth in annoyance when I realize that me and Levi will be stuck modeling together for the next hour or so.

The rest of the guys walk over to the other set, while Levi and the few others come to our side.

"Alright let's see," Says harry, while he looks over a paper, "I want to do singles first. Let's start with our modeling princess, Erin." He says looking at me with a big friendly smile.

I smile back and stands in the center of the scene, meanwhile, the other models stand or sit around watching.

"Alright Erin, show me why you're the princess." He says.

I take a deep breath before moving into an array of poses, some feature the long cape on the back of the deep v dress, others are sultry looks from my shoulder, and a few are of me giving shy or happy faces to the camera.

"Alright, let me get Elijah on the set for a quick couple photo." Says Harry. I nearly yelp in happiness that he didn't say Levi.

Elijah is a boy about my height with these heels on, black hair, not like Levi's but still black, and he has the brightest blu-, "Actually, let's have Levi Ackerman, I don't like the height difference." Says Harry making me curse his name.

Elijah chuckles and saunters back off the set allowing Levi freaking Ackerman to walk over to me. Ours eyes hold each other, his grey piercing into my strange Caribbean, he has a sort of calculating expression on that makes me feel exposed and naked.

I quickly snap my eyes to Harry biting my lip down and waiting for directions.

"Okay Levi, hold out your hand to Eren," Levi does so, inching one hand into his pocket and holding out a pale hand.

"Erin, rest your hand softly in his, and smile, it's your wedding day." He says laughing at his own joke, not really.

I rest a hand in Levi's and look at his eyebrows instead of directly in his eyes, "So you're the princess of modeling, it's a pleasure to finally meet you, I'm surprised we haven't met sooner since we've been working as models since kids." Levi's speech surprises me, it's much different from how he speaks to the real me.

"Oh, well, I guess it's also I pleasure to finally meet you Levi Ackerman." I respond, I can vaguely hear the camera snapping all around us.

"Alright now Erin, I need you to rest your head on the inside of Levi's shoulder, and Levi please wrap your arms around Eren, and smile for me, think 'my wife is crying in such a cute way and I must protect her'."

Levi side eyes the photographer, but follows the directions anyway. I blush as I press my body to his and wrap my arms around his torso. I'm happy I wore the synthetic bra that smashes with contact or else I might have been in a lot more trouble. Levi rest a hand on the small of my waist, another low on hip.

"Surely you don't call that a smile Levi, It's your wedding day." Says Harry after taking a couple quick shots.

"Tch." He responds.

The studio goes dead silent for a moment.

"Perfect, a masterpiece!" Exclaims Harry as he starts to take a cluster of shots at every angle.

"So," Says Levi after a whole minute of this strange embrace, "Do like New York?"

"Ugh, I haven't really explored, but this one shoot I came down for, I think it was a Loreal Makeup one, well the company bought these amazing donuts for the cast, I wasn't allowed to have any of course, but they looked so good."

"Alright you guys can change into your next set of clothing back towards the dressing rooms. Be back soon though." Says Harry waving us off and ushering on a new girl with brown hair and blonde freckles across her face.

Levi walked beside me towards the dressing rooms, "So, where are you from?" I look up at him, my cheeks still red from our earlier encounter.

"Uu-umm," I quickly realize I can't say I'm from Sina Town or he might realize something is up, or even start to ask more questions, "I'm, from, umm, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania." I say I can feel my ears start to burn and I look away from Levi focusing my eyes ahead.

"Really, what do you do for fun up there?" He asks, his voice is aiming at me, so he must be looking, shit, he can probably see my ears.

"Oh um, don't have much time to hang out so I don't know." I say chuckling.

I risk looking at Levi only to see him giving me a judgmental look, or more so, my bright red ears.

"Hahaha," I laugh making Levi look me in the face, "Is something wrong." I ask while covering my ears.

"Uh, no not really, I just know this guy, you really remind me of him. Not that you're like a guy or anything, you guys just could be brother and sister."

I laugh nervously, "That's a coincidence huh?"

"Yea ha, I should go."

I tilt my head and then look away from him to see we are at the dressing rooms, "Oh Yea, I'll see you in a bit." I quickly jet away from him not wanting to lie anymore.

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Seriously, I have to dedicate this chapter to shitbandit they have taken the time out to read this book and added a bunch of my works to their reading list.  I always appreciate reader's like you, thank you so much for the support, the making of this work isn't possible without people like you!


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