EXTRAVAGANT

Photographer

Finn was training to be a photographer. He had signed up to be the assistant of a vogue camera person.

He walked into the studio and quickly shook hands with the lady. "Oh Darling. I'm Tara. Today, we have new models coming in to represent different part of the world. First is Erica, representing Africa, then Sadie, representing Ireland, Iris, representing Germany and finally Millie, representing England."

Finn nodded. He couldn't possibly remember that order. He decided to just stick to being the person that went out to fetch coffees and bagels for the models and Tara. He just wanted to watch Tara as she took the photos. He was going to be here today for ten hours.

"Alright, Erica is outside, be a darling and go out and help her carry her stuff, would you Finn?" Tara asked taking a bite of her bagel.

Finn nodded and walked sighing. This was going to be a long day

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They were finishing up Iris's photo shoot. Jesus, he thought. These models had ridiculous outfits. He was eager to finish the job for two reasons.

One. He was tired. Two, the last two models had tried to slip him there numbers.

"Millie! Come on!" Tara yelled. She was clearly stressed from taking photos of the last three girls.

The shy short brunette came forward.

Finn was lost in her beauty. She smiled at him before quickly running into her change room. Finn was astonished. He was kind of excited to see what outfit she put on.

After twenty minutes, Tara got impatient.

"Finn! Go tell Millie to hurry it up or else we'll be here all night!" She said pulling at her hair.

"b-but.. It's the ladies change room."

"B-but. Oh psh. A boy your age should be happy to do that. Now go ahead and do it!" Tara copied him.

Finn, not wanting to lose his job, quickly ran to alert Millie.

"Hey!" He said knocking on the door.

"Umm hi.." She said through the door.

"Listen.. it's Finn. Tara said to hurry up."

"Um. Could you come in and help me.."

"S-Sure.." He said walking in.

He glanced at Millie on the floor.

"C-could you help me with my makeup? I'm not very good." She asked.

He nodded and joined her on the floor.

He added a little blush and some light eyeshadow. Then he put on some winged eye liner and put mascara on her.

"Wow. How'd you learn how to do this?"

"My sister Natalia made me do it for her." He said sheepishly.

"Thank you so much!" She said hugging him.

Quickly they both rushed out to Tara.

"What took you both so long?" Tara said sipping her espresso and cocking an eyebrow.

"Nothing." Finn said looking at his shoes.

"Whatever." Tara said rolling her eyes.

They started posing and taking photos. Millie was basically a natural.

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After finishing the photo shoot. Millie packed her stuff.

Finn walked into her dressing room.

"Hey finn."

"Hey mils, I think you did great."

"Thanks. I don't think Tara thought so though." She said sighing.

"Don't worry. I was there for all of the other girls photo shoots. You were the best."

"By the way, Finn. You wouldn't mind giving me your number would you?" Millie asked sheepishly.

"S-Sure." He said. A girl had never asked for his number before.

She giggled.

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Two weeks later. Tara called Finn.

"Hello Finn?"

"Tara? You fired me."

Tara had fired Finn after Millie left that day.

"Yeah.. I'm sorry. Listen, out of all the four girls I had to pick one, Millie stood out and won. I don't have her number to call her and let her know... do you?"

"Uh yeah. Do you want me to give you her number?" He asked.

"No I want you to tell her, okay bye thanks." Tara hung up before Finn had a chance to say anything else.

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"Hello?"

"It's Finn."

"Oh! Hey!"

"Congrats mils, you won the magazine cover."

"Really?!"

"Yeah.."

"Are you going to be there?"

"Oh, no. I was fired after you left."

"Oh I'm so sorry."

"It's fine."

"I don't want to do the cover anymore."

"W-what?" He asked shocked.

"If they fire you then I don't want to do it." She said shrugging.

"Are you sure?" He asked concerned.

"Yes finn. Goodbye. Call me later. I gotta let Tara know."

"Okay, Bye." He said