The Agreste Internship - Book 2

Chapter 6: Your Chat is Showing

The photoshoot for today was taking place in a beautiful beach house that resembled a castle. Outdoors, it had a large private patio and gardens that backed up to the beach, and it also had a large Olympic sized pool. Inside it looked like it was straight out of a magazine. The place was usually booked for destination weddings, so Bridgette had to pull quite a few strings to get it booked with such short notice. 

Mari brought a box into the main ballroom of the house and set down on a table. She looked at the call sheet and read the list of items. She was supposed to get a golden shawl and a black belt from the box, but there were 13 different kinds of golden scarfs, and even more different kinds of black belts.

Not wanting to get it wrong, Mari went to go find Bridgette. She was in the hallway, yelling at some movers to rearrange the furniture. Bridgette was dressed in an ivory one-piece jumper, and she was wearing even higher heels then she wore yesterday. Marinette cleared her throat to get Bridgette's attention. 

She snapped her gaze over to the intern and lowered her sunglasses to glare at her. "Can't you see I'm busy, intern?"

"Which one am I supposed to pick?" Marinette asked. 

"Don't bore me with questions. Read the call sheets and figure it out..." She waved her away with a flick of her hand. 

Marinette sighed and picked the pieces that she looked the best then put them next to the right Call sheets. When she returned to the first set she saw Lila sitting down, texting on her phone. "Lila, aren't you supposed to be working?"

Lila's eyes narrow and she glares at Mari as she puts her phone away. "Am I? Maybe I should just tell those reporters that I saw you come out of Adrien's hotel room this morning. In the same clothing as yesterday."

"Nothing happened!" Mari gasped.

"But would people actually believe that you spent the night in the hotel room of sex symbol Adrien Agreste, and you didn't do anything? Who do you think they are going to believe?"

Mari gaped at her. "You wouldn't..." No, it was Lila. Of course, she would.

"If you get all my work done, and do it better than the work that you are supposed to do, then maybe I'll consider not telling the tabloids. And it's a good thing you just turned 18, or this would be a real scandal." Lila gave her one last look before she wandered off out of view. 

Great, just what I needed. Mari was glad for how perfect everything was last night because, without that, her perfect Birthday would have been ruined. At least she would see Adrien soon when they got to work. 

Mari now had to do everything double time so that she could complete her work and Lila's work on time. She was so busy that she didn't even notice Adrian when he came onto the job site.

Adrien walked up to Bridgette, who was in the middle of yelling at an interior designer who is supposed to be setting up the scene for the photoshoot. To make it authentic, they had gone through great lengths to set up the ballroom area so it would look like a Prom or another semi-formal event. They even wanted to do a short video promo for the website. 

Bridgette was pulling out all the stops to make things look spectacular. Which included a lot of yelling at various people. "No, no, no! Do not put the orange accent pieces with those-- that looks bizarre. And take that piece away, it's hideous!"

But her demeanor changed instantly when she saw Adrien come in. "Oh there you are, you are early. We aren't ready for the models yet."

"I'm taking the day off."