Cover Girl [Completed]

Chapter 1

 [Nick]

My life has never been easy. I was the result of a one-night stand where my father got my mother pregnant in the bathroom of a 7-11 somewhere between Orlando and Tampa, Florida. My father did the noble thing and married my mother and that lasted all but six months before she found him cheating on her and went into labor with me.

That's been my story since then. I came into this world as a mistake and I've been making mistakes since. I dropped out of high school at sixteen and that was a mistake. I got a girl pregnant - not once, but twice - and started working for my father's employer, a construction company. I ended up getting my GED and going to community college.

Then I went to a specialty school in Florida where I learned about my passion - film.

Ever since I saw "Alien" and "The Goonies," I knew I wanted to make movies. I wanted to be behind the camera and write my own movies. I got sidetracked in high school but ultimately, I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, in filmmaking after working full time and going to school full time. I didn't sleep much those five years, but I made it. At 26, I graduated college and began doing camera work for different production companies around central and south Florida.

Then one of my professors at school told me about a job opening for a camera operator in Los Angeles for Warner Brothers lot. It was my chance to make it in California and finally break into the real industry of filmmaking. I could save up enough money and make my own movie to get noticed. This was the dream and I knew it had to come true.

Then I got the call one day while sitting in the office of Hillsborough County Middle School and found out I got the job. They saw my demo reel and all of the experience I had and hired me.

Moving to Los Angeles was my dream and I knew it was going to change my life. I just didn't realize it would change my life as much as it did.

I guess, in all, it changed my life for the better.

[/Nick]

Nick Stewart stood outside of a soundstage on the Warner Brothers lot, pacing around on a hot August afternoon. He already had his new ID badge on, showing that he wasn't a weirdo or a creep and that he belonged there.

He did, he belonged there.

That's what he kept telling himself when he began questioning his move to Los Angeles.

He took all of his savings, moving himself to California to try and live out his dream. He was done with his mother, who could barely manage her restaurant. He was done with his father, who was in prison and hadn't heard from his ex-girlfriend in almost eight years so he was way done with her.

There was nothing in Florida for him anymore. His life was in California now.

At 28-years-old, he was finally starting his life.

"Nick Stewart," he heard someone say as he turned around, seeing a tall, slender man before him. "Ricky Roberts. I'm the set manager," he said as they shook hands. "Human Resources told you what you would be doing, right?"

"They said I would be doing camera work for a television show, but didn't say which one," Nick said, following Ricky as he walked quickly through the soundstage. Nick looked around, trying to figure out what show he was going to be working on. Most of all, he was taking in his surroundings. This was the dream. "I don't care which show it is, to be honest. I'm just thankful for the job."

"You seem eager," Ricky smiled. "You're going to be working on 'Cover Girls,' you've heard of that right?" Nick nodded. "It has been on the air for two seasons, we're starting our third when production starts today."