CHAPTER 16

Clyde entered a massive room on that floor. She trailed after him, her eyes wandering across the room. She saw several pieces of equipment that were used for the pictorials. She even saw an umbrella-like object, and she guessed it to be something that the photographers used to manipulate the lighting.

There weren’t many people there. When she saw that Clyde placed all of the clothes that he was holding on a big table in the corner, she put the ones that she was carrying there as well. After getting the weight of the clothes off her arms, she stretched them as they had become sore already.

"Alright, just wait for Zara here." Clyde faced her, fixing the wristwatch that he was wearing.

"Thanks, Sir." Her smile was wide, it seemed like she was acting cute as she fixed her glasses.

The guy only nodded at her before walking out of the room. When the guy was no longer in sight, she roamed her eyes in the room once more. It was the same room as the studios that she would often see for pictorials, but the room itself seemed bigger. Her eyes stopped at the clothes on the table. She quickly arranged them and decided to place them on an empty rack that she saw.

Zara would really get mad and scold her again because of that. She just tried her best to make the dress more presentable, cleaning them off from the dirt using her bare hands.

She turned her head to the door of the room when it opened, and there came a sexy girl who was clinging to Kyle's arm. Both of them were almost the same height because of the length of the heels that the girl was wearing.

"I really enjoyed it last night, Kyle. When will we have a pre-shooting again?” she said in a seductive voice before laughing as if there was someone who was tickling her.

Even before Kyle got the chance to talk, the girl talked again.

"How about tonight?" She grabbed his chin as if she was about to kiss him.

"Well, grandma will arrive tonight so I won't be available," he replied to her.

"Hmmm, too bad. I'm still craving for you." Her voice was still seductive, and she was about to kiss the guy when she cleared her throat to get their attention, telling them that she was also there. It’d be chaos if she’d witnessed something she wasn’t allowed to witness.

The two immediately looked at him. She even saw how the girl looked at her from head to toe, her hand still clinging into Kyle’s arm.

"Who are you?" she asked with her forehead creased.

She was about to open her mouth to answer her question when Kyle talked.

"This is Natasha. She’s the one who replaced Laila. Natasha, meet Nicole. You will be assisting her today," Kyle introduced Natasha to the girl.

The girl just stared at her and didn’t say anything.

"Hi, Miss Nicole," she said, smiling.

Once again, she didn’t answer, and just took her hand off Kyle’s arm when she noticed that Natasha was arranging the clothes in the rack.

"What should I wear for today's photoshoot, Kyle? I was wearing nothing when we had our pre-shoot session last night," she said in a seductive tone of voice while looking at the clothes. She turned her head towards the guy, and just gave him a meaningful look.

Natasha was quick to grimace.

Disgusting! They were literally flirting in front of her. Kyle just laughed a little before answering. He was already near the rack of clothes as well, looking at them. She noticed that there was a camera that was hanging on his neck.

Her forehead creased. Kyle was the photographer of his own company?

She noticed how his face became serious as he was choosing the clothes. It looked like he didn’t like anything that was in there. His gaze soon stopped at her before looking at the clothes that she was wearing.

Natasha’s forehead creased when he was already in front of her, looking at her outfit. He didn’t say anything and just walked in the direction of the big cabinet nearby that she hadn’t noticed a while ago. The guy opened it, and she saw that there were a lot of clothes in there. He looked back and forth on the clothes in the cabinet and the clothes that she was wearing.

She was wearing a checkered long sleeves polo that had a variety of colors. She tucked it inside her yellow slacks.

He took clothes out before placing them on the chair in front of him. Nicole walked towards the direction of the chair where the clothes are and looked at them, She raised a pair of ruffled long sleeves that was colored orange. Disbelief was evident in the girl’s countenance as she stared at the top.

"Are you serious, Kyle? This is what I'm going to wear?"

The guy just gave her a short glance before looking through the different clothes in the cabinet again.

"One of them, yeah," he just said briefly.

"Are you trying to make me look like a clown?" There was a mixture of annoyance and shock in Nicole’s countenance when the clothes had been put back on the chair, and when she looked at the clothing that had a yellow color and was obviously too big for her. She quickly placed it back on the chair, disgust plastered right across her face.

When Kyle had already finished choosing clothes, she saw that he had already settled with a pair of orange long sleeves, and a skirt that was orange as well before giving those to Nicole.

"Alright, change first. If you need Tash to assist you then just call her anytime." She could no longer see the playful look that she would often see on the guy’s face. It was like he was in a serious mode already.

"But..." The girl was about to complain but stopped upon seeing the blank expression on Kyle’s face when he looked at her. The model’s face had a huge scowl on it when she took the clothes and turned her back. She even gave her a glare when she passed by her.

The girl stopped on a part where there was a huge cover made of thick cloth. She thought that that was the place where the models would change for the pictorials.

She was startled when there was a light that was flashed in front of her face. When she looked in the direction of it, she saw that Kyle was taking pictures of her.

She opened her eyes and was about to go to him to tell him to stop doing whatever he was doing, but the guy opened his mouth to talk.

"Don't move, Tash. I just need to check if the pictures will be alright if the model is wearing those bright clothes like yours,” he said, still taking pictures.

Natasha didn’t know what to do and just stood there, dumbfounded, as there were flashes everywhere because of the camera that he was holding.

"Okay, thanks," he then said after he probably took enough pictures of her.

"I look like a funny mascot!" Kyle and she looked at the girl both at the same time when she went out of the dressing area.

‘Now she looks like a clown!’ she thought to herself upon seeing the girl.

If Kyle was making her an inspiration for the outfit of the girl, did that mean that she also looked like a clown?

"No, it's fine, Nicole. Tash, please assist Nicole, and fix her hair just like you fix your own,” commanded Kyle.

The girl’s eyes widened even more after hearing what Kyle said.

"Is this a prank, Kyle? Do you want me to look like her? Why not make her your model instead?!" She almost looked like a raging buffalo because of the annoyance plastered across her face.

"What's the commotion all about?" It was Zara’s voice that they heard when she suddenly entered the room. She was already near them before looking at Nicole.

The girl immediately chortled as she looked back at Nicole and Natasha. She was already holding her stomach because of how hard she was laughing.

She saw the frown on Nicole’s face as she glared at Zara.

"Wow! Now I no longer know who my assistant is,” she said, still laughing.

"Enough, Zara. There's nothing wrong with her looks.” Kyle’s voice was cool when he said that before going in front where the photoshoot would be held.

He already chose a background for the photos, and he also fixed the lighting to be used there.

She didn’t know what she should feel because it was like Kyle was making a laughing stock out of her even when it didn’t really look like that it was the guy’s intention. Still, that was what she felt.

‘You’re still very annoying until now, Kyle!’ her mind angrily said before glaring at the busy guy.