Nina looked sideways at her reflection on the mirror in her bedroom. She stroked her slim waist and turned to Selena who had her eyes glued to her phone asking,
"Sel', do you think my waist got thicker?"
Without raising her head, Selena answered,
"It would be weird if it didn't get thicker, your appetite have been quite voracious in the past month.As a model, though you have a physique that doesn't allow you to get fat no matter what you eat, you should pay more attention to your figure or Charlie is gonna blame me for it"
Charlie was Nina's ace agent. He was the one who discovered Nina and thought to groom her into who she was right now. Nina started out as a model in high school when she was 18. Her modeling journey wasn't always this smooth at least not until she met Justin. Nina, Charlie and Selena were the founders of Globe Entertainment. Nina was the biggest shareholder of the company and managed the company from behind the scenes.
Selena and Charlie were also shareholders of the company.
Nina smiled when she remembered the forty-something year old carefree guy who didn't want to be the president of the company when they first started out three years ago.
"Why does it have to be me? Just get Selena to be the president or better still go hire the services of a CEO."
"Selena is just an assistant and doesn't have any experience managing but you do. As for hiring, I don't trust anyone apart from you"
Charlie couldn't bear to see her in a dilemma so he had no choice but to agree.
"On one condition"
"What condition?"
"I want to continue managing you. How can I allow my masterpiece to be another's?"
"Okay! Deal. I was worried about finding someone I am not familiar to work with before. Now I don't have to."
"What are you spacing out for?"
Nina got startled at Selena's voice and replied sillily,
"I was just thinking about Crazy Charlie.
Selena laughed out at the nickname,
"I still remember we gave him that nickname in high school. Acting crazy, he came up to us and asked you,"do you want to be popular?". Hahaha, who does that? We thought he must be a pervert and ran away but he still ran after us. Hahahaha. Everyday he would come at the closing hour to ask you if you wanted to be popular. Hahahaha, that was the time we labeled him Crazy Charlie." Selena said between sporadic laughs.
Nina also laughed fondly at the memory,
"I thought he was a scammer or a kidnapper who wanted to lure us with the promise of fame. So we always avoided and there was one time Big brother Brian almost beat him to death and threatened to call the police but he still came the other day" Nina said while stifling a laugh when she remembered how silly he was.
"We only believed him when he took us all to his little studio and he showed us all his legal documents. I then agreed to sign the contract with him at the time. Who would have thought that my one careless decision turned out to be one of the best i ever made?"
Selena nodded her head like a little chicken and replied smilingly,
"Hmm, he did keep his promise."
Nina abruptly remembered she had a photoshoot that morning and looked grudgingly at her little irresponsible assistant,
"Sel', don't you remember I have a photoshoot later this morning?"
Selena looked puzzlingly at her and answered,
"Of course I do remember, isn't it at 10am?
"You are really irresponsible, it is at 9am, not 10."
Selena jumped,
"I am dead, I am so dead! Charlie is gonna kill me if he finds out I got the time wrong again"
"Calm down, okay. It's only five minutes past eight. We can still make it if we go right now. I just don't want to have a reputation for being a diva"
"Yes yes, let's go quickly. I don't want to have a salary cut again. That capitalist is always looking for ways to save money" Sel' said as she grabbed Nina and dragged her along.
Selena shook her head amusingly at her friend and allowed her to drag her out.
* * *. * *
Nina was shooting the cover for a fashion magazine, Orchid. After the shooting session, the photographer came up to her,
"It was nice working with you, Nina."He raised his hand for a handshake and continued, "Every angle was perfect and your expressions was on point. I have been working with other models for a very long time but you could be said to be the model I am most satisfied with. I hope to work again with you"
Nina also raised her hand to shake his hands politely and withdrew hers speedily before it could make contact.
"You flatter me too much. It was also nice working with you. If there is a chance to work with you, I will gladly accept"
She then watched as the photographer went away.
Sel' came to her side saying Charlie wants her to come to the company.