Chapter 4
She was back at Multimedia at exactly 4 o'clock not wanting to be late
again. She
was directed to the back of the building into a big room where tables were set
up as well
as about fifty rows of chairs. The secretary pointed her towards a door in a
corner of the
room.
"That's where they'll be expecting you. Everything you need is already
in there,
but if you do find you need something just pick up the phone and press *9,
ok?
"That's great, thanks" Rachel replied.
She walked to the other side of
the
room, and knocked on the door before she went in. To her surprise absolutely
noone was
there. Maybe this time she had been a little too early. Rachel closed the door
and noticed
what the secretary had meant by "everything you need." There was a long counter
full of
make-up. Everything in every color in every brand was there.
"Man, and I'm
only
going to be working on guys today, I wish I could use all this stuff," she
thought
aloud.
"Maybe you can"
Rachel nearly jumped across the room, hearing the
voice out of nowhere. There was A.J with a big smile across his face.
"Oh
sorry,
that's the second time I've scared you today"
She couldn't help but
smile.
"What
are you doing here so early?"
"Uhhh, well I hadn't had a chance to eat yet
today, so I
broke away from the guys to get lunch, and then figured I was going to need to
be here in
15 mins. So I just decided to see if anything interesting was going on, and I
found
you."
"Oh I see" Rachel said slowly,"Now what did you mean by 'maybe you
can'"
"Weeeelll, you said you wanted to use some of that makeup, and we've
got
some time to spare, so what are we waiting for?"
"You mean put it on you? No
way!!"
"Aww come on, don't be so dull. You know you wanna."
"Well yeah
but.."
"Ok then its settled. So how'bout we start with some of this bright
blue
eyeshadow?"He rubbed his hands together. "Haha, this will be so fun"
"You
know,
I'm thinking your getting a little too excited about putting makeup on, maybe we
shouldn't go through with this.." I said apprehensively
"Nah I just wanna
make sure
you got what it takes. I don't let just anyone put makeup on me you
know."
"Well in
that case..."In ten minutes time I had A.J looking like the only drag queen in
Orlando
with a goatee.
"Look, I should apologize for how rude I was to YOU today. If
I
would have known it was you A.J, I could have understood your "emergency"
better, and
wouldn't have been such a bitch"
AJ was about to say something, but before he
could
the room was crowded with people, including the rest of the group.
"A.J,
looking
hot!!" someone yelled.
"Oh my god!!" Nina cried, "This is not what we wanted
Rachel!!"
"Yo yo Nina chill, it was my idea. Rachel was just doing as I
asked," A.J
said in my defense.
"Oh well in that case, I apologize Rachel. But if could
please
make Alex, Alex again and not Alexa, that would be great, we have a lot to do
before this
conference. Hurry it up people!" she ran off in another direction, but then sped
by AJ and
Rachel again seconds later.
"Is she always that...stressed?" Rachel asked,
while
removing the fake eyelashes from his already lengthy ones.
"Yeah, pretty
much.
Before everything she gets really uptight. I mean don't get me wrong, the lady
is an angel,
but she cares about us and our image so much that it tends to get her really
stressed out
sometimes."
After Rachel had applied a light cover up to his skin, he was ready to go, and
obviously needed to be there quick because he jumped out of his chair and ran
off into
another part of the dressing room. Nick was next in the chair. They didn't talk
much and
it didn't really seem like he wanted to be there. But Rachel knew better then to
ask him
what was up, so she finished applying the powder to his face, and let him go
about his
own thing. After Howie, and Bryan were done, Kevin plopped down in the chair
with a
big sigh.
"Ahhh, it feels good to sit down."
He had his eyes closed for a
couple of
minutes before coming back to reality. "So how is your first day
going?"
"Very
smoothly, except when Nina got mad at for putting all this makeup on A.J"
He
started laughing really hard, before calming down and collecting himself
again."Ohhhhh,
you gotta love Nina, she's the greatest" He looked really good in the shirt he
was wearing.
It was kind of tight, really pronouncing his pecs and his muscular arms. Rachel
quickly
looked away before he caught her staring.
"So are you excited for the tour?"
she
asked, hoping to keep her mind off his body as much as possible.
"Europe is
beautiful. The shopping, the fans, the sights. Its all good. Sometimes it gets
lonely
though. You tend to get used to that after a while"
"Ok boys, its
time to get
out there and answer some questions" Nina yelled.
"Well its
showtime, gotta
run" Kevin said, while stretching and standing up. "By the way,.... great job"
he said,
cracking a really sexy smile.
After the press conference was over, Rachel
didn't see
the guys because they had to run off somewhere, but she was more than surprised
to find
A.J on her front doorstep that night.
Chapter 5
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