| CHALLENGE PART 5 _________________________________________________________________________________________ The rest of the day flew by. We ate pizza. I got to know Cherry. We took more pictures.They each got to keep one outfit as payment for their services. There was no doubt which one Nathaniel was keeping. They decided to take me out for dinner at Lunatic Café, a local restaurant run and mostly frequented by weres. We dropped off the film to once again have proofs made, so I could pick them up after dinner and then spend the rest of the night making enlargements of the best ones for the presentation to Jacqueline. The food was fantastic and so was the company. Once I had gotten accustomed to the skin prickling energy of the room I was fine. I was starting to feel as though all my senses were heightened. We all sat around the table talking and laughing for hours. I couldn’t help but noticed that Nathaniel’s knee had been pressed against my leg the entire evening, actually any chance he got all day he had found some small way to touch me, whether it be to brush hair off my shoulder or take something from my hands or to just accidentally brush up against me. Of course I didn’t mind; it just made me wonder what he was up to. They dropped me back at the studio after picking up the pictures. I said my goodbyes, promising I would join them at another club, Danse Macbre, the following evening. I didn’t get home until 8am. I had handed Jacqueline the pictures as she came in for the day, surprised that I was still there. She was very pleased with the outcome, loving all the pictures, saying she had made a good investment in me and that what I had presented her with was even better than the portfolio I had sent her. I told her a photographer is only as good as the models he or she works with and that they were all very happy with their payment. _________________________________________________________________________________________ PART 6 INDEX |