Dreamful

 

DREAMFUL

  CHAPTER:21

       ...It was Saturday, the day Destiny had been waiting all her life...her first-ever professional photoshoot day and she was exuberant about it. She quickly took a shower and got dressed in a white cropped tee shirt and some dark denims, put up a messy bun of her black medium-length hair, and chose a pair of knee-high boots to go along with her look. She decided to not do any makeup as it was no use since the pageant would anyways provide the services. She took her black furry jacket off the hook of her bedroom door...it was a chilly Amsterdam morning and without a jacket, one could freeze, so it was mandatory.

"Look who's ready?", she said, closing the bedroom door behind her. Mrs. Decker and Grace looked up at her with their smiles.

"You look amazing! All the best, Dez...make us proud!", Grace said, hugging her younger sister.

"I'm so thrilled today.", Mrs. Decker said looking at Destiny with a smile. Destiny got out of her house and reached the bus stand. The bus to 'Starry Studios' would take her forty-five minutes to get there. Of course, it was a long way but she didn't mind it. She killed half the time in the bus by looking outside and thinking of some new poems, and half of it by listening to her favorite beats. She reached the studios and was amazed to see the beauty of it. She had always longed for a professional photoshoot and that was the day it was finally happening. She saw girls whom she had seen previously during the interview rounds and then she also didn't see the ones who were present before...she silently thanked the Almighty for her success, touched her necklace, and went ahead. Andy, Edwin, and Ryan were the people she saw right away, they were right at the entrance of the main hall. Ryan and Andy were sitting while Edwin was standing, leaning at the table, talking to them. He looked heart-throbbing gorgeous in a full black leather jacket and denims with blue vans. It's not that he had spent like two hours in front of the mirror trying his best to look good...he had done nothing, absolutely nothing, he could look cool in anything. He looked towards Destiny and smiled slightly, then quickly went back to talking to Andy...' that was rude...', Destiny thought, she hadn't seen Edwin at the gym since the day she got her e-mail, in short, she hadn't seen him since four days. She walked ahead and saw a lot of assistants who were guiding everybody.

"Good Morning! What's your name?", a lady asked her.

"Good Morning, I'm Destiny".She searched for her name on the list and wrote something.

"Miss. Destiny Decker, please go there...", the lady said, pointing to a section,"...your prep for the shoot will start in five minutes. Have a good day!".She smiled and thanked the lady. As she arrived in the section, there were four chairs neatly arranged in front of a large vanity mirror with pastel pink lights. There were around six stylists.

"Hii! You muzt be Deztiny, come on girl! Let'z get you ready!", a woman, about her mom's age, said in a happy tone.

"Mum! We need to firzt get her outfit done! If zhe wear it later, it will zpoil her makeyup!", a girl, quite elder than her said.'Why do they talk in such tones?!', Destiny thought, confused.

"Zilly girl, you! We need to do her hair firzt!-"

"Girlz!!!", the lady who was in charge of the makeup shouted, "The lazt thing you want is for Andy to know how unplanned we are! Zaren is right, she firzt needs to get her outfit done!".Destiny guessed that the shouting lady was their mother and Zaren was her daughter who was the fashion stylist...but the only thing she couldn't guess was their use of a 'z' instead of a 's'...it felt weird to hear. Zaren then took Destiny to the changing room and showed her the dress. They were going for a 'galaxy' theme for the shoot and hence her outfit was a frilled purplish-black mermaid-cut dress with off-shoulder frilled sleeves, bling and sparkle all over it, and little yellow moon patterns on the netted frills of the dress. It looked heavenly and Destiny fell in love with the dress the moment she saw it. She got in the outfit and looked at herself in the mirror...the dress was too heavy but no doubt it was prepossessing. She got out of the room and saw some other girls who had arrived as well...their outfits were different, though they had the same 'galaxy' theme, everyone's was a different cut or a different style, or a different patterned.

She saw Stephanie sitting on the chair next to her. She wore a galaxy-themed black A-line dress with little stars all over it and her face dulled down when she saw Destiny.

"Who is selecting our outfits? Can I please know?!", she said, in a loud voice to the hairstylist who was busy doing her hair.

"It's selected by your team, I'm not sure who in particular.", the lady doing the hair replied. Stephanie murmured something angrily under her breath and went back to texting on her mobile. It was clear that she was green with envy seeing Destiny's outfit. Destiny sat down in her chair and the lady who was makeup-in-charge started doing her makeup.

"Umm...sorry to interrupt, but can I please not have the cake face makeup...just a personal choice...", Dez said, before the lady could apply a thousand layers of foundation.

"No problem, no problem! We will get you ready in simplistic-party look!", she replied. It took about half an hour for Destiny's makeup...she looked at herself in the mirror...purple blingy smokey eyes, with some peach tone lipstick ...she liked it...it was exactly how she wanted it to be...not too heavy.

"Before you ztart your hairztyle...I completely forgot! We need to get your accezzoriez and footwear done too!", said Zaren, coming out of nowhere. Her mother glared at her and said,

"Do you really want Andy to expel uz?!"

"I'm zorry, mum! I forgot! Come on, Deztiny!", she said, quickly taking Dez to the styling room again. She presented a pair of minimalist medium-length diamond earrings and a diamond choker....it perfectly went with the outfit. As for her footwear, she was given a pair of purple plain almond toe pumps.

"Oh great...you look beautiful already! Now quickly go and get your hair done! Good Luck!", Zaren said.

                                                                        TO BE CONTINUED...

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