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 Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 7:34 pm
Dante frowned a little as he stared at the sign advertising the little contest his modeling agency was holding. For a day only, one lucky winner would be chosen to have a photo session with any model the winner would choose. Said photos would be posted in the next magazine that would be coming out in the next month. "To add icing to the cake" as the phrase goes, the winner gets to keep the clothes they have worn during the photo shoot. It just so happened that his stage name, "Yoon", had also been listed under the available models to be partnered with. He never agreed to such a thing, did he? he looked over towards his manager and narrowed his deep blue eyes towards her. But it seemed that the glare had no affect on Victoria.
Oh no, the young man didn't really mind the idea at all. In fact, he adored meeting new people and perhaps to get a chance to take photos and meet his fans (if he had any). But being put up as a prize without any consent irked Dante a little.
To attempt to attract more people, of course the event had to be held at the mall, which was always filled with excited teenagers. Signs and advertisements had been placed all over. Although, personally, Dante would have thought that it should have been better organized. There were crowds of people pushing and shoving to sign up. Some girls seemed to be yelling out something in Japanese that Dante was unable to interpret to save his life. He mentally noted on needing to take some extra Japanese classes again in the near future.
The rules were;
1. Must be between the ages of 15-20.
2. Can be male or female.
3. Can't be photo shy.
The model tilted his head lightly at the third rule. Wasn't that kind of obvious?
Under the rules listed what the agency was looking for. Basically a person who was interesting. Apparently, personality didn't seem to matter in this contest. But before he could read the rest, Victoria was calling out to him.
"Dante, get ready to change your clothes in a few minutes. They want all the models to go out and greet the participants" And perhaps attract more attention.
Although that last bit wasn't said but had been implied by his manager. He merely shrugged his shoulders as she lightly pushed him into one of the stores that was participating in the event. It seemed today Yoon was going to dress in Visual Kei inspired clothing.
"Remember not to take too long in there. Your make up also needs to be done and that takes a good amount of time!" Victoria instructed.
Dante didn't give a reply as he was pushed into one of the private changing rooms. Checking the time on his cellphone, it had already been thirty minutes since sign-ups were open. Perhaps about an hour and a half left before they closed and "judging", or whatever the hell it was going to be called, began.
"Best not to waste time..." he mumbled to himself as he made sure the door was locked behind him before he began to tug off his sweater. It could have just been Dante's paranoia but he could have heard the sound of a camera click the minute his shirt was dropped to the floor.
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:54 am
 This is going to be such an AWESOME day!!! Ciri was hangin' around the mall like usual, but apparently, there was some sort of event this day, since there was way more people than usual. So, the curious beast that he was, he instantly started searching to get some info on what's happening. And it didn't take much time to get that info. "Like, SERIOUSLY?!" The shopkeeper girl in one of the newest fashion-oriented shop, told him everything he needed. Well, he was shopping there practically daily and stuff... "A photo shoot and we get to keep the clothes? That's beyond cool!" And soon, he found the advertisement signs, pointing to the right direction. Off we go, to grab the first prize...that ofcourse should be rightfully his, shouldn't it? He brushed his silky, blond hair with his fingers, ready to make a great entrance, when he noticed the unbelievable crowd, full of people trying to push aside each other, waiting to be signed up. Okay, this was so not fun. "...apparently, this agency sucks. Like, a lot. Was it organized like five minutes before it started or something..?"
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:21 am
By the time Dante had returned after getting his makeup done about a good thirty minutes seemed to have passed already. His face felt a little heavy since more makeup had been applied to his face than usual. His own hair, as usual, was covered with a long, slightly spiky, blond wig with several streaks of black in it.
His attire was a mix of black, red, and white. He lightly tugged at the belts that wrapped around his vest to make sure that they were tight. His pants were rather tight and clung onto his skinny (and embarrassingly feminine) legs. As usual, the boots he wore made him look slightly more taller than he really was which he was grateful for. Dante disliked having people look down on him due to his height, especially if it were a girl.
He wasn't sure if the crowd had gotten bigger or remained the same when he walked over towards the sign up area. The one thing that didn't change was the fact that everyone was still pushing their way through. That was a big problem considering the fact that he had to get past the crowd to reach the other side of the mall. It seemed the only option the model had was to do a little bit of crowd pushing of his own.
With a deep breath, he shoved himself through the sea of people while apologizing and frantically calling out "Excuse me!". It didn't seem to take long for a few people to realize who was trying to get by and Dante almost made a shriek that a little girl would do when he felt someone brush their hand on his neck (which was a rather sensitive area mind you.)
Luckily, he bit his cheek before he let such an awfully embarrassing sound escape. Eventually he was too tired to push since it seemed that nobody wanted to budge at all. If fact, Dante was actually being pushed around and eventually, he accidentally bumped into a someone next to him.
"A-ah, I'm so sorry...err..." He tilted his head at the blond next to him. The perk had long hair and looked very girly, Dante noted as his eyes grazed up and down the attire the other was wearing. He coughed slightly realizing that whatever he had been doing must have made him seem like a pervert checking someone out. "L-like I was saying....sorry....er...Miss?"
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:31 pm
"Like, ouch!" Suddenly someone passed through the crowd, and ended his glorious walk straight on Ciri, almost making him fall down. "Hey, like, watch a bit what you're...Oh-em-gee, those are some seriously sweet clothes! Like, where did you get them?!" It wasn't difficult to make the blonde distracted. A single glance on these stunningly incredible clothes was enough. Well, any goog clothes would do the trick. When thinking Ciri, clothes are serious business. Totally. So now, completely recovered after the bump (and the staring), the boy made two quick circles around the poor, unfortunate kid, and ended with touching the fabric carefully. "Like, seriously. Where did you get that? I totally need something similar! Thougm maybe less red, more pink. Or blue. Blue might look pretty good too, don'tcha think?"
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 2:56 pm
"L-like I said, I'm....sorry...?" Dante tilted his head in confusion as the "girl's" mood quickly switched. He nervously smiled as the other circled around him. "I...e-er...I'm glad you like these clothes..." Suddenly, he couldn't help but feel like he was also a walking advertisement.
"It seems that your in...er...line..." He paused and looked around. Could this really be called a line? "...for participate in this competition? The shop I got these clothes from are one of the sponsors for the event so you'll probably be seeing a lot of the clothes like these..." He turned over and pointed to the shop behind the sign up area. "I'm not sure if you can even see it but the store is called Vee-Kay."
He couldn't help but chuckle at Ciri's enthusiasm for fashion. "I'm not really much for pink, sadly. But I have to admit, blue would totally look awesome!"
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:51 pm
"Yeah, they're totally lovely!" Ciri grinned "And well, kinda, but I'm not sure... No idea who, like, organized this thing, but they totally ******** up. If I'd want to force myself through that...that crownd, I'd get totally sweaty and dirty and my hairdo would be, like, ruined! And just what kind of impression is that?!" "But well...if I'd really be able to get such lovely clothes as yours..." The boy sighed, and took out his cell phone. There's no way in hell he'd get into that sweaty mass of people. But what better makes such masses scatter than a bunch of angry, armed guys who look like they mean business? Now just to write a short text message to Misa-luv...
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:11 pm
Dante frowned and nodded. He couldn't help but agree that this event was poorly organized especially with crowd handling. "Yeah, I think the agency should have organized the event better and made the crowd more tolerable." He felt himself get pushed again but luckily, he didn't knock into Ciri again. "I feel bad that people like you have to endure something like this due to the staff's laziness..."
"I do like your sense of fashion though!" With this he gave a thumbs up to. "It's great to see people are willing to participate. I love fashion myself which is probably the reason why I entered and stayed in the modeling career. But even for me, this is ridiculous..." He lets out a nervous chuckle.
"Even though I should be wishing you good luck after you signed up, I should also wish you luck on actually getting to sign up.." Dante says, not realizing he might have to eat those words after seeing what Ciri had done.
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:33 pm
"Wow, so you're like, a real model?! That was to be totally cool, with all those clothes and stuff! How's the job anyway, I'm sure it has to be really fun!" "Well..." Ciri said "...I have to say I feel kinda lucky today...we shall see." The text message was a short one, but they didn't have to wait long for a result. Cause suddenly, a large group of scary, armed men (and one girl, actually. She even had a skirt. And a shinai.) entered the mall, and started slowly moving towards the contest's general direction. ...this is surely going to be interesting.
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:47 pm
Dante smiled and nodded his head. "Right! If you've seen the list of potential models you can partner with for photo shoots, my name is listed on the bottom as 'Yoon'"
"It's pretty cool. I get to keep all of the clothes that I've modeled for and I travel around a lot! I just find it kind of hard to talk to anybody without a translator though..." He didn't want to really go into the topic of how much his foreign language skills suck. "And if you don't mind managers that nag at you every second, then I'm sure you'll love the job!"
There was a bunch of things he was wanted to say but his sentence was cut off when a strange bunch of people had arrived on the scene and heading over towards their direction. "U-uh...something tells me they don't plan on entering this competition...." In fact, Dante was very curious as to how the group even managed to get past security with weapons.
Was mall staff seriously this crappy?!
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:08 pm
"So your name is Yoon? Nice to meet'cha." The girl smiled. "I'm Ciri." He listened to the explanation of the job, smiling widely and nodding from time to time. "That sounds, like, totally dreamy! And I'm pretty good with ignoring the nagging. Who knows, maybe I'd, like, really like it? We'll see after today, if I'll manage to get to the beginning of that 'line'... ...And it seems I will, he thought, when he saw the incomming trouble. He recognized some of the faces, though only a few. There was much more people than when Misa came to fetch him from the airport. And wow were they armed! They must be quite good to manage to bring this all in... ...or they just simply have inside connections. Whatever. As long as it works, it's good. "We better move away a bit, Yoon." The blonde giggled "...it seems they're comming this way."
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:17 pm
"It's a pleasure to meet you too Ciri." Dante smiled feeling slightly guilty for not revealing his real name.
The smile was immediately dropped as he followed Ciri's instruction to move away a little. He prayed that the crowd of people had noticed the dangerous looking group and backed off as well. He'd hate to see anybody get injured.
But what disturbed Dante greatly was the fact that Ciri was giggling. Was this amusing to "her"?
"Shouldn't the mall security be here by now?!"
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Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:28 pm
"Dunno." He shrugged. "Maybe they, like, don't care. Or maybe they were paid by those people." That was his only anwser, as he watched the gang getting through the 'queue', pushing away random people, and sending a few punches. But no major bloodshed just yet. Still, tht was enough for most of the people to scatter. And for others, to go search for before-mentioned security. "Takes them quite a while, don't cha think?" It would surely be amusing to see them fight with the security guards. But if there really was some sort of agreeement, then the gang will probably move away as soon as they'll show up. And that'd be even more boring. "But apparently, I'm really lucky today." The blonde laughed. "See? Almost all those people disappeared. Now if only those other people would kindly move away so the judges will be able to return, I could totally sign up."
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Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:56 pm
Dante couldn't help but gawk at the scene before him. He inwardly winced after witnessing someone getting punch and unconsciously reached over to put a hand next to his cheek. His attention was then back towards Ciri and he wasn't sure whether to be disturbed by the blonde's reaction or be a little surprised.
He quickly looked over to the sign up table and noticed that indeed, the judges had quickly move away from the scene out of terror. Several minutes later, the sound of whistles could be heard indicating that someone had finally brought over the security to clear up the mess.
"Looks like Security finally arrived. Although I'm not sure if others are even willing to sign up now..."
Although much to his surprise, that there were still quite a few that avoided the beating decided to stay. Dante lightly shrugged his shoulders. As long as he was still getting paid and wasn't getting sued in any shape or form, it didn't really matter to him.
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