Chapter 2

He looked young, she thought he couldn't possibly be a day over thirty. Dressed in a fine charcoal suit, white shirt, and red tie that fit his tall, lean body perfectly.

He had unruly jet black hair that just screamed for a woman's hands to be ran through it.

Audrey felt bewildered over this man with the olive colored skin and his piercing deep gray eyes. Feeling her lungs start to burn, she then realized that she'd been holding her breath as she stared at the well built man that stood in front of her and Cassidy.

Quickly glancing away, she felt her cheeks flush as she looked down at her work clothes with embarrassment, wondering what he might think of her batter splattered clothing.

What the hell was I thinking agreeing to help?! There was no way anyone would even want to glance at Cassidy's marvelous creations if I was the one wearing them.

"Are you ready for the show?" He asked Cassidy in a voice that sent chills down my spine. "There were some last minute problems but I got them all figured out thanks to Audrey."

He then turned towards me and I felt my cheeks get even hotter.

"Well I guess that is good to hear, I'm Sebastian Hale" he said as he held out his hand "Au...Audrey Rayner" she stuttered out as she took his outreached hand then pulled it back quickly when she felt a slight spark of electricity. He gave her a curious look. She noticed his pupils get larger and the gray of his eyes look deeper. Then the look he gave her vanished as quickly as it appeared. It made her feel as if he might be hiding something.

"The guest should start arriving shortly, hopefully everything should go as well as planned. I'm looking forward to seeing your work. Ms. Corday, Ms.Raynes" he nodded his departure then headed toward the chairs. Cassidy hurried her into the dressing area and set her at a chair in front of a lit up vanity table and mirror. "My lord that man is FINE, what I wouldn't do to get me some of that!" Cassidy giggled.

"yeah he's alright" Audrey replied

"Are you fucking kidding me that man looks like one fine piece of ass, I could only imagine how he would be in bed!" Cass said as she waved her hand in front of her face like she was hot. "Ok he is very dreamy but I'm not going to drool over him when I have no chance in hell with a guy like that anyway. He could have any woman he wanted!" she said as she looked at herself in the mirror.

"Audrey when are you gonna quit putting yourself down? you need to get that botox queen bitch of a mother you have outta your damn head! Just watch when you are all prettied up and walking down that runway I know your gonna turn some heads especially since you'll be wearing something that I designed!" Cass smiled.

"You are so full of yourself. How I have tolerated you for the last sixteen years I have no idea."

"Just shut up and sit still I'm going to go get Rachel the stylist to come do your hair and make-up the show starts in ten minutes and I have to go make sure the other girls look okay to go on so I don't have much time." Cassidy hurried away and five minutes later the stylist showed up. "Hey I'm Rachel how about you take your hair down so I can see what I have to work with." she said getting right to the point. "I'm Audrey and I seriously doubt I have much for you to work with at all." she replied while undoing the knot on her head. Her hair flowed all the way down her back to the top of her hip. "Jess, Ryan I am gonna need some help over here! My God girl I have no clue why you keep all this gorgeous hair wrapped up on top of your head, I mean seriously its beautiful!" When Rachel's help walked over they excitedly talked among themselves with all their ideas. "Ok Ryan you help me with the hair and Jess you do the make-up!" Rachel ordered.

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Forty-two minutes later she was staring at herself in a full length mirror. She absolutely could not believe it was herself, her hair was up in a fancy clip with cascading curls and tendrils hanging down both sides of her face.

She was wearing very light make-up but it still made her face feel heavy since she rarely ever wore any. Cassidy had put her in a short, strapless, stunningly red tulle dress with a sweetheart neck line that showed what little cleavage she had, the top half of the front was full of silver sequins while the backside was tied up like a corset.

This was the first time she thought of her self as beautiful and the dress really did fit her perfectly and the red looked amazing against her soft fair skin.

"Oh my god you look freaking awesome! I told you that you would!" Cassidy shouted from behind her.

"Now you just need to take off those ugly ass glasses, you don't even need them unless you have your head inside one of those damn cook books you always read." she said as she pulled them off Audrey's face.

"I don't want to lose them." Audrey whined as she tried to grab them back.

"Believe me these old things need to be lost!" Cass laughed.

"Fine I won't wear them but put them up, I want them back as soon as your done making me play dress up." she snarked. "Ok now put these on." Cassidy handed her a pair of strappy silver stilettos. Audrey's mouth fell open into a big O.

"Are you serious those will kill me, don't you have something else I could wear something a little lower or a lot lower like some cute flatts or maybe even flip flops?"

"Uh Uh these are it sunshine now strap them on and try to walk in them for a second you are wearing my finale design which means you are on in five, just pretend you are carrying one of those fancy wedding cakes you make!" Cass smirked

"You'll be fine just stop thinking so much. You look hot bitch now go out there, work it, and sell my dress!"

She grabbed the heels from Cass then turned away to go sit down as put the death traps on her feet. Three minutes later she had them on then steadily rose to her feet while trying not to fall. With only about a minute left she slowly walked to the curtain while praying that she wouldn't fall.

Ok easy now you can do this just one step at a time... she made it to the curtain thankfully with both feet still attached, then peeked out.

"Holy shit" she said to herself, there were a lot of people. She really started to pray that she wouldn't mess up and embarrass herself or Cassidy.

She took a deep breath as she waited. The model that had just walked off the runway slid past the curtain and gave Audrey the que that told her she was up.

As she walked out the light got a lot brighter and the sequins on the dress really stood out as they sparkled in the light.

She tried to keep a strait serious looking face as she made her way down the runway.

"Oh thank god i made it all the way down now to just turn back around...." Audrey thought to herself.

She was getting ready to turn but then tripped on the five inch heels she was wearing and fell forward, if she would have went slightly more to left she knew she would have went straight into the pool. Then right when she thought she was going to hit the ground something hard caught her, a pair of arms and when she looked up she was staring into a set of deep gray eyes.