Holly May
Dawn surveyed her spare room, boxes spread all over the floor shaking her head she thought to herself `How on earth am I going to sort all this out for the new car boot season.` Cursing out loud as the bottom dropped out of one of the boxes scattering items all over the place.
Sighing deeply Dawn picked up her phone "Hi Holly how's it going?"
"Hi Dawn I`m good thanks, what can I do for you."
"I need a hand to sort out my car boot stuff, any chance you could help me out?"
"OK as I have nothing better to do I will pop round, see you in about an hour."
"Ah thanks sis I`ll get the kettle on." Dawn put her phone down and headed for her kitchen.
Holly arrived at her sister's house feeling jealous Dawn had everything she craved, a good home a husband in a very good job, and the one thing she desired most a seemingly endless supply of cash. Taking a deep breath Holly walked into her sister's kitchen "Thanks for coming I really need help it's all over the place." Dawn beamed at her "How is the job hunting going?"
"Oh yeah I forgot to tell you I have an interview on Monday at St Peter`s doctors surgery they require a receptionist."
"Some good news for you Holly at last, good luck with that."
After exchanging more small talk Dawn led her to the task in hand. The sorting took a while, Dawn had accumulated a lot of stuff over the winter.
"Nearly done over here Dawn, just the cds to sort out now." Holly said
"Aw thanks Hol` I don`t know what I`d do without your help, I will go and pop the kettle on."
Holly watched as her tall slender sister departed the room. Facially they looked similar both sisters had the same brown eyes and wavy brunette hair. It was in height and build where they differed Holly was five foot two while her older sister was nearly six foot tall. Although you couldn`t call Holly fat curvy certainly fitted the bill.
`Good grief there is some old crap here` she thought as she restacked the cds into a new box. It was then suck to an old Abba cd she saw a business card.
"Randy Jones adult entertainment and model agency." She read out loud as Dawn walked in with the tea "Where did you get this? Something you want to tell me Dawn?" Holly tormented.
"Oh at my last car boot I was approached by a sleaze ball who said he wanted me to appear in a film with him."
"Really that's random, what did you do?"
"I slapped him and told him to do one." Dawn laughed "Throw it in the trash bag and forget it." As Dawn turned away Holly inexplicably put the card in her pocket.
Monday morning Holly dressed ready for her interview carefully picking out a smart black suit and a red blouse. She picked up some tights and after thinking about it decided on black stockings. Smoothing her skirt down Holly looked at her reflection in the mirror and smiled to herself `perfect and professional` she thought.
Holly arrived at the surgery in plenty of time as she sat waiting she watched as another applicant left the interview room.
A lady aged about fifty came out "Holly May." She shouted in a rather gruff tone.
"I`m Holly." She announced as she stood up.
"Come in please, I`m Mrs Hastings the head receptionist."
Holly felt the older woman give her a disapproving glance and the interview that followed was held in a negative fashion. Whatever answers she gave Holly knew there was no way this woman would give her a job.
She left the surgery deflated and sure enough shortly after arriving home her phone rang with the expected news.
Another sympathetic phone call from Dawn got Holly thinking...
James opened up the little studio for the first time in over a month. Randy had been away in France filming and was arriving later to resume his experimental reality series.
He jumped as the phone rang expecting it to be Randy he was taken aback to hear a woman on the other end especially seeing they had not pursued any leads or tried to find any talent.
"Hi are you still seeking models?" a rather nervous girl asked.
"Yes the Randy Jones agency is always looking for models, do you have any experience or a portfolio?" James asked switching to his professional telephone mode
"Oh err no is that a problem?" Holly stuttered.
"No not at all we prefer that to be honest it means you will have no bad habits that we will have to correct." James answered trying to keep the girl on the phone. "Would you like to pop up to the studio have a look around, we can show you examples of our work and maybe do some test shots."
"Test shots?"
"Oh just some simple photos to see how you look on film nothing drastic, and then we can talk about which modelling path is right for you with absolutely no obligation."
"Ok that sounds fine when would you want me to come to see you?" Holly asked a little more at ease.
"Well we have a slot available this afternoon at three O`clock if you are interested?"
"Three, Yeah I can make that ok."
"Right I put you in for three then what`s your name please."
"Holly May."
"Ok Holly I have to ask you how old are you please."
"I`m twenty four is that too old?"
"No Holly that's perfect we have models on our books a lot older that, so we will look forward to seeing you at three then."
"Oh before you go what do you want me to wear?"
"Holly wear anything you feel comfortable in."
"Ok thanks bye." She put the phone down not really believing what she had just done `Dawn will be angry if she finds out but I really need a job of some sort` she mused
Randy arrived at the studio relaxed and tanned after a month in the south of France.
"Hey James how's it going?" He called as he saw his sidekick.
"Randy welcome back."
After passing pleasantries James gave him the news that a young lady was coming over that afternoon.
"What she just called out of the blue?" He asked amazed.
"Yep about ten minutes ago, I thought it was going to be you on the phone." James laughed.
"Blimey, What do we know about her?"
"Nothing apart from she`s called Holly, twenty four and has never done any modelling before!"
"Oh well this could be interesting, better get set up quickly then." Randy then added "Oh I almost forgot Marcus is coming over in a bit he wanted to have a look at our set up."
James nodded "The more the merrier." Then after a pause "That would be interesting if we could get him involved in the action."
"Jesus yeah he's even bigger than me too much for a newbie I would have thought." As Randy pondered the thought of his black American co-star doing a cameo on the reality program.
Marcus arrived and noticed James fixing lights and cameras "Hey fella`s you have one of your shoots planned for today?" As he set his briefcase down onto Randy`s desk.
"Hi Marcus good to see you." James replied as he gazed up from his camera "Well we aren't sure yet it depends on how the interview pans out."
"That's what makes this project so interesting, anything can happen." Randy interjected "Here have a look at the last two videos we shot." He pressed play on his laptop and handed it to Marcus.
Marcus watched the two completed videos intently. "Well that's really something, fresh I like this idea." "Mind if I stick around and see how this goes this afternoon, I will try not to get in your way."
"Yes ok mate you can watch and listen from studio 2, I don`t want to frighten the girl off with too many of us here." Randy said as Marcus nodded in agreement.
"If she is any good I might have a job for her in my next project, I could do with some new stars" He laughed but Randy knew he meant it from a previous conversation.
Holly`s mood had mellowed somewhat as she hopped on the bus and headed into town `12a higher street funny address for a studio` she thought as butterflies fluttered in her stomach.
Her hand shook with nerves as she pressed the bell. Before she could turn tail and run the door opened.
"Hi you must be Holly, I`m James please come on in." He ushered her inside she stepped in her eyes wide and looking around at the pictures hanging on the walls in what was obviously a reception area.
Randy sat behind his desk and watched as the smartly dressed young woman nervously entered `I think I have seen her before` he thought to himself then dismissed it. "Good afternoon Holly and welcome to my studio, my name is Randy please come and take a seat"
Holly stared at the man behind the desk as she sat down he was tanned and really good looking, not the sleazy old git she was half expecting to see.
"Can I get you a drink Holly, we have water, coke, tea, coffee or some wine." James asked
"Some water please James." She replied he crossed the room to a small fridge and brought back an unopened bottle of mineral water. "Thanks she replied."
"Right tell me what sort of modelling you are interested in doing."