She slowly opened her tired eyes, she most of all just wanted to stay in bed. Rachel had come home pretty late last night, having been babysitting for the first time in L.A., and probably also the last time. She smiled at the thought and at the experience she had with the total stranger yesterday. She got up and into the shower, then just threw some clothes on and grabbed something to eat. She got to the gas-station a little late but she just had to send a smile and give a little bend over the counter a bit and Pete forgot all about her being late. She had never used her sexuality in that way, to control men, but she liked it and looked at the number she'd gotten from one of the ads and decided to call them later.
Rachel was standing in the phone booth across the street, she had just taken a break, and considered one last time weather or not to dial the number. It wouldn't harm to talk with them she thought as she dialed the number.
"It's Lucas," he didn't sound like somebody who was working for a modeling agency, so Rachel wondered whether she had dialed the correct number.
"Hi... I'm sorry I called because of an ad I read but..."
"Yeah, what's your name?"
"Uhm... Rachel, Rachel Connor."
"Okay... now I need some more information and to see your portfolio, Rachel. So if you could just drop by later."
Rachel felt that he moved ahead a bit fast, but that just made her forget her doubts about the agency that she had got.
"Well, I actually haven't got a portfolio."
"That's not a problem we can just take care of that later, when can you drop by?"
"In a couple of hours..."
"Fine, came in around five." he said and gave her and address and told her just to show up in her normal clothing and not make to much out of herself.
"Ok... I'll be there, but I'm not interested in posing nude..."
"We'll talk 'bout that at five... see you, Rachel"
"Yeah see you," and then he hung up.
Walking back across the street to the gas station she wandered if she had made the right decision, but also looking forward to her meeting in the afternoon. There wasn't much to do the rest of the day and Rachel suspected that Pete of only keeping her around so he had some entertainment when there weren't any costumers. Finally she could leave, and she called a cab which took her to the address she had gotten.
It looked like an old warehouse and as she walked down the alley leading to the entrance once again considered whether or not it was the right decision to show up. She stopped at the entrance, a sign which said "Hollywood Girls" was placed and the wall next to it. She opened the door and on the other side there was only a staircase and a sign which said "office 2nd floor". So she climbed the stairs up to the second floor where a guy was sitting in couch reading a magazine, he didn't take notice of Rachel walking into the room. It looked like a dirty magazine and Rachel coughed lightly to gain attention. He looked up, a bit surprised but smiled and quickly scanned her from head to toe.
"Rachel I presume?" he said as he put the magazine away just sat there admiring her.
"Yes" she answered and gave a shy smile.
He looked at her once again, ogling her and gave her a smile as she stood there uncertain of herself and what to do.
"I'm Lucas. Come sit here baby." He said and pointed to a chair next to the couch he sat in. "So, you wanna be a model?" he asked as she sat down.
"Well, I just need the money... I have no plans of making a career of it" she told him.
"Sure... now first of all I need some ID, you brought any?"
"Yes" Rachel answered and showed him. He checked it out and wrote down some notes.
"Good, now what are you looking for? Just to make sure we can work together."
"Well, I won't do nude! Just some poses so I can get trough this month."
"OK... we sometimes have some bikini poses and other sexy non-nude poses, but I'm sorry but they don't pay very well and we mostly use them for promotional for other things, so normally you have to do other things for us."
"Ok..." Rachel said somewhat disappointed.
"But I try to get you a shoot, I just need some pictures of you to keep if something comes up. You've got the looks and I'm sure I can find something, OK?"
"Thanks" she smiled back.
He then got up from the couch and walked into a small room. He came back a little later with a camera. "Just come with me beautiful!" he said to her as he walked trough the room. She followed him into another room. It was a huge empty room, looked like and old library or something. Lucas stopped at one of the walls.
"Just do some poses so I've got something that resembles a portfolio." he told her. "And get rid of that jersey, sweetheart!"
She took it of and put it on the floor, and started doing some poses, she had never done that before, but Lucas just shot some pictures of her from different sides. All the while he complimented her, which made her feel a bit more relaxed.
"OK, now just start to strip down to your underwear" she gave him a look that clearly indicated that wasn't willing to do that. "What? You're gonna pose in something skimpy anyway, sexy! Believe me honey, you got no need to be embarrassed, you're beautiful."
She started taking of her shirt, but Lucas told her to do it slower and move her body while she did it. She continued that way till she was only wearing her underwear, a pair of small black panties and a white bra, at first she was very shy, standing almost naked in front of this man, but she started to like the attention. Soon she followed his every move, but he didn't dare to tell her to strip further, he wouldn't risk losing this beauty.
"Great, I think that will do!" he said after having photographed her for almost half an hour. He walked back to the first room and Rachel got dressed. When she got back in the room he was talking on the phone, he signalled for her to wait, so she took a seat in the couch.
"Good news baby!" he said to her with a smile. "I may got a job for you already, well two actually."
"Two?" Rachel said questioning.
"Yeah, there's this nightclub, we work with the owner, Mr. Dannon, and he needs a girl to do some promotional pictures for the club, commercial and stuff you now!" he said with a smile. "So tonight I got you a gig down there, I'll be there too and show you to the owner, I'm sure he gonna think that you would be perfect for the job."
"Sounds great, but how much are we talking about?"
"The money again... you can probably get a good deal if you get the job, at least a grand. But tonight won't give you anything. You just have to convince Mr. Dannon that you are the right girl for the job."
Rachel agreed and was told to meet Lucas at the back-entrance of the club at 10.
She arrived a bit late, after all she was new in town and had to find the place. She walked around the club and saw Lucas waiting at the back entrance. She walked towards him and he greeted her with a hug.
"Good, you showed up!"