Blinking a few times, he was a little shocked that her voice and demeanor had changed within seconds, how did she even do that? “Well shit, that was really weird what you just did, going from all preppy and nice, to serious. Don’t do that shit again.” He told her, his voice coming out much weirder than he was hoping for it to do. As the two of them walked towards where the actual shoot was going to be, he could feel eyes on him, everyone was probably staring at the two of them since they were finally ready and were going to start soon. But Tanner was used to it by now, most of the women that were on site for the shoots that he did, tended to stare at him for a very long time, not that he minded much. Although, he could practically feel Steph’s gaze burning into him, it was actually kind of cute that she was staring at him. The boy smirked to himself, giving a small wave to the photographer that they would be working with today, Tanner recognised him since he had met him a few times before. It was easier for Tanner to work with people that he was comfortable around. “Aight, this shoot should be pretty chill and easy, y’know?” He told the girl as he spun around to face her, giving her a wide smile. “I don’t think it’ll take too long either. Who knows.”
{ ✵ };; So Tanner didn’t think it would take too long? Well, that sounded quite good to the brunette. Sure, she had fun doing her job but being home and taking a bath wasn’t too bad either. After all, it was only 10AM and Stephanie had been here since around 7AM. “If you say so,” she replied, smiling at him. Stephanie really didn’t have a feeling for things like this, so she’d just go with what Tanner said since he was doing this since quite a while. Right after she answered him, the photographer spoke up, telling them to start going. It was awkward, really, but the female also knew that this would be the best career boost she could get. Working with Tanner was easy; though that was only until the kissing part suddenly came up. Did she really have to? Well, she wasn’t going to complain about it anymore now, though she honestly was waiting for the male to make the first step so that the kiss would look good in front of the camera. Stephanie did know how to kiss, but did that look good? Could kissing even look bad? She didn’t know, but if there was a special way to do it in front of the camera, she was sure Tanner would know.
Austen just couldn’t contain his excitement, he couldn’t wait to see Melissa when she would come downstairs to see that he was home early. Glancing down at the watch on his wrist, he knew that his brothers would be here soon to each take Maxim and Faith to look after them for the night. The boy was forever grateful for having them there to help out, especially at a time like this. Austen was determined to try to fix his relationship with the girl that he loved because in reality, he couldn’t live without her. Having a life without her just probably wouldn’t have made any sense to him what so ever, so he had to change and change now. After waiting for a few seconds, he finally heard her and could just about see that she was running down the stairs to come and meet him at the door. But Austen noticed that she was acting a little strange. Her voice was laced with confusion and was a little more higher than usual, but he decided on ignoring it. It was probably nothing and there wasn’t a point in stressing over something that was nothing. Shaking the roses around a little, he knew that she would have loved them so that’s why he had gotten them in the first place! “Well, I said that I would start coming home earlier and all, so here I am,” He said cheerily, passing over the roses to his girlfriend with a wide smile plastered across his face because he was just that happy to be here with her right now. “And anyway, we’re going out tonight, so you better get ready because my Brother’s will be here soon to look after Maxim and Faith whilst we go out.” Austen was buzzing, just wanting to get out of there right now with the girl.
{ ❥ };; Melissa just couldn’t contain herself; her mouth was wide open as she was staring at the roses that Austen was just handing over to her while listening to his words. As soon as she had them though, her gaze moved to the male in front of her. “If you coming home earlier looks like this, I really like it even more than I thought,” she giggled quietly, smelling the roses for a second. “I’m just going to put them in a vase an- what? Oh god Austen, I’m in sweatpants, couldn’t you have told me earlier?” The female as excited, yes. Yet she knew that she had to get completely ready in just a few minutes and that was honestly stressing her out now. Without even another word, the female almost ran into the kitchen to put the roses in a vase with some water so that they wouldn’t dry out before she made her way upstairs once again. What should she even wear? Where were they going? Shaking her head, Melissa just grabbed a black skinny jeans and a blouse, knowing that it would be fancy enough for a restaurant but also casual enough for any other place. Once that was done, the brunette only had to apply some make-up and well, after what seemed like only five minutes she was downstairs again. “Okay okay, I’m done,” she told him with a smile,“ are your brothers here already?” Melissa looked around, trying to figure out if they were here already, but there was no sign. Well, maybe they had left already?
Now, Austen really did feel like he was being a shit boyfriend, because he was hardly ever at home but now he wanted to make it up to his long term girlfriend, Melissa. He couldn’t think of anything better to do than to go to the park where they had spent time together when they had been much younger. To Austen, it made sense to ask to shut down the park just for the night, so that they could have it all to themselves. And who knew, maybe they could be just as fun and spontaneous as they were when they were teenagers in love. Austen had made sure to take the ‘day off’ to get everything sorted out ready for the night time, even ensuring for his other brothers to babysit their little ones for the night. So as he stepped through the door as if he had just come back from a rather long day at work, the boy was just excited to get Melissa downstairs so that he could tell her where they were going tonight. They hadn’t been able to spend much time together and the boy felt really bad, he wanted to make it up to her and to start being a better boyfriend, so he would be doing things like this often, bigger and smaller surprises to. The boy just wanted to show her how much he truly loved and appreciated her. With a rather large bunch of roses in his hand, he had a cheesy smile plastered across his face and was buzzing to see his girlfriend. “Hey baby, —— I’m home! Can you come down here for a sec!” He called out, itching to hand her the roses and to take her out.
{ ❥ };; It was just another boring day where she was home alone. Well, not exactly alone since Faith and Maxim where there too, but Austen for sure was no where near. The whole situation was really getting on her nerves and by now, she’d leave Austen if it would be that easy. She loved him, no question. But sometimes it was just hard when you were all on your own all the time and his apologies didn’t exactly make it much better. Of course, Melissa knew that if he had more saying he’d make sure to spend more time with his family, so she couldn’t blame him for this completely. Now, as she heard his voice, her eyebrows furrowed together; it was way too early for him to be home and Mel had just been texting the guy who she had been cheating with. Quickly deleting the whole conversation, the brunette got up from their bed and went downstairs, just as Austen had asked her to a few seconds ago. But she couldn’t even see him at first; there was a pretty huge amount of roses in front of him; which literally made her eyes light up. “Oh my god, baby!” Melissa called out, now running down the stairs and towards him. He could literally get her with roses, that was one of the things she loved the most. “What are you doing?” She then questioned, her eyes scanning the roses and him with disbelieve, not being sure if this was real or not.
“I’ll keep that in mind for future reference, since you like this look on me so much.” Tanner chuckled, wanting to run his digits through his hair but remembering that it had been styled to perfection and was told not to even dare to think about touching it at all. But he wasn’t sure what else to do since when he was nervous, he always did small things to just make him feel a little more comfortable with the situation. But that’s what he didn’t get, why on earth was he nervous about this shoot with Stephanie. It wasn’t anything at all, she should be the one that was nervous and not the other way around. “I’ve been ready for ages actually, you’re the one that has taken so long to get ready.” The boy rolled his eyes playfully, wanting to keep the atmosphere between them light and easy going. There was nothing more annoying than having a really awkward atmosphere between the other person than he was working with, Tanner really hated it. “C’mon, we should probably go now so that we can get started, y’know.” He suggesting, smiling at her a little.
{ ✵ };; Was he just trying to figure out ways to impress her or what was going on her? Deciding to not let him see what she was thinking about, she simply chuckled and rolled her eyes. “Who even said you’re gonna see me in private? This is a job, Tanner”, she told him with a serious face and an even more serious tone, but just seconds after she began laughing. No, she honestly had nothing against seeing him in private some time, that actually could be quite nice. With a small smile playing over her painted red lips, the female gave him a quick nod to show him that she was okay with going over to where they actually were shooting. The whole set had so far seemed pretty cool to her, yet she was nervous about how working with a male model would be. For some reason, she liked the fact that it was Tanner, but then again, it simply made her more nervous. As they walked over to where they were supposed to be photographed, Stephanie walked next to him all the time, actually still admiring the criminal look on him and how he actually still was taller than her even when she had heels on.
Tanner knew that Stephanie was probably not exactly looking forward to doing this photoshoot with him. The boy didn’t exactly have a good reputation and he wasn’t sure if it was the best idea for the girl to be doing a shoot such as this one for her first time. It had been her choice though and of course, Tanner hadn’t minded at all. He had lost count of how many modelling jobs he had taken part in now, it had been quite a few since he was almost pretty much in demand by everyone. He had been ready for quite the while now, they were only waiting for Stephanie to be done being made up with now, since it didn’t that long for Tanner to get ready. He knew that she was a lot younger him and she was rather innocent, so he liked that she was different to most girls that he worked with. “Oh hey, —— you look really good.” Tanner smiled, giving her a compliment even though it might have made her feel a little awkward.
{ ✵ };; “Well, would be kind of sad if I wouldn’t, right?” Stephanie joked as a reply to his compliment; compliments were never too bad, no matter from who they actually came from. “But thank you though,” she stated, a smile on her lips now as the make-up artist finally finished off and left the two kind of alone. Yes, they still weren’t really alone but at least no one was standing around them anymore now. “You don’t look too bad either, I like that criminal look on you,” the female smirked, biting down on her lower lip as she was scanning him from head to toe. It might seem a bit weird but that was just what got an habit when meeting other models; always checking if they looked better than you did yourself. For some reason, Steph was excited now that she had seen Tanner; he wasn’t too bad after all anyway, so shooting with him could be a lot of fun. “Are you ready though? Because I think they’re finally done with my make-up and hair now.”
{ ✵ };; So this was it. For days she had been nervous for the shoot with Tanner and now? Now it was even worse. Though she hadn’t really seen him yet, she knew that he couldn’t be too far since Stephanie herself was almost ready. The photographer had told her earlier that it would be a Bonnie and Clyde type of photo-shoot, which sounded like a lot of fun to her, but who knew how shooting with Tanner would be? The brunette had mixed feelings about him, really. On one side there was trust, on the other side, she felt quite…annoyed by him. He seemed to be way too cocky for her likings. As the final touches of her make-up were made, the female saw Tanner passing from the corner of her eyes. “Hey!” Stephanie called out, trying not too move too much so her make-up wouldn’t be messed up.
