Bought For A Baby, Kept For A Lifetime-Chapter 94: In The Spotlight

A model was bound by the contract they sign, they could never back out of a shoot halfway, but they had the right to request for backup models or assistants for the shoot.

In this case, the backup model would only be there to show their body, not their face.

Valeria was furious, in her entire modelling career this was the first time she was encountering someone who actually dared to face her like this. It was something new, and though it was annoying and humiliating, she knew she’d feel ten times more satisfied if she slowly humiliated this girl.

She would show her what the difference in power meant.

She, Valeria was queen, a little girl like this one in front of her were forever meant to remain below her.

"Larry, get me the white attire for the shoot." Valeria instructed, conjuring a wild plan in her head.

Anne watched Valeria walk away with a desire for vengeance in her eyes and she let out a weary sigh.

What was she thinking when she threw water at Valeria. She must have lost her mind?

She just hated being stepped on and made to swallow it quietly, in the heat of the moment without thinking about consequences she would act and only realize what she’d done afterwards.

She really should have held it in, but again, these days her emotions were becoming harder to control.

She’d retaliated because she felt an uncontrollable burst of rage despite knowing that she shouldn’t fight back against someone like Valeria.

She was just an employee, and no matter what was said or done to her she shouldn’t have fought back.

It would have ruined the shoot but thankfully, Valeria was bound by a contract so she couldn’t back out from the shoot at will, but that didn’t mean she wouldn’t find ways to make Anne’s life miserable.

"Anne, you have to go change. Valeria says she won’t start the shoot until you stand in as her assistant model." Larry, the head stylist came to call her

"We’ll call in someone else, a real model to stand in for Valeria." Anne decided to get back into the professional mode, despite her clothes being soaked in coffee.

The small debacle that just happened at the shoot scene seemed to have never happened at all as all the staff flocked over to Valeria fixing her hair and helping her get changed.

No one expected it to have just ended like that. A mere employee, pouring water over a model.

The normal they were used to was nothing like this scenario. Usually, employees would stay quiet even If the models fed them shit, they would quietly swallow it down and move on.

The were expecting a full blown drama, not for Valeria to turn around as if nothing happened, but many knew better, Valeria insisting the girl be her backup model meant she had a plan. And no doubt one that would make the girl run out of this scene with tears in her eyes.

No one would dare to disobey or interfere, they could only watch quietly.

"You don’t know what Valeria is capable of, if she says be her assistant model then do so, or else you’re really going to regret what you just did to her." Larry advised strictly.

Anne sighed knowing the model had a trick or two up her sleeve, but this entire shoot was her responsibility, if anything went wrong with it, she would be blamed for it, Clara entrusted this on her and failing on it would make it appear to Clara that she was irresponsible with her job.

Deciding to suck it up and do what was expected of her, Anne went ahead to give in to the problematic model’s demands.

In a short while, Anne was dressed in the exact same attire as Valeria was.

There were three scenes to shoot, one would show Valeria running through the path, and another would show a close up of her face.

Derek Clinton, a well known photographer in the industry was heading the shoot.

He directed Valeria on poses to make for the first scene of the shoot and when it came to parts where her face wasn’t required to be in the shot, Valeria claimed to be exhausted, forcing them to give her time to rest while they’d shoot the other scenes with the backup model.

Anne had never done anything close to this before, when she was called onto the spot where bright lights shone onto her face she squinted.

The makeup on her face was exaggeratedly heavy despite the fact that her face wouldn’t be shown.

It was a deliberate thing Valeria ordered the artists to do. They stunted her natural features, darkened her skin tone and transformed her face into something unsightly.

When Anne stood in the lights, gasps sounded before it was followed by muffled laughter.

Everyone present were well versed being in the entertainment circle, they were used to seeing heart stopping beauties in the spotlight, not a face that looked like a plastic surgery epic fail.

Anne was already blinded by the lights, knowing if she did this, the shoot would be over and she could go home to rest, she pushed herself to remain on the spot.

Derek Clinton scrunched up his face in distaste as he stood behind the camera, he hadn’t witnessed whatever drama had gone on with the girl and the model because he frankly didn’t care, he just wanted to get his job done and get out of there. He wondered why Valeria insisted the girl act as her backup model, her body wasn’t bad, but that face...it was a good thing they wouldn’t be showing her face in the shots.

Derek gave his signal for his people to direct her poses to make sure no part of her face showed as he began to set the camera. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Valeria watched the girl in the spotlight, her lips turned up in a smirk.

Giving her phone to one of the staff from her company, she instructed,

"Film it live, make sure to set the camera angles so her face shows. I want the internet to blow up with hashtags of the ugliest model in Verizon, understood?"

The girl she gave the camera to nodded and immediately began to film the shoot live. Using a provocative caption of,

[Prettiest model in the industry, shooting for an ad replacing Valeria Sage.]

Not long after, comments began to flood into the screen.

[Are they crazy? Is that what they call pretty?]

[Did I read this right, this frump Is replacing Valeria Sage? What company could be so blind?]

[I’ve never seen this model before, is there actually a model this ugly?]

[If an ugly mutt like this actually passed for a model, I guess I could be considered the most beautiful woman in the world.]

[This is hilarious, she’s replacing Valeria Sage? What a dreamer.]

[The person who wrote this caption must have used it sarcastically. Prettiest model? More like the botched model of the century, what amount of plastic surgery did she do to ruin her face like that?]

The power of makeup was indeed astounding. In a short amount of time, hashtags like, botched model, ugly replacement, Valeria versus ugly beast began to trend rapidly online.

This sudden Livestream of a shoot exploded all over the internet, the cameras showed Valeria standing to the side as if taken out of the shoot while an unknown girl whose face was hard to look at was actually modelling.

People swarmed with rage, especially Valeria’s fans. Hate comments trailed in like flowing waterfall.

Just when the part Anne was shooting almost came to an end, Valeria made the person filming reveal Anne’s identity as an unknown person aspiring to be a model thereby using sly means of sleeping with people in high places to get Valeria to be pushed aside.

Finding her name and seeing that she was an unknown nobody, the fans became even more enraged at the so called injustice being done to Valeria.

Of course Valeria knew that this news couldn’t be kept up for long, she would just let this last a few days, let the internet bash the girl and just before the ad was released she would make an official public statement clearing up the whole thing like an innocent bystander who had no idea this whole thing had happened in the first place.

Such scenarios weren’t unheard of in the industry. Popular celebrities putting other people out at the mercy of the public to be bashed while they would play the innocent party in the whole thing.

Before this, Anne was unknown in the world of the internet, unbeknownst to her that she was gaining a sudden fame fuelled by hate online.

As Valeria watched Anne, her eyes shone with triumph.

Why should she bother with an ordinary girl when she could have the world fight for her? Nothing could destroy a simple minded girl like Anne like the power of internet hate, she would never be able to survive it.

This should serve as a lesson for Anne to never cross her again.

Besides...that person specifically asked her to straighten the girl up a little bit, so she was doing it in her own fun way.