☼Leila Perez☼

I smiled at Steph, "Selfie time."

She whipped out her phone and poked her head between ours. She held out her phone and snapped a picture, "Is there anything I'm not allowed to say?"

"Just don't make us look bad," I shrugged.

She typed out loud, "Hanging with my cousin and his girlfriend before they do their meet 'n' greet."

I nodded once.

"Can I tag you guys?"

"Of course," I smiled brightly.

Castor smirked, "Sure. Do you think people will believe you though?"

"Ooh!" I clapped my hands together, "Send it to me and I'll post: Hanging with my boyfriend and his cousin before our meet 'n' greet then!"

Steph blushed and ducked her head, "Thanks. I should go now though."

I quickly stood up and wrapped her in a hug. In a way, she and Zoe were like the sisters I'd never had. 

I sat back down as she was escorted off the stage by one of the three bodyguards.

How cool would it be to be a bodyguard?

[A/N: A book I'm thinking of starting ;)]

A man said through the speakers, "If you are interested in meeting the famous Leila and Cruz please line up now. The meet 'n' greet will begin in fifteen minutes."

Castor poked my ribs and I squeaked.

He laughed, "Okay, Barbie, sorry. I was just wondering if this is how it will be for me for now on."

I smiled with tight lips, "Yeah."

Castor took a deep breath and then said, "Do you think I'll cope? With the fame?"

"Once you're in, you can't come out," I sighed, "Believe me... if I started wearing the nerdy getup to school again I'd get noticed."

Castor nodded slowly, "What about Brit?"

"She hasn't bothered me like I thought she would," I shrugged with a small smile, "I might have been overreacting."

"At least it kept you from boys leering at you," on cue his blue eyes trailed up and down my figure.

I shivered in a good way, "Until you."

His eyes connected with mine, "I-I..."

Was he stuttering? How cute!

"Don't worry," he blushed and looked away.

He was blushing? Oh my god, no wonder why I was falling for him so hard and quick. 

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Isabella laughed, "You crack me up!"

Sam boomed, "I know I do."

Castor and Alex dissolved into fits of laughter. I scrunched my nose up in disgust.

"Dinner is served!" Rachel said with a bright smile as she entered the dining room with a bag of hot chips and burgers. Apparently the place was extremely famous around here so it had taken her half an hour to get the food home. 

I pulled a chicken burger onto my plate and a small handful of chips. I was beginning to get used to the greasiness of this. Probably wasn't a good thing. Even if I wasn't a model this would be considered unhealthy.

Castor dumped another handful of chips on my plate and I raised an eyebrow at him.

"What?" he asked innocently.

"I was trying to make sure there were enough chips for everybody," I chided him.

Castor shrugged, "Oh well. Eat."

I sighed and picked up my burger, taking a bite. I almost moaned as my tastebuds burst with joy.

This burger was deeee-lish. 

Stephanie jumped in her seat, which I recognised as the 'my phone buzzed in my back pocket whilst I was sitting on it' jump. She, evidently, pulled out her phone. 

Sam frowned deeply at her.

Stephanie blinked once at the screen and then again. She glanced up at Castor and gulped, "I-I've had 3425 unread notifications on Instagram, two emails from a modelling agency in Brisbane and 546089 followers on my YouTube channel plus several phone calls from unknown numbers in the last ten minutes...?"

I stared at her and then laughed loudly, holding my stomach. I finally managed to regain control and say, "Lucky duck. I only get that each day, let alone ten minutes. I can't really complain though."

Steph jammed the phone in her back pocket, "I'm internet famous, my YouTube channel is blowing up! How cool is that?!"

I smiled across at Lucy. Lucy sat up a little straighter in her chair, "YouTube channel?"

"Y-Yeah," Steph blushed and looked at her food, "I do fashion blogs, makeup tutorials and just some random stuff on there... nothing too big."

"It is now," Lucy grinned, "Would you like an agent? I'd help you to professionally organise your channel, your videos. I'd help get you a designer for the layout of it all, and you can borrow Leila and Cruz's publicist as well?"

Her eyes went wide, "Really?"

"Of course, after you hit one million subscribers YouTube begins paying you," Lucy mused, "So if that happens I'd like to receive ten per cent?"

"Yay," Steph whispered.

Isabella nodded furiously, "She'll take it."

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Sharky.