Name: Jolie

Summary:
Rating: M
Disclaimer: I don't own Zac

She ran her hands down his arms smoothing out the little wrinkles in the shirt he was wearing. She stepped back and looked him up and down. She stepped forward again and smoothed out his collar her fingers brushed across his neck sending a chill down his spine. With a smile she back up all the way until she was at her desk against the wall, satisfied with how he looked she nodded her head "great" she said running her hands through her hair and smiling over at him.

Zac smiled back and turned towards the mirror straightening out his tie a little before she spoke again "they need you on set now" she said as she jotted down a few measurements in her note pad. She was sitting on the desk now biting the tip of the pencil before writing down more.

"Thanks..." he said waiting for her name. She got the hint and looked up taking he pencil from her lips "It's Mel, well Melinda but I prefer Mel" She smiled and looked back down at her notepad

"alright" he said grabbing the door's handle and turning it. When he stepped out on to the photo shoot the photographer was already adjusting his lenses while a few crew members adjusted the background poster.

He walked over to the buffet table where he grabbed a bottle of water and took a few sips standing and waiting for the attention to come to him. He wasn't exactly a pro at all this photo stuff but he felt comfortable in this kind of setting, all the craziness behind a shoot was kind of amusing, it was like a whirlwind of confusion was set over everybody and they were all struggling to get things from place to place.

About 15 minutes after Zac had left her changing room Mel stepped out on to the shoot and saw that the lights from the camera were already flashing and the photographer was yelling emotions over to Zac's way.

She kept her eyes on her notepad reading off her agenda for the day; she needed to go food shopping after she was done for the day because her kitchen was pretty much only filled with instant Mac and cheese. Now Mel wished she had listened to her mother when she said living on your own isn't easy.

She grabbed some water form the ice cooler and opened it up taking a big gulp, her mouth was dry and she felt like her lips were so chapped that they would flake off….gross.

Zac picked up his water bottle from the table and headed over to the food which he was hungry for. He stood looking over the table across from Mel who was biting her nails as she looked at her notepad.

She didn't notice that every once and awhile he would glance over at her as he took a bite from the sandwich he had picked up.

"Something wrong?" Zac asked as she dropped the notepad on the table and buried her face in her hands, she looked up and smiled "Oh no just a stressful day"

Zac nodded in agreement "yeah tell me about it" she popped a grape in her mouth before looking down ta her watch "well it looks like I'm done for the day" she said looking over at him then extending her hand "nice to meet you" she said as she felt his firm grip against hers.

She was a pretty girl he had to admit, sure she wasn't like the others he had dated but she was something new like a new pair of shoes or hat, she was just different.

Mel sighed as she took a box of cereal off the supermarket shelf, she had a limited budget but by the looks of her already full basket she was already way over that limit. Her scalp and head hurt from her hair being pulled back so tight but she was afraid to let it down knowing that it would puff out like a French poodle since she didn't straighten it today. Her arms were also starting to hurt from having to carry the weighed down basket.

She was busy ready the back of a cereal box (for nutritional value of course, no game playing here) when she heard another cereal box fall. Thinking that her elbows were probably the culprits she looked down around her feet but there was no box in sight. She heard the cereal hit the side of the box as it was lifted up and when she looked about 6 feet to her left she saw Zac standing there carefully putting the box back afraid that he would knock down the others.

Mel snorted putting the cereal box back but keeping her eyes on him "smooth" she said making him laugh as he turned his full attention towards her. "Wow when was the last time you went shopping" he said quickly pointing towards the basket but then dropping his hand putting it in his pocket.

Mel smiled looking down the all the food as she readjusted the basket to the other arm "no in a long time but this should last me a little bit" she looked back up at him seeing that he was actually listening and hadn't gone off being distracted by something else.

"Well I should go" Mel finally ended up saying after a moment of silence between the two of them. She spun around on her heel and walked back up towards the end of the aisle. Her arms were to sore just so she could stand around in an awkward silence. "Go out with me tonight" she heard him blurt out making her stop and turn back around.

The way he said it made it seem like he was finally getting it off his chest, it was so quick and with so shaky of a voice it kind of surprised Mel at how nervous he was acting now after saying it. She noticed she had just reached the end of the aisle before he said it so she had to walk back up to him

"am I some sort of rebound" she asked with a raised eyebrow as he gave her a confused look. Without taking her eyes away from his she lifted up a magazine from her basket.

She saw his eyes move along with the text on the front page "didn't think you were that well known did you?" she said putting the magazine back down.

Zac shook his head keeping the image from the magazine cover imprinted in his head

Zac and Vanessa: Tween power couple calls it quits!

"Besides…" she said going on and waking him up from his current zonement "I can't be in a relationship now"

"Well then just as friends" he said smiling now trying to save himself the embarrassment of being rejected. Mel thought about this for a second and in her silence Zac stood there nervously waiting for a reply.

During that time Mel had looked down at her basket noticing the Life cereal box with the smiling kid on the front, was this a sign pointing to yes?