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Chapter 04
A week later, she went to the agency again for the shooting. She saw the pretty blonde immediatly and smiled.
"Hey Maura..." She said with a smile and put her purse down.
"How are you doing today?"
Maura stood upright from a huntched position as Jane greeted her. She was back in her glasses. She wore black tight leggings, brown knee high leather boots and a khaki green angled tee. She smiled as she looked at Jane.
"You look rested! You also look very good," she said before thinking about what she had said.
"Uh, thank you but that was not my question." Jane chuckled a bit
"But while we are at it...you look very good too. I like your outfit. Very stylish." Jane said with a soft smile.
"So how are you doing and how has your week been so far?" The brunette asked.
"Oh this is nothing, really, not like yours. I am good actually. Hummm my week is fine...so far," she said with rich smile as she looked over Jane.
"You are very welcome, Jane. " Maura shruged slightly and fixed her shirt as Jane told her that she was stylish after a moment, feeling a little self conscious.
Jane shook her head a bit.
"Are you kidding me? Your outfit is fab!" The young Italian girl said with a smile. She walked behind the divider and stripped down, knowing she had to try on outfits next.
"If you like my outfit so much, you can try it on..." She suggested and walked around the divider in a robe, holding her outfit out to Maura.
"Go ahead." She encouraged her.
Maura's eyes widened and she looked from Jane to the outfit and back to Jane again. Slowly, she shook her head.
"Jane, I would not fit into that...I swear...it will not fit me. God you are like a size zero and I am not that," she said, looking into Jane's eyes.
"You are silly." Jane said and pushed Maura gently behind the divider.
"You will fit into that. Trust me." Jane said smiling and stepped in front of the divider to give Maura some privacy.
"I am sure it will suit you very well too." The brunette encouraged her.
Maura tried to protest as Jane pushed her behind the divider, but the woman was gone before she tried. It left Maura standing there with the lace like ruffled short sleeve ivory top and green knit skirt. Maura sighed and dropped her head.
"This isn't going to work, Jane...honestly..." she said as she undressed her pants and top and had to take off her bright colored bra. She set everything aside and pulled on the top. It fit snuggly around her breasts as she had expected...the skirt fit her nicely. She didn't look at herself before stepping around the divider still in her knee high boots.
Jane smiled as she saw her.
"I told you it would fit! Wow you look so different." She pulled Maura by the hand in front of the mirror. She gently took the glasses from Maura and put it on herself, and opened the blonde hair.
"Look at yourself...you look really beautiful." Jane said and smiled at Maura's reflection in the mirror.
"Do you like it?"
Maura had to skip a few steps as Jane pulled her closer and then turned her toward the mirror. When she removed her glasses from her face. She breathed deeply after Jane had touched her. She was wearing the woman's clothing. She could smell her all over her. The clothing was a little more snug around her, but it did fit.
"I, I haven't seen myself like this in a long time...I-I really think it's nice."
Jane nodded in agreement.
"It is very beautiful..." She watched Maura's reflection for a while.
"You can have them...they look prettier on you." The Italian girl said.
"How do you like me with your glasses? I look very smart now..." She chuckled and walked behind the divider. She grabbed Maura's clothes, and for the fun of it, put them on herself. She put her hair up in a ponytail and then walked to Maura. She smiled brightly.
"No, Jane I," Maura started, but Jane moved behind the divider. Maura thought of following her, but as she waited for a moment, it was too late and her eyes drank in Jane's figure as she stepped out in her clothing. Her jaw dropped and Jane would not miss that.
"You look like me," she said with a bright smile and then walked up to stand next to Jane. Maura placed her hand on her hip and jutted it out in a sexy pose.
"Now I am you," she said and did a runway walk, rather nicely.
Jane giggled amused and watched Maura walking.
"Wow you do look like a model...and you do the walk very good. Try my heels." Jane said and stepped out of them so Maura could slip into them. Jane really liked Maura and she had fun with her.
"I like looking like you...I can see why you are wearing this...it's very comfy." Jane said smiling.
"Well well if this isn't Janie and the little assistant." Rebecca said as she entered, eying Maura and then Jane.
Maura pulled off her boots, getting into the fun of what they were doing and had just put them on as Rebecca came in. Maura's smile fell and she instantly became self conscious. She narrowed her eyes and looked from Jane to the blonde.
"Hello Rebecca," came her flat words.
"I hope you didn't forget that I'd come here because of the fitting for the shoot next week." Rebecca said to Maura.
"Get me water and get my outfits, now!" She turned to look at Jane.
"Janie you look ridiculious dear...I know you are still young but do you have to behave like a fucking kid? And look at your clothes..." Rebecca said and looked over to Maura.
"...they are stretched now...they won't fit you anymore. Did you think about that as you gave your clothes to THIS person?" She asked her.
"Maura is..." Jane started but Rebecca interupted her.
"I said NOW, Maura! Geez! Are you deaf or something?" Rebecca asked and got a bikini off the rack and pressed it into Jane's hand.
"Be a good model and try on your outfits. I have way more experience than you in this business and being silly like that and kid around with the assistant is just ridiculious." Jane looked at Rebecca annoyed and walked behind the divider.
Maura just stared at Rebecca for a long moment before she stepped out of Jane's heels and pulled her own boots back on. She watched Jane trying to defend her and then get shut down. That was the last straw. Yes, getting told the clothes were ruined were because of her, hurt, but the look on Jane's face was worse.
"You have no right to talk to me like I am nothing, Rebecca! You are a drunk of your ass bitch and you can't handle that someone is better than you...prettier than you. I will not work with you anymore. I have that right. I have that power. You know that I do and you have pushed me to the end this time. Get the hell out of my studio...NOW!"
Rebecca chuckled.
"Naw, c'mon. Since when are you this sensitive, huh? You need me. I am very wanted by the clients and I earn you alot of money. Now get my clothes for the fitting and let's get it over with." Rebecca said, hardly touched by Maura's words and sat down in a chair.
"Hurry, will you? I have other appointments to go to." She said. Jane couldn't believe what she was hearing behind the divider. She walked around it and looked at Maura.
"Your studio? So this all is yours? So it means...you, uh, are my...boss?" Jane was clearly confused and you could see it in her face.
Maura looked at Jane and shook her head, giving Jane a silently motion for a moment to hold on. She then stepped up to Rebecca.
"No, I don't need you. Go to your other appointments and don't ever come back here again. I mean it. Get. Out!" She said more firmly. It made sense that Maura liked what she did...considering it was her life.
Rebecca glared at her.
"Oh you'll be crawling back to me, asking for forgiveness. I did more modeling jobs here than any of your girls and you know it." She said and got up from her chair.
"This is ridiculious. But fine, suit yourself." Rebecca grabbed her purse and left the studio with fast steps. Then you could only hear the door being slammed shut.
Maura's eyes stared after Rebecca and she actually jumped slightly as the door was slammed. She finally let out a breathe as soon as silence filled the room. Then she turned to face Jane. Maura smiled tightly.
"It's mine...I just don't take the pictures..." she said.
Jane looked at the blonde.
"Oh..." She only said. She felt kind of awkward now. She would have never done such silly things if she had known that Maura was her boss. Without saying another word she walked behind the divider again and stripped down Maura's clothes. Now it all made sense...the driver and the limosine. Jane put on the turquoise bikini that Rebecca had pressed into her hands earlier.
"I'm sorry..." Jane said quietly, still behind the divider.
"Rebecca is right, I can be a kid sometimes. I am here because of work..." Jane said and walked around the divider in the bikini again.
"...I deeply apologize, Maura...Miss Maura...Miss."
"Jane, you did nothing wrong," Maura said walking up to Jane and trying to ignore the fact that the woman looked gorgeous in barely nothing. She felt her heart skip a beat. She placed her hands on Jane's shoulders. They were strong shoulders.
"Maura...just Maura. I own the studio because I bought it. The limo is mine, yes, but it not because of the studio...but because I am very well off financially."
"You...you should have told me that you are my boss." Jane said and looked at her, taking a deep breath.
"I would have been much more respectful...and wouldn't have forced you to try on my clothes or had taken your clothes." The brunette girl pointed out.
"Please don't think of me as your boss. Please don't. I am the same as I always was. And I didn't want to try the clothes on because I feel awkward in them in the studio. I know how to dress, I just choose to be more me...more relaxed." She smiled and touched Jane's cheek as she looked into her eyes.
Jane nodded.
"I understand...I'm sorry for assuming you..." Jane stopped and stepped away from Maura, sitting down in the chair.
"God I feel so stupid now." She said and covered her face with her hands.
"Can you just forget all the things I said?" Jane asked her.
"Oh no...Jane, please don't feel stupid, please. You didn't say anything wrong. It was nice being treated as just a regular person. I am just a regular person. I just own the building...the studio. That doesn't make me your overall boss. I just have the power to decide who I want to work with...and I want you to keep this a secret, okay? It stays between us. I trust you," Maura said, coming around to face Jane.
Jane removed her hands from her face and looked at her.
"I won't tell anyone, don't worry. But...how did Rebecca know you are the boss?" The brunette asked her and looked in her eyes.
"Why would you tell her of all people? Or did Rebecca used to be nice?" Jane asked interested.
Maura squared her jaw and looked away for a long moment before looking back at Jane. It was now or never. Someone had to know about her.
"We had a small enounter." She said and looked back to Jane. Maura swallowed and let out a deep breath.
"And by encounter, I mean...we slept together..."
You could tell from Jane's face that she hadn't expected that at all. That was probably the last thing she expected.
"You...you slept together?" She repeated and swallowed. This was hard to believe after seeing the two of them fight like that.
"Wow...I...uh..so you uh...dated her?" Jane asked her carefully, not wanting to step over an invisible boundary.
"Hardly. It was just sex. Only a few times and when I said I didn't want anything more, she turned into a witch," she said and leaned back into the vanity before Jane.
"I couldn't stand things about her...that I really should have noticed before I slept with her," she added, giving a small smile to Jane.
"I see..." Jane said quietly and glanced at the blonde.
"Well, Rebecca's... pretty, I can see why you...uh, slept with her." Jane said carefully.
"But it's none of my business." She added real quick and got up from the chair.
"Uh, I guess, it's in your interest if we continue to work..." Jane said.
"We can, or we can talk about how you feel...Jane I don't want any of this to change and damnit, I know it has. You are even looking at me differently. I just wanted a friend...and everytime one of you figure out that I actually own this studio you all just act different. Rebecca was the first that didn't...but then she just wanted my money and would do anything to get it..."
Jane walked behind the divider only to get a robe and dressed it. The Italian girl shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't know what to say, Miss Maura...Maura. It just caught me off guard...that you are the boss. And now you tell me you had a fling with Rebecca...it's just...so much at once, you know." She said and looked at her.
"I really like you Maura, you are a very nice person...and a great boss for fooling around with me like that...but I don't know how I should act in front of you now...I don't wanna do or say something disrespectful. I need these jobs to finance College. I can't loose it by doing or saying something stupid."
"I am not going to let you fail college. YOU deserve it, Jane," Maura said flatly and tried to hide her frustration that she was feeling toward Jane. She watched the woman come out from behind the divider and she sighed.
"I can't change what happened. I am a better person because of it and I want you to treat me just as you were. I am not different..."
Jane looked at her and nodded.
"Okay, I will try." Jane said and looked at her. She bit down on her bottom lip.
"Can I ask you a personal question? It is VERY personal..." Jane warned her and looked in her eyes.
"Sure, I make it a point to always answer honestly," she said, stepping away from the vanity and toward Jane. She looked killer in Jane's clothes no matter what the situation was now. Maura came to stand before Jane and she smiled lightly.
"Shoot. Ask away. Personal or not. Anything that you want."
"You don't have to answer if you don't want to. Please don't feel forced to answer..." Jane said and took a deep breath.
"You are, uh, a..." She stopped looking for a word that wouldn't sound offensive.
"...Um, you are homosexual, right? So did you sleep with, uh, alot of models from your agency?" Jane asked carefully.
Maura smiled, giving Jane the comfort that she knew that she needed.
"No, I prefer the term bisexual. No, I have not slept with a lot of models. Rebecca was the only one. I am not ashamed of her...I am ashamed and sad of who she turned out to be," she said to Jane.
"Oh, right." Jane blushed as Maura corrected her, telling her she was bisexual.
"I understand, though I think that you and Rebecca would have been a beautiful couple. You both are very... pretty women." Jane said and worked up a smile.
"I am sorry things turned out like that... between the two of you." She said.
"I am not," she said with a small smile toward Jane as she simply then turned and moved to the rack to grab a few items for Jane to try on.
"I needed to get her out. She was not being fair to you or me," she said, moving behind the divider and then noticing that her bra was still back there. She picked it up before setting the clothing on the wall. She came back out, holding the bra in her hands.
"Go ahead and put the red dress on..." she said with a smile.
Jane glanced at her bra and then nodded.
"Of course." She took the red dress off the rack and walked behind the divider. She undressed the turquoise bikini again and threw on the red dress.
"I like the fabric...feels very nice." Jane said and came back, smoothing the red dress.
"How do you like it...Maura?"
Maura lost her breath as Jane came out from behind the divider. She had to control her breathing a lot once she got it back.
"I love it," she said sounding breathlessly as she did so. Jane saw the woman's eyes glistening as she looked at her. Jane's figure danced in the dress and her skin tone and her hair color shined in the color.
"You, I have to say it...are breath taking."
Jane smiled at Maura. She had been nothing but nice to her and Jane honestly was trying her best to treat her as she used to. Though it was harder, knowing she was her boss...the fact that she was bisexual wasn't helping either. But Jane tried. Her smile got bigger, her dimples showing again.
"Thank you..." She said and stepped in front of the mirror.
"It's a very beautiful dress. I adore it. Do you uh, think the designer would let me keep it after the shoot?" Jane asked her.
Maura smiled and watched as Jane stood before the mirror and said that she loved the dress.
"I would be glad to let you keep it. It's yours Jane," Maura said and stood back, going over to get black heels for Jane to put on.
"Here, try these. They will make you really tall," she said.
"Wait..." Jane said and turned around.
"All these clothes...everything I am trying on here...is something you've designed? You are the designer?" Jane asked the blonde shocked and stepped into the black heels.
"You can't be...doing so much...and owning so much and be only twenty three...this..this is impossible."
Maura started to speak but them stopped herself. It wasn't like she was the designer...she could just decide what happened to the clothes after she bought them for shoots. She chewed on her lower lip for a moment.
"Not entirely. I simply can choose what happens to the clothing after the shoots are done. This one...now belongs to you," she said and smiled with a slight shrug.
"I am twenty three...I promise."
"Wow...thank you." Jane said and stroke over the fabric of her dress over her stomach again.
"I don't know how to thank you. It's a beautiful dress. Really." Jane said and did like Maura a week ago, step forward and hugged her real quick before she stepped back again.
"Do the models know you get to decide what happens with these clothes? I bet they are begging you to keep most of their clothes after the shoot."
Maura welcomed the hug from the woman and looked at her as she stepped back.
"No, the only other one that knew about me was Rebecca. Now there is you. So I don't want you begging for every piece that you want, you got it?" Maura teased Jane and shook a finger at her.
Jane laughed and shook her head.
"It's just this one dress, I promise." The brunette said and smiled at her.
"You are really nice, Maura, thank you. I mean it." The Italian girl said and smiled.
"I think the photographer will start getting impatient. We should really get started now, no?" Jane asked her smiling.
"Right," Maura said with a smile and a sharp nod before heading toward the room where the photographer was waiting. Maura was walking with the woman and laughing a moment later as they moved toward Jane.
"Jane this is Tina. She will be taking the photos today." Tina smiled and held out her hand to greet Jane.
Jane smiled back and shook Tina's hand. In the back of her mind she couldn't help but wonder if Tina was Maura's new girlfriend or if she had slept with her before. She hated herself for asking herself such questions but she couldn't help it.
"Hi, nice to meet you." Jane said and pulled her hand back after shaking Tina's.
"Very nice to meet you too, Jane. Let's get started, sound good," she said sweetly.
Her accent was thick. She was from France. Maura smiled and stepped back to let Tina and Jane do their thing. She waited in the wings for Jane to change and retouched her makeup as it was needed. The shoot went very well and Tina was pleased.
TBC
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