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Confessions of a Potter Princess VIII
Sunday in March
"WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS MY FRIENDS! AND WE'LL KEEP ON FIGHTING TILL THE END-WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS! NO TIME FOR LOSERS CAUSE WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF THE WOOORLD!"
The players of the England National Team sang out loud, voices filled with joy and exuberance as everyone celebrated their Quidditch World Cup victory at Carnivale. Maxim had thrown a totally crazy party to commemorate the landslide victory of England over Egypt. The game had been over within a couple of hours final score: England: 350- Egypt: 75.
Caliber's leading the song and Dad's on his and the seeker, Heath Wilshire's, shoulders.
"Another round of Firewhiskeys, my dear brother!" called Cal out to Maxim behind the bar.
"Yeah!" the other players roar in response, despite the fact that they're already slurring their words.
Rainier and the keeper Freya Donovan suddenly drench Dad with a water cooler. We all laugh and whoop. We all ate and drank and laughed and relived our favorite moments of the quidditch game for the rest of the night.
The merriment continued on well into the early morning hours. By the time Rainier and I apparated back to our flat it was six in the morning and the sun was rising. We crashed till noon the next day, before I had to get up to go to work at one.
After the spring/summer fashion show, I had scored a coveted internship at Stella McCartney, as well as a small modeling gig for a new Burberry perfume. The Burberry photo shoot and ad campaign launch is set to be in a couple of weeks, but in the meantime I'm finishing my school credits with the internship. I'm working for Stella till the fall/winter shows in June, she's helping me score my very own show for the fall/winter season.
After that it's still up in the air, but I want to take every opportunity I'm given to establish myself as a credible fashion designer and not just as a girl with the benefits of both wealth and nepotism who decided to try fashion just because she can.
Once I was showered and dressed I went into the kitchen to grab something to eat before I took off. It was then that I noticed the mail lying on the marble counter top of the breakfast bar. I sifted through the letters many of them in thick white parchment envelopes with old-fashioned type face as invitations to benefits, balls, auctions and gallery openings. I came across an interesting letter with my name on it from Bewitched magazine. I opened the envelope it read
Dear Ms. Charlotte Potter
My name is Gwenyth Sterling and I am the main fashion columnist for Bewitched magazine. I would like to ask if you would be interested in being on the cover of our May issue. As the featured persona of the magazine, we would like to include a six-page photo shoot as well as an interview about all aspects of your life. Including your fashion design/modeling career, your love life and relationship with Rainier Malfoy, and what it was like growing up a Potter. If you are interested, please send a reply ASAP to me at Bewitched Magazine 429 S. Stone St., Wizarding London. Please also send a time and place convenient.
Sincerely,
Gwenyth Sterling
Fashion Editor, Bewitched
Well, duh of course I wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. Especially Bewitched I mean really it was like the Vogue of the wizarding world. I quickly scribbled a reply and told her to meet me at Burner, Max's restaurant, for lunch after work Thursday.
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"Rainier, darling I'm home" I called into our flat as I shut the door arriving home from work at five.
"Hey" he said walking down the hall dressed in only a towel as he obviously just got out of the shower, I was amazed that still after nine months of a relationship I still swoon at the sight of that amazing quidditch toned body; he leaned down to give me a kiss.
"Hey you don't smell like grass" I said breaking the kiss.
"You love my grassy ass, besides its part of the job"
"Yeah well the job's over now isn't it"
"Till summer training, so, how was work?"
"Great the spring line was delivered to the stores today, and I've already gotten some sketches for fall/winter done" I said placing my portfolio down on the coffee table and throwing my light-weight lavender coat onto an armchair.
"That's good. I saw the letter from Bewitched magazine. Are you going to do it?" he said taking my hand and leading me to the couch where we sat cuddling.
"Of course I am, I'm so excited. I mean I didn't think I was famous enough to be in a magazine."
"Why not? Other magazines have done articles on your designs and family and stuff."
"I know, but a cover and six page spread on just me, that's crazy"
"You know they are going to ask you about me?"
"Yeah, is that a problem, because if it is I'm sure I don't have to answer anything personal"
"No it's fine, but what are you going to say to them?"
"Oh you know, they'll probably ask about how long we've been together and how we met and all that, so that stuff?"
"And you'll tell them that you love me or whatever?" he said a little awkwardly
"Or whatever" I said laughing kissing him on the cheek, "and they'll probably ask what's so special about you and I'll say that your sweet and kind" I kissed him on the lips and neck and his taut bare chest, "and your handsome and funny" I slipped my small slender hands into the towel around his waist and straddled him on the couch, while his hands slid under the soft cotton jersey of my shirt and over my porcelain skin playing with my breasts, "and most of all that you do that amazing thing with your tongue" I whispered as my top and jeans suddenly disappeared. He undid the clasp on my white lace bra and I moaned when his mouth came in contact with my aching breasts. At this point his arousal was more than a little noticeable and I was yearning to be touched between my legs. I untangled a hand from his soft golden locks and pulled the towel off of him to touch him. He slid off my matching white lace panties and rubbed a rough calloused hand along the inside of my thigh and then slipped two fingers gently inside of me before finally I couldn't take it anymore and lowered myself onto him. We rocked slowly and surely together making love. That's the way sex always was with us. He was gentle and soft, always appreciating my body always slowing me down when I got too impatient, even that first night, when we arrived at his place, we went from roughly kissing and touching to smooth tender sex. Sometimes I felt like screaming at him to just do it, to just surprise me and make me feel a bit of pain with the pleasure but that wasn't his style in anything, he was chivalrous and gentle in everything, even sex.
"Ok Charlotte, tilt your head just a little bit to the right, chin up, there you go beautiful" came the heavily accented voice of Luciano Santini, the photographer for the Burberry perfume ad.
The new perfume is called Burberry Shore, it's a light weight breezy summer version of their signature. Right now, we are on a beach in Cornwall, and I'm trying my best to look sultry and sexy as well as maintaining my pose perching precariously on these rocks on a high bluff with the spring winds whipping my red hair about my face.
I had traveled to Cornwall from London the night before and arrived on set this morning for hair and makeup at seven. Rainier had come with me to support me on my first real modeling gig.
The shoot required several different shots, one for the magazines, one for the billboards and one for the stores. In each I posed in the signature plaid bikini.
I loved my look. My hair was washed in salt water and then styled to look just perfectly tousled and beach-y. My big green eyes were highlighted with a touch of luminescent gold shimmering shadow, that looked impossibly perfectly natural too, something only the expert makeup artists like Francesca and Malin could do. My cheeks were colored with a rosy cheek stain to give me just the perfect flush and my lips were smoothed with a very subtle light pink gloss. I never really though I could do an ad like this with my pale skin, but Carlisle said that I was exactly what Burberry was all about, British beauty and sophistication.
"Ok we got it, now lets move down to the sand", shouted Luciano.
His assistants came over to help me down off the slippery, rough rocks. The rocks were somewhat treacherous with their jagged edges and it had taken probably half an hour to set up the lights, camera, and me up on the bluff overlooking the ocean.
"Thanks" I say taking and dressing in the robe offered to me from one of the Italian assistants. She nods and scrambles to help set up the lights on the sand.
"You looked gorgeous" Rainier said leaning in to kiss me. I turned my head and backed away. I had to make sure my makeup wasn't mussed, it took an hour to apply just so.
"Can't ruin the gorgeousness", I said with a small smile when I noticed the slightly miffed look on his face.
"Charlotte, we're ready, tell that boyfriend of yours not to ruin your makeup," called Carlisle
I rolled my eyes, "Ok coming" I squeezed Rainier's hand gently and walked over in front of the camera, handing my robe to another of the assistants.
"Ok now kneel, no-no, actually stand back up…ok stand in the surf, there you go now just stand and pose, ok great beautiful" said Luciano directing the shot.
"Lips, lips and we need more of those emerald eyes", he called out and I lowered my chin to make my eyes look bigger and pouted just a little, left thumb hooked in my bikini bottom and right hand perched scandalously on my right upper inner thigh, "There we go there's the shot fantastic, your just fabulous"
After about twenty frames, we changed the shot for more options.
"Charlotte, my dear little muse, would you mind so terribly if the shot was topless" Carlisle said coming up to me, where I'm talking with Rainier, after conferring with Luciano about the shot.
"Um, no, I guess not", I said not really caring about the nudity aspect of it.
"Fantastic, you'll be paid extra of course", he said taking my hands and kissing each of them, I giggled at his antics. After proclaiming Lana and I the new it girls, Lana had scored both the spring/ summer and fall/winter ad campaigns, where as I was given the new perfume ad.
"Wait, can they do that, isn't that not legal to use in public ads" Rainier said to me after Carlisle left.
"Oh, they'll have my more indecent bits covered with my hair or sand or something" I said waving the comment off, while my eye shadow was retouched.
"Charlotte, we're ready for you", Luciano called from behind the camera
I walked over to the new location, more rocks, though smoother and flatter.
"Ok, sit down on the rocks" he said to me not even looking away from where he was adjusting the camera lens to suit the sunlight.
I perched my self on the smooth rock and one of the assistants moved my long red locks around so that my wavy, beach hair is thrown casually over my breasts.
"Turn to the side and put your front arm behind you and go down on your elbow, good there you go, feet up on the rock and cross our ankles, perfect, arch your back a little more, there gorgeous, your eyes are stunning "
Twenty frames and an aching back and elbow later I was done. An entire ad, one day and 35,000 ₤, this modeling thing wasn't so bad. Still, this wasn't my passion, it was fun on the side and I loved getting my hair and makeup done and the different looks that I get to try, considering I'm usually not big on makeup, but I would never stop designing for it. I was lucky to have this as a side job, and even luckier to have the means to pursue my passion and still maintain the rather ritzy, upscale lifestyle I was used too.
"Oh my gosh, wasn't that just so much fun, no wonder everyone wants to be a model. Plus now I know what to do when I launch my first ad campaign" I said to Rainier on the train ride back to London.
"Fun for you maybe, I got to watch my girlfriend be fondled by Luuciaaannoo's assistants" Rainier said irritably, mockingly.
"Oh don't be so selfish, you get to fondle me anytime you want the least you can do is share, besides you know very well that it was just fashion." I said trying to get a smile out of him.
"Just fashion, I though fashion usually involved clothes" he retorted
I rolled my eyes. He had been strangely snippy the last few days. We had barely had sex in a week.
A/N: Written as if your reading the article.
2 mothes later May Issue
Bewitched Article
"The 'It' Girl"
Fame, Wealth, Beauty, Talent
Charlotte Lily Potter has certainly been blessed with it all. However, it is clear upon meeting her at Burner, the wizarding London restaurant owned by her best friend Delilah Longbottom's longtime boyfriend and brother Maxim Potter, she is not your normal socialite.
She arrives late apologizing profusely, looking perfectly naturally beautiful in a mint green floral silk georgette minidress, espadrilles and a prim white leather portfolio bag in hand, a truly fabulous late spring/early summer outfit. "I'm so so so terribly sorry about my lateness, it's just that I'm preparing for only my second fashion week and it's been really chaotic lately. I'm Charlotte by the way and you must of course be Ms. Sterling. It's great to meet you; I've got to say that my favorite recent article of yours has got to be the one on Freya Donovan revolutionizing the tomboy. I totally agree with that, she's such a sweetheart and it was nice the public got to see that cute girly side of her. She plays with my brother and Rainier you know" she says speaking fast, in a way unaware that everybody in the wizarding world knows of Caliber Sirius Potter and Rainier Draconus Malfoy.
It's that subtle innocence and modesty, that disarming lack of vanity and the power of her prescence that instantly makes you see why everybody loves eighteen year old Charlotte. She's one of those people that you would hate if you didn't instantly love her so much.
We start conversing back and forth much more easily than I originally thought we would. She's easy going and laid-back, polite, graceful and has an enviably simple, sophisticated elegance and poise well beyond her years. A trait she says she developed after years of dance as well as ministry balls and benefits organized by her mother, the illustrious philanthropic and that other famous beautiful redhead, Ginevra Molly Potter.
I struggled with limiting myself to just a few questions, when her life is so one-of-a-kind, so dreamlike, that I just wanted to know everything about her. (Yeah, me and the rest of the world both magical and muggle) But I tried to incorporate a bit of everything
So let's start with the fashion thing. How did you find out this is what you wanted to do with your life?
Wow, well it was really an accumulation of things. I was seventeen and straight out of Hogwarts. I realized that I was financially set for life. I didn't need to do anything if I didn't want to. So I looked to my brothers for inspiration and I realized that I was given something so special: the chance to act on my dreams, to pursue my passion. Rainer and my mother were really the ones who helped me figure out that it was fashion though. I've loved it since I was a little girl, going to the show with my mom and playing with all the beautiful couture gowns in her closet.
Recently you've dabbled in all aspects of fashion including modeling. Is that going to be a focus of your career now?
No, I love fashion design and the ability to express myself through that. Modeling was something I was literally pushed into when one of the models for the Burberry a muggle high-fashion designer had an allergic reaction to the makeup and I got dressed and they pushed me on stage. laughs. It's really fun though.
What was your inspiration for this latest fall/winter collection?
It's a little bit darker a little bit tougher than the spring/summer line. I was influenced a lot more by music, mostly a result of my brother Jude. I recently moved close to him and we've been hanging out a lot more. This collection is definitely more rocker based, a lot of black and sharp contrast with color. I played with a lot of graphic prints and mixed them with classic, old-school silhouettes, though all of the intricate detail in pleats and cross-stitching from my last line is still present. I'm working on that becoming my 'signature'
Ok, so now on to the real gossip. You and Rainier Malfoy have had a highly publicized relationship is it hard to be young and in love in this celerity life?
Yeah, we try not to pay attention to much to the tabloid stories these days, that got us into a bit of trouble in the beginning of our relationship Though I hardly think a little lack of privacy is worth complaining about considering all I have. It's truly the best feeling in the world, having someone to love like Rainier, he's everything a girl could ever ask for.
The two of you have been going out for a long time. Has marriage been brought up at all?
Laughs Now you sound like my mother! Yeah it will be a year June 3. I don't have anything to say about the marriage rumors, except we'll see what the future holds.
What about your family? Was it ever weird growing up with all the attention, it's died down a bit since you were younger, but was it hard being little and having to go out the back entrance to your primary school, because of the media?
People ask me this all the time and I don't really know if I can give a true answer to that question. In all honesty it's the only life I know. I never really knew anything about why I was special because of my father. It didn't click that my dad was a hero or my mom the Minister's daughter. Sometimes I got treated differently, but you learn to read people at an early age. By now I'm pretty good judge of character. Plus, as snobby as it sounds, I went to school and played with several other elitists' children. This was a good move on my parents' part I think because there wasn't such a large social and economic gap between my other friends and me. It helps to be around people who understand and live within relatively the same lifestyle as you. Otherwise, you can feel really ostracized by your peers. My mom, who came from meager beginnings, always taught all the children to really appreciate what we have. My grandparents, even now that they have money, still live in the same house they always have.
It sounds like you're close to your mother Ginny Potter, is your family close all around?
I would definitely say that. We've had to be, it would have been hard to grow up in such a big family otherwise, especially regarding all the media attention we got when I was younger and my dad still played quidditch. I think him traveling with the team kept us closer too; we are always willing to share all aspects of our life together. My mom is one of my best friends; she faced a lot of the same things I do post-war, so she really gives me a lot of good advice regarding life in general. My dad's always spoiled us kids like crazy, indulging most of his childhood fantasies along with ours. He's the most loving person, and after all he's been through, he deserves a life as wonderful as this more than most other person on the planet. I do feel a special bond with my sister Tierney too. She's ten years younger, but being my only sister we share a really special closeness. I'm more protective of her than anyone else in my family. And my brothers are so different and crazy even little Dane, they are each so full of life, have such vibrant personalities and yet they are fiercely loyal to each other so supportive and defensive and all turn to saps under the Weasley women including Tierney. One thing for sure is, it was never boring growing up in the Potter household.
So what's next?
Oh I don't' even know, a little bit of everything. I just feel so lucky; this whole life is just unbelievable. I always have to pinch myself, to make sure this isn't some fantasy and I want to be able to express my gratitude to the world, to my family, to everyone I love, in a similar way to what my mom has done with Dumbledore's Hearts of Gold. I just- I'm so just happy, there really is no other word for it, and now my goal is to make everyone I can as happy as possible too, that's my latest dream, to make the world, as cheesy as it sounds, a happier place.
And one thing's for sure, with her passion and determination, it girl, Charlotte Potter isn't going to stop till she accomplishes that happy dream either.
Gwenyth Sterling
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