BVQA: Not much to say, other than. . . I updated!
Dani: They knew that.
BVQA: Uh, I mean. . . um. . .
Dani: Beware the story?
BVQA: Yeah! Beware the story!
"We're all so glad you decided to sign on!" Katey told Dani. Dani nodded.
"Me too." She agreed. She wasn't lying. Katey seemed really, really nice, and Dani knew that she'd be a pleasure to work with.
Dani was curled up on the couch in the living room, Katey sitting in the chair opposite her. Her parents were blowing something up in the basement, since Dani had told them that she would go get them if she needed help.
"When can we start filming for the first show?" Katey asked. Dani shrugged.
"I'm free until. . . three PM today." She suggested. Katey grinned.
"Great. I'll call the limo."
"Ok!" Dani said. "I'm going to go get my shoes and let my parents know where I'm going."
It wasn't until she was halfway up the stairs that Dani thought, Did she say limo?
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Yeah, she said limo alright. . . Dani thought. She felt ridiculous, standing beside such a sleek car in her black boots, red pants, and blue hoodie. Any relief she would have felt at having left her red hat behind was erased by the fact that she still hadn't brushed her hair.
An immediate remedy was to duck into the limo as fast as humanly possible, so Dani did so. Katey was already seated next to her, and as the limo began to pull away from Fentonworks she began to speak.
"So, Dani, what sort of ideas did you have for this show?"
Dani shrugged. "I don't know. I thought that was up to you."
Katey nodded. "Ok, but if you come up with anything just let me know."
"Sure." Dani agreed. "Are we going to have a theme song?"
"Of corse!" Katey said. "What's a show without a theme song?"
Dani hesitated. "Uh, I think it's still a show. . ." Dani noticed the look in Katey's eyes and quickly followed with, "Uh, that was a rhetorical question, wasn't it? Sorry."
Katey just shrugged it off. "Anyway, I can't decide between upbeat and cheerful and dark and mysterious. What do you think?"
Dani hesitated. "I don't know. . . I mean, I like cheerful songs, but I also like creepy ones. . . can I think about it?"
Katey nodded. "Sure. I think we should show you our studio first."
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"Wow. . ." Dani breathed. "This is amazing!"
Katey laughed quietly as she stepped up behind Dani. "I almost forgot you'd never seen a closet this big before."
Dani would have spun to face her if she hadn't been busy staring ahead of her. "This is a closet?" She asked. Rows and rows of dresses, coats, shirts, pants, and assorted accessories stretched into infinity in the distance. Small piles of shoes dotted the landscape, and Dani gasped as she saw glittering jewelry tossed everywhere like sprinkles on a cupcake.
"This is amazing. . ." Dani said.
"Well, I'm glad you think so." Came a voice in front of Dani. Dani squinted, but couldn't see anyone until they stepped out from behind a rack of clothes and into the light.
"Hi! You must be Dani." The girl said. said. Dani studied her. She had short brown shoulder-length hair that spun into corkscrew curls. She wore a dark blue suit, but Dani's eyes were drawn to her watch. It wasn't fancy, just a waterproof blob of plastic covering a digital screen, but that wasn't what Dani found interesting. Safety pins, probably twenty or more, were threaded through the holes in the watchband. The girl noticed Dani's stare and grinned, deep brown eyes seeming to share a private joke with Dani.
"This is Abigail, our resident. . ." Katey hesitated, finally settling on, "Mad genius. Basically she takes care of hair, makeup, and clothing. . . and anything else she can get her hands on."
Abigail smirked. "You can call me Abi. . . or just 'that crazy lady who does my hair.' Whichever."
Katey turned to Dani. "I've got to go take care of paperwork, which is my job. . . and Abi's going to do hers, which is getting you ready to film. Ok?"
Dani nodded and followed Abi deep into the 'closet'. Abi hummed as she pulled various dresses from the racks, looked at them for a moment, then casually threw them on the floor and continued down the row.
"Shouldn't we pick these up?" Dani called after her.
"I'll do it later!" Abi yelled back, then stopped dead and pulled a blue camouflage jacket out from the rack and threw it to Dani. A few steps later she found a red tank top and deep blue jeans, then thigh-high lace-up red all-star high-tops. She pushed all the articles of clothing into Dani's arms and pushed her towards a door in the wall.
"Change. You. Now. There." She said. Dani really didn't see any point in arguing, so she did as she was. . . directed. She couldn't really say that Abi had told her to do so, since that would involve a full sentence being used.
A few minutes later, Dani stepped outside and Abi clapped her hands together in delight.
"Perfect!" She said. "Now, put your other clothes on the table while I go get the hair and makeup stuff!"
Dani watched to see how long she could see Abi, but lost track after a few moments. Jeez, there were a lot of clothes in this room. It was a wonder Abi could find anything. Maybe that was why she tossed things onto the floor, so she could remember the way to the exit.
Dani plopped her hoodie and jeans on the table and caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror. She didn't look half bad. The different color blues in the half-length jacket reflected her sundry blue eye color, an effect that Dani decided she rather liked. Besides that jacket it wasn't all that different from what she'd been wearing before, but it looked strangely. . . cooler. The jeans looked as if they'd been sewed together a minute before she'd put them on, and the shirt looked like the red you saw in cartoons: too red to last in the real world before being dulled down to a brick color.
"I'm back!" Abi shouted. She was carrying a hairbrush in one hand and a pile of ribbons, buttons and makeup cases in her other. In a few swift motions, she'd swept Dani's black hair off her forehead and behind her ears, where she pinned one side up with a red bow and let the other hang, strangely glossy, in front of Dani's right eye. A blue button was pressed to the center of the red bow, and suddenly two clip-on blue button earrings were dangling from her earlobes.
"Eyes. Close. No moving." Abi said. Dani obliged. She felt something soft sweep her eyelids and cheeks, and when she glanced into the mirror she saw that both eyes were covered by red eyeshadow and her cheeks had a healthy red blush clinging to them. Dani couldn't hide her grin.
"Done!" Abi exclaimed, then began steering Dani towards a third door.
"Ok, I'm done, go see the set crew!" Abi commanded. "Time to start shooting your theme song, then you go live on TV."
"Live?" Dani squeaked. Suddenly she was missing the explosions at Fentonworks. . .
BVQA: Ok, quick poll! What's Dani's theme song? ANSWER OR I WON'T BE ABLE TO UPDATE!
