Chapter 19: Fashion Shoot and Kisses

                                    

                                          


                          
Nayeon is working like crazy to get the clothes finished for her school uniform fashion shoot, and that means that Yuna and I are working like crazy too.
                          
We shred shirts, slice into blazers, unpick school badges and chop up cardigans. Sweatshirt arms are turned into leg warmers, trouser into hot pants, netball bibs into cool little book bags. Nayeon makes a necklace from old biros and pencil sharpeners, and a bracelet from paper clips.
                          
Slowly, the sketches came to life.
                          
Nayeon collars Zac Efron and gets him to load a whole bunch of his paparazzi photos on to a computer in Room 17. We crowd around as shot after shot fills the screen. Zac has uncovered a few school secrets, for sure.
                          
There's a shot of Miss Stone behind her big oak desk, reading a confiscated copy of Heat Magazine, a picture of the school nurse getting into her car with a ciggy dangling from her lip, and a classic shot of the cook, creator of our healthy organic school dinners, with a takeaway McDonald's Happy Meal. The photos are clever, sneaky and cool, but better than that, they are really good. They are sharp and well-composed... it looks like Zac has a hidden talent after all.
                          
"Ok, I suppose you can take the pictures for the fashion shoot. I've put a lot of work into this, and I have top-class models lined up, so you'd better not let me down." Nayeon smile at Zac, sliding an arm round his neck, and leans in close as he turns an attractive shade of crimson. "Stuff it up and I'll break both your legs." She whispers.
                          
Zac swallows, hard, and Nayeon just laughs and walks away.
                          
No threats are needed to keep Justin Bieber in line. Nayeon has him dangling on a string. He has fallen at her feet, the way boys often do, and Nayeon just smiles and shrugs and steps right over him, carrying her own sweet way. You can tell Justin isn't used to that.
                          
"He doesn't want to do the shoot with Gal Gadot." Nayeon explains.
                          
"Why not?" I ask.
                          
"Too much Hebrew, I bet. Justin says I'd be much better model."
                          
"You?" I say and Nayeon gives me a sharp look.
                          
"Yes, me, I mean, who better to model the clothes, when you think about it? I designed them, I'm styling the shoot, and of course it's my magazine, really..." Nayeon snaps.
                          
"Well, you're the editor, it's everybody's magazine, though." Yuna correct her.
                          
"That's what I meant, obviously." Nayeon says.
                          
The shoot is scheduled for Friday, after school. Nayeon just finished the shirt she wants Justin to wear in the possible cover shot, a lost property special with I must not misbehave in school written across the fabric in endless neat rows. "It took me 'till midnight." Nayeon says, as the three of us mooch across the playground and down towards the bicycle racks. "Justin's going to love it."
                          
"It's looks great, did you get the idea from Hwang Yeji's skirt?" Yuna says.
                          
Nayeon looks annoyed. "Yeah right, like I'd get style tips from that freak."
                          
"She's not a freak." I say, quietly.
                          
"You would say that, of course. She's got the hots for you, hasn't she? Seriously Ryu, don't go there, when I was teasing you with her I was just joking, okay? I didn't expect you to do it, seriously, Ryu, she's a freak! I could fix you up with one of Justin's friends –" Nayeon says.
                          
"No thanks!" I protest, half-angry about Nayeon saying rude things about Yeji and me not being to do anything about it because I'm such a coward.
                          
"Whatever, just stay away from the geek clique, that's all I'm saying." Nayeon huffs.