Casting (2)

"Pass," a voice said, and Jian turned to take the little card before going back to sit down. She then let out a small breath of relief as she smiled at the card.

Jian waited for the next two hours as she watched each model evaluating their walks as well, by the time all the models had been selected for the second round there were a total of 50 out of 300 models left within the room. Jian took in a slight breath as she got in line, and they all started to walk again.

She was the fourth one to go and at the end of the runway she heard a familiar voice say, "Passed." Jian smiled as she took the green card with a time, date, and address stating, "Practice starts here," on top of it. She took the card before going back to her seat to gather her things before she left.

However, before she could walk out of the building a person approached her saying, "Excuse me, Miss Ophelia would like to talk to you." Jian nodded and the person turned saying, "This way," as Jian walked behind her. They went back to the open area and Jian smiled as she took a seat sipping the tea while she watched the other models walk.

Jian waited patiently for the casting to finish before she got up as Miss Ophelia approached her saying, "Jian, I wasn't expecting to see you here." Jian smiled saying, "It is a great opportunity to prepare for a show in August."

She nodded saying, "Good, I enjoyed your walk, it was quite elegant." Jian smiled saying, "Thank you." Ophelia nods before she glanced at her assistant asking, "Did you make the reservation?" The assistant nodded and Ophelia turned to Jian saying, "I understand you must be famished after work; would you care to join me for a little lunch and conversation?"

Jian nodded as Ophelia continued saying, "Oh, and I was able to go over a few of your designs you sent to me. I quiet enjoyed them," she and Jian walked out to the front where the assistant opened the car door for the two passing an iPad to Ophelia.

"These were wonderfully detailed but your sketching needs improvement," she said passing the iPad to Jian as Jian nodded. Ophelia smiled saying, "Although you sketches weren't of high quality, I still enjoyed the designs, also I was able to look over the designs you sent to Ravin, and those were quiet exquisite."

Jian smiled saying, "Thank you," Ophelia smiled as she said, "I will be honest with you Jian, I enjoyed your designs quiet a lot, but you were nowhere near the professional designer's level in regarding your garment composition." Jian nodded as she tried to keep her head up.

"Thus, I am offering you a unique opportunity to show case your top 5 designs however for you to do so I need to see your designs, but they must be ready by July 5 when we do our first model fitting, is that possible?" Ophelia asked and Jian took a few seconds before saying, "It is but I will need measurements of models or dress forms." Ophelia smiled saying, "That's easy, Jackie gives her the report of the models from this week, and you select any of the 5 that you like."

Jian smiled as they parked on the road, "Come," Ophelia said as she got out and Jian followed behind her as she got a text from Johnny after a 9 hour wait, he said, "Good afternoon, beautiful."

She smiled as she texted him, "How are you?" He replied almost immediately saying, "Not bad, we are headed to lunch now, so I gotta go, I will call you later." She liked his text before putting her phone away as Ophelia asked, "Was that Johnny?"

Jian looked up at her as a blush crept on her cheeks and Ophelia laughed saying, "Young love," and Jian shook her head saying, "We aren't a couple." Ophelia nodded replying, "Not yet."