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Finn chuckled “Not until I paint your high and lowlights and the flower petals Now, this is another fantastic eirl Her name is Brooke”

Annabelle exchanged quick pleasantries with both women

“She’ll get you anything you need Ipod with earphones, tissue, cocktails, you naing your paint I’ll make a lot of touch-ups before the curtain rises”

“Sounds like a piece of cake,” Annabelle said Though her heart was pounding hard in her chest,a mockery of her words

“Great” Finn beamed “Now strip down” He pulled the curtain around thetheir cozy little work area She’d have to get used to the confined space She suspected the stage wasn’t er

“Would you like sone?” Brooke asked

“That’d probably help” Annabelle put her purse on one of the empty fold-up chairs and slipped out of her clothes It was impossible not to feel self-conscious, even when Yvette whistled under her breath

“You haven’t gained an ounce since college!”

Jessica gestured to another e Annabelle to sit there The padded seat was covered with a sheet of paper, taped to the edges of the metal frame Annabelle suspected she needed to touch as little of the chair as possible so as to not s

“Are you ready?” Jessica asked

“Absolutely,” she said as she perched her bare ass on the edge of the chair

Brooke returned with a cha of the small bottle “So you don’t interrupt Jessica’s flow,” she said of the straw She set it on a table next to the chair so all Annabelle had to do was lean over and sip

“Geez,” Yvette said, “if I’d known all I had to do was lounge around and sip chao!”

“You’ve never been painted?” Annabelle asked, surprised

“He’s only asked her about a hundred times,” Brooke said as she handed a split to Yvette