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The first thing you notice when your alarm is ringing loudly is that you regret going to bed so late last night. Your career as a photographer allowed you to have flexible hours, and you preferred to work through the nights but sometimes that bit you back. Like today because you have an appointment at 9 AM and had to wake up at 7 AM.
You groan, still feeling sleepy while sitting on your bed that felt like heaven right now, rubbing your eyes and letting a huge yawn escape.
“Fuck!"
Reaching for your phone on the nightstand and just rolling over to check your notifications to see if you had something important to see and reply to, you finally get out your bed to start your day.
Your appointment is actually with your best friend, Natasha, who asked you to do her new photoshoot. She’s is a huge model right now and just got picked to be one of Victoria’s Secrets Angels model and that made you so proud of her. You saw every step of her career and also helped her as much as you could, with your contacts with brands and magazines. Natasha is doing a profile for VOGUE and she’s freaking excited and asked you to do the photos that are coming out with the article. Your meeting today is actually going to the place where the photoshoot is going to happen in a few days, to run a few tests with lights and for you to choose which equipment will do a better job.
You take a quick shower and since the meeting is kind of a casual one, you just put on a dark blue high waisted jeans, a white t-shirt with a black jacket, and tennis shoes. You spend a little while picking a few camera lenses that you’ve used before for this kind of job I think that may be appropriated. You got your notebook and put everything into your bag and headed out.
The place where the photoshoot would happen was in Harlem, and since your apartment was in Village, you decided to go in your car instead of taking a cab because you have another meeting later and didn’t want to risk being late with any of them.
You always loved photography, your mother still had a few pictures of you when you were a little kid and already playing with a camera. That passion became your profession that made you really happy to be working with something that you loved for a long time. While in college, you were able to start an internship at VOGUE, which gave you a huge opportunity to know people here and there. You decided to fly solo after three years of working on the magazine, a specific photoshoot that you’ve had done with a movie star put your name on the radar and then another famous name started to reach you for your work.
The morning traffic was wild in New York City, it made you a little bit happier that you woke up early and being able to arrive on time even with the chaos at New York’s street. When you have almost arrived, your phone started to ring through the speakers of your car and you see on the screen that Natasha is calling you, and you press the button to answer on.
"Morning, Angel."
She chuckles, ”Goooooood morning, Sunshine! And please cut it out with that nickname, it’s ridiculous! I just got here, are you close?
You frown and groan playfully, “God, how can you be in such a good mood early in the morning? I will be there in five and I hope that you have a large coffee waiting for me."
Natasha laughed out loud, "come on sleepyhead, I know that you looooove to spend time with me. Don’t be a dick. After you finish your tests around here, we can have brunch. And Hunny, you know exactly what makes a person wake up in a good mood."
"Dear God, shut up, Natasha. I’m really not interested in your ‘good mood shenanigans."
"So, get your ass in here and then we’ll have a proper talk about that,” and Natasha hangs up with a smile.
You’ve known Natasha since you both were teenagers and she’s have been your best friend since then. Lately, she noticed that you have been working a lot and basically resuming your social life by meeting her for lunch sometimes. She keeps making fun of you for not going out on any dates that aren’t with her for lunch. You sigh just to thinking about it. Natasha may be making fun of you but she’s not wrong. It is actually has been a while since you went on a date, but with work is going so well, that you preferred to focus on that right now.
Besides, your last relationship ended not quite so well. Carol is a really good person and you had a wonderful time together but she started to complain that you never had time for her, your relationship, and she made you choose between her and your career. Being someone who said she cared about you and loved you, she should have never asked you something like that and it ended badly with both of you yelling at each other. After breaking up with Carol, you only had one date with a girl that you matched with on a dating App that Nat made you create a profile with and go forward with somebody.
The girl was kind of nice but you really weren’t in the mood and at the end of your dinner, you just said sorry and lied telling her by saying that you were still in love with your ex. That date was five months ago and you don’t even want to think about how long you haven’t had sex. Yeah, you really don’t like to drive your thoughts that way, not that you weren’t over her because you were, it’s just that you felt kind of rusty in that kind of business.
You arrive at the Studio Maximoff and park your car at the parking lot beside the studio. At first sight, you think that the place is nice. It had a cool, modern look.
As soon as you entered the building, you were immediately tackled by a very excited Natasha, which made you laugh and put your arms around her.
“Hey Nat, how you doing?"
"I’m great! I’m so excited! Thanks again, y/n/n, you know that I love you right?!"
Her excitement enlightened your mood, you smirked. "Shut up, that’s nothing Nat, I love you too. Besides, you can introduce me to one of your Angel's friends, right?"
Natasha slaps your arm and laughs, "Don’t be ridiculous. Come on, I want to introduce you to someone and not an Angel this time, so be cool."
You intertwine your arms with her and goes to the reception area, you’re still laughing when you see a very distracted brunette searching through an iPad at the reception desk.
"Hey Wanda, I want you to meet my best friend and the most talented photographer in the entire world, Y/N Y/L/N"
When Wanda drives her attention to your face, her face lights up with a big smile and you felt like a magnet to her. and You just couldn’t look away from the very beautiful pair of emerald eyes. She approached both of you and stuck her hand out to you, "Hi, I’m Wanda Maximoff and it’s really nice to meet you. Natasha said a lot about you and it’s nice to finally put a face to you."
You give her hand a little shake and still stared at her face and, having a little difficulty in looking away. "Hi, Wanda. It’s lovely to meet you too, but I’m a little concerned about what Natasha told you about me."
They both start to laugh and Wanda says, "Only nice stuff, I promise."
Natasha looked at her watch, "Y/N/N, my Yoga class is about to start, so Wanda is going to show you where we are planning to do the shooting. And one more time, thanks a lot Wan, I’ll owe you one after this”
"That It’s nothing, Nat. I’m just glad that I can help somehow."
Natasha says goodbye to both you and Wanda, promising to meet with you as soon as her Yoga class finishes, and she leaves you alone with Wanda.
Wanda puts her hands in the back pockets of her pants "Sooo, shall we go?"
"Yes, please. I hope I’m not interrupting your routine, you own the place, right? You must have a lot of stuff to do around here."
Wanda starts to lead you upstairs, "oh no, I mean, yeah, the place it is mine, but I got everything under control. It isn’t a problem at all."
When you reach the up top floor, there’s a large corridor with a few rooms that you see in the little signs on their doors what they are used for. The decoration is amazing, everything was pastel tons, a light bright wood floor and with some flowers here and there. Wanda stops by the last door that has a delicate sign with Ballet written on it.
"That’s the place, that’s our Ballet studio. I just finished remodeling it, so it’s all fresh for you guys,” Wanda says that with a very proud smile and step aside so you can come in.
You thought that the corridor and the little bits of what you saw from the other rooms were very well decorated, but this room had amazed you. A giant window that started from the floor went up to the ceiling, bathing the entire room with natural lighting, a classic Ballet bar on the wall and the wall across that was covered entirely by mirrors. A huge chandelier covered with tiny crystals occupied the middle of the roof.
“That’s stunning, we can make incredible work here, all this natural light will give such an incredible and intimate look to the pictures,” You were already have searching for your camera and started to look through your lens.
Wanda walked across the room and stopped by the window to look outside, “I kind enjoy the natural light, I think it brings a calm vibe inside the building or something like that."
While she was distracted, you were amazed by the image of Wanda by the windows and you couldn’t resist. You pointed your camera at her and took a few pictures.
Then you started to do your job, going everywhere, pointing your camera, making notes, changing your lens. While you were doing that, Wanda kept small talk with you and you found yourself having a really good time. About an hour a half later, you were done.
You went to a wooden chair where Wanda was sitting while you worked, and searched for the picture that you took of Wanda and showed her, "I told you, the pictures look amazing in this place."
Wanda blushes to see herself in the photos, "oh my god, that looks amazing. You are very talented."
You were still looking at Wanda’s pictures, "What? Come on, I know that I have a skill set but the place is amazing. I had an incredibly beautiful model, how could it look bad?"
You didn’t notice what you were saying until it comes out of your mouth making both of you blush, but before anyone could say something, Natasha had just arrived at the Studio.
"Hey, guys! Oh my god, Wan, this place looks amazing."
Wanda clears her throat, "Thanks, Nat. It took a lot of work but the results were really good."
Natasha looked at you and caught you with a little dumb look towards Wanda, "Y/N did you finish? I am so fucking starving, shall we go?"
That was your turn to clear your throat and you looked back to Natasha giving her a little smirk, "Done and ready to eat, and also glad that you are paying."
After you grabbed all of your stuff, the three of you started to head downstairs and when you reached the doors, Natasha gave Wanda a little hug and said goodbye before leaving the building.
You looked to Wanda’s eyes one last time, for today, "Thanks for having us, guess I’ll see you here on the photoshoot next week?"
Wanda smiled, "That was my pleasure, I’ll see you then."
With that, you left the building and headed to your car where Natasha was waiting for you and as soon as she saw you, she lifted her brows and gave you that look.
You rolled your eyes and unlocked the car, "Don’t fucking start Romanoff."
Both of you entered the car, "What? I haven’t said anything…YET!"
You sighed but with a little smile on your face because even knowing that you were going to face a questioning during your meal, a pair of green eyes kept coming back to your thoughts.