5 | cinco

Florencia and her sisters returned to their hotel later that night and got into bed almost immediately. All of them had commitments the next day which they couldn't miss out on. Florencia was going to go to her photo shoot which would kick off ad mid day at the studios of Estrellas Y Mas, Margarita was going to audition for a starring role in one of Mexico's upcoming telenovelas at Televisa Studios, and her younger sister Acacia had gone out with her boyfriend Andrew Minor--an English-Mexican male model and actor--to a charity lunch event in the city that he had been invited to attend. 

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babygreeneyes: on my way to the televisa foundation charity lunch event with this guy. ily @drewminor_mx <3

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acaciaminor: damn those eyes, both of them!! *-* <33

florizaba: if u guys get married & have kids, they'll srsly have beautiful eyes, js. 

minorizaba: oml ^^^^^ @florizaba knows wassup

fansacacia_drew: so cute <3

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Florencia closed out of her instagram app when the car came to a stop in the parking garage of one of the city buildings. At one of the far walls near an elevator were pictures plastered of all the singers, models, and actors who had been on the cover of the very prestigious teen magazine. As a child, it had always been Florencia's dream to be on the cover on it. Now she would see one of her dreams come to life after having worked hard for several years to establish herself as a beauty queen.

It was difficult, of course. There were so many things that she could and could not do. For one, she had to go to the gym every day without fail. She hadn't gone since arriving in Mexico city, but her personal trainer and her mother had granted the few days of vacation while she was in the capital for the photo shoot. Then there was the fact that she couldn't eat most food. She couldn't have sweets or anything with too much fat in it because she needed to watch her figure.

The slightest slip up would get her publicly criticized on the internet because of who she was. It was the same for her sisters. 

The twenty year old entered the building with her mother. It had been a small argument that morning with Margarita over who would get to take their mother along. She was their manager, but she was their mother as well, and she always gave them advice and pointers before an audition or photo shoot. In the end Valentina had promised to stay with Florencia for a while, and then she would catch a ride to the Televisa Studio building to meet with Margarita before her audition for the telenovela. 

As they got out of the car and made their way to the double doors that led into the press building, Florencia stopped her mother and got her phone out once again. "Lets take a selfie together." She said to her with a grin on her lips. "This is one of the most important moments of my life."

He mother nodded and moved closer to her for the picture. 

Florencia unlocked her phone and clicked on the camera app before she smiled wide with her mother next to her.

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florizaba: too close, but i don't care jaja. about to enter the estrellas y mas press building for my photo shoot. just want to thank this beautiful woman. my queen, the reason why i am where i am today. love u mami. <3 #ValeZavalaOrizaba #beautyqueen #momanddaughter

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babygreeneyes commented on your photo: mama looks cute *-* but u dont lol <3 #jk

drewminor_mx commented on your photo: que guapa la suegra ;D x

So beautiful, my mother-in-law, Acacia's boyfriend Andrew had commented in Spanish.

jarochamo liked your photo.

oohsehun liked your photo.

florizaba: @babygreeneyes @drewminor_mx so rude, both of you not complimenting the person who posted the pic -.- aja

She once again closed the app and locked her cellphone, stuffing it into her jeans pocket. With her mother leading the way, they entered the press building and went straight to the elevator that would get them to the forum they were looking for.

Forum 8. Down the hall were the dressing rooms and Florencia went there first to meet with her team of stylists. As she reached the door, she saw a sign posted on it which made her heart sink and she let out a gasp. Florencia Orizaba, she read off the first name on the sheet. That was her, but there was another name underneath which sucked the soul right out of her body and she stood there frozen for what felt like an eternity. Florencia Orizaba & Oh Sehun. Oh Sehun, the name mocked her. Oh. Sehun.

A name she knew well from the various pictures she had liked online.

Oh Sehun, the boy she had flirted shamelessly with.

Why and how did he get there? She didn't know. Did he know all along that they would be meeting face to face? Florencia didn't have the answer to that either. 

But all that filled her thoughts at that moment was something else. Grabbing the sheet of paper with their names on it, she turned to face her mother, her index finger pointing at the names written on there. 

"Can you explain to me what this is?" She asked her mother, the smile she had worn on her face upon entering the building was long gone. "I'm so confused right now, I'm about to have a mental break down."

"Breathe, darling." Her mother tried to calm her.

But Florencia couldn't be calm, not when so many things were occurring at the same time. There was the fact that she was about to meet a boy she thought was too handsome to even be real, and then there was the fact that they were expected to share a magazine cover together. On any other occasion--on any other magazine cover--Florencia would have been thrilled. But this was Estrellas Y Mas. This was the most important magazine in Mexico for the teen population. No one shared a cover on Estrellas Y Mas. Sharing a cover on that magazine meant that the artist or model couldn't successfully sell enough magazines and needed the help of someone else.

It was a disgrace in the modeling world. Florencia couldn't let that happen to her image, as a former Miss Universe. Her model friends would shun her, she would be the talk of the industry.

The way she saw it, she had two options. She could stick through it and be on the cover and let everyone see her sharing the most important magazine cover of her life with Oh Sehun. Or she could leave the shoot and let him take the entire cover subsequently looking unprofessional in the eyes of the world. 

"I'm sorry, darling." Her mother apologized with a frown. "I know this was very important to you, and I tried to get you the cover as a solo. The magazine was originally going to have you on the November issue and the boy on the December issue." Valentina explained, her words soothing, but they did nothing to calm her fuming daughter who had crumbled up the sheet of paper and stood there with her arms crossed over her chest, deep in thought. "But his agency asked for him to share the cover with you because they wanted your fame in Latin America to help him and his group expand their fan base. I thought it was a good idea because his fame in Asia can benefit you as well..."

That's probably why he was so generously liking my pictures on instagram, Florencia thought to herself. While she thought he was flirting and was flirting back.

A sly smile made its way onto her lips as another solution came to her.

Maybe she could run him out of the photo shoot. She would have to act bratty and mean, and mess with him until she could annoy him enough to want to leave and not be on the magazine cover. It was her only choice if she didn't want to be seen as unprofessional. But she would need to be smart about it.

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oohsehun: a healthy serving of fruit before heading off to the photo shoot #estrellasymas #mexico #korea

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florizaticas: WAIT! estrellas y mas?? @florizaba is there RIGHT NOW. that means theyre gonna be in the same building, in the same studio maybe! must be why they were flirting all week. they're both gonna be on the cover together! so cute<3 

lauren_vantolra: we are just MOMENTS away from having a bunch of cute sehun + florencia selfies possibly :D i ship them so hard.

exo_mexo: date florencia plz! <3

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Sehun got in the car which the agency had rented and headed to the Estrellas y Mas building in the middle of town. The other boys--his group members--desperately wanted to tag along. They wanted to witness Sehun and Florencia meeting for the first time after flirting with one another all week over instagram, but the maknae nearly threatened them into changing their minds. He told them that it was his photo shoot and that he wanted to go alone.

Their manager agreed with Sehun and was the only one allowed to go with him. Since there were going to be various photographers, make up artists, and other workers on the set, they didn't want an extra amount of people causing a ruckus. 

They arrived after a twenty minute drive to the studio and parked their car in the garage building beside the main building. Sehun followed his manager through a set of glass double doors and onto the elevator which would get them to their floor. Once out of the elevator, the manager gestured down the hall, saying to Sehun, "Your dressing room is right down that way. Just go in and do everything they tell you. I'm going to go check us in so that the photographers know you're here."

Sehun nodded his head and headed in the direction his manager had instructed him to go. He expected to find a door with his name on it, but he found none. All of the doors were blank and he stood in the hallway for a minute, absolutely confused and dumbfounded. 

At one of the doors, he saw a crumpled sheet of paper on the floor and he knelt to pick it up. Opening it up to read what it said, he saw the names Florencia Orizaba and Oh Sehun typed out in romanized characters. He straightened up and looked at the door suspiciously, grabbing the door knob and trying to open the door, but it was locked from the inside. 

EXO's maknae knocked on the door, calling out, "Hello! Excuse me, this door is locked and I need to get in."

Inside the room, Florencia had already changed into her first outfit for the photo shoot. At the time, she was sitting in a chair with her stylists, getting her hair and make up done. She pretended not to hear the knocking on the door and hummed happily whilst she sat there.

One of the stylists looked towards the door and asked, "Who locked the door? Someone's knocking."

Florencia gave a shrug of her shoulders innocently.

Truthfully, she didn't have anything personal against Sehun. They had even been getting along on instagram before actually meeting for the shoot and it wasn't his fault that his managers had been the ones to schedule them for the photo shoot together. But she wanted that magazine cover all for herself, and she would do anything to get it. 

Her make-up artist set the make up pallet on the counter and went to open the door. Sehun was about to once again knock on the door when it opened for him. Inside he saw two stylists which he would probably be sharing with Florencia, and the former Miss Universe herself was already there. He could see her reflection in the mirror in front of her and he realized she was watching him. Their eyes met for an instant before she looked away pridefully. 

"You must be Sehun." The make up artist greeted with a polite smile in English. She nodded towards a rack in the far end of the room where his wardrobe had been prepared by a memeber of SM's stylist team in cooperation with stylists from Estrellas Y Mas. "There's your clothes. You can change behind those dividers over there."

Sehun nodded gratefully and bowed his head to her. "Thank you."

The make up artist walked back over to Florencia and whispered to her friend--the hair stylist--with excitement, "Oooh, so polite. And so handsome."

Florencia found herself huffing out an annoyed breath.

Of course he's handsome, she couldn't help but thinking. That's why he's here.

She was so irked that even right then, complete silence would have been enough to bother Florencia Orizaba. 

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After getting her hair and make up done, she quickly left the dressing room on her own. She wanted to be nowhere near Sehun. It took him about twenty minutes to get ready and he joined her on the set for their first round of photographs. For the first set, they were to wear formal attire and post together. He had been dressed in a suit and tie, while Florencia was dressed in a black and gold blazer with a white cropped blouse underneath, and a black pencil skirt.

They were directed by the photographer to stand together, in the middle of all the lights that surrounded them. Florencia took one look at Sehun's outfit and crinkled up her nose. 

"What's wrong?" The photographer asked her.

"Sorry, this is not gonna work. That whole outfit is wrong." She said to him in Spanish, since the photographer didn't speak much English to begin with. Sehun only stood there not knowing what was happening. "He needs to go change into something else pronto."

Of course--Florencia was lying about the outfit being a wrong choice--in truth she thought he looked very handsome in what he was wearing. But if she wanted to keep the magazine cover for herself, she would need to make his life impossible in order to run him off the set. 

The photographer sighed and then tried to reason with her. "I think it looks fine. That's the outfit the stylists wanted him to wear."

Florencia shook her head, crossing her arms over her chest defiantly. "He has to change into something else or I refuse to pose next to him."

"Fine." The photographer gave in with a frustrated sigh, if only to get the shoot going more quickly. "Let me see what I can do. Wardrobe!" He called, and a stylist rushed to his side. He gestured to Sehun who stood there with an expression full of confusion and said, "Please change the boy's outfit for this first set because her majesty over here doesn't want to pose with him if he's wearing that."

Florencia smiled victoriously. 

The stylist in charge of wardrobe walked over to him and grabbed him by the arm. As she dragged him away to the dressing room, she explained, "We're really sorry. But we have to go find you another outfit to change into."

"What's wrong with this one?" Sehun protested for a moment, until he remembered what his manager said. Do everything they ask you to do. 

"Miss Orizaba said she won't pose with you until you wear something nicer." The stylist explained. 

She had seemed so much nicer towards him on instagram. Yet in real life, they were already getting off on the wrong foot.

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so florencia is acting a bit bratty towards poor little sehun just to try to get him to quit the magazine cover photo shoot bc she wants it for herself. initially, i was going to have them not get along and hate each other from the start. but i like this build up bc i just didnt want florencia to be a little bitch for no reason. 

now she actually has a pretty valid reason, even though its not sehun's fault and all. 

i hope you all like this update. i worked hard on it. thank you all loads for reading and voting as well. have a great week!

-clary xx