Psychological Control

Chapter 15

After the knockout round, I went back to the supermodel house, and the screen in the living room was replaced with a dynamic still photo of Marvin's polygamous theme.In fact, if it is a model photo with a normal theme, it will not make people feel weird when it is displayed on this one-meter-wide TV screen.

But when I was kneeling on the ground in the hard photo, the whole photo was full of eroticism.When everyone walks in the room and sees me in the picture, it always makes me uncomfortable.

"Whew!" Ashton whistled first, and then said amid the booing of the female models: "Seeing this photo, I have to admit that you are indeed gay!"

I smiled awkwardly and said nothing.

"So you will choose Chris to share Taylor's suite with you?" Nina smiled and looked back and forth between the still photos on the screen and me.

Hearing her mention Chris, I subconsciously turned my head to look for Chris, only to find that he had walked to the kitchen and took out a can of beer from the refrigerator at some point.

"If he still wants to." I replied with a shrug and a smile.Nina turned her head and saw Chris' actions, she giggled.

Ashton glanced at Chris, and suddenly raised his hand and shouted: "If he doesn't want to, remember to take me with you! I don't mind sleeping in the same bed with you at night."

The staff in charge of shooting in the supermodel house asked the models who got the best photo and the key to Taylor's suite each time to decide who to invite to share Taylor's suite in front of the camera.So I just stood in front of the camera and said loudly, "Chris, do you want to share the Taylor suite with me?"

Chris's hand visibly paused, and the camera lens zoomed in.He seemed to have suddenly realized that he turned around and said with a smile, "You mean Guess's cloakroom? Of course!"

Ashton walked up to me and put his hands on my shoulders. He chuckled softly, "Did you see that? This is how straight men should react when your sexuality is exposed. It seems that I am Confirmed that Chris is really straight."

I took a deep look at Chris, and he turned a little uncomfortable and walked outside.I turned my eyes away from him and stopped looking at him. If he felt awkward, I wouldn't force it too much.After all, the two have only known each other for less than a week. After the game, if there are three or four people here who will contact again, it can be said to be a miracle.

I touched Ashton's hooded head with my backhand, and said, "You are too gossip, Ashton." Ashton seemed to froze, and I didn't care or withdrew my hand and walked towards the bedroom corridor.I'm going to pack some toiletry and check into the Taylor suite tonight, it looks like I'll finally have a space of my own.

Ashton trotted behind me, he pulled back the hood that I took off, "Oh? Who are you going to call this weekend? You know that America's Supermodel has a call time with family members every Sunday Right?"

Since Ashton found out that my sexual orientation was male yesterday, he switched sides. He no longer only hangs out with Nina and the others, but instead pesters me most of the time.In contrast, Chris is indeed a lot silent.Maybe the topic of my sexuality did affect him, not necessarily.

I quickly walked out of the range of the camera, and then I said: "According to the total one-hour call time, each person has 5 minutes. Remember to think about the main points of what you want to say, and I will talk to a friend."

Ashton's gossip ignited instantly, and he followed me into the bedroom excitedly, watching me bend over to pack up my clothes and books for the evening. "Friend, what friend? Your boyfriend?! What's his name, how long have you been together?"

I got a headache from being quarreled by Ashton, rubbed the center of my brows and said, "It's not a boyfriend, just an ordinary friend. After I got out of the nursing home, I met a colleague in the dance troupe, Mike."

"Wow, what colleague needs to call back at this time?" Ashton was very excited, and he continued to ask persistently: "Wait, your dance company means that he is also a dancer? He must be in good shape Good! Tell me, this time I will be absolutely tight-lipped!"

I straightened up holding my pajamas, bath towel and half-read book, and said helplessly to satisfy Ashton's curiosity: "It's not a special friend, it's just the only person I've known in the past two years who is considered a friend, except for him There's no one else to beat."

After I finished speaking, I turned and walked towards the door of the bedroom, preparing to put things in Taylor's suite first, and take a look at Guess' wardrobe by the way.

"Haha, does he have a girlfriend?" Ashton followed behind me relentlessly.

"No." I walked to the door and turned it open.

"Then he's definitely interested in you!" Ashton happily concluded, "It's your colleague again. I've known you for two years and haven't had a regular girlfriend. He knows your sexual orientation and still hangs out with you all day long."

"Okay, okay, he's my boyfriend, okay?" I turned to Ashton as I opened the bedroom door, "So do you still want to go to Taylor's suite to enjoy your eyesight?" Ashton said. He is a person with relatively simple thinking. You don't have to calculate too much when talking with such a person, but sometimes it will cause unexpected troubles.

Ashton heard the cheerful nodding in front of him, and then froze for some reason.

"Do you have a boyfriend?"

I turned my head and looked outside the bedroom door. Chris was standing at the door with a few cans of beer at some point.

"Scared me, Chris." I saw that his neck had turned red, as if he had drunk a lot in a short while, "That was for Ashton. Why did you drink so much? We're going to take a tour of Guess' closet, would you like to come along?"

"...No, I'll talk about it tomorrow." He was silent for a while before answering, and he was about to walk into the bedroom shaking.

I turned to let him pass, gave Ashton a look for them to go out, and closed the door behind me.

Ashton followed me and walked towards Taylor's suite, "It's strange to say, why is Chris always jealous of you even though he's straight. It's so funny."

I didn't respond to Ashton's words.

On Sunday morning, I got up early as usual to cook breakfast for Chris, Ashton and Nina.To my surprise, however, when I arrived in the kitchen, Chris was shoveling a freshly made omelette out of the frying pan.

"You got up really early today." I rubbed my eyes and walked towards him, looking at the breakfast for two on the plate.

Chris glanced at me, lowered his head and put down the frying pan and said, "Good morning, I went to bed early yesterday, so I happened to wake up earlier than you today. I simply made breakfast." He put two fried eggs and a few Pass me a plate of sausages.

I took the plate and looked at the dark circles and stubble under his eyes, but I still didn't reveal the fact that he probably didn't sleep at all last night.

I can't accurately analyze Chris's current mental state. He hides it very deeply. Although it is easy to see his unnaturalness, it is difficult to draw correct conclusions.In the end I decided to ignore it.

I put the dinner plate on the dining table, went to the refrigerator to take out the milk, took the two cups washed on the stove, and poured a cup for each of us.

"They usually don't get up until after half an hour. After eating, you can go to wash up, and then I will take you to Taylor's suite to see Guess' wardrobe?" I asked in a questioning tone.

Chris put the frying pan into the sink, walked to the dining table and sat down and said, "Okay. By the way, the call time later... I don't have anyone to call, you can use my call if you need Time to call your boyfriend...Speaking of which, what's your boyfriend's name?"

I picked up a sausage with a fork and took a bite. Seeing Chris’ uneasy look, I smiled and said, “Didn’t I say yesterday that I was just perfunctory to Ashton about my boyfriend. Mike is My colleagues at the George Robles Dance Company."

Chris nodded, but with a look of disbelief on his face, he replied, "Okay...you can call Mike on my airtime, I don't need to."

I glanced at him, lowered my head and took a bite of the fried egg without further explanation.

It seemed to me that Chris was starting to struggle with his sexuality, which wasn't a good sign for me because I hate trouble.It would be troublesome for me if I accidentally bent Chris.

After eleven o'clock in the morning, it finally came to the once-a-week call time.

Since I won the Taylor suite, I was put on the first call.The working group of America's Supermodel was particularly interested in building a red phone booth in the supermodel house. After sitting in, it will completely isolate the sound inside and outside, ensuring complete privacy, but there is a camera in the phone booth.

I sat in the phone booth and closed the door, and dialed Mike's cell phone number, which I had memorized by heart at some point while Chris waved his hand.After a few beeps, the other end quickly picked up the phone.

"Hi, this is Mike."

"Mike," I laughed, hearing Mike's rarely businesslike voice, "guess who's calling you again?"

"Brian?" Mike seemed to put down something and walked to a relatively quiet place. "Are you finally allowed to call? How does it feel to live in the fabled supermodel house?"

"The first question is how is the supermodel house, don't you think it's too heartless?" I chatted with Mike as usual. "According to what you are interested in, the female models in the supermodel room are walking around in bathrobes after taking a shower. If you want to have a good eye, you should sign up yourself."

"I saw the photos you took on the official website. Haha, the last one fits your style of jazz dancing very well." Mike didn't respond to my words, but instead seemed to be in a good mood and joked.

"Thanks to you, the last one won the best still photo. What's annoying is that the still photo will be on the big screen in the living room all day long."

Mike laughed loudly on the other end of the phone, "Aren't there too few photos and videos of you being secretly photographed at the dance show? Why are you embarrassed?"

"Are you rehearsing? It turns out that our partner's opening show is now replaced by who?" I also didn't reply, and instead raised some common topics between the two.

"A new kid has arrived, whose style overlaps with your original client group. It's just that he stayed a little longer than you, and I've been teaching him to get familiar with our choreography recently." Mike replied.

I smiled and continued: "It doesn't matter if you stay for a while, I'm afraid it will be inconvenient. Don't you hate the colleagues who do some dirty small businesses the most? It's more to your liking to stay a little longer."

"Oh, I'm afraid I'll be fooled easily if I'm too dazed." Mike said he was not satisfied with the newcomer in his tone.

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When I walked out of the phone booth, I found Chris was still standing there, waiting for me with a glass of milk in his hand.He looked at me who was walking towards him suspiciously and said, "It shouldn't be 5 minutes yet, why did you hang up so quickly? I have also given you my call time, you can continue to call."

I looked up at him, walked up to him and took the almost finished glass of milk from his hand, Chris took a step back reflexively.I smiled and said: "I never call for more than 3 minutes, because there is nothing special to say. You should call any friend and ask them to help you. Social media voting can be decisive. effect."

Chris seemed taken aback by his own reaction and lowered his head, not daring to meet my eyes. "Go." I patted him on the shoulder and pointed to the phone booth. "I'll go and tell them that they can come and line up to make calls."

On a Sunday, free time always passes quickly without people noticing, and the second week of America's Next Top Model is here.

Monday of the second week, Challenge.

The bus took everyone to a show, which was a runway show for Nylon Magazine.However, this runway show is a bit special. The show stage is two huge old discs, which are constantly rotating.Models need to walk out of the perfect catwalk on this two circular show stages that rotate at the average speed of the treadmill.

In this challenge, Jonathan is in charge of hosting and matching clothes according to the characteristics of each model.At the same time, the editor-in-chief of Nylon magazine will also be present to watch.

For the career of a model, if you can win the favor of the editor-in-chief of the magazine, it means more work in the future, and it is a magazine photo shoot that will help increase your popularity.

In fact, there is a very simple trick to walk out of a decent model step on such a show stage.Your steps need to be equal to the speed of the turntable rotation, so that you can walk steadily on the turntable and look easy.

In the end, the ones who performed brilliantly in this challenge, besides me and Chris, whom I reminded of my skills in advance, are the completely professional Alice, and the very aura of Rena.

Dan, who is steady and steady, and Nina, who is jumping up and down and weird, are hot on his heels.

Mark has never been a model, which makes him have no advantage in stepping.He and several other female models received the same evaluation.Jamie and Mike also had the same reason, but because they were not confident in their own steps, they were timid on the stage, and they were finally named and criticized.

Even so, Jonathan's liking for Mike was still not overthrown. He taught Mike how to walk round after round in the lounge.Even because of this, I didn't take much care of me, which made me somewhat relieved.

As long as I don't hang out in front of Jonathan in normal times, he shouldn't pay much attention to me when the still photos are not being taken.After all, Brian's usual harmless schoolboy appearance was not Jonathan's style.In fact, Jonathan's actions are not sexual harassment in the office at all, but his sticky attitude and strong and intimate movements still make me feel insensitive.

The final winner of the challenge is Alice, who is fully specialized in stepping.

After the challenge, back to the supermodel house, all the models' challenge scores were displayed on the big screen in the living room again.Thank goodness my sexually suggestive still photo was taken down.

Alice's steps were impeccable and she got a perfect [-].Nine points from me, Chris and Rena.Dan, Nina and Marvin are above average eights.Ashton, Gianna, and Ko Nani scored seven points.Surprisingly, Alyssa scored only six points, just like Mike and Jamie.

After a day of challenges, everyone is no longer as relaxed as they were on Sunday, because they know that tomorrow will be another hard photo shoot.