Top Model

"Bye Kids!" Karen Clark shouted from her car window to her four children. The said children merely mumbled a few byes in return before scurrying away from their mother. They walked together as they made it into the halls of Southdale Jr. High to start their Monday.

"Jeez, mom is so embarrassing sometimes!" Said they only girl of the four siblings, Megan.

"She wouldn't be a parent if she didn't." Said the oldest of the Clark siblings, Lee.

"Hey! What's going on over there?" Asked the youngest of the Clark siblings, Tony. A large crowd of students were gathered in a large compressed clump at the gymnasium doorway. Most of the students were girls. All of them were either jumping up and down or just squealing with excitement.

"I don't know. Maybe it's a pep assembly." Marc suggested.

"First thing in the morning? And on a Monday?" Megan asked. Marc merely shrugged. Lee sighed and pushed his way through the crowd. He made his way to a table full of yellow flyers. He grabbed one turned around. He pushed his way back through the crowd of girls and back to his siblings.

"What's that?" Tony asked once Lee had returned. Megan took it from Lee and read it out loud.

"Hello Southdale Jr. High students! We, the International Youth Modeling agency, are looking for the next greatest young model. You could be who we're looking for! We aren't only looking for female models; male models are more than welcome. We will be coming to your school for an open photo shoot in your school gymnasium. The photo shoot will be during your free hour this Tuesday. Anyone is welcome to get in front of our camera! If you want to be a model, Come and strut your stuff; you could be our next top model!" Megan finished reading the flyer and handed it back to Lee.

"A Modeling agency? That's what's that all about?" Tony asked. Lee looked at the flyer curiously.

"I've never heard of this agency."

"That's because you don't care about anything involving the modeling industry." Megan said.

"Are you guys gonna try out tomorrow?" Tony asked.

"Nah, I'm more of a sports guy." Lee said as he threw the flyer in the trashcan.

"I'm definitely going to check it out! I think it would be awesome to be a model. I would be the most popular girl in the entire school!" Megan cheered. Large stars were twinkling in her eyes as she spilled the words out.

"What about you Marc?" Lee asked. Marc scoffed and began walking to his locker.

"As if! It's a waste of time if you ask me."

"Of course you wouldn't have any interest in it. Like geeky Marc could ever be a model." Lee chuckled. Marc only rolled his eyes and kept walking.

"Well I'm definitely not going." Tony said. The bell to first class echoed through the halls. The four siblings separated ways and went to their given classes.

Hours later, the lunch bell rang. Students piled out of their classrooms and into the lunchroom. The Clark siblings sat down together and talked as they ate.

" Just think; if I become a model, I'll be able to go to places like Paris or Italy OR BOTH!" Megan squealed, unable to contain her excitement.

"Megan, we go places all the time. We're spies after all." Lee said

"Yeah, we've been to Paris before. We'll most likely end up in Italy at one point or another." Marc said as he took a bite of his sandwich.

"That's just it! We're always there on missions, we never get to stay and tour the place; see the sites! If I become a model, I'll not only be able to tour the places; I'll be able to buy really fancy things like designer clothing and jewelry!"

"Oh please Megan, Like YOU could ever be a model." Tami, the most popular girl in school, said.

"And you can?" Megan asked rudely.

"Of course I can! I'm rich, beautiful, and I already have designer outfits and jewelry. I'm pretty much already a model.

"Then why aren't you one?" Marc asked bluntly, not even looking at the blonde girl as he asked the question. Tami faltered.

"Um, well…I. Of course I've had modeling companies ask me, but they didn't meet my standards." She responded.

"Liar." Lee said. Tami glared at him.

"Hmph!" Tami stomped the linoleum floor and strutted away.

It was Tuesday afternoon, and the bell signaling the start of free hour had just rung. Half the school had all piled into the gymnasium; most were just there to watch. Megan was in line with a bunch of people who were waiting for their turn in front of the camera. Lee and Tony had decided to come watch. Marc was in the library studying for a test that he would most likely pass whether or not he studied at all.

"Alright ladies and gentlemen, let's get this moving now!" shouted the woman running the show. She was a tall, dark haired woman. She was most definitely beautiful; easily catching the attention of the male student body. She looked to be in her late 20's. She wore the clothing you would see a businesswoman wear. The first girl strutted onto the set and posed. The Photographer snapped shot shots of her and called the next girl.

Hours later, the photographer took millions of shots of both boys and girls. The woman, Vicky, slumped into a leather chair in her apartment with her photographer, Ron.

"Get anything good?" She asked Ron.

"There are some good ones, but not what we're looking for." Ron, a blond freckled man in his mid 30's, responded. Vicky sighed in annoyance.

"There has got to be at least one picture in there that's what we're looking for!" Vicky cried. Ron flipped through the pictures on his digital camera.

"Nope, not one."

"We've already been to twelve schools! We're not leaving this school until we find our model! I'll know when we found our model. I want a model that isn't like the others. I want a unique, one of a kind kid. A kid who no one would expect to be a model!'

"The kid you're looking for isn't going to walk up to us and say 'I want be a model.' We're going to have to really dig in the student population of this school to find who we're looking for." Ron said as deleting the boatload of bad pictures from his camera.

"If that's what we have to do to find our model them we'll do it! I'm not stopping until we find this kid!" Vicky jumped from her seat and ran to the phone in the kitchen.

"What are you doing Vick?" Ron asked.

"I'm calling the school principle. Making the arrangements to come and randomly take pictures of the students for a couple days." Vicky said with the phone to her ear.

The next day, Vicky and Ron were running around the school taking random shots of the students. They got the kids during class; lunch, at their lockers, everywhere. They still weren't having any luck.

"What are with those two?" Tony asked during lunch of the second day they were at the school.

"Guess they didn't find the model they were looking for." Lee said.

"Man! I thought I did a great job Tuesday." Megan whined.

"Apparently not." Marc said. The other three Clark siblings looked at him with concern.

"You okay Marc? You've been in a bad mood ever since those modeling people came here?" Megan asked. Vicky and Ron overheard Megan. They quickly found a spot in the cafeteria where they could hear the siblings and get a good shot if they had to.

"I'm annoyed. All you have do is stand in front of a camera and pose; why is that so hard? They need to find someone who can do that simple task and leave." Marc spat out as he chomped on his sandwich.

"Okay, but why does it bother you so much?" Lee asked.

"I don't understand why so many people want to become a model; all they do is take a good picture of you."

"There's to modeling then that Marc!" Megan said. Marc rolled his eyes.

"Oh yeah, make the cliché sexy look that you always see in a modeling picture."

"Let's see you do it!" Tony challenged his older brother. Ron got his camera ready. Marc sighed.

"Fine." Marc relaxed and turned toward Ron and Vicky. Ron aimed the lens at him.

"They're waiting." Megan said." Marc gave her a side-glance before messing up his hair. The Clark siblings gave him a funny look. Marc ignored them and narrowed his eyes. He stared into the camera lens and pouted. Ron began snapping pictures of him. Marc looked away from the camera and focused on something to his left side. Ron continued taking shots.

"What are you doing Marc?" Lee asked. Marc glared at him. Ron kept taking pictures. Marc finally fixed his hair and went back to eating. He stared at the Vicky and Ron.

"That's all you people get." He said, before taking another bite of his sandwich. The Clark siblings, Ron, and Vicky all stared at Marc in astonishment. Marc ignored them and continued eating his lunch.

"Look through the photos!" Vicky said. Ron stared down at his camera and started to go throw the pictures of Marc. Vicky look at the photos as Ron went through them.

"Ron." She said

"Yeah?"

"I think we just found our model."