A/N: It's late, I know, I'm sorry :/ Blah, that's two weeks in a row on this one, maybe I'll start leaving it to Sunday to update or something, I don't know :P

I hope you guys like it, I'm going a little deeper.

Chapter Five

"But I really don't want to Es-"
     "IT'S JUST A COUPLE OF FREAKING PICTURES FOR YOUR FREAKING INTERVIEW ABOUT YOUR FREAKING GRAMMY OKAY!"
     Avi takes a step back as his sister yells; they'd been arguing this for a solid few days now and that was that, they were here anyways.
     Avi completely backs away from his currently stoic sister and towards the photoshoot, mumbling to himself.
     "I'm begging you guys, please don't make me do an outfit change," Avi says as he steps sits on the stool the photographer motions him to.
     "Just the coat about halfway through," he shrugs as he starts snapping away and calling out a few directions here and there, just knowing he wasn't going to get much out of Avi Kaplan.
     Avi tried his best not to blink every time the camera flashed, but it was hard, it was bright, and he'd never liked having his photo taken. As the white lights continued to flash he gave a hollow smile that the photographer seemed to like, he kept it on for a while until he was told to take it down a notch.
     Act serious, mysterious, try looking away from the camera, lean on your knees, hand on chin, look up. He felt like a robot, and then the coat change came, the black suede jacket with the brown leather sleeves was a lot more fun that the black trench he'd previously been wearing, so the pictures had to change up.
     The first one was much the same, serious look, until the instructions started rolling. Smile, laugh, point at us, engage us! Wink, thumbs up, "People want to know that you can actually smile Avi." The photographer gets up off his knee, staring at Avi as he speaks. "No one is going to connect to any of these," he waves his camera.
     With a teeth gritting sigh Avi pulls on a big fake smile, points at the photographer and closes one eye. He's sure he looks genuinely happy, and when the camera starts flashing again he knows he's done something right. Even if he knows that this is absolutely not what he wanted.
     "Okay, I'm done now," he announces, standing up off the stool and pulling off the jacket, "I have one just like this at home," he stares down at the name tag, "And I bet it cost a fifth of what this cost," he drops the jacket on the stool and turns away as it slips to the ground.
     As he walks over to his sister, he unbuttons the top two buttons of his shirt that they'd made him button during the shoot because apparently chest hair wasn't appealing to the younger market.
     "I'm ready to go," he tells her.
     "It's up to them when they're finished Avi," Esther tells him with a frown.
     Avi shakes his head, "They've got plenty of photos to work with, more than I wanted taken at all, please let's just go."
     With a sigh Esther breaks into a fast nods and turns on her heel with her brother following.

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Kirstie pulled back from the hug the fan had her in for their selfie with a last smile at the young girl.
     "She was so sweet," Kirstie gushes as she picks up her cup of coffee.
      "That was about the fourth one," Mitch comments, pointing over his shoulder. "And not one of those four recognize me, my hair is freaking purple."
      "Awww, poor Mitchie," Kirstie pouts, reaching over to squeeze her best friends hand. "Should've signed with Kev," she smiles smugly.
     "Okay yep, I know, shut up," he half laughs, "I had the opportunity I lost it, blah blah. Ben's pretty good, but he's so stuck in his ways, I wish he was more flexible like Kev is with you, letting you try out something different!" he smiles.
      "I know! It's amazing, and it's allowed to be different because I wrote it, I mean I wrote with Avi, so that gives it even more license, I just wish he'd agree to sing it with me," she sighs.
      "Ask him yourself, no managers, no Kevin. If you ask him he might actually do it, like part of his real people real world thing."
     She slowly places her cup down, "That's, that's very true."
     "See, I'm always right, that's why I reckon you should ask him out too," Mitch puts his cup to his lips to hide his grin as Kirstie snaps around to face him.
     "Where did that even come from?"
     He places his cup back down without taking a sip, "Well the entire time we've been out today, if you haven't been stolen by a fan you've been taking talking about Avi Kaplan, so ask him out. The worst he can say is no, and then we won't even know if it's because he doesn't like you, it's probably because he hasn't dated anyone since the Jess Freedman incident and intends to keep it that way."
     "It would still be embarrassing Mitch... and what Jessica Freedman incident? Who is she even?"
     "She's Avi's ex, she wasn't famous, they dated before he shot to stardom and then a lot of his fans kinda bullied her online, there's a lot of speculation around the fact that that was what caused him to boycott social media. It ruined his relationship so he cut his ties with it, but that is just a rumor because one actually really knows anything about him."
     "And yet they know he dated someone?" she raises an eyebrow.
     "Well yeah, he did used to have Facebook, and she had everything and posted a few pics of them, so they know that much, but even then he was pretty private and it's only gotten worse."
     "That really sucks, I mean if it's true. There's no way I'm asking him out now though Mitch, not after that story," she frowns as she stares down at the rings she twists at on her fingers.
     "It was at least four years ago, if he's not over it by now then he never will be. Isn't it better to find out than wonder what could have been?"

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