Smile For The Camera By Kelle James

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The book I chose to read was “Smile for the Camera” by Kelle James, Copyrighted in 2010. It starts off with chapter one. Kelle, the main character, is lying in bed when her dad walks in. he has a gun in his hand and hes crying, not a good combination according to her. Kelle pretends to be asleep. She decides she needs to leave home. That’s where chapter two begins. She climbs onto the enormous Greyhound bus with her suitcase in hand. She waves goodbye to her father but he only nods. Kelle’s father never really liked her. In fact he hated her. As the bus pulls away, her father waves to her. Kelle was on her way to New York City. The bus pulls into Port Authority and she hops onto an escalator that goes down into a swarm of people. She gets …show more content…

Her room is small but she doesn’t need a lot of space. It’s a decent enough size for her to live in. She takes out a skillet and a can of spaghetti O’s and makes herself some food for she hasn’t eaten in a while. Kelle stands outside the Modeling agency’s door. She takes a deep breath, pushes the door open, and walks inside. A tall lady walks into the room and calls Kelle’s name. Kelle follows her into a small officewhere her height is measured. Kelle’s to short to be a runway model but she doesn’t want to be a runway model, she wants to be a model in pictures. However, the lady doesn’t care what Kelle wants and rushes her out of the room. Kelle walks around New York City barefoot. She finds herself in front of a large white building with multiple steps. She sees people sitting on the steps laughing and having fun. Kelle goes to sit on the steps. A guy asks Kelle if he can sit next to her. She says yes. He can tell something’s bothering Kelle so he asks her what’s wrong. She tells him the whole story of the modeling agency. He understands and gives her three addresses. They’re all for modeling agencies. She thanks him and he leaves. Kelle decides to go to one of the agencies he wrote down for …show more content…

Kelle is forced to run back home to avoid these reporters. She calls Rayna straight away. Rayns tells Kelle that Buddy broke out of jail and that they think Kelle drove the getaway car. Her name was in all the papers. She had nothing to do with it. She hadn’t known that Buddy broke out until just then. She was in trouble. Every once in a while Buddy would call Kelle to see how she was doing. However, she was more concerned about him. He was fine where he was, nothing was wrong,, no one recognized him. Kelle hadn’t heard from him in a while. She was worried. Rayna came over and told her what happened. He got caught in a little restaurant in California. He was transferred to a prison on the border of Canada. He was never going to escape. Rayna has always been there for Kelle and always will be. She has never let her done and has never done anything to hurt her. She understands Kelle and helps her with all her problems. When you move to New York City alone you need a best friend. Rayna was that best

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