The First Name is your good friend. The Second name is your celebrity crush

She regretted the decision for day one but that is what she gets for finally giving in and signing with and agent. She is in a business where you can make a lot of money or go virtually unknown. The fact that she even became a model is nothing more than an accident meeting opportunity. She never thought it would get like this however. Never thought there would be so much attention. Never thought she’d have so many MySpace friends.

There are days when she likes it, loves it actually. The attention, the willing fans, and the praises flying in from all over the globe by both men and women that adore her. Then there are days when she regrets it. She hates the time it takes up, the way those same fans that claim their undying love demand so much out of her. Hates the way that some people perceive her. Are they real? Are they fake? Is that a weave? Are you a stripper? Are you a whore?

She tries to ignores the haters but they unfortunately come with the job. It is the job, the business, and the industry that you have to focus on. She knows that she has to stay in control and not allow herself to get caught up. She’s seen people get carried away, do anything for the fame, attention, and money. Yes it is hard to not get caught up. With every photo shoot, appearance in King Magazine, and every party or event that she hosts the temptations grow. Regardless she has to stay focused and realize that there is a difference between her and Nyna Black. To keep her real life and work life separate is hard, but that is part of the fun.

“You got to do this.” Her manager Allen says.

“Why? Why do I have to do this?” She barks back not in the mood for any of this.

“We’ve built this thing up, promoted this contest for months. We’ve got to do it.”

She swore that she was going to stay independent and not sign with some self serving manager that who’ll sell her out to the highest bidder. Her friends told her that it could really help her career if she did so and considering the drama with her website and other scheduling issues she felt that maybe it would be a good idea to give it a try.

She signed with a virtual unknown a guy that she felt that she could trust. For the most part it has worked out well. Together they’ve taken advantage of opportunities that have made her financially happy. None more than the relaunch of her once doomed website.

She was a little apprehensive about the website thing. The last attempt didn’t work out well and she didn’t want to invest the time and money again. Yet she knew that a website could make her some good money. A lot of her friends in the business have these subscription based websites where people will pay good bank a month just to be able to download some pictures.

Allen did his thing and got her website running in record time. He knew a guy that hooked Nyna up big time. They threw a big time release party in downtown Detroit and things seemed to be rolling.

Unfortunately the first month’s subscriptions weren’t where either of them wanted. They knew that there are people that would rather wait a few months so they could download more pictures at one time. They had to do something that would generate more subscriptions and Allen came up with a idea. For all new subscribers they’d become eligible to win a date with Nyna Black. He promoted it as Win a Night with Nyna Black and like a dummy she went with it.

Almost over night subscriptions went out the roof. The hell with the pictures, her fans now had a chance to spend an evening with her. People signed up and only cared about when they were going to announce the winner.

A couple of months have passed and Allen’s righteous ass still wants to honor this stupid contest. “People have spent a lot of money hoping to spend time with you. You have to honor that.” He’d say.

“People have spent money wanting to see me in a thong.”

“Still. We have to do it.”

Nyna wasn’t happy about the contest because right then she wasn’t in the mood to deal with anyone. While there aren’t too many similarities between the worlds of upscale skinny chick modeling of high fashion, and the urban modeling world, the one similarity is the problems of finding true love.

A guy will tell you that you are beautiful and special but when others do it, it creates problems. They’ll love you in sexy lingerie but when someone downloads you in a bikini 2000 times it creates problems. You either meet guys that can’t deal with the exposure, get jealous over the attention, or you meet guys that are only in it because you are this phenomenon. Those guys are the worst because they don’t respect you. They think of you as nothing more than a object, their own personal eye candy.

Nyna had been dating a guy that was both. She met him at a birthday party of one of the Detroit Pistons. He knew what she did and was cool with it. Things were going great and then the drama came followed by the jealousy and eventually the mistrust. When you are the object of so many guy’s desires. You don’t expect the one you are with to cheat but that is what happened.

Now Allen wants her to pick this date and at this point in her life she doesn’t feel like dealing with some overzealous fan that thinks they are going to get some. She never thought that it would be so hard to find love. All she wants is to be successful and be happy. All she needs is to find someone that wants share that with her.

They narrow things down to a handful of guys. Her first thought is to just pick someone from Detroit and go with it but Allen wants this to be random.

“I can’t believe this.” Nyna says as Allen approaches her with a hat full of folded up paper.

“Just pick okay?”

She picks a couple of names out of the hat. To say it’s random is an understatement. Now she has to decide what to do.