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to Mel, she’ll be joining us tomorrow and she’ll be bringing some of the outfits I asked her to get ready for you.  We have quite a few meet and greets and radio and television interviews while on the road, she’ll be your stylist and travel with us when she can.”
    Jade didn’t trust his sudden capitulation, he gave in too easily.  She would have to watch this clothes thing very carefully.  No way was her guava making its appearance in the tabloids!  Her name wasn’t Britney or Paris!

 
     
     
    CHAPTER FOUR
     
    The two days before Jade took the stage with Storm Front was filled with rehearsals, clothes fittings, hairdressing appointments, putting together a formal bio and a photo shoot to replace the promotional material already distributed.  As promised Mel arrived with bulging trunks filled with stuff she would be trying out on Jade.  When Jade balked on some of the more revealing outfits Mel called in the big guns, she called Cat De Luca of Sweet Sacrifice!
    “Jay I get that you don’t want to reveal too much of yourself to the sharks out there but you have to build a stage persona.  A person that the fans can relate to and even imitate, you know better than most that I’m nothing like my stage and public persona and that is what Mel is trying to set up for you.  Believe me when I tell you that if you have that persona in place it will be easier to just slip through the cracks when you’re out there being just plain old you.  I do it all the time.  Let Mel do what she does best, trust her to have your back.”
    “Dammit Cat I do trust her.  But being painted and primped is just not me.  And I sweat like a horse when I’m playing which is going to make all that crap run like a river.  Then everyone is going to laugh their asses off when I look like shit.”
    Cat laughed as Jade snorted with disdain.  “Sweetheart we don’t use normal make-up.  The shit they’ll be putting on you will not budge, even if you stood in a force 10 hurricane.”
    “So you say.”  Jade muttered in a disgusted voice.  “If this backfires I know where you live Cat De Luca.”  She gave in gracelessly.
    Cat’s laughter was still ringing in her ears when she turned her eyes to a waiting Mel and grimaced.
    “Fine, do your worst but I’m warning all of you if this makes me look like a clown I’m going to thump your asses.”
    “Sweetie there’s no way in the world you could ever look like a clown, unless you dress up like one and that's never going to happen.”  Mel soothed.
    Jade was not reassured.  Her friend Mel was gorgeous, model gorgeous.  She was tall, slender with shoulder length pale blonde hair and blue eyes.  Mel smiled and laughed a lot and drew people to her like a moth to a flame.  She was never without a date and all her exes stayed her friends after she broke it off with them.  The only man who hadn’t immediately fallen for her charm had been Diego, but Jade assumed that was because he liked his women curvy with more tits and ass.  Which was why her average boobs and toned drummers’ ass would not draw his eyes, she was just too muscular for Diego Delgado’s taste.  And that sucked ass!  Big time!
     
    Jade was experiencing nerves.  Stage fright to be real honest.  She could hear the roar of the crowd where she stood in the corridor behind the guys waiting for the support act to finish and the crew to change the set up.  Security was tight and Tag was right there with her, holding her small bag with her water and towels.  She trusted no one else to take care of her as he did.  Breathing in through her nose and out through her mouth she relaxed her shoulders and shook out her arms and then her legs.  Her new clothes fit her like a second skin and she had to admit that it was comfortable, even the soft calf-length boots that Mel had insisted on.  They had no heels and had been made especially for her to play in.  Her black fingerless gloves were specially made for her