Costume Fitting

"Ah, it's the star of the show. So pleased to meet you at last. Do I call you Debbi or No-E ?" Charles the producer greeted Debbi and introduced himself. "Debbi normally but No-E on stage" Debbi replied, trying to enter into the spirit of things. She had decided that for the day of the Telethon, her best tactic for retaining a semblance of dignity was to act as if she was quite alright with the whole thing as long as it was raising money and awareness for sickle cell research. "You're on last as you know and we're keeping the same running order for the dress rehearsal, so you have plenty of time to go through makeup and get into costume, though I understand there's not much to that" Charles joked. "From what Jody's told me, no" Debbi had to agree. "Sam, show Debbi to the star dressing room and I'll send Avalon along" said Charles. "Avalon ?" Debbi asked Samantha as she was shown into the dressing room, which was pretty basic despite its' star designation. "The makeup girl" Samantha explained.

Debbi was only left with her thoughts for a minute or two before she was joined by a purple haired girl about her age. "Hi, I'm Avalon but everyone calls me Ava" the girl said. "I'm Debbi." she replied. "With no 'e' !" laughed Ava. "Word gets around" said Debbi ruefully. "Right, better take all your clothes off" Ava instructed. "From what I understand, you're not going to be wearing much and we need to see if there are any little blemishes I need to touch up. These HD cameras can be very unforgiving !" Debbi only had her t-shirt, jeans and knickers to take off. "Ah, no bra, great. Just a few pressure marks from where your knicks were but they'll soon fade" said Ava approvingly. She surveyed Debbi's naked body with an expert eye. "And I can't see anything that needs touching up either. You're making my job easy !"

"Now this is heavier makeup than you'd use for a night out but again, it's for the cameras" Ava explained as she got to work on Debbi's face. "You're the expert" said Debbi. "Are you going to paint on whiskers ?"

"No, we've got stick on ones. Don't worry it's not like Sellotape, much more sophisticated."

As Debbi was looking at her face in the mirror, now adorned with whiskers and novelty cat's ears, Jody and Lynn burst into the dressing room together with Solomon, who had just finished supervising the gospel choir for their slot. "My, don't you look adorable No-E ?" laughed Jody. "She always looks adorable" Solomon remarked. Behind his back, Lynn pulled a face and put her fingers down her throat !

"All we have to add now is your tail. Hop up on the table No-E" barked Jody.