Tropical resort

Jay and Sarah arrived at the airport and were delighted to see a driver holding a sign with Sarah's online alias. They were tired from the flight but the excitement of being in such an exotic location kept them staring out of the car windows and nudging each other when there was something fresh to see. They arrived at the main resort which seemed to hold the guest services such as the restaurant and pool and the accommodation was visible out of the waters edge, small apartments that led out onto the sand and the bright blue sea.

The receptionist was a beautiful blonde woman who seemed to have a Scandinavian accent. They introduced themselves and as she checked the computer screen she said "Yes Mr. Osman wanted me to let him know when you are here, please hold on a moment." She made a phone call and spoke in a language that neither of them could identify but definitely wasn't European. A moment later a well groomed man of Middle Eastern decent walked into the foyer with his arms wide open.

"Here you are" he said walking towards them. He took Sarah's hands and held them together "You look every bit as lovely in person as you do on the internet." He turned to Jay and picked up Jay's arm from his side and shook it "And you must be the young man who contacted me and I am so glad you did." He put his arms around both their shoulders "Helga, make sure all their luggage is put away in suite three please. Come, we can go into my office I have some refreshments in there. We can talk a little business and then I will let you relax okay?"

Regardless of whether is was okay or not they found themselves swept through a door and into a room that looked more like a lounge than an office. "Sit, sit" said Mr Osman and they sat on a white leather couch as Mr Osman fussed in a fridge. They heard a loud pop and he came back around with sparkling wine in a bucket and three glasses. He sat it on a low coffee table perched on a chair oposit them and poured it out. They took the offered glasses and Mr Osman said "To a new working relationship, cheers."

They toasted with Mr Osman but Sarah was a little taken aback by all the fuss. "What exactly is it we are doing for you Mr Osman?" she asked.

"Please call me Sadi."

"Sadi" she repeated smiling politely.

Sadi looked pleased "I see you are straight to business. I understand, travel is tiring. Can I just say I am a big fan. I have seen your pictures on Reddit and was quite taken with you" he leaned forward conspiratorially "Don't tell anyone but I enjoy a little anime when relaxing of an evening and you truly bring some of may favourite characters to life so when I heard you were looking for a destination to do photos I knew I had to contact you."

"I would like" he went on "If you could do pictures in certain locations to show off the resort. I will provide a list but I will leave the characters up to you. Finally before you go I would like you to do some publicity shots in the uniform of the resort for publicity. Is this acceptable?"

Sarah reminded herself to berate Jay for not being clearer about what had been expected of her but apart from the publicity shots there wasn't anything she hadn't been planning to do anyway and she couldn't really object to wearing the uniform. This resort was incredible and beyond anything she could have dreamed of affording "Of course Sadi, that all sounds fine."

Sadi clasped his hands together "Wonderful. I will of course need a copy of all the final pictures you use for publicity and if I may, I have a personal request."

Sarah was trying not to react to this new information coming her way but she pushed it down and said with an award winning smile "What can I do for you Sadi?"

"I have a favourite character and I was wondering if you would model them for me?"

"Yes I'd be happy to but I don't have a costume. I'm sure I could make one when I got home."

"You are so kind young lady but I took the liberty of having a costume made in case you said yes."

Sarah was spitting in her mind. She thought she's got out of that diplomatically but instead she had now committed herself to it. Oh well, I'm going to be spending most of my time here in next to nothing. There isn't really anything you could consider a costume that would be less than that. "Well, we shall have to arrange a time for that then."

"You are as gracious as you are beautiful. Jay, please be sure to send me your shots as soon as possible. For now, rest, food, drink, whatever you need to settle in and of course anything on the resort is complimentary so feel free to indulge."

Sadi showed them out and called a porter to take them to their apartment. Sarah nudged Jay in the ribs as they followed the porter "A few promotional shots you said. There's no way you are getting any tonight." It was a lie but she hoped he'd believe her at least for a bit.