The party was dying a bit, but then Carla took out her camera. Where-ever she pointed it, people suddenly animated with crazy faces and gattle-gun laughs. The camera was like a spot light that revealed the ridiculously crazy fun that was going on in a parallel universe. Jess, Taylor and Sam lined up for a photo. The camera blipped red and Taylor blinked just before the flash. He felt like he might have had his eyes closed for the photo, and he wanted Carla to take another, but he didn’t say so. Jess had one cheek on Taylor's shoulder, and the other facing the ceiling, so she was going for the safe “side smile”. The side-smile was a safe bet for Jess. Sam went for a half-smile, like she was quietly proud of something. Sam’s bigger smiles didn’t come out that well in photos, she didn’t think, but sometimes when she went for this half-smile it worked really well. So Sam did that, but after the flash, she felt as though her eyes were too serious and out of sync with her mouth.
Everyone went home early, and the photo hit facebook at 11pm. Sam saw it first, and it was just as she expected. She leant on her elbow and put her hand over the computer-screen, covering her mouth, so she could just see her serious eyes. She whispered to herself “pycho-killer”. Then she put her hand over her eyes so she could just see her mouth. She whispered to herself “one half of your best photo”. Jess and Taylor looked fine, they looked like Jess and Taylor. Sam wished sometimes that she could just have some good photos of herself... but like really good ones. Anyway, she’d leave this one for a few weeks and then untag it.
Taylor saw the photo on his Wall soon after Sam. Taylor’s eyes weren’t shut as such, in the photo, but he swore that he was either at the very-start or the very-end of a blink. Whatever it was, he looked cheesy. The other two looked fine. Taylor walked over to his mirror and tried some smiles. He could get it right in the mirror. He didn’t untag himself, because he was standing in between two pretty girls, and the photos before this one (in his “photo’s” gallery) were some of his best, so it was ok to have an average one here and there.
Jess found the photo the next morning. She was happy enough with her side-smile. But she thought Sam looked prettier. Jess flicked back through a few of her own photos and she was side-smiling in almost every one. The next photo that she was in, she was going to have a normal “face-on” smile like Sam. Taylor just looked like Taylor, he looked nice.
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