Lila stood outside the door of Studio 4B, clutching her bag strap so tightly her knuckles turned white. She stared at the sign on the door that read "Advanced Figure Drawing" and felt her stomach twist into knots.
She was a shy, curvy college student who had never done anything like this before. But rent was due in three days, and the email from the art department had been very clear. Nude models were paid two hundred dollars per session, and sessions lasted three hours. That was two hundred dollars she desperately needed.
She took a deep breath and pushed open the door. The studio was large and bright, with tall windows letting in the afternoon sun. Easels were arranged in a wide semicircle around a raised wooden platform in the center of the room. About ten students sat at the easels,
