The Himbo Model’s Release
Copyright© 2025 by Zappedfan
Chapter 3: Bake Sales With L
Lokee said she would clear the table and do the breakfast dishes and her parents were impressed by her helpfulness. Actually, she needed to be alone with Blake’s manila envelope long enough to find the model’s release and put it in her backpack. She would read it at first study hall and then make one that looked like it but said something very different. She would have to come up with a name for her big brother’s reality show. “Big Brother” was taken.
When Lokee got to school that morning, she noticed someone she usually ignored, the Security Guard. Did he see her collect ten dollars from six different students, yesterday? That might look suspicious. Lokee couldn’t possibly collect five thousand dollars in cash on school grounds without raising red flags. No more students handing her cash. It’s too dangerous. She was lucky she got away with it once.
By first study hall, Lokee had decided on a show name, “Bake Sales with L.” This had many advantages. The money flowing in could be disguised as revenue from bake sales. The L might stand for Love of Lokeelani. But really “Bake Sales With L” would mean B(L)AKE SALES! She opened her backpack and read Blake’s release. It was the same three paragraphs he signed every year except the wording no longer referenced parent/guardian permission because Blake was now eighteen.
“I, the undersigned Athlete/Model for the duration of the 2025/2026 School Year, being of legal adult age of sound mind, hereby grant permission to West View High School to photograph, video record, and/or audio record me on school property and at school events. I further grant permission for the school to use my name, image, likeness, voice, and/or performance in photographs, videos, audio recordings, publications, websites, social media, news releases, and other promotional or educational materials.
This consent includes use for school publicity, yearbooks, websites, social media, and archival purposes. No compensation will be provided. I release the school from any claims related to such use.
I have read this document in its entirety, understand its contents, and sign it freely and voluntarily without duress.
Athlete/Model’s Legal Name: _______________________________
Date of Birth: _________________
School ID Number: _______________
Signature: ______________________________ Date: _________
Address: ______________________________________________
Witness Signature: ______________________ Date: _________”
Lokee was glad that the school had the affirmation about the signer reading and understanding the WHOLE document. Would this be the first year Blake read it? Probably not. But, if he did, Lokee was confident that he would, at most, read the first and last paragraph. If those looked legitimate, he’d sign regardless what the middle paragraphs said. What they would say is:
I furthermore do hereby irrevocably and unconditionally grant the following rights to Bake Sales with L and its assigns, licensees, and successors: I consent to being photographed, filmed, and recorded (including audio) by visible and/or hidden cameras and microphones placed anywhere on my home property, 24 hours per day, seven days per week, for the entire duration of the 2025-2026 School Year, including in bathrooms, bedrooms, and any other area, with no expectation of privacy whatsoever.
I voluntarily agree to participate in the production of audiovisual content that may involve any and all physical contact, restraint, sensory stimulation, temperature extremes, transitory discomfort, embarrassment, surprise, or other intense physical or psychological experiences as the Producer, in its sole and absolute discretion, deems necessary or desirable for the completion of the project. I understand that such experiences may be sudden, unannounced, and continue for extended periods.
I grant Producer the perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide right to reproduce, distribute, display, perform, create derivative works from, and otherwise exploit all footage, photographs, audio recordings, and other media captured under this agreement (including candid, hidden-camera, and 24/7 surveillance material) through any and all media now known or hereafter devised, including but not limited to internet streaming, download, subscription sites, television, DVD, virtual reality, artificial intelligence training datasets, and any future technologies, without further approval or compensation.
I forever release and discharge Producer from any and all claims, demands, or causes of action I may ever have, including but not limited to invasion of privacy, infliction of emotional distress, assault, battery, false imprisonment, or any other tort or statutory claim arising from the activities described herein. This release is irrevocable and may not be terminated, rescinded, or modified orally or by any act of mine except by a written instrument signed by both parties.
Lokee had the new release typed up by end of the study hall. She had to adjust the spacing between lines and narrow the margins. But she didn’t have to reduce the font size to fit it all on one page. It would look like all the rest of the forms in that package. Mom or Dad (but most likely Mom) would probably witness it without reading it either. If they did, Lokee would just say she put it in there to teach Blake a lesson about signing things without reading them now that he’s eighteen years old., Lokee would forge Mom and Blake’s signatures on the real release form and switch it back in. Lokee had forged their signatures many times before. Mom’s for permission slips and Blake’s for pranks.
At lunch, Lokee was back at her table with Susan, Barbara, and Sophie.
“Lokee, I’ll give you ten dollars to tell me what girl at school Blake likes the best” Sophie said as she started digging in her pocket.
“Buy a gift card with that” Lokee said sternly.
“Huh?” Sophie asked.
“Go to any retail or grocery store and buy a Visa, Mastercard, or American Express Gift Card for ten dollars.” Lokee instructed,
Her three friends looked at each other to see if anyone understood what Lokee was saying. They didn’t.
“Look,” Lokee said, “I can’t go around school grounds having students slipping me cash under the table. It would look like I’m dealing.”
“So,” Barbara asked, “You want us to slip you gift cards under the table?”
“No,” Lokee continued, “The gift cards work online the same as credit cards. We’re too young to get credit cards but we can but gift cards. I plan to set up a website and you can use the gift cards to pay me online.”
“A ... website?” Susan asked, “What kind of website?”
“I still have to do some legal stuff and technological stuff to get it set up,” Lokee said, “It may not happen at all. Until it’s a sure thing, the less you know the better.”
“The less I know the better?” Susan asked, “This sounds like MY kind of website. I want in. I’ll be buying a ten dollar gift card after school”
“Me too,” Barbara said.
“And me,” Sophie added.
Lokee had those three customers lined up. She would recruit more. Over the years, she had learned who had the monster crushes on Blake and others who just couldn’t resist doing something bad. There were no less than forty fangirls and fangays at this school whom could be recruited with no real danger of ratting Lokee out. Or so she thought at first.
The model release drafted but even if it got signed and witnessed, Lokee would still need a way to use it. For that, she would have to go phishing. Phishing for Himbo. During activities period, Lokee suggested an online Anonymous Senior Class Poll. It would collect data on their favorite music, TV Show, Celebrity, Sports Team, blah, blah, blah. Lokee volunteered to email a link to every member of the Senior Class to fill out the online poll. The Committee thought it was a great idea especially since Lokee would do all the work. Lokee would have a special link for Blake. Oh, it would allow him to fill out the poll. But it would also allow Lokee to control his laptop camera from any device she chose.