Begin Again (Carlos Pena)

3 - Picture Day

Chapter 3

Andy's POV

"This is the place... I think." I sounded unsure.

"Yep this is it." Jen assured me, looking at the address on the card and looking at the building.

"Okay well we better go in and check in and start setting up the cameras." I said, opening the door, to my '98 rusty baby blue mustang convertible. As I opened it the door creaked making a loud screechy noise.

"God Andy.! You really need to buy a new car." Jen exclaimed making a similar noise opening the door.

"Hey, I love my car, it's never let me down before, why should I?" I smirked.

"Whatever, just hurry up, I want to see Carlos already." Jen said, I went over to the trunk opening it and taking out the stands, and bags that the cameras were in. Usually Marc and I come to do the jobs, but since Jen insisted she'd come Marc backed out and decided to sleep this one in. We entered the building as Toni was there waiting for me, and asking who Jen was. I explained to him, and he seemed to understand, making us sign a confidentiality paper due to the bands' safety.

We went to the elevator lead by Toni who took us to a huge empty room. I sat the cameras down admiring how big and well lit the room was, Jen was on her phone doing God knows what.

"This is the place where I'd like you to set up, is it good enough?" Toni asked, I nodded.

"It's perfect." I said. He left, leaving Jen and I to set up everything.

We finished setting up, well I finished meanwhile Jen was taking pictures of herself. Toni walked in with a box labels props, Jen took it, lookin through it, seeing winter and autumn props.

"Place looks amazing, thank you girls." Toni complimented.

"Thank you, we are glad you are satisfied with our work." Jen chirped. Our work? More like my work, but whatever that's Jen for you.

"Great thank you girls, the boys will be here in fifteen minutes, then they'll get into wardrobe and come up here for the pictures." he said.

"Awesome." I replied, Toni left, everything had been done already, except turn on the light stands which I did.

Carlos' POV

"That's stupid.!" James laughed at my idea which was to sell our used pieces of clothes such as used socks, shirts, hats, headphones on eBay for a reasonable price for fans. I personally thought it'd be a good idea, but James didn't. We entered the studio, going directly to wardrobe since we were going to have a photo shoot.

We finished up heading to the room where we take our pictures, opening the door, finding only two girls there. A flirtatious blue-eyed blonde, and a brown-eyed reserved brunette.

Andy's POV

The door flung open, and four boys entered, I turned to Jen who had a blank expression on her face but her lips curled into a smile.

"Hi, I'm Kendall, this is James, Logan and Carlos." the dirty blonde one introduced themselves. We all shook hands, Jen and I introducing ourselves.

"Well, we all know who you are." Jen said flirtatiously, I on the other hand would beg to differ. I smiled at them before turning back to the cameras doing a double check on them. People entered, such as the makeup stylist, hairdresser, and all that. Twenty minutes and the guys were infront of the white backdrop, I began taking pictures. Jen stood beside me, handing me a new film canister, everytime I needed one.

I took pictures of the band, group photos, individuals, some with fall leaves falling in the background, poses, backflips that two of the boys did. It was pretty fun actually, the guys were pretty goofy and funny. Which made my job easy, I was taking a picture of the blonde guy, and the chocolate haired guy which was also the tallest of the four, when I noticed that Jen was talking to the other two boys.

"That's a wrap." I stated, taking off the strap from my neck. The four boys started taking off their coats and scarves exclaiming that they were hot from all the lights and layers of clothing. Jen was talking to the four boys now, while I started turning off the lights.

"Here, let me help you with that." I turned to see it was the short Latin boy.

"Thanks, uh..."

"Carlos, I'm Carlos." he flashed me a smile, making his cheekbone become more visible.

"Right sorry." I apologized probably turning a tomato color, Carlos chuckled.

"It's cool, why do I get the feeling you don't know who I am?" he asked shyly.

"Because I kinda don't, I don't watch tv that much. Sorry." I said shrugging, and giving him a small but genuine smile.

I continued without Carlos' help since Toni came back for the band to take them out to do something. I said bye to them, and they said goodbye to Jen and us, saying it was nice meeting us.

"Same here." Jen said smiling and hugging the boys, and giving Carlos a longer hug then the rest, I on the other hand just shook their hands goodbye. They left and I finished putting all the equipment away, we headed to my car placing it all away in the trunk. I revved up the engine taking off to the shop.

"I saw you talking to Carlos." Jen questioned, I nodded.

"Yeah, he was offering his help." I replied, taking a turn, to the back of the shop.

"It looked more than that." she teased but with a bit of jealousy, I shook my head.

"Nah, he was just figuring out that I didn't quite know who they were." I replied, opening the car door, and stepping out.

"Really, did you guys talk about me?" she asked curiosly, again I shook my head no. Popping the trunk open and taking out the bags, handing a few of them to Jen. I closed the trunk, opening the back door entrance.

"No we didn't talk about you, were we supposed too?" I asked a bit irritated, today had been a long day, we took the bags to the storage room. I took out the film from the cameras, and placing them a ziplock bag, labeling it the date, and Toni's name.

"Kay, well I'm leaving now. I'll see you later." Jen said, leaving me alone. The shop was really big, it had the storage room, the darkroom, and the the back room where I stayed. I took the ziplock bag to the darkroom. I closed the door, making sure that the light didn't enter, I began to take the film out, first filling the development tank with special chemicals.

I finished with the prccess, taking about 4 1/2 hours to finish, before I hung them on the line. These pictures were going to be amazing! I stepped out, going to the bathroom to wash my hands. I went to my room, looking at the walk clock, reading 8:30 pm. Wow! Time flies by quick.! I changed into my pjs, I was exhausted, standing up all day. All I really wanted to do was get under the covers and close my eyes. I turned on the tv, flipping through the channels. I passed by a show that had a familiar face, I changed it back, to find the blonde guy, Kendall on it. It was the tv show they starred in, it must've been a rerun because Kendall had longer, shaggier hair then when I saw him today.

I left it on that show, to see what it was about, apparently, Kendall and Logan had a babysitting job, that turned for the worse. Then Carlos came out, fighting with a very talkative, futuristic coffee maker, and the tall one James had a lot of commercial auditions with a very smart whimsical little girl, who turned out to be Kendall's onscreen sister; Katie. I really don't know what happened next due to the fact I fell asleep.

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Chapter 3; complete.!

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