The Power Of Queens

Chapter 2

LEILA,

It had been only two days in Paris and I already felt like quitting. My joints were aching and the kind of looks Claire had been giving me over here I swear if looks could kill, I would be dead right now. She did try to negotiate a slight tiring deal but since I was stubborn, I  told her I could handle it all.

"I have had enough Leila, I can't continue seeing you look like a zombie after every shoot around this crazily big city."

"That sly director will not listen to you Claire."

"I am going to speak to Louis not that two goody shoes miss Palma or Paloma; whatever she calls herself.  You can't work like this, I'll see you in a bit."

"No more shoots for my client until I get back," I almost screamed at Miss Palma.

Claire is such a nice friend and she is also right I look like a freaking zombie. Cassie is going to have a heart attack when I call her this afternoon, and I chuckled at that cause her reaction was not far from the truth.

"Omg! Is the zombie apocalypse here already? You look like hell baby, are they stressing you out that much cause I'm willing to come down there right now and kick their asses for you; just say the word."

"No baby I am fine, actually Claire is bulldozing her way through there  right now as we speak. I did this to myself I did not listen to her but she is handling it for me right now. I am so glad that she is always there to rescue us whenever things go south."

"I'm happy she is there with you, what are you eating? Crisps? Are you having them without me? Leila...." Cassie called me out.

"Technically you are on the other side of the screen with me when I am eating this with you, so don't go all crazy on me right now," I said with a big cheeky smile on my face.

Before we could continue any further Claire came in.

"It is settled shoots in the morning for three hours, two hours in the afternoon and one at night, the rest of the time is yours to rest well, oh hello there Cassandra."

"She called me Cassandra she must be really pissed."

"She cut my hours into half I can work better that way, she is a genius."

"Alright you get some easy rest and we will talk later."

"Claire, are you okay?"

"Yeah I am fine just a little tired."

"Thank you," with a kiss on her forehead I said goodnight.

CLAIRE.

Yeah, I was tired of running around the city all day for these people to take shitty pictures and say that they need to shoot again? Yeah, I was tired. Louis listened to my complaint and immediately gave that woman direct orders. She demanded a new photographer be found soon. I was finally going to lay my head down when my phone rang, who would be calling me at this hour?

"Claire hello," Andres's voice came through.

"It is 11.30 over here, this better be good enough Andres."

"Cassie just came off the phone with my sister and she said that you were not okay that you called her Cassandra and that meant that you were really pissed at something."

I had to smile at that.

"So you are worried about me?" I decided to tease him a little.

"What if I was?"

"I'd say I'm flattered but you already know....."

"Flattery does not work on you, yeah," he cut me short.

"I am super fine anyway just a little tired something which a good night sleep will take care of."

"Okay, hey I have this song I am writing and I would appreciate if you would listen to it and give me pointers because I am a little stuck."

"You the great Andres Jones stuck while writing a song, who would believe that?"

Yes he is a song writer and a singer, one of the best. His songs have been hitting top ten on the billboards time and again and he won the Grammy award last time.

"I am not buying that shit, but send it to my tab, I'll listen to it."

"Thank you little one, sweet dreams," I could hear the smile in his voice as I hang up the phone and boy did I have sweet dreams.

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"After this afternoon shoot I think we should hit the streets for a little shopping spree Claire."

"By a little you mean buying everything that catches your eye, oh sure yeah; let's get this one it will look good with the black pants I have, what about this piece? Imagine it sitting on my kitchen table looking all nice and dreamy, I've never had this in my life before I bet Cassie would love it too."

"Oh please I do not sound anything close to that,"
We both burst out laughing.

"You two look adorable take a look," the new photographer showed us some pictures he had taken during our little conversation.

"You know Max they are not paying you to take photos of Leila and I but please do send me those they look nice."

The shoot did not drag for much longer and we were out of there before we even realized it.

"let us get you this little love shaped sticky notes that you like leaving all over the house giving us directions on what to do, we do have phones Claire"

"Oh right, those little things that normally have more than a hundred texts daily overlapping the really important ones that you leave unread, I'll pass. In fact get me a dozen of those."

Leila behaved this time around, and we were not carrying thousands of shopping bags when we left  for home, I'm sure the airport security checks would have been so strict on us.

Jowie's Notes.

Hey everyone,

This is an insight on Leila's day to day activities.
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Till the next post!