Gravity

Chapter 3

Stepping out of London's International Airport that Saturday evening left me wishing I had brought a some sort of sweater. It was cold and raining which matched my mood perfectly. I quickly hailed a cab, threw in my belongings and tried to relax a little on the way to the hotel. Don't get me wrong I was super excited to have such  wonderful opportunity to be able to work with someone such as David himself, but  my nerves had gotten the best of me and left me unable to shake off my crabby mood.
After I had arrived at the hotel and got checked in it was shortly after 9pm. I sent Amy a quick text letting her know that I had arrived with no trouble before making my way over to the large windows. Looking out over the city I sighed heavily knowing that he too was out there somewhere hopefully just as nervous as I was. Deciding that sitting here worrying was not going to make me feel any better I made my way to the bathroom for a nice hot bubble bath. Hopefully after some room service afterwards I could curl up with and settle in with some t.v. to somewhat calm my nerves of the upcoming shoot....

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Monday morning arrived with a furry. I had hardly slept a wink and knew I looked like bloody hell. I only hoped the makeup and hair team could work a miracle. I sat in my chair under the big white tent they had sat up outside sipping my coffee and reading the morning paper while Mollie stood next to me chatting excitedly on the phone of her upcoming tour. In all honesty I was unable to focus on anything at the moment waiting for this Joslyn girl to arrive. Larry had promised me she was second best to him but that did little to ease my concern. Larry had been my hair dresser for years and now all of the sudden he was handing me other to some girl. The nerve! I threw down the paper on the  table in front of me frustrated when all of a sudden this wonderful sound filled my ears and in that moment everything I thought I knew titled on its axis causing my whole world to shift completely.
I turned around in my chair to get a glimpse of who the soulful raspy voice belonged to that instantly embedded inside my soul and there stood the most beautiful, desirable, disaster talking to one of the men on the set up crew. She stood tall possibly 5'6 or so, long jet black hair that she had curled just almost to the point it was out of control.....almost. Ruby red lips and oversized, thick black frames graced her youthful face.
Forcing myself to drag my eyes away from her face and further along the rest of her....the girl gave an hourglass a run for it's money. Stupid as it sounds but every bit true. Sure she was a little more woman than what I was normally attracted to but grazing her perfect curves over gave me an instant hard on.
'Shit! I'm busted' I thought as her deep green eyes met mine. I swallowed hard trying with every ounce I had to look away but she held me captive as she walked over in a pair of army green pants that hugged her ass and curves to perfection with black combat boots. This girl definitely had her own style.
Quickly brought back to reality by Mollie, my fiancé, telling me of her phone call of her tour before she stopped mid sentence.
"Oh my God David.....Who is that train wreck?" Mollie whispered. I could only imagine she was referring to Joslyn.
"Mollie! Be nice." I warned turning back around and stood as I saw her reflection in my mirror.
"Hello. You must be Joslyn. David. Nice to finally meet you." I introduced holding out my hand for her to take.
"Oh yeah. Hi. Nice to meet you too."
She placed her tiny soft hand in mine sparking off an electric current right through my veins.
She quickly pulled her hand away as  if I had shocked her.
'Hmmmmm She must have felt that too' I thought.
" I hope that you had a safe flight in."
"Oh. Uh yeah....It was fine. Thank you. Shall we get started?"
"Yes. Of course."
Turning back around to sit in my chair I was met with a glare from Mollie.
'Shit'
"Please forgive my manners. This is Mollie. Mollie this is Joslyn who is filling in for Larry."
"Nice to meet you" her sex dripped voice said.
"Uh huh. You too. Excuse me I have to take this call." Mollie replied wasting no time to turn away.
A sudden flood of relief washed over when Mollie stepped away leaving me alone with the sex goddess.
I intently watched on as she busied herself setting everything up moving along with the music she was listening to out of the one ear bud in her ear and every once in awhile would blow a bubble with her gum which had my mind wondering what it would feel like to have her bee stung lips on mine.
' Wait?  What? Where in the hell did that come from? Fuck was I in trouble!'
"You ready?" She asked popping another bubble bringing me out of my dirty thoughts.
"Uh. Yes. Please go ahead." I struggled.
She moved to stand merely inches in front of me and her provocative exotic scent invaded my senses.
Thank heavens I was sitting down because it made my knees go weak. I tried my best to busy myself on my phone but it was futile with her body this close to me my every nerve stood at attention.
Giving up I put my phone down and looked up at her.
"So....friends with Larry? How did that come about?"
I watched as she gave a slight shrug.
"Not much to tell really. He taught a couple of classes that I took."
"I see."
She didn't give up much. Unsure if she were just shy or if she were nervous I tried to pry a bit more hoping to loosen her up.
"So...tell me about yourself."
She instantly stopped what she was doing at my question and the warmth of her touch evaporated.
'Fuck! That was a stupid thing to say'
I peaked up at her as she took pause trying to either  figure out what to say or to question why I was wanting to know but after a beat she continued on running her hands through my hair bringing the warmth back with her.
"Well What is there to know? I live and work in New York City when not being whisked around the world to cover for Larry" she joked giving off a slight smile that warmed my heart.
"Ah yes. NYC. Do you like it there?" I pried.
"If I didn't I don't believe I would be there. Do you agree?"
Spunky this girl was and surprisingly I liked it.
"Touché.....So what are you listening to?"
Again she paused and I thought I caught a glimpse of something across her face close to embarrassment.
"Laura Welsh....Undiscovered"
"Never heard of....May I?"
She hesitated before removing the one ear bud allowing me to listen.
It had a nice beat very....girly but I had to bite back my smile at how seemingly perfect the lyrics fit in the moment.
"How fitting."
"Well I do believe that will do it Mr. Gandy." She said quickly changing the subject.
"David. Please."
I stood to take in my reflection in the mirror. The style look good. Just a little off from Larry's but over all fantastic.
"Thank you Joslyn. I do believe it's perfect." I turned to her giving her an award winning smile. I thought I saw her blush a bit but before I could looked further we were met with a shrilling voice.
"Oh David! What has she done to your hair? It's all wrong! Looks like you just rolled out of the bed. Larry would not approve of this at all!"
"Mollie!"
"No David It's awful! I'm going to talk to James about this immediately."
Before Mollie could walk off and make a scene with the photographer I caught movement off to my right side. I watched on with uncertainty of what was about to take place before me.
"Don't bother. If you know how it's done then do it your damn self! No need to have Larry fly me all the way out here and waste my time!" Joslyn's sexy voice sneered only this time it was laced with pure anger and then she was on the move.
She ran her hands through my hair and started shaking them almost violently completely undoing her previous work. I had to fight back laughter.
'Oh spunky she was'
"Oh God! Can you believe her? Who does she think she is? I'm calling Larry about this right now!"
"Mollie calm down. Leave your brother alone. I'll go and talk to her. It will be just fine."
"Whatever David! Larry should have known better than to leave you to someone else. This is your career!"
"Mollie...for one it's just hair and two Larry would not have sent her here if he didn't think she would be any good. Go grab a drink and sit down and relax. I'll take care of it."
I kissed her forehead and gave a small reassuring smile before walking back around the front of the house to find my spunky runaway.

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I was fucked the moment his eyes met mine across the way. I tried my best to  keep my cool but one look at him had me turned inside out. After taking a slow deep breath I made my way over to him. Oh. My. God.....
'Heaven can't help me now' I thought
He was even more beautiful up close if possible. He was so tall and handsome as hell!
When he took my hand in his this electric current nearly caused me to combust causing me to jerk back quickly as if I had touched fire.
My head was dizzy and my body felt fuzzy. I needed a distraction. I made myself as busy as I possibly could but he made it difficult to concentrate when his eyes were on my every move.
I quickly got started and the instant my hands ran through his silky locks tingling warmth spread throughout. Continuing on he kept trying to make small talk. I honestly didn't trust myself on responding without sounding like a crazy lunatic  so I kept it as short as I possibly could without coming off as a bitch......which I'm sure I did anyway.
Having my trusty music playing in my ear bud helped ease my nerves a little until the moment he asked what I was listening to. Sure enough in that exact moment Undiscovered would have to come on. Ugh! I could only imagine what he would think of me when he heard it. I tried as hard as I could to spit out that I wasn't listening to anything but saying no to those  eyes was impossible and to no avail I gave in. I watched for any sort of reaction from him as he listened. He responded with "How fitting"
I could die! 'Divert! Divert!' my head screamed at me.
"Well I believe that will do it Mr. Gandy" I said quickly hoping to get his mind off of the song.....thankfully it worked.
He seemed very pleased with my work which I was thankful until little miss thang had to throw in her two cents. David was genuine and tried to calm the crazy wild cat but I could no longer rein in my temper and BOOM she lit the fuse and set me off.
I could see David out of the corner of my eye with what looked like amusement but I didn't want to stick around to find out. I quickly made my way out of the tent, around the pool and back through the house. Screw that skinny Barbie doll! Who the fuck does she think she is! Once out in the front of the house I sat on the front step and lit up a cigarette. Ahhhh much better.
"Hey." his voice sounded from behind me causing my anger to cease immediately.
He sat next to me lighting his own cigarette catching me off guard by his action.
"I have to admit that was something to see back there"
"I know. I apologize...just...I'm not sure what happened. I over reacted I'm sorry."
"Don't apologize to me. I should be to you. She had no right to say what she said. She can be a little....."
"Bratty" I spit out.
He laughed a little. "Yeah....bratty suits it."
We sat in silence for several moments enjoying our smokes before he scoot a little closer to me.
"So are you going to sit out here all day or will you please come and fix this mop you disheveled? I don't this is quite the look we were going for today. Don't get me wrong I kind of like it but I think It needs to be a little more tamed for the shoot."
" David I'm sorry I don't think it's best if I don't go back. Surely there is someone else you can call to finish this for you?"
"I don't want to call someone else. I like the way you styled it before and you are going to stay and fix it again."
This was not a request.
"Ok." Was all I could muster.
We finished smoking and he stood to help me up. As we turned to walk back through the house to the back he placed his hand at the small of my back to guide the way.
'Fuck! This was going to be trouble.'