Onscreen Partners

20: Let's Do This

Jennifer had a bad feeling about the new day already. She had arrived really late for her shoot and at that moment, she was the only one everybody at the shooting scene was waiting for.

She was having the shoot for the company's liquid bathing soap along side with Kola so she was currently dressed on only a skintight black, sleeveless dress that stopped just mid-thigh and the makeup artist was making final touches on her face.

In a few minutes time, the makeup artist was done and Jennifer was ready to leave the dressing room.

When she finally left the room, she saw Kola whose chest was completely bare and wearing only a Calvin Klein boxers already standing next to the bathtub that was filled with foamy water.

"I heard you are really good at your work so I'm wondering what took you so long to show up here." An angry-looking man who was just around his late thirties came over to Jennifer and spoke to her, an evident scowl on his face.

"I'm sorry about that. Who are you?" Jennifer replied and at that point, Kola had turned back to see her talking with the man in front of her.

"My name is Fella and I'm directing today's photo shoot. Go over to the bathtub. We've wasted enough time already." Fella said without a pause and Jennifer did as she was told.

She could see Kola's eyes on her as she walked over to join him in the bathtub. She could tell from his furrowed forehead that he had questions for her but he couldn't ask them at that moment since they were ready to start shooting.

She plunged herself into the water in the bathtub, immersing her body in the foamy water in a way that it was just her bare shoulder that was in view at the end.

A lady came over to where they were and poured in some of the liquid soap into the water, making the already foamy water even more foamy.

"Bring in the two glass of wine." Fella ordered a tall guy who immediately did as he was told.

The tall guy came over with the two glass of wine and handed one of them to Kola first before offering one to Jennifer.

Jennifer stretched forth her hands to take the glass from him but it immediately fell on the floor the moment she took it from him, the dark red wine staining the tiled floor and shattered glass littering the floor.

"What just happened?" Fella walked closer to where they were, his face harboring a grimace.

"The glass mistakenly slipped from my hands. I'm very sorry," Jennifer apologized. She didn't know how the incident happened but she was aware that what happened the day before was playing with her mind.

"Someone come and clean this mess off!" Fella ordered and two girls ran over to take care of the mess Jennifer had caused.

"Jennifer are you alright? Please talk to me." Kola who had been watching silently asked. He had been worried sick about Jennifer since she arrived the day before.

"Don't worry about me Kola. I'm fine," Jennifer replied, avoiding Kola's piercing gaze.

Another glass of wine was given to Jennifer and she held it firmly this time around.

"Now that all our problems are solved, let's begin with the shoot." Fella's hands were on his waist as he spoke. "The aim is for the both of you to act like a lovely couple who are chilling on their bathtub after the day's activities so I want to see the both of you looking happy okay. Just give me some freestyles that are filled with a lot of smiling." Fella explained and gave the photographers permission to start shooting.

Jennifer did her best to build up a happy face as the cameras started clicking and was hoping she was doing a good job despite the fact that what happened at Felix's place was still on her mind.