Author's note: I have separated the story by days to allow easier navigation for you readers. If you want to get to the good bits, the action kicks in at the end of day 3. I apologise for the story being so long, but I think the length is justified. Also, I apologise for the lame title. I couldn't come up with anything else.
This is more of a Shakira story than a Beyonce one. Beyonce is going to be featuring on a future chapter in the sex for drugs series, maybe even two and Shakira isn't, so I thought I'd let Shakira have this one. Enjoy!
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Day 1
I came to the studio for my first day of the shoot. We were shooting a video for a duet with two big names. I didn't pay any attention during the meeting, as I found a elastic band and I was playing with that while everyone talked. So I just kinda wondered around. I was new to this and didn't really know what to do to kill time.
I got a couple of doughnuts. Everyone around the studio and out where all the trailers were seem to be eating them, so I didn't want to feel out of place. I found a spot to sit on near a trailer. It was actually the steps that led into the trailer.
I finished off a doughnut and I was contemplating on whether or not I should eat another. I didn't want to become some fat git so I opted to save them for later. As I got up to go back into the studio, the trailer door opened. I quickly turned around to see who it was and froze in my tracks as Shakira stepped out. Shit! was she one of the two big names?
"Is it time to start yet?" She asked in her heavy Latin accent.
"N-n-no." I stuttered, staring at her. She was wearing a long, black dress that dragged on the floor slightly as it was that long. the straps on her shoulders came down covering her tits, but leaving a big gap in between her tits, showing her bare flesh. This was gonna be one hot video.
"Are those for me?" She asked pointing at my doughnuts.
"They're yours if you want them." I said and she chuckled.
"What do you do here?"
"I'm the camera man." As tiring as that question was starting to become, I was never happier to answer it.
"You look young." She said.
"So do you." I complimented her. Shakira smiled.
"What's taking so long?" Shakira asked. Changing the subject.
"Hair and make up." I answered. I didn't know who the other person was. I was assuming a guy, because you usually get a duet with a male and female.
"Have you met her yet?" She asked me.
"Who?" I asked.
"Beyoncé." She replied. I just shook my head, just shocked at how much booty there was gonna be in this one video. "I'm so nervous on meeting her. She's so big and beautiful." I don't think she meant big as in size, but as in fame. It already knew that her English wasn't the best.
"Didn't you record the track with her?" I asked.
"No." She replied. "We recorded at different times." Schedule conflict obviously.
"Don't you have dance routines? Didn't you have to practice the choreography together?"
"No. Yes. No. Yes, we do. No we didn't. We should've practiced together." She laughed. She confused herself a little in answering the questions, but she got there in the end. I didn't know what else to say to her.
"You want one?" I offered her a doughnut.
"I shouldn't... but OK." She said. "Come in." She said walking into her trailer. I followed her in closing the door behind me. I didn't realise until just now how short she was. I'd say she was just under five feet. When I saw her performance at the VMA's last year with Wyclef Jean, I just thought he was a big guy, but it turns out that Shakira is just a very tiny woman.
The trailer had a two seater couch and two one seater couch's. She sat on the two seater couch and I decided to sit down next to her. I offered her the paper bag and she took a doughnut and I took the other one. I watched her as we ate.
"You have a really good figure." I complimented her.
"Thanks!" She said. "It's really, really hard work." She said. "Now thanks to you, I'm gonna have to do a hundred stomach crunches to work this off."
"You asked if they were for you."
"You should've said no! Naughty Shakira! No fatty food!" She said and laughed. Shakira crossed her legs, revealing that she was keeping up with her trademark of being bare foot all the time. The soles looked a little dirty.
"What other videos have you done?" She asked.
"A couple for some rock bands and unknown rap artists." I replied. "No one you'd know. They weren't even anyone that I knew." Shakira laughed, she was very easily amused. "This is my first big video that I'm involved with."
"I think the camera man is big part of music videos. They never get the credit. It's always the director." She said, trying to give me a ego boost. "He says shoot, you shoot. If you're not there. Who's going to shoot?" She asked.
"Another camera man?" I said. "I'm not like you. I'm expendable."
"I forget. What's expendable?" Shakira asked, not knowing what the word meant.
"It means that I can easily be replaced whereas you can't."
"Oh!" She said realising what I meant. "I'm not expendable but you or the man selling doughnut is."
"Thanks for that." I said sarcastically. "That's how important I am. I'm on the level of a doughnut seller."
"No!" She laughed. "I didn't mean it like that." She said placing a hand on my shoulder.
"Don't worry. I know I'm expendable. Just like the doughnut guy, but I'd prefer not to be compared to the doughnut guy anymore."