Edited by Robert Reams
My name is Alex. Some years ago, when the international career of the top model Laetitia Casta was starting triumphantly, I happened to witness these extraordinary events.
My story begins in the heart of Africa, in the region where the Maasai tribes live. I have the task of assisting the Italian maestro photographer Federico Bertolucci, during the dauntingly hot photo shoots. We were sent to shoot a promo for swimsuits - in a desert, a hundred miles from the nearest beach! If you Google, you will find the pictures. Well... those that made it out of Africa! The French demoiselle is stunningly beautiful in these magazine spreads.
The crew and I have the task of setting up the camp and checking the gear. The site is in a rueful state, totally without proper lodging facilities. One of the rented RVs for the top models has been ditched because it broke down on the way here. Arriving in the Maasai village, we are greeted by many large smiles. The warmth of these people strikes at your heart; that unsettling feeling that you receive more than you can ever give back. If they had known that top models only care about themselves, they would have been more careful... Laetitia Casta's world is inhabited by princesses that would poison each other's lipstick!
The missing RV really torments the maestro, because one of the young ladies will have to share her space. And this cannot happen! Who would share lodging with a viper? The camp must be reorganized; a few of us will have to sleep in a tent. My tent was pulled right out of Second World War surplus. Hence, we work hard to prepare everything.
Having finally put everything in place, I walk to the village with my own camera, under the hottest Sun I have ever felt. I see first hand that the stories about the Maasai are true. They are a tall and strong people. I feel surrounded by giants! Am I a Hobbit with normal feet? Even the women are taller than I, and I am not an average size man! It is on that film that I capture the most interesting events: kids playing with home made toys, old men talking in the shadow of one of the two trees in the village -Shadows are an illusion- the heat and blazing light are constant. My forehead flows like the Nile River under a thousand suns. The Maasai do not mind it; I envy their thermal serenity.
I have to slow my pace, much slower than theirs! Walking is sluggish on the hard, dusty soil. It is hell for photography: shooting in bright light with so many highlights, then moving again, interludes of minimal effort trying not to sweat too much!
After I have spent half an hour touring the village, my boss calls me back to camp; the deities have arrived. I am so excited to see my first real top model. Not the ordinary model used for cheesy newspaper adds. Their personal assistants follow them. I could fall in love and marry any one of these girls! Like haughty Helens of Troy, any one of them could start a war with her beauty.
I think I can rest in peace now! I meet Laetitia for the first time when the producer makes the presentations. I observe her for what seems hours. It is as if she is a master's painting and I am at the Louvre. What a splendid young woman. The intense sun does not diminish her beauty. Her lightly coloured clothing makes her feel at ease in the heat. The outfit barely touches her skin, only lightly masking her delicate curves. She is charming, seems almost accessible to the common man such as I. My heart skips a beat when her tantalizing lips smile at us. My fool of a heart thinks I am the one she is smiling at!
I had first noticed her while preparing a mannequin shoot in Photography class. We were assigned to reproduce the set up from a magazine spread. Though I perused a myriad of magazines, only one image burned into my heart. Standing, sitting, lying in the middle of a bed of roses, or emerging from a bath surrounded by muscular men, Laetitia, the torrid French top model, was the only Mademoiselle I fantasized about.
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Photo shoot
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Night passes; the photo shoot preparation begins early in the morning. A colleague gathers a few Maasai men to surround Laetitia. I position the reflectors according to the maestro's orders. Laetitia looks straight into the lens. A few minutes later, she changes her station and so do I, reorienting panels, like my eyes following the girl of my dream. Now she lays on the ground, surrounded by tall black men, her light skin tone contrasting sharply with the Maasais' pitch-black skin. As the maestro commands me, I skip past Laetitia to remove rubble. That is as close as I will ever get to her. Worst, she does not notice me.
In her final pose, she is gazing off in the distance; supported six feet in the air by the big charcoal arms of four Maasai warriors she is looking far away Oh! I wish I could be one of them! Words fail to describe how it would feel to hold such a prodigiously curvy carnal woman. I imagine I am the warrior holding her bum, warm and barely covered by the tight bikini. Her pussy lips are so close I can smell her floral essence. Better: holding her upper body, caressing her hair and mostly peeking at her neckline. What a view, her two large breasts scarcely enveloped in a bikini. I would see her aureoles through the thin material, her nipples standing tight. That characteristic shadow down the middle of her boobs would complete the scene. Passion jutted from Laetitia.
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A short break is called. Refreshments for everyone! A make-up artist rubs the dust from her lightly tanned skin. She heads to the improvised changing room, changing bikinis behind a simple white drape supported by four five foot piles.
I wish I could infiltrate that cotton booth. I would put my hands delicately on the bikini, exploring every square inch of her body, one by one, twice if necessary. The top of her naked shoulders, her delicate neck and her perpetual smile would be the only gifts visible from outside the booth. Inside, I kiss the girl of my dream. My strong hands would skim her spine north to south, sending a myriad of sparkles through Laetitia. With one swift move, I lift her in my muscular arms.
"It is only a dream Alex", she whispers.
"It should not be a dream, Laetitia. You should be mine!"
Backing up a bit in the cramped space, I take a better look at this dream. I admire her breasts: so generous, so in harmony with the proportions of her body. She has the hands of time ticking in her favour; she is young. Laetitia is always smiling as if her beauty could never diminish. I kiss her again with spirit, cupping her left breast as I drop to my knees, taking a gulp of it and of its twin nipple. With inspiration, I aim for her mons veneris. Then, my triumvirate makes contact: fingers, lips and tongue operate between her thighs. She exhales, eyes closed, savagely gripping the wood posts of the booth, yearning for more.