Day 1
It was hot outside; I was sweating standing still, the August sun reflecting off the white sand, blinding anyone foolish enough to have forgotten sunglasses. My name is Alissa, and I work as a server for a catering company. I started two months ago, right after I turned eighteen. I only started working to save money so that when I left for college I would have some spending cash. Several of my friends who have also recently graduated high school were working for the same caterer, so I knew the tips were good and the work was easy.
Usually I serve for luncheons and the extravagant dinners at the convention center where the caterer is based. How I ended up on a remote beach serving deli sandwiches and bottled of water is a story in itself. Basically all of the other servers had signed up early for a conference of ranch owners. These ranch owners had a history of tipping large. I missed the sign ups because I was off work the day it was posted. So instead of serving steaks to filthy rich cowboys, I thought I was going to be off for the week.
My owner approached me last weekend and asked if I was willing to serve Monday through Thursday this week. He told me he accidentally scheduled a catering venue during the cattleman's convention, and needed a person to drive the food out, set it up, and serve. There would be no tips involved, but the owner offered me a hundred dollars a day just to help him out, which was probably more than he would make in profit. I took him up on the offer.
This catering event was for some advertising work that a photographer from Tallahassee was doing for a local jewelry business. The event consisted of dozen people, models, business representatives, and photographer with staff. Water, juices, sandwhiches... what a boring day.
On Monday, after I placed the food on the tables and had snacks and water for the workers prepared, I watched the shoot for a while. They were starting with the commercial—a guy an girl in white linen pants, him topless, her with a modest bikini top. He was supposedly proposing, with a ring from this certain store that made all the difference in whether she said yes or no.
They filmed take after take, getting lines right, making sure angles were correct, wiping sweat from the models: I watched about twenty takes or so before I sat in a lounge chair I had brought with me and opened my book. It was scorching hot, and I had worn shorts and a t-shirt. Most of the workers were in swimwear, girls wearing their bikinis, and the photographer and grip with board shorts and no top on. Several times I looked up to see them cooling off in the ocean. When I did I realized just how hot I was and wished I had worn my bikini as well.
Too soon it was lunch time, and I was busily serving, ad then cleaning. While I was sweating away, putting the leftovers into the coolers, the photographer came over to me to let me know that I was free to wear a bikini this week. He said he understood that this was a boring gig, and that I was free to soak up the sun or hit the water during the photo shoot and filming.
Day 2
Getting dressed, I remembered how hot it was the day before. I decided to wear my bikini under a white polo and some khaki colored shorts that were quite small. My shoulder length blond hair was ponytailed. I went out the door of my parents house and drove to the convention center where I picked up the mini-van I would be taking out to the beach. As I was driving the thirty minute trip, I found an oldies stationed and rocked out to the Beach Boys, wishing I was hanging with surfer boys instead of soaking up the sun. When I got to the beach, with its white sand and emerald water, I began to unpack the lunch and snacks. It didn't take me too long to get hot enough to strip down to my bikini. Because of modesty I decided to go to the far side of the van to remove my polo and my shorts. I had not paid any attention to what was going on with the photo shoot, so I was shocked when I came around from the other side of the van to see a strikingly beautiful red-haired girl, no older than I, reaching for a bottle of water from the bowl where the bottles were sitting in ice. The image was surreal because she grabbed a few ice cubes with the bottle and began to rub them along her naked breasts—she was topless!