Gareth rang, sounding excited. "Man, have I got a subject for you. She's a fuckin' goddess, and says she's right into it."
I'd met Gareth a few months previously, when I was doing a magazine photoshoot at a Goth/S&M club called the Vault. We got to talking about photography, and he said he knew a few girls who'd be willing to take part in the sort of shoots that I'd been doing lately. I had thought he was all talk, but since then he had brought five girls along to my studio, and the results had generally been more than satisfactory.
"So who is she then?"
"Only met her last night. Name's Natalie. Says she's been in the scene a couple of years. Only thing is, she won't do it for less than a thousand bucks. She's got some debts."
"A thousand, eh? And she knows what we'll expect for that sort of money?"
"Yep, and it's not a problem. I'm telling you, you're going to be thrilled when you see this one."
"Okay, okay. When can she do it?"
"Tomorrow night?"
"Sounds good. Be here at nine."
Gareth was prone to exaggeration, so I wasn't letting myself get too excited yet.
The following night, just after nine, I opened the door to find Gareth on the doorstep. He was wearing his customary long, black leather jacket, and his hair, which was long and dyed black with red streaks, was tied back. He grinned at me wickedly – Gareth's face always reminds me a bit of Mr Punch – and stepped inside, followed by a girl of about 18. He was right – she was stunning.
Her straight, shoulder-length hair was dyed jet-black. Her pale face was angelic, with big, dark brown eyes accentuated with kohl, full lips painted with scarlet lipstick, and a delicate nose and chin. She had a few piercings – several rings through each ear, a ring trough the side of her nose and a stud beneath her bottom lip. She wore a black dress of silk-like material, cut to just above the knee, with a bodice fastened by red laces that was tight over her large breasts. Fishnet stockings, chunky black boots and a black handbag completed the ensemble. She was, indeed, a veritable Goth goddess.
"This is Natalie," said Gareth,
"Pleased to meet you," I said. "Done any modelling before?"
"Not, um, professionally, no. Gareth said you're a very good photographer."
"I'd like to think so." I pointed to some fairly innocuous black and white images on the wall, a few nudes among them. She looked at them and nodded. The thought of what we would be doing to this beautiful creature was already making my cock hard.
"You want a drink before we start? Some wine?"
"Um, I'd like to get the money first, if that's alright," she said.
"Of course." I got my wallet out, extracted 1,000 dollars in 100 dollar bills and handed it to her. She counted it and put it in her handbag. I gave her a model release form which she sat down and read and then signed.
"Okay," I said, clapping my hands together. "Let's do it." I led them out of the lounge room and down the hallway that led to my studio, which had originally been the garage of the house. It was a large room with a cement floor and a big, battered workbench running along one side, covered in tools and photographic equipment. From the rafters hung a variety of ropes, chains and pulleys. In one corner there was a wardrobe with a few costumes in it, and scattered around the floor were a carpenter's wooden horse, some wooden stocks, a leather couch, a wooden armchair and a fridge. A rack on one wall held whips, canes and other implements.
As we entered, I saw Natalie looking up at the ropes and chains, and tried to figure out the expression on her face, but I couldn't. She didn't look scared though. I told her to sit on the chair. I walked around the room, turning on lights and the two video cameras that were set up to record events.
Gareth went over to the fridge, got a beer for himself and one for me. He offered Natalie a drink, and she took a can of bourbon and coke.
I picked up a camera and started to take some shots of her. I have a few iron rules with photo shoots, one of which is to always start with shots of the model clothed, as you might see her on the street. I find that makes what comes later more exciting.
I asked he her how long she had been into the Goth scene, and the S&M scene in particular. She said about two years, since coming to the city from the country and meeting her boyfriend. She was a sub, she said, and liked to be beaten. She answered my questions in just a few words, while looking down at the floor. I didn't know whether it was because she was shy or nervous.
"Right," I said. "I think now, I'll get you to take off the dress."
She took a deep breath, and put the drink can on the floor and stood up. She undid the lace on the bodice and pulled it off, then unzipped her skirt at the side and let it fall to her feet. Underneath, she wore a red lace bra, black panties and a garter belt holding up the fishnet stockings. I snapped some more pictures as she stripped.
"The bra too," I said.
She pulled the straps over her shoulders and the cups down so that her big, heavy breasts spilled out. They were round and perfectly proportioned, with stubby pinkish-brown nipples and just the barest hint of blue veins beneath the milky skin. She twisted the bra around her waist so that it was back to front, unhooked it and dropped it on the floor, then stood with her hands on her hips, a bit of a defiant look on her face now, as I snapped more shots, including some close-ups of her magnificent tits. I looked for scars or bruises or other marks on her body, but couldn't see any. He skin was perfect. She had black celtic tattoos on her upper arms, and a sun design around her belly button, which was pierced.
I put the camera down. "Okay, Gareth, give us a hand." Gareth, who had been sitting on the couch, leapt off it and came over.
Reaching up, I got hold of one of the ropes hanging from the rafters. It had a loop already tied at the end of it. I took hold of Natalie's left hand, slipped the loop around her wrist and tightened it. Gareth did the same with her other wrist. The ropes were threaded through pulleys, with the other ends attached to hooks on the walls. Taking a rope each, Gareth and I pulled on them so that the girl was raised slowly into the air, her arms in a 'V' shape, and stopped when her toes were just touching the floor.
Gareth went to the workbench and came back with a ball gag which he fastened over her mouth. He walked around her, inspecting her, and put his hands on her tits and gave them a good squeeze. I began to take photos. Taking hold of her nipples between thumb and forefinger, he pulled them as hard as he could until they were about two inches long, then twisted them roughly.
He took off his coat and threw it on the couch. He was wearing a fancy, embroidered black shirt and leather pants. He undid his belt, which had a big silver buckle, and took it off. I'd noticed that in these sessions he usually liked to start with the belt. He got hold of Natalie's left breast in one hand, and flicked the belt across it, right on the nipple, quite lightly at first, then repeated it a few times, each blow a little harder. He did the same with other breast, and finished by flicking the belt back and forth over both of them as Natalie, the ball gag in her mouth, groaned quietly. When he had finished, her lovely big breasts hung down, quite red, the nipples puffy.
I got a pair of scissors from the workbench and handed them Gareth. "Cut her panties off," I said.