The Photo shop
by Candyman666Β©
All characters participating in sexual activity in the stories are 18 or over. Please don't be afraid to let me know what you think of my stories. This story is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
To help you keep track of the different characters in the series, a list can be found on my author's page in order of their appearance in the stories.
Chapter 42: Hellen's surprise
I had been so enthralled by Catharina's stories of their cruise and Florida visit that I had neglected to take care of my promised trip to London with Grace. So I'd better do something about it quickly. It's usually pretty busy in London during the Christmas season, but I hoped to still be able to book the train and a hotel room. Eurostar proved to be no problem, I got us two seats in the business premier class.
The Hilton Metropole was slightly more difficult, especially since I wanted to book with HHonors points, but in the end, they gave me a nice room when I additionally booked a few vouchers for dinner. It was just a question of fair give and take. I had just finished everything when I heard the shop's doorbell. When I got to the front a pleasant surprise awaited me.
"Hellen, do what do I owe the pleasure of your visit? Everything's OK with Dave or his camera I hope?"
"Hi Lew, don't worry everything is OK with Dave and his camera, he barely puts it down. Not that the quality of his photos has much improved, but he is happy as a lark shooting away at me. No, the reason I'm here is to ask you, maybe, a favor?"
"My dear Hellen, you know I can't refuse you anything. Tell me what can I do to make you happy?"
"It might be more a question of making Dave happy, well at least I hope it will make him happy, it will definitely be a surprise for him."
"Making Dave happy and giving him a surprise? Now you make me curious, what do you have on your mind. I thought he was happy taking nude pictures of you, or is he looking for nude pictures of you on horseback again?"
"No, horses will not be involved this time, but it could be more of a technical problem."
"I love technical problems, please don't keep me in suspense anymore, just spit it out. What is it you're looking for."
"I want to have my photo in Playboy or any other men's magazine you can imagine."
"I guess you came to the wrong address then, as far as I remember their headquarters are in the States."
"I know silly, what I want is a fake men's magazine, similar to Playboy or Men Only or whichever, with my photos in it for Dave, and I was wondering if you could make something, like that?"
"Wow, that's a tall order, and something I've never done before. So what you want basically is a photobook that looks like a men's magazine?"
"YES PLEASE! Do you think you can do that?"
"I need to think a little. I can take the photos; I can print anything I want on glossy paper similar to what the magazines use; stapling shouldn't be a problem... But to really make it look like a magazine, you would need more than photos alone, you'd need articles, letters, and the like because that's why men always say they buy Playboy, 'for the articles' don't they?"
"Yeah...but articles are no problem, I can write them, and as Dave is a car dealer I can get my hands on photos of fancy cars because that's usually another one of the major topics in these publications isn't it?"
"Yes, it is, finding ads is not going to be a problem either, nobody really cares if you copy them, on the contrary, they would love it I guess, but you'll need some other articles besides about cars. Where are you going to get them?"
"I don't think that's going to be a problem either, I'm sure when Dave gets this magazine, he won't bother to read the so-called articles anyway, like all other men, he'll be far too busy looking at the pictures."
"You might be right there, but one other thing, in these magazines there is always more than one girl in the nude; how are you going to fix that?"
"I don't think that Dawn would have a problem with appearing in my private men's magazine and I intend to appear more than once, wearing a wig and looking totally different. I've agreed with Bethany that she can make me up so I look completely different; make-up can do that for you."
"So, you've already secured the services of Bethany for your scheme?"
"Yes, when I told her about it and that you would most probably be the photographer she was even eager to help me, so do you think can you handle it?"
"Give me a few days to figure out the technical aspects of the thing: how to put the magazine together and how to produce it. Would you need one copy or more?"
"If it is possible I would also like to give a copy to Dawn, especially if she agrees to appear in it, and one to Bethany, and maybe you'd like one for yourself?"
"Of course, I'd like one for myself, you know me so well. I have to warn you though it will cost a few bob, is that a problem?"
"No, if Dave can spend a load of dosh on a camera I can spend some on something like this."
"OK, I'll give you a cost estimate in a few days after I figure everything out, besides, you probably need time to prepare for this shoot anyway."
"Yes, I will need a full beauty treatment at Bethany's and I will need to go shopping at Astrid's in her lingerie department, I will need different sets for the different parts in the magazine. Oh yeah and before I forget you will also need to include the photos you took of me on horseback."