Dear Readers,
I hope you like this chapter. It has been great working on this with my editor. TheGoofyProofyReader has been great! He's been amazing and I hope you all say a quick thank you to him.
~NaughtyPaladin
~P.S. So.... I went to submit chapter 8... and was informed I hadn't submitted chapter 7 yet.... sorry to make you wait! to make it up, you'll ne getting chapter 7 and 8 really close together, hopefully.
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Note: All businesses related to the main character are fictional. I tried to not make the names or anything close to real world businesses, but it is not easy. So any similarities to real businesses or persons is not intended and is purely coincidental.
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Chapter 7
As I closed the door coming back from my college visit meeting some potential guy friends, I heard the TV blaring in the other room.
"Are you okay?"
"It's not just you, you need to remember that-"
"I know but all you guys just like, rip off your robes. No problem. And I'm like... Are you serious?!"
I was immediately intrigued by the female voices.
"I don't know. I went to a private catholic school-"
"-So did I!"
"I've been to Burning Man so..."
"I think India is a beautiful girl, but if this is the life that you want, then you have to be okay with your body."
I crept in, and peeked around the corner to see Sarah, Erica, Rita, and a Hispanic girl I'd never met. They were watching some reality show and quickly I figured out what was going on. There were some makeup artists touching up on girls here and there, and girls walking around in skimpy outfits with the drapings of a photoshoot everywhere.
Then one of the girls from earlier was shown in an interview with a white background and a black shirt on with dyed pink and purple hair. The tag under her read "ANTM:India".
"I always told myself I would never pose nude."
And it jumped back to the photoshoot.
"Come on, let's do it!"
"Okay."
"I was like... Oh my god... Okay... Here we go."
And then it was an entire scene of three girls, posing nude, all over each other. Hands on each other's boobs, legs draped over each other, fully exposed... except for the blurring that was used to keep any of the actual naughty bits from showing. One girl bragged about how easy it had been to go naked and how natural it had been.
"I still can't believe all these girls are willing to pose nude." Erica mumbled through a mouthful of popcorn.
"Speak for yourself, I think it's sexy." Rita laughed.
"Seriously, wouldn't it be weird to pose nude?" The Hispanic girl asked.
"It's not so bad." Sarah shrugged.
"WHAT?" Erica gasped. "YOU'VE posed nude?"
Sarah brushed the question away. "It's no big deal."
"Aren't you worried that... like your dad will see or something?" Rita questioned, her confidence gone.
Sarah made another dismissive "Pfft," and waved the concern away. "My dad doesn't look for nude models."
"Isn't that the kind of thing that ends up on... like... porn sites? You're telling me your dad doesn't look at porn?" The Latina asked.
"No. He has my mom." Sarah declared. "Married men don't look at porn."
The other three women exchanged doubtful glances.
"Besides anatona-...Anoto-... These photoshoots are important. And this..." Sarah exclaimed, pointing to the show that had the nude photoshoot ending, "This isn't even like half of one of these shoots."
"What do you mean?" Erica squeaked.
"Like, usually there's a guy and he touches you and stuff." Sarah explained. "It feels really good."
"No... way..." Rita gasped. "Did you get fucked on a photoshoot?"
"What do you mean?" Sarah grumbled defensively.
"Did the guy put his dick in you?" Rita pressed, clearly excited.
"Of course. That's part of the shoot." Sarah seemed relieved.
"You got fucked for a photoshoot! That's porn!" Rita cackled.
"NO!" Sarah snapped. "Porn is gross. Mom said porn exploits women. I wasn't exploited at all. I only did what I wanted to. My photographer was very respectful, just taught me what I needed to do to be a model."
"So... What was it like?" Erica pressed, and all the girls leaned in. The show with the models was completely forgotten on the TV.
"It felt SOOO good." Sarah moaned. "His dick felt so good and when he sucked on my boobs..."
Rita groaned. "Damn..."
"And I don't even know what he was doing with his fingers, but it was amazing! He like.... I don't know how to describe it, but I just went crazy, like my body just felt too good and it went everywhere!" Sarah remembered with fondness.
"He made you orgasm!" the Latina gasped.
"Is that what that's called?" Sarah laughed, "Yeah, he made me orgasm so many times."
Erica's face was clouded with thought as the other two pressed on.
"Damn girl, how many guys has your photographer had you do?" Rita giggled.
"What do you mean?" Sarah deflected. "It's always just me and the photographer."
"So it's like that every time?" Erica jumped in. "Feeling amazing and having lots of orgasms?"
"Every time. I hate to admit it, but I'm addicted. He's worried I have nymphomania." Sarah admitted.
"His dick's that good, huh?" Rita marveled. "But like, he's taking pictures the whole time, right?"
"Yeah, pictures and videos, I think." Sarah admitted with some uncertainty.
"So do you know who is seeing that stuff?" Rita pressed gleefully. "You becoming an internet sensation?"
"I don't know, he handles all of that." Sarah declared with the absolute disinterest that had made my job so easy. "I am just happy to be modeling again."
"Sarah, I think you're being exploited for porn." The Latina gently pointed out.
"OH MY GOD!" Sarah groaned. "It is not PORN! Would you say these models were making porn!? They were naked. India didn't even want to do it! But they are models! It's just something models do. But just like how they had to blur spots so boobs and stuff weren't on TV, they didn't broadcast that part. You know they all did the same things I did."
"That's not how modeling works." Rita pointed out.
"And how would you know? Have you ever been a model?" Sarah retorted. "I know lots of models, and they all do stuff like this."
I could tell Sarah was getting worked up, and to my surprise, Rita, Erica and the other girl seemed to actually be getting less certain.
"How much did your modeling gig pay?" The Latina asked.
Shit. This was where it was going to go sideways. I hadn't paid her. She hadn't asked for money, nor had she wanted it. She had just wanted to be a model. Nothing else mattered.
"You know I don't care about money." Sarah sniffed. "I just put the money in the bank."
Thank fucking goodness for Sarah's pride. She was lying to seem more legit, I'd bet anything.
"So... If I was willing to model for him, what would he pay?" The Latina asked curiously.
"You aren't ACTUALLY considering it... are you?" Rita asked, eagerly curious.
"I mean... if it pays well... and he's as good as Sarah says... I might consider it." She noted.
Erica said nothing, deep in thought.
Sarah squirmed for a second, "I could ask him. One sec."
I panicked for a second when she pulled out her phone, but luckily instead of calling me, which would have been REALLY hard to work considering I was hiding down the hall, she started typing out a text. I had just enough time to scramble and pull out my phone, silence it and turn off vibrate so they wouldn't hear when my phone went off before I got the text notification.
"Hey, my friend Mary wants to model for you, how much do you pay for a model?"
I almost laughed. Sarah knew somewhere deep down that I wasn't a real photographer, we'd built the lie that I was a professional together, but she seemed to have forgotten it was a lie. I mean, I had been selling the photos and videos, and Sarah knew I had suddenly gotten a bunch of money, but giving her credit for working that out was perhaps a bit too much. Or was it?
Then I promptly realized I had no idea what a nude models should be paid. I needed numbers and I needed them fast. I googled it and found a reddit post. The results were almost laughable. It said they earned like twenty to fifty bucks an hour. Strippers could earn like two hundred an hour according to the same post. I had to make a decision.
"It depends." I typed out. "Depending on the model, and how much I think my clients will pay. Market rates for a modeling gig can range from $20 to $50 for an hour, if they aren't willing to actually model."
I hesitated, how far was I willing to go with this? I hadn't sent anything yet. I could just say "I have all the models I need" and it wouldn't go any further. I peaked around the corner.
Big mistake. The Latina was stretching, her breasts pushed skyward, and DAMN they looked good. I wanted... needed... to see them naked. I needed to feel them. Consequences be damned.
"If they are willing to actually model, like you did, I could pay $75 to $100 for an hour-long shoot. Depending on how good looking the model is. Clients are willing to pay more for more attractive models." I added to the text and hit send. My stomach clenched.
"Oh, there he is." Sarah chirped when her phone went off. "Looks like he normally pays $20 to $50 for an hour if you aren't willing to actually model. For actual modeling, he says he can pay $75 to $100 depending on looks, but that means doing the whole thing, naked, touching, everything."
"For an hour?" Mary thought, "I mean, I'm getting like $18 an hour, but crunching spreadsheets doesn't sound nearly that fun..."