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... Chapter 5 Continued
Thursday morning, after breakfast, Mum and I got ourselves ready. I didn't know what Mum had arranged. I didn't know Mum. Or maybe I did. I just had to try and reconcile the Mum I had always known with the online friend I had made in MomOfTeenDau. It was all very confusing. And yet it wasn't. It was really quite simple. The veils of secrecy had been taken down and we could both be who we truly were. It was beautiful. I just hadn't come to terms with it yet. Mum seemed to have worked it all out ages ago and was much more relaxed.
She drove us to Geoff's place, back to14A Broad Street, above the bakery, so familiar, and he gave us coffee and comfy chairs while he adjusted the lighting he had prepared and readied his camera on its tripod.
"You can change behind the curtain and put on the robes I've set out, if you like. There's a well lit dressing table for you to use for your hair and makeup. Then come out when you're ready and we'll talk about what kind of pictures you want, what mood, all of that stuff, okay?"
It was obvious that Mum had never been to the Club studio.
"That dressing room is tiny, Mum, barely room for both of us to stand up without moving!"
"I'm sure we'll manage, Andi dear, and we're basically ready. You go first to check your makeup and hair, then you can chat with Geoff while I do mine. How's that?"
I went over and drew back the curtain, sat and redid my lippy and cheeks, mussed my hair a bit, and made way for Mum. Of course we would only use the changing cubby one at a time. Why hadn't I thought of it?
I was nervous.
I chatted with Geoff while he finished his preparations, both of us frequently glancing at Mum who I now was seeing almost through the photographer's eyes. She was probably less than ten years older than him, still very attractive which gave me hope for myself twenty odd years on, a maturer version of me, really, though a bit smaller in the chest. Where Geoff was middle height with his brown hair worn short, Mum was darker haired like me with a knockout figure.
Mum joined us and we were invited to step in front of the neutral looking backdrop. We had both opted for white button front blouse and fitted jeans, subtle makeup, minimal jewellery of gold stud earrings, me with knee-high heeled black boots, Mum with black medium heeled pumps.
I sat on the high wooden stool with my knees together to my left while Mum stood behind me to my right, her left hand on my left shoulder. Blinds muted the light from the windows to our right, just beyond our little curtained makeup area, and it felt warm and cosy with Geoff's subtle lighting.
"Nice, lovely," Geoff encouraged us, and took us through a variety of combinations with one of us sitting or both standing.
"Perfect. Come and have a look at them on the laptop."
So we watched as Geoff scrolled through our photo set, each of us commenting here and there about the pictures we liked best.
"Great!" Geoff summarised. "Let's do the whole lot again. Naked this time."
He just dropped that last bit in, the doing them naked. As if it were completely normal. Natural. I supposed that you couldn't get more natural than being nude, but that wasn't the point.
I think my jaw literally fell open. Mum kind of ignored my shock then chided me with, "Come along, dear!" Beckoning me to the tiny changing area.
It wasn't as if I hadn't done it before, but those times it had been my own idea, my own wishes, my own pace. Now I felt like I was being cajoled. By my own mother, no less. Geoff, when I glanced at him, was keeping his face completely inscrutable, which confirmed that they had cooked this up between them. I wondered if they had slept together.
I shrugged. What was a girl to do? I complied, of course.
There was no point in using the modesty curtain since we were both about to be photographed naked, and Mum and I just undressed in the most matter of fact manner we could, both pretending that this was perfectly normal. We didn't hurry, but we didn't take our time either. Geoff, of course, kept taking candid photos capturing the scene from almost every angle,and again I had a suspicion that at some point recently they had had sex.
Once ready, which meant nude, we walked to the set, holding hands, almost shy.
"I think heels, don't you?" Suggested Geoff, and so we returned to the set, again mother and daughter both naked but me with my black boots and Mum in her pumps. It felt naughtier than barefoot, somehow.
At Geoff's instruction we repeated the same poses, and I wondered if Geoff had a Clothed-Unclothed montage in mind. Geoff kept up a saucy provocative banter that made us both feel sexy and uninhibited, including that he, "Could see where you get your great tits from, Andi!" and, "Are you going to let your bush grow as wild as your mother's?"
It was fun.
When we had finished, Mum and I stood naked next to Geoff as he again scrolled through the photos after quickly re-ordering them into the anticipated Clothed-Unclothed pairings. They looked sexy, and Mum and I looked pretty good.
"One last set, without the footwear?"
We did as Geoff asked, and went through the poses a third time but with a few extras thrown in.
When we looked through the final collection, we all agreed that the best picture was one where I was just in front of Mum, both with left foot forward, sort of three quarters on mostly facing the camera which was slightly to our right, Mum's left breast and nipple and her tightly curled dark bush visible behind me to my left, both my breasts and trimmed dark bush on show. Mum's right hand was on my right hip, and my hands were relaxed at my sides. It captured us from the knees up, and was cute, charming, beautiful, natural. And we looked great. We also looked like mother and daughter, which was perfect.
"Can you do me a framed print of that one? Large, like a portrait?" Mum asked.
"Certainly, and an e-album and print album of the rest," added Geoff.
Our drive home was quiet, but more companionable than I think we had ever experienced. It was like I had truly got to know my Mum. And I both liked and loved her.
"What are you going to do with that big framed picture, Mum?" I asked just before we got home.
"It's going on the wall above my bed, dear. I'm rather proud of it."
Despite our newly closer and probably more honest relationship, I didn't tell Mum where I was going after dinner. Just that I was going out and didn't expect to be late back.
All the way over on the bus I felt bad about not coming clean, but I knew that I was having difficulty adapting to the new revelations and changes. Perhaps I would confess online to MomOfTeenDau. Maybe even do that sitting next to her on the sofa. Probably not something that her generation was used to.
When I walked into Alice's studio it was evident why Mr. Philips hadn't given me a lift in. He was busy with his own preparations for his Photography Class to record the impending transformation of naked girl into body-painted model. We were supposed to be preparing marketing material to advertise Alice's new class for the next academic term.
I went over to a quiet corner to change out of my loose wraparound cotton dress and put on the towel robe Alice had provided, while she prepared her concoctions like an alchemist about to transform lead into gold, and Mr. Philips corralled his students and gave them instructions on where to stand, what to capture, and some technical stuff I didn't understand but seemed to involve saying F and numbers a lot, though why he couldn't just say fuck, I didn't know.
When it was time, I stood where Alice wanted me on the paint-spattered floorcloth, and took off my robe. There was a reassuring gasp from the student photographers that warmed my insides and set alight the smoldering embers of erotic anticipation.
Alice gave me that look.
"This isn't sexual, you know!" she reprimanded me, but we both knew. We were both turned on. "Though it's a shame your gorgeous cousin isn't here this time," she added.