I was making coffee in the kitchen when Maria came in looking mischievous, her hands behind her back. She wore dark-framed glasses and light yellow dress. Her dark hair was pulled back in a ponytail.
"What's up with you?" I asked.
"Don't think I forgot," she said, "It's your birthday!" She brought forth a small, wrapped package from behind her back and presented it to me.
"I'd almost forgotten, myself," I said as I accepted it and toyed with the bow.
"Go ahead," she coaxed.
I undid the wrapping paper and removed the lid from the paper box. Inside was an watch with an elegant metal band.
"You never wear one, so I thought maybe you would try it," she said.
"I love it!" I said, snapping it onto my wrist.
"I'm glad," Maria said shortly, and dropped to her knees. She took hold of my belt and pulled me closer. I reached over and grabbed the camera off of the countertop.
"How about we turn this birthday party into your audition?" I asked, opening the viewfinder. Maria paused in thought.
"Alright," she said, and began unbuckling me. I turned on the camera and caught her still grappling with my pants. They fell around my ankles and Maria giggled. She kissed it and played with it, staring up into the camera as my cock expanded to its full size in her mouth.
"Is this your first time on film, Maria?" I asked.
"Mmhmm," she hummed, getting it all the inside her.
She worked on me like she really needed a job, slurping and licking, moving her head back and forth rapidly. Something about being on camera makes a girl really cut loose, and Maria was no exception. She smiled up at me as she licked the head of my dick, looking like a sexy librarian with her glasses and pulled-back hair.
"Are you ready for the money shot?" I asked.
"Ooh, yeah. Give me your cum. I want it all over my face," she pleaded, pouting her lips. She pumped my cock and pointed it at her open mouth. I went a little weak in the knees as I started to come, and she flinched just a bit as the first stream slapped against her cheek and into the corner of her eye. She squinted the one eye and I kept shooting, covering her entire face in long ropes of cum. She squeezed the last drops onto her lip and took me back in her mouth, sucking me dry. She slapped my dick on her cheeks and smeared the cum around, breaking into laughter as she finished her work.
"Can I have a job now?" she asked smiling into the camera, little strings of cum dripping from her lips and chin.
"I think so, I just have to pass the tape along to my boss," I said, making her laugh as she wiped a hand across her mouth. I started to wonder if she wanted to act; to really be one of the actresses on our website.
Later on that day I caught Maria at her computer watching our video greedily. I walked up behind and placed my hands on her shoulders: "You thinking about hiring that girl?" I asked.
"I like it," she said. "It has a totally different feel from the other videos we've shot so far."
"Well, that's because you're in it," I said.
"Yeah, but that's not all. It's how it's just you holding the camera; it just feels different, in a good way. I think you should start shooting videos like this, in addition to the normal scenes."
"Are you going to put this up on the site?" I asked.
"No, not right now, anyway," she said, "I like it, but I'm not sure that I want to commit to having my face on the internet like that. Maybe someday. But you should use Lauren. We still need tons more videos. Just shoot some whenever, days when we're not shooting a full scene."
"Yeah but you're always gone, running around town looking for equipment and investors and stuff," I added.
"I don't need to be here. Just make sure to tell me about it so I know to put it on my computer and edit it; otherwise I'll end up erasing it when we shoot."
I realized then that I had an excuse to mess around with Lauren; as long as we filmed it, it would be ok. Lauren doesn't feel neglected, and no one gets their feelings hurt. I hoped this would be a resolution to the Lauren problem.
"Why don't you mention it to her, first," I said, "Just so she's comfortable with it."
II
Maria was gone a lot those days, indeed, leaving Lauren and I shut up in the house together. She would run around working on the business, and we had a lot of time on our hands. That we grew close shouldn't come as a surprise; pent up so much with just the two of us, we were bound to end up either bonding or hating each other. But that was all to come, and since our unexpected sexual encounter the week before, we had tiptoed around one another awkwardly.
It was Monday. After the three of us had breakfast together at the kitchen table, Maria through a purse on her shoulder and headed out for the day; she had a meeting with a rich gentleman who she hoped would invest in our company. I had money. I had the house, the car, and I was bankrolling the business. But my funds were limited; everything I had came from my parents, who stuffed my bank account without much thought and figured it was all for college. So when Maria demanded fifty thousand dollars for cameras, lenses, lights, and about a million other little things, I knew it was much more than I could get my hands on. She was adamant, though, that we would need at least this much to get our business off the ground.
So we looked for investment. Maria was the only one with any real business experience, knowing how and what to present to someone, so she made the calls. And she went at it with remarkable persistence and equanimity; it is very difficult to get a man with money to meet with you if you are looking for money to make pornography. Maria was shot down constantly, sometimes with outrage and disgust on the part of the investor, who had to have known what it would be about, but when confronted with the details couldn't muster the civility to pony up or gracefully refuse.
On this day, Maria had a meeting with man who owned several pubs around the city. I'd actually been the connection in this case, as I'd hung around one of his bars late one night last week and had spoken with him --both of us drunk- about the business. Our drunkenness could not be discounted, but he seemed genuinely interested in our project and had given me his number and told me to give him a call next week.
Maria left waving and jingling the car keys at Lauren and I sipping coffee on the couch. The door closed and the television was tuned to some vampire movie broadcast far too early in the day for my taste. But I watched anyway, wondering if the bright morning light streaming into the house would melt the fanged teenagers off the screen.
"Change it," I said, stretching my arm to give Lauren a push on the shoulder.
"No," she responded without budging, pretending I wasn't really there.
"We've already seen this. Just see what else is on," I insisted.
"I like this movie; I don't remember what happens."
"We watched this last week!" I complained, stretching my arm toward the screen. I saw her crack a slight smile, so I lunged for the remote in her hands. She fell back and resisted and I held her down and plucked the controller from her outstretched hand.
"Thank you," I said, settling back in my place on the couch, flipping through the channels.
"This, is an outrage!" Lauren yelled and hurled herself against me. She straddled my lap and tried for the remote, which I held behind my head.
"It's too damn early for vampires!" I yelled. "And when we watched it last week you made fun of it the whole time!" She continued to grope for the remote as I passed it from hand to hand.
Before she could seize it, I wrapped my arms around her back, holding the controller fast against her, and with her arms still flailing behind my head, she fell unbalanced against me; her big, soft tits smothering my face.
"Ok, you win!" she yelled, her head almost behind mine. I loosened my grip and she settled back in my lap, looking me in the face blankly. "What do you want to watch?" she asked.
"I don't know yet, I can't see the TV," I said, "If you want to see a movie, I'll find another movie." I tried not to stare at her chest, heaving under a pink tank top. My hands rested on her hips automatically, without thinking. I realized I wasn't just resting my hands on her, but gripping her, just slightly, my fingers testing the firmness of her ass. She wore small grey shorts of terry cloth. Her skin felt soft and good through the cotton, softer than you would think if you looked at a picture. She continued to look at me with her blank expression, the one that tells you that whatever happens next is for you to decide and won't be second-guessed.
I started to say, "Um, did Maria tell you that she wants us to start making movies on our own time?" but Lauren interrupted me with an affirmative, "Uh huh," and kissed me. My hand moved over the back of her ass in the grey shorts and rested in her crotch, massaging the warmth there. I could feel the outline of her pussy through the fabric, even pushing it slightly into her as I felt her. I reached under her shirt with my other hand and unhooked her bra in a single motion.