Memories drift in and out, as I look, as I watch him, as I reach over: I am back in Paris, studying, living my naive version of the bohemian life. Painting, drawing, drinking, smoking. Running out of money, always, running short, running out, scrabbling around for bar work, waitressing.
Meeting men, having affairs. Long afternoons making love. Sketching him, painting, then lying naked on my small single bed, making the one bottle of wine and single packet of cigarettes last. Standing up, walking, walking naked to the toilet, walking back, looking at him looking, standing, watching, looking at his bare body, his soft penis, watching him getting hard, feeling myself moisten. And reaching again, reaching for the first times, for him, holding his thick stiff male organ, sitting over him, opening myself and guiding his beautiful hard cock inside myself, hovering over his smooth thick tip, sliding my wet vagina over his rigid stem.
And I remember signing up for my first life drawing class. Knowing I had left this late, at least a semester. For no good reason. That morning, that winter, arriving with fifteen minutes to spare, making coffee, finding a spot, setting up an easel, clipping up paper, deciding some quick charcoal sketches would be the thing to warm me up.
Sitting, sipping coffee, and waiting, looking around the room. Letting my shoes slip off and scratching my feet on the old, cold, darkened, paint spattered wooden floor boards. Looking through the large windows. It was up a flight of stairs, but opposite another building. I wondered if the model would worry about someone looking over, they took the care to block off the square of clear glass set into the door. Anyone strolling opposite would surely be able to look straight in. The idea wasn't unappealing, I realised, as I sat, being in that building, looking in, seeing a class, seeing a nude model, being that model. My mind took a small wander, and I imagined posing. Stripping, walking out into the room, opening and dropping my robe, standing nude before a group of young artists. Then being looked at by a strange pair of eyes outside the room. Male eyes. Non-artistic eyes, a less than professional gaze. Being seen. Being reacted to. I imagined this man's penis stiffening in his trousers, I imagined someone young, then someone old, in his sixties, feeling his cock swell with unusual speed. And giving in to the sort of temptation he thought he had long outgrown.
I sat, I waited, I killed the minutes by picturing myself posing, by imagining myself nude, in that cold studio, being looked at by this old handsome man in the building opposite, thinking of him fumbling with his buttons, his flies, reaching and releasing his aching hard penis, feeling himself stiffen some more, until his thick cock is as hard as he can remember. Holding himself, rubbing his rigid stem, exposing his slippery damp tip. Masturbating to a quick and powerful climax, looking at me, his knees weakening, spurting thick plumes of semen as he studies my naked body.
I enter, I enter the moment again.
People start to sit next to me, old friends, classmates, strangers, faces I can barely recall now start to form an informal circle around the large white sheet in the middle of the room, marked with dark lines and splodges of emulsion. And I can sense a pleasing dampness in my vagina. I cross my legs, I feel the soft lips of my pussy glide together.
The tutor pulls the sheet outwards, glancing back to look at a waist high wooden platform. I stare absently at him, forties, I guess, black hair, still mostly black. Tall. Bearded. Wearing a blue cotton shirt with the sleeves rolled up, the top couple of buttons undone. I look at the thick dark hair covering his thick looking forearms, bushing out from his chest. My mind is heading in his direction when I hear the door open, when I glance back. A younger guy is walking in, looking over, looking around the room with obvious apprehension, catching the eye of the tutor. Walking directly over to him, shaking hands. Our model? I affect professional disinterest. Musculature was musculature. Male, female, old, young. My body reacts though, as I knew it would, and it always did. With curiosity. With eagerness. If he was the model he looked like he hadn't done this before, or not often, he looked like a student after some casual work. About my age, about my height, blond brown hair, slim. My quick look is enough to appreciate his handsome, strong, manly features.
My body reacts.
The tutor returns and after a couple of minute the young guy is walking to the centre of the room, out from behind the screen he has stripped behind. Bare footed, onto the large floor sheet, bare legged, covered only by a thin white robe. One thin layer. This was enough, knowing he was naked underneath, knowing he would remove this thin layer, knowing his soft cock would be wobbling freely underneath.
This was why I had avoided this class so far. I couldn't help it, I knew my mind, I knew my body, I loved to draw, I loved to paint, but I want to see him naked more than I want to get better at either. I watch, I wait as he stands, waiting for the teacher, just standing, teasing me with the prospect of dropping that thin shield and exposing his nude body.
"Okay, class, everyone, this is Laurent, he is our model this morning. He will do a few short poses, five minutes each, for all of us to warm up, to get our eyes working, then a longer pose, perhaps fifteen minutes, then we break. After a few more medium poses, again, fifteen, twenty minutes, and we end with one longer pose, about an hour."
I look, I wait. I think of being there myself, ready to strip, ready to pose. I anticipate seeing him, Laurent, him, relishing this strange intimacy, this young handsome guy about to strip in front of people he has never met before, showing us his bare body, his naked ass, his soft cock. Our model. And my body. I don't feel like an artist, I feel like a horny young woman who is between lovers, who has been between lovers for far too long now. I feel a shameful and delicious moistness between my legs. I shouldn't be reacting this way. I should be a serious student. I don't care. I press my thighs together.
"Laurent? If you are ready, you can remove your robe."
And he does. I am directly in front of him. I watch as he undoes the knot holding each half of his robe together, as he pulls it open, oh god, I can suddenly see his body, quickly, I can see his chest, his belly, the dark flash of pubic hair, the shaking length of his penis, it is like I am thirteen, as if this is the first time I've seen a man naked. He turns to hold his robe, shrug himself out of it, tossing it behind himself, and standing in front of us, nude. I watch him place his feet, stretch his arms up, I look, I stare. I look at his tight, firm, strong body, smooth, hairless apart from his legs, his thick dark pubic bush, I gaze at his long toned legs, his flat stomach, his slim waist, he turns, finds his pose, I glance at his smooth round naked ass, he faces me again, oh god I am so wet, this is so silly, I feel my sex pulse with small tremors of arousal.
He straightens up and poses, something fairly simple, one foot in front of the other, his arms above his head, his hands touching. I force myself to draw. The teacher walks around the room, behind us. I look. I stare. Oh god. I look at his face, his broad shoulders, his smooth pale skin. His bare hips. I follow his legs down, then up, teasing myself, rising to his exposed genitals. The context should make this fine, my creative intent should neutralise any other physical one, somehow this is not working. The openness of the room accentuates his nudity, the circle of clothed people around him enhances his nakedness, the bare floor, the large windows, the bright day light, the art-clutter surrounding him, the walls covered in drawings, shelves, books, paint-spatters, paint pots, brushes, boxes of pencils, charcoal. The grey brown red yellow white background, and his soft smooth pale creamy pale brown body, his utterly unclothed body. Made to seem more naked by his relative hairlessness, the absence of any sign of sun on his skin, the darkness, the shocking thickness and darkness of his pubic hair.
My eyes finally raise up. His cock. Oh fuck, I am not sure I can stand three hours of this. I stare at his small soft cock. I had the mental image of him being large, of him dropping his robe to reveal a large thick fleshy penis. I assumed that for a man to pose nude he'd have a reason to be confident. He'd know his cock was fairly sizeable.
This model surely couldn't think that. I like him all the more. He stands with admirable stillness, the minutes passed, I face him from the front, drawing, making myself fill at least one sheet with something resembling a naked man, staring his bare body, staring at his soft little cock, the tight round small pouch of his testicles, high, drawn in to his body, pushed out by the closeness of his thighs, pushing out the slim length of his penis. Slightly darker than the rest of his skin, protruding from the dense thicket of his pubic hair. He stands, looking at a clear space in the middle distance, unselfconscious, comfortably nude in front of all of the class, the tutor, all eyes upon him, upon his slim tight body, upon his smooth small tapering little cock, his stem as slim as my little finger, shorter, I am convinced, his tip, even the shape of his tip hidden by the soft crinkle of his foreskin, extending out over the end of his penis in a small point.
Our teacher calls five minutes, our model relaxes, I watch him move, step, stretch, still naked, his cock wobbles in a straight, stiff looking bobbling circle. I want to slip to the toilet, I want to pull my trousers down, peel my underwear away from my damp genitals and stroke myself quickly. I don't. I don't move. I look. Aware I am probably trying to catch his eye.
"Okay, if you could pose again, something different, another short one, so anyway you like."