"Kate, can I ask you a big favour?"
It was Friday, they were sitting in Lexie's kitchen after doing the morning chores and Kate had already noticed her friend's quiet mood. Maybe her request would explain why. "Yes, of course."
"It's a bit personal, so if you want to say no, I'll understand." Lexie paused. "But if you do say no, will you promise me that you'll never tell anybody what I asked?"
"Of course."
"In fact, please don't tell anyone anyway."
"Okay, I promise." Kate was getting more than a little intrigued.
"Will you take some photographs for me, of me and Chris making love?"
The shock on must have shown on Kate's face, because Lexie had to suppress a giggle before she continued and tried to explain.
"We've taken photos of each other before and we've tried to take some of ourselves together, but it just doesn't work. It needs someone else to do it, to get the right angle and so on."
"You mean nude photos, showing everything?" Kate looked how she felt, totally amazed that her long time friend could do such a thing.
Lexie stifled another giggle. "Yes everything, you know, legs wide open, that sort of thing."
"So we're talking porn here, are we?"
"Yes, I suppose we are." Lexie nodded her agreement. "But we find it a turn on, so what does it matter?"
"Well, it doesn't, I suppose. But doesn't it worry you that someone else might get to see them?"
"No." Lexie smiled. "That doesn't worry us at all."
Kate looked at her curiously and she went on hurriedly.
"Who is going to see them that we don't actually show them to?"
"Hmm, ok, but I'd still be worried myself." Kate wondered why Lexie might want to show them to anybody at all, but she didn't comment.
"We're careful." Lexie assured her. "Now, going back to what I asked. Will you do it for us? There's only you that we'd trust."
Kate nodded, agreeing a little reluctantly, still feeling wrong about intruding into her friend's private life even by invitation. But Lexie was a good friend and she didn't want to let her down, even about something as bizarre as this.
In a way she envied Lexie her exciting sex life, even if it was a little out of the ordinary. Kate hadn't had any kind of sex life since her former partner, Carl, had walked out on her some two years before. She was, he told her in angry spite, too ugly to fancy. Even though she suspected they were said to cover his own shortcomings, because of those hurtful words she had never had the courage to start again with someone else, and she missed it badly.
She put on a pseudo-professional attitude to cover her awkwardness.
"Okay, so where and when would you prefer?"
"How about tomorrow evening?" Lexie giggled suddenly. "I was going to say 'if you've got nothing on', but that's going to be us, isn't it?"
"Mind you." She went on after a thoughtful pause. "It would probably be less awkward all round if you undressed as well?"
It was a question posed as a statement, and one that Kate was not expecting at all. Things seemed to be getting a little out of hand here.
"If I do this, I'm only going to be taking pictures you know, not taking part. So why would I need to strip off?"
"I don't know, I wasn't thinking of you joining in. I just thought we'd all feel more comfortable with each other if we all stripped."
"Yes, ok." Kate said slowly, hearing the indignant note in Lexie's answer. "You're probably right. Okay, but if you don't mind I'd prefer to keep my panties on."
"That's no problem. I can understand how you'd feel." Lexie smiled, a quick, tiny, almost embarrassed smile. "It would set the boundaries in any case, and that's probably for the best. Chris fancies you like mad, you know."
Kate had to stifle a surprised gasp at Lexie's remark, because something she'd never told her was that she had secretly hankered after Chris for a long time. Not that she would ever do anything about it with a friend's husband, but it was nice to know her interest was reciprocated regardless of what Carl had said.
No sooner had Lexie gone than Kate began to worry about what she'd agreed to do. Not from the photography angle because she enjoyed taking pictures anyway, and although she'd never taken that kind she was sure she could cope. She was more worried about getting turned on, although, she had to admit, it would be nice to see Chris's cock, before she forgot what one looked like. Perhaps she could persuade Lexie to let her have a copy of a picture that showed it in all its unbridled glory.
She shook her head. This was no way to be thinking about a best friend's husband. She'd been without for too long, she told herself, that was the trouble. That night she knew her rampant rabbit would work overtime.
For most of Saturday Kate kept herself to herself, feeling embarrassed and ashamed because of the images that had flooded her mind's eye as she had rammed her vibrator into her own pussy before finally curling over for sleep. All day she managed to avoid seeing her neighbours, sure that they would have heard her cry out his name in orgasm and convinced that in any case they would cut her dead when she knocked on their door that evening. For a while she persuaded herself that she could stay away and then tell them later that she had changed her mind, but she knew that wouldn't do, and -- a little later than planned -- she knocked nervously on their door.
Lexie answered the door wearing her usual sloppy jogging suit instead of the tarty outfit that Kate had somehow been expecting and asked her in just as she would have at any other time. The only differences were that, instead of the usual coffee, she was offered a glass of white wine, and instead of plonking themselves down in the kitchen, Lexie ushered her through to the lounge.
"Are you still all right about tonight?" Lexie asked her as they walked through.
"Yes, no worries." Kate lied. "I'm looking forward to it."
"Good." Lexie told her as she opened the door into the lounge. "We are grateful, and the last thing we want to do is make you feel uncomfortable, do we Chris?"
She raised her voice at the end, the last words aimed at her husband who lounged comfortably on the sofa. Kate thought, not for the first time, how alike the couple were. Both of them at the back end of their twenties, four or five years older than Kate, and both fair-haired and blue eyed, and very, very attractive with figures that film stars would have envied. At least, she thought, it wouldn't be difficult to make these two look good, whatever they got up to.
"No, no way. And thanks for helping us out." Chris climbed to his feet and came forward to meet her, pecking good-naturedly at each cheek.
For a little while they made stilted conversation as they sipped at their wine, all of them unsure how to bring up 'the' subject, until finally Lexie could wait no longer.
"Look, I know we all feel a bit self-conscious, but to put it bluntly I feel as hot as hell, and I want to get things going."
"Whenever your ready, sweetheart." Chris glanced meaningfully at an obvious bulge in his trousers. "How do you want to start?"
"What if you and I go upstairs undress, and then Kate gets ready down here and follows in about five minutes? That way we won't feel so self-conscious getting undressed in front of each other."
"Sounds good to me. Is that okay with you Kate?" Chris stood up without waiting for an answer, taking a compact digital camera from a drawer and passing it to Kate. "You know how to use it don't you? It's charged up and there's new memory card in, so take as many shots as you like."
"Yes, just photograph anything and everything, there are no limits." Lexie told her. "One thing I would say, though. Please don't ask us to pose or anything, just take what you see and let us get on with things. And the ruder and more depraved the better."
"I think she means the more explicit the better." Chris chuckled at his wife's choice of words. "Anything you like, just take the pictures."
Kate smiled and nodded. "I understand, shut up and shoot, yes?"
"Exactly." Lexie beamed, leading Chris towards the stairs. "It's the first door on the right at the top."
Kate sat waiting after Lexie and Chris had disappeared, thinking about what she was about to see, and wondering about the effect it might have on her. She just hoped that, if -- or was it when - she did get aroused, it wouldn't show enough for them to notice. But then, she thought, if she got really turned on, it won't matter anyway.
She glanced at the clock. Her five minutes had raced away, and she jumped up, quickly stripped down to the flimsy little briefs that she had deliberately selected as being sexy without revealing anything important. She made her way as quietly as possible up the stairs, looking the controls of the camera over as she went and shivering slightly from anticipation as well as the feel of cool air on her breasts.
The door immediately to the right at the top of the stairs stood just slightly ajar. She pushed at it gently, letting it swing slowly open until she could see into the room, and then walking softly in to find herself at the foot of the double bed looking at her friends lying naked and in each others arms.
Lexie turned her head slightly towards her, smiled and winked, and then went back to kissing Chris. It was to be their only acknowledgment of her presence until they had finished.
For a few moments Kate just stood and stared, trying to come to terms with what she was witnessing. Lexie had one leg thrown over Chris's, his hand stroking her thigh, with both her arms round him and holding him close. They were kissing passionately with their eyes closed and their mouths open, apparently oblivious to everything around them. She'd known what to expect, of course, but the reality of seeing the two people she knew so well lying together in bed threw her for a little while, and she had to collect her thoughts before she could accept it and set about doing the job she was there for.
Her first few shots were simply general photos of the two of them together, taken really more to ease Kate into her task and to make the lovers at ease with her presence than to be worthwhile erotic pictures. But then she settled to her task and began composing her shots properly.
