"I'm OUT...
... THERE...
... ON THE FRONT COVER OF RAZZLE...
... Me... in the bottom left photo...
... READERS WIFE."
Coco grabbed Hazel's arm, crouched and stared up eyes and mouth wide, face beaming.
Hazel looked up "Where... On the top shelf?"
"Oh... MY... GOD... yes... there," Coco pointed.
"Why yeh... Readers Wife of the Month... Coco... Fitzrovia...
... THAT... IS YOU...
... Are you actually BARE-ARSED inside, "said Hazel.
"Totally... That's the point...Fuckin' great... we sent the shots months ago... I thought I'd never make the cut."
"Oh... really... We?... do you mean you and Jack... he takes nude pictures of you?"
Coco reached for a copy. "Shit... I can't reach... why do they always put top-shelf mags on the top-shelf?"
"Maybe to stop innocent young nurses reaching them," Anil was stacking the shelves, "Here you go."
"Sweetheart... there's no such thing as an innocent nurse... and I'm nineteen... so not so much of the young... I'm of the age of discretion... and have no intention of being discrete."
Coco quickly found her feature, "Mmmm...They've used eight shots... we sent about seventy..."
"Turn the page... you should have a double page feature if you're Wife of the Month," said Anil.
"Oh Christ," said Hazel, "Coco your soooo... what's the word... daring."
"Pleasingly pink," said Anil.
"Gynaecological... your cervix is showing," noted Kushi who had come over to see why Anil was studying a Mens Mag."
"I popped my pussy... that's all... a standard pose in contemporary glamour... we must have sent in twenty pussy pops... that must be the one they liked best... I like it too."
"Very sexy... excellent definition... is that the Gardens..." said Anil, "... very good light... picks everything out very sharply... are those diamonds in your clitoral piercing."
"It's my engagement ring... that's why I don't have it on my finger... we shoot'em in Fitzroy Square garden... the light's just right in the early morning... and we're behind railings so if we get onlookers they don't interfere...
... Y'know... I've been reading Razzle since I was thirteen and my fantasy has been to do a spread with the other girls."
"Spread describes it well..." said Kushi "... spread wide."
Hazel asked, "Why have you done it... do you want to be a model... loads of people are going to see you... you know... naked."
"Yeh... that's the point... to be seen... I want people to know who I am... I like to pretend to be a model...I like to pretend I'm one of the girls in the mags... I want to look as cool as they do... and as sexy... it's a hobby Jack and I can share... we both got into it together... we're both into body culture... why work out if no one ever sees the result... and it's very social... we belong to a social media club... a flash photography group."
"Christ... so... when did you get into skin shots then... I mean reading glamour magazines... that sort of thing?" said Hazel.
"I've been fantasising about this for six years... when we was at school Jack used to bring in mags and I used to like reading them... Razzle was my fave... we were an item as a result... I sat on his lap to read and I felt his hard-on tap-tap on my arse... I was a real tease... I'd ask him what he liked about the sexy poses and feel him strain against my bum... and I used to imagine I was the girl in the mag... I wanted guys to look at me in that way... you know... lusty... still do."
"SERVICE!"
Customers were building up and Anil and Kushi had neglected them.
Coco said, "Sorry people... I'm holding you all up... I'm being an attention hog again."
"If you want a personally autographed copy of Razzle signed by Readers Wife of the Month now's your chance..." said Anil, "... local girl poses in Fitzroy Square Garden."
"Anil!" said Kushi as she hurried back behind the counter.
"No problem," said Coco, "if you're out... you're out... and I'm out now... if anyone wants my autograph... that's a buzz."
Anil took down some copies and handed them to the queue.
"I'll have a look..." said a youth, "... and I'll buy a signed copy... if I can take a selfie of you with me as well... in your nurse's uniform."
Coco thought, but only for a second.
"In for a penny..." she said, then realising she was giving away photos added, "... but you gotta email me a copy."
"One showing the cover... and one with your big spread."
"Suddenly everyone's got a smart phone..." said Coco seeing a phalanx of arms with smartphones appear, "... it's OK... but you're on trust to email me copies at 2candidcoco *****.com... that's 2candidcoco *****.com "
She wrote over the pop-shot in a black marker, "Love to Razzle Fan Steve from Candid Coco," then pulled him in to pose with her arms around him holding the two page spread with the autograph across his chest, face to the camera, and a leg cocked up across his thighs.