"That's it." She heard him say. She leaned further forward. Her skin was warm from the early morning sunlight. Even at such an early hour, the day was heating up. The fabric of the lounge chair was becoming slick beneath her. Her perspiration was starting to gather into a drop and she felt it slide down from her arm pit, along the curve of her ribcage.
She heard the clicking of the camera as he walked around her. Constant, 'click', 'click', 'click', it went, as he took one photograph after another. He was a nice man, honest and blunt, which she admired. She and her husband had met him and his wife through mutual friends when they had joined an internet group. They all shared a common interest in photography. Photographs of nude and partial nude female forms.
She was his model for this early morning session. She and Louis had accepted Ray and Jesse's invitation to spend the weekend. They could relax; enjoy some barbeque around the pool. If the women were so inspired to take their clothing off, well the men would be oh so happy to photograph them in this state. While her husband and his wife enjoyed sleeping in, he had asked if she would pose for him in the early morning light.
"You are a natural at this." Ray was saying to her now. She snapped back her attention to him and what he was saying.
"What?" She brushed away an early morning insect from her thigh.
"You're a natural." He pulled her straw hat further to the left. "You're a beautiful woman."
She blushed at his statement. She rarely felt beautiful like the other women that she saw on the internet group. They had perfectly formed breasts, nary a stretch mark, or even an ounce of fat along their toned midriffs. She on the other hand had the body of a mother. This description would fit; as she had used her body to birth more than one baby, and then feed them for years on end. She was not beautiful in her opinion. Just normal.
"That's very sweet of you to say." She said as she pulled the hat from her head and let it playfully hide her breasts from his view. She sat now straddling the outside tanning lounger in nothing but her bikini bottoms and the floppy hat.
"I don't lie." He said as he continued to snap her photograph. "It serves no purpose."
"Still sweet." She looked directly at him. His camera was hiding most of his face from her view. She cocked her head to the side and gave a coquettish grin.
"Feeling playful this morning are you?" He asked as he adjusted the lens, snapping and clicking away.
"Maybe?" She changed her facial expression to match the statement. She gave a little squirm in her seat. She waved the hat in front of her like a fan of olden days.
"Show me those fabulous tits. Don't hide them from me." He went to pull her hat from her.
She pulled her legs up and let her knees be her barrier to his sight. She rested her chin upon her kneecaps, letting her fingers lace together at her ankles. She closed her eyes; let her hair fall to the side, as she let her head lay on its side. She heard the clicking of the camera.
"Stunning."
She opened her eyes, but kept them facing downward, as she let her hands grasp her ankles. She pulled them apart slightly. Moving her head back up, her hair fell like a blanket behind her. She rested her chin on the groove between her knees. She ran her hands up the tops of her calves. Resting them on her knees and looked directly in the camera. His camera never stopped clicking.
"Perfect. Don't move." He got closer to her. Adjusting various buttons and knobs on the camera without even looking to see where his hands were. He pulled the camera away and looked at her. "That's going in my personal album." The look of lust on his face startled her. She pulled back abruptly. Shaking her head.
"You ok?" He said as he leaned back and took another shot of her moving around.
"Yes." She couldn't believe that this was happening. He wasn't even Louis. He was a stranger. She wasn't even attracted to him. What the hell was wrong with her body?
"Do you need to take a break?" He stood behind her lifted her hair from her neck, and slipped it over a bare shoulder. His finger felt like little feathers on her skin. She let her legs slide back down, on the ground, once again straddling the chair.