When Samuel got the text from his girlfriend Angelica he could tell that she was freaked out. She was at a downtown loft that she had rented out for the day for a photo-set assignment. She'd been hired on by a magazine she often did smaller pieces for, on this time for something a bit more grand.
Angelica Quaid was just coming up in the adult erotica magazine and photography world. What had started as an art school double major and a lazy weekend Instagram hobby had quickly exploded into an actual career path, and a passionate one at that. Her photos had appeared on a number of high profile websites and erotic art mags, and while she had shot for almost every theme imaginable, she was becoming particularly popular in the world of 'Artistic Homoerotica.'
Her work had been featured in popular private galleries and her benefactors ran the gamut from young Brooklyn hipsters to older North Shore of Long Island private collectors.
Unfortunately, only five minutes before the day's two-hour shoot was scheduled to begin, her dark, red-headed Irish dream-boy of a model had dropped out. Something to do with a bad case of forehead pimple-itus and probably, more honestly, a hangover the size of the Grey Goose bottle service he'd found himself swimming in the night before. Really though, if you couldn't trust a young male model in a city with a great nightlife, who the hell could you trust?
This left her with Javier Alicante, one of the hardest models in the industry to land for a photo shoot of this nature, and no second model with which to complete her biggest and most important assignment yet—something the magazine's creative director had titled, 'The Art of Male Seduction.'
The editor had even told her that if she knocked this shoot out of the park, they might consider it for the cover. She was officially freaking out now.
She texted her boyfriend most of these details, making sure to leave out the parts that in any way made the shoot sound too overly sexual. She knew he'd freak out if he knew everything that she had planned for this particular assignment.
She was desperate. She needed a sub or she risked losing a highly sought after gig with a very desirable pay rate to boot. Not to mention the fact that this could be a very big stepping stone for her in the industry. She begged her boyfriend in every way that a girlfriend knows how to beg.
"Please babe, you're the only other super sexy guy I know that lives close by that could step in last moment. I know this sounds ridiculously crazy, but you would be absolutely saving me, and all you'll have to do is let me pose you with my other model so I can get this photo shoot done." She was so helpless and honest in her plea, as her text messages came pouring in in rapid succession—her creative brain pivoting on the fly. It also didn't hurt that she was continuously stroking his ego in her requests.
"Ughhhhhhhhhh." Was all Samuel could manage to text back. He loved his girlfriend immensely, but her work had always seemed like a total lark to him. She was certainly talented, but how could he ever hope to judge the artistic elements of masculine sexuality when it pertained to desires he had no interest in? He was straighter than the Prime Meridian on a flattened Kyrie Irving map and the idea of being a model in a gay erotica photo shoot was an absolute non-starter. But...he also knew that no matter how much he didn't want to do this, he was going to. He owed his girlfriend big time. This girl had saved him in a thousand ways over their two years together and that extended to crazy car troubles and broken leg recovery nursing after snowboarding disasters and even some stuff with his family where she had been a Lighthouse of Alexandria in his ocean. He owed her. No matter how crazy her request, he absolutely owed her.
"I know babe, I'm so sorry, there's no one else I can ask on such short notice. I promise I won't show your face in the photos, I just need a warm, attractive male body that I can use to get this shoot done. Help me Obi Wan, you're my only hope." He chuckled at the last sentence. Honestly, how could he have possibly said no to a line like that? He stared at his text message screen and gave a deep sigh as he knew what had to be done.
"Okaaaayyy. I'll do it. I'll be in your photo shoot. What do you need me to do?"
"Yeeeey! Thank you, thank you, thank you, baby! XOXOXOXO!" She also sent him a GIF of the Foo Fighters "There Goes My Hero" lyric and he laughed at that. Her GIF game had always been straight fire. She told him to shower and shave and to throw on some jeans and a particular grey Henley that she liked on him and then texted him the address. She also told him to wear his tightest, sexiest pair of boxer briefs. And when she said that, Samuel knew which ones she was referring to. He had this particular pair in a light grey trim that hugged his package impressively and highlighted his strong calf muscles and his sexy ass. And she would compliment his booty all the time when he wore them.
Thirty minutes later Samuel was on his way over to his girlfriend's chosen photo shoot location.
The loft was on the eighth floor of a modern downtown apartment complex with windows that looked out onto a historic old square of the city's earliest cultural inklings.
When he got there, he saw that all of the blinds had been drawn with the light of the room's many inlaid fixtures and Angelica's own adjustable flood lamps set up around the open concept space set up as needed.
She pulled him in and gave him a very big hug and kissed him rapidly three or four times.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, stop you're gonna give me a complex," he joked with her. She leaned back after tasting his lips.
"Do I smell Bourbon, Mr. Craft?" She asked him with a devious grin and a perceptive eyebrow. Girlfriends had a knack for this sort of thing.
"I MAY have had a shot or three from my emergency flask down in the parking garage before I headed up here," Sam admitted a little sheepishly as she gave him a bemused grin.
"Aw babe, you're too cute. You have NOTHING to worry about. I run a very professional photo shoot, and if anything makes you uncomfortable I just want you to communicate that to me, okay?" She looked lovingly into his eyes as she placed her arms around his neck and gave him a peck on the lips.
"Okay, babe." Samuel said, as she took his hand and led him into the room.
"Come on, I want you to meet Javi," that's what she called him. She'd worked with Javier plenty of times in the past. The 6'4 statue of a man was just coming out of the bathroom as she led her boyfriend into the loft. If Samuel didn't know any better, he would've thought that he was doing a photo shoot with Gerard Piqué—the highly lauded centre-back for the Spanish National football team. He even had the perfectly trimmed facial hair and the icy blue eyes.
Samuel was fairly confident in his own looks and stature. He was 5'11 and worked out four times a week. He could hold Angelica up in the shower while he fucked her without a tremble in the knees and he started his morning with pushups and Wheaties like any man who is dating a sexual powerhouse like Angelica.
But Javi did this shit for a living. His body was toned and tanned and even for a straight guy, completely eye-fuckable. Samuel remembered the first convo he'd had with Angelica after seeing Javi in one of her photo shoots.
"Don't worry babe, he is decidedly gay. He won't be attempting to do anything to me with that big, delicious, Spanish dick of his." This was immediately followed by a pillow to her face and a punishing pussy-fucking as she giggled all through the spontaneous ravaging. She loved to tease him about her work even though they both trusted each other completely.
Javi extended a hand to Sam and greeted him as if he was an old friend. There was an immediate warmth to him that put Sam at ease. He felt like he probably could've gotten a beer with the guy if they weren't about to be engaged in a naked photo shoot together with all sorts of suggestive overtones. His grip on his hand was strong.
Angelica had the boys follow her over to the couch and bean bag setup. The loft included a modern kitchen which opened up to a dining room which opened up to a shared bedroom/living room area. There was a king-sized bed flanked by a flat screen and TV. On the other side of the coffee table from the couch there was a small footstool that doubled as a chair and also one of those large Lovesacs which was basically just a giant, super-comfy beanbag which could hold more than one person if needed. It was Pottery Barn chic with an inner city millenial's funkier vibe intersected.