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Carol was pleased that Karen had agreed to meet her at the new house to "help her with some decorating," because she had a huge favor to ask her friend. They had closed on the new house, but wanted to take some time getting everything just right before they actually started moving in. This gave Carol the perfect opportunity to recruit Karen to help her with something that she didn't exactly want her husband, or the rest of her family, knowing about. It had been a few weeks that she'd been corresponding with an old friend from high school who she hadn't seen in almost twenty years and she kept promising to send him a current photo, but she hadn't been happy about any of the photos she had at her disposal. If she'd asked her husband, or even one of her kids, to help her take a photo that she intended to share with a guy who they'd never met, it was bound to result in a lot of questions. She knew that Karen would understand her desire to send a photo that was just right, even if there was no ulterior motive involved, and that she could be trusted to keep it just between the two of them.
She couldn't have walked out of the house they were still living in with her makeup all done up and wearing something not appropriate for working around the new house without arousing suspicion, so she would have to count on Karen to help her make the most of what she had on. When Karen showed up and said she was ready to work, Carol explained what she actually needed Karen's help with. Karen raised her eyebrows, of course, but accepted Carol's declaration that there wasn't anything inappropriate going on with this old friend; that she just wanted to be able to share a decent photo with him. Karen helped her look her best given what she had to work with and what she was wearing, then figured out the best location in the house with the best lighting, which turned out to be the master bedroom. There was some furniture there, since this master bedroom was bigger than their current one and they had decided to buy new furniture for it while their current furniture would go into the guest room.
They tried a couple of different spots until they both agreed on the one that produced the best results and Karen started taking photos while having Carol turn different ways and strike different expressions. Karen paused at one point and asked if Carol wanted to unbutton her blouse just a little to see if it would look good without coming across as too sexy. Carol agreed, thinking that if they were too sexy but she liked the way they turned out, she might hang onto them for some other occasion. She unbuttoned her blouse a little bit, Karen took some photos, then she unbuttoned it a little bit more and Karen took some more photos. When they reviewed them, they agreed that they weren't too sexy but Carol kind of liked the idea of taking something that maybe was a little bit sexier. In a non-judgmental way, Karen asked what she thought she might do with some sexier photos, whether maybe there was some desire to share them with this guy from high school.
Carol had to admit that the idea of a guy she'd known and, okay, maybe had found attractive back then seeing some risquΓ© photos of her had a bit of naughty allure to it, but she really didn't expect that he'd even be interested in seeing the 38-year-old version of her body when he probably recalled the younger, thinner version.