by Philip Johnson
Thanks to Jerry for editing this story for me.
Chapter One
"Melody, do we have any plans for next weekend?"
"I wish we did for a change, but no, why?"
"Just wondered, I guess I'm just a little bored and restless."
"Me too."
The ringing phone startled Melody, and after answering it, she talked a couple of minutes and then announced, "I'm going next door and talk to Kay. Be back in a little bit honey."
"Take your time, I'm not going anywhere." For something to do more than anything else, he went to the garage and cleaned his motorcycle again.
When Melody came home, he asked her, "How's Kay doing?"
"Pretty good."
"What does she hear from Dana?"
"Not much. He's still someplace in the middle east and there's talk of an extension of his tour of duty."
"I hope talk is all it is."
"Yeah, me too, Luke, are the batteries charged in our camera?"
"As far as I know, they should be full why?"
"She wants me to take a few pictures of her to send to Dana."
"Yeah, it should be all set. You doing that tomorrow night?"
"No, she wants to get her hair done first, so she's going to call me Saturday after lunch."
"It's been so long since we've had it out, do you remember how to use it?"
"Sure."
When Saturday arrived, the two of them still had no plans other than Melody taking Kay's picture after lunch some time. They ran errands in the morning and after having lunch in town, they went home. Kay called about one o'clock, so Melody grabbed the camera and went next door and Luke started doing a little touch up painting. About twenty minutes, later Melody called him and said, "Honey, I can't make the camera work."
"Give me a minute to wash the paint off my hands, and I'll be over." Luke had a feeling she would have trouble because it had been many months since they'd had it out. He went over and as he said hi to Kay, Melody handed him the camera. He smiled and said, "You have it set on playback. Set this control on the green icon and you'll be fine."
"Oh that's right, sorry honey."
"No problem. Call me if you have any trouble. You're looking to good for words Kay, Dana will love the pictures."
"Thanks Luke, and thanks for coming over."
"No problem, good luck you two."
It wasn't more than half an hour later when Melody called him again and said, "Honey, now it says I'm out of memory, and I've only taken five pictures."
"Okay, I think I know what happened. Give me a few minutes and I'll be over." He gave up on his painting washed up and changed out of his paint clothes. Then picking up his little camera bag, he once again headed next door and went in without knocking. "The camera repairman is here."
Melody looked frustrated and said, "Now, what did I do wrong?"
"Nothing serious." She handed him the camera and he popped the memory stick out. "You're using the little memory stick that came with the camera. If you have it set for highest detail, it will be full in about six shots."
"Well, damn."
"This is an old camera honey, so don't feel bad about it. Now if you're going to email these, use the low email setting, but, if you want to print any of them, you'll want a high setting, like three point two or higher." Kay said, "But I want to do both."
"Then with this camera, I'd suggest you do some at one setting, and some at the other, or switch back and forth."
Melody took the camera and said, "Honey, would you stay here until we're sure nothing else will go wrong?"
"Sure, I'll just sit back and watch."
After another few pictures Luke smiled and said, "You know what Dana would really like to see is something a little more...personal."
Melody gave him something approaching a sneer and said, "She's not going to undress, especially while you're here."
"No, I don't mean that but just...well, when I was in the service, it was common for guys to have pictures of their wives or girlfriends, and they were at least in short tight shorts, or a dress, or something ,that was split up the side showing a lot of leg. Or a bikini, or revealing blouse, you know, plunging neckline, or something. Tease him, and I promise he'll love it. You two seem to be doing fine, so I'll leave and you can do whatever you want."
Melody said, "Take some of the two of us before you go. I want to blow him a kiss." "Okay, is this to email?"
Kay said, "That would be fine." Luke took the camera, and after a brief discussion, the two of them struck a silly pose, and Melody puckered her lips and extended her hand like she was blowing him her kiss. Kay was laughing as the two women had fun with their project.
Before he took another shot, Kay whispered to Melody and then said, "Okay Luke, wait just a second and see what you think of this pose for Dana." With Melody standing mostly behind Kay, Melody put her arms around and in front of Kay and said, "Honey, take this one" and she pulled Kay's top up to her chin, leaving her standing there in a tiny lacy bra. One of Kay's best features were her breasts, and though Luke had seen her in a bikini more than once, the surprise froze him in place for a second. Recovering none too quickly, he took a few shots before Kay put herself back together.
Luke smiled at them and said, "Now, that's what I'm talking about. Just wait until you read his email after he sees that one."
Kay smiled and said, "You're right Luke, he'll love it. Oh, wait just a second, Luke." Kay whispered to Melody again and the two of them nodded and smiled. Melody said, "Definitely Kay, that's only fair. Let's give Dana some incentive to come home."
Melody looked toward Luke and said, "Okay honey, you ready?"
"I hope so. I'm still trying to settle down from the last one." In seconds, both women had peeled their tops off and stood there proudly in front of the camera. Luke was a little quicker to react that time, but took his sweet time taking their picture several times. Before it became obvious that he was stalling, he said, "Okay, I think that will do it." They were in no special hurry to dress, but once they had, Kay said, "I'll send him those two last in a separate email. I think he'll go crazy."
Luke laughed and said, "I don't think he will, I know he will. When will he get it?" "Probably this evening if he can get to a computer."
Chapter Two
When they went home, Melody said, "I wish I could see Dana's face when he gets those."
"You two surprised me, that's for sure."
"You and Dana both have seen more of us than that a lot of times."
"I know, but it isn't the same. I mean if I saw Kay in skimpy bikini panties, it'd probably embarrass me, but she probably wouldn't be showing as much as her bikini bathing suit."
"That's true."
"Do you think she'll share with us what Dana says?"
"I think so, I mean why not?"
"She sure took to heart what I said about showing a little flesh."
"When you said that, it seemed pretty obvious to us. He'd be glad to get a picture of her, but a sexy picture will be so much better."
"Plus, I got to help."
"You liked that didn't you?"