Annie just can't find the right angle.
Phone in hand, she snaps picture after swiftly-deleted picture. Keeps her face out of the frame, granting only a bit of neck and auburn hair to prove that it's her. Tries sitting up onto the sink a bit, showing off her ass. Doesn't feel right. Shuffles into profile. Fuck no.
Tries another one, pressing her chest out, pinching her shirt in the back, showing off her breasts through the pale fabric. Maybe this could be the play. She snaps a dozen variations of the favoured position and shuts the phone off, lays it face down on the counter.
Stares herself down in the bathroom mirror, breathing as evenly as she can. Uses the prompts she learned online to reaffirm security, mentally reinforcing the parts of herself she knows she doubts. The shorter hair (chin-length) is convenient, not over the top -- helps frame her round face, too. She's a bit heavy around the hips, but that's just how she's built, nothing to be ashamed of. And freckles are cute, not a curse.
Annie chuckles to herself, looking down into the sink. She's so far out of her comfort zone with this sort of thing, it's laughable.
But the urge to stoke the fire with Marcel pushes her beyond all of that. So far beyond. She'd showered and changed the second she got home -- the car-seat vibrations hadn't been helpful in keeping her panties clean.
Phone off as much as possible. Forbidding herself from looking at Marcel's gorgeous picture again -- the one he'd so brazenly sent her way in the middle of class. Partly because she knows she'll go and find something to rub or hump or fuck the second she lays eyes on it again.
But mainly because she's saving that same energy for what she's about to do.
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Annie hates how her heart rate picks up as she opens her texts with him. Forces her eyes to the chat box, away from his tapered core.
Checks the clock. Not too early, not too late. The perfect time to strike.
Annie opens simply:
Hey x
He's there in a second, typing back:
Hey urself x
Annie rolls onto her side, thighs pushing together with the motion. Taps away, threading her opening line together methodically.
I was thinking about what u sent me today
Marcel plays dumb.
The drawing reference? x
Annie snickers incredulously as she responds.
Soo unfair of u
Unfair how?
Annie dares:
Beside the fact it made me leave a stain on my car seat?
Marcel takes a few seconds longer to craft a reply. Annie adores the hesitation she's caused, but he gives nothing away:
Yeah besides that x
The tingle in her abdomen intensifies. She completes her play.
I feel like I haven't returned the favour is all xx
Brief pause.
I'm just happy looking pretty for u Miss, I'd do it for free x
Marcel's messages have Annie bunching up a fist between her thighs, breath growing ragged. And yet she can't help feel like he's deflecting something. She's about to double-check, but he has more to send.
His telling addition, trailing off:
I mean, like
Annie plays ball:
Hmm?
If u wanna send me some drawing references of ur own i'd be down <3
Annie hisses with satisfaction at the acception.
Yeah? purely for helping with ur learning ofc x
Yeah let's say that xx
That's when she sends through the first picture -- quickly, so she doesn't overthink it.
Mirror selfie in her loose pyjama clothes, flowery leggings, sheer top. Pulling the pink fabric tighter around her chest, nipples poking out. Hair still wet from the shower.
Marcel hearts the picture instantly.
Omg Miss they're so pretty xx
Annie steadies herself, the praise having an instant effect.
Glad u like them x
Hmm guess it's my turn <3
They enter a back and forth that has a telling dampness forming between Annie's thighs, soaking through the fabric of her panties. More pictures of Marcel -- plummeting views from his neck down to his thighs. Thumb hitched in his navy boxers. Lines of his abdomen carving their way down. Sharp clavicles crowning a biteable chest.
Marcel laps up all that Annie sends him. Calls her pretty, gorgeous. Fuckable. Annie's clenched knuckles are starting to rub away at her sweet spot, purely unconscious. But the surge of lust begins to wane as she makes a jarring realisation. She pulls her hand away with a little gasp.
She's got no more pictures to send. She's used them all up.
She rushes to the bathroom, tries to take some more. But everything looks wrong. And she wants to get naked but she can't, just can't. And Marcel's bulging through his underwear in his latest pic, daring to pull it out, and she's just been sending the same photo over and over, all slightly reimagined but practically identical.
Annie sends nothing for a while.
Marcel checks in:
Am I doing too much? x
It takes a beat for Annie to allow herself to communicate.
I feel like I'm not doing enough
How do u mean? xx
Idk.
Annie knows she's walling up and hates it. She adds:
sorry just hard to put into words
If you don't want to go further we don't have to xx
Annie hisses at herself, "You wanted this. Fuck's sake." The phone feels slippery in her hands, falling away. Too blocky, bright, unwieldy. He's just too far away. She thought the distance could've worked as a crutch. But it's doing the opposite.
She types and sends the text without thinking:
Marcel can we call please
He's there in an instant, buzzing in her hand.
Annie picks up. His disarming voice, sweet with concern, suddenly in her room. "Hey. You alright?"
Annie's voice is quivering, so she steadies it. "I'm sorry for messing this up, Marcel."
"Oh,
hush
. You're not messing anything up. I was worried I was showing too much before you were ready."
"Yes and no," Annie hums. Chuckles softly. "I'd never be complaining about seeing you like that."
"Mm. You're too sweet." Marcel's smile is audible. "But if you're not comfortable sending back, that's fine."
"But I should be, because, like, I want to keep
going
," Annie mutters, frustration tensing her fingers.
Marcel pauses. There's a shuffling sound on his end, cloth rustling. Then he speaks, softly, confidently. "Remember what I said earlier, Miss?"
Annie hugs an arm across her chest, drawing circles on her chest. "You'll have to remind me."
Marcel turns his camera on.
He's shirtless on his bed, sat on his knees with a hand on his thigh, the other adjusting the phone against the pillows, propping it up. No face in the frame, just enough jawline and smirk to snap Annie out of her funk. "I'm just happy looking pretty for you."
Annie says nothing. He looks beyond pretty in this moment. A carved angel, come to life just for her. Something straining against his boxers.
"I need you to promise me something, Miss," he purrs.