The timer pinged, breaking the tension. Brad handed Allison the pipe and attended to the film. I looked at her, gently urging her with my eyes to hold off smoking any more. She just smiled grimly, loaded the pipe and inhaled as deeply as she could. Fuck. I was fucked. She was fucking me and my dick wasn't even out. It was getting hard, though. Probably not as hard as Brad's. Shit. I took the pipe and took a toke.
Brad clipped the filmstrip to a wire crossing the room and reached over to a wall switch.
"Let's see what we've got." He looked over at Allison as the lights came on, ignoring the negatives to stare at her. With the lights full on, the room seemed much smaller. I tightened my grip slightly on her shoulder, as Brad's wolfish expression sent a shudder through me. Fuck. I'm fucked. Allison is going to be all over this guy in 30 seconds flat.
He turned back, grabbed a loupe and held one end of the drying film. "Nice shots, Allison. Hmmm...interesting. I didn't know someone could bend quite like that." He looked up at the two of us and grinned, the dope and testosterone making him bolder. "Here," he said, offering her the glass and the end of the film. "Take a look and tell me which ones you want developed."
He held the film away from us so that she had to move out of my arm. Brad's body was blocking me slightly, making me feel isolated from the two of them. In spite of the skunky smoke, I could smell her arousal as she took the two steps away from me. Shit! I was so fucked.
"Do you mind?" He looked at me, asking permission to hold her.
"Why don't we wait a bit, 'k?" I didn't want to push my luck, in spite of being about the same height, he was heavier than me, and I noticed in a bit better shape. The pot was making me paranoid, but I couldn't let it show - it could get really ugly.
He shrugged and kept the merest hint of air between them.
Allison gasped, looking over the negatives.
"Just tell me which ones you want - read off the numbers in the lower corner."
She slid along the film, giggling a little. That wasn't a good sign. The pot was definitely hitting her.
"I like them all," she said quietly. "Maybe it would be easier to tell you what I don't like." She looked up at him, ignoring me. I watched her licking her lips. Also not a good sign. At least for me. Her meaning wasn't lost on any of us. Shit, shit, shit! Why did this turn me on so much?
She read off three shots she thought weren't worth it and stepped back.
"Hold on," he stopped her. "It'll take about 3 minutes per picture - that's almost an hour and a half. You want to pick just a few to get started?"
She turned back and read off numbers, picking a few from the start, the middle and the end of the strip.
"This is really good shit," she said, inhaling another lungful. "I'm getting smashed."
That was not a good thing. I could almost count down the seconds before she moved into her stoned persona. Brad had turned back his equipment, sliding the strip into what looked like a projector, pointing down to the counter. He flipped the lights back off, bathing us again in a deep red gloom.
"Ray?"
I looked over at her, her eyes hard to read in the light. Here it comes.
"You want to do me a favor?"
I held my breath. A favor. Her words for 'challenge.'
"It depends, honey. What do you have in mind?" I took the pipe and slowly dragged in a hit. I needed her to slow down a little.
She looked over at her pile of clothes and back at me. "I'm not sure what you and Brad worked out for payment, but I think he's hoping for a little more."
I shook my head, letting her know I wasn't amused. It wasn't going to matter what I said. She was on her own glide slope at this point.
Brad was concentrating on the film, slipping paper into a bath, watching the timer and glancing over at her every chance he could. "You got that right, Allison."
I could feel the sweat starting to roll down my neck. 'No,' I mouthed at her.
Don't go there.
She knew what I was thinking.
"But
honey
," the word dripped off her lips, a little slurred but not so much I couldn't hear the threat in her tone. "Don't you want to do me a favor?"
This was definitely
not
where I expected the afternoon to go. Even in the red gloom I could see how aroused she was, her eyes glistening, her skin flushed. She glanced at her clothes again and raised her eyebrows.
Fuck it. If I said no, it was only going to get harder. This wouldn't be so bad, I started to rationalize. Brad could be trusted to keep a secret. I shrugged.
"You're a sweetheart, sweetheart." She smiled dreamily at me, waiting.
I slipped my t-shirt off, undid my belt and pulled my jeans and boxers off before I could think about it. I turned towards her clothes as Brad turned around to see what was happening.
"Now what?" He looked at my naked ass and at Allison. "You guys are 10 kinds of kinked."
"An arrangement, Brad. It's part of the arrangement." I tried to sound nonchalant.