Part 18
Joy and the women in charge -- Danielle and Shawna -- didn't want to waste any time, so they started to immediately set up the next shot.
When Tim saw Kaitlyn get her cup of coffee from the kitchen, he said, "That's not hot, right?"
"Of course not, Mr. Johnson," Kaitlyn said to him, with a twinkle in her eye. "But I'm sure that you'll be able to sell the idea that it's hot, with your acting skills."
"He is a surprisingly good actor," Sandy said. "In fact, all of you are."
Mia said, "He especially good at pretending to be embarrassed. Brad Pitt couldn't do it any better!"
"Yeah," Tim said, under his breath. "Pretending."
Shawna playfully punched Tim lightly in the shoulder. "Brad Pitt wouldn't look much better than our guy here, either."
Tim looked around him at the happy, chattering women. Some of them were moving purposefully, getting the camera into place, blocking out where the next scene would start, or running lines. The rest were just chatting and grinning, and looking at him too often, and for too long.
Tim was aware of the surreal strangeness of standing in his office, surrounded by women, with the seat of his pants gone, and his underwear on display. Not to mention that he would shortly be shirtless, too.
Shirtless! Tim looked around and said, "I need to go to the bathroom before we shoot this next scene," and he made his way to the men's. Once inside he looked at the closed door, and then dropped to the floor and did 40 quick push-ups.
He felt silly and self-conscious for doing this, and mortified that he would soon be showing even more skin. But as long as he was stuck in this humiliating dilemma, he wanted to look as good as he could. And a vigorous set of push-ups would get the blood flowing, and the pecs a little more pronounced.
By the time he finished the pushups, he was breathing more quickly. He got up and washed his hands, and headed back out to the office.
The ladies were waiting for him. Joy was just shooting a few seconds of Kaitlyn pouring a cup of coffee from the pot, when she tilted her head. Joy did a quick close-up, and Tim recognized the by now all-too-familiar expression: a slight flare of the nostrils, followed by a sly, lusty grin.
Tim walked over near his office door, and Joy and Kaitlyn followed. Anna took up her same position beside the door, the torn-out material from Tim's pants still in her hand.
Joy said, "We're picking up from right after Tim lost the seat of his pants in the door. Kaitlyn just picked up the irresistible scent of his Naked Attraction, and she's coming to check him out." The other women in the room smiled, but Tim did his best to ignore them.
"Tim," Joy continued, "you're embarrassed that you've just lost part of your pants, and you're going to turn to flee the room, just as Kaitlyn comes around the corner with her cup of coffee. And remember: the coffee is supposed to be really hot. Does everyone know their lines?"
Anna and Kaitlyn were all smiles. "Yes!" Tim was more subdued, just nodding. He reached around behind him with both hands, resting them on the seat of his exposed boxers.
Joy got behind the camera and said, "Action!"
Tim turned abruptly toward the kitchen, just as Kaitlyn walked into the shot, with the coffee cup in her right hand leading the way. She jumped in surprise just as Tim bumped into her, and her cup tilted forward, drenching him with the coffee from just below his neck down to his mid-chest.
Kaitlyn looked shocked, and then frightened, as Tim gasped, a pained look on his face. He yanked both hands off of his derriere and held them out horizontally, pulling the hot, wet shirt away from his chest.
"Oh no!" Kaitlyn said. "I'm so sorry!"
"He's going to be burned!" Anna said. "Quick, get this shirt off!"
The girls leaped into action. Anna stepped in first, from Tim's left, and started to unbutton his top button. Kaitlyn was moving a second later; she reached for the lower part of his shirt, just above his beltline, and tugged it upwards and out of his pants.
Tim looked alarmed and frozen, as his two attractive employees made quick work of the buttons on his shirt. In a matter of seconds, Anna was stepping around behind him, tugging the sides of his shirt open and toward his shoulders, while Kaitlyn was directly in front of him, tugging the bottom sides of his shirt toward his waist.
Joy said, "Cut," then moved the camera to get a few quick close-ups, first of Anna as she stepped around behind Tim, raising herself onto her tiptoes as she pulled his shirt open and looked down at his chest from over his shoulder. Then at Kaitlyn, first frowning in concentration as she worked Tim's buttons apart, then widening her eyes, first in shock, then in horny appreciation.
Then Joy set up right in front of Tim, to get a close-up shot of his shirt being opened to expose his chest. He was tanned and fit, and though he wasn't super-ripped like a hard-core gym rat, he had a nice six-pack, and a trim waist, with a flat lower stomach that drew murmurs of approval from his female audience when his shirt parted to reveal it.
The pushups had helped, as his pecs looked taut and well-defined. His light brown nipples had puckered from the cold, wet coffee soaking his shirt, and stood erect in the cool, office air. A soft wave of appreciative female "mmm"s could be heard around the room.
Joy said, "Nice!" and then moved her camera back a bit. "Okay, girls, stay in place. Tim, pull the shirt almost closed again."
When they'd done that, Joy set the camera up to record Tim in a half-body, upper-body shot, from just below his beltline. "Action."
Once again, Kaitlyn pulled the bottom of Tim's shirt open, and Anna pulled the top apart, then kept going until she had it opened to the tips of both shoulders. Then she tugged it over his shoulders and off, and then down his arms, which were muscular without being disproportionally large. Kaitlyn had released her grip on the shirt, so that Anna could pull it down and off of his arms, as she stepped around to stand beside Kaitlyn.
Joy kept rolling as Tim stood for several second, looking very uncomfortable as his shirt was removed. A few rivulets of dark coffee still ran down from his pecs to his abdominals, and after his shirt was pulled off and his hands were freed, he awkwardly crossed his arms high over his chest, a little like a woman, trying to hide her breasts.
Joy ended that shot, and then picked up a reaction shot of Kaitlyn and Anna, standing side by side as they looked over their boss, from his handsome, blushing face down across his chest and toward his beltline. Anna balled his shirt up in her hands in a way that suggested that Tim wouldn't be getting it back, as both women smiled lustfully at their boss in his predicament.
Then Kaitlyn stepped forward and reached out, and Joy caught her putting one hand flat against Tim's abs, and sliding it upward to catch a few rogue drips of coffee. Tim shivered slightly at her touch, in a reaction that everyone knew was not acting.
Anna held Tim's shirt in front of her and said, "I'll go soak this in the sink." She took a few steps backwards, not wanting to turn away from the sight of her half-naked, embarrassed boss. After another step back, she bumped against the wall, startled. It was a nice, comic touch, and once again, not really acting.
"And cut!" Joy said, and Danielle, Sandy and Shawna all gave a short, impromptu round of applause. "You all look like professional actors!" Sandy said. Anna and Kaitlyn grinned, and even Tim smiled weakly.
"Well, the next sequence is Julie's," Shawna said. "We might as well get that one now too, before we move back to the door to shoot the internet version of the last three scenes."
Hearing the phrase "internet version" brought Tim back to reality, and he could almost feel the hair on the back of his neck stand up, before he forced himself to think only about the sequence he was going to shoot first.
Part 19
Joy, Shawna, Danielle and Sandy had already discussed how they were going to tweak Julie's scene from the original video. (Tim wasn't sure why Sandy was involved in any of these discussions. For a number crunching analyst, she was suddenly very wrapped up in the various ways he was going to be losing his clothes on camera!)
The obvious part was that Tim -- not Julie -- would be the one going underneath the low, glass coffee table to retrieve something that Julie dropped. The women all gathered around -- now Pam, Becky and Tim's employees were all budding directors! -- and tried to work out the scene.
Julie herself finally came up with the plan that they went with. "So I'm sitting at my desk, watching my hunky boss tear off the back of his pants, and then get doused with coffee and de-shirtedβ"
"That's not a word," Tim groused softly.