"Damn!" said John, switching off his mobile and relaxing back in his swivel chair in front of his computer, "I might have known something like this would happen."
"What's up, dad?" asked Darren who happened to be passing by the open door of his father's study just as John cursed.
"Oh hi, son, come in," John replied, smiling and noticing not for the first time what a handsome young man his son had grown into. At 19 years old, Darren was no longer the gangly youth that his father remembered from years past. In his place stood a good-looking guy who had blossomed into adulthood spectacularly and would soon have all the girls swooning round him.
"What's up, dad?" Darren repeated, coming into the room and sitting himself next to his father alongside a pile of neatly folded football gear that was lying on the table next to them.
"You know that footballer who was supposed to come and model this kit," said John, indicating the all-blue kit of shirt and shorts with a nod of his head.
"Don't tell me," said Darren, cutting in before John could continue, "he ain't gonna turn up."
"No," replied John, scarcely able to conceal his disappointment, "his agent rang, apparantly they mixed up the dates and the player's on a mission to see all the sick kids in the hospital, one of those PR jobs they get involved in. Oh well," John went on, "just one of the trials and tribulations of being a freelance photographer, I suppose."
"I could always model the gear for you, dad," said Darren.
"That's very nice of you, son," said John, "but the shoot with the soccer player was meant to be for a sports mag, modelling the team's new kit, and I shan't get paid for photographing you."
"Ne'en mind about that, dad," Darren went on, unperturbed, "if I model now, it'll give you some ideas for camera angles for when the real player turns up."
"Well," said John in the kind of voice that meant he was prepared to accede to the suggestion, "if you want to."
"Of course I do, dad," said Darren standing up and lifting his T-shirt off over his head.
In spite of himself, John found to his surprise that the sight of his son standing there topless and fully prepared to change completely in front of him was starting to have an effect on him - and a very pleasant effect at that, despite the sudden shame he was feeling at harbouring such feelings. "Don't you want to go and change in your room, son?" he asked, his voice when it came sounding more like a whisper.
"Shucks, no, dad," Darren replied, unzipping his belt and fly and starting to lower his jeans, "we're both men of the world, ain't we? And I'm sure you've seen plenty of naked men before."
John went to say something but found his voice stuck in his throat. In the next instant, Darren had removed his jeans and socks and then, in one fail swoop, his underpants as well until he was completely naked in front of his father. John knew it was wrong to stare but his eyes were drawn inexorably to his son's prick which was semi-erect, his knob peeping through his foreskin and the beauty of Darren's equipment complemented by a pair of tight low-hanging sweaty-looking balls.
Darren grabbed hold of the football kit, pulled the shirt on over his head and then reached for the shorts. They were dark blue, matching the shirt and John watched fascinated as Darren turned his back, treating his father to a momentary glimpse of his tight bare arse. Then he lifted one leg as he climbed into the shorts, pulling them up round his middle, his arse, prick and balls disappearing inside them though they left nothing to the imagination, John's mouth watering as he realised how attractive his son's bottom looked in the shorts, just as it had done when it was bare.
"Got your camera, dad?" asked Darren turning back to face John. From admiring his son's bum, John now had a bird's eye view of Darren's package accentuated by the shorts.
"Er, yeah," said John, shaking himself out of his reverie and trying to tune his mind to the business in hand. He reached in the drawer and took out the camera, wrapping the strap around his hand.
"Where do you want me, dad?" said Darren.
That would be telling, thought John to himself. Instead, he merely replied, "let's have one or two of you full on, son."
Darren stood back with his arms down by his side and then John clicked once, twice and three times while his son modelled the football kit for him. He could feel his face burning, thinking how good the pics would look once he had them in the computer and had put them on a disc to lock away before deleting them from the comp. Susan, his wife and Darren's mother, sometimes used the comp and he didn't want her finding out that he had been taking photos of their son in football gear.
"Want some of this number 11 shirt, dad?" said Darren, turning again so that John had yet another unobstructed view of his son's arse prominently displayed inside the shorts.
"OK, son," said John and began snapping, taking photos of Darren's back with the number 11 printed large below the name of the professional footballer who should have been modelling the gear. John took snap after snap and, hoping Darren was not aware, zooming in for close-ups of his bum. There was no doubt about it, thought John to himself, his lad would make an excellent professional model.
"Got lots of ideas now for when the real player turns up?" asked Darren, sitting down now that, as far as he was concerned, the photo session was concluded.
"Sure have," said John, who could feel himself breaking out into a sweat.
"Why don't we put the pics in the comp and see how they've turned out?" suggested Darren.