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ST: The Agency 03 (M/t,exhib,no sex)
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by explicit descriptions of gay sex. The story is pure fiction and
is not based on any actual events.
The Agency: Chapter 3 - Jon's First Photoshoot
by
Gymnopedies
After the excitement of the weekend, Bryan's life quickly settled
back into the usual routine. Though there had been one or two
notable exceptions to this. One of these had been the row he had had
with his mother about the £100 he had earned from his first photo-
shoot. She had insisted, quite vehemently, that everything that
Bryan earned from modelling should be invested for his future. Bryan
had taken the view that it was his money and that he should be able
to do with it whatever he wanted. After considerable arguing, both
of them gave a little ground, with his mother saying he could keep
10% of anything he earned and invest the rest, and Bryan holding out
for 50%. After that, they both dug their heels in and it looked as
though they were set for a serious fight. Eventually, Bryan's father
had come up with a compromise. He suggested that Bryan be allowed to
keep all of this first £100, plus a quarter of everything else he
earned, the remainder being invested for him, with the added
condition that this arrangement could be changed if there came a
time when Bryan started making big money. Anne Wallace had shot her
husband a disgusted look, but had finally agreed, leaving Bryan
feeling as though he had done quite well out of the deal. The only
other problems had come from Robert, who continued to take every
available opportunity to tease Bryan about his modelling.
Then, on Wednesday, Bryan arrived home from school to find a large,
brown envelope on the table waiting for him.
"Damian called by earlier and dropped it off for you," the boy's
mother said, glancing back over her shoulder as she prepared the
evening meal. "He didn't say what was in it, though he did ask about
you going over to the studio on Saturday afternoon to sit in during
Jon's shoot. I told him that would be fine."
"Yeah, no problem," Bryan agreed, only half listening as he tore
open the envelope. He pulled out a small pile of large photographs
and a note. The note read "These are a selection of prints from the
pictures we chose to include in your first set. Check out the
website tonight to see the full selection. Hope to see you on
Saturday. Damian." The boy flicked through the pictures, hardly able
to believe that he was the subject; these were really good.
"What you got there, Bryan?"
The thirteen-year-old glanced up to see that his dad had just
arrived home from work. "Damian dropped off some prints from my
first shoot," said the boy.
"Oh? Let's see." The man put his case and jacket down on a chair and
came to stand behind Bryan, reaching down over the boy's shoulder to
take some the pictures. "These are really great," he said, looking
through them. "Have you seen them, Anne?"
"Not yet," the boy's mother replied. "He's only just opened them.
I'll look in a minute; I don't want this to burn." She returned to
stirring the contents of a saucepan.
"Damian really has done a terrific job," Bryan's dad said. "We're
going to have to put some of these in frames."
"Dad! I don't want them displayed all over the place," Bryan
objected.
"Why not?" the man asked. "I want everyone to see my good-looking
son."
"Dad!" Bryan could feel colour rising to his face.
"And I wonder where he got his good looks from," the boy's mother
said, over her shoulder.
"Well, partly from you, dear," the man replied, moving up behind his
wife. "But I would like to think that I played at least a small part
in it." He put his arms around the woman and kissed the back her
neck and she squirmed and giggled girlishly.
Bryan pulled a disgusted face. "I'm going up my room," he said.
"Call me when dinner is ready."
After they had eaten, Bryan's dad turned on the family's computer
and logged into the Boys On View website. Bryan found it a little
embarrassing, sitting next to his father while they cycled through
the pictures, particularly the ones where he had his shirt open or
completely off, and strangely, these were the ones the man would
pause on for the longest.
"You really do look great in these, Bryan," the man said.
"He looks like a dork," said Robert, who had come quietly up behind
them. "Though I expect he'll have all the old pervs drooling over
him and fantasising about getting their dirty little hands on him."
He pulled a face and wiggled his fingers suggestively.
Their father gave the older boy a cold look. "Why can't you ever say
anything nice?"
"Why should I get excited just because little Bryan's had his
picture taken with his shirt off?"
"I'm not suggesting you get excited," the man replied. "But you
could try giving him some encouragement instead of trying to put him
down all the time."
"You mean like the way you are with me?"
Their father gave a sigh. "I don't try to put you down. I'd love to
have a reason to be proud of you, but you seem to go out of your way
to avoid giving me one."
"Yeah, sure. So I need to go pose for the pervs before you can be
proud of me?"
"For goodness sake, stop it Robert. Just stop being nasty to
everyone all the time and start acting like a decent human being;
that's all it would take."
"Oh, forget it." Robert stormed away.
Bryan had tried to ignore the exchange. Confrontations between his
dad and his brother were fairly common and always ended with Robert
storming out. This one had been fairly mild.
"Take no notice of him, Bryan," the man said. "He's seventeen and
thinks he has the problems of whole world on his shoulders. I'll bet
anything that he's secretly proud of you, even though he would never
admit it; and I am definitely so proud of you." He put his arm
around the boy's shoulders and, giving him a hug, he kissed him
lightly on the cheek.
Bryan blushed and felt a warm glow of happiness. At thirteen, he
felt he was getting a little old for hugs and kisses from his
parents, but he was unable to deny that he still liked to receive
them.
Bryan got his mother to drop him at the entrance to the office
building. She'd suggested parking the car and accompanying him up to
the Boys On View suite, but he insisted that he could manage on his
own. She'd muttered something about him getting too independent for
his own good, but had relented, telling him to give her a call on
his mobile and let her know what time he wanted to be picked up.
As the boy stepped out of the lift and entered the agency's front
office, he reflected that it hardly seemed like a full week since he
was last here.
Carol looked up at him from her usual position at the reception
desk. "Hi Bryan," the young woman greeted him, giving a warm smile.
"How's our new star today?"
It took Bryan a moment to work out what she was talking about, and
then he gave a shy grin. "Oh, you mean the pictures on the website.
You've seen them?"
"Yes, I've seen them," she said. "And you look amazing. Come over
here a minute. Before you go up to the studio, there's something I
want you to do for me." She pulled a brown folder out of a drawer
and opened it on the desk. As Bryan stepped closer he saw that the
folder contained a large print of one of the pictures from his
online photoset. It was a picture of him from the school uniform set
and he was standing with his thumbs hooked into his belt, holding
his shirt open, his loose tie hanging down over his bare chest. "I'd
like you to sign this for me," said Carol. "I try to get signed
prints from all the boys, and after seeing your pictures I
definitely want one of you. You are seriously cute."
Bryan felt his face heating up. He lowered his head to try to hide
the fact that he was blushing. "What do you want me to put?" he
asked, accepting the pen that Carol held out towards him.
"Just 'Love from Bryan' will do nicely," the woman smiled. "Put it
down here in this bottom corner. You're going to have to get used to
signing these; I understand there have already been a lot of
requests."
Bryan wrote the brief message across the corner of the print, adding
a couple of small crosses underneath.
"Thanks, Bryan, you're a sweetheart." Carol took the boy's face
between her hands and kissed him on the cheek.
The thirteen-year-old was in a daze as he made his way up the stairs
and entered Damian's studio. He closed the door behind him and just
stood there, a wide grin on his face.
Damian, who had been working at his computer, looked up at the boy,
a little puzzled, and then he too grinned. "Let me guess; Carol
caught you on the way in?"
"Yeah."
"She's hopeless," Damian laughed. "A flash of bare chest and she's
anybody's."
"She wanted me to sign a picture."
"And what did she give you in return?" Damian gave the boy a knowing
look.
"She gave me a kiss."
"I bet she did." The photographer gave a shake of his head. "Get
yourself over here. You've got some more pictures to sign, and these
will earn you a bit more than a kiss."
Under Damian's supervision, Bryan added his name onto the corner of
each of a small pile of photographs. He noted that at least half of
them were copies of the same print that he had signed for Carol, and
most of the rest were various poses of him in the beach shorts. He
had almost finished the task when Jon arrived.
The dark haired boy had a scowl on his face. He did manage a sort of
smile for Damian and Bryan, but it was extremely forced and, after
some prompting from Damian, he admitted that he'd had a big row with
his sister, Rachel, in the car on the way over, though he refused to
say what about.
"You're not much good to me with that miserable expression on your
face," Damian pointed out. "I hope you're going to cheer up a bit
before we start."
"Sorry," Jon apologised. "I'll be alright in a minute. I saw you on
the website, Bryan. You look good."
"Thanks," said Bryan. "The pictures turned out far better than I
thought they would."
"You mean you expected them to be bad?" asked Damian. "I'm
insulted."
"That's not what I meant," said Bryan, quickly.
"I know, I was teasing," said Damian. "Oh, before I forget, are you
both available tomorrow afternoon?"
Bryan nodded. "I think so."
"Yeah," Jon agreed. "We never do anything on Sundays. Dad usually
falls asleep in front of the TV after he's had his lunch."
"Great, because the weather forecast is good, so I thought we'd do
an outdoor shoot with the two of you together. Nothing fancy; just
generally playing around, climbing trees, with maybe a bit of
wrestling on the grass. The punters love that sort of thing. I'll
pick you up sometime after two o'clock."
"Wrestling?" Jon looked dubious.
"Yes, don't look so worried. I'm not intending to stick the pair of
you in a ring and have you go ten rounds; I want you to have fun. If
you're having a good time, it will come through in the pictures."
"I suppose," Jon agreed, still not looking convinced.
"Trust me," said Damian, smiling broadly. He went over and pulled
the polythene dust-sheeting from Jon's rail and began thoughtfully
flicking through the hangers. "We'd better sort out what we're going
to do today," he said. "I think we'll go for three sets; a smart
casual one, a novelty one, and finish off with the Lycra shorts."
Bryan gave a start as he heard this last part. He remembered the
sets he had seen on the website with boys in skin tight shorts that
showed every detail and contour. He was still adamant that there was
no way he would allow himself to be photographed in anything that
revealing. He glanced at Jon, but the slim, dark-haired boy did not
appear at all phased and stood waiting as Damian took clothes from
the rail.
"These will do the job," said the photographer. He handed Jon a
textured, cream-coloured shirt and grey trousers. Get changed into
those, while I sort the camera out. Bryan, you can be the official
clothes folder; it's your job to keep the clothes straight as Jon
takes them off." He gave the boy a grin.
"Thanks," said Bryan, sarcastically. "I knew there had to be a
reason you wanted me here today."
"Of course," Damian responded. "You don't think I got you to come in
just because you're cute and I like to look at you, do you?"
Bryan stuck out his tongue at the man, giggled, and went over to Jon
who had already started getting undressed.
Jon stripped all the way down to his underwear, a pair of fairly
brief, black shorts. He gave Bryan a shy smile as he handed over his
trousers and reached for the shirt he was to put on. Bryan noted
that the Jon's body was leaner than his own and his skin was pale as
if it had not been exposed to the sun. Jon was also a couple of
inches taller, which probably contributed to his slimmer appearance.
As Bryan turned his attention to Jon's trousers, folding them
carefully, the studio door suddenly crashed open and a rather
chubby, middle-aged man stormed in.
"What the hell do you think you're playing at?" the man shouted,
glaring at Damian and completely ignoring the two boys.
Damian looked at the man, obviously surprised at this intrusion. "Is
there a problem, Eric?" he asked, calmly.
"Don't play the fucking innocent with me," the man snarled. "You
know damn well that there's a problem."
"Eric, I'm doing a shoot at the moment, and I'd prefer that you
moderated both your tone and your language in front of these boys. I
don't have a clue what you're talking about. I suggest you go away,
calm down, and maybe sober up a bit as well, and if you still think
there's a problem then we can discuss it when I'm done here."
"Don't you start giving me your fucking orders," the man roared.
"You're a nobody; you've only been here five minutes. You might be
Sean's little golden boy, but that doesn't impress me. And don't try
and act all innocent; I'm talking about Danny Barlow."
"Danny?" Damian looked genuinely confused. "I spoke to him briefly
this morning, but we only talked about Bryan's sets on the website."
"You mean you talked to him about transferring over to you. He's
already been in to see Sean about it."
Damian blinked with surprise and then his expression hardened. "I
have never spoken to Danny or to any other boy about anything like
that. You know as well as I do that Sean won't transfer a boy
without a very good reason. What did Sean say to Danny?"
"Sean told him he couldn't transfer."
"Well there you go then."
"That's not the point. Where did Danny get the idea to go to Sean if
not from you?"
"Maybe you'd be better asking yourself that question," said Damian,
coldly. "If you started taking better care of your boys instead
spending most of your time drunk, then maybe they wouldn't want to
leave you."
"I do alright by my boys," Eric blustered. "Danny's been the top
earner for the past six months running."
"There's more to this business than money, Eric. You're pushing
Danny and the others in order to feed your habit. Take a long hard
look at yourself. You're heading for the gutter. Don't take those
boys with you; they deserve better."
"I was in this business while you were in still in short trousers,"
Eric sneered. "Don't try to tell me how to do my job."
"I was still in short trousers when I started in the business
myself," said Damian, with a tight smile. "And I've seen men like
you come and go. Maybe it's time I did go and speak to Sean about
you, before someone ends up getting badly hurt."
"You go ahead," Eric sneered. "See how far you get. I bring more
money into this company than all the rest of you put together. You
think Sean's going to get rid of me, however much he might think
about you? You might have kept him warm in bed, pretty-boy, but it's
me who fills his bank account."
"I think you'd better get out." Damian's lips were pressed together
in a tight, angry line.
"I'm going," said Eric, with a short laugh. "I'll leave you to play
at being a photographer. Keep practising and maybe one day you'll be
ready to work with the professionals." He turned and walked out of
the door, moving a little unsteadily.
Damian stood motionless for a moment, his face a blank mask, and
then he crossed to the door and closed it. When he turned back to
face the two frightened boys he was his usual calm, confident self.
"Don't worry about that, guys," he said, smiling as though nothing
had happened. "Eric is one the more colourful characters around
here. He gets a bit over excited sometimes."
Bryan swallowed hard. He hadn't understood much about what had been
said, but two things stuck out in his mind. One was the memory of
his brief conversation with Danny in the showers the previous week,
and the second was Eric's comment about Damian keeping Sean warm in
bed. After a moment's thought, he dismissed the comment about Damian
and Sean; the guys at school often accused each other of doing gay
stuff, especially when they were mad with each other, like Eric had
been with Damian. The other thing, though, couldn't be so easily
dismissed. "Damian, there's something I need to tell you," he said,
nervously. He quickly told the man what Danny had said to him about
him being lucky that Damian was his mentor, and that Danny was going
to go see Sean about getting himself transferred. The boy finished
with an apology that he hadn't told Damian about it earlier.
Damian listened and then gave a smile and a shrug. "Don't worry
about it, Bryan. It wouldn't have made any difference if you had
told me. There's not a lot I could have done about it. Anyway,
time's getting on. Let's forget about that little scene and
concentrate on what we need to do."
It didn't take long for Jon to finish dressing, but it took much
longer for Damian to finish tidying the boy up. The photographer
spent ages making sure Jon's clothes looked just right, arranging
his hair and, finally, adding a light dusting of powder to his face.
Jon endured the attention with seemingly endless patience, but by
the time they were ready for the pictures, Bryan was starting to get
bored.
"I hope you're paying attention," Damian said to Bryan. "Because
eventually I'd like the two of you to be able to help each other
with some of this preparation. That would save us a lot of time."
"Well, I was sort of watching," Bryan replied, guiltily, even though
in truth he had been wandering down the clothes rail looking at the
different outfits.
Damian gave a laugh. "I know it's boring, but you'll have to get
used to it. Ninety percent of photographic modelling is standing
around waiting. That's one of the reasons I'd like to get you more
involved with the preparation; it's something to keep you
interested. I think we're about ready now to get some pictures."
After all the preparation, the actual photography seemed to take no
time at all, though there was a slight delay at one point when Jon
got a fit of the giggles and accused Bryan of making him laugh.
Damian took it all in his stride, and even ended up laughing along
with the two boys.
There were no shirtless shots in the first set; Damian explained
that there would be plenty of these in the other two sets. As soon
as they were done, the photographer took Jon back over to the rail
to select his next outfit.
Set number two was what Damian had called a "novelty set" and the
outfit consisted of black, formal trousers and a black waistcoat,
but no shirt. Shiny black shoes and a black walking cane completed
the effect. They started the set with the waistcoat fastened, but
after a few shots Jon was asked to undo the buttons and let the
garment hang open. Lots of different poses followed, making full use
of the cane as a prop; Jon was asked to hold it with both hands
stretched up over his head, behind his back, over his shoulder, even
down between his legs as he leaned forwards over it. Then they
dispensed with the cane and Damian took a variety of pictures with
Jon holding the waistcoat open to display his whole upper body,
including a couple where he was asked to put his hands flat on his
chest and look seductive. This latter caused a fair amount of
hilarity, since Jon obviously didn't have a clue how to look
"seductive". Bryan made a couple of 'helpful' suggestions, which
mainly involved puckered lips, and this set all three of them off
laughing again.
"OK, I think we've exhausted the possibilities of this one," said
Damian. "Let's move onto the final set." Going to the rail, he
returned with a pair of yellow and blue Lycra cycling shorts. "These
are really tight," he explained. "So your underwear is going to have
to come off before you put them on."
Jon eyed the garment for a moment, then gave a shrug and began to
take off his clothes.
As Jon undressed, Bryan stood by him, accepting the boy's clothing
and making a rudimentary attempt at folding it before putting it
onto the table. However, his attention wasn't really on what he was
doing; he was watching Jon, though he was trying not to be too
obvious about it.
It took only a few moments for Jon to strip down to his black
shorts. He appeared to hesitate for just a fraction of a second and
then he pushed them down and stepped out of them, handing them to
Bryan before turning to Damian to accept the Lycra shorts he was to
put on.
"Stand still a minute," said Damian, holding onto the Lycra. His
gaze moved critically up and down Jon's naked body. "Turn around for
me."
Looking a little puzzled at the request, but obviously not unduly
bothered by it, Jon let his arms hang down by his sides and turned
in a slow circle. As he passed Bryan, the boys made a brief eye
contact and Jon gave a quick, shy smile.
Damian's brow was furrowed in thought and he was nodding slowly.
"Here you go; get these put on," he said, handing over the shorts.
Bryan had also been both puzzled and surprised that Damian had made
Jon display himself like that. Though he had given in to his own
natural curiosity and made the most of the opportunity to have a
good look at the boy's privates, feeling a touch of envy when he saw
that Jon had a small but definite bush of dark pubic hair; Bryan's
own pubes were quite thin and sparse by comparison. However, he did
think that maybe Jon's dick was a little smaller than his own, so
that was at least some consolation.
The shorts were indeed tight, the elastic material clinging to Jon's
body like a second skin. Jon finished pulling them on and did a
quick job of straightening out the wrinkles, and then presented
himself to Damian.
"I'm going to need you to make some adjustments for me," said
Damian, his eyes on the dark haired boy. "This is the bit some boys
find a little embarrassing. I want you to move things around so that
your dick is pointing straight up towards your belly button."
Jon looked momentarily shocked and his faced reddened slightly, but
then he gave his usual shy smile and slid his hand down inside the
front of his shorts to change the angle at which his penis lay.
"Like that?" he asked, taking his hand back out.
"That's perfect," said Damian.
Bryan had watched with a strange fascination as Jon had touched
himself in full view, not even bothering to turn away. The end
result was that Jon's willy and balls were now clearly outlined
beneath the thin, tight fabric of the shorts. He watched as Damian
did the tidying up, working his way around the legs and waistband of
the garment, straightening them up and stretching out any stray
wrinkles. Then the photographer did something that caused Bryan's
jaw to drop open. The man ran his two index fingers around the
outline of Jon's penis, pressing into the fabric to further
emphasise the shape, and then moved lower down and did the same
thing with the boy's balls. Bryan found that he was blushing as he
watched this intimate contact. He expected Jon to shout out and push
Damian's hand away, but to Bryan's amazement, Jon just accepted this
as if it were normal.
"Your pubic hair spoils the outline a bit," Damian observed. "But
there's not a lot we can do about that at the moment. Anyway, I
think we're ready. This is the set that is really going to earn you
some commission. When this hits the website you're going to be
signing prints until your hand hurts."
Jon giggled happily and Damian immediately snapped off a couple of
quick shots of the boy laughing.
This was by far the largest set of the three, as Damian captured the
boy from every conceivable angle. Standing up, lying on the floor,
sitting cross-legged, standing with legs apart, arms folded, arms
behind his back, arms stretched overhead; there seemed to be almost
no end to the poses. Bryan watched almost enviously as Jon seemed to
flow naturally from one to the next, appearing completely relaxed.
Eventually, Damian called a halt. "I think that will do," he smiled.
"You were great today, Jon. Well done. Go get yourself changed. When
you're ready, there're some prints on my desk for you to sign."
While Damian went over to his computer, Bryan followed Jon over to
the table where the dark-haired boy's clothes lay. Jon was grinning
happily, and he unselfconsciously peeled off the shorts and dropped
them onto the table before starting to look for his own underwear.
"Didn't that bother you?" Bryan asked softly, making a deliberate
effort to look at Jon's face rather than letting his gaze stray down
to the boy's groin.
"What?"
"You know; him touching you like that?"
"Oh that." Jon gave a giggle. "He was doing his job." He stepped
into his black shorts and pulled them up.
"Yes, but..." Bryan trailed off.
"When I arrived last week, Damian was rubbing oil onto your chest.
Didn't that bother you?"
Bryan thought back. The experience had been a little strange, but he
recalled how he had also found it rather pleasant. "That was
different," he objected. "He wasn't touching my privates."
"He wasn't touching mine," Jon pointed out. "I was wearing the
shorts."
Bryan gave up and shook his head. "You did look pretty good today
though," he said, with a smile. "The way you moved and everything
just looked so... well... natural."
"That was because of the dancing," Jon laughed.
"Dancing?"
"Yeah. Mum made me start going when I was eight. I hated it and gave
it up last year. Then she wanted me to take drama classes, but I
didn't want to. We fought about it for a while, and then she
suggested modelling."
Bryan nodded. "It was my mum who made me come here."
"I wasn't sure at first," said Jon. "But now I think I like it.
Damian's great, I really like him; and I like you as well."
"I'm still not sure whether I like it or not," said Bryan. "I do
like being around you and Damian, but it just feels funny standing
around with almost nothing on while I have my picture taken."
"What are you two whispering about?" Damian called to them from
across the room.
"Nothing really," Bryan replied.
"Well come and do 'nothing really' over here then," said Damian.
"These prints of Jon's are not going to sign themselves."
The story continues in Chapter 4: Outdoor Shoot, coming soon.
Feedback is encouraged and always much appreciated. Email me at
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