A Red Sunrise

PING!

An email dropped into my inbox.

It was from Maria.

Seeing that name still made my stomach do flips.

Happily I realized that the message wasn’t just for me, but for all of Mirage’s employees.

“Dear employees, despite the earlier announcement this week, Mirage will not be sold to Remington Group. There was a change in negotiations, and for the forseeable future, I will remain the owner of the magazine. I’m sorry for the inconvenience…” blah blah blah.

Good. Nice to have that particular thorn ripped out of my side for good.

She was wrong about the ‘forseeable future’ part, though. I could see a change in the ownership coming up fairly soon, if things stayed on track.

Yeah, I was talking about me, if it wasn’t clear.

Then, the dressing room door opened.

Hubba bubba.

The ginger darlings took careful steps towards the photo stage. Their new, sexy high heel shoes made gorgeous clacking sounds on the studio floor.

The three redheaded, painfully gorgeous models were wearing identical, kinky, private-school type schoolgirl outfits. They all had their made up the same way as well. Oh yeah.

Man, I just wanted flip all of those skirts over and…

Calm down, Jack. Don’t start tenting up right now.

Rachel looked like she was the most comfortable with the outfit. I guess with her experience she’d been in shittier photoshoots than this. Alexa seemed a little frustrated, especially by my leering eyes, but Bonnie was straight up blushing. She was the one I knew the least about. There were only pictures of her online, while the other girls had interviews and other personal info.

Was she… shy? Nah, that made no sense for a model. Maybe she was just super-introverted or something?

“Okay, ladies, thank you all for coming,” Anna-Marie piped up all of a sudden. I almost forgot she was in the room too. “As Jack here already made it clear, today’s shoot is going to be a little special. It’s not about selling clothes, more about mood. Also, I plan to tell a little story with these pictures here. A story of three locations.”

Hmm. I wonder what she had in mind?

“It’ll start in a park. Rachel and Alexa, if you could get closer to each other now…”

Rachel and Alexa squeezed in next to each other. Bonnie backed out of the stage.

“Now here’s the scene. The two of you are students at a Christian college. Unbeknownst to all, you two have a secret lesbian relationship. That’s right, you two are lovers. A hot secret, isn’t it? So taboo, so sinful… Okay, start walking, hand in hand!”

Anna-Marie shouted excitedly, and started snapping pictures. Rachel and Alexa began almost skipping in place, with happy smiles on their faces while holding hands. Anna-Marie kept shouting different kinds of orders, once in a while telling them to look at each other adoringly.

I liked where this was going.

“Okay, now I want the two of you to stop. You can almost feel each other’s hearts beating. It’s a perfect situation, no-one’s around. You have to give in to your feelings. You need to share a little kiss.”

Alright, excellent. The two did just that. They stopped their skipping, and looked deep into each other’s eyes. However, as Rachel started closing on Alexa’s lips, Alexa instinctively backed a little. She even giggled a little bit.

“I’m sorry, let’s do it again,” she said after a couple more giggles.

Sadly, the same exact thing happened again. Alexa couldn’t go through with the kiss, and just giggled again.

“I’m so sorry, I’ve never kissed a chick before,” she giggled.

Rachel wasn’t having any of it. “For God’s sakes. Are you supposed to be a professional? Your breaking my concentration. Can we have that other girl take her place?” she asked with her sharp British tone, and pointed at Bonnie. Bonnie blushed again, and stared at the floor.

“Hey, we’re in no hurry here. Alexa, just, you know, try to get in to the mood. Okay? It’s not love, just young lust!” Anna-Marie said with a happy face.

“Yeah… I guess...” Alexa really didn’t sound convincing. Rachel sighed loudly.

This was a perfect moment for me to step out of the shadows.

“There’s a dynamic happening here, Anna. We could use it differently.” Anna-Marie instantly gave me a murderous glare. She had made it very clear that I wasn’t supposed to involve myself into the actual photoshoot. But let’s be honest, it was going to happen at some point.

“What do you mean?” Rachel asked, before Anna-Marie had a chance to say anything. I guess she was too blocked by her outrage. Now she had to play along, since Rachel herself was interested in my comment.

“Well… Who says your relationship has to be a plain old romantic one? I see you as the dominant one. That’s what the photoshoot is going to be about anyway, as I’m sure all of you are aware. Dominance and submission. The way I see it, if you want a kiss from your girlfriend, you’ll just take it.”

A sadistic smile spread across Rachel’s face. Oh yeah, I had evaluated her correctly.

“That’s quite enough, Jack,” Anna-Marie tried to butt in.

“No, I like it. It makes sense for me,” Rachel said with a grin.

“Hey, don’t I get a say?” Alexa said as she smiled awkwardly, and backed a little further from Rachel.

“No. You’re the submissive partner. You will allow Rachel to do whatever she wants with you. Because you secretly like it,” I said. Alexa’s eyes opened wide, and she shot a look at Anna-Marie.

“What is this?” Alexa asked with a hint of panic in her voice.

But before Anna-Marie could answer, Rachel grabbed the frightened Alexa by the shoulder.

I realized what was happening. “Anna-Marie, quick, shoot!” I quickly jabbed Anna-Marie, who wasn’t sure what she should be doing here. But when she saw the scene that was happening in front of her face, her photographer’s instinct told her she had to capture it. (ANNA-MARIE: +5SP) (+10SP)

“Now, go!” I shouted. Alexa was trying to remove Rachel’s hand, but it was too late. The taller girl took a powerful hold of the smaller girl’s ginger head and planted her lips right into hers. (RACHEL: +2SP) (+4SP) I don’t think the hold was so hard that Alexa couldn’t have gotten out of it, it was more like she realized that the easiest option would be to surrender to it. (ALEXA: +6SP) (+10SP)

The kiss did not look mutual. Rachel was fully into it, but Alexa’s eyes and mannerism spoke of underlying panic. Still, Anna-Marie was **** to capture this beautiful scene from all sides as Rachel **** herself onto Alexa for what felt like a minute. The red hairs blending into each other, the sloppy wet noise coming out of the kiss… It was mesmerizing.

But still, something was missing. The third redhead. Bonnie was still just staring at the floor. I realized I had a chance to say something to her, while the other three were busy.

I grabbed her by the chin, and lifted her head, slowly, but powerfully. I **** her to look at the sexy scene in front of her. She really looked like a deer caught in headlights. “Keep your eyes on them. If you look at the floor again, I’ll fire you”, I whispered into her ear. She nodded frightenedly. (BONNIE: +8SP) (+10SP)

Finally, the kiss was over. Alexa started coughing the moment Rachel let go of her. Rachel’s sadistic grin had only grown more confident after the experience. Man, I could really work with this girl.

I was really interested to see the fallout between them, but I didn’t have a chance to. Almost immediately Anna-Marie came over, grabbed my hand, and dragged me to the dressing room. She didn’t need to say anything, her expression told me I shoud follow her or be ready to lose my life.

She closed the door behind us. Boy, she was damn near ready to explode.

“The next moment you speak to my models, I don’t care what Gretchen thinks, I’m throwing you out. Got it?”

Ugh. I couldn’t do my thing like this. Time to change the rules of the game.

“Here’s the thing, Anna. I didn’t want to mention this, but you’re forcing me to. This isn’t just an experiment for the magazine. This is the new direction. A new, edgier direction. And other things are changing too.”

I sat down. She was waiting for me to continue.

“I’m going to be the new Gretchen. The next editor of the magazine. But it’s still a secret. Go ahead, ask Lana, Ulla or Sophie if you don’t believe me.” She blinked a few times, trying to fit this insane-sounding news in her head. “And I’ll get to decide which photographers I want to work with. And you know, I really hope it’s you. But if our visions are going to come these crossroads all the time…”

“Wait. This is all news to me. I need to process this.”

“You want me to be brutally honest? If you were any other person, I would let you go the chance I get. But we have a history. Maybe we can make things work out? I mean, let’s test this. You let me the boss of this photoshoot. You can still do your thing, but if I want to take things in another direction, you’ll let me. I’ll see how… flexible you can be.”

Anna-Marie was breathing harder, and pacing around the room a bit. All her power was taken away in a few sentences, her cushy job at a top fashion magazine…

“I’ll check with Ulla. Because if you’re lying…”

And with that, she left the room.

Good, I had already told Ulla that this was where things were headed.

I expected the Anna-Marie that came back through that door to be quite the meeker one.

Meanwhile, it was just another waiting break.

Should I use this time to ACTA?

As in "Always Check The App"?

Yeah, ACTA time.

…

Holy fuck.

All three.

But they all had the same trait.

Well, I guess it made sense. After all, the did have the same job.

-THE MODEL-

ROUTE A –FREEUSE

-HOLD THAT POSE!-

The user is able to stop the subject’s movement completely by saying the phrase “(SUBJECT’S NAME)! Hold that pose!” The subject will then stop moving. The subject will only be freed after 10 minutes or when somebody takes a photo of them. During this time, the subject is fully aware of everything happening around them. They will reason this as something “that a model just has to do”.

The user is fully able to use the subject anyway they want to during this time. The user can also free certain parts of the subject’s body during this time. For example, if the user tells the subject that they can use their neck, the subject will be able to turn their head but otherwise have to hold the position.

NOTE: “Hold that pose!”-order by itself will not raise the subject’s submission score.

ROUTE B –EXHIBITIONISM

-MAKE LOVE TO THE CAMERA!-

The subject’s lust and sexual pleasure will go up exponentially when somebody takes explicit photos of them. The more humiliating or sexual the photos are, the more the lust and sexual pleasure will go up.

Choices, choices, choices…