Chapter 2 - First Meeting, Hijacked

And so, two days later, Wednesday afternoon after classes ended, the founding members of the Photography Club met in the school courtyard. Zack was pleasantly surprised to see that Ashley had brought a digital camera with her.

“It’s my Mom’s, she uses it sometimes in her classes,” the petite blonde explained. Her mother, Sarah Woodsen, was a middle-school teacher. “She asked me to tell you to visit at some point, by the way. Your mom stops by often, but she only saw you two or three times since you came back.”

“Yeah,” Zack chuckled, embarrassingly scratching the back of his neck. “Sometimes I get tangled up at the ranch and forget other things. Please, Ash, tell Aunt Sarah I’ll drop by soon.”

“So,” Madison interjected. “Phones will be enough, right? I got kinda worried after our last chat about this.”

“Oh, yeah, they should be fine,” Zack assured her as the three of them, plus Lisa and Kevin, sat down by a small fountain in a corner of the courtyard, the stony benches a bit hard on them. “Like I said, we’re just doing this for fun.”

“Where are we starting this?” Kevin asked, pulling out his phone.

“Well, I figured that since we’re already here, we could take some shots of the school and some stuff around the buildings,” Zack explained. “Then I can try and teach you guys the little I know about composition, framing, angles, and all those technical details.”

“Jeez, I thought this would be simpler,” Lisa let out a chuckle.

Zack nervously rubbed his hands. “Well, I’ll try to make it as easy as I can,” he said before raising to his feet. “So, shall we start?”

As they began taking some shots of the courtyard, framing the old, imposing building of the school in the background, Zachary decided to ask Madison about the movie she was planning, what it was about.

“Oh, I was thinking about adapting one of Lauren Harper’s novels,” the tall cheerleader replied with a grin. “I love them, and I think you do too from what I know.”

“Well, I do, buuut…, you think the school would let us?” He hesitantly inquired. “Lauren Harper’s novels can be a little…”

“Spicy?” Ashley supplied, provoking laughs in Kevin and Lisa.

Madison shrugged as she pointed her phone at the parking lot, zooming at Zack’s car between two trees. “I’m gonna ask other members of the drama class if they wanna get in, but I don’t think I’m gonna involve the school officially, except maybe ask Ms. Liberty for some advice,” she explained, satisfied with her shot. “Nope, this is more for me.”

“So you’re gonna include all the fun scenes?” Lisa asked her best friend, making it clear what kind of fun she meant. She was randomly pointing her phone and snapping photos of spots she thought to be interesting. “Who’s gonna want to film that, Maddie?”

Lauren Harper was a local author from Sunset Haven who rose to fame by writing novels featuring different ensembles of young people investigating compelling mysteries amidst a very healthy dose of spicy, implied sex moments. Needless to say, young readers ate it all up and Lauren became the favorite writer of many aficionados.

“Of course I’m not gonna put in any sex scenes, Lis, dammit,” Madison replied with a nervous laugh, a faint blush covering her cheeks.

Kevin laughed at that, having just finished taking a photo of a tree that projected a cozy shadow on the grassy ground. “I know some guys who’d love to do that for you, they’d just suck at acting,” he let out another laugh.

Zack grinned. “Oh, yeah, I know the same guys,” he said, but the brief image that the exchange between Madison and Lisa put in his head was hard to ignore. His classmates simulating the implied sex scenes in Lauren Harper’s novels would be insanely hot to watch, and he was supposed to film it, if what he agreed to with Maddie came to pass. He couldn’t help but glance at her slender, toned form, wearing a snug pair of black jeans and a red longsleeved sweater, her dark-brown hair up in a ponytail. She would probably be at the center of it, the actress that she was and the whole idea coming from her. Stop it, dammit!

“And I know just the girls,” Ashley giggled as she took a hasty photo of one of their teachers, Jacob Ward, leaving the school.

“Yeah, but that’s not gonna happen, guys, I promise you,” Madison claimed, eager to change the subject after she had unwittingly put herself under the spotlight.

“Alright, let’s take a look at the pics so far,” Zack requested. He wanted to see who showed early promise and who would need some nudging. As they showed each other the screen of their cameras or phones, he smiled at some results. “Very good framing, Madison,” he complimented the brunette. “Just needs some lighting adjustments.”

Maddie was pleased at his assessment, blushing a little once again. “Yeah, I think my acting plays gave me some notion about positioning, but I can see what you meant. Thanks, Zack!”

“You’re welcome,” he smiled back at her before checking Kevin’s work. “Kevin, the same. Just go easy on the filters, man.”

“Okay, I’ll try to remember that,” his athlete friend nodded with a laugh.

“Lisa, you took a lot of pics, but try to choose your targets a bit better,” he advised the athletic, yet curvy, Latina. She was wearing a white tank top and dark-blue yoga pants that made talking to her quite distracting. “The line between a good composition and just capturing innocuous stuff is very thin, but don’t give up yet, this is just the first meeting.”

“Oh, I see! Thanks, Zack!” The black-haired girl beamed at him.

The young man then took the camera from Ashley and cocked his head to the side for a couple seconds. “You’re taking good pics, Ash, but the focus isn’t working. You either need to wait for the focus to stabilize or a setting isn’t working,” he told his old friend. “Here, let me help,” he offered and then turned to Kevin. “Kev, can you give Lisa a hand?” He suspected that Lisa would enjoy Kevin’s multi-filtered approach.

“Sure,” the dark-skinned athlete nodded and entered a whispered discussion with the girl in question.

“Okay, let’s see what’s wrong with this,” Ashley playfully commented as Zack peered over her shoulder.

“Point it toward the gym,” Zack instructed, his chest softly brushing against her shoulders as the flowery scent of the golden waves of her hair filled his nostrils. “A-alright, let’s see if the focus works,” he added, aware of her petite, toned body almost touching his. She was wearing a light blue sweater with a short black skirt and brown knee-length boots.

“Hmm, it doesn’t seem to be making any difference,” the cheerleader said, a frustrated tone creeping up to her voice. “Maybe I should just switch to my phone for today?”

Without realizing what he was doing, mostly so he could reach her camera quicker, Zack wrapped his arms around her upper body, causing Ashley’s crystal-blue eyes to widen for a moment and a faint blush to color her cheeks. This was Zack, though, she doubted he had second intentions, a thought that made her smile as he went through the settings in her camera.

Zack couldn’t help but feel himself twitching at the unexpected proximity. An old, sweet friend Ashley could be, but he was quickly realizing how sexy she could be as well, just like her older sister, Hannah, who loved tormenting him. The warmth of her body was becoming distracting to him as she asked what could be wrong with her camera.

“Mom uses it all the time, Zack, I dunno what’s the deal,” she said, happy that they could find some proximity after him being away for several years.

“I think I know, let me change this…,” he whispered, her pleasant perfume almost intoxicating him as he found himself wishing she didn’t back down against his groin, or she would feel something that was quickly enlarging and had all the potential to make her disgusted with him.

Ashley was too sweet. Sweet girls didn’t have naughty thoughts.

“Alright, try it again,” he urged her, eager to stop making a fool of himself. Due to her wearing a skirt, the shape of her perky cheeks was basically covered by the loose fabric, but it didn’t stop him from feeling the heat on his dick.

“Zack! C’mere, please,” Madison suddenly called out, causing him to instantly pull back his arms and disengage from Ashley’s back. The blonde girl telling him that his change worked didn’t even register in his mind as he eagerly made his way to the brunette.

“Uhn…, w-what’s up?” He stammered, only now noticing that Lisa was with her best friend. Kevin was busy taking photos of other things a few feet away from them.

“Lisa wants us to take some pics of her,” Madison told him. “Are the settings different for people and landscapes?”

“Oh, yeah, I was curious about this myself, let’s try it,” Zachary replied, pulling out his camera. The prospect of a new kind of photography angle was enough to make him momentarily forget about Ashley’s body. “Whenever you want, Lisa.”

“Do I have to say cheese?” Lisa playfully joked as she stood in front of a tree and made victory signs with her hands.

“Feel free to do whatever you want, I want you relaxed,” the Bishop boy replied, repeating what he heard his aunt telling a model once.

Lisa nodded and began changing positions every few shots, cocking her head this way and that, making funny faces, changing the way her legs were positioned, etc. Madison was already watching it, but Ashley and Kevin stopped what they were doing to follow it as well.

“Hey, this seems fun,” Ashley remarked, crossing her arms as Kevin nodded.

“Yeah, looks kinda like acting,” Madison agreed.

Zack kept snapping photos of Lisa with his camera, mostly the fun faces and poses she made, but then she threw her black hair back and offered him a smoldering look that made his pants tighten once more, and just when the Ashley effect had just started to subside. Dammit!

“Like a model, Lisa?” Ashley giggled.

The Latina didn’t reply and just continued to pose a little more provocatively than before. Serious face, slightly parted lips, cascading hair, and hands drawing attention to her waist and hips, not to mention the large swell of her tits under the tank top. Madison, Ashley, and Kevin even started taking pics of their own, and Zack had to admit that it looked like a professional outdoor photoshoot a little.

“Hey, send me those later,” Lisa requested, breaking character for a moment to turn to Madison. “Might be fun to post it on the Pulse.”

“Oh, good idea, Lis!” The brown-haired girl agreed.

Zack was in his zone, his only actions being pressing the button on the camera and pacing left and right to get Lisa from different angles. When she turned her back to the lens and showcased her plump butt squeezed by the tight yoga pants, he had to stifle the gasp that almost escaped his mouth, his cock twitching at the sexy sight.

“Damn,” a genuinely surprised Kevin commented.

Lisa grinned at the cameras and phones over her shoulder, placing both hands on her hips to lightly thrust out her ass. Both Madison and Ashley were wondering if they could do the same, and Zack, for the first time, wondered where this whole thing was going. He never imagined it could turn out so sexy as it did.

But just as it started, it ended. Abruptly. Lisa suddenly turned back to face her friends, all traces of that seductress who had posed for her friends gone.

“Hey, any of you two wanna try it?” She asked the two other girls. “Posing feels really fun!”

Ashley and Maddie exchanged an alarmed look, knowing what they had been thinking just moments ago. “Oh, no!” Both girls said in unison, laughing nervously.

“Maybe next time,” Ashley added, a blush covering her cheeks.

Zack let out a breath of relief as Kevin threw him a pointed look. Things had climbed to another level that afternoon, a level they weren’t even aware existed. At the very first meeting, no less. The question on both of their minds, and it was already ringing in Zack’s head before, was what they could expect from future meetings.

“Alriiiight, uhn…,” Zachary nervously coughed into his fist. “I think everyone did really well…,” he made another pause. “Let me know when you can do another meeting.”

“Oh, now I’m having lots of fun with this,” Lisa gushed. “You bet I’ll be at the next one!”

“Me too!” Both Madison and Ashley blurted out, and Kevin could only nod in agreement.

As they walked to the parking lot and Zachary turned off his camera, he found his gaze drawn to Madison’s toned ass and Ashley’s smooth legs sticking from under her skirt as they chatted. A smile unconsciously formed on his lips, the young man suddenly couldn’t wait for the next meeting.