Jessie gets jealous.

Posing the girls ended up being pretty painless. Jessie was a natural, and Ophelia was sharp enough to pick up on what he was looking for with relative ease.

Soon enough, he’d cooked up a deliciously sexy theme for the two of them. Ophelia played the part of a disinterested and **** woman, and Jessie played the part of tempting and curious friend.

The poses started getting racy quickly, but he tried his best to keep his head on straight to avoid sending Jessie into a spiral when she’d finally branched out and done something daring. Still, he couldn’t resist pushing things towards some playful debauchery as long as neither party protested.

A picture of Jessie looking longingly down Ophelia’s dress. A series of pictures with Jessie’s hand going down the neckline of Ophelia’s dress. A picture (approved by Ophelia) of Jessie clutching Ophelia’s small breast from the outside of her dress. A picture of Ophelia sitting on the elevated wooden rail behind the bench and Jessie kneeling between her legs on the bench in front of her.

It was the following picture that caused Jessie to kick up a fuss.

“Ophelia, I’d like to have Jessie lift up your skirt and stare at your panties.”

“Certainly. Anything for art.” It sounded like a joke, but he couldn’t be sure.

“But you’ll see her panties!!” Jessie exclaimed.

“Jessie there’s a pretty good chance I’m going to see some of my models nude somewhere down the line. People get used to seeing panties and bras and tits and asses in this kind of work. I’m going to be training these girls as professionals if they’re up for it.”

Jessie clenched a fist at her side as he kept talking. “Don’t get me wrong, there’s room for tamer stuff too, but if I find a model who is up for sexy photos I need to capitalize on that. You understand what I mean, don’t you Ophelia?”

“As long as I can stay close and observe you, I don’t mind shedding a few layers of my modesty for your work. It’s not exclusively for your own personal use is it?”

“No! Of course not. I want to make this a career, maybe make some money off of your pictures, if you don’t mind.”

“I don’t.”

Leon turned to Jessie, somehow oblivious to the dangerous glint in her eye.

“See? Like this we can keep things between us at your comfort level and I can get the good stuff from elsewhere. I can get these shots with Ophelia alone later if this is too much for you though.”

“Leon I think you’d better leave it alo-“ Ophelia started.

“Lia. I need you to go. I’d be happy to spend time with you another day, but my brother and I are going to have a little chat now.” Jessie tried not let her anger out at Ophelia, but she was close to boiling over.

Ophelia—ever the wise observer—quietly stood up, grabbed her sandals, and walked past Leon toward the fence.

“We may have pushed her too hard,” Ophelia whispered, and patted his shoulder as she passed. “I’ll find you again.”

Jessie gritted her teeth but held in her displeasure at their shared secret.

The siblings stood and stared at each other until the metallic rattling of the fence died down and the park was silent.

Jessie stabbed an accusation at him through the still air. “Good stuff? Ophelia has all the ‘good stuff’ and now you want to throw me out like yesterday’s trash. Is that about right?

“You know I didn’t mean it like that.”

“Do I? I come out here in this outfit, so far out of my comfort zone that I can’t even see it anymore, and before I know it the whole shoot is about me touching her. Looking at her. Undressing her. I’m the one you’re supposed to be looking at and you’re treating me like a child!”

“Jessie this isn’t fair. You can’t be my only model. I need variety to make a name for myself.”

“I’m aware.”

“Then stop acting so jealous!”

“HOW CAN I NOT BE JEALOUS!? You came to me one night and swept me off my feet so fast I could barely breathe. It made me feel so goddam special.” She tried in vain to wipe the frustrated tears out of her eyes.

“You’ve been so sweet and patient with me every step of the way. And I thought I had more time, but then you bring this woman home and expect me to get along with her even though I have no social skills to speak of. And I try. I try for you, because I don’t want to disappoint you. And Lia is interesting. I genuinely want to get to know her, but I wanted to make sure you saw both of us, not just her. So I got changed for you, and you looked at me like I was the center of the universe, but then you focused the entire shoot on her. I couldn’t stand it anymore.”

“You’re being obtuse. Are you mad at me because I found a new model and you’re jealous, or are you mad at me for asking her to do things that you can’t?”

“I’m mad at you for not picking up on what I’m trying to tell you. I’m dressed more like a model than I’ve ever been, I chose to wear a skirt knowing you’d be taking photos, I touched Lia’s boobs...”

“And I’m glad you’re putting yourself out there but...”

“I‘m trying to tell you that I’m ready for more, you dense idiot! I want to be your go to model, for everything. After I prove that I can do that for you, you can go take pictures of the queen of Egypt buttass naked on a pyramid for all I care. But only because you and your stupid career matter to me.”

“Are you saying what I desperately hope you’re saying?”

“That’s what I was ready for. Now you’ve gone and pissed me off.”

“Nude modeling on your second photoshoot,” Leon looked her up and down like a predator.

“We could have at least seen how far I’d take it before you decided that Ophelia’s panties were more exciting than mine.”

“I never decided that! I didn’t know you were on the menu,” Leon said, and closed in on her. She didn’t move, but she looked away from him and closed her eyes.

“Might as well forget it now.”

“Jessie, there’s nothing on this world I’d like to do more than get you as naked as possible in front of my camera.”

“Except get Ophelia naked first,” she said stubbornly.

“If you come back to the house with me right now I’ll show you undeniable proof that just isn’t true. C’mon Jessie, you got me drooling over here.”

Jessie brushed past him and he watched in defeat as she climbed the fence. She landed on the other side and looked through the metal links at him. “You coming? You’ve got a lot to prove.”