She says yes

A zen smile passed like a shadow over Amber's face. She brought her knee up and rested her cheek against it. She hid her face behind her thigh, though Reese could see she was still wearing that silly, almost intoxicated grin, and they were so taken by how beautiful she looked at exactly this moment they barely noticed when she said, "Yeah."

But they noticed. "Are you sure? You don't have to, and I promise I won't mind if you say you don't want to."

"I do!" Amber giggled. "But promise you won't post it online."

"I promise." It was a little to upsetting to think that the question needed to be asked -- not that Amber asked it, but that it was so common to betray another's trust like that.

"Okay." Amber nudged Reese with her foot. "So what would you want me to do?"

"Honestly?" Reese smiled. "I would honestly want you to do exactly what you're doing now."

"Why?"

"Because it's very you."

"Oh." Amber blushed. "Umm... do you want to do it now?"

"Are you sure?"

"Mmhmm..."

"Okay." Reese only had their smartphone, but that was enough -- if they needed to they could always touch it up when they got home. But at the same time they liked the idea of knowingly leaving something imperfect.

Reese climbed off the bed, popped into the living room, fished their phone out of their jeans pocket, and returned to the bedroom. "If you change your mind tell me, okay? I won't mind."

"Take the pictuuuuure." Amber took a minute to stop giggling, then returned to the pose she'd maintained for the last few minutes -- one leg fully drawn up to her face, the other hiked up only a little, one hand resting on her raised knee, the other brushing a strand away from her eyes. Her expression was... Reese would describe it as "smoldering." Not smiling, looking fierce, but playful, confident -- "I know you're jerking off to this and you know it makes me more powerful than you."

They crawled onto the bed, lined up the shot, and took the picture. It wasn't like with Lydia -- that took more deliberation, because they had the option of good natural lighting and professional equipment -- but Reese loved the result all the same. They admired their work, then showed it to Amber. She smiled.

"Do you like it?" she asked.

"I do. Thank you." Reese kissed her on the lips, then the forehead.

Amber swayed in place. "You could... repay me, y'know."

"Yeah?"