Calendar Girls

January, or Sour Sweet’s Photo

Everything took money, and that included charities which went out of their way to ensure families had a place to call their own. Most of the time that money came from hundreds, if not thousands, of good willed people donating to said charity.

But occasionally a business would put together something special that would ensure a large enough donation to keep the charity's funds in the black all year. Sometimes being in those events even helped everyone that participated. That was one of the reasons Sour Sweet found herself inside of Lemon Zest's cousin's studio. Well, rather the studio he was working in for the event.

She sighed and looked at Sunny Flare, "Did Indigo talk you into this too?"

Sunny Flare nodded. Sour took a moment to really study her friend. Sunny had kept her figure since high school, in truth she was far more developed than she had been. The pictures she had sent second, even if it had been a drunken mistake, hadn’t captured just how beautiful her friend truly had become. Sunny sighed as she toyed with one of the straps of her bikini top. Normally she would have believed that a yellow bikini wouldn’t suit her, but somehow Sunny pulled it off. She also noticed that the bikini was one that pulled her breasts in close to her body, pushing them together, and ultimately acting very much like a wonder bra.

“Yes, she did, but it is for habitat for humanity, and honestly it does give me a chance to show off some of my new summer line.”

Sour Sweet grinned, “I guess,” she looked toward the other girls. Sugarcoat had put on a little weight, but it fit her well. Instead of a bathing suit she was wearing a white corset, with matching lacy panties, white stockings, and a pair of heels that looked incredibly uncomfortable.

“It seems highly unlikely that the individuals buying this calender will be interested in what we’re wearing,” Sugarcoat said, “It’s more likely…”

“Dude, we get it, most likely they’re gonna be wanting to know what we’re like under it, but it’s for a really good cause, so don’t be a bummer, alright?” Lemonzest replied.

Sour smiled and heard a soft giggle, which was far too feminine considering who it was giggling, and then watched as Indigo Zapp walked into the room with them. Behind her was Iconic Portrait who was smiling and looked very much like a man in love. Sour sighed, that’s how Second looked at her. She rubbed her shoulder as she considered what she was getting ready to do.

There would be the main picture, and then two nudes would be taken. She understood that for Iconic it was just business. He wasn’t really getting anything out of this shoot, which was surprising, but instead he was donating his services, and what would have been his fee, to the charity itself. It was more than that for her. Her relapse had damaged her career, and despite the fact that Second’s books were covering the bills, it didn’t feel right to not be contributing. Indigo had come to her and told her about the shoot, how they were publizing it, and how she figured that it could help her out. Of course she was right. When the rumor leaked out that she was posing for the Charity Calendar that Socialite Magazine put out every year she began to get more call backs. She wanted to go back to the hospital, back to the routine she had developed for her career, but in truth she knew she needed something different. That something different was a private practice.

Second had tried to suggest that he’d help back it, but unless he got a major motion picture based on one of his novels it was going to take the backing of a bank, or some of the wealthy individuals in Canterlot City. It wasn’t like she was poor, and she knew that Sunny Flare would have gladly helped, but she needed to try to do this on her own.

“Sour Sweet, are you ready?” Iconic asked

She nodded, followed him, and gently hugged herself. The bathing suit was one that Sunny had designed, and it had been based on their old school swim team bathing suits. She walked into a large room, a small elevated area with sand had been set up next to a smaller outdoor pool. The backdrop truly made it look like an ocean view. She looked toward Iconic.

“Okay, if you don’t mind I thought that you could climb into the pool, dive under, and come up on the stand. I’ll start taking photos then, and we’ll continue from there.”

“Oh, that sounds wonderful. Don’t go thinking about keeping some of these!”

She noticed that he didn’t seem phased.

“No, the only ones I’m making extra of is Indigo, and that’s because she asked me to.”

Sour followed his directions climbed into the pool, dove under and came up on the stand. She blinked her eyes and saw someone else there. She didn’t think he’d be there, but instead he was standing behind Iconic. She gave a small gentle smile, ignored the clicking of the camera, and instead focused on his face. She climbed onto the sand, the wet violet and black bathing suit clinging to her like a second skin, more clicks, but she didn’t care. She moved a hand under a strap, teasing with it, and slowly lowered it.

She wasn’t doing the photo suit, or at least not in her mind, she was doing a little private show for Second. She slowly removed the suit, showing off the body she had painstakingly kept in shape. She noticed that his eyes never left her, he never looked away, and she loved that he was watching her so intently. She continued to pose in one seductive pose after another until finally she saw him step into the room.

“Okay, we’re good,” Iconic said.

She nodded, but didn’t really pay him any attention, “Hi, I thought that you said you weren’t coming.”

Second rubbed his head, “Well, I asked Glida if she could watch Bitter for us. That was…”

She didn’t let him finish the sentence before she kissed him. She broke the kiss and pulled back, “So, how does it feel to be married to a Calendar girl?”

He smiled, “It makes me have another reason for loving January.”

Author's Note

(AN: What's this? What madness is this? Could it honestly be a new story by RJP?! It is!)