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Will texted Alyce, "Hey - Do you do photography?"
"I do, why?"
"Let me call you."
Alyce and Will used to work together. She left to work somewhere else, but in those six months they shared shifts, Will came to know of a handful of different creative projects she worked on in her own time. Each seemingly employed a different craft or artistic skill. It didn't seem far-fetched to him that she might dabble in this medium too.
"Hello?"
"It's me. Good time to talk?"
"Yeah, Will! How've you been?"
"You remember me and Mike broke up?"
"That was a while back."
"Totally. I've been over it for a while and trying to get back onto the apps."
Alyce beamed, and gushed into the phone, "That's great! I knew it would blow over and you'd be better. Fuck him."
Will laughed. "Hah. I don't even think about him enough to think 'fuck him' anymore. I sure do wanna hook up, though. Can you help me with some pictures for my profiles? My selfies all suck."
"Aww, Will, I'd love to! When did you have in mind? I have free time on Saturdays these days."
"Day time? Either real early, or else late afternoon? I want pictures that look bright 'n airy 'n cheerful. Plus the direct sunlight for good contrast. There's something specific I have in mind."
Alyce met Will at the Pacific Park four days later with her gear.
He was disappointed with the weather. "We can probably get some good, evenly-lit face shots in this overcast, but I was hoping for some strong shadows."
Her brows pulled together, as Will hadn't explained yet what the thing he had in mind was. She knew from their discussion that he wanted to attract guys who weren't late-night party-obsessed types, or unsmiling sad sacks. She agreed that outdoor, fresh-air shots as the main profile pictures would probably get Will attention from the types of men he was interested in.
Regular-guy types, casually sporty and healthy, far removed from the "scenes" of local gay culture. As a bisexual, these spaces and the people in them were a bit intense for Will's preference. He wasn't closeted or down-low, but just didn't feel a great fit in the nightlife and bar culture. Or with the fitness queens who wore their beefcake like another kind of drag and couldn't talk about anything but working out. Will was looking for genuineness and felt like daylight would manifest the kind of posture-free, uncomplicated transparency he was after.
Alyce got the idea and took face shots, upper body shots, and head-to-toe shots. She chit-chatted and bantered throughout the effort, to keep Will relaxed, un-posed, and candid-looking. Some pictures were against the darker side of the overcast afternoon sky, with the natural filtered light from the brighter western sky in his face. Other pictures were in front of the rocky Pacific bluff, a few with the sea and waves behind and a modest flash highlighting his face, and some on the play structure, which Will thought would make him look like "a Dad," but Alyce insisted would turn out looking nice and casual.
The one he liked best was the one she snapped as he was driving away after they wrapped the session and said goodbye. He was waving from his lowered car window with his dark, wavy hair stirred by the breeze, smiling fraternally at Alyce as he rolled away. She captured the moment and included it with the forty or fifty other shots she dropboxed to him after she got home.
He showed her one of his online profiles after adding the new pictures. She thought everything looked pretty good, the way Will had presented himself and with the photos he had picked out. But it was just a start, he insisted.
He wanted something else and they met again the next Saturday, bright and early in the morning - this time at the municipal baseball field. The nearby high school had completed construction of their own field a couple of years earlier, so the city field didn't need to be used for school team practices anymore, and was empty.
Alyce thought Will wanted more photos just so his profile wouldn't look like they were all taken in one session: Different lighting, different setting, different clothes.
As he stood up from the bleachers to greet her when she arrived, unloaded her car, and marched over to him, she noted his look: A well-fitting bowling shirt in black and white. Unbuttoned down the front to expose an old-school white undershirt. And classic blue jeans, a couple of shades lighter than the ones he had worn on the overcast previous weekend.
The jeans were also well-fitting. Alyce had really only ever seen Will maybe two or three times before now in clothes other than their work uniforms. She whistled approvingly, acknowledging how well the outfit worked for him, and unobtrusively taking in an eyeful of the bulge which filled out the front of his jeans behind his fly and below the left front pocket.
Will couldn't say he knew Alyce really well, but they had gotten along quite decently at work together and shared some mutual personal details with ease and unconcern. There had been a couple of times when their personalities had sparked friction, but they got over these things quickly and laughed about the events later. If he hadn't been with his ex, Mike, at the time, and she hadn't been with her guy, Chuy, he might have felt conflicted about their status as co-workers, since he found her cute, likable and interesting. But under the circumstances it never occurred to him to make a pass at her or anything.
Alyce knew Will was bisexual, but hadn't found occasion to share that same detail about herself with him in the work environment. Or the detail about how her relationship with Chuy was open.
Will did know she lived by herself and not with the guy, and vaguely that she liked kink to some degree, but he hadn't ever sought any details from Alyce about that. But this was why, among a few friends who were photographers, he figured she would be a good person to enlist for help with his online profile. He figured, correctly, that she would be very matter-of-fact about it, adult and non-judgemental, and happy for him in a sex-positive way now that he was in the market for, basically, no-strings hookups while he got back in the saddle after his breakup.
They embraced briefly. Alyce had to one-arm Will, and when they parted, she put down her camera-gear bag.
They started talking at the same time.