Part 30
Shawna stopped short, looking at Tim and Pam. Tim was breathing hard, and red in the face. Pam was blushing and looking sheepish, as she swiped the back of one hand over her mouth. Shawna put her hands on her hips. "What are you up to?"
Pam and Tim looked at each other. Tim said, "There's a problem."
"What sort of problem?"
"I'm going to need to keep the towel on, for both the tv and internet versions of the shower scene," Tim said.
Shawna said, "For the tv version, sure. We always knew that. But the whole point of the internet version is that we can show a little more, and have fun with the concept."
"This is not what I call fun," Tim insisted. "It's going too far."
Shawna looked at Pam. "You've given him a wardrobe change, right?"
"Sure," Pam said. "I knew that that sock and the rubber band wasn't going to work, so I got him a posing pouch."
"A posing pouch?" Shawna asked, as if she were surprised. "You mean like male strippers wear?"
"Body builders wear them too," Tim said defensively.
"Okay," Shawna said. "Then what's the problem?"
Tim realized too late that he'd undercut his own argument. "This one doesn't fit. At all."
"Is it too big?" Shawna asked.
Tim was frustrated, suspecting that she was playing dumb. "No, it's not too big! Do you think I'd be complaining if it were too big?"
"I don't know," Shawna said, crossing her arms. "You seem to be very touchy right now, so I imagine you'd complain about just about—"
Tim snorted in anger, and before he really thought about it, he yanked his towel open, exposing his erection, a good bit of which stuck out above the top of the posing pouch. "Does that look like it's too big?!" he demanded.
Shawna was momentarily speechless, as her eyes dropped down to Tim's partially exposed hard-on in the shockingly small bit of fabric. "I- i- it certainly does look big," she stammered, then blushed. "I mean, the pouch doesn't look too big. Your... your... You look big. I mean, yes, the pouch is too small."
Watching Shawna's reddening face and wide open eyes, Tim realized what he'd done, and snapped his towel shut again. "You see what I mean, then. This isn't going to work. Pam screwed up, and this posing pouch is way too small."
Shawna looked at Pam. "Is THAT why you were measuring him?"
Pam just nodded, and Shawna started to smile. "It's not funny!" Tim said. "What am I supposed to do now?"
"Okay, look," Shawna said. "The pouch isn't going to be on screen, even in the internet version. Sandy and Joy will be sure to shoot you very carefully, and if a shot of your... of you ends up in the raw footage, they'll edit it out."
"Then why do I need to wear this tiny thing in the first place?"
"Because you need to look naked, even if you aren't," Shawna said. "We've been through this, with the girls' version and with yours. We'll show your naked butt, just like we showed the girls' butts, but there won't be any full frontal. But the whole ad campaign is based on you appearing to be naked."
"Well how's that going to work if I'm wearing this pouch?"
"That's why I picked a white one," Pam said, "and made sure that the strings were really small."
"What?" Tim said, turning to her.
"I mean, you've got some serious tanlines, but your ass is really white. So the white strings of the pouch won't show up against your bare buns."
"But if I'm not going to be showing a full frontal anyway, why do I need the pouch?"
"I guess you don't," Shawna said. "But we assumed you wouldn't want to go fully nude in front of all the women from your office, and mine."
"What? No, of course I don't!"
"Well then, I would think you'd appreciate the cover that the pouch gives you. Just because you won't be on screen in any full frontal shots, the girls are going to be positioned around you in a way that would give them a clear view." Shawna tried to keep from smiling as she said this.
Pam said, "That's why I got the pouch for you, so you wouldn't feel so self-conscious."
"Well it's not working!" Tim said.
"So would you like to shoot this scene totally nude, then?" Shawna said.
"NO!" Tim said. "Obviously not."
"Then what do you want?" Shawna said.
Tim looked from one young woman to the other, completely frustrated. Then a thought occurred to him. "I want a vote."
Shawna said, "What?"
"A vote. The deal we made was that if any two of us voted against any details that made them uncomfortable, the shoot would be changed."
Shawna looked at Pam, who shrugged very slightly. Both of them were thinking the same thing: does this naïve hunk think he's going to get one of his employees to vote for him to stay covered up, instead of parading around in his tiny little posing pouch?
Shawna said, "Fine. We'll go vote right now." She waved her arm in the direction of the open exercise area, and Tim looked a little relieved. He walked past her and out of the locker room, and Shawna and Pam fell in behind him. They watched him - his broad shoulders tapering down to his narrow waist, the towel drawn tightly enough around his lower body to show just the outline of his clearly defined, round buns.
Pam started to whisper, "Does he really think—"
Shawna cut her off with a shake of her head, and a sly wink.
They followed Tim out to the main workout room. The other women had been milling around, eagerly anticipating word that the shower scene was about to start.
They all looked pleasantly surprised as Tim led Pam and Shawna out into the room, clad only in the towel around his waist.
Someone softly whistled, and Anna said, "Looks like somebody is ready for his close-up!"
Tim blushed a bit as he came to a stop, looking at the large circle of smiling women around him. He began to realize that maybe he'd let his frustration get the better of him. "L- listen," he began, "there's been a problem."
"What kind of a problem?" pretty blonde Julie sang out in an innocent tone.
"Well, we were preparing for the shower- um, for the next scene," Tim stammered.
"And Pam had prepared something for me to wear. But there's been a mistake."
"What kind of mistake?" Kaitlyn said, imitating Julie's schoolgirl cadence.
Pam stepped forward, trying to keep her expression neutral. "I got a posing pouch for Mr. Johnson to wear." Many of the women in the room looked at each other, raising their eyebrows, while Anna softly said, "oooh."
"And," Pam continued, "I made a mistake with the size."
"Is it too big?" Joy asked, grinning.
"NO it's not too big!" Tim snapped. What is it with these women, he thought to himself.
"So..." Becky said, "you're too big." Then she blushed furiously, realized what she'd said, as most of the women surrounding her began to giggle.
"Anyway," Tim said pointedly, "I'm not comfortable with this, and I want a vote. We all agreed that any of us could vote if at any point we were asked to do something we were not comfortable with. So I want you to stick to that agreement."
Anna put her hands on her hips. "So you were comfortable when we all had to shower naked in front of you, but now, even though you get to wear something and NOT be naked, you're NOT comfortable?"
A few of the women made small grumbling murmurs, and several of them crossed their arms over their chests. Tim said, "It's not like that. All of you are women, and it's no big deal for you to be briefly naked in front of other women."
"You're not a woman," Mia said. "And you still watched us."
Tim stammered, "But there's only one of me. You weren't outnumbered!"