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N.B. Spellings (if correct) are in UK English. All the characters in this story are fictitious, any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. The author neither condones or endorses any of the activities detailed in this story, which could well be illegal in certain jurisdictions. I'm adding (for legal reasons) that apparently if you're under-age you mustn't read this, so if that's the case go away and grow up.

It is possible this story may have been inspired by rumours or news stories from various eastern block countries where certain girls may for a short while have enjoyed a change in circumstances, until other parties interfered, but don't bet the farm on it.

Should anyone be able to tell you that you're not allowed to READ A STORY because you are under some stupid arbitrary age that changes from country to country, and year to year? But if you're under a stupid arbitrary age at that particular time and place, then you may be breaking the law!

It's odd you're not allowed to READ A STORY because some people currently in power in the place you live (no matter if that's your country or your home) have decided that THEY don't like to read what YOU like to read. But if they've banned this story, then delete it immediately. Please keep in mind the difference between fantasy and reality.

Author's Note.

This story was first posted between 2011 and 2013 from chapters 1 to 75 at which point the website on which it appeared suddenly closed down. Without being able to find a site for hosting, it left my loyal readership in the dark as to the ending. Although I have posted a few more modern stories during the past year on another website, sadly the web-master Tempest passed away early in 2021.

Unlike the first time this story was posted, I'm not desperately scratching away with my Quill in order to keep a few chapters ahead of my readers, for those who stay the course it's 86 chapters long, and I've recently had former readers bug me for those last six, but I thought with a total repost more people could follow the entire adventure, only this time to it's conclusion.

As mentioned previously it's purely a fictional account inspired by a news story, and from guessing the real-life outcomes, I then began imagining what it might be like if somebody had the wherewithal to provide a little payback for those whose lives had been ruined, but that is yet another story....

Chapter 01

Let us now look at how the life of a typical girl in the Ukraine changes when a talent scout comes to her town.

The girl is named Anna.

Anna is ten years old, and has two younger brothers, plus an older sister, they all live together with their parents in public housing, in a two roomed apartment. That's not two bedrooms as people might think of in the west, but one bedroom for the parents, and a second room that has a kitchen area with a dinning table, and part of it with living room furniture that they make up into two shared beds for the children. The only place they have any privacy is in the bathroom, in this they are lucky, because in many older buildings several apartments sometimes share a communal wash room with toilets.

There are other families who are poorer than they are and some who are better off, that live in bigger apartments or even houses. Few people nearby own cars, as most use the buses, trams, or trains, and a few adults have bikes. Most of Anna's clothes are handed down from her older sister, and of those many would have been second hand from the market or from kindly neighbours. Work in the old industries is getting harder to find as more modern factories in other parts of the world can make things more cheaply, her dad has been worried but so far he has been lucky to keep his maintenance job.

Her parents are always telling them they must do well in school to get a good job, or even any job at all, so Anna is always practising her reading skills, which is why she happens to notice the advertising bill posted on the window of a closed down shop.

'Top modelling agency looking for attractive girls from eight to fourteen...............etc. Etc.'

Anna was not vain, but she knew she was considered pretty by others, unfortunately her 13 year old sister had been unlucky enough to catch chickenpox as a youngster which had left pock marks on her otherwise pretty face. If only things had been different both girls could have tried for the audition. Anna carefully picked the notice off to take home to show her parents, knowing they must be posted all over town, but perhaps with one less on show maybe fewer girls would attend. She had learned from an early age to look for any advantage or opportunity.

Her parents were wary at first, but the auditions were being held in a large local hall not in some backstreet club, and all applicants had to have one or both parents go with them.

And so Anna went with both her mum and dad.

Although they arrived early on the first day of auditions Anna was worried to see the length of the line stretching down the road. She had freshly bathed, both her mum and sister had spent ages working on her hair and nails, her mum had said no to make-up but had allowed her to use a little blush on her cheeks. Now she just waited in her Sunday best dress as the line snaked slowly forwards, catching nervous murmurs of conversation.

At last they were led into a room with a row of tables where ladies were taking down details of the girls, name, age, height, hair colour, address, and so on then each was given a large numbered card. They next went to a room in small groups and were asked in turn to stretch and bend and pose in front of a lady who seemed to be running the show.

After each of the girls in her group had been seen, the woman spoke quietly to an assistant, then they were told they would get a letter if they were considered suitable for any of their available modelling work in the future.

Anna was feeling quite sad as she thought it was fun to do all the posing stuff, but realised they had all been given the brush-off.

As they were about to leave the room the assistant caught her fathers attention, instead of following the others they were shown to another door, once into the hallway on the other side they were told Anna might be suitable, but they'd want to send some pictures of her to head office, also her parents needed to be interviewed first. Anna was offered a cola and asked to wait in one glass office while her parents went with another man to the office across the hall where she could see them as they sat and talked. Anna excited and nervous paced about the room, if she had sat down it would be harder to look across into the other office as only the top half was glass.

Suddenly her father stood up red faced, she could hear his raised voice but not what he was saying. She could see the man hold out his hands to calm down her father, who at last sat down, they continued to talk for a long time then the man put some books on the table. She could tell they were photo albums, but it was too far to see the pictures, she wondered if these were fashion pictures for the shops they didn't go to and the magazines they didn't buy. They never bought newspapers or magazines, but any they found they would bring home, after reading them they were cut into squares to use in the bathroom.

She saw the man make a phone call, a little later a lady took tea into the office then came into the room to ask if Anna would like anything. Anna said she was OK but the young woman could see how edgy she was so decided to stay and talk. Anna asked what the man could have said earlier to make her dad shout at him.

The lady smiled and said it was just her dad being a dad, at Anna's look she explained, “The photos we take are a little bit naughty and your dad was only trying to protect you, he wants you to stay his little girl forever.”

“How naughty” asked Anna, “is it bikinis or underwear and stuff or like doing sex, I've never done sex.” She squeaked.

The woman laughed, “I usually do the make-up for the models, and we have several model websites that have different styles of pictures, some which have fashion with a few panty shots, others where the girls get more daring, but no, we don't do sex scenes.”

“I'm ten, I'm not a little girl, I haven't started, you know, my periods yet, but I know about grown up stuff, so what are the daring pictures like?”

“I'm not sure I should be the one to say.” said the woman, “I only came in to keep you company, but I suppose it won't hurt. Our top end sites, run from the Studio I'm based at produce picture sets men pay to download that have girls in fancy costumes, and by the end of the set they are not wearing the costumes, does that answer your question?

“The add said girls 8-14 and I'm ten, I'm only starting to get small tittie bumps and I don't have any hair down there not like you see on porn sites”, Anna then became red faced realizing she had admitted to having once seen some porn photos, by looking through the door of a web café, “why would men pay to see naked pictures of a girl like me?”

“Well 60 or 70 years ago it was common for girls your age to marry, it still happens in some countries, but laws and customs change. Men see girls who are changing or some-times even younger girls as attractive, they are not allowed to marry or even touch them, the best they can hope for is a photo collection of pretty girls that they can admire.”

“I don't think I would mind having my picture taken with no clothes on, but I wouldn't want anyone I know to see them.” Anna said thoughtfully.

“Well how many people in your area do you know that have a computer and internet access, besides the websites are aimed at wealthy foreigners like the Americans and they must pay for membership to even get past the first page.” explained the woman Valya.

“Do you think I could be a model?” asked Anna, “and does it pay much, I would really love to help my family.”

Valya laughed and held Anna's hand, “I like you because you think of your family first, yes I think you could be a good model, and Ivan must think so too or he would not spend so much time talking to your parents. What you can earn is hard to say, you are prettier than many of our girls, and I know because I do their make-up. If your parents sign up for you to only work for us you get a sign on fee, and for each picture set you get a fee, then every time one of your sets is downloaded you get paid part of that money.

If you become one of our more popular models you get a bigger share from each sale, do you understand?”

“I think I understand but how do the men get to know about my pictures to buy the sets?”

“Well we introduce new models onto our sites with a few pictures and a made-up website name, you don't use your real name, then we say this model has this many sets so far, and we show maybe one or two high-res shots or a bunch of really small ones so they can decide if they want to pay for a full set.” explained Valya.

“But that still doesn't explain how much I might earn.” whined Anna.

“Do you know how much your father earns in a fortnight?” asked Valya, to which Anna shook her head, “You could make that much money in a single day's photo shoot, many more times if it becomes a popular set.”

Anna was stunned, her head felt funny, she thought for a while she was going to faint, then sat thinking for a time, this could be very important. The add said 8-14 and she was ten, did that mean after fourteen there might be less work, or no work, so in the worst case she had four years to be the best model she could be and Valya knew all about this stuff. Anna tried to work out what she needed to know, it was clear that if she could ask the right question, the smart question she could get a head start over other girls.

“Valya, have you seen lots of picture sets?” at which the woman nodded.

“Then maybe you can tell me what makes a set popular?”

“Straight to the point, but hard to answer, or maybe not, thinking about it a naughty twinkle in the eye as if you know what they are thinking as they look at your photo – and pussy, definitely - a wet pussy” replied Valya, “those are the secrets that bring guys back to order each new set of a girl that catches their eye.”

At that point they were interrupted by the ringing of a mobile phone, Valya pulled out an expensive looking phone and answered the call, Anna was amazed as she realized it was the man calling from just across the hallway.

“Ivan is going to pop back to the main hall for a while, so you can have a talk with your parents alone, they are probably more worried about this than you are, good luck Anna.”

“Thanks for answering my questions Valya, will I see you again?”

“Sure thing if you get the job and I see your name on the Studio list I'll tell the other make-up girls I promised to look after you myself.”

She gave Valya a quick hug then ran across through to where her parents were sitting.

Her father was about to speak, but her mum interrupted him. “Let me Igor” she said, unusual for her mum to lead the conversation, so her dad stayed silent for her mum to continue.

“Anna honey, this isn't what we expected, they don't do fashion or advertising photos like we thought this would be about.” At which point her mum seemed at a loss with how to continue, so her father took over.

“Sweetheart we love you very much, I know you thought it could be fun to be a model, but I think the work...... hours would be too hard on you.”

She leaned over and kissed his cheek, “Daddy I love you both, I know you're only trying to protect your 'little girl' but I'm not so little, I know what the modelling agency does, I want to be their best model ever, so let me see those albums Ivan showed you.”

Her father reached across to pick up the red album, and the three of them looked through it together. The first few pages had photos of just the faces of thirty to forty girls with their website names, current age, date of birth, and how many photo sets each girl had done. Following on were set samples, some as whole thumb nail sets, and some printed as high quality pictures, on a full page.

Anna took over and quickly flicked through to the back of the album, seeing nothing more than a few up-skirt type panty shots, you could see more than that walking around a park.

She pushed the album away, and grabbed for the blue one, her father placed his hand over hers, she turned and gave him 'the look' and he withdrew his hand.

“Are you sure sweetheart?” he asked, “Yes daddy, I know it will have pictures of naked girls, but I'm a girl so is my sister so I wont be too shocked.” her remark broke the tension and they all grinned.

The photos were in pairs with a face shot. and beside it a shot of the same girl standing naked, Anna took her time to look at the girls and their printed details much like the other album, she also noted her father was red faced which made her smile. Following on were set samples as before, some as whole thumb nail sets which showed the clothes being slowly removed, and some printed as full page size in high quality that showed every detail even close-ups of a girl's pussy and bottom.

This time Anna moved slowly through the album, not only looking at each girl but also the amazing clothes that must have been specially made, even down to their shoes or boots, and the beautifully painted fairytale backgrounds. Each girl also had stunning hair styles with fancy make-up, maybe some of Valya's work, a few girls also had patterns or flowers painted on their faces or bodies. At the back of the album there were some more shots of some of the same girls, but the details under each photo noted that there were video recordings of some of their photo shoots. Anna thought about this, if guys were willing to pay for still photo sets they must get charged more for the videos therefore surely the girl must get paid more as well, Anna was no ones fool, yes a bright girl for her age.

Anna returned to the front of the album to look up the girls who had done the video shoots, and just as she had guessed it looked like they were the girls who had done the most photo sets. She pointed out one particular girl, turned to look at her mum and dad, then said, “She's the best one there for now, but I'm going to be better than her.”

“Daddy you talked with that man Ivan, about the model agency, the business stuff, about how much money this would mean for us, I really want to do this, I don't mind taking my clothes off and no-one we know would see the pictures or anything. I know that a lot of people are losing their jobs here, I see the news every day, and they are always saying it will be hard in our country for a long time. I can do this, at least until I am fourteen and we can all be safe and not have to worry all the time, please daddy, let me do this.”

Her father had tears in his eyes, “Sweetheart, that you would do this and think only of your family, shows me you are the brave and loving girl I always knew you were, but they would still want to take the test pictures to send to their head office, you are very pretty but what if they don't offer you the job?”

“Daddy you are silly. Valya the lady I was talking to does the make-up in the studios, she was certain I would pass, and that Ivan would not have spent so much time talking to you unless he really really wanted me to be one of their models. So I want you to tell me all the stuff that he told you.”

“OK, he told me they are a proper lawful business, they do nothing that is illegal or criminal in this country, but in many other countries in the west, they could not take pictures of naked young girls, or even girls in their underwear, without being sent to prison.”

“That is silly, we have never been to the coast but lots of families go to the Black sea, or to lake side nude beaches.”

“I know sweetheart but let me continue, he told me that in the USA, which is where they do most business almost every home has a computer so that if someone wants to find pictures of pretty girls they could visit any of the company's websites, pay a membership fee so they can see the small sample pictures of each photo set, then pay a fee to down-load bigger size pictures onto their computer for each set they like.”

“Models get a fee for each photo set they pose for, then get a small share of the money every time someone pays to download her set, as the number of downloads gets higher they give successful model's a larger share of each payment. Most of the pictures are taken at their studios in Kiev where they have their head office, though he said they sometimes do photo sets out in the countryside as well. He said the studios get really busy at weekends and school holidays as some models have to travel a long way, mostly by train with a chaperone, usually the girl's mother. They have a lot of rules to keep their models safe so their parents don't worry, they even have apartments that can be used to stay in for however long a shoot is arranged for.”

“Wow, mum and I could be going to Kiev, that would be such an adventure, I think it's about two hours on the train, do you think we would get to stay over?”

At that point they were interrupted by a knock on the door, then Valya came in.

“Hi folks; Anna have you and your parents decided if you want our photographer to do some modelling test shots to send to head office?”

“Yes, yes, yes!,” she cried out, “I'm going to be your best model ever.”

“Well if enthusiasm counts for anything you could be right.” she looked over to Anna's father and raised an eyebrow, to which he gave a brief nod. “In that case I'll show you and your mum along the hallway to our temporary studio, and Ivan should be back soon to go over some paperwork with your dad. That just leaves the question of which of our sites you would be comfortable to pose for?”

Almost before Valya had finished speaking Anna shouted, “The blue album, definitely the blue one.” out of the corner of her eye she could see her father shrug his shoulders in resignation.

Anna hadn't realised this building was so big inside, but then this was the better end of the town, as they passed down another hallway she could hear raised voices coming from one office. Valya shook her head, “I could have told them that one was a non starter, the parents are keen, and their daughter's pretty, they dragged her along, but she just doesn't want to be a model, the pictures would show it, they are wasting time and upsetting the poor girl.”

At the end of the hall a lady was sitting on a chair reading a book beside a closed door, as they walked up the woman looked up and told Valya to go right in as the last applicant had just left.

As they passed through into the large bright room on the other side Anna joked, “Is that lady the security guard.” Valya smiled and said, “In a way yes, we are only here for two days, it's a make-do studio, so she wont let anyone in during your photo shoot.” then Valya turned to speak with Anna's mum, “Would you like to sit here Ella, you will be able to see all that goes on, not as well organised as our real studios but the process is much the same. Anna you sit here so I can put on a little make-up and check your hair, then Sandra can take some shots dressed as you are then in maybe one or two costumes.”

Anna had been taking in all the details as they had moved over to the make-up table which seemed to have more products than she had ever seen in one place, and the room was filled with lights on stands and silver coloured umbrellas all around a couch in front of a cloth back-drop. The photographer, Sandra had waved at them but looked busy with some computer equipment over next to all the expensive looking cameras.

Anna looked at herself in the mirror when Valya had finished, she was surprised as she had felt the make-up being put on but it didn't look like she was wearing any, maybe her eyes looked bigger and her lips a shade darker but all done with a delicate touch.

“All done, we will go and introduce you to Sandra when she gets finished with those down-loads, she's sending shots of the last girl back to head office but the internet connection out here is a bit slow. You didn't think we were going to send old fashioned photos in the post back to head office did you?” with a smile Valya went on to explain that they had both men and women photographers, but liked to start new models, especially for nude shots with Sandra or one of the other women to help them feel at ease.

Later on models would be paired with different photographers so that the models could find one they liked working with best, because if the model was relaxed they ended up with better pictures.

When she was introduced to Sandra, instead of getting on taking pictures she took her hand and lead her over to the couch, where they sat and talked, Anna was asked about her home life, school, hobbies and things she was interested in. Sandra got up asking Anna to stay on the couch, as she pointed out all the equipment and what it was for, as they carried on their conversation. Sandra asked Anna to move this way and that as Sandra walked around behind the cameras, saying she needed to take some more shots but this time with various infill lights that would flash as she was working.

Sandra managed to catch Anna's look of surprise as she had not realised that Sandra had been using a small remote control all this time to operate one of her cameras.

As the session continued Anna listened carefully to directions and found it great fun.

Sandra suggested it was time to go and choose a costume, and sent her back to Valya who was talking quietly with her mum as they had watched her progress.

There were three, wheeled hanging rails filled with exotic colourful outfits, Anna didn't have a clue where to start.

Valya came up and put a hand on her shoulder, “I have a photo album here showing girls wearing these different outfits, take a look through it, it may help you choose.”

After flipping through all the pictures she found the outfit she wanted, it was a harem girl type costume, a loose lacy jacket top with two ribbon ties in the front, a very fine veil type head-dress, tiny semi see-through tie sided panties, with a pair of totally see-through harem trousers, all in yellow with white trimmings. Valya checked the details, then picked it from the rail saying how it was a good choice as it could fit a wide age group whereas a lot of outfits were meant to be skin tight, and would not look right unless you were very close to the size of the girl it had been made for.

Anna slipped off her best dress which she handed to her mother then stepped out of her panties and shoes, glad that both the dressing area and the make-shift studio had carpets, she had also noted the room was warm enough to be comfortable standing there naked.

Valya suggested placing the panties on the chair, sit on them then tie the sides, as she had been at a loss how to do it while standing up. She went on to say they often had girls in the studio who helped you to dress and change outfits, this was so you could change without messing up your hair or make-up, also to avoid getting make-up on the clothing.

Anna was having the best time ever being pampered, dressing up, and she really didn't mind about the naked bit, but the cola she had had earlier was wanting out, she needed to pee before the next set. Valya said they choose this room because it had it's own toilet, as she pointed out the door then turned to talk with Anna's mum.

This was just the break she needed in more ways than one as she moved past the make-up table she carefully palmed a small tin of Vaseline she had seen earlier, and took it with her to the toilet.

Although the panties had caused some difficulties at first with the ties there was enough elastic give that she could pull them up and down without having to now undo those ties. After peeing and wiping herself she prised the lid off the small tin and smeared a small amount of the greasy substance along her pussy groove, bringing to mind the words Valya had said about the most popular sets, “and pussy, definitely - a wet pussy” in the studio lights this would make her look wet, much better than her previous idea using her finger to add a little spit, yes much better.

She eased the panties back into place,flushed, washed her hands and returned to the main room replacing the small tin without anyone noticing, then walked over to the studio area to continue posing in her new outfit.

Moving as Sandra directed was good fun, and she caught on to the idea that she was supposed to tease her audience as she slowly undressed, she thought about how she had seen older girls flirting with even older guys, head down looking up at them coyly through fluttered eyelashes, playing with their hair, or their buttons, in her case she slowly pulled at the ties first on her jacket then later the little yellow panties. As she rolled about on the couch or floor she made a point of keeping her pussy or bottom aimed at the cameras.

After several naked shots Anna was down on the floor on all fours looking backwards over her shoulder, she winked at the camera just as Sandra took the shot.

“I think that's it for today,” said Sandra, “we won't need any other costumes for you young lady, if I don't get a reply from head office to sign you up straight away, then I should throw away my cameras and become a tram driver.”

Anna looked on as Sandra was swiftly typing on her computer, and watched as various progress bars crept slowly forwards realizing her images were flowing down wires all the way to Kiev, and with them the possibility of a change in her life for the better.

Anna thanked Sandra for being so nice to her, and Sandra said she had been easy to work with and she looked forwards to photographing her again in the future.

Anna changed back into her best dress that now looked dull and shabby when compared to the fantasy wardrobe she was surrounded by, then they were guided back by Valya to the room where her father was waiting with Ivan.

Ivan asked Valya how the test shoot had gone, to which she said Anna had impressed Sandra with how well she had done in front of the camera, and called her a natural born model. Anna was so pleased she thought if her smile got any bigger some crook would come along and steal all her teeth.

Valya had to go off again, as Ivan and her parents started talking about model release forms and all the other paperwork stuff, Ivan's phone rang, after a brief chat he stood up and held out his hand to her father, “Igor, I have been informed our company would like to sign up Anna as one of our models.”

Chapter 02

This news was followed handshakes and hugs all around, then lots and lots of paper, even Anna had to sign on two copies of some of them with her dad's name next to hers, then they were gathered up, one pile for Ivan and one pile for her dad that Ivan put into a big folder. Then he handed her father an envelope which she saw contained bank notes.

“That is the signing on fee as noted on the paperwork, plus a little extra so that you can take all of the family out for supper tonight to celebrate.” said Ivan. It wasn't till they were on the bus heading back home, that Anna realised it was late afternoon and they had all missed lunch, so it would be wonderful that the whole family would be able to eat out to celebrate together.

In their apartment Marta her older sister had been down on the floor playing snakes and ladders with her younger brothers, as soon as their eyes met, she knew, and the two girls rushed to hug one another, followed by a string of questions not giving Anna a chance to answer.

“Calm down Marta” said Igor, “go over and see if Nana Olga could look after the boys for an hour or so, the four of us can talk about what happened today, then if the boys behave for Nana Olga as a special treat we will all go out to supper.”

There was an elderly couple that lived in the apartment across the hall that the children had always known as Nana Olga and Gramps, they were not related but had become adopted Grandparents.

They sat at the table once the boys had gone, and Igor summarised what had happened as the two girls sat together, Marta had her arm protectively around her younger sister as she listened, a little jealous, but mostly with a sense of pride and even admiration for her. He went on to say that the contract was for a minimum of two photo sets within the next six months, and depending on how popular they would extend the contract on a rolling basis, which meant that Anna could only work for that agency, but she could end up doing photo sets, or even videos for any of the websites that they owned.

Igor said it would be best if they didn't tell anyone about it, just to say Anna had got to do a little modelling work for a foreign clothes catalogue if pressed, it wouldn't be a good idea to flash money about with so many people out of work.

Marta was curious as to how much her sister would earn, and was stunned when her father explained it could be ten times what he earned maybe more, Ivan had told him that within a few hours of Anna's first photo set being on the website they should have some indication of how well liked she was, and if by the time she had three sets, if they were all selling well it could be worth while moving and living in Kiev.

If news of the possible earnings had been a shock, the thought they could afford to move to the capital was right off the scale, their father went on to say if it lasted for only two or three sets during the six month contract, their mum could take Anna back an fourth by train and stay over in the company apartment and they would still have a nice nest egg to help them through the hard times. If things went well, and Igor was not one to count his chickens, then it would make sense to move so they were closer to the studios.

Another positive thing was that Ivan had contacts all over the city so Igor could find work on building or factory maintenance, he might even go to work at the same Studio complex.

That evening they enjoyed their meal out at a small café that was a short bus ride away, where Igor was sure they would not be seen by anyone they knew, although it was a special treat for them, to western eyes it looked like the sort of place that manual workers might go to for a greasy breakfast.

Four days later on the Wednesday, the first day of the summer holidays, the boys once again got to stay next door, as mum and the girls went across town to shop, their mum brought each of the family three new sets of underwear, a blushing Marta even getting her first ever bras, this event being perhaps more than a little overdue.

Underwear was safe, they were happy to get any new clothes, they were needed, but it didn't show, also they had each been given a little personal spending money.

On the journey back their new purchases were in the bottom of their two shopping baskets with only cabbages, bread, and other vegetables visible sitting on top.

They put away the shopping before bringing the boys home for lunch, leaving a surprised and pleased Nana Olga with a fresh loaf and along with a round of cheese they knew she was fond of, saying they'd had a bit of luck this week.

After lunch Greg and Peter were playing on the floor and both girls were sitting at the table reading, their mum came up and quietly asked Marta if she had started having her periods to which the girl replied no, but she thought about half the girls in her class in school had. Ella then looked at Anna, “Did you spend your money on a box of tampons?”

“I have heard you say how periods are a nuisance enough, without the pads being all scratchy as well, and I know how you try to save money by getting the cheapest ones, so those are for you mum.”

Her mum kissed her forehead then went to get on with her chores, Marta just smiled.

The time came for Anna's first photo shoot, she and her mum would be away for three or maybe four days, with Marta looking after the boys and doing the cooking.

The five o'clock train was only twenty minutes late, and they arrived at their destination just after eight o'clock, although they had the address, they'd been told it would be best to phone from the station when they got there, then they would send someone in a taxi to pick them up. They had been waiting outside watching the busy street scene for about a quarter of an hour when Anna heard someone shout her name, it was Valya stepping out of smart looking taxi, Anna ran over to embrace her, as her mum followed carrying their one small suitcase.

On the ride to the Studio Valya told them she had looked for Anna's name to come up as she had promised, and found out they would be arriving today so she had volunteered to collect them rather than send someone they had never met.

It was only a short drive before the car turned into a smart new business park and pulled up outside a group of several buildings, some were stylish offices and others that could have been warehouses. When they got out Valya did not pay the driver, she just signed something on a clipboard, seeing Anna's puzzled look she explained how they used the cabs hundreds of times every week and the accounts department would settle up later.

Valya clipped a name badge to her lapel as they entered reception, introduced them to the girl on the desk and got two temporary badges for them to wear before heading off to the personnel Dept. Valya handed them over to an older lady, who first checked over some more paperwork then made up laminated ID badges with their photos on, she then took them on a tour of the complex, they even saw a bunch of tall black boxes with flashing lights like something out of a sci-fi movie that the lady called servers that held all the pictures and customer account details, then pointed through the glass at the people in charge of that stuff calling them their trained geeks.

They went past the design department where they came up with ideas for all the artistic backgrounds and scenery, then the costume designers, the room beyond looked like a whole factory of ladies making the clothes, then a big wardrobe room where two younger ladies looked after all their stock of outfits.

In one large building there were men with drills and hammers and machines making stuff, and their guide stopped to ask which studio they were resetting; that was the next stop.

In studio three it looked like a old castle, the background and even a cloth on the floor had been painted to look like old flag stones that these old men were still busy painting and off to one side was a table and chairs to match the scene.

By now they had spent some time looking around, the lady checked her watch and told them it was time for lunch in the staff canteen, the food was so different nothing stodgy, salads, chicken and fish, big helpings, fruit and ice cold milk, but no prices, the lady laughed and said all the meals were free, they had really healthy food to encourage the models to eat properly, the other staff could follow that example or go out and buy their own lunch.

She told them all new models were given a tour so that they could see just how many people it took to run the business, the models may be the stars, but it took a very large number of staff to make that happen.

The afternoon schedule included a visit to a private doctor, who took an embarrassingly close look at her privates, which she realized were soon to become public, she had to pee in a cup, give blood and do all that other stuff you do at the doctors, but it was a very nice doctors surgery. In the same building was a private dentist who was very pleased with how well Anna looked after her teeth, maybe that was because she had heard so many horror stories about how bad the State dentists were.

By late afternoon they were installed in one of the companies two bedroom apartments, the little suitcase unpacked, Ella was glad when Anna had asked to share the same bed as neither of them were used to sleeping alone, and this was the first time either had been on more than a day trip anywhere. There was a nice kitchen, but stocked with just the stuff to make tea, coffee or fruit squash, in the lounge there was a huge TV and there were telephones in every room, even the bathroom! From the windows they could see a little park, and many of the streets nearby were lined with trees, which made Anna think her home town looked very grey and dull by comparison.

Everything in the place was bright, colourful and new, like the big soft duvets on the beds, to the floors covered with wall to wall carpet, but her favourite had to be the bathroom.

The walls and floors were tiled but somehow the floor was warm, there was even a heated rail covered with the biggest, softest, towels she had ever seen, and next to the toilet was a thing that looked like a cross between a toilet and a wash basin that her mum told her was a bidet so you could wash after using the toilet, and real rolls of thick soft toilet paper. The bath had the taps on the side, if they had one like that at home there would be no arguments with Marta as to who's turn it was to get the tap end, there was also a glass door in the wall into a separate shower, it had the usual hose thing, but it also had jets of water that sprayed out that would wash your bum and armpits for grown-ups but Anna guessed it would hit her belly button and squirt in her eyes.

There was a big stone like top with two wash basins and a big mirror with lights, with a whole bunch of soaps and sprays and bubble bath and everything, but most of all what made Anna laugh was a little gift basket with an individually wrapped pads and tampons.

The lady from personnel took them out to supper as arranged earlier, it was the poshest place Anna or her mum had ever been before and they were glad they had been on a subsequent shopping trip to buy a few modest new clothes to wear in the city.

Once back in the apartment they phoned home, although they had a phone at home they didn't use it much, but they were told they could use the phone in the company apartment as as often as they liked.

Both Anna and her mum indulged in a long hot bubble bath before bedtime, not a shared one, but as in a fresh one each.

The next morning in the bathroom Anna wiped her bum on the really soft toilet paper then hopped across to try out the bidet, after all if the photos were close-ups she wanted to be sure she was really really clean back there.

Anna and her mum had time for a cup of tea in the kitchen before the car came to collect them for the Studio, there was even a panel by the door so you could speak someone at the street door to the apartment block and unlock the front door for them.

Anna mostly spoke Ukrainian, as did most people in her home town but she could get by speaking Russian which was taught at school, she noticed it was more common in Kiev, she also knew a few English words she had picked up through pop culture.

This morning it was all preparation, after a swift breakfast it was straight through to the beauty department first with the hairdressers, and as there was a spare chair and it was a quiet day, her mum got done as well, though her mum got tinted besides being styled, she thanked the staff over and over saying how her Igor would think he had a new younger wife when she got home. While Anna's longer hair was drying she was given a manicure on one side and a pedicure on the other, then as the girls finished they changed sides.

Her finger nails were painted a delicate lilac but not her toenails, her hair was now piled up high with braids and clips holding it in place with a few long ringlets hanging down, until the stylist was sure it matched the details on the instruction sheet from the theme designer.

With the look complete a call was made to the people who looked after studio scheduling.

Valya showed up to take them to the canteen for an early lunch where they saw a few other girls with their mums and other staff – most having milk and fruit with their meals.

When they had finished eating, Valya produced a typed list of names handing it over to Anna to look at, “Well Anna this is a list of names for you to choose from, for use as your website name, which one do you think would suit you?”

“Could I be called Natasha, I don't know anyone with that name but it sounds nice.”

And so began the career of a young Ukrainian girl known everywhere else as Natasha.

They arrived at studio four to find a backdrop painted like a giant's garden with tall plants and strawberries nearly as big as Anna, there were big pretend rocks, the floor covered with green fur pretend grass, there were also real plants and vines all over the set.

When Anna asked if it was a giant's garden, Valya said the designers idea was the other way around, a normal sized garden, with a tiny pixie sized girl like the thumbelina fairytale character.

The make-up and dressing area was amazing, and there was even a door through to a nice bathroom with a shower. The clothes for the set were all laid out complete with a box full of accessories to go with the outfit.

“It's only a very simple costume today so we won't need a dresser” Valya told her, “so strip off and we can make a start.”

Anna had not worn panties that morning, but she had worn a longer dress as she'd been told models were always careful to avoid marks from elastic waist bands before a shoot.

Once naked she pulled on a pair of high-cut white panties with a purple trim, next was a two layered skirt in light green with large butterflies printed all over it which could be seen through a very fine purple net over-skirt. The short sleeved top was light green to match the skirt, only it looked like one of her dads string vests – well apart from the sleeves, and the colour, and the fact it was covered in large colourful butterflies to match the skirt.

Valya had explained that most times they did the make-up first but with this costume they would dress her first. When she sat in the make-up chair she was draped in a cape then the process began, after that little butterflies and purple feathers were added to her hair, coloured beads around her wrists and finally butterfly rings for her fingers.

Valya told her that either of two photographers was available to shoot the set planned for this afternoon, Sandra, who she had worked with at the test shoot before or John.

Thinking over what she'd been previously been told about working with various different photographers, Anna screwed up her courage to say she would try working with John.

“Anna it might be a good idea to go for a pee before you start.” suggested Valya, as Anna stood to go off to the bathroom she suddenly gasped as she felt Valya slip a small flat tin into her hand, - how did she know - Anna was too embarrassed and shocked just now to ask, maybe later, if she could face her.

Anna returned her face still a little flushed, placing the tin on the edge of the table, thankful Valya and her mum were over by the set talking to this tall good-looking man who she supposed was her photographer John. She walked over to join them, John smiled at her and said how pleased he was to be taking her pictures, as Sandra had told him how easy Anna was to work with, saying how some new models were quite nervous, and a few of the more seasoned models got too big for their boots. John went on to explain they might take a few hundred pictures during the shoot, then later, on the computer screen, he would choose the best ones, somewhere between fifty and a hundred and twenty images which would go onto the website as her first set.

While John was making last minute checks and adjustments, Valya gave her a pair of fluffy white ankle socks to complete her costume, then fussed with her hair for a moment before pronouncing her perfect.

When they started the shoot John had her stand in different parts of the set, and leaning over the rocks, then he started telling her silly jokes, as he directed her movements.

As the set progressed he asked her to stretch up to reach the cap of a giant toadstool,

“No I want you sideways on to the camera Anna to show off your cute little buds honey, now bend around the stalk and hug it like your best friend,” and so John continued with his guidance.

Anna played with the net over-skirt, stretched up to show her bare tummy, and leaned in for close-ups with the real flowers on the set, then she got down on floor of soft yellow furry carpet for pictures sitting or laying down. John asked her if she could do the splits on the floor then later when she was standing how high she could raise one leg and praised her on her flexibility. After dozens more shots where he had her pulling funny faces he said they should take a short break.

On reaching the make-up area Valya opened a small fridge and handed each person their preferred soft drink, placing a straw in Anna's bottle, to avoid messing up her lipstick.

After their break John asked if they could loose the top, her mum and Valya helped ease it over her hair, followed by a bit more fussing, then back on set holding the top up to look like she had just pulled it off herself. Shortly they progressed to the skirt, and finally the panties, where John asked for lots of teasing, taking thirty or more pictures of the panties coming down.

Nearly naked, well she was wearing socks, she rolled about posing and laughing, and bending every which way, aware of the many close-up shots John was taking of her girlie parts, but she didn't mind as he was so nice to her, and she was having so much fun.

When John said they would take about another dozen or so shots and call it a day, Anna repeated a pose she had done for Sandra and got down on the floor on all fours looking backwards over her shoulder, then she winked at the camera just as John took the shot, she thought she might try to use that same pose in every set as a kind of signature, John must have liked it too as asked her to do it again a few times just to be sure.

Next she stood up and slowly blew a kiss, which John captured on three or four shots.

Curious John asked why she had blown a kiss, to which Anna explained she had seen a couple of other girls do it, when she had carefully studied the last few thumbnail pictures in some of the sets she had seen.

John then started to shut down all the equipment around the set and Anna sat down for Valya to remove her makeup and let her hair down. “Well ladies I hate to run,” announced John as he bowed to them, “off to the editing suite to select images of our new young star to feature on her debut website appearance, goodbye for now.”

Anna was still on a high from such an exciting afternoon and could hardly stop talking, but when her mum left to use the toilet, Anna could no longer contain her curiosity, “Valya how did you know?” she asked her eyes flicking towards the tin of Vaseline. The smiling woman explained how she always laid her table out in exactly the same order so that she could find things quickly, so it stood out to her when something was not in the right place. She had put two and two together having seen several of the close up shots from the test shoot, and remembering some of the intelligent and insightful questions Anna had asked.

“To stop you messing with my table layout in future, when we work together I will place a spare tin in the cupboard under the bathroom sink, you're a bright one, I cant think of any of the other models your age coming up with such a smart idea, and I won't tell okay.”

Anna thanked Valya for all the help and advice she had given her and said that she was filling in a small notebook with all the tricks and information and stuff she was learning about being a model, by this time her mother had returned, stating when she saw it, she was sure it looked like the book was already half full. The conversation continued between the three for some time as Valya packed away her things into a large trolley with lots of drawers, and the costume and accessories were folded and put away, then the subject moved on to what might happen tomorrow.

Valya told them that the 'Natasha' web entry would be uploaded at some point tonight if the editing didn't take too long, so by the morning they would have some feedback as to how well the set had started off, then the admin people and sales team would decide on the next move. As it was nearly six in the evening they had planned on calling a cab, to go for a meal before heading back to the apartment, but as they crossed the reception area, they heard someone shouting for them to wait.

It was John rushing down the corridor towards them, “ Hey you have got to come and see this, 'Natasha' has only been on line for an hour, you would not believe how well her first set is going down, her name has been popping up all over the members forum, and the downloads are picking up at quite a respectable rate, I wouldn't be surprised if they change schedules tomorrow so that Anna can do another set.”

Valya cut in, “I didn't think you had access to real time download stats in the editing suite, how come you know what's going on?”

“Well you guys may only see the creative or artistic side of us photographers but we can be a little competitive too, I'm not that conceited, I realize I need a good model to start with of course like Anna here, but one of the tech geeks changed some settings so that I can see other parts of the network, you must come and take a look.”

As they followed him, he told them how hard it had been to keep down the set size, but it had been agreed to release 'Natasha Set 1' with 122 images which was large for a first set, but there was no padding they were all good shots. Anna was curious to know how the web page with her photos could be made so quickly, and John went on to explain that they had empty templates just like a ready built framework, so that once the images were chosen it only took a few minutes to set up, then upload to the main server.

At John's workstation in the editing room they gathered around an enormous computer screen, and he said he would show them the site as the customers would view it.

Anna watched spellbound, the first obvious thing was that all the writing she realized was in English, she could only make out very few words, but John gave them a rough idea of what it was saying as they moved through the site. The introduction page showed the faces of some of the most popular models, and shots of some girls fully dressed in their colourful costumes, with an invitation to take a limited tour of the site, that showed some teasing pictures with the girls undressing with all of the girls nipples and pussies hidden behind shiny stars, which Anna thought was quite funny.

They returned to the main page, and John clicked on the 'members only' icon, then on the next page they saw there were boxes where the member had to write a user name and a password, John told them all the admin and design people in the company had passes so that they could do checks after they had made changes to the site.

The first members only page had five choices in order to move on, - Meet the Models – Pictures – Videos – What's New – and Members Forum, John clicked on 'What's New'.

The screen changed to show the faces of two girls, Anna's heart was beating so hard she was sure everyone next to her could hear it, 'Natasha' was one of the featured girls, under her picture was some writing, John handed her a sheet of paper saying that was what it said on the screen.

Natasha – 10 years old, lives on the Black sea coast, she has a dog and two cats, she likes western pop music, dancing and horse riding. Her dream job is to be a vet when she grows up. So far the lovely Natasha has one photo set for your delight – but if you like her as much as we do we'll be sure to invite her back.

“Well Natasha's 'life story' is different from mine, I've never even seen the Black sea, I do like animals, and I would love to ride a horse, I'm sure Marta my sister would love that too.”

Although there was a link through to 'Set No.1' John went back to the other page to click on 'Meet the Models' – here were pictures of each girls face, with their name, age, and what looked to be the number of photo sets, Anna asked why some girls also had a little winking star with their details, and found it was because those girls had also done videos.

The girls were listed in alphabetical order, and as John scrolled down they passed the picture of the other new model, the coloured frame around her picture was flashing with a sign which apparently said – 'New Model added this Month', when they finally reached 'Natasha' with a similar frame John asked if Anna would like to click on the picture.

With an effort to keep from shaking Anna moved the little cursor over her image and clicked, the next page was topped with the same photo and writing from the 'What's New' page.

Below there was some more text that related to set number one, then three medium sized images from the set, including the picture she thought of as her signature image, she very slowly scrolled through line after line of little thumbnails, studying each one, trying to decide what she felt, knowing hundreds or even thousands of men could right now be looking at these naked pictures of her.

She felt – happy, surprised, proud, wet, WET !!! Where did that come from, she and Marta were close and her older sister had been trying to explain to Anna how she got all these strange mixed up feelings, also about how sometimes she felt the need to rub herself 'down there' at night, something Anna couldn't really miss as they shared a bed, and about feeling horny, saying that in a few years Anna might better understand.

“Anna honey, are you OK?” her mum's question broke the spell, she had been paused on one line for a while, “Yes mum, just a bit overwhelmed, so many pictures, also I could use the bathroom before we continue.”

Valya gave her directions to the nearest one, and Anna set off realising she needed to add several new notes in her 'modelling book' including to always carry a pair of panties to wear, for after a modelling job, she was worried the tops her legs might start to get wet, this was something she felt she needed to talk about with Marta, she loved her mum but sometimes it was just easier to talk with her big sister.

In the toilet she investigated the 'wetness', it was kind of slippery, and wetter than she normally felt down there, maybe this was the “wet pussy” look that Valya had spoken of when they had first met. After peeing and wiping real good she was glad they had soft toilet paper, that was something that was going to have to change when they got home, definitely no more newspaper in the bathroom.

Anna was still trying to come to terms with how different things were in this world of modelling even the office floors were covered all over in carpet squares and between each workplace in the large office were dividers covered in soft material so each person had their own quite space to work in, therefore no one heard her approach as she returned.

Her mum was saying how relived she felt that Anna had been so calm, and appeared to be really enjoying herself, and that Igor and she herself had spent many sleepless nights worried how Anna would cope with the reality of the modelling sessions.

Anna ran around the edge of the dividing screen to hug and kiss her mum, “Everything is fine mum, you and daddy don't need to worry, I'm having the best time ever, I'm sure if I had any more fun I might burst with happiness, so when you phone daddy tonight make sure you tell him that, I don't want him to worry any more okay?”

With mum and daughter still holding one another they returned to looking at the website where they had left off, when Anna reached the bottom of the page she thanked John for showing her and for taking such nice photos, John was a little embarrassed by the girls praise and suggested they move on to the 'Members Forum' page.

To Anna this looked like several text conversations at once, between dozens of people in 4 or 5 languages, but most of it was in English, but she found one or two in Russian that she could make out, the one thing she could see in a lot of them was the name 'Natasha'.

“I'm going to spend my summer holiday learning to read and speak English, and I think I should practice using my Russian more as well, that's when I'm not modelling of course, do you think I could get Marta to learn with me? We could practice together and I would hate for Marta to feel left out.” her mum squeezed her tighter saying she thought that was a lovely idea, she would be so proud that both her girls could learn such useful new skills.

“There are several people working here who speak English, after all they do all the writing on our websites, I'm sure a few of them will be able to help you start off, and lend you some books to take home, I'll ask the tech geek I work with, now let's leave the website and take a look at our stats page on the company network.”

Anna thought these screens weren't colourful or pretty like those on the model website, just page after page with set numbers and model names, followed by boxes that had slowly rising numbers, other boxes were showing percentages of something she didn't understand, though she did understand percentages because they had done them at school. At last they got to the 'Natasha' page, and John explained the various parts, one box showed the number different people who had visited her page, another showed how many times her page had been visited, so from those numbers they could see some people had looked at her page more than once. The percentage box was about how many of those visitors paid to download the set, and he said that 83% was a very high number.

“You done good kid” said John as he pointed to the total sales box which showed numbers moving in fits and starts, which Anna tried to read, - two thousand seven hundred and thirty two, - fifty one, sixty nine …...........! “That's the best part of a thousand an hour, you went live about five this afternoon, it's almost eight now, that's about half one in the after-noon over in New-York, should speed up later as the office workers get home, then things will tail off over the course of the first week, then just slow steady sales to new members followed by the odd peak when you bring out a new set.”

Anna wanted to know why sales would go up on set one, if she brought out a new set, to which John told her if guys found they liked her second or third set, they might then decide to buy one or more of her previous photo sets as well.

Chapter 03

“Enough,” John said as he shut down his computer, “I made you late for supper, so lets go out to celebrate 'Natasha's' success, my treat we can go to that new restaurant that over-looks the river.” On the way there Valya insisted Ella and Anna use her mobile to phone home as they were already running so late, as neither had used a mobile phone before she dialled for them, mother and daughter held the phone between them and relaid their good news to Igor and Marta who were sharing a handset back home, the boys were already asleep, in their small apartment you just got used to all the other sounds and slept regardless.

They arrived at restaurant still talking on the phone, Valya said she and John would go inside to give them a little longer to speak privately to their family, which as it turned out was a good thing. Marta told her dad she needed to talk privately to her sister, so he said his goodbyes and went off to his bedroom. “Anna I'm really pleased for you, and now for my news, I opened the box you bought for mum, I got my first period today, it's yucky and those things are hard to use but I managed okay, now I best tell mum, and apologise for using her supplies.” she said with a giggle.

After a caring mother and daughter chat they ended the call and headed inside, with Ella complaining she must be getting old as both her daughters were growing up.

Anna felt as though she had stepped into a Hollywood film set as they were escorted to a window table, where they could see lights of the large barges which moved slowly up and down the river Dnieper carrying grain and sugar and stuff. Even though she was wearing a new dress she could see looking around the room that the ladies had expensive clothes, and a lot of the men were in suits, Valya seeing her worried expression guessed what it was about saying that neither she or John had got dressed-up, they were just wearing what they had on at work, which made Anna feel better.

Eating a three course meal, was a novelty never having had a 'starter' before, but when fruit was in season they often had fruit pies at home, Anna not wishing to embarrass her-self watched how Valya behaved and which cutlery she used, while John and Valya told funny stories about their work, Anna paid rapt attention for any new thing she could learn, and surprisingly even her mother who was a quiet woman joined in the conversation.

Towards the end of the meal Valya received a phone call which turned out to be the Studio asking if she knew where Anna and Ella were, as they were getting no response from the apartment, as they wanted to arrange for a second shoot for tomorrow afternoon, so that they had a photo set ready rather than wait for a later visit.

Valya spoke for some time making arrangements, then explained the outcome to Anna and her mum. As Valya had been assigned to be both Anna's make-up person and guide she would call for them in the morning to take them shopping, while the costume department worked up a design for a shoot in the afternoon, they could do a fitting just before lunch to check if the outfit needed adjustment.

When Ella showed her surprise that people were still in the office this late, John said that this was their busiest time of year during the school summer holidays, shooting photo sets then spacing their release throughout the year, but the internet worked 24/7 and the tech geeks had to be there in shifts to look after the web servers.

As mother and daughter snuggled into bed that night Anna managed to fall asleep in mid sentence, Ella smiling was quick to follow.

Early next morning Anna was at the kitchen counter with a tea, adding to her notebook while her mum was in the bathroom. She started writing – Modelling Shoots, most Studio sets were done in the school holidays, apart from those girls who live near the Studio, who could work on any weekend, Anna underlined that last part, - outdoor 'location' shoots were done in warm weather during or around the summer holidays, mostly arranged on weekends, often near to where the models lived.

At the front of the book were notes about the things she had learned, and at the back were a growing list of the questions she thought of, each one was crossed through when she found and wrote down the answers. Looking at the latest entries she hoped to find the answers soon – How can I learn English? - Can I visit the website? Anna wanted to study the sets of those girls who were most popular to see if she could learn anything, she would also like to be able to read the members forum to find out what it was they liked best.

Wet,- who to ask? She was going to ask Marta but now she was thinking it would be better to ask a grown-up like Valya if they could talk alone, she didn't think she could ask her mum, although she had given her and Marta 'the talk' about growing up, and about their bodies changing, and periods, and not being alone with boys and all that stuff, she still felt it would be an awkward conversation.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a buzzer, she ran to let Valya in, she was early, and her mum was having a soak in the bath, grasp the moment, she thought to herself.

After greetings and making two fresh teas Anna asked, “I'm really embarrassed but I need to ask someone, and I think you would be able to tell me and er...... about a girl, er you know, down there..... like you said before, about being wet in the pictures,” there she had managed to say it.

Valya smiled, grasped her hand, and said she knew Anna had some idea about periods and her body changing from when they had talked at the auditions, but when she asked Anna what she knew about sex, Anna admitted she only had a vague idea that the man put his thing inside a girl and it hurt, and it would make her pregnant.

“Well that is a basic description, but it normally only hurts the first time, you told me you have younger brothers so I suppose you have seen their 'things' yes?” at which Anna nodded. “Well that part is called a penis, and on older boys or men when they see, or even think about a pretty girl, it stops being small and floppy, it swells up to be straight and stiff like a pickle so that they can put it into the girl.” Anna nodded she could see how that would make sense. “Now for girls, as they get older and see, or think about guys they like, they find the lips of their vagina swell up a little bit, and they get all wet and slippery ready to have sex so their parts can slide together easily. But the warning you were given is true, it's far too easy for a young girl to get pregnant, and you can catch a lot nasty diseases from one of those 'things' so I would advise you have a long talk with your mum before you even think about boys, okay Anna.”

Anna bit her lip thinking for a moment, “I think I understand now, if a man sees a picture of a girl, and she is wet, they think she wants to do sex with them.”

“That is more or less the idea, men tend to get excited by things they see, there is a very old saying that men have two heads, one on their shoulders and one on the end of their penis, and they only have enough blood to fill one at a time, so when their penis swells up because they are thinking about girls, the head on their shoulders stops working.”

They both laughed at the image. “Last night when we were looking at my web page I was really pleased but kind of mixed up as well, I was confused and kind of panicky when I realized I was wet, but I don't have a boyfriend, I wasn't thinking about any guy at all.”

“I told you that men get excited by what they see, with us girls it is more about what goes on in our heads, I think it must have hit you hard that so many guys were looking at your pictures, thinking how pretty you are, that idea must have got you all excited and wet.”

As the two were hugging each other Valya saw Ella standing across the room mouth the word 'Thank-you', then she stepped back to make a noise with the bathroom door to act as if she had just entered the room.

Needless to say the three had a great morning doing what girls love best – shopping.

They used the city Metro system which was another first for Anna and Ella, fortunately for them there was a station fairly close to the Studio, and they stashed their booty in Valya's tiny office come store room, before heading for the costume design workshop in time for Anna's fitting.

Hardly any fitting was required as they had details of all the models sizes and how tall each girl was, which they liked to update frequently, because some of them seemed to sprout up suddenly, even so it was said models skirts or dresses could never be too short.

The 'circus girl' costume had a belly bearing backless halter top which tied behind the neck and back in a strange tufted material in yellow green and red, with matching brief bikini tie sided panties. It came with silky yellow skirt with an elastic waist which was hemmed in several rows of lacy white frills and a pair of ankle socks that were even nicer and fluffier than the ones the day before.

Lunch was a cheese salad and a banana, next stop Valya's 'office' where she grabbed the big wheeled trolley with lots of drawers, after that it was studio two, where they were met by two of the ladies from the beauty department one to restyle her hair, the other re-doing her nails a dusky pink colour. As those two did their thing Valya was setting up the make-up table to her satisfaction. The hairdresser plaited her hair into several separate braids all over her head, then coiled them into little doughnut shapes held with clips and decorated with coloured beads, each one looked like it had a small pig tail popping out the middle.

While everyone was fussing around her Anna was taking in details of the set, which had a tall colourful striped tent in front of a dark background, the floor was covered with a bright crimson furry material on which stood a see-saw, party balloons, balls, and those thin club things that jugglers, juggled with. When her hair and nails were complete, the ladies went back to their own department leaving Valya to perform her magic. As she sat still for Valya Anna thought it funny to be sitting there with no panties on for a second day, and how free it felt, but a month ago in school it would have been her worst nightmare.

“Do you know who will be taking the pictures today?” Anna asked, “It isn't on the info sheet I have here Anna, do you want me to call and check?”

It turned out to be John again which Anna was quite happy with, but he was running late due to an admin meeting, which didn't matter as she was yet to get dressed up in her costume, and accessories.

When at last Anna was ready, Valya suggested it would be a good time for her to take a bathroom break before John showed up giving the girl a sly wink, as promised in the cupboard under the sink was a little round tin, after 'draining the tank' as her dad always called it Anna applied a little Vaseline before replacing the tin where she had found it.

John arrived to find a happy confident girl, bouncing and ready to go, he hoped her attitude remained, for although most girls thrived on the life-style and grew emotionally, a few girls became overwhelmed by the changes and sadly gave it up, but he felt Anna was going to get to the top of the game, just as she seemed to tell everyone.

Anna was eager to start, she and John sharing silly jokes, as Anna went though a series of poses, occasionally poking her tongue out at him, so he told her if the wind changed her face might get stuck like that, which caused more laughter.

Meanwhile unnoticed at the make-up table the two women talked, Ella once more thanking Valya for helping her daughter that morning, understanding how Anna had felt awkward to talk about sex with her mother, as she had been the same way herself, she had felt Valya's way of explaining things had been pitched at just the right level for a girl of that age.

After playing on the see-saw John encouraged her to include various other props before he announced they had both earned a drinks break.

By the time they arrived at the make-up area the topic had in fact moved on to Valya giving Ella make-up tips for her colouration and skin tones, which was discontinued in order to raid the fridge finding a selection of yoghurt, fruit drinks or carbonated drinks.

John told them how he had seen his friend Dmitri the 'tame tech geek' that morning and the guy was going to check with all the people in his department for simple starter books on learning English, but as he'd stated, only because it was for the beautiful 'Natasha'.

They all laughed at the blushing Anna, who then joked she should send a signed photo to Dmitri as the first member of her fan club.

Anna thanked John saying that only left one question she had written in her model book that morning unanswered, - “Can I visit the website?”, and she went on to say how she thought she could use it to learn how to be a better model.

John explained that would be hard, because her town had a slow internet connection, and where she lived might have no access at all, and lastly she would need a user-name and password, suddenly he jumped up, “I've had an idea, be back in ten” and with that he was off leaving the studio. When he returned he was carrying an oblong black bag on a strap over his shoulder, he reached into a side pocket to produce a large crisp picture, it was a print of the 'Natasha' signature pose looking back over her shoulder winking at the camera.

John told them Dmitri was a classic film nut, and he had a great idea what Anna should write on the picture, which she did smiling.

'Here's looking at you Dmitri', which she then followed with her own words

'To the first member of my fan club love from Natasha'

John told them Dmitri would love the picture and the joke.

Then John said that although he thought Anna couldn't visit the website he didn't see why the website couldn't visit her, a statement which seemed to puzzle everyone until he showed them an old laptop, he had downloaded the entire web-site onto it, but he had also added the directories of full size images as well, telling Anna no one would be able to use the machine at all, or see any of the pictures if it was stolen, because it had a very secure password that was printed on a small card he gave her, saying for her to keep them in separate places.

It took a moment for Anna to realize John meant for her to keep the computer, and she would have hugged him had not Valya intervened first, telling her not to smudge the make-up, and to get back to work giving her a playful swat to her backside, saying she could hug John later.

Anna went back to her modelling with a joyful enthusiasm, first flipping up her skirt for a few panty shots, then teasingly slipping it down her coltish legs, as they ran through the set John moved about to take shots from lower angles to exaggerate the height of her legs and lithe body, without the need for his instruction, Anna released the lower ties of the top she was wearing, holding it out and playing with the ends of the ties.

When Anna thought John was ready she reached behind her neck to slowly pull the halters top bow, as it came apart she taunted her audience by peeling it off one shoulder at a time and clutching the garment to her almost flat chest, moving it slowly down to reveal the little pointy buds growing there.

She moved the top about, then tossed it off the set, posing in just her brief panties, she asked John what would make a good shot next, so he advised after pulling the strings to slide the freed fabric back and forth between her legs side on to the camera, which Anna did to perfection, while staring into the camera.

Anna in fact took care to actually rub the material against the side of her thigh, so as not to remove her secretly applied 'wetness' from her pussy. When she had finished with the panties Anna tried to come up with imaginative poses using the various props, until John made a comment she should try poses that were less 'full-on', nearly but not quite showing all her charms. Anna instantly realized this was something she had seen in the pictures of some of the best models, but it had been accomplished in such a subtle way she hadn't noticed why they were better than the less popular models.

During the remainder of the set Anna was more aware of how she presented herself to the camera, making better use of the props, like when she asked John to take shots of her pussy through each of the different coloured balloons. She continued the set with very little direction from John, knowing they would also need a mix of shots, she tried one laying on her back with her legs up, knees apart with the soles of her feet together looking at the camera through the diamond shape she had created, pleased that her moves produced a frenzy of camera action.

Anna considered they must be drawing to a close and posed in her 'signature position' for John to capture a few pictures then sat up and blew him a kiss, followed by a wave.

“That's a wrap, great set Anna.”, John called out, “Can I please hug him now and mess up my make-up?” Anna jokingly asked Valya, matching her words with her actions, reached up on tiptoes to kiss his cheek. As she stepped back from the hug, Anna considered she now had another question she needed an answer to, but thought she would have to leave it for now, as she skipped over to gather up her discarded costume.

They gathered back at the make-up area, raiding the fridge for drinks, Anna unconcerned sitting naked in her high make-up chair as Valya removed the cosmetics, and let down her hair, brushing it out then using a ribbon to hold it in a simple pony tail, but she left the subtle nail varnish alone as it was not out of place for a girl of Anna's age in the city.

Anna was almost vibrating with excitement, she had learned so much new stuff today, she had been shopping in the most fabulous shops, been on the Metro underground trains, she had even been given a new computer, well new to her anyway, and the photo set had gone really really good, but the thing that kept going round in her head were the words Valya had spoken this morning, “it swells up to be straight and stiff like a pickle so that they can put it into the girl.”

Pushing that thought aside, or at least, trying to, Anna's attention again returned to the conversation around her, when she heard her mother ask when this set would go on the website.

John thought it would be any time within the next three to six weeks, the sales people had all sorts of data history on sales, so they could work out the best launch date, and they also checked out the members forum to see how impatient they became for a set of any particular model. John left for his own office telling them to call in before leaving.

Anna got dressed with the addition of a pair of panties she had put in her mum's handbag that morning, then helped out by handing stuff to Valya as she was loading her trolley.

The costume and accessories were loaded into their boxes, and then they returned them to the wardrobe department before dropping off the trolley, Anna had shortened the strap on the laptop bag that she now wore clutched closely to her side, but Valya managed to persuade her it would be safe to lock it in her little office with their shopping from earlier.

They made their way to see John, who led them through to the department where all the geeks worked, to meet Dmitri, where they found he had given 'Natasha's' picture pride of place in the middle of the wall neatly framed with a tinsel surround.

Anna immediately liked Dmitri he was a short man with a small pointy beard, who raised her hand kiss it making her laugh, they spent some time talking and when they left Anna was carrying three books on how to teach yourself English, as well as a Ukrainian-English dictionary.

During this visit Valya received a call from Ivan who had received a call from his boss about how happy they were with their newest recruit, with instructions to take them to whatever attractions they wanted to see in the city tomorrow before they left to go home.

After thanking John and Dmitri, they said their goodbyes, while making their way back Ella was fretting that they would not be able to fit all their new things in her one little suitcase but how she was reluctant to buy a big new one as it might cause too much notice when they arrived back in their home town.

Valya wheeled them around and led them through to the props department, where after a short discussion with the guy in charge they managed to find two suitably second hand worn suitcases. When Ella offered to pay for them, he refused money saying instead to leave their old suitcase with Valya, that way he would gain a new prop for two old one's.

In Valya's office they divided their new purchases along with the laptop into the cases satisfied there would be enough space for their original luggage.

That night as they dined out with Valya, Anna once again showed her ability to make people laugh, saying how much she had enjoyed eating out, but she missed her mum's home cooked dumplings.

The morning of their fourth day, two packed suitcases stood by the door, ready for their journey home later that afternoon, as they sipped tea waiting for Valya, Anna was looking over towards the bathroom, wishing she could take that home with her, but at least she had bought some nice toiletries for Marta, and toys for Greg and Peter.

The morning was spent visiting the city zoo, Anna had never seen such a variety of animals before, nor had she realized how bad they could smell. When they reached a small seating area Ella offered to get ice-creams from a nearby vendor, noticing the queue Anna decided she had an unexpected chance to find an answer another question.

“Valya?”

“Yes?”

“I know you said to talk with my mum about sex and boy stuff, and I will, I promise, but I have a question about yesterday,” at Valya's encouraging nod she continued, “after the shoot, I er, sort of hugged John, and I could feel his penis was all big and straight, does that mean he wants to do sex with me?

Valya broke out into roars of laughter, to the point that tears were running down her face, and she had to find some tissues from her bag, and settle down before answering.

“Anna you are so precious, really I wasn't laughing at you, I was laughing at the situation. John is a nice man, professional, you will always be safe with him, but you were cavorting around him for half the afternoon in all your glory, aiming your little pussy at him, if any man standing in his shoes did not get hard, they would have to be gay or dead.

Remember how I said men tend to get excited by things they see, well guys in their twenties like John, and even more so with teenage boys, can get hard if you as much as smile at them, but like I said you were quite safe with John. His wife is lovely, and shall I tell you what she tells him all the time, 'I don't mind you getting hungry at work providing you come home to eat', do you understand what she means by that Anna?”

“Yes I think so, she doesn't mind him thinking about sex, but he can only do it with her?”

Her mum approached carrying the ice-creams wanting to know what had been so funny, to which Valya replied that Anna would tell her about it on the journey home then it would be her turn to laugh.

Later that day at the station a watery eyed mother and daughter hugged Valya who was equally emotional herself, and on the journey home the mother and daughter became closer as Anna revealed the things she had learned in the course of a few short days.

Despite the uncertainty of train time tables, Igor and Marta were waiting when the weary travellers returned, from the displays of affection on the platform anyone would think they had been parted for months rather than days. Igor grasped his younger daughter's hands and stood back looking at her saying how she seamed to have grown over the past week, then lifted her up and spun her around as if she were a small girl to the accompaniment of joyful shrieks.

As much as Anna would have liked to hail a cab, if they could even find one, they of course took the bus home, Marta collecting the boys from next door pleading both her mum and sister's tiredness, and that they would stop by the following day.

Chapter 04

While Marta was next door Anna quickly searched the cases then went into the bathroom, after packing Anna had filled every spare inch of each case with soft toilet rolls, which she now put away leaving one out, next she placed a pretty basket she had brought on the self and preceded to arrange assorted feminine hygiene items as she would a flower display.

With the family gathered in the main room they maintained the subterfuge that Anna had gone to Kiev with her mum to visit an old friend of mummy's, for you couldn't be sure what they might repeat outside the home. Ella made the obligatory enquiry as to if the boys had been good, then handing Greg a book from the zoo, told him they could lay on mummy and daddy's bed to read it, they had thought it best to spread out their gifts one at a time.

Anna and her mum then related tales of their adventure they had not covered in their nightly phone calls, then Anna asked her sister if she would help her learn English, getting out the books she had been given.

Supper ran late that night, and not long after the boys were in bed, Ella claimed to be tired and pulled Igor off to bed, it was so fake the girls could hardly contain their giggles.

Now they were alone, they discussed Marta's recent event, and how she had managed to save one of her new pairs of panties just in time, Anna then retrieved a small wrapped gift for her sister, two matching bra and panty sets.

Marta declared she had the best ever sister, also laughing about the arrangement in the bathroom complete with little instruction leaflets. At this point she wanted to know more about the modelling sessions themselves, something that had only been skimmed over when they had all been sitting around the table. Anna went on to give a blow by blow account leaving nothing out, not even the Vaseline, or all the information and advice Valya had given her, and then on to how she had even got closer to mum by the end of the trip.

Marta was amazed that Anna had been given a computer of her own, but Anna insisted the computer was for them to share. She got that out next, set it on the table, and plugged in the lead to top up the battery, she handed Marta the password to read out as she typed in the letters and symbols, a little note popped up on the screen with instructions for how to look at the downloaded website and the full size picture directories. The notes were simple to follow, and when they got to the site log on screen John had made her user name, her ID badge number, and the password was the same number backwards twice.

Marta had of course never seen any pictures from the modelling agency, so Anna said she would try to give her a tour of the site just as John had done for her.

Now it was Marta who watched spellbound, as they first saw the introduction page with the faces of the more popular models dressed in their colourful costumes, Anna told her the next bit was funny with the teasing pictures of the girls with their nipples and pussies hidden behind shiny stars.

Anna moved on to the page that had five choices in order to move on, - Meet the Models – Pictures – Videos – What's New – and Members Forum, Anna clicked on 'What's New'.

On this screen 'Natasha' was one of the two featured girls, Anna showed her the sheet of paper translating what it said on the screen.

Natasha – 10 years old, lives on the Black sea coast, she has a dog and two cats, she likes western pop music, dancing and horse riding. Her dream job is to be a vet when she grows up. So far the lovely Natasha has one photo set for your delight – but if you like her as much as we do we'll be sure to invite her back.

Anna went back to click on 'Meet the Models' – explaining the details she had been told, and about why some girls also had a little winking star because those girls had videos.

Scrolling down they found 'Natasha's' picture with the flashing sign which apparently said – 'New Model added this Month'.

She clicked through to a page topped with the same photo and stuff from the 'What's New' page with other other text about set number one, then three medium sized images from the set. By now Marta sat goggle eyed, here were pictures that showed her sister in every tiny detail, they had shared a bath since Anna was old enough to crawl, though somehow this seemed even more personal. Pointing out one picture Anna said she thought of it as her signature image, saying she had done similar poses at her audition and then again in set number two, then she scrolled through line after line of little thumbnails.

She then told Marta about the 'Members Forum' page, when they clicked through Anna soon realized that when John had loaded this onto the computer her web page must have been running for nearly a whole day, when she had last looked at this forum her page had only been running for about three hours.

Anna showed her sister how it looked like lots of text conversations going on at once, between lots of people in different languages, but mostly in English.

They found they had to hit the page down button over twenty times before they got to the page where 'Natasha' was first mentioned, Marta said they should slowly scroll through once and read any Russian entries, then start again at the earliest English entries and work forwards using the dictionary to get a clue as to the other entries about 'Natasha'.

Her next idea was to make a list of the names of all the models talked about in the forum and give each girl a tick when they saw her name.

They were still at it at about one in the morning, when their mum woke up in need of the bathroom, there followed a half hearted telling off and the girls quickly got ready for bed.

As they settled down Anna asked why Marta had a pad in her panties, instead of the tampons, which she said she had been using, leading to a discussion on safe use and how long a girl was supposed to wear one. As they snuggled down together Anna's last thoughts of the day were how she seemed to be learning new stuff all the time recently.

For the girls the next day started far too early, only to be told, not to stay up so late.

Other than a brief visit across the hall with her mum to take some small gifts, Anna spent a lot of time with Marta over the next two weeks studying the English books, then trying to read entries in the forum for practice. Anna had another bright idea, tuning the radio to an English speaking station to help them pronounce this strange foreign tongue.

Unlike in the west most workers in the Ukraine were paid on a weekly basis, and so it was for Anna's modelling agency, there had been a cash sign up payment, a little over a week after the two photo shoots a cheque arrived for the shoot fees as in the contract, now they had also received two cheques associated with the number of downloads of set one over the past two weeks.

The letter with the second payment stated 'Natasha' downloads had passed a break-point,

meaning her fees on those sales would be at a higher percentage rate.

Igor being a cautious man had taken advice about opening a new bank account, it was with a different bank than his company used to pay him, just in case the bank staff might speak to his employers.

Anna had known that Marta was more fluent than her in Russian, which is one of the reasons she had asked they learn English together, partly because she liked doing things with her big sister and partly that her greater language skills would push Anna harder.

They had also been learning to use other programs that were installed on the laptop, now using one to make up a table of the models showing how many times their names showed up on the forum, then adding information on their set details.

It was while Marta was entering details of the number of videos a model had done that Anna suddenly slapped herself on the forehead saying how stupid she felt. When Marta asked what the problem was, Anna explained when they looked on the website she had shown Marta the same as she had been shown, they had also looked at other models, they had even checked out the high res picture directories, but she had never clicked on the Video tab on the site. Both girls groaned at having missed what was in front of them.

Their mum had gone out with the boys, so now was an ideal time, they found the tab clicked and there was a gallery of well known faces, Anna just clicked on the first one, that opened to a page showing that the girl had three videos, with their rudimentary English and the aid of a dictionary they they thought two were videos of photo shoots, and the other said something about a lake.

Anna clicked on the first file name. Nothing happened. Then the laptop made a few short noises and a new window opened, then a video started with sound, the girl was on a set with a backdrop painted as an enormous bowl of fruit, with some pop melody as a back-ground, as the girl moved through different poses you could see the flash of the infill lights. You could hear a woman's voice giving the girl directions, “That's Sandra” shouted Anna, “she's the one that took my first pictures at the audition.” The video continued and the girl only took part of the costume off not that it mattered because all girlie bits were on show.

“Well now you've seen a real photo shoot like I've done only I didn't have the music.”

The second video was similar to the first, just a different set and costume, the third one was filmed outside, a lake surrounded by pine forest, no live sound only a music track as the girl takes off a summer dress plays on the sandy bank then takes off her panties to play in the water, splashing water near but not at the camera.

They listed each video they watched making notes as they went if they had any really good or bad points, after a while unless a video showed merit they skimmed through them. It was just before their mum was due back Anna got her second idea, Marta joking that she would blow a fuse with having two ideas in the one day.

Anna told Marta that she had been studying sets done by the most popular models but for some time had not found any good tips, her new idea was to study the worst girls to see why they did badly – then make sure she didn't do things like them, Marta agreed.

As the boys spent a lot of their time in the apartment during the summer holidays, the girls and their parents had taken to using the term 'project' when referring to anything to do with the modelling agency or website. So when Ella returned she asked if the girls were still doing their project work to which Anna told her, “Of course we are, Marta is my manager, we've written down lots of ideas for the next set.” Marta was pleased her sister appreciated her help, but they were both enjoying themselves, and she had been helping Anna brush up on her Russian, and their progress with English was slowly improving.

After lunch the girls sat at the table with their brothers and played a game the boys were really starting to enjoy. An increasing number of objects were placed on the table and they took turns asking one another to pass this or that object in English, they were now trying to make longer phrases using the words they knew, such as the size or colour of an item.

The boys of course were just learning to speak English whereas the girls were trying to read the language as well, which was very hard as it used a different alphabet, when young Peter started to get get restless, they took the boys out to the local park to play ball, as they did on most days so their mother could have a little time to herself.

Seventeen days after their return from Kiev their supper was disturbed twice by the phone ringing, Igor answered, listening to the caller and giving brief replies, he had not long sat down when it rang again, as the boys had finished eating, he motioned for Ella to take them off to the bedroom to read. Anna had heard her dad thank Ivan during the first call, and now it seemed he was talking with Valya and taking down notes.

After the call he asked Marta to go and read with the boys and send her mum back saying he knew Anna would tell her all the latest news later.

The news was that set one had done so well, that downloads had slowed down to the point that the sales department had released set two after just nineteen days because of interest shown in 'Natasha' on the members forum.

Anna had fulfilled the terms of her initial contract for two sets within the first six months, so they were offering to extend the contract with a better starting percentage on each of her new sets, a letter with copies of the contract should be there tomorrow. They also wanted Anna to return to the Studio in a week's time so they could shoot two more sets as they liked to have a minimum of at least one unreleased set of each of their models once they had proved themselves.

The call from Valya was to confirm she would be working with Anna and she left her mobile and home phone numbers in case Anna had any questions, her mother hugged her as she saw her face colour a little at Valya's message.

Later that night Marta said they needed to make the best use of their time planning for Anna's visit so that she could impress them even more, they would spend all of the next day looking at the sets of the least popular models, Marta said they should look for girls that had done only one or two sets, that had been with the agency for more than a year, those were the ones who had probably not had their contracts renewed.

Marta said they would be able find those girls quickly from the model information table they had already set up, then they should spend the rest of the time to check on the remaining videos, so that Anna would already know what to do if they asked her to do one.

When in the morning they told their mother about their 'project' plans she told them they could use her bedroom to avoid little eyes and ears.

They soon had a list of five models with one set more than a year old, and two more with only two sets, by early afternoon they had figured out why the girls had failed as models, their smiles looked forced, their postures looked awkward, and they agreed the girls some-how seemed uncomfortable in front of the camera.

That evening Marta read the boys stories in the bedroom while Anna looked through the contract documents, which they signed in order to return one copy the following day.

They now had five days to study the videos, each time they felt like a break they would go and play with Greg and Peter or take them outside for some fresh air. Among the videos they had found, there were recordings of girls during studio photo shoots, there were also a number of outdoor shoots like the first one they had seen but in many different locations, riverbanks, lake sides, forests, hillsides, and down at the coast.

Anna was excited at the next location they found, it appeared to be one of the company apartments, not the one she had stayed in but one very similar, it featured a girl in the kitchen, only wearing a brief top with no panties drinking juice, and eating ice-cream, and spilling it on herself as an excuse to take that off as well.

They found other girls in various apartments, most naked, or nearly so, doing house work, laying about reading, dancing, or using a bed as a trampoline. Then they found one that made Anna squeal out loud, “That's my bathroom, the place that we stayed,” they then watched as a girl filled the bath, fussed around with all the soaps and cosmetics on the counter-top, then a number of shots as she bent over to add bubble-bath in the tub.

Later shots showed the bubbles running down her wet skin, which she then rinsed off, finally wrapping herself in one of the big fluffy towels.

Singing it's praises Anna was saying you can see why I wanted to bring that bathroom home with me, there were no rough scratchy places in that bath.

In the next type of video they encountered, the girls were talking as they went about what ever they were doing, and in some the girls were singing along to some song playing in the background, then they found two videos where the girls started the video by talking to the camera – IN ENGLISH. They replayed those parts over and over until Marta said she had worked out what the first girl had said, “Hello my name is Katya, I am thirteen years old, I am going to dance for you”

“Of course” Anna said, “All those girls speaking in Ukrainian or in Russian, to the guys buying the videos it would be the same as us listening to Chinese, that girl Katya is saying something they can understand, that is what I need to do. Let's look her up in our table”

They found that the girl was not the most popular by the number of photo sets, but she had made six videos, and she had only been with the Studio for just over eighteen months, it turned out the other girl had only two photo sets and two videos, and from the dates had been with the Studio five months, they watched all of them.

On Saturday afternoon disaster struck, the whole family were in the park together when Ella stumbled on some rough ground and twisted her ankle, that night after the girls had put the youngsters to bed, they waited for their parents to return from the hospital.

Their mum came home on crutches, unable to place any weight on her foot which was all bandaged up, there was no way she would be able to make the trip to Kiev on Monday and she had been advised by the doctor to rest.

They moved the discussion to the bedroom to avoid disturbing the boys, Anna at first saying she could travel by herself, but her dad saying she was too young, and the Studio had rules saying she had to be accompanied. Anna then said her dad could go with her, but he said he could not get the time off work without notice, and if he just upped and went they would sack him, and it was too soon to burn their bridges.

Marta stepped in to say she would go with her sister, the argument was then about them both being too young, and back to the rules saying she had to be accompanied, Marta then asking if it said how old the person had to be who came with the model, and so it raged on, until Ella called a halt as her pain medicine was making her sleepy.

Back in the main room Anna thanked her sister, but said the situation looked hopeless, and she didn't know if they would mess up the contract if she missed a shoot. Marta told her to get the paperwork out and bring it to the kitchen table as she wanted to check something out.

Marta scanned through the pages of typing until she found the section she was looking for.

“The model must on all Studio photographic or video production shoots be accompanied by a family member or a person designated by them to ensure the model's well being.”

“A family member, it doesn't say how old they have to be, Valya said to call if you have any questions, that is a question, you told me she has been a good friend to you, so let's give her a call in the morning, if this doesn't work she may have another idea.”

Anna hugged her sister, “I may not be the best model yet, but I do have the world's best manager.”

Sunday morning Marta got the boys up, and sent them off to the bathroom, then on their return knocked on her parents door, at her dads call to come in she stuck her head in the door stating they needed to look after the boys for ten minutes, as she and Anna had some-thing important to do, without waiting for an answer she pushed the boys in and closed the door.

Anna was concerned it might be too early, but Marta said it was an emergency and Valya would understand. They had decided to try the home number first, after just a few rings a sleepy voice answered the phone.

“Hello?”

“Hello am I speaking with Valya?”

“Yes, who is that?”

“My name is Marta, we haven't met, but you were recently so kind to my little sister Anna when she worked at your studios.” The 'little' had got Marta a friendly poke in the ribs.

“Yes she is so precocious, I enjoyed working with her, and I liked your mum too, but I'm sure you didn't ring me so early on a Sunday morning without a good reason.”

“Yes you're right, mum badly twisted her ankle yesterday, and has been told she must rest it, so I was wondering, if it would be OK for me to accompany Anna instead?”

“I'm sorry to hear about you mum, give her my regards, I hope she is up and about soon.

I thought your mum said you were thirteen, and I'm sure the Studio rules say that the models have to be accompanied by someone over eighteen.”

“That's what my dad said as well but I was looking through the papers from the Studio and I'll read out what it says 'The model must on all Studio photographic or video production shoots be accompanied by a family member or a person designated by them to ensure the model's well being' so it doesn't say how old they have to be, my dad can't come because of work and I don't want to let her down, please help us.”

Valya was moved by the girls dedication to help her younger sister, they may be from a poor background but the one thing neither girl lacked was spirit or drive.

“Okay I'll tell you what I'll do, in an hour or so I will phone my boss Ivan, explain the problem to him, and the fact we would have trouble trying to pull in another model to use the studio time, then I will offer to look after the two of you, that's the best I can come up with.”

The phone call ended with a chorus of thanks from Anna and Marta.

They ran to their parents room to give them the news, but of course the boys were there, so they made vague remarks about how their friend Valya was going to help with their 'project' and she would phone back later in the morning and that she sent mum her best wishes to get better soon.

About an hour later the boys once again found themselves with their favourite elderly neighbours, as the rest of the family anxiously awaited a call from Kiev, and somehow the girls had failed to mention they had discussed last nights plan that their father had vetoed.

The phone at last rang and Igor answered, finding Ivan on the other end, the conversation seemed mostly one sided, but there was mention of how someone at the Studio was going to be in trouble about poorly worded contracts, from what followed you would think the Studio had raised the idea of the sisters coming together. Before Igor had a chance to object he was being asked to confirm he was happy for Valya to be their chaperone from the moment they stepped off the train to the moment they got back on, and of course she would stay over in the apartment with them.

And so as they say it was a done deal. The girls high fived.

Now the situation was resolved they had to get organised, and Marta said as she was Ann's manager she had a plan, they would say the girls were off visiting a relative of a school friend in Kiev, and they would ask if Nana Olga could spend some time each day at their apartment for a while to help mum out with the boys until she was back on her feet.

Ella liked the idea of some female company other than pubescent girls asking awkward questions for a change, and besides Olga doted on the boys.

Igor was man enough to know when he was beaten, the females in his life just seemed to get their own way, so he said he would go and talk to Olga and Gramps, then take the boys to the pond and back to tire them out.

Marta and Anna sorted the clothes they would need for a four day stay, then added the laptop and their English books dividing the load between the two cases, then Ella spoke to Marta about her calender, saying she should always have some pads with her as a girl's cycle could be irregular when she first started, but if she later became like her mum she could set her watch by it.

Later that afternoon, while Ella was reading to Greg and Peter, Igor called the girls into the bedroom, where he spent a long time basically telling them to be well behaved and to look after each other, then he handed each of them a tidy pile of small denomination notes, telling them never to carry all their money in their bags, or in one pocket, or to pull out more money than they were about to spend, but if someone tried to rob them give up the money, money could be replaced but he only had two daughters.

The next morning he saw them to the station before he went to work, they were to catch the five o'clock train to Kiev that on this occasion was only ten minutes late, and so began Marta's first great adventure and Anna's second.

Chapter 05

They arrived at their destination at eight o'clock, to find Valya waiting on the platform for them as promised, as soon as she had checked the girls had all their belongings she got out her phone to make a call, asking how the person was, then saying that she had some friends with her that might like to say hello, and so Marta used a mobile phone for the first time to speak to her mum.

Valya said they would drop off the luggage at the apartment first so the girls could freshen up, then she would show them the route by Metro to the Studio that was only three stops along, then they could give Marta the two-kopeck tour of the complex.

Anna looked on as Marta stared wide-eyed out of the taxi window as they drove through the city, at which point Valya reminded her she'd been just like that the previous month.

They were hardly through the door before Anna dragged Marta off to the bathroom where she found the girls on hands and knees, faces pressed to the floor, Marta had apparently thought a warm stone floor a tale too far, but now found it to be true, after showing off 'her' bathroom Anna continued the tour, with both bedrooms, then back to the open plan lounge and kitchen diner.

Meanwhile Valya had made some tea, and removed a bunch of grapes and a few small oranges from her bag, which she placed in a bowl on the table, waiting for the excited girls to come and sit down. When they joined her Valya said she had already met the ambitious curious joker of the family she now wanted to learn more about her big sister. Marta was at a loss for words for a moment, but slowly began to tell Valya of her school activities, folk dancing, and her ranking in the chess club, and how she and Anna were starting to learn English because they thought it would help with the modelling, which is where Anna joined in to say that Marta was her manager.

“From the first time I met your family the one thing that stands out, is the way you look out for each other, and support one another, it is wonderful you two are so close, I only had a brother, as children we fought all the time, we didn't really become friends until after we'd grown up.”

Valya went on to tell them she had come here the previous day to bring clothes and things she would need for the week so she wouldn't have to go back and forth to her own place, and she had stocked the kitchen with breakfast cereals, they could get lunch at the Studio and eat out in the evening. Marta said they had money for that, but Valya told her the Studio covered expenses for the models and their 'managers'.

Anna wanted to be sure she hadn't got Valya into trouble with her boss, by dumping their problem on her yesterday, and if it was going to cause difficulties for her taking time off to look after them when she should be working.

Amused, Valya explained Ivan had been pleased by their efforts to avoid letting the Studio down, and impressed a thirteen year old had found someone in the legal department had made such a poor job in wording a contract document; - that was going to be amended!

Secondly they knew staff needed to spend more time with new models, that meant either the modelling coach, or make-up person, and as Anna seemed to need so little instruction the coach had been able to spend more time with girls who did need her guidance, so by helping the girls she was still working.

They took the Metro to the Studio, and Valya saw that Marta also carried a little notebook in her backpack, as she had taken down the names of the stations, at reception Anna and Valya clipped on their ID's, and Marta got a visitors pass, so they made their first stop at personnel, where they refused to make up a badge saying 'chaperone', after a call to Ivan, Marta left proudly displaying her badge 'Model's Personal Manager'.

They went on a rapid tour of the complex, which of course had been described to Marta, but she was still in awe of the scale and investment that she could see around her having just started to cover economics in school, they arrived at the geek department, where Anna introduced her sister to Dmitri, who of course kissed her hand saying how beauty ran in their family making Marta blush.

Her sister's autographed picture was on his wall just as she'd been told, looking around she saw he had books and dictionary's in several languages, which reminded her to thank him for the books he had given to Anna, then asking if he could speak in English.

On finding out he could Marta asked if she could try a sentence to she if it was right.

“My name is Marta, I'm thirteen years old, I like do folk dancer.”

Dmitri praised her effort, giving tips on grammar, word endings and pronunciation asking her to try again

“My name is Marta, I'm thirteen years old, I like to do folk dancing.”

He said that they must have studied hard to do so well since Anna's previous visit and to come and see him if they wanted to practice while they were here.

They quickly finished their rounds in order to reach the hairdressers section in the beauty department, and they insisted it would be unfair not to do both sisters, as Anna's hair had received so much recent attention, she was soon looking her best, then checking the style sheet they set a pony tail high on her head, then used heated tongs to make it fall in a mass of curly ringlets, saying one of them would meet her on set later. Anna watched as Marta enjoyed another first, pampering in a professional hair salon with a manicure and pedicure, making her feel like a film star.

Marta was so happy she was sure she floated from the salon into the canteen for lunch, where she saw a number of girls in their age group, with their mums or chaperones, she was certain she recognised a few of them from the photo sets, only in the pictures she had seen a lot more of them! Valya was telling her about how the food here was chosen to be healthy, but fit all the nutritional needs of active growing teenagers, not just tiny salads cat-walk models tried to exist on.

They were to be in studio two that afternoon, the wardrobe department had not asked for a fitting as it had only been a short time since her last visit. Anna wanted to know who would be shooting the set, finding out it was John she asked about the Studio's practice of trying models with different photographers, and was told that everyone had thought she and John had got on so well together, they didn't think they would find a better match.

This pleased Anna so she told Valya she was happy with that decision.

In the studio a light blue backdrop had giant flowering magnolia branches painted across it, with a thick green furry 'grass' floor on which sat some huge stuffed lady-bugs, and the props department had made several large blooms that matched the painted ones.

Marta walked all around the room looking at the set, the lighting, the camera and all the computer equipment, making notes before returning to the make-up area, where Valya was loading the table with all her supplies. Two ladies turned up from the salon, as apparently it had been decided to add nail lacquer with this outfit, so Anna sat bare foot as one lady applied clear lacquer to finger and toe nails, while the other wove coloured streamers into her tresses, then added several flower shaped clips in her hair.

When Valya got her turn, she used a little more eye shadow and a bolder lip gloss than she had on the prior sets, then another lady came to apply a few discrete decorations with tiny glossy stickers on the side of her face and on one arm. When she left, Anna slipped out of her summer dress to stand there naked, saying she would take a bathroom break now before getting dressed, and returned smiling with her 'wet look' pussy.

First on was a tiny tie sided thong, then a short, shiny, satin dress which was mostly see through, which Valya called a 'pussy pelmet', the striped top was not dyed but made of many coloured satin strips, the front and back panels held together with zig-zag lacing on both sides, and thin spaghetti straps. Fortunately the designer had included a zipper down the back or it would have taken ages to adjust, there were also short coloured leggings to match the satin top, then she was handed a pair of silver high heel shoes with thin silver straps.

Anna thought they were the prettiest shoes ever, like magic fairytale slippers, they always wore sensible shoes, or cheap trainers from the market, Valya burst her bubble as she told her to take very careful steps, or she would end up with a sprained ankle like her mum.

“Hi Anna, who's this attractive young lady you've brought with you, another new model?”

Marta blushed at John's compliment, unsure if it was genuine or not, as Anna introduced them, saying Marta was her Manager and her favourite sister, earning a poke in the ribs in reply, John then wanted to know if Anna was ready for another tough gruelling afternoon, slaving away under the hot studio lights.

As John walked over to the set, and Anna gingerly followed, Marta said she could see why her sister was happy working with him, and Valya told her they had laughed so much last time she thought she might have to repair Anna's make-up. Marta surveying the table said she had never seen such a variety of products, and in so many subtle shades too.

Valya sensed the girl lacked confidence with new people, possibly over-sensitive about the minor pock marks she bore from an early childhood illness that Ella had told her about.

“Marta I know you two are close, Anna talked of you a lot, so she must have told you of the little chats we had,” Marta nodded, “well I would like you to feel you could ask me about anything that is bothering you as well.” Easing into the subject but without talking about the pock marks she continued, “I don't mean to embarrass you but it's quite common to have problems with acne with the changes happening in your body, if you like I could show you a few tricks of the trade.”

Meanwhile across the room John was telling Anna not to fall off, and making remarks about what the weather might be like that high up, but despite the teasing, the shoes did make her legs look amazingly long, and when she turned the view was all shapely from ankle to cute bubble butt, bare, aside from the narrow string of her thong.

Anna put to use many of the things she had studied, the flipped skirt, the artfully displayed camel-toe, the coy glance, and then the art of showing as much skin as possible, without showing anything naughty. She had got to the point with the zip half open, and shots of a few nipple slips when John called a drinks break. Anna was having so much fun up to that point she pouted at him and asked him to zip her up.

At the table Valya had demonstrated how to minimise the little spots with ease, the trap was baited, but it had to be Marta that asked. “Valya do you think I would be able to do anything about these ugly marks?”

Snap. “What those tiny marks there, not as hard as the acne, but if they bother you.”

She knew the girl saw the marks as bigger than they were, she demonstrated, then had Marta practice a few times, applying and removing the make-up.

When John and Anna came over she was carrying the shoes, she looked at her sister, then at Valya who gave a gave her a wink and a slight shake of the head not wanting to raise the subject just now. As they sat with their drinks, Anna told John the story of their mum's accident, and how between them Marta and Valya had saved the day, making them all laugh with her version of the various phone calls real and imagined in mimicked voices.

After the break Anna ran back to the set before replacing her silver shoes, and lowering the zip half open, to resume where they had left off, she tried various poses with the top bunched around her waist, having seen shots where clothing half off, often made better shots than naked ones. She discarded the top when she felt they had enough shots, then made sure to give John some profiles of her little breast buds, she then hitched up the skirt's waistband to make a greater show of her thong. John was pleased with how little direction Anna required, he just made encouraging or appreciative comments.

Marta was in shock, the changes Valya had made, dealing with the recent zit outbreak had been great news, but the way she had dismissed the hated scars that had marked her since early childhood, showing her how simply she could make them almost vanish, she could not find the words for how she felt, but she knew she didn't want to cry and ruin her new and happy smiling face.

Anna had now started on the bows holding the thong, giving the camera the almost but not quite pussy shot, then the other bow, side on to the camera she gripped the fabric between her thighs letting it hang down front and back. She now added some new poses, laying down, but resting on her elbows to raise her chest from the floor, this made her tiny breast buds point downwards and appear larger than they really were, then a pout with a finger to her lips, she went on to try out different expressions she had practised before the mirror at home.

Right through to the end of the set she kept the skirt and leggings, she moved on to the more revealing poses, unwittingly the earlier deliberate camel-toe shots she devised had caused her wet look to smudge thus spreading out across her tight nether lips.

John, unaware of the girls artifice, was acutely aware of how aroused she appeared to be, and made sure he had plenty of close ups. The set seemed to go on for ages and at the same time be too short, as Anna went for her signature pose then moved on to finally blow a kiss to her audience and wave goodbye. Asking John if that would be enough shots, Anna then took off her shoes, and rushed for the toilet bursting for a pee.

Such was the relief she wasn't cognoscente of how she'd appeared, then she got to use that lovely soft paper, which of course then removed 'that look'.

In the meantime John left in a hurry to review the shoot, when Anna came out, Marta went in, the moment the door was closed Anna started asking about the make-up session she had witnessed from across the room, and Valya explained her thoughts about how self-conscious she believed Marta to be about the pockmarks on her face, and had offered a little help in order to boost her self image and confidence.

This earned Valya a hug and kiss.

Hearing the door, Anna changed the subject asking if Valya had heard anything about the second set she had done, the 'circus set' had been out just over a week now, she was told they needed to speak with the admin department, and the Studio manager to find out what was planned for this week, so they would enquire then. Marta helped with Anna's hair by removing the clips and streamers then brushing it out into a wavy pony-tail, while Valya got busy removing her make-up.

After tidying-up they went to put the trolley away in the office and storage room, then Valya started sorting through her shelves. She found a box full of zip-up cosmetic bags saying she had meant to give Anna one before, picking two out, she proceed to load each one explaining she was choosing different products to suit each girl, and topped off each bag with a small booklet on skin care, then handing them one each.

Both girls thanked her, Marta being especially grateful as she had seen her bag filled with all of the items she had been shown how to use that afternoon, they each placed their new bags in their respective backpacks, before heading towards the admin office.

The guy they spoke to was unable to tell them anything about 'Natasha' set two, Anna couldn't decide if he was being deliberately mean to her or if he really didn't know, Valya told her she thought he was just too lazy to bother, so they went to see if Dmitri was in.

Dmitri was in, and willing to help, saying he was 'Natasha's' number one fan because it said so on the wall, drawing up extra chairs for his guests, he first showed them a graph showing sales on set one, which had a long hump that trailed off then a second smaller bump that started on the release date of set two. He told them that most of their sales graphs had that sort of shape, then he opened the screen for set two, saying this looked higher and longer than the first one, joking that there must be a few other fans out there.

He was also able to tell them there were ninety-eight images in set two.

The studio booking manager was out but his assistant told them that Anna was booked into studio one on Wednesday morning, because of delays in set building, and the people in costume design were still arguing among themselves over which outfit to use for the set, so could they visit that department next.

On their way there Valya told them the guys in the department were great fun to work with, but temperamental and true to stereotype mostly gay. Had the girls not been forewarned it could have been a shock, but they were treated as visiting royalty, shown drawings of how the set would look, and asked to look at the beautifully hand coloured sketches of the two outfits in question.

Uncharacteristically Marta stepped in saying how although she thought both of the costumes were fabulous the black fur one would best suit Anna, as the little pointy cats ears on the head band would go well with her thick brown hair arranged like the drawing but the white fur hood with the large bunny ears would suit a girl with shorter hair.

Anna looked on with pride as the adults they were dealing with took her sister's ideas and comments to heart, then went on to discuss other upcoming designs, which led to Marta comparing them to concepts used in earlier sets that she was able to name and talk about knowledgeably having spent the past four weeks studying the website. When at last Valya said they had to go, there were agreements all round that Marta must come back and visit them again soon.

When they arrived at the apartment, Valya said they should have a quick bath then she would take them out to supper, saying they could find shower caps to keep their hair dry in the bathroom cupboard. A short time later she found the girls enjoying a bath together.

“I love this bath” Marta told her, “No-one gets the tap end.” Valya then asked if they were OK with her using the shower while they had their bath, which was fine with them.

She dropped her robe grabbed some body-wash and a shower-cap, then stepped into the shower, the two girls looked at one another, they had both seen it, she had no pussy hair!

Later dried, primped, and smartly dressed, they took the Metro again on a different route, this time when they emerged Valya directed them until Anna recognised where they were.

“Oh Marta you're going to love this place, but first come over here, I was standing right here with mum when you told us you're 'private news', then later when we were eating we got a call from the Studio that they wanted me to shoot a second set the next afternoon.”

Anna was startled when the maitre d' welcomed them back, then enquired if she and their beautiful new companion were perhaps sisters, he escorted them to a window table where they could see up and down the river Dnieper, then he held their chairs for each of them.

Though Marta had heard all the details of this restaurant from both Anna and her mum it was still a wonder to see it for herself, and she was glad she had been forewarned about using the right cutlery, and about etiquette, her next surprise being the menu was in both Russian and English.

A waiter arrived placing mineral water on the table then asked if they would like to order any drinks while they looked at the menu, after they had all decided what they wanted to eat, as if by magic he reappeared to take their order.

Marta was saying how useful the menu would be in helping them learn English just as the waiter came back with their starters. When he came to clear the table for the main course, he spoke to Marta, “Excuse me Miss but I could not help overhear you were studying English,” he then placed an envelope on the table, “Copies of our menu, one is Russian and English, one Russian and Ukrainian, and the other is Ukrainian and English, I hope that helps with your studies Miss.”

She thanked the waiter who then went off for their main course. During the rest of the meal they discussed the options of what attractions they could visit tomorrow, Valya checking the time, suggested calling their parents now, thinking they could do a little night time sightseeing as they didn't have to get up early the following morning.

Their mum's foot was still swollen and painful but she was resting it, Nana Olga had been fussing over her and the boys, and had virtually taken over the cooking, then questions about if they had been behaving themselves, then their mum talked with Valya.

When the bill arrived Marta said that she understood the Studio paid all their expenses when they were there, but could she pay the tip as the waiter had been so helpful, then she asked advice on how you worked out how much to tip, then left a few extra hryvnias. They strolled about, Valya showing them all the brightly lit buildings and other views of the twinkling lights reflected along the river before they returned via yet another station, where each girl got their own little folding map of the Metro system.

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For the next installment of the A New Model is Discovered franchize, see Chapters 06 through 10.

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