Monday at school Sofia was the centre of attention, not only was her arm in plaster, but in a lovely shade of pink, it didn't stay that way for long with many of her friends signing the cast with messages of good will. Several were of course written in English, as a lot of her closest friends were the brightest scholars. Though she joked about breaking the wrong arm, everyone knew being right handed it would have made school, and life in general harder if it had been her right arm.

It had been a fairly clean break of the bones in her forearm, and she would be in a cast for about eight weeks, so she was upset about missing out on the Valentines theme video that Marta had been working on with her, she was also going to miss any photo shoots while stuck in plaster. The bad news mounted up, as this was meant to be a return to the studio after a break of several weeks, mainly due to the growing pains she had experienced with her rapid growth spurt. Now she would miss the video, and then even after the cast was removed she was told her arm would look skinny and anaemic till she built up her strength.

After lunch she was in a much better mood, word came that Marta wanted to meet up in an empty classroom, two studio girls were standing watch outside so they wouldn't be disturbed while talking about studio stuff, which was usually a subject they avoided in any place they could be overheard.

Marta's weekend had included riding on Sunday morning, and a brainstorming session in the afternoon, when Anna and Irisha had helped flesh out a new sketch for an English video, turning disaster into triumph; well hopefully, they just had to to find a second girl, and really she needed to be tall for the sketch to look right. A few names came up and Marta would speak to them after seeing what Sofia thought of the idea.

Sofia was amazed Marta had come to her rescue with such a brilliant plan, and at such short notice, she told Marta of the girl most likely to help with the sketch, knowing the girl had been hoping to be included soon in the English video scheme.

Marta's sketch would involve a friend of the injured girl coming round to help Sofia safely take a shower, and as a joke would be wearing a nurses uniform. Of course the nurse would help Sofia to undress, put a plastic wrap over the cast and assist in the bathroom, then they would 'discover' that the nurses uniform got translucent when wet, and she would end up taking it off to help her patient. As they went over they improvised sketch more ideas were thrown into the ring, giving Marta additional lines to follow.

Marta had been looking forward to this afternoon's visit to the studio with mixed feelings, for she wasn't certain if her regrowth was sufficient for the waxing for which she had a provisional booking. Regardless of whether that happened, she now needed to find a venue for the shower scene, as they would need a large bathroom and shower, and she needed to sort out a uniform, and some other supplies.

The other major event to happen in school was that several of the studio girls stopped to pass the time of day with one very happy smiling ten year old, and it was due to this newcomer they had decided that they were unlikely to stay under the radar forever. For a while it was known they had been recognised as a loosely affiliated group, even though nobody could guess what these girls had in common. They wouldn't come out and say anything, but if anyone were to start asking questions the obvious reply was that they were a sort of academic study group, with an interest in foreign languages.

Irisha being the most advanced English speaker had been glad to lend a hand on Sunday, for Sofia had been a very good mentor helping Irisha to catch up on her school work when she had first arrived. An unexpected bonus from her work that day was when Marta gave her the Valentines sketch that Sofia could no longer use, so this would be her first solo outing in front of a video camera.

Marta was skipping one of her after school activities once again, she had missed chess club a few times, and now it was the traditional dance group for the second or third time, but she had a busy schedule and something had to give. She took a pain pill as soon as she got home then sorted what she wanted to place in her studio backpack, before going to take a shower, and sort out fresh clothes for her ride to the studio.

Ivan was pleased, worried that Sofia's earnings would suffer as her residuals tailed off due to her lack of new material. Tanya had been puzzled about Marta's request until she understood why she needed a sample of the cast material so she could colour match some cloth sticky tape. Next visit was to the costume department to see about a nurses uniform that would perform it's magic as required in the sketch, they also had some white cloth tape that could be coloured to match Sofia's cast.

With all her other issues covered Marta now had to face Galina, or parts of her had to face Galina, after-all this new growth wasn't going to remove itself.

Marta had laundered her salon T-shirt, and that was her only cover as she lay there on the treatment table awaiting Galina's verdict, - damn it was long enough. Well at least the hairs as they regrew were much finer than the stubble that would have resulted from shaving, and Karl loved it, something Galina had teased her about on Saturday. The other thing was due to the timing he wouldn't be visiting that area when it had reached maximum growth, just prior to having it waxed away.

Of course she insisted he shaved properly, not that his face had the strong growth of an older man, but Valya had told her stories of getting scratched thighs when Alex thought designer stubble might look good, Valya soon disabused him of that notion. Letting her mind wander didn't last past the first wax strip, it still hurt, maybe a bit less, she would see how she felt when it was over.

None of her classmates, or any of the studio set knew so far, other than her sister, for last Wednesday had been the first day of her period, so claiming to the Gym teacher that she had felt worse than she did, she got a pass to visit the library. That had worked out well as it had coincided perfectly with Uliana's timetable, and allowed their meeting. But come next Gym class in two days, her new look would no doubt cause comment.

It would be fun to have the bottle to say her boyfriend liked it that way, but she felt inclined to have more conservative replies to hand, like it gave her the freedom to wear more daring swimwear, and also because it felt more hygienic. If anyone were to mention her boyfriend, she would remain silent, and present an enigmatic smile.

Anna was up to date with all her studies, and had been trying to get a little guitar practice in most nights, even if it was only twenty minutes at a time, in fact it was better that way as it hurt her finger tips if she played too much, but that had improved over the weeks as her skin became inured to the strings. New year and Christmas had been wonderful this year, as the family hadn't the constraints they faced in the past, but with so much to do it was a break getting back to school.

She was pleased they had made the massive effort over those weeks to shake down the TTMF, as they had all learned so much when faced with native speakers. Dmitri had some posh name for it 'immersion therapy', but it was now well established, with the number of regular girls steadily increasing, and they were continuing to have the odd novice join in as it made the members laugh. They mostly sorted out the scheduling themselves in their own chat zone, but Alina settled any disputes, asking girls to move to the alternative shifts once the three standard ones were covered. Another outcome was that Svetlana now had extra teaching assistants for each class, which pushed forwards all the pupils that were not models.

The boys taking English were lapping it up, having some of the school's 'top totty' lean over their desk to check their pronunciation or vowel sounds, the older girls knew the boys were checking out their boobs. From what she had heard, the boys taking English might be considered nerds by some of the less academic boys in school, but at least they could be trained, as they didn't spend all their time posturing or showing off, and now two of the older models had started dating boys they had been mentoring.

Anna still had a growing interest in guys, and in the pleasurable feelings she now knew her body was capable of, but her thoughts when she played weren't focused on any one male, she just got carried away with the intensity of it, though sometimes she felt guilty about the faces that ran through her imagination. There were definitely no boys of her age or even a year older that she thought of in 'that way', but there were a few in Marta's year that were quite handsome, though she doubted if they knew she existed.

The men she most often thought of were of course unavailable, like the hunky Alex, and it went without saying John, she also had a thing for one of the designers in the costume department, though she knew that was totally silly. She had heard a couple of the other models talk about him and use the phrase that he "played for the other side", she had wondered if they were worried he was in competition with them for boyfriends. Through her research she knew that some people liked doing sex with both guys and girls, in fact she had seen so many things on the internet that she couldn't have guessed even existed.

She had seen some girl-girl stuff, and it looked kind of exciting, especially the kissing, and girls were all soft and loving, whereas some of the video clips of men having sex looked rough, like they didn't think about the girl they were with at all, just poke, poke, poke.

It had been a shock catching Marta doing anal sex with Karl, but watching them he had been so nice, and slow, and gentle, worried he was hurting her, he even made her cum, and Marta had said she hadn't thought that would happen. She had just been curious what it would be like, as the closest thing to doing it without actually doing it. They were both still following up the long list of web sites, there were just so many, and it was so easy to get side tracked, but without knowing English and Russian so many links would be useless to them, as they were the most active ones.

Geography had now become a more interesting lesson at school, made real by their contacts around the globe, and one girl had set up a world map at home with pins showing places their members lived. Those from America might say which State they lived in, or name some large nearby town, and in the UK, the country was divided into regions called counties, which were like states but much smaller. This year they would be doing a health class, which according to the older girls who had done it before said it was pretty useless, but some woman came in from a big company to promote their products, and give out a few free samples and leaflets, but it was nothing they didn't know already.

Maths used to be her worst subject, but again having real examples made it easier to understand, like the percentages she earned modelling and stuff they did on the house, so now with help from Marta she had cracked equations, and was near the top of her class. Music and Art were two of her favourite lessons, and she had separate guitar tuition, but that was in the music room twice a week during lunchtime, rather than after school. With all the videos, she had been surprised only two other models had signed up for the drama club that ran after school on Mondays, but she had missed that some weeks when she had been busy.

It had been fun going out to a pizza restaurant on Saturday with Uliana and her mum, as mostly she had only ever had it delivered before while they had been staying in the apartment waiting for the house to be ready. She could see the difficulty Valechka was having with the idea of spending so much on a meal out, then realising how much cash she had in her bag. Ivan had people in the admin department who helped new families deal with the changes, and how to cope, and not do anything silly. Seeing Uliana at school today had brought to mind one of her dad's favourite sayings, 'she looked like a dog with two tails', but not really like a dog obviously, because Uliana was quite pretty.

They hadn't spent as much time as she would have liked at the stables that weekend, but they had done some interesting lessons in the indoor arena, well to Anna it looked like a large empty barn. They had to ride around poles laid on the floor, and other obstacles, to gain finer control of the horses movements, and to improve their confidence. After she had helped the stable girls with the tack, and grooming, which made her realise that she still had much to learn even about the most basic stuff.

Gramps and Nana Olga seemed in much better health this winter, and they saw them nearly as much as when they used to be neighbours. The boys had done several sleep-overs, though she and Marta had only done it twice over the holidays, as it was so little trouble, what with them having the extra bedroom with the two sets of bunk beds, and Nana Olga loved to fuss over them. Mum had arranged for one of the salon ladies to make regular visits to do Nana Olga's hair at home, she had even got Gramps in the chair once, though he didn't have that much hair to cut.

It was good that they were meeting people and making new friends so quickly, and Gramps was so happy he was able to do something useful, and he liked to go across the city to visit Yaroslaw and the others at the Squat. Due to his visits Nana Olga had heard of the plan to possibly reopen the café, and was keen to help as she had once worked as a cook, in fact she had helped mum with the last few baking jobs for the catering company, something which she had really enjoyed doing.

On Friday when Anna saw Uliana at break-time the girl seemed so agitated Anna thought she was going to wet herself, when she calmed down enough to speak Anna guessing the subject pulled her across the playground away from others who might overhear.

"OK, we should be safe here, tell me - but quietly, you don't want everyone knowing your business."

"Yesterday in the post when I got in from school it was addressed to mum but we don't get much post and I had to sit there looking at it for hours till she got home I didn't know for sure but I thought it might be from, well you know, and it was, and it was a thing about payment for being there on Saturday and it was like so so much and I thought it was a mistake and,.."

"STOP, breathe,.. and again, now slow down."

"Em, well it was a LOT, and mum has a bank account for work, but this was another bank that they said was like opened in her name just for privacy, well you know."

"Yes, I know"

"We sat and read the letter over and over cause we wanted to make sure what it said, and that was just for doing it, you know, on Saturday, and how the set went on thingy on Tuesday, and by the end of next week we would know how many people had, well you know."

Anna smiled fondly at the normally articulate if quiet girl, who had been shocked to the point of loosing the ability to form a coherent sentence - you know.

"I know it's a shock, but you need to calm down, this will change your life and your outlook in so many ways, it happened to me and the others, it doesn't make all your problems go away, it just changes them. If you're popular and get three sets under your belt, then I can see that you might think of moving from where you live now. Also if your mum wanted to think about looking for a new job, she would have the breathing space to do that, maybe even take up some training course to gain some qualifications to do something she likes, because I got the impression she doesn't like her current job."

At that point the bell sounded and they each needed to get to their next class, but the brief talk had helped Uliana regain her normal composure, though she would probably have to sit down when the first sales statement arrived.

Irisha had learnt the script that had originally been destined for the unfortunate Sofia, and then made a few changes of her own, and had already recorded it in less than a week. At this time of year many models in the city were aware of how the weekend visitors from outlying districts could sometimes cancel at the last moment, due to colds or transport issues. Red eyes and a runny nose didn't make very attractive photo sets, so they were always aware modelling opportunities could occur unexpectedly, and it wouldn't take long to find someone willing to fill in at short notice.

It was due to these situations that a new practice emerged that when any out of towners who were on the TTMF caught colds, they would swap schedules with a city girl via their own chat zone. The city girl taking the studio slot, and giving the country girl her slot on the TTMF rota, as despite having a cold she would still be able to type, and get paid for taking part on the forum, to in part make up for loosing out, and delaying her next studio visit.

The autonomy the girls developed in this respect helped them all out, and avoided wasting studio bookings, and was just another example of how the entire network was moving forwards and growing year on year. The city based girls, and that included practically all of those models that were among the most popular, normally had weekday shoots, and what with the addition of the 'banking' shoots, the studio was busy on most weekdays from mid afternoon through to eight or nine at night. Slowly Anna was building up a portfolio of sets that she hoped would provide an income long after she finished posing for the camera.

By the last weekend in January Sofia and Oxana were set to record the 'Assisted Shower' video, and the studio had found the perfect venue. It wasn't said who the house belonged to, but it was in the hills just outside the city, and whoever lived there would not return for the duration of the filming.

Anna had via the chat zone asked many girls to send in brief messages signed with their 'stage names' and somehow wizards at the studio had turned them into transfers that could be applied to Sofia's cast. A whole circus turned up to help with the production, and Marta as director with Anna as her assistant were keen to see if this bold production would work as planned. While Sofia was in make-up Anna applied the dyed cloth tape over the length of her cast, covering the real names of friends and classmates, giving a fresh surface to apply the transfers with the working names of many studio models.

The final result was as haphazard as the original, but was now filled with names the members would recognise. Sofia's modelling name was Zina, and Oxana went by Vika and now they were both ready for their English video debut.

Both Oksana and Vladimir were going to run video cameras, and they had a total of four between them, two were the type they normally used, and the other two were smaller and fitted to the ends of booms to use in the shower, so they could film the girls without the need to get in with them. They had decided it would be necessary to have a lot of cutting between cameras, so the final result would rely heavily on editing. This gave the girls lots of freedom with regard to any mistakes they made, as it was a cut and paste job.

With both Irisha and Svetlana as coaches, the girls had mostly mastered the vocabulary of the script, and were told not to worry, as the audience comments on their own forum and in talking to the girls on the TTMF had shown how much they enjoyed the 'cute accents' and mispronounced words.

They went through several dry runs, in that they didn't turn on the water yet for the shower scenes, and the operators wanted to practice with the boom cameras in the location to resolve any problems. When Anna raised the issue of how much splashing might occur once the shower was running, she was volunteered to use the shower while they did another test, as they couldn't risk getting the actors hair wet. Being a good sport she stripped down to have a quick shower while Oksana and Vladimir found the best places to position the cameras.

When at last they were ready Oxana in her role as Vika the nurse put on her long winter coat and stepped outside the front door of the house.

"And Action!"

Ding-Dong

"I hope that is Vika at the door, she has promised to help me shower, and I feel so stinky."

The girls greeted one another, with Zina giving her visitor an awkward one armed hug due to her cast being in a sling.

"You must be a good friend to hug me, with me needing a wash so badly."

"Your my BFF, so I'm glad to help, look I've even dressed for the part."

The BFF (best friends forever) was something they had picked up as teen speak from the many magazines, and at that point Vika removed her coat to reveal the white nurses uniform that she was wearing. The girls then had a few more lines of banter about the joke uniform, and the cameras followed as they walked off set, the later edit would go to the next scene in the bathroom.

The palatial bathroom was ideal for their purpose, and the cameras were rolling as the girls were seen to enter from the hallway outside. As all the models had a fantasy bio anyway, it was fun to play on this by having a make believe accident that appeared less mundane than the real cause.

"It was such bad luck to have a skiing accident Zina."

"At least it was the last day of my vacation, so I didn't miss all the excitement."

Vika began to help her friend undress, undoing the buttons on the sleeveless knit top, then helping with the T-shirt below that had the left sleeve ripped off making a larger arm hole. The dialogue had less jokes or double entendres than previous scripts, but with the older girls in a two handed play, they were expecting it would have a more sensual aspect.

Before entering the bathroom Oxana had helped her friend by playing with her nipples so they would appear more prominent in the coming scene, and as one camera zoomed in on Zina to show them through the thin T-shirt the action continued.

"I cant manage a bra and this shirt rubs on me so much."

As the T-shirt came off her perky B-cup breasts jiggled into view, and she moved about to entice the audience with their firm youthful body, shaking out her hair to prolong the moment. Vika then knelt on the floor to help remove Zina's jeans, hands on the girls hips and thighs as they inched lower revealing a lacy pair of red panties, as the second camera focused on the cleavage displayed by Vika's saucy uniform.

Zina in an effort to balance as her jeans were being removed, placed her right hand on top of Vika's head pushing the girl's face close to the red lace panel in front of her, then back on two feet the scrap of red followed the jeans to the floor. Vika held them up in full view, asking where she could buy some, with a few more lines on the subject of frilly undies.

In preparation for the shower Zina sat in a chair supporting the cast with her good arm as Vika for the moment removed the sling. Shot from two angles the girls talked of all their friends from the studio who had signed the cast, calling for zoom shots as they pointed out the messages, and showing her breasts so they would fill the frame. Vika moving the cast about as she wrapped it in clear kitchen film brushed against her friends breasts to perform her task. The modern cast was in fact waterproof, but why spoil the fun, but this was in truth to stop the fake top layer from peeling off.

The narrow sling that supported the cast nestled between her twin peaks as she moved across to the shower area. The bathroom being ultra modern didn't have a traditional shower enclosure, as this corner was a fully tiled wet room that was ideal for this scene. They had so far cut the action a few times and done a few repeat lines, but now was the time to switch to the cameras on the booms as it would allow for some interesting angles.

They checked all the 'girly' bathing products were in place on the rack in the shower, then once again Oksana called action.

Zina turned on the water adjusting the flow and temperature, a second lever could divert the water to either the massive overhead rose or the hand held spray that could fit on a slider rail on the wall. The scene would start with the standard rail mounted shower fitting as the second one wouldn't come into play at first.

Vladimir couldn't understand the dialogue on these new English videos, and consequently had been getting fewer jobs, or as now, was rated as second unit camera, and he had as a result taken up tuition to learn the damn language, but it had been slow progress so far. The models seemed to have no trouble, sucking it up like a sponge, and the main woman that taught them had given him some help. She was quite attractive, but at thirty-six was ten years his junior, and didn't view him in the same light as he viewed her, still as a rich working man he was not short of opportunities, so he didn't pursue a lost cause.

He kept the action centred on the angled view screen of his camera, thinking the new use of stick figure storyboards was a smart idea, and the practice runs first made for a much smoother take. Watching the two nubile fourteen year old's he couldn't imagine how any red blooded male could say they were too young to be making this type of entertainment, if this weren't his job, he would pay good money to see a video like this.

With the shower hose fixed on the rail Vika had Zina back into the spray as she washed the girl's hair, running her hands through the soapy tresses, rinsing it through, and applying conditioner, before moving on to soap her torso. Zina stood there luxuriating in the pleasure of being pampered, as slowly the water splashing off her body made patches of Vika's outfit became see-through.

As the two girls moved apart Zina turned so her friend could wash her font, and it was now after the cameras had been following the encroaching transparency of the nurses uniform that suddenly Zina 'noticed' the flaw in Vika's costume. Vika at first pretended to be shocked at this fault, but the girls laughed about it as they improvised a little on the script.

Zina now reached for the lever that diverted the water flow, for a second the sound of water ceased then a crashing cascade burst from the shower rose high above that had been kept out of shot up to this point. Aware this was about to happen Vladimir had drawn back for a longer shot that captured the moment the spray emerged and both girls were drenched by this new waterfall tumbling down upon them.

Vika at first stood arms wide, then as if resigned to her fate began to unbutton the useless garment that she had worn to play the part while aiding her friend. With the discarded dress thrown to one side, her matching white lacy bra and panties were now on show, and they soon joined the dress on the floor. The next part did not take much acting as Vika again got on with her duties as nurse, for Zina was ticklish and washing under her arms and down her sides caused squirming and laughter.

When Vika's hands had completed the tour of Zina's body the audience were left in no doubt she was cleaner, and without question the site members would willingly don the nurses uniform or indeed any other garb if it meant they could lay their hands on Zina. They had discussed this at length beforehand, and to stay within their usual limits, Vika was never actually seen washing Zina's breasts or pussy, as teasingly the cameras were always just in the 'wrong' position, leaving the viewer to wonder if she did or didn't.

This so far had been the most sensual video this division of the network had produced, and it was nearer to the output of the studio that featured pairs or threesomes of girls from fourteen to eighteen, and on viewing the completed sketch later the man in charge of the other studio gave both girls an open invitation to work for him at any time. He also mentioned as both studios were part of the same network there would be no conflict of interest in working for both, even at the same time, and that the offer had been cleared with Ivan. To maintain credibility the girls would use the same names they did now, as a good many members paid for access to more than one of the network's banner titles.

Job done the shower was quickly switched back to the more gentle shower hose, that was quieter so the dialogue could be heard. They stopped to catch some infill shots, close-ups of soap suds sliding softly over subtle sweeping curves of the sublime sylphs.

The cameras then caught snatches of the girls getting dried, but only brief glimpses, which they would fade and cut, to pass over that phase quickly, and move on to Zina's body as it was anointed with moisturiser. Again they cut and shifted camera angles for fun, showing Zina's expression just as Vika's hands were approaching the best bits. Both girls kept breaking out with laughter, so they needed several takes to capture the footage they wanted.

They did have a few cheeky lines towards the end, with Zina thanking Vika for helping her, then in the closing scene the girls stood side by side Vika's right arm around her friend as they waved and blew kisses to the camera. At that point just when the audience would expect the video to end Zina turned to face Vika....

"Hey, would you like to come skiing with me next season!"

"Cut that's a wrap."

This was followed by clapping and applause, as the two stars stood hugging one another.

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To be continued in Chapter 52, if you want more chapters ???

The latest statistic I've seen was for part 49 at No.97 with 1424 downloads, so readership isn't as low as I'd feared. If you've written before, are you still there, and if you haven't had your say, then why not air your views? Best Wishes for the New Year SQ.