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I asked them how much work they still had to do, and if I should hang around or take off, and if we were still going to go and eat somewhere. Anne said just about another fifteen minutes or so to finish the last sketch and then she could work on them herself afterwards, and that I should just hang out. Then we would all go out.
Priya sat back down in the chair and Anne took up her pencils.
"What are you going to do with the drawings?" I asked...It suddenly occured to me wonder if she would display them publicly. Anne answered, "Ali said we should put them all up in the living room as a series". I was a little shocked, a little pang shot through me. Ali (name changed) was in the same major as Anne and Priya and also an international student. I thought he and Anne might have something going on, because he used to stop by their place pretty frequently it seemed.
"He was here?" I asked, trying to sound casual. "Yeah, he dropped by earlier" Priya answered. "While you were posing?" I asked, my casual look gone by now. "Oh yeah", she said...but then she added after a few seconds of a pause: "we took a break and I put on a t-shirt when I realized he was gonna hang out for a bit".
I really didn't want to ask any follow up questions to avoid looking jealous and not being cool about art! But from what it sounded like, he had come over, Priya had kept posing for at least a little while until it seemed he was going to stick around for a while, at which point she took a break and put on a t-shirt. I know she used to hear from friends of hers who posed nude or attended naked parties, and I guess this was her way of experimenting with being casual and confident about her own nudity. I know it wasn't familiar to her from her own experience though.
It also meant that Ali had examined the drawings pretty carefully. I wondered how it would feel, the next time I was around Ali and Priya at the same time, or when they saw each other in class, if he would conjure up naked memories of her...Or how she would feel knowing that he had seen her naked, both in person and in Anne's drawings. Also, I felt a jealous that he presumed to tell her what to do with the drawings, to show them publicly. (She did end up putting one of them up, but in her bedroom not the living room).