Cristian

Anyone for tea?

Or, rather - anyone for "T"?

After all, it's a great letter, isn't it?

Quite apart from our very own Tyler, it's a letter that describes so many of our HMBoys.

They can be terrific, tactile, thrilling, titillating, terribly tasty, tantalising, tempting, toned, treasurable, tasteful, touchable, tremendous, tender, thoroughbred, twinkling, torrid, throbbing, top teens.

But they can also, once in a while, be troublesome and truculent.

And, if they get to know how much we really like them, they can certainly be teasing.

And that last word fits HMBoy Cristian like a glove.

He may have looked beguilingly shy as he came into the studio after his pre-shoot shower, but look into those eyes and you'll see that he knew exactly the impression he was trying to create.

Nice - but more than a little naughty too.

And that was how the whole shoot continued.

"Do I really have to take off the towel?", he asked.

But even as the words left his mouth, his hand told a different story entirely by edging that towel down another inch or two.

Yes, Cristian sure was a tease.

Just to give you one example…

We hadn't planned on doing anything "special" in this particular shoot.

We thought that you'd be pretty pleased just to be able to see every inch of such a beautiful boy at your leisure.

But we hadn't reckoned on Cristian spotting one of our favourite little props which happened to have been inadvertently left on the bed.

"Wow!", he exclaimed - with a note of surprise that suggested (falsely, we knew!) that he'd never seen such a thing before in his whole 18 years.

"That thing's awesome…

"Maybe you guys could shoot me with it?"

Cristian ran his fingers provocatively along the orange monster's whole length.

"Doncha' think it might be fun?

"But it's gonna cost you a little more than we agreed."

Personally, we'd have gone along with it.

But, if we spend any extra money on our models, there's an iron rule here at HMBoys.

The boss has to give the OK first.

And he was out of town.

"Auditioning."

And with his cell phone switched off (and why might that be, we wondered?)

So all we could suggest was that Cristian put on a little show to give the boss an idea of what he might be willing to do next time we shot him.

Like we said, Cristian can certainly be a teaser when he wants to be…

We got, as you'll see, some great pics.

But, at the end of the shoot, we decided to do our own little bit of teasing too.

"Sorry, Cristian", we told him.

"Because those shots were just a sort of audition, we won't be able to pay you right now."

And that's when we saw yet another sort of "T".

Temper.