HIRANAYA
Hiranaya didn't quite understand what was going on. She'd been an aide to Senator Bierce for just a month or so and had been quite flattered to be invited with the rest of the staff on this little respite.
This ranch was Senator Dixie Bierce's summer place, and it was nice to relax and celebrate the hard work that had gone into passing the bipartisan Dodsworth-Erridge measure.
The hearings had been so stressful...why was the Senator undressing in the middle of the living room? Were they going swimming?
"Get all that crap off now, Dixie. I wish I had my nice cut off garden hose to spur you, you fat piece of shit."
Poodle Widmerpoole, the Senator's executive secretary, and so named because of her fabulous hair, seemed to be snapping her fingers and shrieking at poor Dixie.
Hiranaya's jaw dropped.
"Faster, Dixie. Let's go." Poodle was a tiny brunette. Although she had a loose, curly mane, it was the only relaxed thing about her. Poodle was very tightly wound.
Apparently Dixie was terrified of her!
Senator Dixie Bierce was an overweight dyed blonde, and didn't look that much better without clothes, although she was, and Hiranaya reminded herself, quite brilliant.
Dixie deposited her panties on top of her other clothes in the middle of the floor and stood with her head bowed.
"Now isn't that better." Poodle said acidly. "Now we can see you in your true colors. Remember the last time we had a nice little vacation, at her ski place, and Martin made Dixie go outside and we threw snowballs at her while she danced around naked?"
Hiranaya was startled. Marty Quiggen was the chief of staff. He didn't seem like the sort that would assault his employer with snow balls.
"Feeling better now, since your long winded filibuster back in DC?" Suellen, the communications director said as she lounged next to the mantelpiece.
"Dixie, get over here and rub my feet." Lincoln Plotz, the mail boy said, snapping his fingers.
Hiranaya had been amazed that the staff mail boy would be invited on this venture, but that he now was ordering Dixie...
And yes, Dixie came over to where Linc was resting on the couch, and she knelt and removed his loafers and began rubbing his toes through the weird pink socks.
"You're not bad at that. You should do massage shoeshines at the airport." Lincoln snickered
"Thank you, Lincoln." Dixie said as she rubbed his right foot; Hiranaya noted that it looked as if Dixie was indeed a trained foot massage.
"What did you call me?" Lincoln snatched up one of his loafers and smacked Dixie on the side of the shoulder. "What is my title here?"
"Oh I'm sorry. Master Lincoln."
"Little late now, isn't it?"
Dixie began trembling on her knees.
"Did you enjoy the centipedes and fire ants I put in your bra before you went out on the Senate floor yesterday?" Lincoln laughed, and grabbed Dixie's nose and twisted it slightly.
"Lincoln, I need her back!" called Poodle. "Get back here and fold your clothes, Dixie. You're such a pig. I know you have a maid at home, but this is your weekend to shine."
Hiranaya wondered if she should leave. Everyone was going nuts. Jeremiah, the legislative correspondent was snickering with Rhonda, the Senator's scheduler, and Gretchen, the press secretary was lighting a cigarette and giving one to Poodle.
That was really odd. No one smoked inside anymore-was Gretchen throwing a lit match at the Senator as she scurried naked, across the floor, her cellulite ridden butt jiggling?
Senator Bierce didn't smoke at all, and had volunteered for an antismoking campaign, though she did take tobacco money.
Jesus, was Poodle flicking sparks from her cigarette at Dixie's eyes? God, Poodle must be insane.
"Goddamnit, Dixie, fold your clothes" Poodle screamed at the Senator. As Dixie Bierce began frantically folding her pantsuit bottom Poodle kicked her in her corpulent buttocks.
Now Poodle was using the Senator's nipple as an ashtray. Hiranaya felt a little ill.
But Dixie was tough. Look at her biting her lip and standing so still as Poodle really ground that cigarette into the areola.
Suddenly, Gretchen noticed Hiranaya's look of horror. "Shit, no one briefed Hiranaya on this, did they?"
POODLE