I'm Seb McGrath a just started engineer at Tesla Manufacturing in Fremont CA, I'm 22 and proud to be geeky engineer but it leaves me ill at ease with the dating scene, I'm not a virgin but I might as well be for all I remember of that one drunken foray.
I'm meeting college friends, male of course, in Las Vegas for a long weekend's fun at the Vegas Park Speedway, something we've done a few times. Great thing about these trips we're all similar guys, no-one wanting to go and find other 'entertainment' which only embarrasses the life out of me.
No money of course, so lonely 12 hours 10 minutes Fixbus ride from W Oakland BART to Vegas but at least there's WiFi to keep me entertained especially if the bus is quiet and I can get a discreet seat where I can watch porn, see I'm not immune to the pleasures of the flesh just incapable of creating the link to warm female flesh.
Getting on the bus it's obvious it's pretty full already but there's an empty pair of seats towards the back. I do the human thing of putting my rucksack on the window seat and sitting in the aisle seat, it should discourage any weirdo from siting there.
Just 5 minutes to go and my seating plan is working, several people have got on board and not hinted at taking my seat despite the bus being virtually full, I'm very relieved. You can tell I'm not great at the pleasant company stuff especially for 12 hours.
The driver closes the door and all's well when I see a women rushing towards the bus, the doors opening for her, please don't let her want to sit by me.
But of course she does, 'oh goody, thanks for saving me a window seat' picking up my rucksack and putting it overhead. What do I say? Absolutely nothing of course.
She settles down and the bus pulls away now how can I really say nothing for 12 hours? I start to put my buds in. But the answer comes quickly, I might want to say nothing but she definitely does!
I have my tablet on,
'I bet I'm stopping you watching porn aren't I? But don't mind me I understand the basic needs of you men, it pays my bills after all!'
I gasped, well choked really!
'You what, how does it pay your bills'. I can't help myself!
'Well I'm a porn star, in the business as it were, so maybe I can do a bit of customer research!'
Oh shit.
Going beet red in the face I can only stutter.
'What!!' my worst nightmares starting.
'Don't worry; let me take the lead, this is going to be fun!' Oh no it's not, it really, really isn't. I want to just melt away to somewhere else. I've never felt so crap in all my existence, why couldn't she have been in nursing or something.
'So, how often do you watch porn?'
'Never'
'Utter rubbish I don't believe you'
'Sometimes'
'At least when you need a wank presumably?'
'Maybe'
'Maybe need a wank or maybe wank to porn'
Please let a hole appear and swallow me up.
'Err maybe both'
'Okay this isn't working; hang on, let's slow this down and introduce ourselves properly maybe that'll help you relax, I didn't intend to scare you. I'm Maddy, Masochista professionally and you are?'
This is a bit easier:
'Me, I'm Seb'
She puts her hand out to shake mine.
'Pleased to meet you Seb'. Dainty hands with simply painted nails nothing flashy, odd for my preconceived idea of a porn star.
'Now what do you like to wank to.......sorry, sorry easier stuff first and what does Seb do when he's not watching porn?'
'Well I'm an EV Battery Research Technician at Tesla Motors'
'Oh, brains then....'
'Maybe'
'Don't you want to talk to me?'
'Well, it's not that simple, I'm a bit geeky I suppose, not had much to do with girls, no sisters no Mom for that matter'
'But you like wanking to girls rather than boys I assume?'
Too quickly I rushed into:
'Oh god yes'. Bright red again.
'I'm not trying to get you to hate me, you know, I just think you're cute and admit I am teasing you but I don't meet many guys that are intimidated by me. It'll be fun, but only if you have fun too. Ask me something that's fun for you'.
'Well I guess the obvious thing is why are you a pornstar, and why on a bus, surely you have lots of money?'
'Good questions, last one first: I have time to kill and sometimes it's just more relaxing on the bus, you meet nicer people too somehow.'
Looking at me and smiling.
Again I think she doesn't fit my expectation of a pornstar but I can't put my finger on it somehow, she's not so brassy and false somehow. Never met any pornstars of course but you know judging from what you hear in interviews and read about them.
'Why a pornstar is both an easy and a difficult question. Easy stuff first: I didn't take to school, my Mom never made much money so we were always short, I was a bit of a rebel, but people say I'm pretty. I met a photographer, Jo, early on who wanted me to model for him. Just portraits he said, but then it was show a bit of cleavage, show a leg; the excitement I felt was utterly addictive; nude was easy, much more money too; he did a portfolio of me; more work, more money. Then a man took me in a very specific direction. What kind of porn do you like Seb?'