This is one of those stories I never thought I would write. How often does this happen to someone?
I am an average looking guy. Nothing too special. I'm not a celebrity, I'm not rich. In fact, I felt my life was going nowhere.
So when my favorite porn star Lia Sands announced she was hosting a contest to go on a date with her, I figured why not? Chances are I wouldn't win, and if I did, I would have something to celebrate. It was a low stakes lottery ticket. Besides, the decision would happen around my 32nd birthday, so maybe I could celebrate a little good luck.
The drawing required you to be able to make it to Las Vegas (I live there), be subscribed on her creator page (I was), and repost her stuff to social media (Mine was under a pseudonym where I mostly posted memes, so it didn't really matter). I did that and had forgotten about it within a few days. Until one day I got the notice that I had won!
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The whole stunt was a promo for a new Vegas restaurant and nightclub. They wanted the flashy, high-spending sorts to come. Usually when these social media contests happen, they intentionally rig it for one of the people with the highest follower counts. But some of the owners of the club were tied to casino interests, and they weren't going to risk the license over a social media contest. That is why I was able to win.
It also didn't matter who the guy was. Like porn, the guy was really a blank slate in all of this, an empty void in which the viewer could imagine themselves. I wouldn't even need to be in the pictures, and the club even wanted me not to be, other than my hands in the shot to give the barest sense a real fan was part of the scene.
The arrangements were made and I would meet her at the restaurant where we would eat, then go to the club.
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"Hello," Lia said, greeting me with a hug.
Beside us a photographer took pictures. We walked on it, and were ushered to our table. We posed with some staged food and drinks for the photographs, then the wait staff took those away and asked us for our orders.
"Hold on, we have one more," Lia said.
"One more?" I said, excited.
"It's my Mom. And don't get any gross ideas," Lia said.
A moment later Lia's mother Debby approached.
"Mom, this is Carl, my date winner."
"Pleased to meet you," Debby said.
Between formality of the photographs, the presence of her Mother, and being called a "date winner", I kind of knew this wasn't going to be a night of fucking a porn star. We ordered food and chatted.
It was hard to talk excitedly about my life, as I was just a guy with a regular day job. I tried to steer things toward Lia, who had exciting tales to tell about traveling around the world with older male "friends" who took her to exciting getaways between her shoots.
At one point Lia got a phone call from her agent, and she slipped away. I noticed her mother take a big swig of her wine.
"Did Lia invite you over for safety, or to get you a free meal?" I asked.
"The latter. Any of the security guards would think nothing of beating the crap out of you," Debby said.
"Luckily she has nothing to worry about," I said, "Sadly, I don't need to work about protection either."
"Well, you got to spend time with her, that's more than most," Debby said.