I was working at a pizza place at the time. I was the delivery girl and I knew all the shortcuts around the town. I had a motor scooter and would put the orders in a canister strapped to the back of the scooter. With a scooter I could get to places faster than anyone with a car, cutting through parks and down laneways where a car had to travel the long way round.
I got enough pay from the pizza shop to cover my petrol costs and make some money. On top of that were the tips. A pretty girl delivering your pizza with a smile and a bit of cleavage made for some great tips. I did OK for what was basically a part time job.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday the pizza place stayed open late. Other nights they tended to shut down around nine or ten o'clock, depending on what the custom was like. One Thursday the place was dead. The boss was getting ready to close down when we got one last order for some pizzas and some drinks. The boss told me to deliver them and head on home. I could give him the money for the order when I came in the next day.
I took the delivery and headed on out, eventually winding up at them customer's place. Quite a nice place, too. A lot better than my dingy flat. I leaned on the buzzer and after a few moments the door was answered.
"Pizza," I said with a smile.
The customer was not a bad looking guy. He was big and brawny with blonde hair and a big smile. He looked me over and winked at me as though to say not bad. I just continued smiling. I know I'm quite pretty and a lot of my male customers give me the once over and a nice tip.
I told him how much and he produced a fifty and told me to keep the change. Why, thank you, sir, I'll be delighted to. Especially as his order was only around thirty.
"Thank you, sir," I said, my smile bigger and brighter than ever.
"So, very busy tonight?" he asked.
"Not really," I told him. "It's been dead. As a matter of fact you're my last customer for the night. I'm off home now."
At that point another man appeared next to the guy who answered the door, taking the pizzas off him, leaving him with the drinks. The new guy was even bigger than the first. The really noticeable difference between them was their faces. The first guy, while not handsome, could be called good looking. Better than average, you might say. The second man had a face that looked as though it had had an encounter with a brick wall moving at high speed.
You know how some people are described as pleasantly ugly? Well, that was this guy, minus the pleasantly. He was smiling, revealing that he had excellent teeth, but the rest of his face said run, he'll use those teeth to bite your arm off. Stretch out the hand of friendship to him and you'll draw back a mucky stump. I mean, that guy was scary.
"Thanks, kid," he said to me. "Did you give her a decent tip?" he wanted to know.
The first guy's "Yes, I gave her a tip," crossed with my, "Yes, sir," and Kong grinned. That made him look even scarier.
"Gotta watch Joe," he advised me. "Tight fisted bastard, unlike me. I'm Mr Generosity."
"Especially when he's using someone else's money," Joe sniped and Kong just laughed.
"Hey, Rand, the girl's just finished for the day. She's on her way home and we're delaying her."
"Really?" said Rand. "Now that gives me an idea. Are you in any great rush to get home?"
"Ah, why?" I asked cautiously.
"If you're not in a great hurry it occurs to me you might like to come in and share the pizza with us and then get naked for some more intimate entertainment. Alternatively, you might like to come in, get naked, share the pizza while naked, and then move on to the more intimate entertainment. I'm a generous tipper, remember."
He winked at me and I just stood there stunned. I've been propositioned by customers before but never quite this bluntly. I didn't know what to say.
"Rand!" exclaimed Joe. "Geez, you embarrass me. You can't go propositioning a girl that way."
"Ah, yes, I can. I just did. It may be a bit more direct than your circumlocutions but it gets the message across just fine."
"But you make it sound so sordid and unappealing. Try a little finesse when you proposition someone."
"A little finesse? Last time I heard you pitching a line at a girl you showed so much finesse that she didn't ever work out what you were suggesting. She walked off and left you spouting rubbish."
Joe turned to me.
"I must apologise for Rand," he said. "What he was trying to say. . ."
I held up a hand to stop him.
"You can't apologise for someone else. If you do it doesn't mean anything. He's quite big enough and ugly enough to apologise for himself. I also understood perfectly well what he was suggesting. Dinner and a fuck, to put it crudely. Ah, seeing that there're two of you I assume he means multiple fucks."
"And that puts you in your place," said Rand, sounding happy. "See, she's not a dimwit just because she's a woman. She understands plain English."
He turned his attention back to me, his eyes running over me possessively.