This story will only make sense if you've read 'The Education of Eva.' Everybody in this story is over eighteen.
After the weekend at the mansion, we three girls returned to our routine, 'working' β if work is an adequate description for what we did β from our luxury Costa del Sol pad. I, for one, knew that my attitude was changed for ever, that, for me, there was more to life than parties, and being groped and screwed. My experience during that weekend, with Monique and her husband Jean-Paul, had left me with more questions than answers, it is true, and I still had no idea what I thought about Petra.
On the subject of Petra, she was strangely silent after the weekend, and when I showed her the welts Monique had inflicted on me, and described what had happened to me at the mansion, she was reticent about what the Arab, Ben Sayid, and his wives, had demanded of her. I dropped the subject β in any case, I didn't feel as if I wanted to share with anyone what I had felt for Monique during those two days, until time gave me a chance to find out what I really felt for the lovely Frenchwoman who had taken possession of me, and taught me the true relationship between pain and ecstasy.
But I was grateful for Petra's presence beside me in my bed, and her feminine softness was a joy whenever we returned after an assignment β which usually involved sex with some minor celebrity, politician or rich businessman.
By the time we were due to return to Madrid as the summer season drew to a close, the life of an upper-class whore was, I suppose, starting to pall. Because, dress it up whatever way they could, call us 'escorts' if they liked, that's exactly what we were β it's just that we didn't have to stand on street-corners like the poor kids out there on the Avenida Castellana.
Things went quiet after the summer season for a while, and when Tina dropped in from her flat nearby one day, and suggested that Petra and I might be interested in a bit of 'decoration,' we looked at each other, then back at the invariably exhibitionist Tina, who lifted her short skirt to reveal a spectacular tattoo β a brightly-coloured serpent, coiled around one thigh, its head disappearing into her shaven pussy. We both laughed, and I declared there and then that I 'wasn't into tattoos.'
But Tina wasn't to be put off that easily, and told us that the establishment she was recommending did all kinds of things, not just tattoos, from piercing to false nails and hair extensions. 'Come with me,' she said, 'you'll be surprised.'
We agreed to go along next day, and duly showed up at the smart modern premises in a commercial estate β not at all the sleazy back-street joint I had expected β with the very un-Spanish sign 'Body-Art' over the door.
A smiling blonde with a gold ring at the side of her nose welcomed us and seemed to be expecting us β clearly Tina had told her we should be coming.
'I know the way,' said Tina, and led us up a flight of stairs and through a swing door into a big clean tiled room like a clinic, with several reclining chairs and benches to be seen. Two of the chairs were occupied by young women, white towels draped over their abdomens, whilst another client sat on a stool, proferring her tongue to be pierced, and there seemed to be at least half a dozen assorted white-coated staff scurrying about. There was a smell of antiseptic.
Tina introduced us to an attractive middle-aged woman, whom she called Bibi, and who enquired as to what it was we wanted done.
I had long thought it time to have my navel pierced and said so, but Petra already had had hers done.
'I see you've already had your tongues done,' observed Bibi, 'but what about your labia, as you're here? Would you like me to have a look at them, and see what we can do?'
I nodded uncertainly, but Petra seemed more positive and so it was that I found myself in a vacant chair, not unlike the one at the dentist's, while Bibi and a younger girl prodded and probed. In no time at all I had had my navel pierced, and a silver ring threaded in. When Bibi asked me what sort of decoration I wanted, I told her that I loved things that dangled. She fetched me a tray, and I selected a triple silver chain about ten centimetres long which would swish around nicely against my belly.
Bibi had inspected my pussy closely and declared me an ideal subject for a pierced clitoris. She told me that few women had a clit big enough to achieve this, as it was normally covered by the hood, but that mine was just asking to be done, and that it would be enhanced beautifully. I was terrified, and asked her if it would hurt.
'Yes,' she said, 'for a moment, but it's terribly exciting as well. Would you like to look at mine?'
I nodded dumbly and she needed no further encouragement to lift her starched white housecoat and the silk slip she wore underneath. She pushed aside the gusset of loose silk panties she wore, and there, nestling in the pink crack of her neat pussy, was a silver ring, with a little opalescent stone set into it, projecting from the small protruding bud of her clit. It was all I could do not to reach out and touch it, and I wasn't sure that it wasn't what she wanted, anyway.
But the moment passed, and she turned away, a half smile on her face β she knew what had been on my mind.
It seemed I had agreed to have it done! Before I could say anything more, Bibi was between my legs β which were in stirrups β and she was teasing out my clit, an altogether pleasant sensation, despite my fears. But then she produced, as if out of thin air, the piercing tool, and told me to keep very still. I was trembling like a leaf, and then there was an awful, blinding pain, and an accompanying sensation the like of which I had never felt in my life, but which was close to that which I knew when I was whipped severely β a ferocious, searing, climactic orgasm that almost caused me to lose consciousness.
'It's done!' said a voice from a million miles away. It was Bibi, by my side, wiping my brow. 'No sex for at least two weeks β and apply this lotion every night,' she said, giving me a bottle.
I was soon reunited with Petra, who had been unable to have her clit done, as her hood covered it too completely, so had had a ring inserted in her hood β an altogether simpler process. Then Tina met us in the reception area, where she had been chatting with the blonde, and suggested we go with her and have some lunch, then return to visit another department.
'Fuck,' I said, 'no more pain, please. I've had enough today!'
'No,' said Tina, 'no more pain, trust me.'
We had a bite of lunch and returned to the 'Body-Art' headquarters in the afternoon. Tina led us to what she described as the 'nail-room' where we were seated and shown a bewildering variety of false fingernails, and given lots of advice. I had contemplated having a set fitted for a long time β it was just too much trouble maintaining my natural ones all the time, and when the long red porcelain talons were in place, I wondered why I hadn't had them done earlier.
Then Tina said, 'You like dangly things, don't you?'
'Yes, why?' I replied.
She brought a smiling little assistant to show me a brochure, with a picture of a nail, from which a tiny chain was hanging. I was intrigued.
'Would you like something like this?' she asked, and before I had the chance to reply she had produced a tiny pocket drill, which whined when she flicked it on. I nodded as she put it carefully to the nail on my left pinky, and, in a second, had produced a tiny, neat round hole. Into this she inserted a minute gold ring, which he squeezed up with pliers: from it hung a chain about three centimetres long, with a small stone set in a clasp at its end. I knew it was going to get in my way all the time, but discomfort was a part of sensuality β a reminder, somehow, of the borders of pain and ecstasy, that ven I couldn't have bgun to describe. I watched Petra being fitted with a similar device, and we exchanged knowing looks β she, at least, would understand!
When we returned to our apartment block, Olga had pushed a note under my door. It gave me a telephone number to ring, and said it was urgent. It was a Spanish mobile number β I thought, 'somebody doesn't have my mobile number!'