I skipped school the day after my night at the adult bookstore. We hadn't gotten home until late, I was still feeling queasy, my throat was still sore and I was drained emotionally.
I slept in until about 10 that morning, then got up and fixed a bowl of oatmeal to settle my stomach. As I walked to the table, I noticed an envelope sitting there that had written on the front in Bill's handwriting, "Sophie's college fund." This brightened my mood, especially when I looked inside and found it stuffed with cash. I counted out $450, and that did make me feel like the previous night's ordeal was worth something.
I finally threw on a T-shirt, shorts and sandals and went downstairs to see my uncle. I had thought long and hard about what I wanted to say to him about the previous night, and I wanted to make sure I got him early while he was possibly in a reasonably good mood.
He was behind the counter talking to a fellow who hung around the store a lot, a farmer named Leo. He was a short, fairly stout, middle-aged man who had always looked at me with longing, but he was one of the nicer of Uncle Bill's friends. He smiled and greeted me warmly when I came in from the back, a cup of coffee in my hand.
"Uncle Bill, we need to talk," I said as I walked behind the counter. "Leo, would you excuse us for a minute."
"Sure, Sophie, go right ahead," he said breezily. "I'll see you in a few minutes."
I was puzzled by that, so I asked Uncle Bill what that was all about, when I got him in the office and closed the door.
"He wants to fuck you," Bill said. "He's wanted to for a long time, and I told him what we were cooking up. He's willing to pay, so whatever it is you have to say, hurry up and spit it out. He hasn't got all day, so you need to get going."
"Uncle Bill, I want you to listen hard to what I have to say," I began. "Now, I can't control what other people think about me and how other people treat me. That's out of my hands. But from you, I expect a little bit of decency and consideration. And I'm not going to accept the kind of treatment I got from you last night. It's one thing for strangers to treat me like a piece of meat, but not someone who professes to love me."
"Sophie, it was for your own good," Bill said.
"Bullshit!" I said forcefully. "You had no business pushing my head into that man's cock and forcing me to gag on it like that. That was mean. And a little bit of advance warning as to what I could expect might have made things a little easier to take. You just threw me in there and expected me to perform like... like someone who'd been doing that all of her life. You forget that I'm new at this. Hell, I didn't even know they had places like that."
"But you needed the experience," Bill said, a little lamely.
"Not like that, I didn't," I answered back. "Uncle Bill, this is my body and my life we're talking about here, and I expect some consideration. We're partners in this venture, and I would appreciate it if you treat me that way. I'm not just some nameless, faceless whore to you. I'm your niece, or as you put it, the only family you have left. Please treat me like it."
I honestly think Uncle Bill was taken aback. I'd never before spoken to him that way, and he didn't know how to react. But he recovered quickly.
"Just remember that I'm the boss," he said. "You may think of it as a partnership, but I'm going to be calling the shots and you're going to do as you're told."
"Uncle Bill, I'll do anything you want me to do," I said. I wasn't about to back down now. "All I'm asking for is for you to treat me with a little bit of respect and a lot of consideration. I want to be consulted on what I'm going to be doing, so I can at least know what I can expect and can prepare for it. And while I don't expect anyone else to respect me, I at least expect it from you."
I took a deep breath and pulled my uncle in for a hug. It was time now to be conciliatory.
"Look, I appreciate your help with my college education, I really do," I said as we embraced. "And I'll be your lover and your whore in return. Just treat me right. Please?"
"OK, sweetheart," he said. "You're right. You should be told in advance what's expected of you. And, really, you did well last night. I meant to compliment you, but I didn't think you wanted to hear it at that point. You are going to be the best whore in the county. You've got all the right instincts. You just need practice. Speaking of which, you need to take Mr. Leo upstairs and give him a fuck he'll remember the rest of his life. OK?"
"OK," I said with a chuckle. "How much should we charge?"
"I've been thinking about that," Bill said. "How about a hundred for half-an-hour. That's about what they get in the city, and if you're going to be the best, you need to charge like you're the best."
He gave me a quick kiss, then we emerged from the office. I mentioned earlier that it took me awhile to develop the backbone to stand up to my uncle, but I took the first step that morning when I confronted him on the way he'd done me in the video booth.
There were still times when he treated me like dirt, and in the end our relationship completely collapsed. But beginning that day and continuing until very late in the game, he did give me enough respect and consideration that I was able to cope.
And now it was time to use my newfound skills on Leo. He was sitting in one of the booths, drinking coffee, so I sidled up next him and put my arms around his shoulders.
"Uncle Bill says you want me," I said. "How about it? You want to go upstairs and fuck me?"
"Sh-sh-sure," he said a touch nervously. I don't think he expected me to be so forward, based on what he'd seen of me before. All of Bill's friends were about to see a new Sophie emerge, and Leo was the first to experience her.
"I'm going on upstairs and get ready," I said. "Give me five minutes, then come on up."
I bounced out of the seat and made my way through the back of the store and up the stairs to the apartment. My mood was 180 degrees changed from the way it had been when I'd gotten out of bed that morning. I was about to entertain my first paying customer, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't excited.
This was something I could enjoy doing, in my old bed with a nice man that I actually kind of liked. I went into the bedroom - what was now going to be my workroom - stripped off my clothes, and thought for a second how I wanted to do this.
I decided to put on a pair of my new thigh-high stockings, and nothing else. I could feel the butterflies in my stomach and a tingling in my twat as I slid the stockings up my legs and felt them attach to the top of my thighs. Then I decided to put on my heels. If I was going to do this, I figured, I'd better start getting used to those shoes.