November 1981
Sally Johnson paced the floor at the massive old funeral home where in a few hours her stepfather, Ted Bissett, would be eulogized before being buried at the huge cemetery nearby.
Sally was waiting for Ted's best friend Matt to arrive with something that might make the day go a little better. The previous days had been emotionally draining for the young blonde, who had had to take responsibility for making the arrangements for Ted's funeral since her mother had completely fallen apart upon hearing the news of her husband's death.
Forgotten was the anger and suspicion her mother had had of Ted in the days prior to his sudden death, and she had - typically - crawled into a gin bottle to pity her loss.
That's where Sally wanted to go as well, but she knew she had maintain at least until her sister Sylvia returned home from her college in the East. Even though she was two years younger than Sally, Sylvia had emerged as the only one of the three Johnson women with any real sense of responsibility. Ever since Ted had caught them engaging in an illicit act and had used that knowledge to blackmail Sally into becoming his slut, the two sisters had taken markedly different paths in their lives.
Sylvia had arrived the previous afternoon to take over matters, and Sally had immediately sought out Matt to make a deal for a nice-sized bindle of cocaine, which had become her drug of choice. Ted had introduced Sally to coke not quite three years previously, and it had gradually come to play an ever-bigger role in her life.
She was lost in reverie when she felt Matt's arms enfold her from behind. She turned and kissed him with a warmth she didn't entirely feel. She knew what lay ahead, what Matt would want in exchange for the coke, especially considering she didn't have near enough cash on hand to pay for what she needed.
But Sally had grown accustomed to being used as barter for goods and services, and, to be honest, she felt like she could use a good fucking right about then. She hadn't had any sex since the previous Saturday, a little over three days ago, when Ted had visited her right before his fatal car crash. For Sally, that was a long time to go without sex. And there were worse things than sex with Matt, who was tall and handsome with a long ponytail that gave him a certain flair.
Still, she was looking forward to regaining a measure of control over her life, now that Ted was gone. She still had to make a decision about her budding pregnancy, if in fact that's what it was, and she was pretty sure it was. But she was nonetheless feeling positive about her life for the first time in a long time.
"Hey baby," Matt said, unctuously. His groin was tightening at the thought of getting his dick wet at Sally's expense, and he knew just what he wanted. He had availed himself of all of Sally's holes a number of times, both with Ted and on his own, and he knew what a hot number she was. But first, there was business to conduct, so he and Sally walked quickly down to the basement of the rambling old mortuary and slipped into the men's room, where Matt locked the door.
"You have it?" Sally asked, her eyes gleaming.
"Of course," Matt answered. "For you, my dear, anything is possible ... for the right price."
"This is all I could scrape up," Sally said, handing him a wad of cash. Matt counted it, and looked disapprovingly at Sally.
"You're a little short, honey," Matt said. "But that's OK. I can get the payment other ways. C'mon. let's get high."
Sally opened the bindle, took her little coke spoon out of her purse, stuck it in the package and shoveled a heaping pile up one nostril, then the other. She tilted her head back to make sure the crystalline powder made a quick, successful trip into her system. Then she took two more just to make sure she was good and high. Matt also took out some of his own stash and took a couple of spoonfuls. When he'd finished, he fished a letter out of his jacket pocket. Again, it was business before pleasure.
"Here. I've been instructed by Ted's will to give this to you," Matt said.
Sally opened the letter, which was in Ted's handwriting, and read it over, and as she did her face flushed and her eyes narrowed.
"That sorry bastard," she spat. "I hope he rots in hell where he belongs."
The letter had been dated from February of that year and gave her precise instructions as to her duties in the event of his death. Far from being free of his control, Sally was told that Matt now had possession of the damning photos, the ones Ted had taken of her and Sylvia over three years ago, and others of more recent vintage that showed Sally involved in all kinds of debauchery. She was to do Matt's bidding in the same way she had done Ted's, and her first order of business was to use her hot body as payment for debts Ted had left behind when he'd died.