You realize that soon I'll be telling you only what I HEARD happened to the "elves" on their gigs? Only my own experience is first-hand; actually, I considered telling only my story, and, you know, maybe I will. It has GOT to be the most extreme. It may be a warning to bright, idiotically naïve high-school girls about playing elves from Camel Toe Village and waltzing into Christmas Eve gatherings of strange guys.
The five of us met again after classes, in the same conference room of the library, for a report on the project: raising money for our pathetically undersubscribed Christmas fund by hiring ourselves out to Christmas Eve stag parties. We all had assignments from the first meeting, when Chairwoman Lana Erickson ended up convincing us to strip as a pledge to go through with this...um..."plan." We had stood around this same conference table—the library was closed-bare boobs projecting and pubic triangles pressing the table's edge—depending on how long our legs might be. Five Knights of the Round Table pledged to help hospitalized and institutionalized kids this Christmas. Oh, fuck, read chapter 1.
Meeting two. All of us dressed in respectable school-day skirts and blouses—there's a dress code at Iron Mountain Regional—except a guy who sat silently beside Lana. Kevin Rondo is tall, built, blond, and supercilious beyond enduring... Just what we needed, I figured. But Lana had worked him over, apparently, so he just sat staring at his lap.
"Right," said Lana. "Thanks for coming, girls. I have a lot to report. I've had 25 enthusiastic responses to my email to potential Christmas Eve gatherings of mostly men."
"Fuck," said Georgia, drawling out the word. "We goin' to get the whole senior class involved?"
"No," said Lana. "We are not. If it gets that big, and the whole thing becomes public, then, as some anonymous pessimist put it—'all hell will break loose.'"
She looked around. "As a footnote, here, I said 'mostly men' responded. But there are bound to be SOME women at these gatherings. So think about their reactions, girls, so you can be ready."
"Oh, my God, right..." I said slowly. "Women just loathe younger women who are getting all the men's attention. They're going to want us burned at stake."
The always weird Georgia said, knowingly, "Or like maybe impaled on an 11-inch dildo, with a 10-pound weight hanging from each tit."
"Shut up, Georgia," snapped Gerry. "Who needs your pornographic fantasies?"
"Ain't a fantasy, honey," said Georgia in a tone of weary wisdom. "Happened to a friend of my older sister, Jen."
"That's what they do girls in South Carolina? No wonder you left."
"Nope, happened in New Orleans, whore house in the French quarter. Bunch of Texas guys. Ended up paying her 25 grand for the inconvenience. Couple months, her tits were about normal."
Lana had leaped to her feet. She brought down both fists on the table. I hadn't seen her lose it like this. "WHY are we arguing about this CRAP?"
"Yeah, it can't be that bad in a Boston suburb," said Marcia doubtfully. "Get on with it, okay?"
"Right," said Lana, with a long exhalation. She sat down. "The 25 are too many. I got back to them—in person"—she looked up and grinned. "I told them we had limited resources, this was a charity, so we thought the size of the gift should be the deciding factor."