"No fucking way, dude!"
My friend Cody couldn't believe my story about meeting Rose and going back to her apartment. I don't even know why I told him. We were both a little drunk and it was late.
"You stripped and jacked off for this old lady?"
"Yep."
"I can't see myself doing that shit."
He pretended to be totally grossed out by the whole thing, except that I noticed he was adjusting his khakis to avoid having a noticeable hardon.
Cody and I are best friends. We both go to college together, except that I'm a year older. Even though he's 21, he looks way younger because he's thin and wiry kind of short. He gets carded all the time, which pisses him off. I think that sometimes he acts tougher than he is to make up for how he looks, which is basically like a high school kid.
Well I must have left a lasting impression on Rose because about a year later I was sitting in a coffee shop reading a magazine when I look up and see Rose standing there. This was the first time seeing Rose since I ran into her at Barbara's bookstore last winter.
"May I join you?" Rose asked.
"Sure," I said, hoping none of my friends would notice me sitting with her.
"I wonder if I might engage you for a service," she said.
"What kind of service?" I wondered, figuring she wanted to see in the raw again.
"Well, my best friend Millicent is having a birthday next week." She paused trying to find the right words. "Well, we share our little secrets and I told her about our incident last year."
"You did?" I was pretty shocked. Of course, I told Cody, didn't I?
"Yes, and I believe she was a little jealous," she smiled. "I'd like to bring her a boy of her own to look at."
"What do you mean, a boy of her own?" I asked.
"Well, Bryan, I'm wondering if you and one your friends would mind entertaining us for the evening next week." I'll tell you: Rose had gotten a whole lot bolder since the last time we met!
"Well, jeez, Rose, I don't know, I mean that was a one-time thing ..." I mean where did she come off?
"Oh, I would expect to pay you."
I didn't say anything, but my face showed I was interested.
"Five hundred apiece, for you and one your college friends," she said.
I told her I'd think it over, then I called Cody.
"Is this some fucking joke?" he said.
"No. Its five hundred bucks," I said, "for each of us." "Shit," he muttered.
"And," I said, "I don't have a job and neither do you. So I say we do it."
"And she wants us to parade around her house naked?"
"Yea, that's basically it."
"Our friends better not find out about this," he said. Which meant he'd do it.
So the following week, we met up at the bookstore, then walked over to Rose's apartment. The doorman was expecting us and we were let up to her high rise. I could tell Cody was getting more and more nervous the closer we got. When we were in the elevator together, he just kept shifting back and forth on one foot and looking up at the ceiling.
"Relax, dude," I said.
He nodded but didn't say anything.
Rose let us in. I introduced her to Cody and she smiled approvingly. "Oh, Millicent will just adore him," she said.
She led us down the hall to the bathroom. "You will each attend to one us," Rose explained.
"Like a waiter?" Cody said.
She smiled, "Yes, dear. Like a waiter. You will bring out the food and drink and socialize with us. Is that understood?" Yes, Rose, had become much more assertive in a year!