Poverty makes you do things you never thought you could do, being in desperate need of money a friend talks me into joining her modeling naked in public.
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"How badly do you need to get some money?" Jan inquired.
I looked at her "Very badly," I smiled at her, "In fact I am willing to do anything."
She looked at me and grinned "Anything,"
I shrugged "Well almost anything."
I had met Jan for a coffee and a chat that evening after bumping into her the night before in a local disco, we were old school friends but I had not seen her for several months.
I had just been explaining to her how I lost my job with the bank when they were taken over, and because I had not been there long enough I had not received any redundancy pay. I had thought the job with the bank was secure and I had let myself get into debt, now I was in trouble, no job and very little money.
I took a sip of coffee and looked across at her, "So if you know of anything going just let me know."
She smiled and looked at me with a funny grin on her face. "I could get you a job with me if you are interested," she said.
"You could, doing what."
"Modeling," she said.
"You are attractive and you have a good figure."
I stared at her. "You think I would be alright I could get some regular work,"
She nodded "I'm sure of it."
I thought for a moment, "Is that what you are doing?" I asked.
She nodded "And yes I get lots of work, far more than I can manage in fact I could easily pass some on to you."
I was certainly interested but a little unsure of what I might be letting myself in for. "What would I have to do?"
She didn't reply but reached into her large handbag and pulled out a glossy magazine. She flicked through the pages then spread it in front of me. What I saw made me gasp.
The two page spread of pictures was all of Jan, but what had made me gasp was that she was either naked or almost naked on all the pictures. What made me even more incredulous was the fact that in the pictures she was in what looked like a large supermarket, there were people around her normal people with cloths on, looking at her some with bemused expressions on their faces as they watched her pushing her trolley around seemingly unconcerned about her lack of clothes.
She saw the look on my face, she laughed. "Not shocked are you,"
I looked at her. "And this is what you want me to do,"
She nodded, "Yes, but only if you want to I'm not forcing you."
I looked again at the pictures, did she really expected me to take my clothes off and do something like this. I shook my head I could never see myself doing anything like that. No matter how desperate I got.
"Doesn't it worry you being naked with all those people looking at you?"
She shrugged "No," she paused for a moment, "Well it did at first but not now, I have being doing it for about three months, you just get used to it, it can be fun."
Fun, I thought to myself, I bet it can.
I passed the magazine back to her, "No sorry it's not for me,"
She smiled. "Well if you get really desperate you know where to contact me."
I thanked her for the offer, but I could not see myself getting that desperate. She did go on to tell me how much the job paid, and I was amazed to find out that she got more for two day's work than I used to get for a whole week.
But things change and sometimes you have to do things that you would never consider doing under normal circumstances this happened when I arrived back at my flat to find a letter on my mat informing me that if I did not pay my outstanding rent I would be served with an eviction notice. What the hell was I going to do? I made myself a hot drink and took it into my bedroom. I sat on the bed and slowly undressed. I tossed my soiled undie's into the wash basket and got up to hang up my dress in the wardrobe. As I opened the wardrobe door I caught sight of my naked body in the mirror, I hung up the dress and looked again at my body, yes Jan was right I did have a good figure and I was good looking.
After I had finished my drink I lay in bed thinking about what Jan had said to me, could I do what she was doing. Could I take my clothes off and be seen naked in public.
Next day two more employment rejections landed on my mat, I was now getting really desperate, but was I desperate enough to ring Jan.
I did not have to ring her she rang me, initially to see how I was, and enquire if I had any job prospects.
I told her about the rejections and about the letter from my landlord.
She said that she was sorry and said if I needed some cash to get along with I only had to ask her.
I thanked her, borrowing was not the answer I needed to get in some money of my own.
It was then that she had this idea, she asked me if I was doing anything the following day.