"Santa's Elves Will Do WHAT?" She Demanded
It's too bad none of the guys were there to see Lana's face. When she looked up from the "report"—well, the sorry little list of "donations"—those green eyes flashed like a stalking tiger's. She tossed her shining chestnut hair as though to shake off the whole weary world.
"You're telling me that 465 bucks is the TOTAL that this whole town of 6,500 people and 234 businesses gave to our Christmas Fund for Hospitalized and Institutionalized Children"?
None of the five of us at the table, all seniors at Iron Mountain Regional High School, dared meet her eyes. I pretended to study the report and said, "I thought sure we would get more, when Henry Anderson at the hardware store started us with 200 bucks."
"Ellen," said Lana, her voice saintly with patience. "He gave that because he has inappropriate fantasies about you. You have the biggest boobs in the class and the blondest hair."
"WHAT?" I demanded.
"All right, sorry," said Lana, not sounding sorry, "but I think it's true."
Geraldine Fitzgerald, the intellectual of our group—her father was an English teacher--said, earnestly: "That gives me an idea, Lana."
"What?" asked Lana, and the word fell with the sound of a snowball hitting a wall.
"Well, what if we produce a nude calendar and sell it?" Gerry's pixie face, with short-cut black hair, bangs, and an adorable delicacy, looked proudly defiant. "Yes," she said. "If they don't want to give, then we sacrifice ourselves...like...like Vestal Virgins... We are all 18 years old, right? Let's act like it?"
"Yeah," I said, "but no." And I saw Georgia and Marcia nod their heads. Hey, the five of us at the table, with a few other sexy classmates, could have created the Cum Calendar of Iron Mountain--but you don't DO that in high school.
Lana was nodding her head, Lana, the untouchable Swedish princess, with the face, skin, dimples, hair, and...well, tits--beyond everyone's wildest fantasy. Lana was slowly nodding assent, her face down, examining the pathetic report of giving.
She said, "No, I don't think so, not a calendar. It's a great idea, Gerry, but we don't have time. Less than a month. We want the money for the kids THIS Christmas, right?"
"Oh, yeah," conceded Gerry, "we couldn't..."
Lana interrupted, "But we could sort of...auction off our bods...to raise more money." She lifted her face and looked at us, one by one. "We're all pretty girls," she said. "I've seen you all in the shower at gym." She was nodding to herself. "I think we have a product."
No one could have gotten away with this but Lana Erickson, the virgin of Iron Mountain, untouchable. If SHE were willing...
"What, then?" asked Georgia, our import from Charlston, South Carolina. She rose from her chair to stretch. The guys called it her "hard-on move" but not to her face. Georgia asked, "What do you have in mind, beautiful?" And she added, "I'm for sale. Just a piece of ass on the shelf."
"It isn't like that," said Lana severely.
"Then what, hon?" Georgia drawled.
"Santa's elves," announced Lana, as though revealing a long-hidden secret. "Santa's elves in your own home giving you and your guests their presents from under your tree, serving the eggnog, keeping the fire burning merrily..."
"Go down on your guests," said the always dirty-mouthed Marcia.
"No," said Lana, dismissing it. "No one is going to rape you, baby. If you turn out to WANT to give some, that's fine. Just turn the tips over to the Children's fund. ALL the tips."
"Tips for tits," said Gerry. "Good."
"You have any?" asked Georgia, and it was supposed to be joke, but, as my grandmother said, "It isn't a joke unless everyone is laughing."
Gerry said, primly, "Many guys actually prefer my tits to those things that swing and bang with nipples as big as chocolate chip cookies."
"All right, everyone, shut up," said Lana. "First, we need costumes. Second, we need to make an announcement that reaches mostly men. Third, we need to know what to charge." She added, looking up at us: "Assuming there are no shrinking violets, here? Assuming we are all woman enough?"
"Talk, talk, talk, talk...forever," drawled Georgia.