Chapter 1
The sun was beating down on Sarah White as she strolled along the local town high street. She paused momentarily as the sunlight flashed a reflection on something in a window in the corner of her eye; she leaned in and for reasons unknown studied the window of the local Post Office.
Wanted-
Temporary- Sleep in Housekeeper-
8 Bed house- 7 Busy Professionals.
Well paid, all food, drink, and lodgings provided due to remote location. Free Wi-Fi!
Contact Doc
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'That's so cool; how old fashioned, who leaves wanted cards in Post office windows anymore?' Sarah pondered, as she slid her mobile from her back bottom pocket and took a photo. She slid her mobile back into the pocket of her favourite summer denim
dixie dukes
shorts which with the frayed ends were just about covering her proudly pert bottom. Then looking up, noticing in the reflection in the window, that her hair was falling out of place, she tugged at and rearranged her large red bandana in an attempt to cover her jet-black silky hair bob. Once the hair was back in place, she triumphantly walked over the road to the local Costa and got herself a coffee. She needed a pick-me-up.
As she sat outside in the sun and enjoyed the warmth on her face while drinking her coffee she thought about the card. Her plans this summer had been to find a part time job to enable her time to plan her dissertation for her second year of university. As she sipped her rather hot coffee she winced, it was burning her throat. She pulled her phone back out and opened up X and spent the next five minutes playing on her phone. Killing time until she could drink it.
She flicked back to the photo of the wanted sign. She antagonised for a few minutes thought 'Sod it' as stayed staring at the image of the card. She chanted the number out loud a couple of times to memorise flicking her phone to text, tapped the message out to 'Doc'.
After three arduous revisions of what to write the introductory text was finally sent, she put her phone back on the table peered at it intently to see if to see if there was an instant response. There wasn't. They did say they were busy professionals. She glanced up from the screen just in time as a rather pretty gentleman with blonde hair and chiselled jaw sat down at the table beside her with his coffee, and he smiled at her nodding as if to say hello, before sighing as he got a pack of cigarettes from his shirt pocket and placing the filter between his lips. No sooner had he lit it, and Sarah was trying to politely cough as the gentle breeze blew both his exhale and the constant twisting dancing stream of his smoke from the lit cigarette directly towards her.
With panic across his face, he waved his smoke away as he apologised, "Oh, sorry, I am so sorry, shall I change tables?" he politely and rather posh sounding, asked as they locked eyes and smiled at each other.
She shook her head, quickly gulped down her coffee, picked up her phone and got up and away from his reeking smoke as soon as she could.
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"Oh darling, Mirror, please do tell me who is the fairest of them all?" Grimelda her gravelly voice purred as she asked her reflection in the mirror, as she twisted her body to give herself a couple of comforting poses. Breathing in hard as she sucked well her developed belly in and pushing her sagging chest out, before sighing and letting all settle back with a flump. She tutted and brought her hand to her mouth and dragged hard on her third cigarette of the morning. She exhaled the cloud of smoke against the full-size gold-plated framed mirror affixed to the green flock wallpaper covered hallway.
"Ma'am, you are!" Jeremy Hunt shouted from the darkness behind her in his position at the end of the hallway. He raised his eyebrow at this now twice daily activity. She had once starred in the movie with the mirror and once filming had wrapped, she had kept it. He stood there carrying her ever required ashtray in the palm of his hands just waiting for the cough, the splutter, and the beckoning call. It was to come very soon, he knew it. Jeremy was her trusty assistant.
He had worked for her for years whilst she worked in the movies, doing all the donkey work of her ever-increasing diva activities. He was on hand to grab food, drink, cigarettes, men, anything she wanted depending on her mood. She used to be the main female, sometimes love interest, role in many of the big Hollywood movies, but over the years her need to drink and smoke cigarettes as she needed to kill the boredom of being on set, had meant that her increasing erratic appearances and drunken behaviour and demands on those around her, the roles had all but dried up.
A few years ago, like many great stars, she had moved with her assistant into a large house in the woods as a retreat to wait for the next big roll. As the time passed, she couldn't really remember asking Hunt to stay, but he had. She was pleased; he was rather useful.
So far, the next 'big role' she expected 'very soon' as she had told anyone who ever asked, had never come. People had recently stopped asking. When infrequently she ventured beyond her large house and estate everyone assumed they were a couple. But so far in the last twenty years, and rather frustratingly for Jeremy, she had never asked him into the bedroom or the bathroom for anything other than help in menial tasks, like getting up off the floor when drunk or finding her scattered clothes. Several years ago, there had been a constant stream of male visitors to the boudoir, but now, even they had dried up more recently.
As the exhaled smoke dispersed and dissipated against the mirror to reveal the long greying hair, the large sagging body and face of what would have been twenty years ago a beautiful woman. The hint of what would have been a very pretty face remained framed by the laughter wrinkles deepening on the forehead, she never had quite got around to Botox, and large bags which could carry the shopping home formed under her slightly bloodshot and hungover eyes. When looked at closely there was a motorway of red veins on the cheeks.
She was wearing her rather old and tatty, but very much her favourite blue transparent nightie, as she refused to sleep naked, but it has been so hot recently. The nightie revealed everything to the mirror, her large, full, saggy breasts with large areolas pushing hard against the top along with her now equally voluptuous swollen tummy. Protruding below the nightie was her favourite part of her body, her still long, but now slightly bruised and rather chubby legs.
Grimelda studied and whilst nodding admired herself for a few more seconds and with a deep breath clicked her fingers of the right hand and Jeremy removed his hand from within his trousers and from around his crutch as he had been standing in the darkness, enjoying watching, in his mind, the still gorgeous semi naked boss doing her morning routine in front of the mirror.
He stood there full well knowing they would be doing it again this evening when she was completely drunk before bed. He enjoyed that she had no care in the world that he could see her practically naked, he enjoyed watching her body. It pleased him greatly that she often didn't bother to get dressed beyond her nightie and lounged around the house in whatever she could be bothered, or more often not, to get dressed in for bed. He enjoyed watching her smoke and drink, he had that down on his chart as being an extreme positive, her naked body on display, was countered against the negative of her endless daily demands.
The click of the fingers dislodged him from his smoke-filled daydream like state he was in still admiring her large sagging arse cheeks wobbling through her nightie. He jogged quickly along the hallway carrying the decorative bowl, and he gently coughed as the latest exhale rebounded off the mirror, and Grimelda nonchalantly flicked the now inch long ash from her morning mirror Marlboro Red which was extended between her long fingers of her left hand which at the end had her once manicured weekly nails, were now clearly bitten short.
"Hunt, breakfast and my morning pick me up now!" Grimelda barked, and coughed, shook her head, and instantly placed the filter back between her lips and inhaled deeply on her cigarette. As she exhaled again, she slowly moved the nightie swished and swashed side to side as she wobbled off down the hallway towards the stairs. She lurched for the banister, her arm outstretched as she tried to stay balanced in her stocky leg enhancing but totally impractical for lounging around the house, green 3" high heels.
Chapter 2
A few short weeks later Sarah was driving her mum's old green battered Opel Corsa up into the hills above the city. The radio was on full blast, and she was singing out loud, the road was long, windy, and incredibly dusty. The car's little engine strained and whined as they went up higher up into the hills. The sun was hot, and the drive was taking forever.