Author's Note:
I appreciate all the feedback I received on the first installment of
Ashley's Prostitution Ventures
. I do need to clarify an issue regarding the structure of this series. I did not intend the first installment to be labeled as Ch. 01. The title I submitted was
Ashley's Prostitution Ventures #1,
but it was changed when it was published. I am hopeful that for this second installment the title will not be given a chapter designation.
My plan for this series is for the installments to be stand-alone episodes (with some setup for future episodes as needed, as in the first installment) rather than chapters of a larger work. Each individual installment will focus on a new adventure for Ashley, although recurring storylines (e.g., her relationship with Corey) will also appear in most installments. For example, the second installment below includes the story of her second client as well as new developments in her relationship/deal with Corey. The third (which should be available in April) will focus on a less positive client experience for Ashley.
My plan for the foreseeable future is to post one installment a month starting after the second installment posts. I may take breaks here and there between installments, but I will endeavor to stay as close to a monthly schedule as I am able.
Thank you,
Kveldulf
Please note that the following story is fictional, and all characters involved in sexual activity in the story are eighteen-years-old or older.
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Ashley's Prostitution Ventures #2
January 2005
"You sure about this Ashley?" Corey asked the eighteen-year-old brunette, his concern evident in both tone and expression.
"Yeah, I'm sure," Ashley Saunders told her her friend, although her churning gut was trying its best to contradict her words. "It's all good."
"Well, you look really pretty," the young man said, his cheeks reddening.
"Oh, opposed to normal when I look like crap?"
"No, you're pretty all the time."
"You said I was beautiful last week. Was that only because I had just fucked you?"
"What? No. That's what I'm sayingβyou're beautiful."
"Beautiful isn't the same as pretty," the young woman countered, a bemused smile on her full lips as she watched her friend squirm.
"Are you messing with me?"
"Maybe."
"To stall going in because you're not sure about this?"
Ashley opened her mouth to object but said nothing. Corey was right. She was stalling. But she was not doing so for the reason she suspected Corey believed. The banter with him was helping her ready herself for the task ahead. Since she had started teasing him, warmth and wetness had spread between her denim-clad legs
"Oh, I'm sure, dude," she told him, brushing her lips against his. "I'll call you when I'm ready to be picked up. Then maybe we can find a nice place to park."
"Maybe," her partner grunted as she got out of his car.
***
"Hi Grant!" the brunette said, smiling at the bespectacled young man who opened the door. "Um, can I come in?"
Grant Limbocker stared, eyes wide, jaw slack. Like Corey, Grant was one of Ashley's classmates and had recently turned eighteen. He was also painfully shy in addition to being one of the 'geek' group at school. Still, like with Corey, she had known him since grade school, and both she and Corey had felt he would be a good choice to be her second client. Based on the look of terror etched on his pale face, however, Ashley's confidence in that decision wavered.
"You okay?" she asked when he continued to stand by the open door and stare at her even though she had walked well into his house.
"Ashley Saunders? You are the companion?" he inquired, voice breaking on the second question.
"Um, I'm not sure what you mean," Ashley replied, although she had an idea what he must mean. It was the use of the term 'companion' that had thrown her.
"Like Inara. From
Firefly
."
"Still in the dark here, Grant. What's an 'Inara', and what's it got to do with lightning bugs?"
"
Firefly
was a TV show. Inara is a character on the show. She is a companion."
"So, like a call girl or something?"
"Only in the simplest terms. She is much more. Companions are elegant, trained courtesans who provide many intimate services. They are respected, almost revered, members of elite society among the Central Planets."
"Oh, I see," Ashley replied, although half of what he had said seemed like nonsense to her. "But in the, um, 'simplest terms', these 'companions' have sex with men for money, right?"
"Well, not always sex, and not always with men. Companions are more than prostitutes, as such women of ill-repute exist in the 'Verse and are contrasted with companions. Although, the episode that directly dealt with such characters never aired on TV. It is available on DVD..."
"Yeah, I get the gist of it. And I guess the answer is yes, I'm a companion, as I wouldn't want to be considered a woman of 'ill-repute'. Now, to more important matters, is there someplace I can put my coat, Grant?"
The skinny young man blinked several times, then closed the door behind him. Ashley hoped that was a positive sign that they could move past whatever he had been going on about.
"Um, I can take it," he finally said, his voice squeaking on the last word.
"Thanks," Ashley beamed at him, handing him the coat while pushing out her chest.
Grant blinked a few more times as his gaze settled on her cleavage, but he made no move to take her coat. The young woman let out another sigh, then shook the garment at him. When he still did not respond, she called his name.
"Huh?"
"My coat?"
"Oh, sorry," he mumbled, his face a bright pink.
"They're just boobs, Grant," she chuckled, hoping to put him at ease. "You'll see more of them soon enough,"