ALL CHARACTERS ARE OVER THE AGE OF 18. ALL SEXUAL EVENTS AND REFERENCES OCCUR TO CHARACTERS WHEN THEY ARE OR WERE OVER THE AGE OF 18.
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Survivor's benefits and my scholarship might pay for tuition, books, and a dorm room, but if I wanted more out of college life than a meal plan at the student center, I would need to get a job. Fortunately the last foster home I had been in was ran by a kindly minister and his wife who truly adored the kids that came thru their home and tried to help them out, and didn't have a son that stood beside my bed at night masturbating while he stared at me (maybe I'll tell that story another time.) Reverend Joe liked to tinker with cars and as a graduation present gave me an old jeep that he had fixed up. It ran great but didn't get the best mileage, and his wife and he were in no position to help me financially.
Rev Joe and Clair, his wife, had me the last three years of high school and we were quite close. I may have been the first girl they fostered to graduate without either getting pregnant before finishing school or getting married the summer afterwards. Most of us kids from the land of misfit toys were a bit broken by the time we got to their home, but they were always patient and kind.
I had lost my parents when I was about ten and drifted between ambivalent relatives and foster parents who only wanted a check until I was placed with Rev Joe and Clair. I earned my scholarship as I never wanted to go back to public housing. As bad as foster care in their group home had been, it was better than the projects.
I budgeted carefully, but if I was going to keep gas in the jeep, pay insurance, and move off campus, there was no way around it, I would need a job. My friend Amber and her roommate Trish had a spare room I could have in a reasonably nice apartment complex off campus, which would make life so much better than the dorms. The first week on campus I spent every afternoon after class roaming town and applying for jobs.
My looks got me quite a few interviews on the spot. I'm not breath takingly spectacular, but I'm not unfortunate in the looks department either. I'm slightly taller than average, and slightly thinner than average thanks to running when I can and walking every chance I get, usually two or three miles a day. My breasts were also, well maybe average, but on my thin frame 36 C appeared to be on the large size.
I get a lot of compliments on my butt. Gee, thanks guys! Its behind me all day, I can't see it and I mainly use it to sit on and poop with. Thanks for the compliments!
I'm also told my hair, which is mousey ash brown and fell to six inches or so below my shoulders was pretty, but like most girls, I hate my hair. With me the loathing is so great as to require a new stylist every six months or so. These days I just go to get it trimmed as Trish is pretty good at curling it for me and is slowly teaching me how. I confess when I got to college, I had never owned any make up, and from first meeting me Trish and Amber took me under wing. This made me feel beautiful but was one more thing to spend money on that I didn't have.
After a couple days of being chatted up by assistant managers at all sorts of restaurants (I gave up on retail sales and office jobs after the first day of being rejected for lack of experience. What experience was necessary for an entry level job was never made clear.) I was finally hired by a pudgy middle-aged guy that ran a local fast food store. It paid minimum wage and I would get 25 to 30 hours per week, all evenings. Attendance was strictly enforced; I was told I was taking the place of a worker who had been late twice and missed all together once without calling in. Well, that seemed fair I guessed. I had never had a real job and was somewhat excited by the prospects.
Even more exciting was that it would allow me to move off campus. Or so I thought.
By the time taxes were taken out, and I paid for my gas to get there, I was almost working for free it seemed, and it was clear by the end of the first month that if I saved everything, after rent I would have only around a hundred bucks left. This sucked considering that school and studying was a full-time job on top of this part time one.
After a month of freedom from the dorms, I gave Amber my share of the rent and utilities. She sensed how dejected I was and offered to talk. I explained my finances and told her that it just wasn't fair that I had to work my ass off, put up with a pervy manager that spent the shift staring at my ass, and in return I got to live off campus making just enough bank to get to and from work.
"Does your manager harass you?" Amber asked, her concern showing.
"No, he just creeps me out. Every time I turn around his eyes are looking down at my butt, until I start talking then he stares at my chest. He's just... well, a creep."
Mind you I wasn't a prude. Even though dating was restricted in the Reverend's home, and even though another girl had been my roommate so it wasn't usually even possible to finger myself for any self-satisfaction, I had been with a couple of guys since I turned 18, and through that experience and chatting with my girlfriends learned to give a respectable blow job, and felt that I was at least competent in the bedroom. But just having some greasy guy in his thirties staring at my ass all night wasn't stimulating to me at all, and it was getting him nowhere. He was just creepy.
"I deal with a lot of those types" Amber giggled.
Amber only works two or at most three nights a week, most usually Friday and Saturday. I knew it was some sort of bar, but while we were roomies, I had met Amber through my friendship with Trish and our relationship hadn't gotten to the point where I bothered to ask. She told me it was a bar, I accepted that.
"I guess so. I don't know if I could ever work at a bar. Is the money any better?"
"Well," Amber grinned, "I made enough last night to cover rent, probably for the semester."
"No way!! Are they hiring?" I immediately asked. If I could make that much it would be worth it to put up with creeps, especially if I was only there a few hours a week. I never knew waitressing at a bar could make that kind of bank.
"As a matter of fact, the last waitress switched jobs last night, her slot is open. You want to interview for it?"
"Sure, when?"
"Tonight is fine, but we need to get you fixed up first." She smiled.
"I can dress up for a job interview." I said. I didn't have a lot of interview or church clothes, but I would figure something out.
"Well, you should know one other thing Jenni." Amber said, her hesitation showing.
"What is that?" I asked.
"Uh, the club I work at, it's a men's club."
"Uh, what do you mean, like a sports bar? I asked, thinking I would have to wear some tiny shorts and a tank top and get my ass slapped by drunk frat boys all night. Still that was better than what I was doing if it made real money.
"Well, sort of, except instead of football on the big screen, we have naked dancers on stage." She laughed.
"Oh." I said as a million thoughts went through my mind. "I don't think I could do that." Again, I wasn't a prude, but I wasn't about to strip naked in front of strangers either, no matter what the money.
"Relax, the job is waitressing. You just bring overpriced drinks and get flirted with. Anyone tries to touch you and the bouncers are all over them. Some of the guys are creeps, but the bouncers make sure they don't get out of line. And they won't be staring at your ass, not when there is a naked girl on stage! Oh, and the tips are incredible, so long as you remember to flirt back just a little. There are a few regulars, but most of the guys are first timers or bachelor parties. Every guy there is like an ATM, and you have the pass code. Come on and interview, it will be fun, you'll see."
I thought about it, mostly the money and the fewer hours. It would give me more time to study if I were only working two or three nights, and how much worse could it be? I was already getting ogled and hit on by one creep, and no bouncer was going to come to my rescue at a burger joint. At the very worst I could interview and if I decided it was too weird or creepy I could just say no and stick with what I had already.
"What should I wear to the interview?"
"That's what I'm talking about girl! Come on, let's go shopping!"
"Oh, I don't have the cash to get a new outfit." I said.
"No worries, you can pay me back. And let's do something with that hair while we're out."
Our first stop was Amber's stylist who was happy to work me in. I figured just a trim and set, but Amber had other ideas. First she had her hair dresser, Alicia, dye me a dark brown, almost black, then she did the cut and set. I retained most of the length, but lost the frizzy ends, and I had to admit, the results were beautiful.
"You're going to need some bright red lipstick now, but, uh, can I ask you something?" Amber inquired.
"Sure" I said, still admiring myself in the mirror.
"Are you ready for bikini season?"
"What? Its October, why would you ask that? I mean, yeah, I'm in good shape, if we were going to the beach, I'd probably do some crunches but nothing major." I replied to the giggles of both Amber and Alicia.