My world collapsed when on that fateful Friday afternoon where all twenty of my fellow colleagues and myself were assembled in the showroom to be told that we were all being made redundant.
The cheque for two week's severance pay wouldn't last me long for I'd only not long ago signed a rental lease on the flat where I was at present now residing. I saw the stricken looks on the others faces and knew that I had the same expression. I only caught a few words of our manager as he told us that our parent company, Centrol was closing down our branch.
He shook us each by the hand, apologising as he did so while giving us our last pay cheque, and we all seemed to stumble out in a very bewildered state.
'What am I going to do?' wailed one of the woman as we collected outside. 'My kids will starve!'
'So will we all,' one of the men said. 'Well I'm off for the last beer I'm going to taste for some time. Anyone else coming?'
As he turned away to start off to the nearest bar, four of us followed him and we all had a beer as they all told of the problems that they were now facing by being out of work. I even put in my cents worth for I had little chance of getting another job with my lack of any experience out in this cruel world of recession. I was now twenty three, no diplomas or college experience, failing nearly everything I turned my hand to. I listened to what they thought and planned to do for their future as I kept quiet and gave thought to what would I now do? Thinking of what little money I did have, I didn't stay for any more beer and left them to their discussions and made my way to my flat that wouldn't be mine for much longer.
I had a few beers in the fridge but opted for coffee as I needed to think as to what I should do. I took my coffee to my small desk that I had in the lounge and sat down in front of my computer and idly scanned for any e-mails, coming up with nothing and then just cruised other sites. I came across Ebay and suddenly got an idea. It was original and might, just might, get me out of the fix that I was now in.
I got quite excited at this thought and went to bed early to mull it over and by the morning, had made up my mind to at least give it a try. After a meagre breakfast, got my camera out and set it up facing a blank wall before getting dressed in my smartest clothes, set the timer on the camera and posed before the camera as I stood up against the wall for the timer to click and have the flash of my picture being taken. I then quickly got these outer clothes off and put on a swim suit. Before pulling it up to my waist properly, I played with my cock to raise it up to a full erection before folding it away and then taking another picture of me in this state.
Both pictures came out quite good as I downloaded them onto my computer and then got back onto Ebay. Here I filled in the necessary questions asked and then copied my two pictures and put them into the advert that I had requested and then added the reason they were there. It ran as follows.
"Young male, twenty three and of good health and fit is being put up for auction for a period of six months to do exactly all what you order. This auction begins as of now for five days and he will go to the highest bidder that goes above the starting price of two thousand dollars"
I was sweating when I pressed the send key and hoped that I would somehow get somebody to pay me a good sum to be what really boils down to being their slave for six months. I think I lost at least six pounds of weight with my sweating out those five days until the time came round to find out if anyone at least made a decent offer. I contacted PayPal to get the answer and was told that the bidding went through over twenty people and the final offer was eight thousand, five hundred dollars. Was that acceptable?
Christ! Did that give me a hard on or not? I couldn't help but jerk myself off right there and then as I looked at the figure again, and it wasn't long after shooting my load that I replied that I accepted this offer and by return, was given the name and address of the person that had made this enormous offer.
I was somewhat dismayed that it wasn't some wealthy woman on finding out that it was a man that made this offer, guessing that I was about to enter the world of homosexuality. But beggars cannot be choosers, though on reflection, it was a form of prostitution that I was offering and I was now committed. Though even if the money had been transferred to my account, I could still pay it back if I didn't like the man who paid that amount. But on reflection realised that I would still have to pay PayPal their fee and probably more to the person who had made the offer, which in my present financial state, couldn't.
After an almost sleepless night, weighing up the pros and cons of what I was doing, selling myself and my soul, decided to burn my boats. I got up and packed what little I had into one suitcase and took it to the station and put it into storage there. I also wrote a short note to my landlord saying that I was leaving the flat and put the keys in it and sealed it for posting. Having made my decision and on returning to the flat, finally got off to sleep, not having to worry about what else was in the flat because I had rented it furnished.
So the next morning, after making sure I really cleaned myself in the shower and getting properly dressed, went off to the address I had been given, posting the letter on the way. I had to travel on a bus for this was on the other side of the town in what I called the posh part, for the houses there were rather expensive and only really for the elite.
On leaving the bus, I had to ask two different people for directions to the boulevard that I wanted. This part of town didn't have street names as they were either boulevards or avenues, they were that posh. I found the one I wanted and soon stood outside the address I had been given to see a veritable mansion. Now this was way out of my sphere and it was with some trepidation that I walked up the gravelled drive that curved round an elaborate fountain and up the few steps to the entrance that stood between two massive pillars. My finger wavered as I pressed the bell button by the side and waited.
A pert young woman dressed as a maid answered the door and looked at me. 'Yes?' she enquired of me.
'Er, my name is Mark Trent and I have an appointment with Mr. Branson,' I said.
No, it wasn't the Branson of Virgin fame, or related, but another whose Christian name was Dennis. I was the virgin, without fame.
'Oh yes. You were expected,' she said with a shy smile. 'Please enter and I will inform the master that you have arrived.' She stood aside for me to enter a very large entrance hall that had a huge circular dome that was made of glass to give ample light to the area. A huge staircase on my left wound round and up to the next floor where there were two doors either side of what looked like a corridor or hallway going back into the building. Facing me were three doors on this ground floor and I heard the door close behind me and she came past me, saying that I was to follow her.
We went through the door on the right into a short corridor with a door at the far end and one to the left, which she stopped at and knocked. A voiced was heard with the word enter and she opened the door to announce me.
'Mr. Trent sir,' she said, and beckoned me to step forward, which I did to enter what looked like it was his study and saw the man himself just putting a book back on a much crowded shelf of books. In fact there were many shelves packed with them. He looked to be about forty years of age, about the same height as me, that being nearly six foot and looked quite fit without any sign of a paunch. His hair was black with a slight tinge of grey at the sides, blue eyes and had a lovely smile as he looked at me.
'Sarah,' he said, which was obviously the maid's name. 'Mr. Trent will be staying for a while and is my guest,' he told her as he came forward with his hand outstretched which I took and shook. It was a firm grip and not a bone crunching one that many macho men like to use. I saw Sarah out of the corner of my eye bob a curtsey to him before she left the study 'Welcome Mark. I must say that your pictures didn't do you justice,' he said with his smile as we shook hands. 'Sarah sees to most of my needs except for those that you are here for.' I blushed at this as our hands slowly parted and he moved over to what looked like a drinks cabinet, speaking as he did so. 'I have one other maid, Norma, who sees to the cleaning. Ruby is my cook and her husband, Ralph is my chauffeur, gardener and handyman. Would you like a drink?'
'Er, not right now sir,' I stammered.
'Dennis Mark, Dennis, not sir as you are, er, my guest of sorts,' he said as I watched him pour out a brandy and knock it back before replacing the glass on a tray. 'Let me show you upstairs,' he said, leading the way back to the hall and up the winding staircase. 'I liked the unique way of you using Ebay, putting yourself up for auction. I just couldn't resist but to put in a bid which I hope will be to both of us, a delightful experience.' He said this as we walked up and then into the hallway that seemed to stretch forever it was that long with quite a few doors on both sides. We went down to the far end and he opened the door into what was the biggest bedroom I have ever seen. It was the whole width of the house and had this massive bed that could have slept four people without being at all cramped up. It was plush and even had a sofa and a coffee table before a large fireplace as well as other pieces of furniture that made the room looking more like a sumptuous lounge.
'Through there is the bathroom,' he said, indicating the door to the left of the bed, 'and that is my dressing room,' pointing to the one on the right. He'd stopped by the bottom end of the bed which was of the divan type by not having an ornate or panelled end to it, and turned to me. 'Why did you come up with the auction business?'
'I...I've just been made redundant, and so, without having any degrees or formal training, there wasn't anything else I could do to obtain a worthwhile paying job,' I said with a shrug.
'Well let's see what is to be mine for the next six months,' he said. 'Take your clothes off.'