(I was looking for a black escort and found this really cute babe. She was hooked on drugs and confided in me that she had sold her body to at least a thousand men. She said it was the only way she could pay for her habit. She also confided in me that she never developed any feelings for any of those men, except for this one white guy. She said she had written a book about it, and she gave me a copy to read.
This is the book she wrote, about her and this white guy. An absolute true story, of one in a thousand, word for word, with no changes at all)
*
The wind whipped off my low cut top, freezing my generous cleavage and howling as it echoed along the garbage strewn alley.
Smiley was sleeping off yet another hangover, his shivering bare legs protruding out of the alley. Someone had stolen both his pants and the expensive leather cow boy boots he had himself stolen from Macey's only a week earlier.
"Everything okay Ginger?"
I recognized the voice immediately as belonging to Dan Crowley, a local Guardian Angel who was moonlighing as a keeper of the neighborhood peace whenever he wasn't working twelve hour days as a pizza delivery driver.
"Any pizza today, Danny?" I said hopefully, my big brown eyes still red and diluted from the last tokes of crack I'd had a mere hour earlier. I couldn't remember when I had last eaten. I only knew that even with the numbing crack and uppers in my system, the hunger pangs were brutal and consistent.
"Sorry love," he whispered. "I didn't drive today. But I have a candy bar if you're interested."
"I'm interested," I said, shivering not only from the cold, but from the realization that the watered down crack I'd bought from 'Stan The Man,' earlier had been stepped on one time too many. It's potency wasn't at what it should've been. I was coming down sooner than expected. I was suddenly desperate to do whatever it might take to avoid the dreaded withdrawal pains.
"You get tested lately?" Dan asked, handing me the Oh Henry bar.
"No, shit, I can't eat this," I whimpered disappointedly, ignoring his question and handing it back to him. "I have a deadly allergy to peanuts."
"I'll try and bring you something later," he said, "but you never answered my question. You get tested lately?"
"A woman came by from the city health department last week. Said I was clean, then said she wouldn't be coming by no more, something about government cutbacks to community programs."
Dan frowned, his face awash with disbelief. "Debbie was diagnosed with HIV just last week," he whispered. "I know they were trying to keep her off the street, but I caught her yesterday down under the bridge on Dupont Street. Working on some white guy in the back seat of his Lexus. I tapped on the window but they were real busy, if you get my drift. The guy wouldn't give me the time of day. I just hope she was using a condom," he added.
"If it was a white guy, then yeah. Certain Indian men will pay extra to go bareback, so if you see her with an Indian man then you know that there might be a problem."
A siren suddenly blared. Cops were always reluctant to come into the drug infested area. They normally only came in for two reasons, one, if the drug bust was going to be monumental, and take loads of crack or meth, plus guns off the street. The second was if there was a body lying around that just happened to be the obvious recipient of a bullet or knife blade. The sirens continued on down the street until they eventually dissipated further off into the distance.
"What's wrong with Smiley?"
"Sleeping it off as usual," I answered.
"Why is he naked?"
"He was wearing brand new designer clothes he'd stolen. Somebody obviously didn't want him dressing better than they did. His toes look funny, though, almost as if...as if....he's dead."
"What?"
"He's dead."
"He can't be. I was just talking to him yesterday."
"Well you won't be talking to him no more. That is definitely rigor mortis setting in. Oh shit, no wonder. Look at his face."
I was terrified to look and gasped at what I saw. "A hole right between the eyes. Somebody with a gun sure wasn't taking any chances of a later payback when stripping him down."
"It doesn't scare you that a guy you knew was gunned down by some cold blooded killer, just feet from your corner?"
"If you're gonna try and scare me, you're doing a very poor job of it. I'm immune to danger now. I've been given bad drugs, robbed, gang raped, beaten, slashed, had a shotgun pointed at my head, and been threatened with death so many times that none of it resonates anymore. All I care about now is getting high. I have no illusions about whether or not I'll actually be alive tomorrow. Being high today is all that matters."
Dan eyed me with a look of profound disappointment. He actually cared about my well-being, and it showed in his gaze. That's why the girls always opened up to him, and chatted whenever he happened by. He was definitely on our side. It tore him up inside that we were just throwing away our lives like that.
"Hey, ho!"
The voice was high pitched and squeaky, a far cry from the usual deep, velvety rich voiced Johns that prowled the corners in this drug infested district, hunting for cheap prostitutes.
"Hiya," I said, spinning around at the head peeking out of the car.
I came closer.
His face was red and pot marked with realms of acne. He also had this weird, wavy red hair that hung over his skinny shoulders. His car was rusted and beaten up. I sighed dejectedly. This definitely wasn't going to be a Julia Roberts, Richard Gere moment.
"How much to go round the world," he said, his rotting teeth smiling goofily, and his bad breath almost keeling me over. It never failed to astonish me how guys wanted us hookers to kiss them when they didn't brush their teeth, and to suck on cocks they hadn't washed in weeks, that were putrid with rank pee, dirt, and ripening leftover cum.
Going around the world simply meant they got to fuck either end of us, meaning our pussies and our mouths.
"A hundred," I shot back.
"Hmm," he said, deflating my ego by insinuating I was charging too much.