After watching the porn shoot I had felt deeply unsatisfied. It made me want to participate, but I felt there was something missing.
A few days later there was a shoot for the video agency with a part for me in it, ‘shy foreign girl’. I was unexpectedly nervous about appearing on camera, and my very brief acting scene had to be re-shot several times. When the sex came it was as bland and mechanical as I had feared, and although I gasped and moaned my way through it my heart just wasn’t in it. I won’t bore you with the details, but I left feeling angry and unsatisfied before the end of the filming.
When I got back to the hotel I called the agency and told them I was sorry, and that I just couldn’t do it. The language barrier was the problem, and it was immense. The people I was fucking just didn’t seem real, somehow. They were ciphers, ghosts, and they passed in and out of my life with no emotional substance to them whatsoever. I was surprised by how much that mattered to me. The agency suggested I take a little time off and I agreed. By the time I got off the phone I was almost in tears.
There was a knock at the door, and when I opened it Bear was standing there looking uncomfortable in a suit, ready to go down to dinner. We looked at each other for a moment, and then he held out his arms. I wailed and fell into them, and he picked me up as if I were no heavier than a paper doll, and carried me over to the bed. He sat on the bed next to me and stroked my head with his big hands, making gentle shushing noises until I calmed down. Then he bent down and kissed my forehead and stood up, as if to leave.
I quickly leant up in one elbow and cried ‘Don’t go!’ He nodded, and took off his jacket, slinging it over the ugly red lamp in the corner. He climbed onto the bed next to me and spooned me, stroking my sides and pulling my back to him. The affection made me feel better.
‘What’s the matter, babygirl?’ He asked. I shook my head. ‘Come on, tell big old Bear about it.’
‘It’s just… It’s just that I…’ I burst into tears again. Bear once again made concerned shushing noises, and I turned round to hug him from the front, wrapping my arms around his neck, as I had no hope of getting them around his body.
Bear was huge, only about the same height as me but about three feet across at the shoulders. Think the Hulk scaled down, and a rich chocolate brown instead of green. He used to do competitive weight lifting, and he was in the commonwealth games and everything, but then he got injured in a bar fight. People were always trying to take him on, ‘cos he looked so big. They were trying to prove something. He was a big softie, and people took advantage of that. So he was forced to take up self-defence, and now he trains people in it as well as doing odd jobs here and there when a situation calls for a show of strength. Like escorting girls for the agency.
Close to him like this I could feel his erection through his trousers rubbing up against the waistband of my skirt. Even in this situation, trying to be as caring as he could, Bear was unable to stop himself from being turned on by being close to me. The thought made me feel a little better, and I sniffed and smiled a little. I pulled back and looked at Bear.
‘I guess I’m just feeling a little unloved, is all,’ I said.
‘Hey, you don’t have to feel that way, girl. You’ll always have me,’ Said Bear.
I pulled a face. ‘Don’t.’
‘What?’
‘Don’t say that. You’re just doing your job.’
‘Am I?’
‘Well, aren’t you?’