Hi, my name is Julie, I work as a security officer, and I drive men wild. Women too, if you want to get technical about it. There's just something about an athletic woman holding a night stick that gets people's blood running hot.
I saw her the first time when she went into the building looking rushed, blond curls flying and business suit a little too wrinkled. She was after a lawyer. No one runs like that into a law office if they don't have some serious shit to get out of. I held the door open and I confess I stared just a little too long - long enough that the guy behind the check-in desk raised an eyebrow at me. I was just there for an interview and already I was getting those "I wonder what you like in bed" looks. I didn't care. It's what got me my last job, after all...
I don't know why I remembered her so well, but it was over a cup of coffee that I saw her being carried out of the courtroom in handcuffs on the channel 9 news five months later. I guess that lawyer hadn't been enough for her, but she carried it well. Her nails were still perfectly manicured, her blond curls just so around her face, makeup immaculate. Orange would be a bad color on her, but then again, who looked good in a jumpsuit?
I was working at the local prison. Turns out the boss of the law office didn't like my gender. But it didn't matter, the prison job was great. I don't know, there was just something I liked about being in control of all those girls with their dead husbands and stockbroker insider information. Let's just put it this way: I was never in need for sex...or cigarettes...
They brought her in and shoved her into B block with a beautiful black girl named Shonda that I'd had an interesting night in solitary with a few months ago. She winked a big brown come-hither eye at me as I came along on my walk that night, clanging my club against the bars as I went and swaggering like I'd walked out of some old Alcatraz movie and had a chip on my shoulder. "Hey, sugah." She said, her accented voice thick with Georgia history. "New blood up in here tonight." She gestured over a muscular shoulder at the blond beauty that was sitting on that thin prison cot like she was waiting for a table in some fine four star restaurant.
"So I heard." I said and I leaned in against the bars, keys jangling at my hip. I smiled at both of the women and that was when the first interested look crossed the blonde's face. I pressed my breasts in between those bars and smiled through my pink lips. I knew I was sexy. I knew that I'd made more than one "straight" woman want to take a walk on the other side of the fence after looking at my curvy hips shoved into that guard uniform. After all, things could get really lonely in prison and I was a free ticket for a midnight ride.
"What you in for, doll?" I crooned into that metal cage, lowering heavy black lashes over my oh-so-true blue eyes. The fluorescent lighting made me all blue peaches and cream.
Lean long fingers produced a cigarette from the front pocket of her suit. "Got a light, chief?" She asked without answering my question. She came up to the bars and stuck her cigarette through them, perched between those full lips, jauntily held just inches from my own mouth. I produced a match and did the lady justice.
"Rumor has it she found her man in bed with the real estate bitch from down the street." Shonda said, as always up for a good story that involved the death of some two-timer. Lord knows that's how she ended up in the joint herself. Only it'd been her sister in bed with someone. Apparently Shonda liked to keep her relations in the family...at least for the most part.
"Really, now." I said and leaned more casually against the bars. This was already getting interesting. There was a flush to that pretty blond girl's cheeks, a strange light to her eyes. "Sounds tragic."
"Very." The blond responded and there was sarcasm thick in that New York, high class voice.
"What's your name?" I asked her as I took in those platinum curls and that made-up face. Someone had snuck her in some eye shadow and lipstick. Not that I was complaining. It was one of the prettiest faces I think I'd ever seen.
"Donna." The girl responded. "What's yours?"
"Julie." I told her and the keys at my side jingled again, tempting me to use them and let that little piece of heaven out of its cage.