A Work Of Fiction.
Part 9 - Shopping Spree
Terri :
Tom is in a rage as Candy reveals that I've been taking smack all day. He drags me out to the car, calls me a "..fuckin' idiot!" and tells me to "..get in."
I'm still on that needle high, but know that Tom is really upset. The drive home really is awful. No music on. No talking. The occasional huff from Tom. Really not where I particularly want to be.
We get it. It's stupid o clock - again, yet Tom is slamming the door, turning to face me...face full of anger.
"What the fuck? You stupid fuckin' idiot!". He's trying so hard not to explode...not to go off on one. "Just what the fuck did you think you were doing, you stupid bitch?"
"I-I-I dunno..." was the best I could muster. Just made him angrier.
"I just through...." I started. "'Just fuckin' thought' what, Terri? It'd be fun? That's so fuckin' dangerous, you idiot!" he exclaimed.
Silence for a few moments. Long moments. What felt like long moments. "Then why?"
"Well, Candy asked..." I started.
"...and you thought that she was cool? That poor cow is controlled. You can see it. She's afraid of Martika. Doesn't want to displease her. That's the shit that's keeping her like that...controlled. You want to be like that? Like her? Fuckin' hell, Terri, she's owned! You want to be a fuckin' slave?"
He's right. I'm too tired to argue. There's nothing to argue, actually; He's hit the nail on the head. She's 'controlled' and 'owned' by Martika. Do I want that for myself? No.
Ok. At least one decision made. But, I can't really say much as I am still under the influence. I tell Tom that we need bed, and that we need to get up fairly early as April, Martika's right-hand bitch, is going out with us on a shopping spree in which I'm going to have my own hooking clothes.
"Fuck!" is all he can muster at the moment, and we go to bed. No hugs...he pushes me off.
Alarm goes off and we get up. I'm still in my makeup and things. Didn't really sleep much, however stoned I was, as I'd pissed off Tom. Tom's very easy going and so to have him upset like this was just...painful.
So, we're up and I'm showered. He's made breakfast and I ask him about today, of course, apologizing profusely first about doing heroin in the brothel with Candy and Donna. Tom says that he's not going.
Ok.
So, anycase, I get dressed and perfumed, reapplying my heavy thick makeup, do my hair and put on all the rings and bangles - all Sarah's, of course - and light up a cigarette and have a coffee, again to get into the role.
Tom, thankfully, can't resist this heavenly, slutty creature and has his way with me again. Full, frantic, violent sex.
With a vagina full, and spilling, of his seed I kiss him goodbye, again saying sorry for yesterday, and leave. No coat today, it's like I don't really care who sees me in the neighbourhood. Thankfully though...nobody's out.
...and I drive the 30-40 minutes over to Martika's, and park the car. Stepping out, I light up. Gotta look - and feel - like one of the girls again, even though it's not my working day as such....just a Saturday...in which Martika has ordered me to go out with you, April, to get me my hooking clothes and jewellery.
April :
I'm there already, boo. Martika told me to get my shit together and arm myself with her credit card, so I'm there waiting for the bitch. My owner's not sure if this Chastity's husband's gonna be there or not.
Turns out he's not and she's just there on her own.
My owner's told me that my sister, Candy, had her on the needle all yesterday and, when she left after her shift, there was some shit going down between her and her husband.
Bitch comes to the door and I'm just taking a drag from my cigarette.
"All ok, boo?" I ask.
"Fine." she answers.
"Y'want a bump?" I ask.
Terri :
So, there's April at the door, looking like she's ready to sell herself, and she asks me if I'm alright. I guess she's heard about the thing that happened with me and Tom. Then she bloody asks me if I wanted to do a couple of lines! I had to remind her that I was driving!
April :
Well, if you remember, I went back in and banged out a few lines, boo. Then armed with my handbag, containing my cigarettes, my lighter and Martika's Credit Card, we hit the road.
So we drove over, actually back from where the slag came from, to do our shopping. Gonna be a fun fucking time.
Terri :
April insisted that we smoked as we drove and we just talked about general chit chat. I'd never talked, really, with her much before. Only in passing. So I asked her the obvious...how long she's been with Martika.
She's very proud of that; tells of how she sought her out, after reading some her articles on a website called The Experience Project and talking about how she trained her. It all echoed things of just how my Tom found out about her.
We talked about Mark - Martika's husband - and just how he is...and we talked about Martika's children.
"She's got children?" I recall asking.
"Yeah, boo. Miya, Jasmin and Suzanne." - which is what she had at the time - "...all created from whorin', boo. All from punters. Ain't that cool, yeah?"
'Wow..' I think to myself. That is amazing.
Anyways, we park in town, and get out...out in the daylight. I'm a little...shall we say...conscious of looking just how I look. The little red leather skirt, the fishnets, the heels. April is likewise, with a purple leather mini and a white top. She acts like it's normal.
I remember her saying "Boo, this is the kind of shit I wear all the time. My owner..." - there's that term again, first from Candy (her sister) and now from her - "...wants us to look like ho's all the time. It's been beaten into me, boo, over the years. B'sides, these types of clothes are all I own.", trailing off with "You get used to it, boo. C'mon, let's go..."
So, first off, we go to the lingerie shop. "Bitch, you need a bunch of hot bras and suspender belts. No panties, we never use those shit.."
Which was the line echoed out into the store when April got bras in red, blue, white and black...
Straight at the till, with people behind us, and the till girl saying that if you bought the matching panties, there was some kind of deal on.
"They're for her, boo, an' this bitch never wears them..." was April's answer that made me want to curl up and die.
Onto the next store...
I'm carrying all the shit too.
Jewellery next H M Samuels.
They have the name in script there too, that Martika ordered. Some bangles, some dress rings, some chains and pendants are bought. Literally hundred's of pounds worth. There's a delay as we're waiting for the transaction to go through. April texting Martika - I think it is Martika - and then it's okayed.
There's a market stall that sells stockings, so April buys a bunch of pairs of black seamed fishnets, before we head over, to various stores, for some to to wear.