A Work Of Fiction.
Part 13 - Hell & Heaven
Terri :
I'm in a tizz. I drop my keys.
"W-what?" I stumble through my words as I try to pick them up.
"Yeah. You're 'Chastity'. You're one of Martika's girls. I banged you the other day..." he trails off.
I was about to speak. Deflect the situation. But....I couldn't. I felt a wave of hotness through my body. My face, I felt, probably gave me away. I couldn't lie. That would just make the whole...embarrassment....worse....and I'd just get redder.
"I-I'm not sure what you mean..." I say, looking up at him as I get back to standing.
"Yes..." he affirms, "...your face. Not the same makeup - obviously - or wearing the same clothes, but I remember you. You're a great fuck."
Would be a nice comment to have, but only in a better context...not out on the street in front of my bank!
"Look, maybe we can come to some sort of arrangement...."
Ok...I'm all ears. My redness, I feel, subsides....
"I'm needing that loan...for my business..."
"I'm sorry, but like I said, if you bring in the evidence to support your application - like you said you had some more - then I'd be happy to go through it again with you..."
I'm non-committal. Not owning up to 'Chastity'....good.
He shakes his head "No, no, no..." he begins. "That'll be too late."
"Look...you must make a mint at Martika's. Give me £5k and I'll not mention this to anyone...."
"I haven't got that kind of money!" I panicky answer. 'Fuck! I've just admitted it!' I think to myself.
"Bollocks! You must be raking it in..."
Balls! How do I admit, in the middle of a street, in the early evening time...that I make no money from this? That it's just mine an Tom's 'kink'. How do I admit that without looking like a total...fucking....idiot?!?
"I don't have that kind of cash. Please..." I reiterate.
"£2k. You must have two..." he anxiously asks. I shake my head.
"Really? Fuck off..." he snarls.
"I-I-I can give you £1k...." the words tumble from my mouth...surprising myself, not just this....person.
He nervously runs his fingers through his hair....pacing side to side....
"Ok. Give my your fuckin' phone..." he asks.
I pause.
He makes hand gestures.
"Just fuckin' give it. Open it..."
I find myself reaching into my bag and grabbing my phone. Trying to open it in a bit of a panic...
Fail...
'Shit! C'mon, girl...get your shit together..' I think to myself.
Success.
I hand my phone over to Jerry.
As he's frantically working it, he tells me that he's giving me his contact details for later.
"I'll be in touch...." he answers, giving me back my phone before walking away....
I'm shaking. I hurriedly race to my car....get in....delve around in the glove compartment and pull out a spare packet of cigarettes. 'God, I need one...' I think to myself, nearly in tears over what had just happened.
A cigarette, of course, doesn't make it any easier...but calms me down enough to slow down the tears...to bring myself out of a panic state....enough for me to manage to drive home.
I vaguely remember him. With 18 + punters throughout the day, copious amounts of drink and drugs, I hardly remember their faces.....they're just cocks with wallets, really. Most don't want to talk or nothing. They just wanna ball me.
Fine....until something like this happens.
I get in...in tears.
Tom's there....comforts me....then asks what's up. We sit down....face to face....shaking, I tell him.
"Christ!" says Tom.
He tells me to take a shower and he'll make some food for us. He tells me to calm down. That we'll work things out.
I shower, get changed....but I'm not sure what my head is feeling. I'm on remote control.
My phone pings. It's a message from....this fucker.
This Jerry.
We read it. Bank details, send £1k, which is pretty much all of my savings, and money that we were putting towards plans for a holiday.
I send it, going through all the hoops that banking apps put you through for any dodgy transactions....fine, but do they do anything for bloody blackmail? No! So the transaction goes through and the money sent.
We try to eat. Well, I do. Tom is alright....but concerned about me. Me? I hardly touch my dinner.
Fitful night's sleep. Not in the mood for sex at all.
Extremely tired. Up and back at work.
Not feeling it. Some of the staff notice I'm not good today. They think I'm ill....Well, I am! Sick to my stomach!
On my way home, my phone pings. New message. I don't get to see it until I pull into my drive.
Horrified...
"I want more money!"
Shit!
I'm, once again, in tears putting the key into the door.
Neighbours see me. I don't care.
I tell Tom...I see his face drop.
Upset. I haven't got the word for it. I haven't got the strength to support him.
We chat, whilst I have a shower. Going through the motions. Towel dry and change into my PJ's. Tom forces me to have some soup, at least. It's tough going but I know I have to have something to eat.
I feel drained. I message that I haven't got that money....in tears, pretty much....with a reply of "Get It!"...which creates just more tears.
I try to sleep. Too many bad thoughts through my head. Numerous. Various permutations of how my mum and dad find out...each ends the same; my heart breaking.
Tom is fitful in his sleep too.
Work the next day. Drained. 'Looking like shit..', according to Shauna. Mind elsewhere. Couple of messages...one from Tom, asking how I am...and one from this complete and utter bag of shite, Jerry, who keeps on about the money.
Back home, I talk to Tom. I'm still a mess...
"Fuck this shit! Right, I'm calling Martika..." and he goes off on one, into the other room....pissed...
Martika :
I get this phone call from Tom, y'know that cunt Chastity's husband, just as I'm serving up dinner. I ask Mark to take over as we chat.
He tells me all the shit that's gone down from this fuckin' Jerry. I really am incensed
Firstly, the brothel is exclusive...that we vet the punters that go there...by recommendation of my street slags, built up over a period of time. All about trust....as in...we trust them.
It really is a case of 'If your name's not down, you're not coming in'. That's always been the rational behind it.
Like I keep saying, reputation is everything. Somebody steps out of line, it gets sorted. No messing. Now, this Jerry has been a pretty good customer over the years. I used to go with him. But...you never try to intimidate one of my girls.
Never.
So I tell Tom that we'll sort it.
We have dinner as I'm formulating the plan. I talk some shit through with you, don't I April? Then, before I need to shower, I phone up the bitch...
Terri :
Tom goes for a while, then comes back in. He's looking relieved.
"Right. So I've told Martika. She says that she'll message you shortly, Terri. She says that she's got this..."
I fake some sort of smile and then it's the long wait before Martika rings me up.
Rings? I thought that she was just going to message..
Martika :
I'm still incensed but have calmed down a bit when I chat to Chastity. The bitch, you can hear, is in pieces and I can hear those tears as she both listens and talks.
It all comes blurting out - the trying to pay him off and shit - and, throughout, she keeps sniffling 'I'm sorry....I'm so sorry...' to me.
I have to tell the bitch "Shut the fuck up and listen. Yes? Good. Right, well you are coming in and doing your shift this Saturday, ok?......Yes, I know it's not your Saturday...just fuckin' listen....you're gonna tell Jerry that you can't get the money right now, but as you'll be working this Saturday, you can give him more.....make it sound like you'll pay him off and you'll be rid of it all....he'll say some shit like that but I know he'll ask for more as soon as he gets his money....but don't let on that, ok?"
"Say that you've invited him so that you can have a session with him, yes?....tell him some shit that'll get him excited about fucking you and he'll come...ok? Good."
"I wished you told me all this shit earlier. I don't like people doing this, trying to muscle in on my bitches. Especially in the brothel. It's not on. You might have to fuck the twat but we will get this sorted, he will regret taking this attitude with you and I will make sure that this type of stance, by any fucker, doesn't go unpunished. Now, fuck off...relax...message him about Saturday and try to enjoy your evening. I still have to shower and all that shit. I do have a fuckin' job to do myself!"
Terri :
So, Martika phones up. Surprised by that. She's quite direct and to the point. Angry. This all goes against everything, she says, she stands for. She tells me to shut up and listen....and I do...she has it all in hand. I just have to entice him...oh, and work this Saturday? It's not my....oh...yes....'Shut the fuck up and listen..', yes...ok.
I text Jerry, after getting off the phone with Martika. Keeping him strung along.
Martika has said that some men are guided by their dicks....and, it seems, Jerry is one of them.
I feel better after the chat and things. Calmer. I get told that nobody messes with Martika...so, I feel safer...not safe...but safer...
Martika :
I'm out on the streets, hanging with my bitches....selling myself...and I've got a bit of a break between punters - Wednesday's are like that - an' I think to myself '..the bitch needs to be on the needle for for this to work..', so I quickly phone up Tom, out of respect, and tell him this. He's, of course, not happy.
I explain my rational.