Chapter 7: Tunnels and Trollops
Andrea walked into the waiting room, and blinked when she saw Rita behind the desk. "Hi. Where's Naomi?"
"Gone to LA to help look after her sister's kids for a few weeks," Rita replied. "Her sister broke her leg playing roller derby, so we couldn't say no, even though it was short notice. You didn't have a date, did you?"
"I wish," the goth grrl said dryly. "No, I'm just returning some manga she lent me."
Rita nodded. The busty and beautiful Naomi was an excellent receptionist, masseuse, and advertisement for their services: she was propositioned daily, and proposed to at least once a month. She would occasionally let men fuck her magnificent tits, or jerk them off between her tattooed feet, but she much preferred staying at home in the evenings with a vegetarian meal, a DVD, and one or more of the women from her lesbian Buddhist volleyball team and book club. "You still working at that piercing place?"
"Uh-huh. You want a piercing?"
"No thanks. I was wondering whether you'd like to fill in for Naomi 'til she gets back."
"I can do Monday to Thursdays..."
"That would help..." said Rita. "But I'm really looking for someone who can work weekends."
"No can do, but I can think of someone who could."
"Has she been here? We'd prefer one of our interns or trainees, or at least a client."
"No... at least, I don't think so. But she's worked as a receptionist."
"Is she hot?"
"Not as hot as Naomi, but she's cute, and her tits are bigger than mine."
Rita looked slightly more interested. "Girlfriend of yours?"
"Not really. We've made out a few times; she's bi... sort of."
"Sort of?"
"Okay, she's bi, but in this weird serial monogamy sort of way. She was dating a woman from my dojo who didn't like bisexuals, so she said she was strictly gay for a few months β probably believed it, too. Then they broke up and now she has the hots for a guy in our D&D group, but he thinks she's still a dyke."
"I didn't know you were into B&D."
"Dungeons and Dragons," said Andrea, sticking her pierced tongue out. "Not bondage and discipline β discipline was never my strong point - and not that sort of dungeon. I tried that, but it didn't do a lot for me."
"Oh," said Rita. "I would have thought you'd be more into Vampire: the Masquerade."
"I was," the goth replied, "but it's hard to find anyone around here who still plays that... well, not without holding a sΓ©ance. Do you want me to call Zoe, ask her to come around for an interview?"
"We'll let you know," said Rita. "Alexis wants me to try our old interns first; they have a better idea of the sort of services we offer. If we don't have any luck, I'll call you. Are you coming to our Hallowe'en party?"
"Fuck yeah!"
"Are you going to wear that Elvira costume again? That was fantastic."
"I have something even better in mind for this year β but you'll have to wait and see."
Rita smiled. "That sounds promising. What time can you start on Monday?"
***
Alexis looked Zoe up and down, from her slightly messy ash-blonde hair down to her Star Trek sneakers, and smiled at the slogan on her t-shirt β 'Then Buffy staked Edward. The End'. Her face, free of cosmetics, was cute rather than pretty, and her baggy clothes gave barely a hint as to her figure, but she might pass with a change of costume. "You're nineteen?"
"Twenty next month."
"Andrea says you've worked as a receptionist before."
Zoe nodded. "My parents run a motel near the airport. I worked the desk there sometimes."
Alexis smiled. "You must have seen some... interesting people."
"Well, no British Prime Ministers, but yeah, it's been educational in its way."
"Do any of them ever hit on you?"
"Sometimes."
"What do you do?"
"I tell them I'm underage. That scares off most of the men, and the creeps who keep asking and offer me money, I tell to fuck off I'll call the cops. Women aren't as easy to fool, but they don't get pushy, either. Some ask me out for coffee or dinner, and sometimes I say yes, but if I'm going to fuck, I do it somewhere else, not at the motel."
"Has Andrea told you what sort of work we do here?"
"Holistic healing. And she said it was the best place she'd ever worked."
"We enjoyed her time here, too," Alexis replied. "Anyway, we don't go in for homeopathy or reflexology or any of that nonsense here: it's primarily massage and sex therapy."
"And aromatherapy?" asked Zoe, noticing the odd but very pleasant perfume in the air.
"We do use some scented oils and incense that help our clients to relax," Alexis said, more or less thruthfully: the incense was actually a powerful aphrodisiac, containing synthesized human pheromones and an extract from a rare Dictyophora mushroom, among other ingredients. "I do mostly couples counselling, but not all of the couples are straight... actually, not all of them are couples. Some of them are triples or quadruples. And some of them have some unusual kinks, though nothing illegal. Is that going to bother you?"
"I think I can cope."
"Okay. If anyone does hit on you β well, what you do on your own time is up to you, but we'll always back you up when you say no. One more thing, though β we do have a dress code."
Zoe looked down at her T-shirt and jeans. "Sorry. I came here straight from class."
"What are you studying?"
"Comp sci and game design, with a minor in astronomy."
"Uh-huh. Well, jeans are okay and your shoes are fine β you'll mostly be sitting behind a desk, unless we need you to go to the bank or do a load of laundry β but as much as I approve of the sentiment, that T-shirt has to go. I think I have a top in your size, if you'd like to try that on..."
***
Zoe sat behind the desk in the empty waiting room, and tried to concentrate on writing her essay on cybersecurity and the Ashley Madison debacle. It had taken her most of Sunday afternoon to write half a page, and not because the place had been particularly busy. She'd found herself becoming increasingly horny all day, and not just because she hadn't had a date on Saturday night and hadn't been fucked in months. Maybe it was the amount of cleavage she was displaying in the scoop-necked top Alexis had given her (she'd tried wearing it with a bra on her first day, but this morning she'd given up on that, and found it much more comfortable), or maybe it was the way so many of the couples who emerged from their counselling sessions seemed so eager to rip each other's clothes off without waiting to get to their parked cars or the hotel around the corner, but her nipples felt as hard and tight as if someone had been sucking them. By three thirty, after adding another sentence to the essay and then deleting it, she finally gave up and logged on to her favourite site for slash fanfic. Alexis had made it clear that she wasn't permitted to play games while at the desk, but silently websurfing was okay. She started reading a story about a threesome in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon β Han, Chewie, and a twi'lek who was an obvious Mary Sue for the writer β and was nearing the climax when an attractive woman in her thirties and a slightly younger man staggered out of Alexis's consultation room to pay their bill and make another appointment. The woman had her tongue in the man's ear and was fondling his ass and inner thighs as he punched in his PIN without seeming to pay any attention to the amount he was being charged. They hurried outside a moment later, and Zoe rushed to the staff bathroom to jill herself off while fondling, licking and gently chewing her tits. A few minutes later, when her breathing and heartrate had returned to near-normal and her post-orgasmic flush was fading, she returned to the waiting room to find Rita sitting behind the desk.
"Oh, hi," the pretty blonde said, looking up. "I tried buzzing you, but you didn't answer, so I thought I'd better check to see when my next appointment was. Are you okay? You look a little flushed."
***
"How did Zoe do on the weekend?" asked Andrea, as she carried a load of clean towels to the massage room.
Rita smiled. "She seems to be having a good time. I caught her reading a story about someone being DP-ed by Han Solo and Chewbacca. Or maybe she'd written it."
Andrea raised an ink-black eyebrow at that. "Who got the ass?"
"Han. I gather Chewbacca is hung like a bantha, whatever that is β don't tell me, if I wanted to know, I'd have googled it."
"I thought you liked Harrison Ford."
"Yeah, but I like him better with his shirt off. Or when he kisses a woman. Or when he has that whip. Preferably all three. It's Zoe's birthday on Wednesday, isn't it?"
"Yes."