We paid, with her credit card of course, and loaded the bags into the back seat.
She surprised me when she took me by the hand and said, “walk me around the block, David, please.”
I grinned. “Want to show off your new look?” I asked.
She blushed and said, “I think you may have made me crazy.”
I thought for a few seconds, trying to picture the movies I had seen when a pimp walked his hooker, trawling for a customer. I crooked my left arm and she smiled and laid her hand on it. Then I started walking, intending to circle the block clockwise, which would put her walking on the street side of our couple. I seemed to recall from somewhere in a checkered past that these positions signaled that she was for sale. Well, for rent anyway.
“Tell me I’m pretty.” she said and I patted her hand, laying on my arm, and said, “you are stunning.”
Which, of course, was precisely true while sidestepping her request. She was stunning in an over-made up, over-the-hill fat woman way, kind of a two-dollar for a blowjob streetwalker.
I enjoyed walking with her. She was obviously enjoying herself and her smile gave her a look that I found attractive. And I did love the appearance she was showing off.
I heard the subtle sounds of a car pulling to the curb and then pacing us for a few feet before the short toot of a horn.
I turned to look and the passenger side window was winding down so I walked over and bent down to look in.
“Is she for sale?” the driver asked. He was “mature,” says 50-something, and had the prosperous look of someone who has made it far enough up the career ladder to no longer worry about money. His grey hair was carefully barbered, the shirt had one of those flaps across the back that suggested designer labels with price tags to go with it, his hands were clean with nails that were carefully manicured, and his glasses screamed “designer” and I guessed them at somewhere north of $1,000. The car, a Cadillac CTS, sealed the image.
“Are you a cop?” I asked. I had read somewhere that if he said “no” then we were proof from arrest. Who knew, it might even be true. I was playing a part, not being a pimp.
“No,” he said with a chuckle.
“Well then, everything is for sale at the right price,” I replied, “what do you have in mind?”
He grinned, carefully whitened teeth gleaming, and said, “I thought it might be fun to spank a fat girl.”
“Wellllll,” I said, drawing out the consonant, “that gets you into ‘extras’ territory.”
“Extras?” he asked.
“Yeah,” I said, “base rate is $1,000 a night and that includes unlimited vaginal and oral sex. But to spank her is another $500.”
He smiled, shook his head, said, “too rich for my blood,” and pulled away.
“What was that?” she asked when I had her back on my arm and we started walking again.
“He thought you were a whore and wanted to know how much,” I said.
I had to laugh when she stumbled.
“And what did you tell him?” she asked, and she was suddenly flushed, her eyes shiny with a look I recognized. She was excited.
“I said yes,” I said, enjoying her little gasp.
It was an interesting three steps as her face sort of fell.
“But he wasn’t interested then?” she said, and she was obviously disappointed.
“Oh, he was interested all right,” I said, patting her hand possessively, “but he couldn’t afford you.”
She giggled then.
“How much am I worth, then?” she asked.
“I told him a thousand dollars, plus the extras he wanted,” I said.
She drew in a breath.
“You really think someone would pay that much for me?” she asked and now her face was flushed and her breath was catching.
“Plus extras,” I said.
“Extras?” she asked.
“Yeah,” I said, and stopped to turn and face her, enjoying the look on her face as she looked up at me, eyes shiny and bright, “he wanted to spank you and I told him that was an extra $500.”
Things changed, as sometimes they do, and even though there was traffic on the street, and the occasional pedestrian walking by, we were alone in a little bubble.
“Would you have let him?” she asked, “if he had peeled off fifteen one hundred dollar bills?”
“Would you have wanted me to?” I replied.
“Quit deflecting,” she said, squeezing my hand, “would you have sold me? Rented me? Whatever the proper term is?”
“Yes,” I said, holding her eyes with mine, covering her hand.
She drew in a deep breath.
“Did you do that to your mother?” she asked, her eyes locked on mine, doing that little flicking thing as her focus switched between my right and left eye, something she did when she was concentrating hard.
“Yes,” I said, suddenly hard, the memory of delivering mom to a cabin in the mountains where a dozen cars were parked in the yard, picking her up the next day when she was covered in dried semen, and then tending to her black eye, fat lip, and the cigarette burns on her tits.
She got to her knees, right there on the middle of the sidewalk, took my hands, looked up, and said, “make me a whore, David, please.”
I laughed and pulled her to her feet.
“It’s a big step,” I said.
“David,” she said, “you just can’t imagine how exciting it is, for a fat girl like me, to think a man might be willing to pay.”
She stopped and looked me in the eye.
“Oh God,” she said, and her eyes overflowed and her nose started running, “you’ll hate me.”