Cat Lady on a Hot Tin Doll's House
Chapter Ten
BEFORE THE FALL
Emily was not shocked that the $8 million was raised. It was not a lot of money to many of the bidders and there were many contributors. She was pleased that she now could bank on at least $1.3 million after Servants Service got its share of the $8 million. She should not have money problems for a while although she realized that taxes and inflation would cut into that purse over time.
Emily was displeased with how widely the auction was advertised. She somehow thought that only the big sex boats and a few large corporations would be told about the offer and put in money to become bidders. However, Virginia told her that the bidding information and pictures of them all had been circulated to the sex boats, to companies that used indentured servants as party girls, to the many frenemies of Nora, Donna and Crimson, to friends of Melus and Eric Knox and to members of the XYY fraternity in houses across the nation.
Oh shit, Emily thought when she learned of all of her new-found fame. I should have given more thought to the extent of the publicity and to what it meant that everyone contributing at least $200 to the ante could attend the selection and auction.
Professors Thomas Jones and Constance Coolidge learned of the auction arrangement from an acquaintance of Jones who was a senior fellow of the XYY frat. Tom and Constance decided they had to go, particularly as Coolidge was now wondering if she had any better choices than the one Emily had made.
Because the $8 million was raised quickly, the auction could have been held as early as March 13, but Emily insisted that she had to grade carefully all the student papers due March 17. Kimmy, Madison and even Crimson said that they had to be allowed to finish the quarter which ended March 19.
The day of truth would be Saturday, March 27, 2066.
Naturally, all the women were on pins and needles in the weeks before the auction. They thought of holding an auction practice, but decided that having watched one was good enough. Crimson went to a XYY frat party March 19 to celebrate the end of the term. Naturally, she got high and had sex with a couple guys she didn't know well. Her walk of shame out of the frat the following morning came with a standing ovation from the frat members who were conscious at that time.
Donna, now free of any inhibitions, began sleeping with a different guy she picked up every night. When Emily heard that Donna was doing this from Virginia Talmadge, Emily's only thought was that Donna must be intending to head back to New York City as soon as the auction was done and never come back to Yoknapatawapha County.
Kimmy and Madison had to make up lies as to why they weren't coming back home for Spring Break.
Crimson's family knew why she was not coming back. Two of her brothers made enough of a contribution to the auction ante to get seats for the selection process and auction.
Nora had moved in with her mother as a result of her separation from Woods. Emily and Nora frequently bumped into each other in the hall or sat in the same breakfast room. Nora, though, still seemed to be mad at Emily. Emily decided not to push it.
Emily was happy when all the student papers came in March 17. She had something to do besides worry about whether she was going to spend twelve years as a sex worker. Still, she wrote in her Temple Drake blog that sometimes she wished that she would become a sex slave and have nothing to do but fuck, eat, sleep, and have babies. With nothing to think about and nothing to choose, I would be like a kept pet, kept for sex, sex, sex, and more sex, but assured that my physical needs would be satisfied, she thought.
THE SELECTION-- March 27, 2066 in Memphis
Emily, Nora, Virginia, Donna, Madison Kimmy and Crimson arrived in Memphis the Thursday before the FUSO selection Saturday and the auction to take place Sunday. On the way up, Emily remembered that if she became a sex slave, she'd probably hardly ever see Bessie again and wondered if there was any way she could bargain with the boat to allow her to bring her cat aboard. Maybe, if I gave them some of my ill-gotten money, they would let me keep my cat.
Friday, there were more papers to sign as to the money they now had. They each got a new bikini. I have not worn one of these in five years, Emily thought. Betty Jo agreed that the sharp black one looked really good with her light complexion and blond hair.
That afternoon, Emily read the publicly materials Servants Service had designed about the women to take place in the auction. The picture of her in her dress was flattering enough although not as sexy as what the other women had worn. The entries for each of them gave their ages, hair color, figures, bra sizes and heights.
"Professor Emily _____, Age 29, blond, 38-24- 36, natural E Cup, 5 feet 8 inches." So that's the most relevant data about me. I think they are more like DD but is there is a difference? While trying to hide my name, they said I am a professor. Someone must have thought that all that education was worth a little something.
Emily noted that the body size figures for her, Madison, Crimson and Donna were similar. However, Madison is a brunette and Crimson red headed. Madison and Crimson are both age 21 and Donna has a 27-inch waist. Nora is a bit less busty, D -Cups, but taller, 5-10, while Kimmy was Nora's height with B-Cups. Except for the reference to me being a professor, the flyer does not show any interest in any aspect of any of us except purely physical ones, Emily thought.
Virginia sitting next to her as she read the materials seemed to read Emily's mind. "I know the materials focus on physical traits but that's just the standard form. All of your history has been told orally to all the big potential bidders. I know at least one bidder is very interested in your doctorate. Also, Nora and I have told all the big boat owners that you are a warehouse full of sticks of sexual dynamite ready to explode."
"Gee thanks," Emily replied sardonically.
Saturday morning the women all went to the beauty parlor. They found that a number of the beauticians knew all about Nora and Crimson and about what they were about to do. In conversations outside the earshot of Nora and Crimson, Emily heard locals say:
"Those girls just never knew how to behave."
"Nora's such an over-privileged you know what, but she's not happy with what most women would die for."
"To call Crimson a slut is kind of an understatement. I don't know how you get such different peas out of the same pod. Her sisters know how to keep their legs crossed."
Emily had no doubt that similar things were being said about her. In fact, Crimson told Emily, "I heard one lady say to me, 'Bless your heart Crimson for helping those poor girls get through college. You're so pretty but still I don't think it's gonna hurt you. I think the boys really want to visit that Yankee professor lady on one of the boats. They'll give her an education you can't get at no college."
It did not surprise Emily that Servants Service had a large auditorium for such an event and a number of bedrooms to accommodate what had been specified in the rules that they had established for picking the FUSO.
The women entered from the back of the building and walked by the bedrooms, the shower and the dressing rooms. Nora remarked that they seemed to have installed more cameras in the bedrooms than there had been when she'd been given a tour by Robert Gelt a few years before, before he'd toured her in one of the rooms.
Betty Jo explained that most of the bidders were in the audience but fifty or so would be watching them on camera. In response to Emily's question, Betty Jo assured her that she would not be required to talk or do anything much else the first two rounds.
The women had a very light dinner and changed into their bikinis before going out on stage.
This is completely unbelievable, Emily thought as she went on stage and saw the crowd and the cameras. There has got to be 300 people in this auditorium. I guess most of them are just people who chipped in the minimum to look at us on display.
Emily noted two rows of maybe 25 men in their early 20s and a dozen older men, all sitting with Eric Knox and Randall Calhoun. About 15 of the young men were wearing XYY blazers. Virginia was sitting with them to Emily's confusion.
There seemed to be an equally large group huddled around Nils Rogson and a bunch of suits with him. That must be the Rising Sun crowd, Emily thought.
In her brief time on stage for the first round, Emily thought she could see other groupings. Those must be representatives of other big boats.
Professors Jones and Coolidge waived from the back. Jones shouted out, "Way to go, Emily, I always knew you had it in you." Emily did not appreciate the back-handed complement.
Emily was incredibly embarrassed but also totally aroused. Her erect nipples could be seen sharply under her bikini top and Emily could tell she was getting moist between the thighs.
The six marched off state to hear the first-round voting results. Kimmy was out
Although months before she would have thought that the bidders would favor the girl with a pretty face, it did not surprise Emily that Kimmy was the first one voted off the island. No, it would be better to think of her as the first one voted onto the island away from the sharks.
I now know that facial beauty is not what this crowd cares about. They want women with lots of boob, shapely hips and legs like Nora's, and mine for that matter, she admitted to herself. Mankind hasn't advanced far from the time of the ancient paleolithic fertility figures.
Kimmy smiled and said "bye, bye," and there was a little chat as the women doffed their tops and made sure their bottoms were covering everything they should.
"I really thought the fat old lady would be sent packing first," Donna said.
"You're not fat and you're not old," Nora said. "A lot of guys like a little tummy as long as it flattens out when you lie back and they thrust their cocks into you,"