After my last story I was asked how I made the transition from my first experience as a prostitute to being a streetwalker with a pimp. The actual transition wasn't any big deal really. The way it worked for me is that I picked up guys on the street on my own like three more times, but sometimes I felt very unsafe. Once you're out there a few nights, the other working girls and the pimps see you around, so it wasn't long before I was asked by Michael if I'd like his protection.
That protection came with him taking control of my finances, which I resisted at first. I didn't want him paying my rent and utilities, but he insisted, and eventually I said yes. What I didn't realize was that meant staying in an apartment he owned. It was in a three family house and I had two rooms on the second floor, with a shared bathroom and shared kitchen. My old apartment, which I had just moved into with the extra money I had made hooking, was all mine, with my own bathroom and kitchen area, but I let Michael persuade me that the new place was better.
Michael had the entire third floor to himself. His girlfriend, another one of his working girls, slept with him. When Michael and I fucked we did it in my room. The same with the other two girls who shared the house. I was with Michael for about six months, before he was shot and killed in his car on a trip to New York. Whatever money Michael was supposedly holding for me went away with him.
All the girls went their separate ways, and I ended up working for another pimp, who was Michael's cousin (or second-cousin or maybe just a close family friend he called cousin, because the story always shifted.) I can't say his cousin's real name, or people might figure out who I am from this story, so I'll call him Eric.
Eric was much more of a gangster than Michael. He carried his gun on him, not in his glove compartment like Michael. He ran the girls, but didn't fuck them because he didn't want to catch any diseases. Whee Michael made us all feel like we were competing for his affection, Eric just ordered us around like slaves, and while Michael at least pretending we were making money for ourselves, Eric just kept the money, and if we whined about it or complained, we were liable to get hit.