I was more than a little disappointed when Jamie Pearlstein told me that she was "retiring." How to describe Jamie—Jamie is every boys' wet dream—about 5' 3", gorgeous red hair, large deep brown eyes, 38 D breasts, incredible kissable lips, perfect pale white skin, and a tight pussy shaved totally bare. Jamie also is or was known as "Tara" from the "Pleasure Me Girls" website—a very high-end provider website. Tara time ran $400 an hour and up, depending. The "Pleasure Me Girls" not only specialized in French lessons, but they lived for French cuisine. Jamie/Tara gave by far the best blowjob I've ever had. Literally, my cock tingled for hours after she finished.
I asked Jamie about keeping a few private clients on the side. She insisted no. She wanted a totally clean break from Tara at "Pleasure Me Girls.' She planned to move to a new place (maybe even out of town), get a new cell phone number, and all new email. Then I turned on the real pressure—what about "difficult Jamie?"
Difficult Jamie was a game we played where I would break into her apartment (with a key), tie her up, and "abuse" her "against her will." Over time, difficult Jamie had grown more elaborate with blindfolds, gags, dildos, paddles, hair brushes, duct tape, knives, extension cords, things up her ass (Tara did not let clients do "Greek" other than me—I remember the first time she let me put a finger up her ass), ripped clothing, and sometimes hours long torture. It was Kabuki of sorts. Jamie wanted to be hit, spanked, slapped and punched and through time we gained enough trust with each other to make it work. About the only rule was no bruises on the face. Jamie's "safe word" was always Jesus Christ. I always respected her safety. Three hours of "difficult Jamie" was about the best escape from the real world anyone could imagine. I think one time the handcuffs were a bit too tight and there were some nasty visible bruises. But Jamie got over it. And Jamie was very good about shouting "Jesus Christ" if I was crossing a line.
Unfortunately, Jamie was serious about retirement—no more Tara—and not even any more difficult Jamie. We had a long good bye. A lingering kiss. Jamie has the smoothest lips. I saw a little tear in Jamie's eye. I asked what she was doing next—and she wouldn't tell me. I knew I would miss Jamie. We had grown to be friends. When we weren't doing difficult Jamie we found time to talk or do other things. Jamie was a great listener. Jamie also had a biting sarcastic wit. She cleaned up well and looked gorgeous in a dress at a fancy restaurant—or dressed up like a 50s sweater girl in a cardigan and a skirt with a string of pearls on her neck. Jamie told me that she didn't know how to explain me or us. And that was ok. Jamie would always be special to me. She is magic. Jamie was Jamie.
For a time I didn't believe that "Tara" actually would retire. But when her cell phone line went dead, and when her email bounced back, when her pictures came off the "Pleasure Me Girls" web site, and when the "for rent" sign went up in her apartment, I knew that "Tara" was gone.
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I need to tell you a little about me at this point. I am a partner at the law firm of Beelzebub and Lucifer LLP (or B&L) and I also teach law at Leftcoast University's Shylock School of Law . In the fall I teach 1L Property, and in the spring I either a seminar on some trendy litigation topic.
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The course roster for fall's Property course listed a "Jamie Pearlstein." It couldn't be I thought. Law school classes are taught in "sections." That means the law school assigns the same group of students to a series of classes. Students don't pick their classes, or their professors, so if it was my Jamie in class, it was the luck of the draw. God does work in mysterious ways. Jamie once asked me if Jesus loved her. I said yes. Now I knew that Jesus really loved me.
The classroom was filled when I walked in. I scanned the room and found her face. The Jamie Pearlstein on the roster was my Jamie. My heart skipped a beat.
First year law school classes are taught using the Socratic method. I ask questions. Students give answers (usually wrong). And I move on with more questions to other students. Dialogue is lively. I was forming a plan. I would put Jamie on display for her classmates—then make her do a little show for me.
"Good morning class. Let's begin. Mr. Smith?" I began by calling on Donald Smith. Tall skinny kid, thick glasses, shock of black hair, pile of notes next to his casebook.
"Yes professor."
"Kindly stand when you speak." He stood up. "What is the name of this course?"
"Property."
"You got the first question correct. Law school isn't so hard is it?"
The class applauded.
"Not so bad." Mr. Smith replied.
"So try this, Mr. Smith. What defines property?"
"Um," followed by a long pause. "Something is property when you can do with it whatever you want to."
I scan the room. Most faces are blank. I count ten beats.
"Mr. Smith," I tossed him a softball. "Is your casebook for this class your property?"
"Sure," he replied. "I can pretty much do with it what I want."
"Of course you can, Mr. Smith. Please turn to page little vii in the front of the book and read the line on the bottom of the page."
"It reads: Copyright 2007 BIGLAW Publishing."
"So it would be fair to say, Mr. Smith, that you can't just go willy-nilly copying your book and selling the copies because BIGLAW might put a stop to that?"
"I guess not."
"So casebook's not entirely your property, is it? Since you can't do with it whatever you want?"
Very long pause.
"I will move on Mr. Smith. Have a seat. Ms. Pearlstein."
Jamie stood.
"Yes Professor." Her eyes gave me an—asshole why did you pick me look. Game on. Jamie would not shy from competition.
"Can you define Property?" I asked. I took a step back from the podium to show that I was yielding space.
"Property is any determinate thing that you have the right to possess, use and enjoy."
"Sounds like what Mr. Black says in his dictionary. Anyway, given that definition, you are my property aren't you, Ms. Pearlstein?" I focused hard on her eyes. "I certainly get to use and enjoy you, don't I?"
"I am no one's property Professor. People are not property. 13th Amendment." Good posture. Defiant stance. Jamie's brown eyes punctuated her words with a strong "fuck you."
"Well you would agree, Ms. Pearlstein, that I make you to come to class every day—that's in the course syllabus—and that's certainly me using your valuable time how I want to, and not necessarily how you want to?" I ended with a sarcastic flourish. "Looks like you like to spend time in the salon afterall."
"I come to class because I want to." Jamie struck a petulant tone and feigned boredom.
"And Ms. Pearlstein, you agree that I will require you to write examinations for my class. And that act, making your hands move how I want, is something that certainly I will derive enjoyment from? I tie your hands by framing the questions? And then I pin you down, make you commit to a position. You can't squirm."
"I take examinations because I like to show off," Jamie paused. "My pleasure, not yours. I tell you what I know, not because of any requirement. It's all about performance. My stage." Jamie was getting into her game. On her best days, if you said the sky was blue, Jamie would make you pick a shade from a color wheel and then proceed to explain why that shade was not really "blue."
"And Ms. Pearlstein, you would agree that when you speak in class, you mount what you think is your stage, but in fact is my stage. Aren't I the one producing and directing this little show?"
"I speak," Jamie adopted a little girl tone. "Because it's polite to respond to questions. You can talk with strange men, but that doesn't mean you take them home."
The class chuckled.
Jamie batted her eyes and struck a pose for her classmates. She was not going to let me win easy.
"Your parents raised you well, Ms. Pearlstein. But your good breeding," I paused before I said breeding, "isn't at issue, the issue is whether or not I get to enjoy using you—and I think I am enjoying using you right now?"
"Not at all." Back to her fuck you look and tone.
"Well, Ms. Pearlstein, because I am the Professor, aren't you right now actually doing what I want. I am getting my way here, aren't I? And isn't that what it means to say that you are my property?"
"I do what I want, Professor." There was a hint that Jamie's nipples were rising through her sheer bra.
"So the rules don't let me possess, use and enjoy you. Is that what you are saying?"
"They do not," Jamie's voice got bitchy. "I can refuse to play along."
"You've already tried that and you know where that leads. You can pout, you can stomp, you can do that indignant thing you are dong now, but be serious, at what price can you refuse?" I threw down my dare. "Control over property is really all about buying and trading rights, isn't it? I can possess, use and enjoy you if I am willing to spend enough."
"I don't follow your question." Jamie feigned ignorance.
"If you refuse to talk in class—you refuse to allow me the use and enjoyment of your presence and performance—Ms. Pearlstein, your grade goes down. I decide how to grade your performance, don't I?"
The class looked a bit uneasy with that comment.
"I suppose." Jamie couldn't really tell where I planned to go next. A little panic in her eyes.