A sexy new agreement regarding the purchase of Jenny's lamp
**
In case you've just joined the story, here's what you
missed. In Paris, on her junior year abroad, Jenny meets Marc, a
wealthy American businessman and fellow lover of Rodin's art. They
discover they have a common ancestor: Francine de Chamonix, a
model in Rodin's workshop. Jenny looks exactly like Francine. Jenny
falls hard for Marc. She drops her American and French boyfriends,
pursues Marc, and soon marries him.
Three years later, now living in New York, Jenny and friend Lois visit
J. Byron Goode's antique shop and find a table lamp incorporating a
nude marble statue of Francine. Jenny (naked to show Goode the
resemblance) bargains the $75,000 price down, eventually reaching
$750, a blowjob, and a monthly fuck starting next month. Now, a few
weeks later, Lois has told Jenny that Mr. Goode wants to modify the
agreement.
**
I owe another big thanks to my editor Ken, who made some key
suggestions that -- I hope -- make Chapter 3 better than my original
version. Thank you, Ken!
**
"There's no way I'd do that, Lois. It may not seem so, given my recent
behavior, but actually I'm quite shy about showing off my body," Jenny
said. They were back in their favorite Greenwich Village coffee house.
"Really? I've seen you in your bikini many times, don't forget," Lois
replied. Jenny's bikini tended to the minimalist end of bikini fashion. It
covered her lady bits, but the amount of fabric it used in total was rather
small. Jenny would occasionally sunbathe topless, as well.
"That's different. It's in a beach or swimming pool context. You're
supposed to wear a tiny bikini when you're our age. It's not at all
analogous," Jenny explained. There was an edge to her voice.
"Is it really that different?" Lois asked.
"Yes. Mr. Goode wants to objectify me in front of a bunch of creepy, rich
men. He wants to make money off my body."
"He's not trying to sell you, Jenny. He just wants an event that publicizes
his gallery. After all, it's new, and he has to establish his bonafides."
"By having me standing naked next to a Rodin statue? The statue is
even just borrowed; it's not for sale. Maybe the men gazing at my naked
body will think I'm for sale!"
"It's the way of the gallery world in New York," Lois replied. "Galleries
have to show they have connections, and Mr. Goode seems to have
them. Just the insurance on the statues he's borrowed for his show
must be mind boggling. Having you and the other models there this
Sunday will add a certain extra
je ne sais quoi
to the event. It
hasn't even happened yet, and it's the talk of the antiquarian world."
"What talk? What are people saying?"
"Nothing much, don't worry."
"Lois, you know me. Sometimes it seems that all I ever do is worry."
"Isn't that why God gave us Xanax?"
"I thought it was Upjohn, now Pfizer," Jenny replied. "What are people
saying?"
"They're excited Mr. Goode found a doppelgänger for Rodin's famous
model and you'll be in the same pose as the statue," Lois said.
"What about the bit with
The Kiss
?" Jenny nervously asked.
"He's keeping that for a surprise. It will be your second modeling, after
the first one."
"So I can still back out. Tell him for me, will you, Lois?"
Lois looked upset. Jenny got suspicious. "Lois, why do you care what I
do?"
Lois looked at the floor.
"Holy shit! Are you helping Goode organize this little piece of insanity? Are you?"
Lois said nothing.
A lightbulb flashed above Jenny's head. "How much is he paying you?"
"Look Jenny, this is a good deal for you. Without this new one-time
modeling gig you'd have to fuck him each month for a year. You agreed to that in order to get your lamp, remember? How do you think Marc will like that? Besides, you modeled nude in college. Is this any different?"
"How much is he paying you?"
"I've struck a great deal for you. You should thank me!"
"Is he paying you more than a thousand dollars?"
"You should thank me, Jenny. Unless of course you want to fuck him 12 times or more?"
"Of course I don't
want
to fuck him! Who on earth would want to fuck that creep?"
Lois looked strange. Jenny had an epiphany. "Really, Lois? You and J. Byron Goode? Seriously? He must be thirty years older than you! Plus, you just stood there and watched me give him a blowjob! You took pictures! I can't believe you! You can't possibly be thinking of fucking Byron Goode."
"He's only fifteen years older. He just looks older due to his bald spot."
"He has a nice cock, I admit. He's all yours, Lois."
"So you'll do it, Jenny? For me? Please?" Lois made the universal
begging gesture with her hands.
"It will be humiliating, disgusting, degrading and sexist. Put that way, it does sound like fun. Okay, Lois, I'll do it for you, but you'll owe me."
The two women talked for a while and then Lois blurted out, "I was
surprised when you told me to photograph you and Johnny getting it on."
"Johnny? You call him Johnny? Not J. Byron, or Mr. Goode?"
"Well... uh..."
"Oh my God, he's already seduced you, hasn't he?"
"He didn't really seduce me. It was kind of mutual. You know I have a thing for older men. Don't look so shocked, Jenny."
"After I gave him a blowjob, you seduced him?"
"Well, if you must know, it was a few days before you gave him a
blowjob. I had visited his store, discovered the lamp, and I told him
about how you looked just like the naked woman in the lamp, and he got really interested!"
"Tell all, you slut," Jenny said.
"Well.... You know of course I don't have your body. I've got toothpicks for legs and a concave butt, and all I've got going for me are my nicely sized bust and my pretty face, to be perfectly frank. Johnny was staring at my boobs as we talked, and at one point he asked if my mystery woman -- that's you -- had boobs like mine."
"That's a weird question. What did you say?"
"I said your body was perfectly proportioned to fit the dreams of men, just like the body of the lamp woman. I told him you had the same face. I told him you could have been the model for the sculptor. He said it's too bad you don't have boobs like mine, and then I understood what was happening."
"It took you long enough. What did you do?"
"I asked him if he'd like to see my boobs."
"I take it back, Lois. You're not a slut. No, you're a brazen hussy! You
actually offered to show Mr. Goode your boobs?"
"Uh-huh."
"Right there, in the antique shop, where anyone could walk in?"
"Yeah. Right there. All I did was lift my sweater and bra for him. My back was to the windows on the street. Look, we both did shit like that in Key West a few years ago; and more, too."
"
You
did more," Jenny said. "I just flashed some guys. I didn't
give them my body."
"You don't have to. You're so pretty all you have to do is wink at a guy and he'll take you home and fuck the shit out of you."
"Apparently all
you
have to do is flash an older guy your boobs and he'll take you into the back room and fuck your brains out," Jenny said, in a voice of pure snark.
"Don't be silly. He didn't take me in the back room... like he did with
you. He closed the shop early, took me to his apartment on East 12th Street, and took me on his bed. He has a great mattress, by the way."
Lois had been going on and on recently about how crappy her mattress is. Jenny's was, too. She had meant to mention it to her hubby Marc, but she was waiting for the next time they fucked. Recently they'd been having a bit of a dry spell.