CutiePie1997
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"The Accidental Prostitute"
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My character:
Lorna Lee (image coming soon).
22 years old.
5’8”, 118 lbs.
33B-24-34.
Fit, firm, and well rounded.
I spent nearly an hour walking up and down the grocery store aisles, intently studying and carefully selecting from amongst the offered items. My actions weren't due to an overly particular diet. I wasn't a foodie. I was broke. When I reached the register with my nearly full cart of not necessarily nutritionally smart grocers, there wasn't a single thing in it that wasn't on sale, discounted by a coupon, or both.
I carefully watched the cashier scan the items, handed her my stack of coupons, and waited anxiously for the total.
"One thirty-two twenty eight, grocery," the clerk said tapping a final button, adding, "Forty-four twelve, non-grocery."
I think I literally released an audible sigh of relief. I'd been keeping a rough, running total in my head as I shopped, and I knew I was going to be close. I hated finding out I was short, resulting in me having to remove one item after another until the total was manageable. I hadn't over my government food card and, as the clerk ran it through the scanner, counted out the necessary cash. That was when a soft tone from the register caused my heart to jump.
"I'm sorry," the clerk said after slipping the card through the reader again, to the same result. She handed it back my way, saying with a bit of a snide tone, "Says there's only eight bucks on it."
"That can't be right," I said, already feeling my face explode in a horrified blush. "There was a hundred and fifty on it last time I used it. Can you run it again?"
The clerk waggled the card at me. "No. Already done it twice. Eight bucks, twelve cents. You got cash?"
I didn't take the card, looking to the cash in my hands for no reason at all. I knew exactly how much was there: $48, barely enough to cover the non-grocery items that what my mother still called food stamps wouldn't cover.
"What about a credit card?" the clerk asked curtly. I could tell from her tone that she'd never faced this situation herself. She again waggled the card, then -- when I didn't take it back -- dropped it onto the counter before me. She glanced at the line of shoppers, who I could tell were becoming impatient, and said, "There's people waiting."
I could feel the tears about to explode from my eyes. I didn't know how it had come to this point, my life I mean. I'd graduated high school near the top of my class, with great ambitions. I was going to get a Bachelor's Degree in Broadcasting, then -- combining it with my drama club experience -- get a job as a reporter, then an anchor with one of the city's many television news stations. I'd move up to the networks, maybe host a season of Big Brother or Survivor, then get my own Entertainment Tonight style show.
I had a wonderful life all mapped out before me. And then, it all went to shit. A couple of horrific boyfriends; two pregnancies, despite using protection, ending in a miscarriage and an abortion in that order; a short flirtation with cocaine; and -- courtesy of parents who no longer talked to me -- three months in the state's most prestigious rehab center. With their abandonment, my parents also pulled their support of my college education. After two years of dead end minimum wage jobs, I qualified for State and Federal Financial Aid and got back into class, only to fall in love with a heroine addict who drug me down into the gutter with him.
I'd been clean and sober, employed or actively searching for work, and both single and abstinent for more than a year in an attempt to concentrate on rebuilding my life. Yet despite all of this, I felt like a rubber ball being kicked around the playground by a bunch of elementary school students on sugar highs.
Before I knew what I was doing, I snatched my food card and ran. I was out the door in a quick moment, around the corner, and sat down on a bus bench where I found myself sobbing in despair and embarrassment, tears staining my cheeks with cheap mascara and blush. When I thought I was capable of it, I stood again and shuffled the three blocks to my cockroach infested studio apartment. I sucked down the last two inches of a week old, three dollar bottle of wine ... and began sobbing again until finally I passed out on the couch.
I was asleep only minutes, though, when a knock came at my door. I ignored it initially, but a second, more insistent knock caused me to jump up, stomp down the hall to the portal, and throw it open with a loud, angry, "What?"
I didn't immediately recognize the visitor's face, but after a moment of staring, I remembered him as a neighbor from the much nicer building across the street. He'd waved politely to me a few times, even calling out a greeting once or twice. But with my life as it was now, I hadn't been interested in getting to know any of my neighbors, let alone begin a friendship or romance. So I hadn't even returned the waves, smiles, or greetings.
I was about to ask in a rather harsh tone what he wanted when I looked to the floor. There were six grocery bags flanking him, and it didn't take a genius to realize that they were my grocery bags. I felt my face flush, though I wasn't sure whether it was from embarrassment or anger. Either way, my reaction was to feel my eyes well with tears again as I looked up into his face and ask with disbelief, "What the hell...?"
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