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God help anyone who used the term “call girl” around my roommate, Leslie. She was an “escort,” and she insisted there was a difference. So her reaction to my outfit that first night came as a shock:
“Are you crazy? You look like a hooker!”
Leslie had never used that word. This was serious. It was too late to change clothes.
I was already screwed and I hadn't even met the client.
Leslie had talked me into taking her place, just this one time. I would never have agreed if I hadn't lost my job, not even to save hers. You see, Leslie was on probation with the service. She'd canceled twice that year, and a third no-show would get her fired. Her boyfriend had made weekend plans for the two of them, and he'd given Leslie an ultimatum. She could cancel tonight's appointment and be with him, or she'd lose him forever.
She was in a tough spot. I'd like to say that's why I finally agreed to take her place, but it was the $1500.
$1500 for one night with one man. Not just any man, but an important client of Chicago's most exclusive escort service. Leslie had never met him and if the client had been given a description of her - or if he had requested a “type” - she and I were just close enough in appearance that I could be a match: petite, with dark hair worn shoulder length.
Everything I'd been taught, every value I'd held onto, was opposed to the idea of taking money for sex. I had only had two lovers, both long-term, and I'd been appalled when I first learned what Leslie did for a living. But in the year since we'd been sharing the apartment, her life had begun to seem so much easier than mine. More glamorous, too. I was an assistant museum curator and earned enough to pay my half of our rent with a little left over. I rarely had time for a social life, which is why man #2 had left the picture months ago. Leslie ate at the best restaurants, attended business retreats on the arms of Fortune 500 CEOs, slept until noon and had an incredible wardrobe…
…and made $1500 for one night with one man.
By the time I was dressed and ready to go, I was almost looking forward to my “appointment.” Until Leslie saw what I was wearing.
“What do you mean, I look like a hooker! You said to wear something of yours. Something sexy.”
I was wearing a red dress in a stretchy fabric that fit me like paint. I have to admit, it was the sexiest thing in Leslie's closet and the one dress most unlike my own clothes. I had been possessed by a slut-demon.
“I know, sweetie, but I would never wear that for a client I didn't already know. You always start with something slightly conservative, just in case. He might want to take you to dinner at a nice place…Oh hell, it'll be worse if you're late. Just go.”
Dammit, now I was so nervous I felt dizzy. I had liked myself in this dress. Standing in front of Leslie's full-length mirror, my hair and makeup perfect, a glimmer of silver at each ear, I had seen myself as someone men might pay for sex. For one night, I'd be someone I didn't know and never expected to see again. A sort of Prostitute Cinderella.
Waiting for the elevator and nearly ten minutes late, I just felt like a girl whose shoes pinched. Red stilettos. They hurt like hell. My stomach was doing flips. If I hadn't had a coat on over the hooker dress, I don't think I could have left the building.
The limousine was there, just as the service had said it would be. “The Doctor,” as this client was known, had requested the limo, and we were to pick him up at the Drake Hotel. I had never felt more self-conscious in my life, than I did getting into that stretch limousine. A Cadillac Deville, about a block long; inside, it wasn't as much a car as it was a bachelor pad, all leather and glitz. Very Hugh Hefner. There were little fibre lights that made the interior glitter like a nighttime sky. There was a bar with crystal decanters. There was - omigod - a mirrored ceiling.
The chauffeur wore a little cap with his uniform and avoided eye contact. I glared at him when he held the door for me.
I am not a call girl, buddy. I'm not even an escort. I'm an unemployed museum curator whose shoes hurt.
Fifteen hundred dollars…Fifteen hundred dollars.
I chanted my mantra until we arrived at the Drake. Then my mind went blank. I had never been more nervous. Nervous and scared and excited.
There was a knot of people beneath the portico, and one of them was going to pay me to let him fuck me. Or something...Oh Jesus, I remembered Leslie saying he might “have particular tastes.” I tried to think what those might be, but I couldn't think at all. A shadowy figure had emerged from the crowd beneath the portico, and our chauffer was opening the door opposite mine.
Wow. Shoulders.
He was big and powerful and dressed all in black. As he ducked his head to get in the limo, our eyes met and I quivered.
For Leslie's sake, he needed to think I was a professional escort. I definitely should not have quivered.
~ ~ ~
My name is Jill. I'm a 29-year-old art history major from Kansas. This is the story of how an ordinary woman became a high-priced call girl, met the Doctor, and changed her life. What happened was inevitable, from the moment he joined me in the limousine.
“Are you crazy? You look like a hooker!”
Leslie had never used that word. This was serious. It was too late to change clothes.
I was already screwed and I hadn't even met the client.
Leslie had talked me into taking her place, just this one time. I would never have agreed if I hadn't lost my job, not even to save hers. You see, Leslie was on probation with the service. She'd canceled twice that year, and a third no-show would get her fired. Her boyfriend had made weekend plans for the two of them, and he'd given Leslie an ultimatum. She could cancel tonight's appointment and be with him, or she'd lose him forever.
She was in a tough spot. I'd like to say that's why I finally agreed to take her place, but it was the $1500.
$1500 for one night with one man. Not just any man, but an important client of Chicago's most exclusive escort service. Leslie had never met him and if the client had been given a description of her - or if he had requested a “type” - she and I were just close enough in appearance that I could be a match: petite, with dark hair worn shoulder length.
Everything I'd been taught, every value I'd held onto, was opposed to the idea of taking money for sex. I had only had two lovers, both long-term, and I'd been appalled when I first learned what Leslie did for a living. But in the year since we'd been sharing the apartment, her life had begun to seem so much easier than mine. More glamorous, too. I was an assistant museum curator and earned enough to pay my half of our rent with a little left over. I rarely had time for a social life, which is why man #2 had left the picture months ago. Leslie ate at the best restaurants, attended business retreats on the arms of Fortune 500 CEOs, slept until noon and had an incredible wardrobe…
…and made $1500 for one night with one man.
By the time I was dressed and ready to go, I was almost looking forward to my “appointment.” Until Leslie saw what I was wearing.
“What do you mean, I look like a hooker! You said to wear something of yours. Something sexy.”
I was wearing a red dress in a stretchy fabric that fit me like paint. I have to admit, it was the sexiest thing in Leslie's closet and the one dress most unlike my own clothes. I had been possessed by a slut-demon.
“I know, sweetie, but I would never wear that for a client I didn't already know. You always start with something slightly conservative, just in case. He might want to take you to dinner at a nice place…Oh hell, it'll be worse if you're late. Just go.”
Dammit, now I was so nervous I felt dizzy. I had liked myself in this dress. Standing in front of Leslie's full-length mirror, my hair and makeup perfect, a glimmer of silver at each ear, I had seen myself as someone men might pay for sex. For one night, I'd be someone I didn't know and never expected to see again. A sort of Prostitute Cinderella.
Waiting for the elevator and nearly ten minutes late, I just felt like a girl whose shoes pinched. Red stilettos. They hurt like hell. My stomach was doing flips. If I hadn't had a coat on over the hooker dress, I don't think I could have left the building.
The limousine was there, just as the service had said it would be. “The Doctor,” as this client was known, had requested the limo, and we were to pick him up at the Drake Hotel. I had never felt more self-conscious in my life, than I did getting into that stretch limousine. A Cadillac Deville, about a block long; inside, it wasn't as much a car as it was a bachelor pad, all leather and glitz. Very Hugh Hefner. There were little fibre lights that made the interior glitter like a nighttime sky. There was a bar with crystal decanters. There was - omigod - a mirrored ceiling.
The chauffeur wore a little cap with his uniform and avoided eye contact. I glared at him when he held the door for me.
I am not a call girl, buddy. I'm not even an escort. I'm an unemployed museum curator whose shoes hurt.
Fifteen hundred dollars…Fifteen hundred dollars.
I chanted my mantra until we arrived at the Drake. Then my mind went blank. I had never been more nervous. Nervous and scared and excited.
There was a knot of people beneath the portico, and one of them was going to pay me to let him fuck me. Or something...Oh Jesus, I remembered Leslie saying he might “have particular tastes.” I tried to think what those might be, but I couldn't think at all. A shadowy figure had emerged from the crowd beneath the portico, and our chauffer was opening the door opposite mine.
Wow. Shoulders.
He was big and powerful and dressed all in black. As he ducked his head to get in the limo, our eyes met and I quivered.
For Leslie's sake, he needed to think I was a professional escort. I definitely should not have quivered.
~ ~ ~
My name is Jill. I'm a 29-year-old art history major from Kansas. This is the story of how an ordinary woman became a high-priced call girl, met the Doctor, and changed her life. What happened was inevitable, from the moment he joined me in the limousine.
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