Losing ItChapter 3
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Helen stared at the computer screen in disbelief at what
Ruth had just
proposed.
>Hels, I think I found the answer to our cash problems...look at this:
>
>http://www.jeopardy-show.com/jointheaudience
Jeopardy!? Helen shook her head.? She enjoyed the show, and so did other
viewers...millions, tens of millions of other viewers.? But for Ruth to
actually want to take the money and sit in the live audience...what was she
thinking?
The phone rang, interupting her contemplation of Ruth's silliness.?
"Helen! It's Babs, how's things?"
Helen laughed: Barbara was eternally cheerful and very funny, but was a level
head in any argument, and Babs could do a far better job of shooting down
Ruth's
proposal than Helen would.
"Same as usual over here...by the way, have you seen Ruth's mail?"
"Sure, sounds like a good idea, huh??
You're as poor as a church mouse, as are
both me and my parents, and even if we all got a job tomorrow we'll never have
enough saved by the time we have to go."
Helen breathed out in a low whistle, stung as always by Babs unthinking
reminder that Helen was an orphan. "Babs...you know what can happen on
that
show...don't you?" Helen had just caught up on last nights show from the
website, and more than one image was still strong in her mind.
"Yes, babe, I know, but you know how many people are in that
audience...The
chance of any of us getting picked is pretty low.? And you know they stopped
doing the pretty girls since less of them were showing up to be in the
audience."
Laughing despite herself, well, mathematically we're pretty safe, I
suppose, she thought.? Still, the thought
of the spotlight shining down on her
relentlessly did not appeal.? "What
about Ailsie?? I can't imagine her being
up
for it, can you?? It's not like she needs
the money anyway."
"She's here now, she thinks it's a great idea!? She says she'll split her
share with the rest of us for spending money."
Helen wondered if this was what rabbits felt like in the final few seconds
staring at the bright lights.? Not just
Babs, but Ailsie as well...the whole
gang.? She knew if they were all set on
it, she would go along too.
She read the webpage again.
????? The Jeopardy crew are filming in
Knox City all this week and next.
????? We're looking for live audience
members between 18 and 80, all fit,
????? healthy, who enjoy watching the
Jeopardy show.? As always, all members
????? of the Jeopardy audience will be
(extremely) well paid for their
????? troubles, except of course the lucky
few who get to star in the
????? show ;)
????? If you'd like to be part of the most
exciting television and web show
????? of all time, get yourself down to
City Hall by 6.00pm, Monday to
????? Saturday, this week or next.? Don't wear too much, as the studio lights
????? are warm, and girls, you don't need
any make-up, as all audience members
????? are made-up by our specialist team
for the cameras.? Please don't be
????? disappointed if you are asked to
come back later on in the week, as
????? membership of the Jeopardy audience
is extremely sought after!? Happy
????? viewing, from the Jeopardy
Team...we'll see you soon.
Helen shook her head again.? It seemed
incredibly sadistic that audience
members chosen to participate went unpaid.?
Of course, selling their story
subsequently often recompensed them, but still...
"Look, Babs, I just don't want to do it.?
Just the idea...it's freaking me out.
?I won't do it."
"Woah, Hels, chill for a minute...nothing's decided yet.? What?"?
Helen heard
Ailsie muttering.? "OK, that's an
idea.? Do you want to meet up at the
coffeehouse this afternoon?? I think
Ruth's free as well, she said she was
going to bunk off work today."
Helen reflected that if Ruth had worked all the hours she was marked down for
she would not have needed kooky ideas to finance their trip.? She nodded to
herself, quietly, thinking that she might have a better chance at persuading
them face to face.
--
Thanking the girl behind the counter, Ailsie walked over from the counter with
a
tray of tall coffee mugs, and handed them out with a professional waitress's
air
that came despite never having worked in her life.? Ailsie was a rich daddies
daughter, an only child but surprisingly well adjusted to having serious money
at her command. She made it clear early on in her friendships that she would
not
spend more with her friends than they would, something that frustrated some,
but
Helen, Ruth, and Barbara had long accepted it and had found it had made their
friendship stronger over the years. Ailsie wasn't the most attractive of the
group, but she had a poise and confidence that seemed to make her the most
interesting to men. Having dealt out the coffees like a hand of five card stud,
she flopped into a chair and looked at Helen.
"Well?"
"Well what?" asked Helen, knowing exactly what Ailsie meant.
"Are you coming?"
"No!? Look, the idea is just
crazy...I know none of us are likely to be chosen,
but if we were..."? Her voice
trailed off, as she thought of those images again.
Ruth looked at Ailsie, and Helen caught a glance between them that was fraught
with meaning.? What was going on?? She took a gulp of her coffee, suddenly
embarrassed at being the centre of attention.?
Helen was attractive, perhaps
the most attractive of the group, but painfully shy, and her shyness had not
been improved as a young girl when lifes lottery had awarded her at puberty an
unusually large pair of breasts.? She was
drawn to keeping out of the limelight
and disliked having to agree with her friends so strongly, particularly as she
knew her argument was not so strong.
Babs leaned over and took her arm as she sipped again at her coffee.?
"Hon, don't feel you have to...you know you don't have to come if you
don't
want to, don't you?"? Helen looked
at her silently, and put down her coffee
mug, which Ailsie seemed to be fascinated by.?
Ruth studied Helen's face
intently.
"Yes...I know...but if you all went in there, you know I'd have to
follow,
don't you?? And I really don't want to do
it, I really don't."? Helen
was
speaking softly, and Ruth realised her friend was almost on the verge of
tears.
She shot a glance at Ailsie, who was still studying Helen intently.
The group went quiet, all locked in their own thoughts.? No-one seemed quite
sure what to say next, and they sat each with their own thoughts,
occasionally
sipping coffee, Ruth looking at Ailsie with a worried face.
Helen stood up. ?Ailsie jerked with
surprise.
"I need to go for a walk, I think, it's so warm in here...are you guys
coming?"
"Let me finish my coffee," said Ailsie, holding up a half full
mug.? "I'm
enjoying this."
"I'm not," sid Helen, "This is the worst coffee I've ever had
here."? She took
another sip, though, not wanting to walk away from her friends.
Ailsie said nothing, but Helen noticed that look flashing again between her
and
Ruth.? Babs took a deep swallow of hers
and wiped her lips.
"Don't know what you're on about, babe, this is fine.? You must be on drugs or
something."
A suspicion flashed across Helen's mind, and she caught Ailsie wincing at
Barbara's joke. She took another sip and felt the kernel of suspicion
harden
and grow in her mind.? Her mind played
images to her, webcasts,
spotlit faces, the chairs and the big stage with the encircling audience
and
the fleeting stagecrew who seemed to lack no expertise called of them.? She
didn't even hear the mug smashing on the floor as she stumbled towards
the
door, the girls boiling off the chairs and hounding her across the floor.? She
heard fragments of frantic dialogue:
"How much...should be OK...maybe fifteen minutes...oh
God...Ailsie!..."
The door swung open unheeded and the girls flowed out the street, panicking
as
they saw a patrol car, with a cop standing looking across the road
speaking
into a cellphone, his partner munching on something in the drivers seat.
Ailsie headed Barbara off from them, and Barbara and Ruth laughed and
chattered
gaily as if they had just been struck by the ancient Britney Spears
record
that spilled out of the cafe next door to the coffeehouse.? They got halfway
down the street when Helen, who had seemed not to realise that her friends
were
still with her turned suddenly to Ailsie and said bitterly,
"I would have gone with you, didn't you know that?"? Ailsie felt tears sting her
cheeks as she caught her friend who was swaying.? It had been Ruth's idea, and
Ailsie had known where to find something that would produce the right effect.
She hadn't been prepared to be caught before the drug took hold, though.
?
She held her friend tightly, holding her steady as Ruth and Barbara
watched
anxiously.? Barbara had not been happy
with the idea, but had only found out
when the practicalities had already been dealt with.? Turning away, she saw the
patrol car cruising slowly down the street, the driver catching her eye as
he
slowly looked her up and down, his attention caught more by the length
(or
perhaps lack of length) of Barbara's skirt and her legs than by any
suspicions
about the scene.
Helen gave a sniff and stood up a little.
"Hey, I'm sorry, I over-reacted a bit there...what was that anyway?"
she asked,
sounding a little tipsy.
Ailsie couldn't look at her as she explained the nature of the drug she
had
slipped into Helen's coffee.? Helen
rubbed her eyes a little and giggled like a
schoolgirl as Ailsie told her how she would feel a little light headed for
a
while, but it would soon fade.? She would
still remain receptive to suggestion
for a while after that, though.
"Cool!" laughed Helen giddily.?
She looked around.? The car had
come to rest a
little further up the street, and the driver was still looking at the
four
girls.? An idea flashed into Helen's
head.? Before her friends could stop
her,
she strode off towards the car.?
"Oh shit," spat Ailsie as she saw Helen bearing down on the driver,
whose eyes
were getting wider by the minute.?
"Should we go over?"
No-one replied, as Helen bent down to the drivers door and said something.? The
driver turned and looked at his partner and back at Helen and said something
to
her.? Taking a pen, she wrote something
on the driver's hand, then looked
briefly at the group before saying something to the passenger, and
nodding.? She
smiled at the driver then blew him a kiss, looking over her shoulder once
or
twice as she sauntered back towards her friends who were trying to control
their
staring at Helen's new-found breezy confidence.
"Girls..." said Helen, "I have...a cop's telephone
number!"? She held out her
hand as Ruth let out a low whistle.?
"I wonder if he'll spot me in the
audience?"? Helen paused.? "Are we going or are you guys just going
to look at
me all evening?"
Ailsie shook her head as they all walked down the street together, Helen
leading the way and letting out the occasional whistle whenever she saw a
guy
that took her fancy, and on one occasion a girl too.? It wasn't far to City
Hall, and they arrived early, but there was still a large queue gathered on
the
front steps.? A camera, escorted by a
boom mike and some sort of director,
cruised up and down the line, pausing for some time on the friends as
they
arrived at the end of the slow moving queue.
--
"Sarah!" called Helen to a solitary girl a few places ahead of
them.? The girl
turned and looked, and waved back, then?
skipped out of her place to where
Helen stood at the head of the group.?
"You too, girl?"
Known far and wide as a girl who would try anything once, Sarah had first
shot
to her high school's attention by (reputedly) being the first of her year
to
lose her virginity.? Although that was
never proved for sure, there was no
doubt about her being caught performing fellatio on a math teacher some
years
later.? Rumours circulated about her
interests, sexual and otherwise, and
tongues had wagged when she was seen about town wearing a top that
proclaimed
her need of a good spanking.? Certainly,
there were no shortage of suitors, and
there were many boys who had been heard to observe that they wouldn't
mind
giving Sarah's attractive bottom a god warming, and much else as well.
"Sure...this is going to be so cool!"?
Barbara noticed with amusement that
today's top read 'need2btamed'.?
"I've been waiting for this ever since I heard
Jeopardy was coming to Knox City!? Do you
think I look alright?"
Ailsie blanched.
"Do you actually want to be chosen, Sarah?" she asked.
"Well...I know if I am I won't enjoy it at all, but I've watched it so
much
recently, it makes me really imagine being part of it, and I think about
it
so much and now I have a chance, I just know I wouldn't forgive myself if I
let
the chance go."
"I so know what you mean, Sarah...I was scared stiff about coming, but
these
guys are so cool...they made me want to come!" said Helen
breathlessly.? The
line shuffled forward and the camera went by, pausing for a moment on
Helen's
face, which was now shining with excitement.?
"And it'll be so cool to see it
live and in person, it must make it so much more real."
They had reached the door, and inside each girl was handed a single slip
of
paper.
"Hi girls, thanks for coming!? These
are the disclaimers, which you can read
while the queue moves forward.? You don't
have to sign them just yet, in fact
you can wait right up till you take your seats if you want."? The speaker was
young, male, and more than a little handsome.?
Helen spoke to him.
"Do you have a pen?"
"Sure, miss, here you are.? But you
don't need to -"? Helen placed the
paper
against his chest and looked into his eyes as she signed the paper in a
slow,
lazy series of loops.? She handed the
paper back to him and walked on, as he
stared in disbelief.
The queue was moving a little more quickly now, a gentle shuffle forwards
and
much bumping as people tried to decode legal formalisms and recall long
forgotten Latin phrases.? Ailsie managed
to interpret the first paragraph, and
feeling that it was mostly in her favour, gave up on the rest.? Most people,
she noted, were doing the same.? They
came to a series of channels, where the
qeue split into several files.? A large
sign directed that if you wished to sit
with anyone, you should go throught the same channel.? The girls headed for the
one at the left which seemed to be moving a little more quickly,
following
Sarah, who by unspoken agreement seemed to have become part of the group.
"Are you all together?" asked an attendant.? They all nodded and agreed in a
welter of voices which varied in confidence and happiness.? Barbara was looking
decidedly ill, and Ruth was sweating, feeling her armpits pinch as the
antiperspirant fought back.? The
attendant opened the gate of the channel and
guided them all in together.? Beyond the
gate, there were a series of desks,
with young, relaxed looking people at each one.?
The young woman at the first
desk smiled.
"Who's first?" she asked, her voice seeming to suggest that this was
nothing
more than a routine health test, perhaps a height and weight measurement.
Sarah and Helen started forward together.?
After a little politeness was
exchanged, Helen sat down, and quickly answered a barrage of
administritive
questions, firing off her date of birth, her social security number, her
last
three addresses, her income, her preferred payment method, her health.? "Have
you taken any drugs or alcohol today?" asked the woman, in a final tone
of
voice. Helen just laughed and shook her head slightly as Ailsie turned pink.
"OK, Helen, just head on up to the next desk where we'll just do a
short
interview like we do for all audience members."
"Who's next?"? she asked
sweetly as Helen sat and flicked her hair out of her
eyes.? Ailsie set her teeth and beat
Sarah to the seat.? It was too late
to
dissuade Helen without exposing what they had done, and although Ailsie
was
feeling more and more uncomfortable by the minute, she knew she couldn't
abandon her friend.? She answered the
questions in a blur, spending most of her
time watching Helen tell the interviewer how she knew the odds of being
picked
were so low, and she wasn't at all worried about it.? The camera desk was a
little quicker than the first, and so when Ailsie finished and got up to
let
Sarah finally take her place she saw Helen sitting at a desk set a little
further away than the others were, where she couldn't quite hear what was
being
discussed.? The camera operator, or
interviewer, stood up to shake her hand,
and invited her to sit down.
"So," he said, "the big question...why do you want to be in the
Jeopardy
audience?"?
Ailsie shrank under the camera's cold and unblinking gaze.? "I...ah...well, my
friends and, uh, me, well, we all go to uni next years and we're all
going
different places, uh, and like we all want to have a big blowout
somewhere
special, but, uh, we mostly haven't got jobs and most of us are strapped
for
cash, so, um, we like thought we'd come down here, yeah?"? She swallowed and
tried to control her breathing which was shallow and fast.? The interviewer
smiled.?
"Yeah, that's not unusual.? Probably
more than half of our audience just need,
or want, money.? You could sure have a
good blowout on what you'll earn today,
huh?"
A weak smile.? "I guess".
"You seem pretty nervous, Ailsie...how do you think you'd feel if you
were
chosen?
Her eyes closed, trying to screw them shut, trying to avoid the camera's
unfeeling probing.? "Shit.? I...uh...I can't even think about it".
"How will you feel when that spotlight is switched on, Ailsie?"
Ailsie felt a flash of anger at this lazy but tormenting line of questioning.
"I hope the bloody bulb burns out!" she spat at him.
The young man laughed.? "Well, it
has happened before." ?He reached
out and
touched a button.? "That's it,
Ailsie, thank you.? If I'm any judge,
that
segment will probably get shown tonight." He looked pleased at the
prospect, as
Ailsie got up and walked with fists clenched to the last desk, where a
young
and efficient looking woman sat with several pieces of paper to hand.
The girls shuffled through the line, some confidant, some not.? Barbara was the
last to be processed, and after speaking to the young woman, who spelt
out
clearly the terms and conditions of joining the Jeopardy audience, and
exactly
what the chances of her and her friends being chosen were ("Don't worry,
there
are hundreds in every audience"), handed over her signed disclaimer and
received
a small piece of paper telling her where she would sit, and walked through
the
door into the makeup room, where she found Helen, Sarah, and Ailsie fully
made
up and Ruth just going through the process.?
In what seemed like seconds, the
woman smiled at Ruth and turned to Barbara and said briskly,
"Just lift your chin, dear."?
She whisked a foundation on, and speedily touched
it up around the eyes with a sort of mascara.?
She pulled three lipsticks out
of her bag, and held them up.?
"Pink, red, or gold, dear?"?
Barbara stared,
rather shellshocked by the processing and the speed at which the makeup
artist
worked.? "Red then, dear?? Very popular, and it suits you."? Most of the
sentence was spent in applying the lipstick, after which the group was
directed
towards a stage door.? Ruth looked at
Barbara, both feeling strangely naked and
vulnerable.? Barbara smiled and they
turned and followed the rest of the group
into the main room of the City Hall.? All
of them had been in here before, but
they gasped to see the Jeopardy stage set out.?
It was huge, far larger than it
appeared on camera.? Ants seemed to
wander about the stage, pulling about
technical equipment and cameras.? Sarah
was the first to spot Anna, the host of
the show, fiddling with her outfit, which seemed to consist mostly of
straps,
heels, and shine. ?A stage hand directed
them to their seats.? Already the
place was three quarters full, and as Sarah sat down at the end of their row
of
seats, the audience was streaming in from doors placed all around the studio.
By the time Barbara had sat down next to Ruth at the far end, the stream
had
already slowed and most of the audience had arrived, if not quite settled.
Ailsie studied the rest of the audience and tried to figure out how many
people
there were, reflecting that the audience did not seem so numerous despite
the
studio's size.?
Helen sat in the middle of the group of five, Ailsie in between Sarah and
Helen.? Helen could feel the high
starting to wear off, but she knew she
wouldn't leave now.? The last of the
audience took their seats, shepherded
quickly by mercury stage hands who dissolved as soon as the last member
was
seated. Anna strode out onto the stage. She had presented the show since
its
start some years ago, and she had fitted the role perfectly. As Jeopardy
had
become more popular and more serious, her increasing maturity over the
years
seemed to enhance her role. Now, perhaps in her forties but still
beautifully
shaped and with a magnificent presence, she strode over to the camera at
the
other end of the stage.?
"Welcome...to Jeopardy."
The words which sounded welcoming at home sounded like a whipcrack inside
the
heads of the audience.? It was coolly
speculative, able to command anything it
wished.?
"Welcome also to our audience.?
Welcome, for example, to Sarah:?
Sarah is one
of the special few who come to our audience desiring to be chosen.? Here she is
just now."
A screen came on, showing Sarah smiling into the camera, explaining how
when
she was younger she had sneaked into the kitchen to watch Jeopardy, how she
had
secretly videotaped shows and how she had always imagined that moment when
you
finally realised...it was you.
"Best of luck, Sarah, let's hope all your wishes come true!"?
Sarah was not feeling so comfortable by now, and she suddenly reached out
and
grasped Ailsie's hand, feeling it clammy and cold in hers.? Ailsie looked at
her in surprise.
Anna showed a few more clips of audience members, including a young man
who
appeared utterly terrified at the prospect of being chosen.? There were a few
quiet giggles as he yelped at the camera.
Anna transferred her eyes from the screen to meet the eye of the camera,
and
said,
"Well, viewers, I'm sure you're all familiar with what happens next.
Audience...I know you are."? She
smiled, and her teeth were briefly revealed.
"Please, ladies and gentlemen, put your wrists in the curve you'll find on
the
arms of your chair."
Ailsie didn't want to drop her hand from Sarah, and Helen had definitely
worn
off the effects of the drug.? She knew
she could still get up and run, but
suddenly felt embarrassed at the idea of doing so.? The words 'crowd
psychology' flashed through her mind and she looked at Ruth as she placed
her
hands in the little rest.? Barbara was
the last of the group to do it, and she
came very close to running.? But the same
force held her and trembling, she
laid her wrists alongside Ruth's and shut her eyes.?
"Control room, restrain the audience, please."? Anna turned, surveying the
crowd.? This moment was the highest
watched of the whole show: even many people
who didn't enjoy the show watched this moment out of fascination and
perhaps
some sympathetic fear.
Barbara heard a slight hum and tensed as she felt a metal restraint
curling
out of a hole in the arm of the chair around her wrist, and realised that
she
was in for the ride.? The tension inside
her melted; she was no longer in
control of her own destiny and that knowledge allowed her to relax.? At the
other end of the line, Sarah, too, had restored some poise, remembering a
scene
from only a week or two ago where only one audience member, a middle aged
woman,
had been chosen, and had spent the whole show under Anna's very close and
personal attention.?
Anna turned to the camera
"The audience has been restrained."?
She smiled.? "Control room,
the
spotlights, please."
Silently, each audience member was bathed in an individual spotlight.? Ruth bit
her lip, testing the restraint and looking at Helen, who had turned pale
and
was trembling violently.? The stage
couldn't be seen, although the other
spotlights and their transfixed victims could.
"Control room...show me who you have chosen..."?
Sarah realised something she had never realised before: the victims were
chosen, not randomly, but deliberately.?
A cold finger of fear brushed her
heart again.? A spotlight opposite
blinked out.? A few seconds passed,
then
another.? Sarah remembered that sometimes
the spots were taken away quickly,
occasionally instantly. Tonight, Ruth watched as a spot light winked out
once
perhaps every ten seconds.? The interval
seemed to vary.? Sometimes two would
go
in a few seconds and then there would be a long wait for the next one.? None of
the group had lost their spotlight yet, and perhaps a third of the audience
was
safe now. A choked sob of relief from behind Ailsie said that someone had
been
reprieved, and Sarah looked around realising that several groups of seat
next
to each other were still highlighted.?
Without warning, a row of six was
switched off together.? Although they
were a fair distance from Barbara, she
heard the gasp from the saved group, all men from the sound of it.? Slightly
more men than women were chosen from the Jeopardy audience, as a rule,
because
the audience showed a slight bias towards men.?
Sarah's light winked out and she cried out.?
Helen couldn't make out whether it
was gratitude or envy; perhaps it was both, she thought.? More lights went out,
and another row blinked off, one after the other in succession.? The rate now
slowed down, perhaps fifteen seconds before another light freed another
soul
into the blackness.? Their's was the only
group left.? A light in front of
Ruth
blinked out as she realised with a grim certainty that they had all been
chosen; the lights were snuffed remorselessly, hunting down their prey.
Barbara realised every light on her side was out.? She knew too, and watched
the remained lights disappear with a soul crushing certainty.? Helen was
sobbing quietly, and never saw the last light go out, brilliantly isolating
the
group of four friends who had been so confident about the odds.? A cameraman
worked his way into the row, and a quick viewer might have caught a glimpse
of
Sarah's stricken face before the lens focused on Ailsie, who looked nauseous.
Unable to look at the camera, she stared sightlessly as she weaved in her
cold
restraints.? The camera panned over and
lingered on Helen sobbing bitterly,
realising finally what she had done.? She
tried to turn her wrist so she could
scrape the phone number from her hand, humiliated, and not able even to
do
that.? Ruth had had slightly longer and
when the camera turned to her she spat
hard at the lens and stared viciously. The cameraman laughed and pulled out
a
cloth and carefully wiped his lens clean before standing on Ruths foot,
putting his full weight on it as he focused on Barbara for a long shot,
listless, perhaps even unseeing, though her eyes were open.
The studio lights came back up, though the spotlights were not switched
off,
and a weight seemed to lift from the audiences shoulders.? Sarah felt the
restraints curling back, but she heard a click from her left and as she
turned
she saw Ailsie's chair move forward an inch: it was obviously on wheels and
the
lock had been released.? She turned to
Ailsie and grabbed her hand as Anna
began speaking again.
"Ladies and gentlemen, viewers at home, may I present, Ruth, Barbara,
Ailsie,
and especially Helen!"
The audience thundered, roaring out their joy at their escape.? Sarah sat
silently, slumped and in tears as she held Ailsie's hand, still strapped
by
that sinuous restraint.
Anna turned to the camera as the applause finally died down.
"We'll be back after this commercial break.? Don't go away."
Helen stared at the computer screen in disbelief at what
Ruth had just
proposed.
>Hels, I think I found the answer to our cash problems...look at this:
>
>http://www.jeopardy-show.com/jointheaudience
Jeopardy!? Helen shook her head.? She enjoyed the show, and so did other
viewers...millions, tens of millions of other viewers.? But for Ruth to
actually want to take the money and sit in the live audience...what was she
thinking?
The phone rang, interupting her contemplation of Ruth's silliness.?
"Helen! It's Babs, how's things?"
Helen laughed: Barbara was eternally cheerful and very funny, but was a level
head in any argument, and Babs could do a far better job of shooting down
Ruth's
proposal than Helen would.
"Same as usual over here...by the way, have you seen Ruth's mail?"
"Sure, sounds like a good idea, huh??
You're as poor as a church mouse, as are
both me and my parents, and even if we all got a job tomorrow we'll never have
enough saved by the time we have to go."
Helen breathed out in a low whistle, stung as always by Babs unthinking
reminder that Helen was an orphan. "Babs...you know what can happen on
that
show...don't you?" Helen had just caught up on last nights show from the
website, and more than one image was still strong in her mind.
"Yes, babe, I know, but you know how many people are in that
audience...The
chance of any of us getting picked is pretty low.? And you know they stopped
doing the pretty girls since less of them were showing up to be in the
audience."
Laughing despite herself, well, mathematically we're pretty safe, I
suppose, she thought.? Still, the thought
of the spotlight shining down on her
relentlessly did not appeal.? "What
about Ailsie?? I can't imagine her being
up
for it, can you?? It's not like she needs
the money anyway."
"She's here now, she thinks it's a great idea!? She says she'll split her
share with the rest of us for spending money."
Helen wondered if this was what rabbits felt like in the final few seconds
staring at the bright lights.? Not just
Babs, but Ailsie as well...the whole
gang.? She knew if they were all set on
it, she would go along too.
She read the webpage again.
????? The Jeopardy crew are filming in
Knox City all this week and next.
????? We're looking for live audience
members between 18 and 80, all fit,
????? healthy, who enjoy watching the
Jeopardy show.? As always, all members
????? of the Jeopardy audience will be
(extremely) well paid for their
????? troubles, except of course the lucky
few who get to star in the
????? show ;)
????? If you'd like to be part of the most
exciting television and web show
????? of all time, get yourself down to
City Hall by 6.00pm, Monday to
????? Saturday, this week or next.? Don't wear too much, as the studio lights
????? are warm, and girls, you don't need
any make-up, as all audience members
????? are made-up by our specialist team
for the cameras.? Please don't be
????? disappointed if you are asked to
come back later on in the week, as
????? membership of the Jeopardy audience
is extremely sought after!? Happy
????? viewing, from the Jeopardy
Team...we'll see you soon.
Helen shook her head again.? It seemed
incredibly sadistic that audience
members chosen to participate went unpaid.?
Of course, selling their story
subsequently often recompensed them, but still...
"Look, Babs, I just don't want to do it.?
Just the idea...it's freaking me out.
?I won't do it."
"Woah, Hels, chill for a minute...nothing's decided yet.? What?"?
Helen heard
Ailsie muttering.? "OK, that's an
idea.? Do you want to meet up at the
coffeehouse this afternoon?? I think
Ruth's free as well, she said she was
going to bunk off work today."
Helen reflected that if Ruth had worked all the hours she was marked down for
she would not have needed kooky ideas to finance their trip.? She nodded to
herself, quietly, thinking that she might have a better chance at persuading
them face to face.
--
Thanking the girl behind the counter, Ailsie walked over from the counter with
a
tray of tall coffee mugs, and handed them out with a professional waitress's
air
that came despite never having worked in her life.? Ailsie was a rich daddies
daughter, an only child but surprisingly well adjusted to having serious money
at her command. She made it clear early on in her friendships that she would
not
spend more with her friends than they would, something that frustrated some,
but
Helen, Ruth, and Barbara had long accepted it and had found it had made their
friendship stronger over the years. Ailsie wasn't the most attractive of the
group, but she had a poise and confidence that seemed to make her the most
interesting to men. Having dealt out the coffees like a hand of five card stud,
she flopped into a chair and looked at Helen.
"Well?"
"Well what?" asked Helen, knowing exactly what Ailsie meant.
"Are you coming?"
"No!? Look, the idea is just
crazy...I know none of us are likely to be chosen,
but if we were..."? Her voice
trailed off, as she thought of those images again.
Ruth looked at Ailsie, and Helen caught a glance between them that was fraught
with meaning.? What was going on?? She took a gulp of her coffee, suddenly
embarrassed at being the centre of attention.?
Helen was attractive, perhaps
the most attractive of the group, but painfully shy, and her shyness had not
been improved as a young girl when lifes lottery had awarded her at puberty an
unusually large pair of breasts.? She was
drawn to keeping out of the limelight
and disliked having to agree with her friends so strongly, particularly as she
knew her argument was not so strong.
Babs leaned over and took her arm as she sipped again at her coffee.?
"Hon, don't feel you have to...you know you don't have to come if you
don't
want to, don't you?"? Helen looked
at her silently, and put down her coffee
mug, which Ailsie seemed to be fascinated by.?
Ruth studied Helen's face
intently.
"Yes...I know...but if you all went in there, you know I'd have to
follow,
don't you?? And I really don't want to do
it, I really don't."? Helen
was
speaking softly, and Ruth realised her friend was almost on the verge of
tears.
She shot a glance at Ailsie, who was still studying Helen intently.
The group went quiet, all locked in their own thoughts.? No-one seemed quite
sure what to say next, and they sat each with their own thoughts,
occasionally
sipping coffee, Ruth looking at Ailsie with a worried face.
Helen stood up. ?Ailsie jerked with
surprise.
"I need to go for a walk, I think, it's so warm in here...are you guys
coming?"
"Let me finish my coffee," said Ailsie, holding up a half full
mug.? "I'm
enjoying this."
"I'm not," sid Helen, "This is the worst coffee I've ever had
here."? She took
another sip, though, not wanting to walk away from her friends.
Ailsie said nothing, but Helen noticed that look flashing again between her
and
Ruth.? Babs took a deep swallow of hers
and wiped her lips.
"Don't know what you're on about, babe, this is fine.? You must be on drugs or
something."
A suspicion flashed across Helen's mind, and she caught Ailsie wincing at
Barbara's joke. She took another sip and felt the kernel of suspicion
harden
and grow in her mind.? Her mind played
images to her, webcasts,
spotlit faces, the chairs and the big stage with the encircling audience
and
the fleeting stagecrew who seemed to lack no expertise called of them.? She
didn't even hear the mug smashing on the floor as she stumbled towards
the
door, the girls boiling off the chairs and hounding her across the floor.? She
heard fragments of frantic dialogue:
"How much...should be OK...maybe fifteen minutes...oh
God...Ailsie!..."
The door swung open unheeded and the girls flowed out the street, panicking
as
they saw a patrol car, with a cop standing looking across the road
speaking
into a cellphone, his partner munching on something in the drivers seat.
Ailsie headed Barbara off from them, and Barbara and Ruth laughed and
chattered
gaily as if they had just been struck by the ancient Britney Spears
record
that spilled out of the cafe next door to the coffeehouse.? They got halfway
down the street when Helen, who had seemed not to realise that her friends
were
still with her turned suddenly to Ailsie and said bitterly,
"I would have gone with you, didn't you know that?"? Ailsie felt tears sting her
cheeks as she caught her friend who was swaying.? It had been Ruth's idea, and
Ailsie had known where to find something that would produce the right effect.
She hadn't been prepared to be caught before the drug took hold, though.
?
She held her friend tightly, holding her steady as Ruth and Barbara
watched
anxiously.? Barbara had not been happy
with the idea, but had only found out
when the practicalities had already been dealt with.? Turning away, she saw the
patrol car cruising slowly down the street, the driver catching her eye as
he
slowly looked her up and down, his attention caught more by the length
(or
perhaps lack of length) of Barbara's skirt and her legs than by any
suspicions
about the scene.
Helen gave a sniff and stood up a little.
"Hey, I'm sorry, I over-reacted a bit there...what was that anyway?"
she asked,
sounding a little tipsy.
Ailsie couldn't look at her as she explained the nature of the drug she
had
slipped into Helen's coffee.? Helen
rubbed her eyes a little and giggled like a
schoolgirl as Ailsie told her how she would feel a little light headed for
a
while, but it would soon fade.? She would
still remain receptive to suggestion
for a while after that, though.
"Cool!" laughed Helen giddily.?
She looked around.? The car had
come to rest a
little further up the street, and the driver was still looking at the
four
girls.? An idea flashed into Helen's
head.? Before her friends could stop
her,
she strode off towards the car.?
"Oh shit," spat Ailsie as she saw Helen bearing down on the driver,
whose eyes
were getting wider by the minute.?
"Should we go over?"
No-one replied, as Helen bent down to the drivers door and said something.? The
driver turned and looked at his partner and back at Helen and said something
to
her.? Taking a pen, she wrote something
on the driver's hand, then looked
briefly at the group before saying something to the passenger, and
nodding.? She
smiled at the driver then blew him a kiss, looking over her shoulder once
or
twice as she sauntered back towards her friends who were trying to control
their
staring at Helen's new-found breezy confidence.
"Girls..." said Helen, "I have...a cop's telephone
number!"? She held out her
hand as Ruth let out a low whistle.?
"I wonder if he'll spot me in the
audience?"? Helen paused.? "Are we going or are you guys just going
to look at
me all evening?"
Ailsie shook her head as they all walked down the street together, Helen
leading the way and letting out the occasional whistle whenever she saw a
guy
that took her fancy, and on one occasion a girl too.? It wasn't far to City
Hall, and they arrived early, but there was still a large queue gathered on
the
front steps.? A camera, escorted by a
boom mike and some sort of director,
cruised up and down the line, pausing for some time on the friends as
they
arrived at the end of the slow moving queue.
--
"Sarah!" called Helen to a solitary girl a few places ahead of
them.? The girl
turned and looked, and waved back, then?
skipped out of her place to where
Helen stood at the head of the group.?
"You too, girl?"
Known far and wide as a girl who would try anything once, Sarah had first
shot
to her high school's attention by (reputedly) being the first of her year
to
lose her virginity.? Although that was
never proved for sure, there was no
doubt about her being caught performing fellatio on a math teacher some
years
later.? Rumours circulated about her
interests, sexual and otherwise, and
tongues had wagged when she was seen about town wearing a top that
proclaimed
her need of a good spanking.? Certainly,
there were no shortage of suitors, and
there were many boys who had been heard to observe that they wouldn't
mind
giving Sarah's attractive bottom a god warming, and much else as well.
"Sure...this is going to be so cool!"?
Barbara noticed with amusement that
today's top read 'need2btamed'.?
"I've been waiting for this ever since I heard
Jeopardy was coming to Knox City!? Do you
think I look alright?"
Ailsie blanched.
"Do you actually want to be chosen, Sarah?" she asked.
"Well...I know if I am I won't enjoy it at all, but I've watched it so
much
recently, it makes me really imagine being part of it, and I think about
it
so much and now I have a chance, I just know I wouldn't forgive myself if I
let
the chance go."
"I so know what you mean, Sarah...I was scared stiff about coming, but
these
guys are so cool...they made me want to come!" said Helen
breathlessly.? The
line shuffled forward and the camera went by, pausing for a moment on
Helen's
face, which was now shining with excitement.?
"And it'll be so cool to see it
live and in person, it must make it so much more real."
They had reached the door, and inside each girl was handed a single slip
of
paper.
"Hi girls, thanks for coming!? These
are the disclaimers, which you can read
while the queue moves forward.? You don't
have to sign them just yet, in fact
you can wait right up till you take your seats if you want."? The speaker was
young, male, and more than a little handsome.?
Helen spoke to him.
"Do you have a pen?"
"Sure, miss, here you are.? But you
don't need to -"? Helen placed the
paper
against his chest and looked into his eyes as she signed the paper in a
slow,
lazy series of loops.? She handed the
paper back to him and walked on, as he
stared in disbelief.
The queue was moving a little more quickly now, a gentle shuffle forwards
and
much bumping as people tried to decode legal formalisms and recall long
forgotten Latin phrases.? Ailsie managed
to interpret the first paragraph, and
feeling that it was mostly in her favour, gave up on the rest.? Most people,
she noted, were doing the same.? They
came to a series of channels, where the
qeue split into several files.? A large
sign directed that if you wished to sit
with anyone, you should go throught the same channel.? The girls headed for the
one at the left which seemed to be moving a little more quickly,
following
Sarah, who by unspoken agreement seemed to have become part of the group.
"Are you all together?" asked an attendant.? They all nodded and agreed in a
welter of voices which varied in confidence and happiness.? Barbara was looking
decidedly ill, and Ruth was sweating, feeling her armpits pinch as the
antiperspirant fought back.? The
attendant opened the gate of the channel and
guided them all in together.? Beyond the
gate, there were a series of desks,
with young, relaxed looking people at each one.?
The young woman at the first
desk smiled.
"Who's first?" she asked, her voice seeming to suggest that this was
nothing
more than a routine health test, perhaps a height and weight measurement.
Sarah and Helen started forward together.?
After a little politeness was
exchanged, Helen sat down, and quickly answered a barrage of
administritive
questions, firing off her date of birth, her social security number, her
last
three addresses, her income, her preferred payment method, her health.? "Have
you taken any drugs or alcohol today?" asked the woman, in a final tone
of
voice. Helen just laughed and shook her head slightly as Ailsie turned pink.
"OK, Helen, just head on up to the next desk where we'll just do a
short
interview like we do for all audience members."
"Who's next?"? she asked
sweetly as Helen sat and flicked her hair out of her
eyes.? Ailsie set her teeth and beat
Sarah to the seat.? It was too late
to
dissuade Helen without exposing what they had done, and although Ailsie
was
feeling more and more uncomfortable by the minute, she knew she couldn't
abandon her friend.? She answered the
questions in a blur, spending most of her
time watching Helen tell the interviewer how she knew the odds of being
picked
were so low, and she wasn't at all worried about it.? The camera desk was a
little quicker than the first, and so when Ailsie finished and got up to
let
Sarah finally take her place she saw Helen sitting at a desk set a little
further away than the others were, where she couldn't quite hear what was
being
discussed.? The camera operator, or
interviewer, stood up to shake her hand,
and invited her to sit down.
"So," he said, "the big question...why do you want to be in the
Jeopardy
audience?"?
Ailsie shrank under the camera's cold and unblinking gaze.? "I...ah...well, my
friends and, uh, me, well, we all go to uni next years and we're all
going
different places, uh, and like we all want to have a big blowout
somewhere
special, but, uh, we mostly haven't got jobs and most of us are strapped
for
cash, so, um, we like thought we'd come down here, yeah?"? She swallowed and
tried to control her breathing which was shallow and fast.? The interviewer
smiled.?
"Yeah, that's not unusual.? Probably
more than half of our audience just need,
or want, money.? You could sure have a
good blowout on what you'll earn today,
huh?"
A weak smile.? "I guess".
"You seem pretty nervous, Ailsie...how do you think you'd feel if you
were
chosen?
Her eyes closed, trying to screw them shut, trying to avoid the camera's
unfeeling probing.? "Shit.? I...uh...I can't even think about it".
"How will you feel when that spotlight is switched on, Ailsie?"
Ailsie felt a flash of anger at this lazy but tormenting line of questioning.
"I hope the bloody bulb burns out!" she spat at him.
The young man laughed.? "Well, it
has happened before." ?He reached
out and
touched a button.? "That's it,
Ailsie, thank you.? If I'm any judge,
that
segment will probably get shown tonight." He looked pleased at the
prospect, as
Ailsie got up and walked with fists clenched to the last desk, where a
young
and efficient looking woman sat with several pieces of paper to hand.
The girls shuffled through the line, some confidant, some not.? Barbara was the
last to be processed, and after speaking to the young woman, who spelt
out
clearly the terms and conditions of joining the Jeopardy audience, and
exactly
what the chances of her and her friends being chosen were ("Don't worry,
there
are hundreds in every audience"), handed over her signed disclaimer and
received
a small piece of paper telling her where she would sit, and walked through
the
door into the makeup room, where she found Helen, Sarah, and Ailsie fully
made
up and Ruth just going through the process.?
In what seemed like seconds, the
woman smiled at Ruth and turned to Barbara and said briskly,
"Just lift your chin, dear."?
She whisked a foundation on, and speedily touched
it up around the eyes with a sort of mascara.?
She pulled three lipsticks out
of her bag, and held them up.?
"Pink, red, or gold, dear?"?
Barbara stared,
rather shellshocked by the processing and the speed at which the makeup
artist
worked.? "Red then, dear?? Very popular, and it suits you."? Most of the
sentence was spent in applying the lipstick, after which the group was
directed
towards a stage door.? Ruth looked at
Barbara, both feeling strangely naked and
vulnerable.? Barbara smiled and they
turned and followed the rest of the group
into the main room of the City Hall.? All
of them had been in here before, but
they gasped to see the Jeopardy stage set out.?
It was huge, far larger than it
appeared on camera.? Ants seemed to
wander about the stage, pulling about
technical equipment and cameras.? Sarah
was the first to spot Anna, the host of
the show, fiddling with her outfit, which seemed to consist mostly of
straps,
heels, and shine. ?A stage hand directed
them to their seats.? Already the
place was three quarters full, and as Sarah sat down at the end of their row
of
seats, the audience was streaming in from doors placed all around the studio.
By the time Barbara had sat down next to Ruth at the far end, the stream
had
already slowed and most of the audience had arrived, if not quite settled.
Ailsie studied the rest of the audience and tried to figure out how many
people
there were, reflecting that the audience did not seem so numerous despite
the
studio's size.?
Helen sat in the middle of the group of five, Ailsie in between Sarah and
Helen.? Helen could feel the high
starting to wear off, but she knew she
wouldn't leave now.? The last of the
audience took their seats, shepherded
quickly by mercury stage hands who dissolved as soon as the last member
was
seated. Anna strode out onto the stage. She had presented the show since
its
start some years ago, and she had fitted the role perfectly. As Jeopardy
had
become more popular and more serious, her increasing maturity over the
years
seemed to enhance her role. Now, perhaps in her forties but still
beautifully
shaped and with a magnificent presence, she strode over to the camera at
the
other end of the stage.?
"Welcome...to Jeopardy."
The words which sounded welcoming at home sounded like a whipcrack inside
the
heads of the audience.? It was coolly
speculative, able to command anything it
wished.?
"Welcome also to our audience.?
Welcome, for example, to Sarah:?
Sarah is one
of the special few who come to our audience desiring to be chosen.? Here she is
just now."
A screen came on, showing Sarah smiling into the camera, explaining how
when
she was younger she had sneaked into the kitchen to watch Jeopardy, how she
had
secretly videotaped shows and how she had always imagined that moment when
you
finally realised...it was you.
"Best of luck, Sarah, let's hope all your wishes come true!"?
Sarah was not feeling so comfortable by now, and she suddenly reached out
and
grasped Ailsie's hand, feeling it clammy and cold in hers.? Ailsie looked at
her in surprise.
Anna showed a few more clips of audience members, including a young man
who
appeared utterly terrified at the prospect of being chosen.? There were a few
quiet giggles as he yelped at the camera.
Anna transferred her eyes from the screen to meet the eye of the camera,
and
said,
"Well, viewers, I'm sure you're all familiar with what happens next.
Audience...I know you are."? She
smiled, and her teeth were briefly revealed.
"Please, ladies and gentlemen, put your wrists in the curve you'll find on
the
arms of your chair."
Ailsie didn't want to drop her hand from Sarah, and Helen had definitely
worn
off the effects of the drug.? She knew
she could still get up and run, but
suddenly felt embarrassed at the idea of doing so.? The words 'crowd
psychology' flashed through her mind and she looked at Ruth as she placed
her
hands in the little rest.? Barbara was
the last of the group to do it, and she
came very close to running.? But the same
force held her and trembling, she
laid her wrists alongside Ruth's and shut her eyes.?
"Control room, restrain the audience, please."? Anna turned, surveying the
crowd.? This moment was the highest
watched of the whole show: even many people
who didn't enjoy the show watched this moment out of fascination and
perhaps
some sympathetic fear.
Barbara heard a slight hum and tensed as she felt a metal restraint
curling
out of a hole in the arm of the chair around her wrist, and realised that
she
was in for the ride.? The tension inside
her melted; she was no longer in
control of her own destiny and that knowledge allowed her to relax.? At the
other end of the line, Sarah, too, had restored some poise, remembering a
scene
from only a week or two ago where only one audience member, a middle aged
woman,
had been chosen, and had spent the whole show under Anna's very close and
personal attention.?
Anna turned to the camera
"The audience has been restrained."?
She smiled.? "Control room,
the
spotlights, please."
Silently, each audience member was bathed in an individual spotlight.? Ruth bit
her lip, testing the restraint and looking at Helen, who had turned pale
and
was trembling violently.? The stage
couldn't be seen, although the other
spotlights and their transfixed victims could.
"Control room...show me who you have chosen..."?
Sarah realised something she had never realised before: the victims were
chosen, not randomly, but deliberately.?
A cold finger of fear brushed her
heart again.? A spotlight opposite
blinked out.? A few seconds passed,
then
another.? Sarah remembered that sometimes
the spots were taken away quickly,
occasionally instantly. Tonight, Ruth watched as a spot light winked out
once
perhaps every ten seconds.? The interval
seemed to vary.? Sometimes two would
go
in a few seconds and then there would be a long wait for the next one.? None of
the group had lost their spotlight yet, and perhaps a third of the audience
was
safe now. A choked sob of relief from behind Ailsie said that someone had
been
reprieved, and Sarah looked around realising that several groups of seat
next
to each other were still highlighted.?
Without warning, a row of six was
switched off together.? Although they
were a fair distance from Barbara, she
heard the gasp from the saved group, all men from the sound of it.? Slightly
more men than women were chosen from the Jeopardy audience, as a rule,
because
the audience showed a slight bias towards men.?
Sarah's light winked out and she cried out.?
Helen couldn't make out whether it
was gratitude or envy; perhaps it was both, she thought.? More lights went out,
and another row blinked off, one after the other in succession.? The rate now
slowed down, perhaps fifteen seconds before another light freed another
soul
into the blackness.? Their's was the only
group left.? A light in front of
Ruth
blinked out as she realised with a grim certainty that they had all been
chosen; the lights were snuffed remorselessly, hunting down their prey.
Barbara realised every light on her side was out.? She knew too, and watched
the remained lights disappear with a soul crushing certainty.? Helen was
sobbing quietly, and never saw the last light go out, brilliantly isolating
the
group of four friends who had been so confident about the odds.? A cameraman
worked his way into the row, and a quick viewer might have caught a glimpse
of
Sarah's stricken face before the lens focused on Ailsie, who looked nauseous.
Unable to look at the camera, she stared sightlessly as she weaved in her
cold
restraints.? The camera panned over and
lingered on Helen sobbing bitterly,
realising finally what she had done.? She
tried to turn her wrist so she could
scrape the phone number from her hand, humiliated, and not able even to
do
that.? Ruth had had slightly longer and
when the camera turned to her she spat
hard at the lens and stared viciously. The cameraman laughed and pulled out
a
cloth and carefully wiped his lens clean before standing on Ruths foot,
putting his full weight on it as he focused on Barbara for a long shot,
listless, perhaps even unseeing, though her eyes were open.
The studio lights came back up, though the spotlights were not switched
off,
and a weight seemed to lift from the audiences shoulders.? Sarah felt the
restraints curling back, but she heard a click from her left and as she
turned
she saw Ailsie's chair move forward an inch: it was obviously on wheels and
the
lock had been released.? She turned to
Ailsie and grabbed her hand as Anna
began speaking again.
"Ladies and gentlemen, viewers at home, may I present, Ruth, Barbara,
Ailsie,
and especially Helen!"
The audience thundered, roaring out their joy at their escape.? Sarah sat
silently, slumped and in tears as she held Ailsie's hand, still strapped
by
that sinuous restraint.
Anna turned to the camera as the applause finally died down.
"We'll be back after this commercial break.? Don't go away."
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Local Boy John Doe moves to HollyWood. After making it big with his success on his previous work John Doe has decided to move to HollyWood. The 19 year old local boy will have the support of his hometown as he makes the move to the southwest in hopes of becoming a superstar. You were beginning to read the article that you picked up on the way to the airport from your local town of Dwight. While the support of your hometown was comforting, it also put a lot of pressure on your back as you were...
this is a continuoes story of part1 Priya gently removed her panties. She felt Dev’s hand on her secret mount. God! This was the first time someone other than her husband is touching her privates and the one touching her cunt is none other than her own son!Dev was curious. He brought his nose to his mother’s cunt hole and deeply inhaled the pungent sexy aroma of her pheromones.“You hungry?” Priya asked.“Oh maa, its like a dream come true”“Then eat me Dev, I can’t wait!”Dev with both his hands...
THE PRESENT I got up and rushed to the door in a panic. Fortunately I had locked the door as it rattled with John trying in vain to get in. “John, I’m fine,” I shouted. I slipped the latch off and taking great care only my face was visible, I opened the door ajar. All my sons were there staring each with a strange look on their face. “What’s going on, Mom?” John asked. I thought desperately as I felt a dog’s snout against my ass and then a tongue licking at the sperm running out of my...
Sensual Experience From the first moment that I met Bronte I loved her Australian accent. She always possessed a bright, sexy smile, every time I bumped into her. The last time we met at the local mall, she invited me over to her house for drinks. She was in her thirties and I had just turned fifty. I brought her a nice bottle of Australian, white wine. The night progressed as we talked about life in general. The subject of sex came up. How, I’ll never know, but it did. I told her about the...
Straight SexSmooth Operator …. So it was just another boring day as phone sex professional. Horny guys (and sometimes gals) calling me all day just wanting to stroke that cock and go. If I do my job right and take enough calls I can make 100 a day with my voice. My little girl voice that every man wants to hear screaming for daddy to fuck me. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy … my panties are so wet daddy …. mmmm my pussy is so hot daddy mmmmm Booooorrrriiiiinnnggggg! Every guy wants a certain fantasy girl that is a...
MasturbationDan woke up from a sound sleep to the sensual feeling of a warm mouth sucking on his cock. He noticed Tina was lying across his chest and it was Lisa’s mouth bringing his cock to life. He placed his hand on her head to let her know he was awake. “Now this is a nice way to wake up in the morning,” he smiled as Tina stirred. She stretched and kissed her husband then heard Lisa sucking on his cock. “This isn’t the first time I’ve woken up beside you with another woman sucking on your cock and...
Before leaving, I checked the cable modem. She has her computer on the cable. After the gym, I went to the big box store to get my equipment. When I went to Laura's house, there was a note on the back door telling me to come in and do what I needed to do. They had gone to visit grandmother. It took a while to get the holes drilled and the cable strung. I had to drill holes through the floor of the closet, but that worked out fine since closets were the same on both floors. I couldn't hide...
A/N: Please note that for the purposes of this story, all characters being portrayed are above the age of 18, even if their book counterparts are not. In this universe, Hogwarts started at 13. As Draco stepped into the Ministry atrium, leading his new slaves behind him on their leashes, he decided he was unsatisfied with the ritual. There were too many terms of the girls’ enslavement that were unsatisfying to him, and more that were completely impractical. He wanted the option to breed his...
I've decided to switch the category for these over from blog post to sex story, as at this point in my adventures as a gay crossdresser, I had pretty much hit my stride dressing up and finding men and other crossdressers online to have sex with. So I guess you could say my posts moving forward will be a little more "action" oriented. Plus at this point it is hard to remember all of my experiences chronologically, and for the most part that's really kind of irrelevant. If any of you are...
The shoot in the Highlands came to an end; everyone was delighted with the results ... except Siobhan, who actually felt very little at all about it. It was assumed that she would return to London, but she hesitated. What was there in the city for her? Coming to a decision, instead of London by plane or by train, she rented a car, a Fiesta, and set off southwards. Thinking of Mrs. Dunn’s friendly little hotel in London, she eschewed her usual large chain hotels in favour of small...
I met Bob T. at an adult video store. He wasn't exactly good looking but he was fat, old and horny. That worked for me. I didn't realize it at the time, but Bob would turn out to be one of my most exciting sexual friends, who led me to a whole other world of sex and sex contacts in his retirement home.Like so many of my sex buddies, Bob was married and hetero but just couldn't get enough so over time he relented to having sex with men at adult video stores. I think there is a point in a virile...
When Grandfather had installed the indoor plumbing, he hadn’t included a bathtub – he only bathed once a week and then only if he thought it necessary. But having a female back in the house forced him to accommodate certain silliness. So, for her, he had bought a tub that was kept behind a screen in the kitchen. Filling it was easier in the kitchen and it was always warm in there. The screen gave her privacy. James thought that for a man without a woman to guide him, he had done pretty well...
"Hurry Mel! The rain's going to start any minute!" Melanie looked up through the trees at the blackening sky. The rolling thunder in the distance told her that Julie was right. They had five minutes to get back to the cabin or get soaked. They had to make their own trail through this part of the forest, a desolate corner of the Adirondacks. The athletic women picked up their pace. The first flash of lightening caused Mel to start counting to herself. One thousand one, one thousand two, one...
LESBIAN PERIL LEGAL LESBIAN PERIL LEGAL By Michelle Makens Chap. 1 A preference choice to continue a small but somewhat lucrative law practice with L.P.L Brokerage & Defense (known only to a chosen inner circle as Lesbian Power Legal B&D) easily fulfilled my secular desirers and soon became more rewarding in many ways. With the shared caseloads and practical billable hours, things were less hectic as the overall workweek schedule helped open up my personal time for many other more...
Disclaimer: Although some of the titles and verbage used in this story are actual military terms, all combat and medical situations are from my imagination and not real protocol. Julie looked down into the most gorgeous pair of blue eyes she had ever seen. A petite, athletic girl stood in front of her, decked out in her cammies, hat off, bag over her shoulder. She had light blond hair, perfectly arched eyebrows and a spattering of freckles across the bridge of her nose. Flawless skin topped...
CONVICTS AND SEX SLAVES Katherine (Kitty for short) is a gorgeous college sophomore – 5’8, 115 lbs, silken body all tanned, deep gray-brown eyes unforgettable…long chestnut-brown hair swaying past divinely sculpted shoulders. She has been basking joyously during this lackadaisical day at the beach with her lighter complexioned friend, Tobe. Two years younger, Tobe is an equally flawless specimen of the female sex -- perhaps an inch shorter, pony-tailed blonde hair always effulgent,...
Sarah loves finding new hobbies, and recently, she’s taken up art classes. Her teacher wants her to work on her figure drawing-skills, so she gets help from her friend’s son, Diego. Sarah admires Diego’s studly body and can’t believe what a man he’s become. Diego is happy to help Sarah but is shocked when he discovers he’ll be modeling nude. As Sarah works on her drawing, she can feel her pussy getting wet, so she spreads her legs to show Diego she’s not wearing any panties. Diego gets a...
xmoviesforyouAstrid cast her eyes on her axe before looking back to Toothless. He simply lay there waiting and accepting his fate. She could bring her axe down and end his life. End the life of her Hiccups guardian, first and best friend. If Toothless had shown himself the day after her ****, his blood would already be seeping across the floor. Today, however, she was conflicted. What she said to Hiccup was true she loved this b**st. Hiccups stuttered suggestion ran through her head and she had to focus to...
Dawn Dawn took Bradley by the hand and led him into the lounge. They had a three-seater leather settee on one side of the room, a single matching armchair on the opposite side and another matching two-seater close to it. She stood by the armchair and kissed him before standing back and reaching around her back for the zipper to her dress.“Let me have a photo for Robyn first,” he interrupted.She smiled and sat down in the armchair before crossing her legs, making sure that there was a generous...
CuckoldThe Premise Justine Baker had been without a man for longer than she could remember. The result? Her only sexual fulfillment came from B.O.B. She thinks that most men are turned off by the confidence that she exudes as an executive at Stanley & Baker, a publishing firm. But, like any other woman, she had needs, and those needs were not the emotional kind but the carnal needs of a woman long deprived. Today felt like her lucky day, however. She had hired Craig Freemont as her executive...
It had been so long since a man had touched me with my pleasure in mind, since a man looked at me with lust in his eyes, and since a man commanded my response. It had been far too long since my body responded to a man’s touch with unrestrained need, since that voice in my had begged for dominance, and since I felt that joyful ache of passion. Our conversations were fueled by sex. Our flirtation and desire had been pushing us to this moment. A few stolen moments together were not nearly enough...
Office SexHello dear friends and loving girls and aunties. A famous quote by Marilyn Monroe: “Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature” . I mean to say whenever you get a chance to have sex, move on and take a chance. Who knows it may bring life long sweet moments to you. I am Jaggannath, 29 years old, single bit experienced in sex. I am staying in Bengaluru, Karnataka. If any ladies or girls want to contact me, u can contact through my mail id: I am one and only son to my parents and both are...
After agreement with mother of the poor family I had possibility to do some public nudity and other activities with two girls. One of them, 13 yo Amanda had also sex desire and we arranged, that she will move to my apartment in the capital of our country and will start to study in new school. She advanced well in school and mother was satisfied with my efforts, nobody was angry, that I lived with underage girl, but then suddenly appeared, I can't match her sex demands, I was simply tired to...
I settled myself into a comfortable routine at the clinic, keeping busy during the times between therapy sessions. I was becoming better at concentrating on the primary task of assisting the doctor in making me well again. Dale and Emily seldom visited me, and whenever they did, it was always during visits that included some of the children. They made certain not to ever be alone with me. Dale seemed sad to me, but she refused to be drawn into any conversations while in my presence. Emily...
This is a continuous story. In order to understand it fully it is best to read it in it’s entirety, starting with Chapter 1. Chapter 01 – The Experiment Josh felt a distant itching at the back of his head. Slowly he began to open his eyes and became aware of his surroundings. There was one person standing beside him who he recognized as Dr. Mark Edwards. Josh was on a hospital bed. As the anesthetics wore off he remembered why he was there. ‘Did it work?’ Josh asked. ‘Easy Josh.’ Said Dr....
It truly was a magical day for me, for all the guys one the T.V. crew, and for network T.V. itself, the day that Nadine met JoAnne. Most guys aren’t nearly as lucky as I am. My girlfriend is a sweet mouth wrapped around my dick, and in bed at night, she either blows me or we fuck. But there are other girls in my life. Jackie, who also works at the station, blows almost as many guys as Nadine, including me at least once a week. There is a sweet young prostitute named Sabrina who sucks me at...
Group SexNote to the reader: In this diary I will tell the true stories of my sexual encounters that have come about thanks to the Internet. Some more precise details such as names and places will be left out to protect other's privacy, and mine, and also because they don't matter, but otherwise I will try to be as accurate and truthful as possible. After my first experience with Ed, I took a break from looking for meetings through the Internet, mainly because I moved to a different country for a year....
Gay MaleWe talked about it forever now and finally the big day is here. I’m letting my wife Kate fuck another man and a hung black guy to boot. Her pussy is already wet as she gets ready for him to arrive… so hot! She is going to use a condom, we’re freaky but not crazy or anything. She feels up the stud over his pants and is already super impressed with what he is packing. He starts sucking on my wife’s ample tits and then she pulls out his cock for another shock to her system....
xmoviesforyouNatalie's Revenge - By Serena Lawhead Prologue My name is Natalie, I have been a woman 'fully' now for five years but it was not always so, Eight years ago when I was 23 I was married to a beautiful young woman called Claudia and my name then was Nathan. I had just recently inherited a large amount of money as well as a fairly large Electronics distribution business from my parents when they died in a plane crash; this made us particularly well off. Although my major at...
November 1980, It all started in this month when Vicky was only eighteen years old. Vicky and her brother, had come to live with my parents and I because her mother 'my sister' had got a new job in London and her farther had gone to live back home with his parents in Scotland. I remember that Vicky and I were alone in the utility room at the back of the house. Vicky was just chilling out, lying on her back over an old box-seat that we used to keep toys in. As she stretched herself out over the...
IncestThere’s nothing like being right in the action, leaning over as some babe’s perky tits bounce while you grip their hips and plow that pussy. It’s a daily experience for me, but I know most of you, cucks, haven’t ever felt the pleasure for yourselves. It’s alright. Your time will come. I walk around seeing absolute dime pieces kissing the ugliest, fattest bastards out there. You can rest assured that there’s some chick with poor taste just waiting for you to bend them over for a few seconds...
POV Porn SitesI looked down at the city, checking my bearings and searching for the landmarks I knew. The station, the canal district, the shopping streets. At least if this didn’t work out I’d be able to find my way back. It was a dark, clear night and the skyline glowed through the clear glass of the 20th floor apartment I found myself in.I was in a modern, open plan living room which took up a corner of the flat, giving me a clear 180 degree view across the city. I was so intent on the panorama in front...
CrossdressingThe next morning Tom awoke wondering what the hell was going on. Looking around, his room was crowded with a mixture of brownies, pixies, sprites and half of the council. Huh? Most were asleep, that didn't bother him as much as the fact that they were in his house to start with. Stirring with a slight groan a multitude rushed to his bed. "Ok just a question? Frilly why are all of these people here?" Tom asked. Giggling Frilly told him, "they ALL heard that you were badly hurt and rushed...
Most of my adult life, and in my teen years when I figured out what it was, jacking off was my primary source of release. It didn't help that I was in two basically sexless marriages. Doing it on my own damn self was a way of life.Then along came DJ. As I wrote on one of my blogs, there is nothing she won't do. If I come up with an idea, no matter how weird or perverse, she's all over it. Yay for me!But, ya know, sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. And sometimes that means a good...
MasturbationI have just landed in your again and staying in my room at the Conrad. It is a dark and stormy morning and you'd agreed to stop by on your way to work. I've just checked in and taken a shower after the long flight, unpacked my things and excited to be seeing you.You arrive at 7am under dark cloud with the rain sluicing down outside. I am waiting for you in the lobby. It is wet with rain and people shaking out their umbrellas. You have to be careful not to slip in your heels. You are wearing a...
April Reid is a sultry redhead, thrown off her game by the new ginger at school. Being the redhead has always been Aprils thing. How is she gonna stand out now if shes not the hot ginger in class? She tries on a few hats and considers dying her hair but feels discouraged when she realizes that she it costs more than she can afford. Shes at her ropes end when her brothers friend, Cody, shows up. He asks whats wrong and when she tells him, he suggests that she just dye it. She tells him she cant...
xmoviesforyouMeanwhile, over at Joan's house, the rest of the plan was being carried out. Don had accompanied Joan to her place, bringing his tool box, totally unaware of the job she really wanted him to do. "So what's the problem, Joan?" he asked. "Bad switch? Loose wire?" "No, Don." She grinned. "That's not really it. I don't want you to fix my wiring. I want you to fix me." "Excuse me?" he said. "Let me make us a couple of drinks, and I'll explain," she said, leading him over to...
Life soon develops into a series of routines of classes, studies, fun with friends, meals, exercise, chores, and other duties. At school Mack makes an effort to mix with a number of the social groups by visiting different tables for lunch in the first few weeks. Thus he soon gets to know a lot of different people. Mack’s one school issue is Sport as the New South Wales Department of Education requires all students in the years up to Year Ten to play a sport, unless they have a pressing...
"Name's John. You need a tow?" Hi, my name is Jessica " Pleased to meet you, and glad you happened along. Yes, I do in fact need a tow." My eyes were on Jessica's breasts as I said, "I didn't just happen along. I patrol this stretch looking for broke down cars. There's a lot of damn fools on the road who ain't smart enough to check their oil when they should." Jessica didn't say a word. She remained silent during the entire ride back to John's garage. Sitting alone in the...
Unfortunately, the escape attempt was short-lived. Another monster, this orc smaller and weaker than the one on the ground but still a formidable assailant, held a cruel, crooked blade between itself and the girl. She stopped short and lifted her hands in surrender. The orc’s yellow eyes bulged as it looked upon the pale, naked lower body of the elf girl. Her tender nether lips were just visible beneath wisps of light blonde hair. A dribble of blood dripped to pool on the dirty floor between...
I started today with a petite sunbeam calling for me to creep out of bed and greet the day. As I pulled the blankets back I could sense the rush of cool air across my body. I quickly made my way to the living room to turn the heat up a few degrees, then proceeded into the kitchen to start my morning ritual with a cup of coffee and a seat at my computer. Upon checking my e-mails I came across a message from my secret lover asking for me to convene at noon in our usual place. I quickly felt...
I lay on the bed, face raised towards the ceiling, my eyes closed tight in pleasure as I hold Jon’s head between my legs. I can still feel the ghost vibrations of the battery powered toy that had been in my sopping wet pussy only moments before. I moan as I feel Jon’s tongue run up my clean shaven mound, licking up the juices that had seeped out onto my pussy lips. I squirm as he continues to tease me. He knows I want him to part my lips and shove his tongue up my moist hole, but he won't… Not...
Oral SexI have just gotten off of work and decide to stop for a few drinks at the bar. You are already there and sitting a few seats away. I see you and you wave and say hello. We are both just sitting enjoying our drinks but occasionally glance at one another. There is a seat open next to me and you come and sit down and ask me how I am doing. I tell you I am fine and ask how you have been and what is new with you. We sit and talk and make jokes and steal quick glances at one another looking at each...
Straight SexI came down stairs on a spring morning, my k**s were already out at school and Veronica my wife was in the kitchen.It was then I saw a cup on the coffee table with a little purple pill in it and a note saying 'Take me at 2pm""What's this love?" I asked my wifeVeronica stepped into the room "Bridget brought it around, Keith said you should take it at 2pm!" she replied."But what is it? and why 2pm?" I asked"It's a surprise and it's a surprise!" replied Veronica grinning.Then she went back into...
Though I had a youthful body, and younger men found me alluring, on the inside I was old with experience, and just the slightest bit tired. I had been serving my parish now for a long time. I began to be aware that the time for my retirement was approaching in a few years, so I felt I ought to concentrate on older men. I wanted to be sure, when it was time for me to step down, that I had left no part of the population out that could benefit by me. This was a special area of ministry dear to my...
When I was 17 years old fresh out of high school, I joined the Navy with my parents consent I joined the Navy fresh out of high school. Good paying jobs were tough to find in WesternNew York; the steel mills were shutting down; heavy industry locating down south. ?My tour of duty over, I took the civil service test for Correction Officer; and passed.? My permanent assignment was at a Class-A Max. Eventually, I got a tower on days. This was the perfect assignment to get out of population...
Heidi's Salon - The Weekend By sssydiane I had just spent the most wonderful afternoon at Heidi's Salon. She had made me her last appointment of the day so she would be able to perform her magic on me. She had been styling my hair longer and more femme at each appointment for quite a while. While I had always considered myself a straight guy, I loved the look and I loved spending the time to style my hair every morning. Well, today was the culmination of all those months. Heidi...
To fully understand this story it would be a good thing if you read the first part, however I have included this synopsis for those who either do not want to, or who, for some reason, do not have access to part 1. Previously on Daddy’s Poker Night Doug’s twelve year old daughter Callie had all but seduced the men at her father’s poker game and they fucked her thoroughly till the wee hours of the morning. Callie’s dad had drunk himself into oblivion before the sexual activity had...
"Hi, Honey. You're late? Did you have a hard day, darling?" Shelly greeted him with a cheery smile. She was wearing a t-shirt and it was obvious that her big, soft breasts were bare under it. They jiggled and swayed provocatively as she came close and offered her mouth for a kiss. Sam's lips brushed hers briefly. He remembered vividly that those same lips had recently been the cum-slimed receptacle for another man's lust. He headed for the bar to get a drink. "Please, dear... let me...
I was enjoying being fucked by suraj almost every day. On sunday night suraj said today we will go and sleep next to pooja room. We reached the room about 10.30 and suraj immediately removed my t shirt and pajama and made me naked, he also became naked and asked me to suck his lund. Suraj was lying down and I was lying over him 69 position. I was sucking his lund. Suraj then started applying vaseline in my gaand and was driving three fingers in my ass. I asked him why are you again preparing my...
Gay MaleAnother night out on the town, with the same ole same ole. Same friends, same kind of parties, there was nothing out of the ordinary. I thought this night would be like any other night in Lubbock, Texas. Drink a few beers have a few laughs, with the hope of no drama, and maybe a nice night cap with my party that one of our friends heard about, so she went to her room to finish. I didn’t want to get left behind in the shot taking so I stayed with everyone else while she went to get dressed. A...
EroticA sissy called Jezebel Part XVIII - Ever wonder what the womyns football team locker room is like before the 'Big Game' at Templeton Academy: where young womyn become dominatrixes and sissies are crushed into submission? Let's find out, together. "Well, looks like you don't actually need the school uniform, it's time for you to get our football team ready for the big game, and then you need to practice with the band, my little majorette." "Yes Headmistress." "How do you...