DemureDryad
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A hundred drinks. A thousand. I've roamed these halls and watched these girls too much, for too long. Not long enough. Outside it's all rain and my jacket tells the tale. My suit has beads of summer water across the lapels and shoulders and a passing girl brushes them off with a flirty flick of manicured fingers. She's pretty. They're all pretty. They're all so pretty that I'm becoming numb to it. Lace stockings. Corsets. My eyes brush over their softly-curved bodies like they were furniture as I cut my path towards the bar.
My stool is unoccupied. It's mine now. I own it.
And I own my tab. Settling with a spread of hundreds from the clip in my back pocket. They don't ask me where I get my money and I wouldn't tell them. It's crisp, though, and draws the eyes of those nearby. It's enough for the girls. It's enough for my tab. A Bombay on ice slides its way into my hand. I feel the glass in my rough fingers. I feel the cold of its potency. I feel the weight of its promise as I lift it and the perspiration soak my heavy palm.
They weren't whores in the traditional sense. They were whores in the same sense that I was a whore. That you're a whore. That everyone is a whore. We all have a price. It might not be in cash but it's there. The best that we can do is to set our principles in a place where that price might not come into play because, and I promise you this, when it does we'll all find out the hard way what it feels like to be bought.
Jamie watched him walk in as a break in her tasks allowed her a moment for respite. He was all dressed up, looking as if he had his life put together. Locked down tight. All set. Somehow he even managed to make the water clinging to his suit look dignified. Her heart fell as he made his way straight to the bar. She had socialized with the patrons all night, plastering a fake smile on her face and strutting about in these slinky, towering heels... Feeling their eyes devour her frame, imagining her naked with her legs wrapped around their waist.
She was tired. Her feet hurt. And the way the other girls swarmed, at the moment, struck her as the height of their hunger and his pretension.
She nodded wordlessly and completed his drink order, sliding it swiftly down the bar and turning from him. He chatted with the other girls. Only the new girl wouldn't know that he was a regular, evidently. What am I doing here...
That plastic smile decorated her face like the most complete of masks, and she let another bar patron get a good, long look at her tits. His words slurred after he pounded one last shot of whiskey, leaving a generous tip. "'Night darlin.' Lets see that sweet ass feeding me drinks next time, okay."
Jamie put on her best coquette face, putting the tip in the jar. "Sure thing honey."
It was too easy. Maybe thats why she couldn't stand the place. Hunger games. Thats all it was. Jamie was not one of 'the girls.' She was just a bartender. Her role in the games was to dangle her body in front of the patrons, to watch them snatch at it futilely. Their role? Their role was to reach out. Perhaps, not even that. They wanted to entertain the fantasy that she would fuck them. It was a playful, mutual lie.
But she didn't even feel like lying to that one... When she tried to think of why, she couldn't say. Maybe it was the far off, philosophical glint in his eyes. He had been drinking all night, not moving from his spot even as the place slowly emptied. Jamie's shift was almost up, and despite her inexplicable distaste for the handsome, impeccably dressed gentleman, her curiosity was piqued by the very look that had caused her dislike.
"Hey there."
He looked over at her.
"You look like you have alot on your mind. What are you thinking about?" Her head tilted, copper curls spilling into the generous valley of cleavage produced by her corset. It was a pretty thing, flirting with the boundaries of class, but missing the mark entirely. Like her game with the patrons. Not like his suit.
She pulled up a stool, resting her elbows on the countertop, and her palms against her cheeks, as she sat. "Tell me what sparked that wistful look."
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