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My best friend Payton and I were celebrating her best month yet at her job, where she’d pulled in forty thousand dollars, more than I’d make all year after taxes Actually, she’dher body to h-class whore

“I’uys can fuck a girl who looks like me”

She was a hooker with a heart of gold, as in gold-digger, and had chosen this ‘career’ even though she held a degree in communications frooal that had forced her into the position, although I often wondered if there was an emotional one she was desperate to satisfy

We’d been randoe we studied abroad in A school abroad looked great on a résuone because, I suspect, she was bored It was in the red-light district that spring when she discovered her exhibitionist streak The entire dorether to a sex show, awked at eous roommate

My mouth fell open when the performers invited Payton to join them and I’d watched in fascinated horror as she e She hadn’t participated in the actual sex that night, but had no proble both of the performers anywhere and everywhere

Ithonest, also envious Not so much of the perfor, and absence of shame afterward Confidence oozed out of every cell of her She was attractive, but her unapologetic personality irl-crush on her

We stood now in one of the quieter corners of her favorite spot, a trendy bar where no drink was less than twelve dollars and which was also overrun with assholes looking to get laid

“These are froentlemen over there,” the thin-as-a-soda-straaitress said, passing us drinks and gesturing to the other end of the bar Usually the assholes traveled in pairs, and the less attractive of the tould try to make conversation with me while the other did his best to land Payton She was tall and slender with vibrant blue eyes, and I was the poor lossy, black cherry locks My curves were hs, whereas hers were located up top for maximum appeal My face was plain and unremarkable, and hers was exotic

“I think you should do it,” Payton said

“Do what?” I asked The pair of suits had noticed we’d accepted their drinks and noeretheir approach

“Come with me next tigested it

“No way Have you not met me?”