Blue Room Confidentials: Vol. 1 by Kailin Gow

Author:Kailin Gow [Gow, Kailin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0143OSYS8
Published: 2015-08-16T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Jaymie

Stranger and stranger. That's what Alice said when she went down the rabbit hole, and that's what I'm feeling now. The Blue Room is a labyrinth where every dark turn brings you deeper into the madness. That's what Staci told me before she hired me for this job. And that's what I'm starting to believe. I'd believed that maybe Staci was exaggerating, that the Blue Room differed from the places I'd known and worked at in some degree, maybe, but certainly not this kind. Corruption and sexual politicking were rife when powerful men, beautiful women, and money all collided – why should the Blue Room be any different? But somehow I'm not feeling it. Somehow I'm feeling something else – something that kindles my suspicions. It's this aura that nothing is as it seems. You can't trust anybody. You can't rely on anything. There is no such thing as truth here. Sky might be my best friend or my worst enemy. She might be a dupe and she might be a trap.

There's just no way of knowing. But she's gotten me one piece of valuable information at least. Julie is the one they want me to think is the ringleader of the Blue Room clique. She's the one who's presented as the lead. Maybe this is just a front: another lie. Maybe not. I don't know. But if there's one thing I do know it's that when you're desperate you have to follow any lead you can. And in my case this means following Julie and figuring out what she's up to. I want Julie to trust me, to not be suspicious of me the way she was of that “stuck-up bitch Staci.” Staci never made friends at the Blue Room. She never got the inside scoop of that sort of thing. She was a virgin, shy, unsure, and the other girls picked up on it. Maybe they were even jealous of it. She could never laugh about sexual positions or bad sex stories the way the others could. That wasn't even part of her vocabulary. That's where she went wrong. And that's where I have the possibility of going right.

I can laugh. I have banged a fair few men in my life. I have plenty of experience to share – hilarious and horrifying and titillating alike. I know how to get women to like me, to trust me. I don't do the special snowflake thing the way Staci did – getting men to fall in love with me. Men want me, but I have a much more important skill. Making women like me. Love me, even. Trust me. Making me the ultimate big sister. Being their best friend.

So when Julie leaves the lunchroom to head to the ladies' room, I follow her. She's applying makeup – lipstick and mascara – in the mirror. She doesn't turn her head at all, but only looks at me through the mirror.

“So...” purrs Julie as I enter. “How's my color?”

“Hot Ginger?” I say.

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