Paying For It by Scarlett O'Kelly

Author:Scarlett O'Kelly [O’Kelly, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241965122
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2011-09-10T00:00:00+00:00

16. Czech Mate

I’d been working as an escort for just six months, but already I felt changed by my experiences. I’d confronted my body-image issues, realized I could enjoy being dominant in the bedroom and I’d had sex with men I wouldn’t have looked at before, only to find out that we were very compatible. It had been a strange sort of learning curve – all the things I’d thought I might be thinking weren’t in my mind at all. And those hidden experiences were starting to impact positively on my private life, which I definitely hadn’t considered a possibility. But it was true – my eyes had been opened and I could appreciate things and people I wouldn’t have noticed before.

It was July and the weather had been unusually glorious for the past week. I’d even managed to get a tan doing a bit of sunbathing on the days I didn’t have clients. That weekend I couldn’t work as much as usual, though, because I had to go to a family party. My youngest sister was having her birthday bash in town on Saturday night, and as it was my weekend to have the kids, I had to book a babysitter and drive home afterwards. Parties and sobriety aren’t my idea of fun, but I couldn’t decline the invitation because my sister would hold it against me for months. I planned to stay a respectable length of time, then slip off home at the first opportunity. My sister’s friends were single or cohabiting but none of them was married or divorced. They’d be doing shots, snogging anyone fanciable and generally behaving like mad-for-it young things. I was used to attending get-togethers on my own by then, but I’d no interest in watching my sister and her friends get drunk and leery.

On Saturday evening, between feeding the children and getting them ready for bed, I had to get myself into something decent for the party. I reckoned it was a night for my LBD – I’d throw it on with my black suede wedges et voilà! I’d more than got my money’s worth out of that dress, but there was still plenty of wear in it. Its deep, plunging neckline, cap sleeves and knee-length A-line skirt were perfect for my shape – well, according to Trinny and Susannah they were.

By eight thirty I’d parked and was making my way to the restaurant. I spotted my sister’s group through the open door – they looked well oiled already. Damn. I hated being the sober one and having to listen to drunk talk. I stretched my mouth into a wide smile as I walked through the door and went straight over to give my little sister a big hug. She did the introductions. ‘There’s a couple of people from work joining us for drinks after dinner,’ she added.

‘Lovely,’ I said enthusiastically. ‘It looks like it’ll be a great night.’ I was glancing at her mates and thinking they’d all be dying of hangovers in the morning and it was probably just as well that I was driving.

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