The Blue Room: Vol. 1 by Gow Kailin

Author:Gow, Kailin [Gow, Kailin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: theEDGEbooks.com
Published: 2014-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

I'm sure what to expect next. My experience with Josephine Walter (Mrs.) leaves me shaken. The way she speaks about the things I would have to do – why, it was if she's talking about mergers and acquisitions: something formal and businesslike and utterly expected! I can hardly believe the meaning behind her words. Even after a few days in the world of the Blues, I'm utterly bewildered by how...normal it all seems. Having sex for money, in the world of the Blue Room, is a boring everyday occurrence.

I wonder for a second if I'm doing the right thing. If there isn't some other way to find Rita, some better way, some way that doesn't require me to sacrifice my virginity in the process. But I know now that I'm Rita's last hope. The police never care about girls like Rita – strippers, hookers, whatever you want to call them. And if the clientele here at the Blue Room is as powerful as I'm starting to understand it is, then the last thing any policeman in this town wants to do is to piss them off, ask too many questions. That's just the way things are in this town. The rich get richer and the poor get – whatever it was Rita got.

I've got to find out what happened to her. I've got to find out why.

I sit alone in my room, catching my breath. I'm almost tempted to smoke a cigarette, but I'm pretty sure if I do Josephine Walters is going to descend on me like a hawk and give me a lecture about spoiling my teeth and skin. They treat us right, here, that's for sure. Like prized cows, fattened for the slaughter.

From my suitcase I take out a little ribbon, a locket dangling on the end of it. Rita bought it for me a few weeks after she started working at the Blue Room.

“You work so hard,” she said to me. “You're so beautiful. You deserve a little something for yourself.”

I remember how I stared at it in amazement. That silver must have cost her a fortune – that's what I said. I remember telling her how I couldn't accept a gift like that – how I couldn't understand how a girl like Rita could make so much money, so fast.

“Thank you.”

“Don't thank me. Thank Mr. X.”

She smiled at me sadly.

“It's my very first spend,” she said. “I wanted the first money I earned at the Blue Room to go to somebody other than myself. It makes me feel better that way...”

“You don't have to...”

“Do you know how big my student loans are?” She swallowed. “My mom and dad – they co-signed my med school loans. But my dad lost his job – and they're gonna lose the house, too, if they're saddled with my debt.” She inhaled sharply. “I'm going to do what I have to do. I got them into this mess. I'll get them out.”

The first night I wore the locket, I thought I'd sell it.

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