รขโฌลHi, Iรขโฌโขm Stephanie. รขโฌย
That was how it started, basically, the day of her job interview. She looked a little nervous, which wasnรขโฌโขt too surprising, so I smiled, hoping that I looked both professional and comforting at the same time, and offered my hand.
รขโฌลHi Stephanie, Iรขโฌโขm Devin, the store manager. รขโฌย
Her hand was soft and warm and slightly moist, but she smiled up at me and gave me a good, firm shake back.
รขโฌลNice to meet you. รขโฌย
I nodded my head towards the office, tucked away at the back of the video store, and said, รขโฌลWhy donรขโฌโขt we go have a seat?รขโฌย
รขโฌลOkay. รขโฌย
รขโฌลHey, Lindsay!รขโฌย I gave the girl at the counter, my assistant manager, a yell. รขโฌลBuzz me if you need me. Weรขโฌโขll be about a half-hour. รขโฌย
รขโฌลSure, boss. รขโฌย
รขโฌลAfter youรขโฌยฆรขโฌยI unlocked the office door and held it open, letting Stephanie go in before me. I gave her a quick appraisal, looking her up and down as she walked by me.
I thought she was kind of cute: short and plump, but in a nice, buxom way. She was dressed casually for the interview, wearing a pale blue fitted blouse that was slightly unbuttoned over a white, silky camisole, light khaki pants that were tight around her hips and a pair of old leather sandals. Her hair was dark brown, thick and glossy and cut short so that the tips curled around and under her ears. She had a sweet, heart-shaped face with prominent, rosy cheeks and a pointed chin, and she wore a little too much makeup for my taste. She had a tendency to peek up with her doe-like eyes when she smiled, making her look a bit like a chubby, mischievous pixie, but the silver crucifix dangling in the deep cleft between her breasts distracted me from that little blemish.
รขโฌลWelcome to my closet. รขโฌย I cleared my throat, pried my eyes away from her chest and pointed to a chair. รขโฌลHave a seat. รขโฌย
She sat down and crossed her legs, immediately comfortable.
รขโฌลThanks,รขโฌย she said.
Her pant legs slid up when she sat, giving me a tantalizing glimpse of her thick, tan, muscular calves. I settled down into my comfy leather chair just opposite her and pretended to search my desk for a pen. I gave her another smile.
รขโฌลYouรขโฌโขre welcome. รขโฌย
She made a quiet humming sound in her throat and absent-mindedly tugged her blouse down, smoothing it tight over her breasts. She glanced around the room, taking in the big cork bulletin board tacked full of comic strips, work schedules, inventory lists and what-not; piles of old sale invoices, movie magazines and late-lists spilling out of boxes on the floor around my cluttered desk. รขโฌลYou know, a closet might be bigger. รขโฌย
I actually laughed, and casually flipped through her job application. รขโฌลYeah, you might be right. รขโฌย
My office was tiny, with barely enough room for a desk set up along the back wall, a beat-up metal filing cabinet, and the two chairs we were sitting in. Another door opened into a small storage area with walls of shelves full of movie posters and display boxes. Beyond that was a dimly-lit back room where we kept the safe.
The store itself was shaped like a sideways L, with a large, open floor plan that the owners believed encouraged customer browsing.
The adult movies รขโฌโ the pornoรขโฌโขs รขโฌโ had a room all their own, with a closed-circuit video surveillance system to monitor the freaks. Lord knows how many idiots weรขโฌโขve caught on tape jacking off in there.
รขโฌลSo, you want to work for a video store?รขโฌย I asked.
รขโฌลM-hm,รขโฌย she nodded. รขโฌลTrisha really likes it here. She said you needed someone to take her spot when she leaves. รขโฌย
Trisha was one of my better employees. Sheรขโฌโขd worked for me for a little over a year and was leaving for college soon. Sheรขโฌโขd recommended Stephanie to me. I knew they were friends from high school and swam together on the school swim team.
รขโฌลI do. I remember when you dropped off your application,รขโฌย I lied.
The only reason I knew I took her application is that Trisha asked me to. Without Trisha putting in a good word, Stephanie probably wouldรขโฌโขve completely faded from my mind.
She beamed. รขโฌลReally?รขโฌย
รขโฌลYeah. You bet. รขโฌย
Stephanieรขโฌโขs application indicated that she was a certified lifeguard and had worked the last couple years as a counselor and lifeguard at a Catholic summer camp. She also worked the counter at the camp store, selling the kids cold drinks, popcorn and candy, t-shirts and sweatshirts, that kind of thing. Not all that much different than what sheรขโฌโขd be doing for me.
รขโฌลSo tell me about camp. รขโฌย
She took a deep breath. รขโฌลWellรขโฌยฆรขโฌย
I watched her while she talked, nodding, scribbling notes on her app, asking a quick question here and there. Normally รขโฌโ sexist as it sounds, Iรขโฌโขd try to hire someone a little sexier than Stephanie, because the beautiful people tend to bring in the money. But basically, right now I just needed a warm body and wasnรขโฌโขt feeling too picky. If she could at least make change and carry on a half-way decent conversation, I was probably going to offer her a job.
For the fifty-six minutes we were in the office together, Stephanie showed me everything that a potential employer wants to see from a prospective employee.
I started working here in high-school, took over as assistant manager pretty quickly, and got promoted to running the store full-time after I started film school. Itรขโฌโขs a relatively simple job and I make decent money doing basically nothing. Iรขโฌโขm about ready to graduate now, and over the last few years Iรขโฌโขve had a lot of employees come through here.
Most of my applicants are high school kids looking for an easy summer job or college kids needing some quick part time work. Rarely, someone I interview is really motivated to get a job. Frankly, Stephanie impressed me, and I warmed up to her pretty quickly. She was animated and lively, sharp and funny. She had a habit of blinking once or twice after each question, thinking before she answered.
I liked that.
She liked all kinds of movies and was already familiar with the store, which was great, telling me that Trisha made her help her close up the shop every weekend so she could get out and party earlier.
รขโฌลAh. รขโฌย I said, and made a note of that to put in Trishaรขโฌโขs file. For safety, one of the cardinal rules was that only employees may be in the store before or after store hours. I donรขโฌโขt think Stephanie caught the slip.
Best of all, she was flexible. She still lived at home with her family and was starting school in the fall, part-time at a local community college, so her schedule was open, at least for now. As we wrapped the interview up, I made sure it was okay to call her references and her supervisor from camp, and asked her what size uniform shirt I should order, and what color would she prefer?
รขโฌลUm, red, for sure. Small?รขโฌย
รขโฌลGreat.
รขโฌลOkay. Thanks for the interview!รขโฌย
She shook my hand again, and I grinned as she walked back through the store, absently wondering what sheรขโฌโขd look like in a bathing suit. I heard her say goodbye to Lindsay, who was busy returning video games, and then the door chimed and she was gone. Lindsay grinned from across the room and gave me a big thumbs up.
รขโฌลSheรขโฌโขs a keeper, huh?รขโฌย She shouted.
I shrugged.
รขโฌลWeรขโฌโขll see. รขโฌย
รขโฌลYou snooze, you lose, boss-man. Hire her yesterday. รขโฌย
I laughed and started back to the office. รขโฌลOpinion noted. Okay?รขโฌย
One of our regulars, an fifty-ish lady named Nancy, was herding her grandkids through the game section with a look of utter frustration plastered on her face. She was trying to get them to make a decision between renting some shoot-รขโฌหem-up and a racing game, and she was failing miserably.
Nancy was probably one of the first customers Iรขโฌโขd made an effort to connect with when I became manager, although Iรขโฌโขm not quite sure why.
Truthfully, I think I was a little smitten with her. She was married to an ex-cop whoรขโฌโขd started flipping property after he retired, and now he was always gone, being (in her words) the real estate tycoon. Nancy used to be a nurse. She retired a few years ago to help her daughter take care of her grandkids (the little devils that were now screaming at each other and yanking all our game boxes off the rack. Lindsay looked at me and rolled her eyes. She hated those kidsรขโฌยฆ).
Nancy kind of moped around with this sad-sack complex, that for some strange reason I found extremely sexy. So I made it a point to flirt with her whenever I could.
Besides, she had a pair of whopping big tits. I couldnรขโฌโขt resist.
I ignored the screaming demons making a mess out of my store and put on my best smile for her. รขโฌลHi, Nance. รขโฌย
She looked up and brightened immediately. Sometimes I wonder if she comes in now just to see me. She waved back, and then her grandkids started a nice, loud shoving match. Nancy rolled her eyes at me and I took the opportunity to slip back into my office.
Maybe I made her day a little brighter. Sometimes we all just need someone to say hi, let us know we mean something, even if itรขโฌโขs just a grin from some kid at the video store.
Anywayรขโฌยฆ
I shut the door and plopped back into my chair with a sigh. It was a little quieter in here with the door closed. I hoped Lindsay had a bottle of aspirin at the counter, and then waited for the other applicants to show up. Lindsay escorted the next one back a minute or two after I heard the demons leave.
By the time I kicked the last one out the door รขโฌโ a pale, zit-faced teenager who ignored most of my questions and couldnรขโฌโขt stop talking about his collection of obscure Japanese animation videos that he was busy burning to disc รขโฌโ one copy to watch, one to save, in case of fire or flood or some other cosmically ordained cataclysm รขโฌโ I was grumpy, tired and ready to grab some dinner and call it a night.
Lindsay gave me irritated looks from the counter as I walked them out. She stuck out her tongue and shook her head after each one left.
รขโฌลStephanie,รขโฌย she said. รขโฌลThis is so you donรขโฌโขt forget. รขโฌย Sheรขโฌโขd written the name on a sticky note paper, and stuck it to my forehead. รขโฌลHire. Her. Now. รขโฌย
One of our phone lines started ringing.
รขโฌลCut it out and answer the phone,รขโฌย I grumbled.
It was supposed to sound threatening, but Lindsay just grinned and blew me a kiss. I stalked back into my office and peeled the note off my face, and then I just sat there for a bit, staring at my pile of applications and playing with the sticky paper with my fingertips.
Stephanieรขโฌโขs app was right there, at the top of the pile.
I cleaned up the junk on my desk and then called the main office, which had already closed for the day. I left a voice message for the office manager and ordered two small red polo shirts and a nametag for Stephanie.
Then it was time to go.
***
As I left work, I checked my voicemail on my cell phone on the way to my car, a red รขโฌโข73 VW Superbeetle. A friend of mine named Desiree had left me a message, asking me to stop by when I got off work.
Iรขโฌโขd met Desiree under somewhat, uh, kinky circumstances during my senior year of high-school, at a Halloween party thrown by one of my teachers, a transgender named Linda, who I had a brief affair with. Linda moved away to France later that summer, but for some strange reason Desiree and I became, um, well, friendly.
You can read into that whatever youรขโฌโขd like.
Anyway, I rolled back the sunroof and then drove over to her house. Desiree lived in one of the nicer areas of town, in an old Victorian-style house that she was busy fixing up herself. I think the house mustรขโฌโขve set her back more than Iรขโฌโขd make in ten years at the video store. It had been confiscated in a drug bust, and when she bought it the whole thing looked ready to fall apart.
It looked pretty good now, I thought. Nicest house on the block.
I parked at the curb and locked the car, then trudged up a steep flight of steps to the front door and rang the bell. I heard a deep bong emanate from somewhere inside, and Desiree opened the door before I could put my arm down, shrieking my name in her husky voice.
รขโฌลDevin!รขโฌย
She pinched my cheeks and crushed me to her chest, smothering me with her breasts.
รขโฌลBaby! Come to momma and give me a kiss, baby. Mmรขโฌยฆnow, watch the lipstick. I just put it on. รขโฌย
She wiped a smear of bright red lipstick from my cheek with a fingertip. She held me at arms length and gave me a good once-over, batting her eyes and looking me up and down.
รขโฌลMmรขโฌยฆBaby, you look good enough to eat. Come on in, honey, make yourself comfy.
Desireeรขโฌโขs as beautiful as a large, black transsexual could be, and sheรขโฌโขs about as flamboyant as they come. When I first met her at the Halloween party, she was decked out like a flapper from the roaring twenties. Iรขโฌโขm a pretty big guy, but sheรขโฌโขs taller than I am, around six-six, and sheรขโฌโขs got a figure most female porn stars would die for.
She looked great today, with her long, kinky curly hair pulled back in a tight braid, and she was dressed conservatively in a black pinstriped pantsuit and a crรยจme silk blouse buttoned up just to her breasts. She was wearing high-heeled pumps and was even taller than usual. She towered over me.
Desiree and my teacher, Linda, had met working as call girls back in college and hit it off. Desiree was still in the industry.
รขโฌลHey, Swan!รขโฌย She called out, pulling me down with her onto an over-stuffed, antique velvet sofa. รขโฌลCompany! Devinรขโฌโขs here!รขโฌย
รขโฌลComing!รขโฌย
She rested a big hand on my thigh and snuggled close enough for me to smell her perfume. A door that led into her kitchen swung open and shut, and Desiree smiled at me again as a tall, reed-thin guy dressed in sweats with a huge, nappy afro walked through the dining room, munching on a bunch of grapes.
Desiree gave my thigh a little squeeze, sending a warm, tingly jolt up to my crotch, and introduced us.
รขโฌลDev, this is my nephew, Swan. รขโฌย
Swan chewed his mouthful of grapes and acknowledged me with a sleepy nod. He sat and slouched down into the chair next to us, threw his leg over one of the chair arms.
รขโฌลSรขโฌโขup. รขโฌย
รขโฌลHey,รขโฌย I said, and nodded back, cool as he was. Two could play it like that.
รขโฌลSwan just graduated from NYU.
รขโฌลYup. รขโฌย
I blinked. รขโฌลFilm school?รขโฌย
รขโฌลYup. รขโฌย
This time, I nodded appreciatively. รขโฌลWow. รขโฌย
รขโฌลHeรขโฌโขs going to be staying here for a couple months. รขโฌย Desiree smiled. รขโฌลI thought you two might like to get to know each other, since youรขโฌโขre both up and coming directors and what-not. รขโฌย
รขโฌลAuntie says you into Zombie flicks, man. รขโฌย
I laughed. รขโฌลYeah. I am. รขโฌย
รขโฌลCool. รขโฌย He grinned, showing a ton of white teeth, and nodded again.
It probably sounds crazy, but I knew what he was talking about. Desiree looked mystified.
รขโฌลRomero. Night of the Living Dead. รขโฌย
รขโฌลWhat the hell are you two talking about?รขโฌย
I grinned at Desiree. Swan and I both said, รขโฌลBest movie ever.
He ate another mouthful of grapes. She shook her head.
รขโฌลAll right. Looks like you two already have a lot in common. รขโฌย She patted my leg, gave me a kiss and stood up. รขโฌลIรขโฌโขve got to head to the club. Iรขโฌโขll see yรขโฌโขall later. รขโฌย
Desiree bent and kissed Swan.
รขโฌลBye, Auntie. รขโฌย
Desiree grabbed a small clutch and blew us both kisses, then she was gone.
รขโฌลSo. How you know my Auntie?รขโฌย
I wasnรขโฌโขt quite sure how to answer that.
รขโฌลWe, uhรขโฌยฆรขโฌย
รขโฌลYou sleepinรขโฌโข with her?รขโฌย
Hell.
รขโฌลWeรขโฌยฆรขโฌย
รขโฌลYou know that she a he, right?รขโฌย
รขโฌลYeahรขโฌยฆรขโฌย
รขโฌลYou cool with that?รขโฌย
รขโฌลSure. รขโฌย
He nodded. รขโฌลMan, the rest oรขโฌโข my famรขโฌโขly donรขโฌโขt even know. Itรขโฌโขs the big secret, right?รขโฌย
รขโฌลOh?รขโฌย
รขโฌลYeah. รขโฌย He scratched his nose. I could just feel the question coming. รขโฌลSo, straight up, man. You two gettinรขโฌโข nasty?รขโฌย
I licked my lips.
รขโฌลWeรขโฌโขve slept together, yeah. But. . . รขโฌย
รขโฌลDamn, man. รขโฌย
รขโฌลButรขโฌยฆรขโฌย I interrupted him and kept on going. รขโฌลรขโฌยฆweรขโฌโขve never had sex. With each other, I mean. There was someone else whoรขโฌยฆรขโฌย
รขโฌลAh, yeah. I bet I know. Linda?รขโฌย
Surprise. A little lightbulb popped in my head.
รขโฌลYou know Linda?รขโฌย
He nodded. รขโฌลMet her a couple times, when I was a kid. During holidays and shit, when Iรขโฌโขd come out to visit Auntie. Always figured they were into some kinky shit. รขโฌย
รขโฌลYou donรขโฌโขt even know. รขโฌย
รขโฌลProbรขโฌโขley right about that. Donรขโฌโขt know that I want to, either. รขโฌย He waved his hand. รขโฌลSo, what is it you do?รขโฌย
I told him, about work and school.
รขโฌลIรขโฌโขm just finishing my last short film. ThenรขโฌยฆI donรขโฌโขt really know what Iรขโฌโขm gonna do. I thought about moving to L.
รขโฌลYeah. Me too. Go be where the action is, anรขโฌโข all. รขโฌย
รขโฌลYeah. รขโฌย
He finished his grapes, chewing thoughtfully.
รขโฌลThing is, you can make movies wherever these days. Just need the equipment anรขโฌโข some folks to do the grunt stuff. รขโฌย
รขโฌลSure. รขโฌย
รขโฌลI got my own cameras. รขโฌย He pointed upstairs. รขโฌลBrought รขโฌหem with me. Some nice digital. Looks as good as film up on screen. รขโฌย
รขโฌลIรขโฌโขve been using a digital camera too.
รขโฌลCool. รขโฌย He sat up. รขโฌลWhen Auntie told me รขโฌหbout yรขโฌโขall, I got this idea. I talked it over with Auntie. She thought I might be onto something, wondered if youรขโฌโขd be into it too. รขโฌย
รขโฌลOh yeah?รขโฌย I leaned closer, interested. รขโฌลWhatรขโฌโขs that?รขโฌย
รขโฌลMakinรขโฌโข our own movies, man. รขโฌโขCould mean some good money, if weรขโฌโขre lucky. รขโฌย
I blinked. รขโฌลMovies?รขโฌย
รขโฌลYeah. You anรขโฌโข me. We start our own production company, make our own shit. รขโฌย
รขโฌลYouรขโฌโขre serious about this?รขโฌย
รขโฌลHell yeah. รขโฌย
I leaned back into the couch.
Swan had been relaxed for our entire conversation, thumping his leg on the side of the chair. But now he spun around so he was facing me.
รขโฌลLook, bro. Hereรขโฌโขs the thing. Auntie said sheรขโฌโขd help with our cash flow. Sheรขโฌโขs loaded, man. I donรขโฌโขt wanna make some crappy indie shit that nobody but some tattooed patchouli smellinรขโฌโข motherfuckers are gonna see at some outta the way art house theater. We need to get profitable, quick, or we dead in the water. รขโฌย
That was the truth.
รขโฌลSo?รขโฌย
รขโฌลAuntie tells me youรขโฌโขre into some kinky shit. รขโฌย He raised his eyebrows. รขโฌลMe too, man. See, I donรขโฌโขt care if youรขโฌโขre fuckinรขโฌโข her. Itรขโฌโขs all cool. I think thatรขโฌโขs why she introduced us. รขโฌย
I didnรขโฌโขt see where this was going, and said so.
รขโฌลIรขโฌโขm talkinรขโฌโข about making pornoรขโฌโขs. รขโฌย
I blinked again. He grinned, showing me all those teeth.
รขโฌลYรขโฌโขknow, dudes and chicks, chicks and chicks. Chicks with dicks. Hell, chicks with fuckinรขโฌโข goats! Whatever we can get away with. รขโฌย
รขโฌลYouรขโฌโขre serious?รขโฌย
รขโฌลHow รขโฌหbout we go get some grub, anรขโฌโข Iรขโฌโขll let you in on what I come up with so far. รขโฌย
I thought about it. รขโฌลThereรขโฌโขs a club not to far from here with a bar. รขโฌย
รขโฌลFood okay?รขโฌย
รขโฌลThey make a sloppy gyros. รขโฌย
รขโฌลDamn. Okay. รขโฌย
We both stood up. I shoved my hands in my pockets. รขโฌลPorn, huh?รขโฌย
รขโฌลYup. รขโฌย Swan nodded. His afro bobbed back and forth. รขโฌลAnรขโฌโข the crazier shit, the better. รขโฌย
He stuck out his hand, and after a second, we shook.
รขโฌลAll right.
He grinned.
รขโฌลRight on. Damn, partner. Iรขโฌโขm starved. Letรขโฌโขs eat. รขโฌย
***
I drove. Swan had to rack the seat back as far as it would go and bend himself almost in half, but he managed to squeeze inside the beetle. It was still pretty early, so the club was quiet when we got there. I didnรขโฌโขt see anybody I knew yet either, but the souvlaki joint was packed.
Inside, I nodded to the Asian guy working the counter, Chucky. He slapped my hand, and Swan and I each ordered a large lamb souvlaki with veggies and extra feta. We got a couple drinks and found two empty stools at the skinny bar along the back wall.
Between bites of hot, meaty, drippy goodness, we slurped on cold beer and got to know each other, almost shouting to be heard over the music from the blues CD blaring out of the beatbox on the counter.
รขโฌลI was born and raised in Chicago,รขโฌย Swan said, licking at a blob of greasy sauce running down his wrist. รขโฌลMy pop left and moved to Brooklyn when I was little, so I spent summers with him, hanginรขโฌโข out in the city. Auntieรขโฌโขs my momรขโฌโขsรขโฌยฆuhรขโฌยฆรขโฌย He tried to come up with the right word, then just grinned and shrugged. รขโฌลWell. You know. Her brother. His real name is Shakim.
รขโฌลShakim?รขโฌย I blinked.
Swan laughed and nodded. รขโฌลYup. I think my Gramma wanted him to go into politics, get radical, join the Panthers or somethinรขโฌโข, you know? Mom says she always knew he was gay, even when he was a kid. But nobody but me knows what heรขโฌโขs up to nowadays, what with the titties anรขโฌโข all. รขโฌย
รขโฌลSo youรขโฌโขd come here and visit?รขโฌย
รขโฌลMm. Yep.
I noticed that Swan was slowly losing the hip-hop attitude, the longer we talked. Maybe he was getting more comfortable around me. I finished my sandwich, wiped my hands and shrugged.
รขโฌลI donรขโฌโขt know. My dadรขโฌโขs drinking himself into the ground.
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