The two sisters strode south down the sidewalk, looking for the building, hand-in-hand, each feeling the other’s gentle terror in her occasional grip.
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Claudia and Katherine Mahoney, 19 & 21, auburn & dark brown, both sheet-rock pale, had moved-in with each other two years ago; the Dept. of Education was catching-up to Katherine, Claudia had to drop-out, and neither could get jobs even waiting tables; not without experience, not in this goddamn economy.
They both knew that they were kinda delicious: slim & tiny-titti-ed, broad-assed luscious; they’d heard the whistles all their lives, and now when they first saw the ad they both knew no one but them would ever know. No one, not ever. Just us, however bad.
Plougher’s Modeling Agencey, Inc.
They stood outside the cheap façade in the early-afternoon summer sun, a half-hour early as required, and asked each other again if they wanted to do this, each shoring-up the other with fake courage, and then they boldly walked in to sign the papers, the disclaimers, for their 3-hour appointment.
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Their signatures stared back at them in blue, now everything formally agreed to, all nice & legal, and the two girls sitting side-by-side across the table from the producer and a couple of his assistants: former clients, beautiful girls employed to ease the anxieties of the fresh meat.
“We’ve decided that you, Claudia, will be cast in the Steel Dreams shoot; and Katherine-dear, you will be working with our guys for the Extreme Ream video –you’re older, we think you’ll be…well, uhmm, better able to handle it, I should say.”
“…what ‘steel’?” Claudia tried not to whimper, and gripped her sister’s hand under the table; Katherine gripped back, and it occurred to her that she had her own concerns.
“…how many ‘guys’?”
“Our whole stable –but don’t worry, dear, they’re all professionals.”
“…steel?!” Claudia tried not to shout.
“Our flagship mechanical-sex contraption, luv –our newest & best yet”, he said with not a little pride, “ –3 horsepower, contour-padding, the restraints are wool-lined…and it even ejaculates!” cheerfully, as if selling her the world’s greatest toaster rather than an afternoon’s ride on a rape machine.
“The money is already in your accounts”, the producer said with a note of finality “ –$1500 apiece, and because you’ll both be working so hard for us today we paid your rent as well…consider it a bonus.”
Their fingernails dug into the other’s palms, Claudia & Katherine looking at each other, and again, silently, the two sisters promised to never speak of this after today.
“Very good! Now Virginia & Phoenix will show you each to your respective studios” and the porn queens escorted the two sisters out of the office across the hall each before two separate doors of two small, separate rooms; the girls looked at each other one last time before it would all begin.
“…our troubles are over, baby” Katherine smiled to her sister, a little afraid, for both of them.
