He had a book, that's what everyone said anyway. Justin Bradshaw's book of names and ratings of the women he'd conquered, had become the talk of the small town where I used to live. Newly single, I was intrigued. The knowing that someone as sexy as him wanted me, would pen my name in this infamous book, I wanted that validation.
I guess it was also because I wanted to be like him, that I never wanted to love someone again but to use men like my ex had used me, like Justin seemed to do with women too. To live in the moment, enjoy the act of sex and move on to the next, no strings. In a way, it was less about the sex and more about idolising what he was doing, aspiring to become the female version of him, someone the polar opposite of what and who I was.
It would be a bonus though, that someone like him could teach me a thing or two, if I was going to willingly go down the path of whoredom. I needed someone experienced to show me the basics at least, I'd never even gone on top before. I had lost my virginity at eighteen to my first proper boyfriend and had only had sex with him for the eight years that followed.
My ex had made me come to view sex as overrated, something that was only to be enjoyed by men, almost chore-like. I wanted to find out if there was more to it, I wanted to experience the type of sex that my childhood best friend Poppy had told me about. I had reasoned with myself back then that I was lucky to have a man committed to me, even if the pleasure of our sex was painstakingly one-sided.
Fast forward a year after our break up and I was ready to make up for lost time, I was fed up with dry-humping a pillow and watching lesbian porn to get myself off. I was still young and beautiful and I could feel a sense of urgency that my time was running out. I wanted to explore my sexuality, I wanted to know what it felt like for a man to make me orgasm, to see if it was even possible. Most of all, I wanted to know what it felt like to be wanted, desired, chased after instead of being invisible.
Most of my friends had a body count that exceeded the tally of the years of my life I'd wasted on my ex. Meanwhile, I had been a glorified sex toy for years to only one man, all the while quietly accepting that it was normal that I had never had an orgasm from being intimate with him. I mean, I never even pretended because he just didn't seem to care. He'd pumped away into me, night after night in the dark, his veiny dick making my pussy lips chafe where he'd go in hard and fast, dry. Then he'd cum and roll off of me, fall straight to sleep without so much of a thanks or I love you.
But Justin Bradshaw... he was always dressed head to toe in designer clothes, had a nice car and shit loads of money. He was a drug dealer and had been in and out of juvenile detention centres and more recently, prison. It was a combination that seemed to draw women to him like moths to a flame, myself included. It went against all rhyme and reason, really he was a walking red flag but nobody seemed to care.
It helped that he had a trophy girlfriend, it seemed to make him even more desirable. We are such bitches to each other when it comes down to it, I don't care what anyone says, girl code doesn't exist when it comes to men like Justin Bradshaw. If he wanted you, he was choosing you over (hands down) the hottest woman in our town at the time and that was undoubtedly a huge turn-on. Even other women who swore they were straight either wanted to be her or wanted to have her.
Lara was twenty-two back then, with a tiny waist and long bleached, blonde hair. She had a stunning face, a peachy bum, big green eyes and huge fake tits. Everyone said she was a filthy bitch too, which I guess was a bonus. If they'd have wanted a threesome with me I would have done it, if just she would have asked me to come over for wine, a takeaway with some scissoring after, I'd have done it. Even back then, when I didn't realise I was bisexual.
I wanted to be in his book. I'd been trapped in a relationship for the best part of my twenties when I'd been in my prime. I thought if I stood a chance with someone who was still pulling nineteen-year-olds and B-list celebrities, it needed to happen now-ish. I knew I wasn't ugly, men still did a double take when they passed me in the street. I'd lost two stone last year from heartbreak, so my figure was the best it had been in years. I'd gone back blonde which coincidentally was Justin's type and I had naturally huge tits, which I also knew was Justin's weakness.
All in all, it would be the biggest and best rebound I could have hoped to have. It would be the biggest 'fuck you' to my ex who had told me that nobody would want me, that he'd had the best of me. Well, I wanted to prove him wrong and prove to myself that I still had 'it' too.
Just thinking about being in Justin's bed, being in his and Lara's bed, where he fucked her, it made me have a tingling sensation between my legs. It was thrilling. Rather than feeling heartbroken, for the first time I felt excited about all that lay ahead. I realised how much I was free now to do and I was going to do it all and so much more.
I'd called Poppy one evening and told her my plan and she'd laughed, "You'll catch something!" She'd said, "He's a man whore!"
In truth though, Poppy had been historically more obsessed with Justin than I was as she'd lost her virginity to him. I hadn't been close to Poppy for years, my ex didn't approve of our friendship so I didn't think it was a big deal that I was interested in Justin. I wasn't going to let her gatekeep him, that was for sure. Surely she was over him by now? My ex had said that Poppy was a bad influence on me, that she was a slag and I'd end up like her if I wasn't careful. Looking back, I just don't think he wanted her to make me realise how much I was wasting myself with him.
I'd thought to myself though, would it be such a bad thing, to be a 'slag?' I kind of wanted to be. Justin slept around and that was celebrated, why the fuck couldn't I? I'd been loyal, chaste and where had that got me? Never again. It was nice to have Poppy back in my life and I needed her guidance with men, I needed her connections anyway. She was a socialite, a party girl and I needed to hang on her coattails if my plan to fuck the hottest guys around was going to succeed.
"He'd never cheat on Lara with you babe, as pretty as you are, no offence." She'd said gently, almost a little condescendingly.
"You're in the book though, right?" I'd asked her, trying to conceal the hurt from my voice.
"Yes and more than once, he showed me the book and he's never shown anyone else, not ever." Poppy purred.
"So you think I'm not as pretty as you are?" I asked her, "Is that what you're saying?"
"What I'm saying," she said, "is that it's not just looks that he goes for babe."
"What do you mean?"
"Lara pegs him and eats his arse like a fucking cupcake. He's into freaky shit and you're more ... girl next door if you know what I mean." I could almost hear the satisfaction in her voice. She always wanted me to do well, and to be happy but never more so than her.