It had been a slightly uncomfortable trip back. Not out of guilt or any embarrassment at what had happened down on the island. Rather because of Harley's enthusiasm in slapping her butt and playing with her breasts. It took a little time to sit comfortably and her tender nipples kept sending messages from their contact with her top. Not that she regretted a thing. Every little sensation just reminded her of how good it had been.
There was, of course, a problem with that. Every memory contrasted with her life back home. She continued her researches and her normal life at the college but it all seemed so bland, so uninspiring. The answer should have been simple of course. She was now a fully enrolled participant in the Challenge. The roll of the die and the turn of the card set her a new task every week. The first four had been performed on camera at home for her members and her subscribers.
1) Shave your pussy - and keep it shaved.
2) Do your cleaning and cooking in a sheer top, short skirt, high-highs and no panties.
3) Twerk in a tight dress while going commando.
4) Dance and strip on camera.
The problem with all of that could still startle her at times. It was all rather ... tame. Not that her audience didn't enjoy it. Especially the twerking - her Members could not get enough of seeing her twerking. But she had already done all of this without the Challenge when she had just been devising her own shows. None of her tasks had given her the thrill of that first show back from the island.
Harley had gifted her an outfit - well hardly an outfit. It was more lingerie bearing a certain logo. A logo that sent a very clear message - especially if, like her Members, you knew that she had just been to the island with Harley. It would tell them all they needed to know which she found very exciting. Almost as exciting as the fact that she knew that she had earned that lingerie on her trip and had earned the right to wear it.
It had been so exciting to sit there and turn on the camera. Then to watch the messages rush up her screen, the congratulations and the pleasure of her Members at seeing what she was wearing. Many a way of saying basically the same things. Firstly,
'ABout fucing time - our Monica done got herself Blacked!'
Followed rapidly by,
'C'mon now Harley when we gonna get a piece of that sweet booty?'
Finally Harley had responded,
'Now this one is just a little bit special. I was thinking I might just keep her for myself. I'm thinking my Monica is a little too fine to be wasted on a raggedy-assed bunch like you all!"
Heather Cameron sat and watched the responses scroll up the screen. Her camgirl persona as Monica had introduced her to many aspects of the world that Heather had not been aware of. Now her Members introduced her to many colorful expressions and a seemingly limitless array of variations in obscenely abusing Harley. Monica could only sit on camera and giggle because she knew Harley was laughing too, wherever he was watching.
It was all a game and every one of them knew it - Monica, Harley and all of her Members. Monica was on screen publicly wearing that lingerie emblazoned 'Blacked'. Her Members all knew what that meant. They also knew that Harley was a generous and a good friend to them all - he was sure to share. In his own good time.
That, of course, was the problem. How did you get excited by doing a naked twerk on camera when you had been down on the Island. They hadn't been playing down there. That had been real and it had changed her. She was ever more Monica rather than being Heather. The old Heather Cameron was devolving into a 'part' that had to be played during intervals when she couldn't be her real self, when she couldn't be Monica.
It was not so long ago that she had never heard of Harley or his TKB Network of camgirls. Not so long ago but that relatively short period of time had changed her. Who could ever have imagined that Heather/Monica would ever have thought that Harley was holding her back! She asked him about it and got a very reasonable reply.
'Baby- you need to have faith in old Harley. Have I ever set you wrong? Every task performed gets you a cash bonus. Check that account you set up and you'll see I ain't lying. Now I know you ain't hurting for money but that ain't so true for some of my girls. This is a way of getting them some easy bonuses. I treat you any different and the Members gonna see it. Don't be fooled into thinking they don't notice these things. They ain't thinking with their dicks all the time!'
A quick check on her phone had revealed the truth of his statement. There were bonus fees paid into the account as well as her regular share of the show incomes. 'I don't need the money,' she had messaged Harley.
His response had set her thinking.
'I know you don't - that's why I especially enjoy paying you that green and you accepting it. I like the fact you getting paid to dance and show off that fine white booty of yours. No rules on what you spend it on. Ain't there no food pantry or something up your way needing your help?'
She took his hint despite the fact that 'her way', the area around her exclusive blue-blood college, wasn't exactly known for its deprivation. She soon found a worthy recipient in one of the old Cameron factory towns. That seemed appropriate and they didn't need to know how she was 'earning' the money she sent them. The groceries they bought would be just as welcome.
Meanwhile, she was 'earning' that money and she thought she had come to know Harley well enough to understand him. For a lot of the girls on TKB this was their living. They performed to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads. Harley knew that was not the case for her. Some of her Members' comments suggested they had figured that much out too - even if they didn't know quite how little she needed anyone's money. They did at least understand that she wasn't in this for the green - she was in it for something else. For the excitement, the thrill, the risk, the adventure - call it what you would. This wasn't a job for her it was a vocation. The vocation of being their entertainment, probably soon of being something more.
So why did Harley pay her? She was pretty sure she understood that too. He paid his girls and he wanted her to be one of his girls so he paid her. More than that - he wanted her to know that was why he was doing it. He wasn't claiming ownership of her - he was allowing her to give herself up to him. Just as she had on the Island. She understood and it could still surprise her just how much that understanding brought her pleasure.
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'H - Turn the card Monica.'
She looked at the playing cards laid down in front of her. The shuffle of the pack and roll of the dice had isolated three cards and now she had to choose one. She did so. The Seven of Spades.