The heat blew against her face when she stepped out of the air conditioned taxi. 'It is really hot in this country,' Maria thought. She had just arrived to Rhodesia, a country in deep Africa. She knew Rhodesia had been ruled by the British for a long time. Couple of years ago the natives had taken the control, but still there were lot of fortune owned by the white men, even though they had given up most of the land. This hotel, in the yard of which Maria was now, was also a property of an Englishman. Ok, hotel is probably a wrong word for this. It was more like a private holiday center for wealthy customers.
Maria was not on vacation here. Actually she never could afford to stay in place like this. She had been hired to work as personal trainer for a period of six months. Maria had just graduated to gym teacher, but she didn't want to start working in any school yet after finding this great opportunity. This work was not odd for her. She had financed her college studies by working part time in local gym center and always liked doing that, even though her future plans were in teaching. She had done sports all her life and that could be seen in her fit figure.
She had seen this open vacancy in the internet by accident. The ad had immediately raised her interest. Though she had never been abroad she considered herself a little adventurous. She had no bindings since she had broken up with her boyfriend half years ago. The promised salary was excellent. After the six months she would have gathered nice savings. The living in this center didn't cost anything. It was part of the contract. Without too much thinking Maria had emailed her application and CV to the address mentioned in the ad. She got a reply within a few days. They had sent her a list of questions and asked a picture of her. After couple of more emails, she was told to be chosen to this job. They had mailed her two copies of a contract, which she had signed and returned the other copy.
Maria was happy she had chosen light clothing for the trip. Otherwise she would be wet of the sweat. She had long white leggings reaching just under her knees. Her upper body was covered with thin tunic type shirt, which also reached over her ass. She had sandals on her feet. The taxi driver carried her luggage to the lobby of the hotel. Maria thanked him and walked to the reception.
"Good afternoon. My name is Maria Barnes and I'm supposed to meet Mr. Billings. I will start to work here."
She could swear she saw a sudden grin in hotel clerk's face before he replied. "Second floor and the last room in the corridor left. The elevator is there," he pointed.
Maria took her luggage and looked once more around. Already the lobby was gorgeous. I wonder how luxurious this place really is. She got herself on the second floor and walked to the end of the corridor. 'J.E. Billings Manager,' she could read from the heavy wooden door. She knocked.
A man maybe in his sixties opened the door and smiled friendly. "You must be Ms. Barnes, please come in. I warmly welcome you to our facilities," he said politely.
"Thank you Mr. Billings. I have been waiting for this."
"Please, just call me Josh," Mr. Billings said and offered his hand.
Maria shook his hand. "Nice to meet you Mr..., I mean Josh. I'm Maria."
"Delighted. We are so happy to get you here. We have had several bad experiences of our trainers and I believe a well educated lady like you won't cause any trouble."
"I will try my best not to," Maria replied.
"Good. We have some papers to clear. First, I need your passport."
"Oh, I mean why?" Maria wondered.
"I need to deliver a copy of it to the local authorities. You will get it back soon... Then I need you signature into this confidentially agreement. We don't want to tell to our competitors of our activities. Please read it through."
Maria spent some time to read the papers and was a little shocked when noticing the amount of the penalty. "2 million dollars. I find it very big, Josh."
"Don't put too much thought on that, dear. It is really more to keep the employees aware of the importance of this agreement. As long as you don't break it, you have nothing to worry about. Or are you going to break it?"
"Of course not. I guess it is not a problem then," Maria nodded and signed the agreement. "Josh, can you tell about my work?"
"Sure, Maria. As you have probably understood this is a luxury holiday center and we have only wealthy guests, around the world. We offer them very personal service. One trainer like you will take care of three customers during the six day period. You will guide them in the gym, give them good pieces of advice how to live healthy and also spend time with them. After the period, you will have one day off before the next guest group arrives."
"That sounds very interesting. In my previous job I was not really able to concentrate only on few persons and I find your way very effective. I promise to do my best."
"I'm sure you will, dear."
"Two more questions, Josh. When I will start and where is my room?"
"Actually, you will meet the customers right away. In fifteen minutes you will have an introduction session. You will have discussion and get acquainted with each others."
"That soon? I'm not anyway prepared for that. Should I have work-out clothes on?"
"No. And don't worry. The meaning of this session is only to get known each other. You don't need any preparation, just be yourself"
"Will I have time to get my things to my room?"
"I'm sorry no. We have to look a room for you later. You can leave your luggage to my office. But now we have to go, your group is waiting." Mr. Billings stood up and guided Maria out of his office. They took the elevator to one level below the lobby and walked towards a door which was ajar.
Mr. Billings escorted Maria into the room. It was a smallish gym room with mirrors on one wall. The floor had a soft surface like a thin firm mattress. There were no exercise machines. Only thing Maria could see was four chairs in the middle of the room. Three of them were occupied by middle aged men. They stood up when saw Maria and Mr. Billings to enter.
"Good afternoon, gentlemen," Billings said in loud voice, "Let me introduce you to your personal trainer, Maria Barnes. She will spend the week with you. Maria, all of these three gentlemen are our regular guests and have visited us several times earlier. I thought it would be easier for you, since these guys know the house habits already."
"Nice to meet you, I'm Phil," the first man introduced himself and offered his hand.
"Nice to meet you Phil". The other two men repeated the action. The man who seemed to be the oldest was Chuck and the muscular blond man Sergei. Phil and Chuck were both from USA and Sergei from Ukraine.
Mr. Billings said, "I leave you four now. Enjoy your session," and left the room closing the door behind him.
"Please sit down, Maria," Phil said and pointed the chair. They all sat down. And then they start chatting. They talked about their backgrounds, educations, families etc. Maria was enjoying, especially Phil seemed to be a funny man. The men were amazed of Maria's beautiful smile and the shine of her eyes.
"How come you are not married, Maria? A very beautiful girl like you," Chuck asked.
"I'm in no hurry. I'm only 24. And I haven't find suitable candidate, so to say," Maria replied.
"Shouldn't be too difficult with your looks," Chuck laughed, "Don't you have even a boyfriend?"
"No. Not at the moment. We broke up about six months ago."
"You say, you haven't had sex for half a year. You must be horny."
Maria was shocked about his comment. "I think this a little too intimate subject to handle in this group. I'd hope we can drop it," she tried to say politely
Phil interfered, "No, I find this very interesting. Are you horny?"
"I think it is not your business. I can manage," she said a bit anger in her voice.
