From about the age of thirteen Bret became increasingly aware of his mother's straitened financial circumstances.
His father, Gregory, had worked for a large export company and had been busily climbing the promotional ladder. One day he chanced to be passing a bank when two masked men rushed out carrying bags and shotguns. Bravely, if unwisely, Gregory tried to intervene and received a fatal shot gun blast in the face.
He was twenty nine when he died and he left little in the way of assets to Prudence his young wife: a house burdened with a mortgage; furniture and a car still being paid for, and a small amount of money in an investment fund.
Prudence, being an exceptionally attractive young woman might easily have married again even though it meant taking on a young boy along with her, but she elected not to remarry.
As Prudence said, "Gregory was the love of my life," and that meant she was unwilling to take on anyone else.
Whether over the years following Gregory's death Prudence had any lovers is not known. If she did she was very circumspect and certainly Bret knew nothing of any such amorous activates.
She had married young and before she was really trained for any particular work. She struggled on for some years picking up jobs cleaning or as a waitress, until she finally landed a job which she vaguely described as "Customer Service." It was after she started the latter job that things picked up a little financially.
Bret was an affectionate and caring son, and as he became aware of things financial he offered to try and pick up part time jobs to help out with the money. Prudence accepted this offer but only if it didn't interfere with his studies. The jobs he got were poorly paid and mainly with fast food outlets.
Despite the improvement in their financial circumstances when Bret went to university the expense meant that money became tight again, and Bret offered to drop out of university and get a full time job. Prudence would not have this, and talked about his education and preparing himself for a well paid profession.
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One day during his first year at university Bret was talking over the financial situation with his close friend Arny.
Arny listened for a while and then said, "You're a fool to be working for the pittance those fast food people pay."
"What else is there?" Brett asked, "I'm not trained for anything else, so what do you suggest?"
Arny grinned and said, "Do you ever see me short of money?"
"Well no, but I thought your parents..."
"Not at all," Arny interrupted, "They think I make some money doing the sort of jobs you do. If they knew what I really do they'd go crazy."
"What?"
"If I tell you, keep your mouth shut."
Bret was intrigued so he said, "Promise."
"I fuck women."
"You what?"
"I fuck women and get paid for doing it."
"You're kidding me."
"No, that's how I make money."
"You mean you're a gigolo...that old women pay..."
"No, no, nothing like that. You know those erotic videos and films you can watch on the internet?"
"Yes."
"So who do you think does the performing?"
"You mean...?"
"Yes, that's just what I mean. If you're able to get it up easily, then you get to fuck some good looking girls. There are plenty of girls around here working their way through college letting guys like me fuck them in front of a video camera."
"Arny," Bret gasped.
"No need to be shocked Bret. I make a lot more money that you do."
"But fucking a lot of sluts..."
"Sluts nothing," Arny replied, "some of them are nice middleclass church going women with a husband and kids, just secretly making a bit of extra money or having a good time; or both," he added with a grin. "Everybody wins: I get to fuck sexy women; the women enjoy it; we both get paid; the boss gets people to sign up on the internet site; and the internet customer gets to masturbate while he or she looks at me doing the real thing."
"You mean those things you can see on the internet aren't faked?"
Arny shrugged, "Some might be, but our boss demands the real thing, and what's wrong with that. You do a bit of kissing, suck her nipples and lick her cunt, and you often get your cock sucked then you get to stick your cum in her. Mostly we wear condoms, but the older women often like it without an overcoat on; it's great."
There was silence for nearly a minute while Bret tried to digest what Arny had said. Then Arny went on, "You're a nice looking guy, just the sort the boss is looking for, I might be able to get you in...can you get a hard on fairly quickly?"
It was a bane of Bret's life that he could not only get a "hard on" quickly, he was constantly plagued with embarrassing erections.
Seeing his hesitation Arny said, "Okay, if you're content to get a few lousy dollars for serving garbage fine, but I can make in an hour what you get in a week and enjoy doing it, still, if you're satisfied..."
"I'm not satisfied, but if I did decide to give it a try, there's no contract...I mean, if I don't like it I don't have to go on doing it, do I?"
Arny laughed, "No, you don't have to go on doing it, the boss wouldn't want to have an unwilling worker in this sort of job."
"And you think you could get me in?"
"Well, we can try. What about if I take you there this evening and the boss can have a look at you?"
And so the arrangement was made for Arny to pick up Bret and drive him (in his expensive car) to what Arny called, "The Studio."
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The Studio proved to be an old but well kept house in a "desirable suburb," as a house agent might say. This was less of a surprise than "the boss."
The boss was not, as Bret had anticipated, a sinister looking male, but a very attractive looking woman in her forties. She had no modesty regarding her assets. The cleavage between her large breasts was well on display, and the slinky dress she wore was slit along one side to reveal shapely thighs.
Initially she spoke about Bret to Arny as if Bret wasn't there.
"You've told him what the job entails?"
"Yes."
"Can he get it up easily?"
"He says so."