Just Like That?

Ava wasn't quite sure she heard what he said, so she asked, "please do you mind repeating yourself?"

Mason blew out a breath, "I said, strip off your clothes," he glanced at his wristwatch impatiently.

"Oh.....," Ava said. So she did hear him correctly the first time. She was quite conscious of her body, she has never been naked in front of a man before. Asking her to strip with him watching her was a difficult task for her.

"Are you having second thoughts, Miss Ava? Because if you are, it's fine we can...."

"No!" Ava blurted out. "I'm not having second thoughts," She said, but yet she didn't make any effort to take off her clothes. How was she supposed to just start stripping off her clothes with him watching her like a hawk?

Mason glanced at his gold wristwatch irritably, "I don't have all evening Miss Ava." He looked up at her, "if you are having second thoughts, all you just have to do is make a refund of the money you've been paid and we will be out of each other's hair."

"I want to do this," Ava pleaded.

Mason could see fear in her eyes. If she was scared then why did she agree to this in the first place?

"Then go on with it already," Mason said.

Ava took a few deep breaths before she bent down to take off her shoes, but Mason stopped her.

"Leave the shoes on."

"Okay....." Ava took another deep breath, trying to calm herself.

Mason watched as she brought her hands around her back and unzipped her dress. From the way her fingers were slightly trembling, he could tell that she was feeling nervous.

Her pale skin glistened under the light in the room, her golden blonde hair fell on her shoulders.

As she pushed her dress down to her waist, Mason stopped her.

"That's enough, please get dressed." Mason got up.

"I will have the remaining money transferred to you before the end of today," he adjusted his suit and left the hotel room without saying another word to her.

"Just like that?" Ava asked herself in disbelief. Wasn't he supposed to sleep with her? Why was he leaving without doing that? Or didn't he like what he saw? Ava looked down at her body.

She put her dress back on, and she left the hotel room. When she got outside of the hotel, she hailed down a cab to take her place.

"How did it go?" Madson asked Ava as she walked into the tiny apartment that they both shared.

Ava kicked off her shoes, crumpled on the bed, and curled herself into a ball. She was tired and all she just wanted to do was sleep, probably when she woke up, she would be able to put everything that happened behind her.

Madson came and sat next to her on the bed, she placed her right arm on Ava's shoulder. "Don't worry, your first time isn't always enjoyable, but subsequently you would start to enjoy it," Madson said.

"We didn't do it," Ava softly said.

"You didn't do what?"

Slowly, Ava sat up on the bed, "he didn't have sex with me."

Madson looked surprised, "he didn't have sex with you__, wait, hold on for a second, please don't tell me you got there and decided that you couldn't go on with it?" Madson knew the type of friend that she had. She knew Ava was capable of doing such a thing. She had actually done it before in her past relationship. Ava had promised her then-boyfriend that they were going to have sex, and the guy had lodged them into a hotel with the hope that Ava was going to sleep with him, only for her to change her mind. Her boyfriend got furious and broke up with her.

"What did you do Ava?" Madson asked.

"I didn't do anything, maybe if I did, then I am not aware of it," Ava said.

"Then why didn't the guy sleep with you?"

"I don't know. First of all, he said he had changed his mind and didn't want to g through with the arrangement anymore, and later on, he said we could go on with it. When we got to his hotel room he asked me to strip off my clothes and while I was in the middle of doing so, he asked me to stop."

"What sort of a confused person is that?"

"I don't know. He just asked me to stop and then said he was going to have the remaining part of the money sent to me. And then he left."

"Just like that?" Madson asked in disbelief.

"Yeah, just like that. I still don't understand why he did that."

"Well, that's his problem," Madson said with a shrug.

"But why would he want to pay for something that he didn't get? It doesn't make any sense."

"Who says he didn't get something from you? You spent your time with him, and they say time is money. And besides, you don't know if he is the type that gets off from watching a woman undress."

"He didn't take off his clothes, he didn't even move a muscle while undressed. He showed no emotion whatsoever. Do you think he was repulsed by my body?"

"Repulsed by your body? Are you being serious? Which sane man would be repulsed by your body? Have you looked at yourself in the mirror? Ava, you are beautiful, you have a body that so many girls would kill to have. I would kill to have your boobs."

"Probably my boobs are too big for his liking? He prefers smaller boobs maybe? Or perphaps they aren't big enough? Or___''

"Please stop it already. Whatever reason he decided to leave, has nothing to do with you. The most important thing is that you get paid."