Amber and Rachel in...The Dreaded Lunch

[OscarD]

The day after the Pink Party, I was talking on the phone with Rachel. She called to ask my advice about some business stuff she was working on, and then we got off onto other subjects.

I had an idea. “Hey,” I said, “are you doing anything tonight?”

“Nope,” she said.

“Well then get your butt over here and we’ll order a pizza and binge-watch something.”

She said that was a great idea and that she’d bring wine. And I found Amber and told her Rachel was coming over for dinner.

“OK, cool, but you’ll have to go to the grocery store first, because I don’t have anything in the fridge.”

“Nah. We’re ordering pizza. I’ll hit the grocery tomorrow.”

“You’ll want to go early! I invited Stella and Miranda over for lunch.”

“Ugh. Oh, wait, I suddenly just remembered that I have a business lunch…”

“Oh, no you don’t. I’m not going to do that all by myself.”

I gave a dissatisfied grunt at that.

“Hey, deal with it.”

“But why? You said yourself that they creep you out.”

“Because Stella said that since she came back with Miranda they have no social life anymore, that’s why. All of her friends have abandoned her. I think it’s terrible the way she’s being treated, and honestly, I know how it feels.”

“Oh, because real girls give you a hard time because…”

“Because I’m a Factory Girl. Exactly. So now they’re going to reject Stella because she’s a lesbian.”

“Ehhhh, I’m not sure that’s the reason.”

“Oh, come on. Of course it is.”

I cocked my head a little, but didn’t say anything.

“Well, if it’s not that she’s a lesbian what is it?”

“I mean, how much time do you have?”

“OK, so tell me.”

“Well, first of all, how old is she? Like 32?”

“Something like that, yeah.”

“And until a few weeks ago she was straight as can be. Now not only is she a lesbian but she’s basically a bull dyke. She showed up at that thing wearing a suit like she was a man.”

“So what?”

“So screw whoever you want to screw, but the point of the Pink Party is it’s dark suits with a hint of pink for the guys and pink dresses for the chicks. Instead Stella has to break the rules and pretend to be a dude.”

“Oscar, she’s just expressing herself.”

“I know. As an asshole. You know as well as I do that when she wants to, Stella can make herself look absolutely beautiful. Instead, we all got treated to an exposition of Bad Ellen DeGeneres. We’re supposed to thank her for that?”

[OscarD]

“Wow, you are some kind of tough.”

“I’m just sick of her shit, that’s all. Stella has always been the brat whose lousy decisions reverberate and screw up everybody else’s life.”

“You mean all the Paula stuff.”

“There is zero doubt in my mind that if it wasn’t for Stella hooking up with Dan Cole, you wouldn’t have gotten kidnapped. And when that happened, was she any help at all? Nope. Then she walks on that French Maid business, which Cole promptly turned into a call-girl service and everybody in town knows it.”

“Do they really? That’s not good.”

“No, it isn’t. Considering that you and Katie both worked for Stella before Cole turned it into a prostitution ring, you’re now tainted by it. Meanwhile, Stella gets a check from that thing every month that she’s living off of. So morally she’s not much different than Cole is.”

“You think that’s why people don’t like her anymore?”

“I think it’s a big part of the problem. Her parents gave up on her over that, not this lesbian business.”

“I mean, it’s not a business, though. It’s who she is!”

“No it isn’t. That girl is not a lesbian.”

“You think this is an act?”

“I think this is a big fat ‘F**k You’ to everybody she knows. I think she had it in her head when she went to Europe that she was above all of us and wouldn’t have to be accountable for any of the stuff she did, and when she hooked up with this girl Miranda it hit her that she could give us all a fat shit sandwich to eat.”

“She does have a sort of unconventional streak to her.”

“Oh, it’s more than that. Stella is too good for the world. And Miranda sees her as a meal ticket, and Miranda’s whole life is one search for a meal ticket after another. So Miranda kisses Stella’s ass by telling her how smart and brave she is, and Miranda is the one talking her into dressing and talking like a guy…”

“Oh my God, you are so right! Her voice is, like, way lower than it was.”

“It’s ridiculous. She’s now a bad imitation of a man. To go from how cute she was back in January to now is just a damn shame.”

“So you don’t think she’s discovered herself finally at all. Like, you don’t buy any of that.”

“Not for one second. At the party last night she was talking to me and she was bragging about how she’s knocking the bottom out of Miranda’s pussy with her strap-on and it came off so fake that it was all I could do not to laugh in her face.”

“Ugh. I didn’t hear that part.”

“Yeah, she was drunk. But Ashley heard it too, and I think Ashley was about to throw up.”

“Now I’m really regretting that I invited them over.”

“Maybe we can get Rachel to come to lunch, too. Give us some insulation against Stella The Fake Dyke and her thief girlfriend.”

“Oh, you are not kidding. Miranda stole some girl’s necklace. She put it on like right before they left. It looked expensive, too.”

“I wouldn’t trust that girl as far as I could throw her. She is very bad news.”

[OscarD]

The topic of Stella and Miranda didn’t go away when Rachel came over. We kicked it around over dinner…

“So will you come over for lunch and give me moral support?”

“Sure. I’m fascinated by all this. You didn’t tell me Stella had started playing for the other team!”

“Rachel! Oh my God!”

“You know what I mean.”

“Rachel,” I said, “you’re a pretty good judge of character. Do you think I’m right that this is just a big in-your-face to everybody she knows?”

“You mean the Miranda thing?”

“Yeah. It’s not just that she’s a lesbian now. It’s that she found the sketchiest chick she could get her hands on to do it with.”

“I don’t know. I want to get eyes on this Miranda girl. Is she all tatted up?”

“No,” said Amber. “Or not really. She has tattoos, but they’re not visible.”

“OK, how gross is she?”

“Actually,” I said, “she’s a little like Stella. If she wanted to be, she could be a very pretty girl. But she goes out of her way to look dirty.”

“She looks a little like Cameron Diaz on meth,” said Amber.

“Oh, now I’ve GOT to see this.”

“Yeah, well, wait until you see Stella,” I said. “That bitch had on a suit and tie at the Pink Party.”

Rachel just rolled her eyes.

“You think that’s bad?” Amber said. “I just can’t get worked up about it.”

“It’s like these attention-whore high school girls who have to wear a suit to the prom,” said Rachel. “They don’t ALWAYS dress like men, but they want to do it when it can make the most amount of trouble and put them in the spotlight, and they can’t do it by looking hot. That’s always pissed me off.”

I clinked my glass with Rachel’s. We were in total agreement.

“You two are gonna make this so much worse tomorrow,” said Amber.

“I don’t think so,” I said. “How bad it gets, that’s actually your fault for inviting them.”

“Oscar! You better behave yourself!”

Rachel just laughed.

“You too, girlfriend. You’re supposed to be helping!”

“That’s right, Rachel,” I said. “No agitation allowed!”

“Hey, all I’m doing is observing. If this little luncheon turns into a train wreck, I’m just going to grab the popcorn.”

“Save some for me!” I said.

Amber looked at me in terror, and I couldn’t stop laughing.

[Jedzed]

Great fun. Love reading your stories.

Have you thought about turning these stories into graphic novels and making some cash from them?

[Mcallister]

Incredible writing, and the pictures are just as amazing. I especially enjoyed the leggings and the natural way the girls were chatting at the table

[OscarD]

Thanks!

Yeah, I keep thinking there has to be some sort of way to monetize this thing.

I thought about doing an Oscar & Amber Instagram and seeing where that leads, but the current format of these things doesn’t really work on Instagram, does it?

The graphic novel idea is a cool one, but the problem there is now you’re selling on Amazon and there’s literally 50 million other books on Amazon. How to get seen is a serious problem. I’ve got a friend who’s a published author, and he’s transitioning out of dealing with publishers and starting his own thing and he says selling books is an absolute nightmare.

So I’d love to have this turn a buck some sort of way. If it did and I could justify the time-and-money investment I’ve made into this hobby, I’d absolutely take it to the next level. Very open to ideas…

[OscarD]

Thanks!

It’s all in the volume. Take a bunch of pics, run them through the AI apps a bunch of times and then you’re just trying to match them to the script.

Of course, the script has to inform the pics. So for example I needed a shot of Amber looking into the fridge for the first image because that’s what the script called for…

[Mcallister]

I understand, but I’m still going to give you all the credit

[dollface]

Nothing ventured, nothing gained Oscar!

I know when I begin reading a book in a series, if I get hooked on the first one, I will order the rest!

I have a couple of friends who ask, “what are you reading now?”
I am happy to tell them

[Jedzed]

I wrote and independently published two Hotwife novels on Amazon Kindle.
If you put specific terms in the publishing boxes like “erotica”, “graphic novel” etc., (I think about 7 terms allowed) then the book appears in those genres, usually right at the beginning of searches. So new books released are very quickly seen by those looking under those specific terms.
Even at £1.99 and £2.99 prices for the two, and 30% royalties, I made around £5000 - which really surprised me! Yes, after about a year, sales drop off; but if you release novels often enough, then you build a client base. And if those clients are giving you four or five stars then your books remain high on the list and are taken up by others.
It’s worth giving it a go. You may not make millions (or you may???) but you’ll certainly make something. I wrote my novels just for fun because I thought I could. Didn’t expect to make much, but sales were better than I thought. I could’ve kept going but work life got in the way
I published them under a pen-name so that I wouldn’t be recognised. Once sales dropped to nothing, I unpublished them.
Give it a go, you might be surprised - especially if you allow them to be sold on Amazon Japan; very big market for graphic stories there.

[OscarD]

Hmm. Food for thought. Thanks!