Adult World: Chapter 1

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"I cannot believe we are doing this." Marie muttered as her two friends led the way across the dark parking lot to the small store that was surrounded by fluorescent lights.

"Oh, I can. How awesome is this? I didn’t even know we had one of these!" Tina gushed excitedly, smirking and dragging Marie with her as she reluctantly neared the door. "But leave it to Missy to know." she snickered and the other girl who was walking ahead of them turned around to glare.

"I found it in the phonebook." Missy, the organizer of the little shopping trip, told Tina but Tina just smirked in reply.

"Oh, sure you did." She replied sarcastically and then turned to Marie. "She's probably a regular customer. But I don’t blame her, I mean, I’m probably going to be coming back. These store's rock!" She said with enthusiasm, gripping Marie’s arm tighter as the girl tried to pull away and gave her a warning glance.

Out of all her friends, Tina was probably the most outgoing, crazy person Marie knew. She was the one who got along with everyone. Wasn’t a jock, although she played on two school teams, and wasn’t a popular prissy girl, since she was more of a tom boy. They’d been best friends since Kindergarten. And despite their major clashes in personality, they were the closest two people could get.

Then there was Missy. The practical one. Student Council, Volunteer Daycare worker, the whole nine yards.

Always trailing along of course, preferring not to be in the spotlight, was herself, Marie. Nothing really like either of them and was more shy then anything else, preffering to keep to herself.

And finally there was fourth one of their group who was absent from their current excursion seeing as though she was the reason they were on it in the first place.

Anita. Probably the most free spirited of them all and the all American good girl.

And at the moment they were shopping for her birthday party.

"She's going to kill us if we get her anything from here. I don’t see why we have to..." Marie started as they came up to the store but Tina cut her off.

"Shut up. We're going in..." She ordered and pulled her inside and the door shut behind them, cutting off the fluorescent lights that lit up the large sign for 'Adult World'.

"Oh god." Marie muttered.

"Oh yeah!" Tina outburst and Marie could feel her face heat up as the few customers of the store turned to look at them but Tina paid no mind. She was loud by nature and had no embarrassment level.

"You guys look around. I already know what I’m getting." Missy told them before walking away.

"Oh, I so told you she came here a lot. She’s walking like she knows the place." Tina laughed and grabbed Marie's hand, pulling her towards the other side of the store.

Marie groaned and told herself to look straight ahead as they passed a display of glow in the dark penis pumps with a very graphic visual art on the top of the case. She could feel her cheeks heat up even more and could only imagine what her face looked like at the moment.

She was a shy person by nature. She couldn't help it. Even though she'd lost her virginity over a year before and had heard of alot of different 'toys' some people liked... It was a very humiliating experience to be walking through an adult store, especially when you were with a friend who was acting like she was a kid in a candy store.

"Check it out." Tina said and Marie whined pathetically to herself before looking to where Tina’s gaze was and saw the guy at the register. Leaning over the counter reading a magazine, his pitch black hair falling into his face. Bracelets and rings littered his wrists and fingers.

"What?" Marie muttered, hoping the fact that her voice was low would remind Tina that hers should be also.

"Hot guy who works at a Porn Store." Tina said grinning like an insane person, nudging Marie with an elbow as her friend hissed. "I bet he's a total perve."

Marie's jaw dropped in horror. "And I bet he just heard you!" she hissed and looked back at the guy at the counter and when she saw his lips upturned into a smirk, she knew he had in fact heard, although his focus was still on his magazine.

This was the most embarrassing night of her life she, concluded. She was here, in an adult store, with two of her best friends. She just prayed no one saw her on their way out, or no one did on her way in. She didn’t want this to get back to her church going parents and have to explain.

"Ooh, look at this!" Tina suddenly outburst and Marie didn't even bother to tell her to quiet down and just groaned and looked at what Tina was holding up like a trophy and grinning like an idiot.

Marie’s eyes narrowed confusedly as she tried to make out what it was and then her eyes widened in horror as she finally figured it out.

"It's a dildo with a suction cup on the end!" Tina laughed. "You just stick it to something and then..." She said, her next words muffled by Marie’s horrified hand covering her mouth, breaking off what her friend was about to say right out loud.

Feeling eyes on her, she glanced over her shoulder at the register and saw the guys shoulders now shaking with laughter, and then his head lift and his striking green eyes meet hers with an amused grin on his face. Marie quickly looked away, her blood pumping with humiliation.

"Oh, my God." Marie whined and grabbed Tina’s hand and pulled her towards the opposite end of the store, as far from the front as she could. "I. Hate. You."

"You love me." Tina replied, still grinning and looking at everything she passed. "That guy is totally hot and you should thank me for getting his attention. He was so looking at you."

"Yeah, cause my face probably resembles a tomato." Marie muttered, even more embarrassed as she thought about that fact.

Tina laughed and picked up a box of edible condoms and flipped it over to read it.

"Okay. I got everything. Tina, you are not buying that." Missy said quickly as she walked over to them holding a bunch of packages in her hands, and after glancing at a few of the labels, Marie knew Anita would die when she unwrapped them.

"Why not? It's awesome. You think Principal Arnold will flip if I walked around school in this shirt on?" She laughed, holding up a black shirt with pictures of 'the 6 most pleasurable positions' on it.

"No. He'd probably fantasize about you and him doing what that shirt shows." Missy responded, smirking, and Tina made a disgusted sound before quickly throwing the shirt back. "Lets go. There’s still more places we have to hit before the party." she said before walking towards the front of the store.

"I’m gonna… go in the car." Marie tried but Tina was already grabbing her arm and pulling her along towards the register.

"Cut it out." Tina nudged her and Marie just shook her head and dropped the hand that was covering her face. Looking up she saw Missy already at the register laying her stuff on the counter and as if he knew she was looking at him, the guy raised his eyes and they met hers again.

Now that she was closer she got the full impact of them. They were such a striking green she couldn’t seem to look away.

But found herself doing so when Tina nudged her again.

"This all?" He asked.

"I don’t know, you guys got like any secret rooms with even more stuff in 'em? Like illegal stuff. Whips, Chains, full body harnesses. Stuff that's outlawed?" Tina asked, only half jokingly as the guy laughed and even Marie managed a small smile through her embarrassment at her friends question.

"You know something, Tina, I think you were a dominatrix in another life." Missy, smiling herself, shook her head as she reached in her purse for her parents credit card.

"Another life? What are you talking about. I am in this one. Weeknights and weekends, baby."

The guy grinned. "Okay. $78.67."

Missy passed him her card and he ran it through his register.

"Alright, just sign here." He said, handing her the receipt and Marie rung her hands together, wanting them to hurry up when she felt him look at her again. "So you didn’t find anything you wanted?" He asked and she looked up only to realize he was directing the question at her and flushed. She could actually see the amusement dancing in his eyes.

"No." She said shortly, crossing her arms over her chest.

He just nodded, still watching her as he grabbed the receipt, not even bothering to look down at it but instead his eyes remained on hers.

"Well, we get new stuff in all the time so make sure you come back."

"We will." Tina promised with a smirk and then winked at Marie.

Shaking her head with a smirk, Missy grabbed the bags and headed for the door, the two girls following behind her.

"You are the lamest, shyest person in the world!" Tina groaned as they walked out of the store and to their car. "He was like totally checking you out and you just stand there, Blushing!"

Marie’s face flushed even more. "What did you expect me to do? And he wasn’t checking me out." she said, crossing her arms over her chest again, a protective gesture she did unconsciously, as they got in the car.

"Whatever. One of these days you’re going to break out of your shell and I'm going to love it." Missy grinned at her from the drivers seat as Marie climbed in shotgun and tina got in the back.

"Look." Tina said and they glanced to the door as the guy in question walked out and leaned against the side of the store as he lit a cigarette, obviously on his break. "Stop up there real quick, Missy." Tina said and before Marie could protest Tina was talking out her window again. "Hey! My friend says she’ll be your number one customer if you test some of the things you sell out with her." she yelled out the window and Marie literally froze in her seat.

He looked up grinning and blew out a line of smoke, turning his piercing eyes on Marie. "In that case, come back real soon."

Tina started laughing. "Count on it!" she called out as Missy, laughing herself, pulled out.

Marie sat frozen as they pulled out of the parking lot and her two friends erupted with laughter.

Glancing in the rearview mirror she saw the guy shaking his head and laughing himself as he took another drag and watched the car pull away.

"I. Hate. You. Guys." was all she could manage, hoping she never saw that guy again in her life. Praying she didn’t.

"Yeah, we love you, too." Her friends chimed.

Letting her head fall to the dashboard she heard them break out into more laughter.

She was never going into a store like that again.

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