Tick, tock. Tick tock.
Was it only Mercy, or did time go slower when you were waiting for someone? For the umpteenth time that day, the Latina checked the time on her phone - the plane landed twenty minutes ago. With getting through customs and collecting luggage, it made sense that Amalia would take a while to come out, but it still did nothing to assuage her anxiety. Confident as she was in this whole affair, Mercy was still pretty nervous; this was her first time actually
paying someone for their companionship, after all. Being a successful woman was hard, all things considered. Half the people she met were intimidated by her and the other half scoffed at her for getting rich through Daddy's money. Unfortunately, this applied to the dating pool as well, which was already small enough given her sexuality. For women like her, hookups were a dime a dozen - girls liked to throw themselves at her, after all - but long-lasting relationships were few and far between. The last stable girlfriend she had was way back in university, over a decade ago.
So, was paying a girl to be her sugar baby for a week going to solve things? Probably not. Paying a
straight girl to be her sugar baby? Abso-fucking-lutely not. But at this point, Mercedes Costa-Villacrés was well beyond caring. She'd have her fun where she wants it, and she'd decided sitting on a straight girl's face was
fun. The girl in question - Amalia Martínez, an art major student with more debt than both her parents' yearly incomes combined. It didn't take much work to offer her the money; $10K was nickles and dimes as far as Mercy was concerned. It took more effort to actually convince the girl that she wanted her on the job, despite the fact that she was straight.
Especially because she was straight, though she conveniently left that part out in their conversations.
Taking her mind off things, she glanced in the rearview mirror to retouch her makeup. She'd opted for something simple and elegant this time; eyeliner and light blue eyeshadow, some faint blush, dark red lips. Enough to show that she'd put on a face for the occasion, but not so much as to look pompous. Clad in a simple, professional white blouse and skinny black jeans, wrapped in a beige overcoat, the brunette was the definition of
casual chic, if she said so herself. Her go-to choice of fashion, presentable and stylish, befitting of an heiress to a pharmaceutical empire, though her sense of style was drilled into her from a young age by her mother, long before she started working for her father at Costa Pharmaceutical. Perfection was demanded from all the Costa-Villacrés children.
No wonder we're all so fucked up, she mused.
Just then, people started filing out of the terminal, greeted by friends and colleagues as they left one by one. Her light hazel eyes searched the crowds with razor-like sharpness, but she still wasn't here. No red blouse. Tapping her well-manicured fingers against the steering wheel, she waited
impatiently for the girl to come out, even as the crowd started thinning. Eventually, she came out when most others had left, wearing that red blouse Mercy had told her to wear, and keeping her hair down and open, also as she'd told her to. The Latina found herself nodding impressedly. She looks like she takes this seriously, at the very least. A good sign, if anything. Not to mention, she had a body that was absolutely not done justice in the photos she posted - ample chest and a cute behind, honey-colored skin with a face that was visibly gorgeous even from far away. She did, however, look quite like a deer in the headlights, her eyes flitting between her phone and her surroundings. A coy smirk on her lips, Mercy took out her own mobile and tapped out two quick messages to Amalia.
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New Messages ³
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<Look to your left.>
<The blue Mercedes. Don't laugh.>
<You look pretty cute when you're nervous.>
Then, she revved up the engine of her rented Mercedes (haha, very funny) and gently rolled towards where the girl was standing. She had been in France for around a month now, closing a sponsorship deal with a few Major hospitals in France, and she was
not going to travel around in public transport, nor was she going to give a foreign country her hard-earned money in taxes by purchasing a vehicle. With a squeak, her windows rolled down, revealing a smiling Mercy, who took of her sunglasses and greeted the younger girl with a small wink. "
Hola. You must be Amalia, right?" She asked in a clear-cut Seattle accent, though hints of her Cuban origin still peaked through here and there. Surreptitiously, her eyes wandered across the young woman's body, lingering longest on her chest, before flicking back up to her face, that pretty face with the button nose and pouty lips and adorable freckles. "
¿Estuvo bien el vuelo?" A little bit of Spanish to help calm the poor girl down - perks of both being Hispanic - and she invited her to get in with a tilt of her head. "Well, don't just stand there like a statue, it's cold outside. Hop in."