OUR NEW UNIFORMS

By the time I got home in the evening, I had considered Lydia's proposal and found it better. Better because it was the only one that could keep us safe from the lashings of that idiot principal who beat us like we were oxen.

***

That morning, my girlfriends and I were still in high school. We had each come by our own means of transportation; I had taken my zem; my two friends had come by car. They had come before me and were standing in front of the school gate chatting. When I got off the back seat of the motorcycle that had taken me to school, Lydia and Cintia had come to greet me with smiles on their faces.

- Hello girls," I said after handing my nickel to my driver.

- Yes, good arrival, Cathy; how did you wake up?

- Very good, my dear! How about you?

- Also very good!

- And you Cintia, are you ok?

- Yes, I'm fine!

I went back to my two girlfriends after taking my leftovers from the driver.

- There's a surprise," Lydia whispered.

- A surprise?" I asked, flabbergasted.

- Yes, a surprise!" added Cintia.

Lydia opened her bag and took out a large cloth that was exactly the same color as our uniforms.

- See this?" she asked, "I bought it yesterday.

- I bought it yesterday. And what is it for?

- What did we say to each other when we got home?

- Yesterday, we remembered that we were going to squeeze the chest of our...

- Thank you," she interrupted me, "after analyzing that thought, I found it was good but not the best one. My mother, she controls me it seems I was born not to have peace in her hands. The way she watches over me, I sometimes even regret having her as my mother. If I ever put this idea into action, I swear my mother will gouge my eyes out and show them to me. So here's what I've decided we're going to do: we're all going to sew a new outfit. We are not going to touch up the ones we already have. After class at noon, we are going to go to my seamstress and she is going to take our measurements. We'll ask her to sew us very tight outfits; I say very tight because it's when they're tight that we'll admit our trickery. And by the way, those girls I told you about, don't worry, I'll show them to you. Their outfits are all tight and that's why the principal fondles them when they go to his office...

- He fondles them in the office? I exclaimed, surprised.

- Where do you think he stays to fuck them? But it is in the office! When the girls go to his office, he closes the door. When you go into his office, don't you see that there is another small door?

Cintia and I nodded.

- That's it! You should know that this is his fuck room. When you go in there, there's a bed and a mattress in there.

I hung both arms over my head to show my surprise.

- You, you are very far from the realities of this school. But don't worry, I will show you the girls today. I will go to their room and tell them that I have something very serious to tell them; you will see that they will come to see me in class and I will take the opportunity to introduce them to you. I can't tell you how many times already that idiot principal who thinks he is the master of the house has already fucked these girls. And these girls, although they are very young, never lack money. If you want, when they come, I'll ask one of them to give me a thousand francs; you'll see what she does. She won't even stress out before giving me that amount of money.

Patatras! The siren sounded.

- Girls, let's go to class," added Lydia, pulling us by the hands and dragging us into the yard.

***

It was noon when suddenly, after the signal, I saw two girls enter our classroom while I was still in my seat copying the rest of my lessons. The two girls were walking towards Lydia. From my seat, I could see them talking. I took my eyes off them to speed up my copying when suddenly I saw my classmate with the two girls approach me.

- Cathy, this is Gloria and Idelphonsia; they are my friends, the ones I told you and Cintia about. And you, this is Cathy, my best friend in the class. There are two of them; the second one is on the other side copying her lessons.

I calmly put down my pen and held out my right hand to the two girls.

- I am very honored to meet you," I whispered.

- It is after all a shared pleasure," replied the slimmer one, who had big breasts in her dress despite her size.

It is often said that thin girls don't have big breasts. But it is false! There is corpulence in corpulence. The one who thought she was Lydia's friend had big breasts even though she was thin. So this assumption is not true for everyone.

- Well, girls," called Lydia, "you have to leave because we haven't finished copying our lessons yet. Let's catch up in the evening.

The two girls smiled at her and began to retreat back to the exit.

- Wait! You Idelphonsia, give me a thousand francs I'm going to buy cookies, teased Lydia.

The girl, without making a word, pulled her bag from her back and plunged her hand inside the bag and looked for her wallet. She opened it and stared at her interlocutor with desolation on her face.

- I don't have change; I only have greenbacks; those of five thousand francs.

- Okay, I understand you! And you, Gloria?" Lydia murmured to the second girl.

- I knew that you were going to turn your face towards me, answered the other. Since you want a thousand francs, I'll give you two thousand francs instead of one thousand.

She plunged her hand into the pocket of her dress and took out a brand new blue bill on which the French machine had written "two thousand francs".

- Here, and go to buy your cookies, baby of dad; added the named Gloria by pulling her friend by the hands.

The two of them slipped away in the few seconds that followed.

- Do you see that?" asked Lydia, very surprised as ever.

At the same time, our trio arrived.

- Girls, what's going on here? asked the new arrival.

- Cintia, did you see the two girls who just left?

- Yes, I saw them! Isn't it them you told us about in the morning?

- Yes, it's them! Can you imagine what one of them did right away?

- No, tell me about it!

- Ask Cathy.

Cintia turned her gaze to me and asked what had happened.

- Did you see the short one? She just gave Lydia two thousand francs all slapped together when it was one thousand francs that Lydia asked her for.

- What? That means the girls actually have the money!

- No doubt! The slender one, as for her, does not have small change.

- Wow! So the girls are actually rich!

- Go, began Lydia at the end of an intermittent silence; make quickly we are going to make a jump at my dressmaker. It is necessary that our outfits are quickly sewn...

- It's a pleasure that they are quickly sewn but I don't have the money yet...

- Stop it," Lydia cut me off, "I have money and I can sew each of your uniforms, so don't worry.

Oh yes, that girl had money. And neither I nor Cintia had any doubt about it.

- Haven't you finished copying your lessons yet, she asked.

- I have almost finished," I answered.

- I'm already done," said Cintia.

- Well, since you have already finished, Cathy will borrow your notebook to copy the rest of the lessons afterwards; get up and we will leave.

And I immediately put my notebooks in the bag and threw it back. Cintia went to put hers away too.

Together we headed for the dressmaker's yard. After a few minutes of walking, talking about everything, we arrived at the seamstress' house. We greeted her and Lydia described to her what was the reason for our presence in her workshop. The young woman, since she was looking for money, understood the kind of model we wanted and agreed to sew them for us. She took our measurements without comment. When she arrived at the chest part, she asked each of us if the size she was taking was right. The agreement was of Lydia's liking. When it was right, she said "yes, it can go like that" and when she disagreed, she said it clearly. In the end, she whispered to us:

- Good! Come by in two days to pick up your outfits.

- Thank you ma'am!" exclaimed Lydia! And the making of the three outfits, how much will they cost?

- Nine thousand francs, answered the dressmaker.

- Okay, here's five thousand francs as an advance. The day after tomorrow, when I come, I will bring you the rest of your money.

- No worries, my dear.

And together, my girlfriends and I walked out of the studio room of the thirty-something to return to the path.

- So we'll give her time, as long as she does a good job for us," said Lydia.