Free Bang Gang by Jade West

he doesn’t do his bit to look after the girls was way off the mark.
    Tonya didn’t even try to argue with me, she knew as much, too.
    I let out a sigh. “I could come, maybe get my nails done, just the cheap ones…”
    Tonya clapped her hands. “Get in!”
    “But!” I added. “I’m not going to be going shopping crazy, I’ll just be there for the company. I’ll be your personal shopper.”
    “It’s a start.” She downed her tea in one and started jogging on the spot. “In that case I better keep up with the keep fit, see if I can drop a dress size in the next few days. Laters.”
    I watched Lorraine chalk my day off on the rota and couldn’t help but smile.

    Petey shrugged at me, hung up the phone. “Another service to book in,” he began, but I waved him quiet.
    We’d had ten new service bookings today already. Ten.
    None of them due, all of them female.
    Mandy fucking Taylor had a lot to answer for.
    Buck grinned at me, tugged at his beard. “Think we should open the books up? Take on some new clients?”
    I shook my head. “Fuck that. Not locals. Got enough shit going on already.”
    I dived back in to the air-con job I’d been working on and only surfaced again when a chorus of wolf whistles started up. My gut dropped at the prospect of another Eleanor Hartley drive-by, but the figure approaching our shutter doors wasn’t anyone after a Bang Gang special.
    I’ve known Tonya since we were kids. She was already Jodie’s best mate by the time we started up. I don’t think they ever weren’t. She was jogging today, in some pale grey leggings that showed enough to get the guys whooping.
    “Knock it off, lads,” I grunted, tossing a roll of tape in Jimmy’s direction to get him to quit with the hip thrusting.
    Tonya came bounding straight up, her dark ponytail bouncing around her shoulders as she jogged on the spot, her tits bobbing up and down. I smiled, but it wasn’t in that way. I’d never seen Tonya in that way, pretty though she was. Her cheeks were flushed pink and her breath was heavy. I knew exactly what the guys were thinking, but she seemed oblivious. Oblivious or totally disinterested. It made a change around here lately.
    I raised an eyebrow. “Come to chew me out about Mandy Taylor?” I asked. “If so, you needn’t bother. I already know what a fuck up that was.”
    “Jesus, Trent, would I?” She gave me a healthy tut. “I don’t need to tell you when you’ve been a wanker. Pretty sure you can work that out for yourself.”
    I made my way outside and she followed, stopped jogging to do some stretches. I lit up a cigarette. “So?”
    She rolled her eyes at me. “I’m on a route, you know, keep fit. Maybe I was just passing.”
    “Never kept fit past my door before.”
    “Never kept fit before,” she laughed. “Ah, fuck it.” She stopped with the exercises and pulled a pack of cigarettes from her bra. I smirked as she lit one up. “Jodie,” she said. “I’m here about Jodie.”
    “So she sent you to chew me out?”
    “Has Jodie ever once sent me to say her piece for her?” She took a long drag. “She’s no idea I’m here.”
    “Oh?”
    She smiled. “I guess you haven’t seen her today.”
    “Why would I have?”
    “No reason. She’s just… found herself a little.” I didn’t have time to ask questions before she changed topic. “I’m taking her out for the day on Friday. She totally deserves the break. I wanted to make sure you’ll have the girls, don’t want her racing back for the school run before we’re done.”
    I nodded. “Righto.”
    “So you will?” Big dark eyes sparkled at me.
    “Goes without saying, Tonya.”
    She clapped her hands together. “Excellent!”
    Her enthusiasm was infectious, I found myself smiling. “Where you taking her?”
    “Hereford,” she said. “Spa, beauty shit, shopping.”
    I pulled a face. “She’s up for that, is she?” I couldn’t remember the last time Jodie went in for all that girly