Fluffy

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It all started with the wrong Help Wanted ad. Of course it did.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I'm a professional fluffer. It's NOT what you think.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> I stage homes for a living. Real estate agents love me and my work stands on its own merits.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sigh. Get your mind out of the gutter. Go ahead. Laugh. I'll wait.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>See? That's the problem. My career has used the term fluffer for decades. I didn't even know there was a more... lascivious definition of the term.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Until it was too late.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The ad for a professional fluffer on Craigslist seemed like divine intervention. My last unemployment check was in the bank. I was desperate. Rent was due. The ad said cash paid at the end of the day. The perfect job!</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Staging homes means showing your best angle. The same principle applies in making a certain kind of movie. Turns out a fluffer doesn't arrange decorative pillows on a couch.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>They arrange other soft round-ish objects.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The job isn't hard. Er I mean it is - it's about being hard. Or well... helping other people to be hard.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Oh man...</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And that's the other problem. A man. No not one of the stars on the movie set. Will Lotham - my high school crush. The owner of the house where we're filming. Illegally. In a vacation rental.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>By the time the cops show up what I thought was just a great house staging gig turned into a nightmare involving pictures of me with an undressed star Will rescuing me from an arrest and a humiliating lesson in my own naivete.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My job turned out to be so much harder than I expected. But you know what's easier than I ever imagined?</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Having all my dreams come true.</strong></p>