(Six months in the Future)
We'll be getting back to the main story as soon as I manage to get unblocked; i know what's going to be in Chapter 05 -- Debbie explains how she got where she is nowadays, with lots of sex. But i gotta WRITE it...
Everybody's at least eighteen, etc.
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The plaque read "Tamara Belayanova Blondinka - Women's Legal and Fiduciary Services".
I knocked, then stepped in as the latch buzzed.
"Hi," I said, shifting my case from one hand to the other, "My name's Jim; I'm here to fix your computer."
"Oh, thank goodness," the girl at the desk (the black and chrome nameplate said "Kristal") said. "Tomorrow's billing day and Miss Blondinka will be very upset with me if i don't get the invoices out."
"Okay - from what you said on the phone, it shouldn't be too much trouble. Sounds like a bad video card, actually. If it is, half an hour, tops."
I walked around to the end of the desk, and turned the monitor and the keyboard toward me. Sure enough, the image on the screen was badly distorted, exactly as she'd described it on the phone. I ran a few diagnostics, including the monitor's self-check, and said "Yep. Video card. Put in a new one and you're ready to fly."
I looked around.
"Ummm - where is the computer?" I asked.
"Oh," she said, with an embarrassed giggle, "Over here," pointing under the desk, and, sure enough, when I looked under there, I saw the computer. I also saw two very nice knees, and two shapely calves leading down from them.
"Okay. Now I need to get at it," I said patiently.
"Oh, my," she giggled, "I am acting like a complete ditz, aren't I? We don't have very many men in the office anyway, let alone handsome ones." She blushed slightly, then blurted out "Not that I mean anything by that, but..."
A pause.
"I'm making it worse, aren't I?" she said. "Babbling like a fool."
"Oh, no," I said with a slight grin. "Pretty little red-haired girls tell me I'm handsome and then say they didn't mean anything by it, every day..."
"Ooooh." She blushed deeply. "I think... you'd better fix the computer," she said.
"What's the matter?" I asked, with a wider grin. "Don't you want to play any more?"
She had begun to turn away to hide her blush; now she looked back sidelong, through the curtain of her auburn hair that had fallen forward as she moved.
"I think you are probably a Bad Man," she said with conviction (and an impish grin), "and my mommy told me never to play a Bad Man's game by his rules.
"I think you had better fix the computer before one of us says something that's too embarrassing to survive."
With that, she scooted her chair back from the desk and turned it sideways, giving me room to kneel down and get at the computer. As I began to work, I was conscious of her at my back, as I caught occasional whiffs of her scent - not perfume, just good soap and clean girl.
Glancing her way, I could see that the nice calves were cased in pretty, extremely sheer, white hose, and the shoes on her feet were shiny red pumps with high stiletto fuck-me heels - rather incongruous for a secretary/receptionist in a law firm that specialised in women's issues and sex-discrimination cases.