I didn't like the damn job anyway. Or so I told myself. Fact is, I'd have traded a hundred thousand dollar a year career job for what happened that evening.
It's one of your nicer clothing stores, on the avenue, haute-couture type designer rags - very posh and ridiculously expensive. I'd been there only a few months but I enjoyed working with the public.
She came in late one Wednesday night, five minutes to closing. I was on the floor, the boss had split already, and I wanted to get outta there too. In fact, I had the "Closed" sign up, but she ignored it.
You know, sometimes in your life, there are connections made that are instantaneous, intense and so natural you're almost certain you've met the person before, like, in a past life or something.
And so it was with Monica.
I could almost hear an audible click when she looked up at me and smiled that first time. We clicked. The first thing I noticed was her nose - very cute - then her eyes - twinkling with pure life-energy.
"Can I help you?" I tried to make that line sound like something I hadn't already said four hundred and forty two times that day.
She smiled that smile, kind of crooked, no less than a hundred fifty watts of mischievous light shining through. "Do you have this in my size?" She held up what must have been a $900 dress, a slinky black thing.
"What size are you?" God, I hoped I wasn't too obvious as I used the excuse of dress size to size up the body hiding under the baggy but intriguing clothes she had on.
"I'm not sure." She saw me looking, I know she did. And I've since learned that there are very few women in the world who don't know their dress size.
My mind was spinning really fast, saying: possibilities, possibilities, be cool, my man, be cool. "I can, um, do a quick measurement, um, if you don't, well, mind."
She laughed. "You're not a pervert, are you?"
I laughed back, and lied straight out, "Not at work." I pulled a tape measure out from under the counter and I swear my heart jumped 10 inches straight up, like a startled cat, into my throat when she raised her arms above her head to allow me to wrap the tape around her chest.
"What's your name?"
"Monica. What's yours?"
"Pleased to meet you, Monica. Tanner."
I slipped the tape down around her belly and I could feel myself falling, falling, falling, tumbling head over heels over a gorgeous bundle of possibilities named Monica.
By the time I finished measuring her hips I was in full exhilarating freefall over her.
"Well?" she asked. For a moment I thought she wanted me to give her my honest reaction to what her body was doing to my insides - turning them into quivering Jello, in fact. But my wits returned quickly, and I pulled a dress from the rack. "This is you," I offered it to her, "the dressing room is in the back." I nodded in the direction behind the main showroom.
She began to walk, no, she "sashayed" down the aisle toward the back. And as she did, she began to select other dresses, tops, skirts, etc. "I'll try this too. And this. Ooo, nice. Oh yes, this one too." She ended up with about $4500 worth of high fashion when she finally got to the dressing room. I was trying not to act too much like a helpless puppy dog as I followed, but I was really enjoying this woman.
She disappeared into the dressing room and a moment later I heard her singing. My mouth was dry, my heart was dancing a flamenco stomp in my chest, and my cock was straining against the fabric of my slacks like a puppy dog trying to fight its way out of a paper sack, throb, bump, push, "arf, arf, hey lemme outa here!"
Down, boy. Oh god, it was no use.