Copyright Nikki Hall 2019
All sexually active characters in this work of fiction are over the age of eighteen
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Edited by Tex Beethoven
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"Hey Grant, you've got your police certificate that clears you to work with children don't you?"
"Yeah, of course I have."
"Excellent. Then you're Santa."
"What the fuck?"
"Phil broke his leg last night; so ... he can't play Santa, and we don't have time to find anyone else. You're it," Barry explained.
"I'm a nineteen-year-old, six foot four dork and I don't like kids. I don't even like working in the toy section! I am not a credible Santa," Grant protested.
"Doesn't matter. We don't
have
anyone else. The suit's in the back. We'll find something to stuff in it to pad out your scrawny frame, and you can tell all the mums and kids you're just Santa's helper. They won't care, as long as they get to tell you about all the shit they want. Speak to Melanie, she'll give you the rundown on what you can and can't promise the little bastards."
"Santa isn't in my job description! Nothing was ever said about even possibly having to play Santa," Grant complained.
"Too bad, you're it."
"Fuck."
Grant accepted the fact that Barry was at least gracious enough not to chew him out for cursing and ended up slinking off to the back of the store to meet with Melanie; an older but attractive woman he'd previously only run into a couple times during his employment at the department store.
"
You're
going to be Santa?
You?!"
she scoffed, disbelief in her voice.
"That's what I was told by Barry. Repeatedly."
"Well you're not bringing much to the table for me to work with, but let's see what we can do. Strip out of your clothes and put this suit on," she instructed him, handing him a cheaply made Santa suit.
"What, right here in front of you?"
"You're wearing underwear, aren't you?"
"Well, yeah ..."
"Get on with it then; Santa is expected to be out there in fifteen minutes, and we don't have time for you to waste traipsing off to the change room."
Grant sighed and turned his back to the woman as he started pulling off his shirt and trousers.
"Good lord, you're a bag of bones," Melanie noted, not looking away to give him any privacy and not being subtle about it. "I'll have to find a lot of something to stuff out that suit." Grant didn't bother objecting. He knew he was scrawny. Hell, it wasn't like he ever did anything physical. He pulled the top on, and then the pants. He stumbled clumsily as he went to put his second leg into the pants, but instead fell to the floor awkwardly. Melanie went to grab him to help, but she missed and ended up looming halfway over him as he sprawled on the concrete floor.
"Well I guess we don't have to stuff your pants, at least," she laughed, her gaze directed at his crotch.
Grant glanced down and noticed the head of his cock was hanging out the leg of his boxers, which had ridden up his right leg when he'd fallen. He blushed furiously and scrambled to restore what passed for his dignity.
"Don't worry, I won't be telling anyone," Melanie laughed, helping him to his feet. He finished pulling the pants on, and then Melanie told him to take the top back off so she could pad him out. She wrapped some cloth around his middle, using it to strap a couple of small cushions to his front, before letting him put the top back on. She examined him critically.
"Beard and wig then," she said, reasonably satisfied with what she saw. As she fitted a poorly made wig, beard and hat to his head, she gave him a quick rundown of the do's and don'ts of playing Santa in the department store, finishing with, "If you get stuck with anything, have a quick chat with Lara, she's working as the elf this season."
"Lara Hunter?"
"That's her. Cute little brunette."
Grant swallowed, and suddenly cared a little more about how he looked. Lara was one of the cutest girls he'd ever met! They'd been at school together, but they hadn't ever moved in the same circles. And here at the store she worked in the girl's clothing section, so he never had cause to cross paths with her, given he usually worked in the toy section.
"Right, well you're as good as you're going to get, with the time we have," Melanie announced. "Ho ho ho, and all that."
Grant wandered out, in through the back of Santa's grotto and into the space set aside for the children to come and see Santa. As he entered, Lara was busy tidying something up, Wwhile facing away from him and bending over. Her outfit consisted of a green top almost long enough to be considered a dress, but not quite long enough to hide her perfectly peachy little bum in the extremely snug green tights she wore beneath the top. Grant anxiously averted his gaze in case he was busted for looking, and then made his way to 'his' Santa's chair.
"Oh, hi there!" Lara said, turning at the sound of someone taking the seat.
"Hi Lara," Grant greeted her, glad the badly made beard hid the flush of embarrassment he felt.
"Grant?" she asked, coming in close to check.
"Um yeah, got stuck with this fifteen minutes ago."
"Oh my, you poor thing," she said. "I hope you're ready for this."
"I very much doubt it. I can't think of anyone worse to do this or anything worse I could be doing."
"Try not to worry; I'll do what I can to keep it interesting. and to save you when you need to be saved," she reassured him with a kind smile. "But ready or not Santa, your assault is about to begin!"
Grant became aware of the noise of children swelling outside the grotto. As Lara turned away, he took another look at her outfit. Or rather at Lara