*All characters are grown adults (28-50) and are of legal drinking age*
It's that time of year, work is supposed to be less hectic because all offices will be shutting down for the holidays.
Of course, you're stuck with your eyes on the screen sending a few last-minute emails so clients don't get pissed off, not to mention your hard-to-please boss, Nick Kringle; the youngest senior partner at the age of 30, of Kringle & Associates. You've been his assistant for just over a year. He has a reputation for being a complex, motivated, playboy.
However, you secretly believe from having spent so many long hours working on files together late at night, there is more to the man who has the money, power, and success than what he shows the public. Sometimes you see him staring from his corner office overlooking the city skyline, brooding, having a scotch and he seems like he is searching for something, or maybe someone?
You can visualize him so clearly; after a long day, his tie casually thrown on the big leather couch in his office, the crisp (usually white) Armani shirt pulled from his pants with the first few buttons undone just allowing anyone a quick hint of his well-defined pecks. The lights from the streets make the natural caramel highlights of his dark chocolate brown hair sparkle, which he keeps as a nice undercut style, with always the hint of stubble neatly kept. His eyes a tantalizing aquamarine, which you sometimes find yourself lost in.
*Ring Ring* The sound of your office line awakens you from your dreams of your boss.
"Holly Berry, Kringle & Associates," your go-to standard phone voice.
"Holly, where the fuck are you? The party started an hour ago!!!" it's your work best friend, Joy Noel; already sounding tipsy wondering where you are.
"Shit sorry, you know how Nick gets, if I don't return every e-mail, I'll probably be out of a job by New Year's, I'll be right down, just have to change," You reply.
"Girl, you know Nick would never fire your sexy ass, now hurry up or I'll have drunk all the candy cane martinis!!" Joy hangs up.
You grab your garment bag that Nick let you hang up his office closet for the day, and head to your private bathroom (being the senior partner's assistant has its perks.)
Before slipping off your clothes you take one look in the mirror, at the age of 28 you still have some nice perky breasts not too big usually around a C or D cup depending on the designer, you have a classic top hourglass figure, and you are fit but not overtly so, unlike most women that you know, your looks have never been an issue.
Sadly your pain comes from your parents who always insisted that you be the best at everything, the classic parental ideology that forces children to become adults too fast and focus solely on academics and achievement. You shake those dark thoughts from your mind. Tonight is about letting go of all the stress from your job, and the pain of trying to be the best at everything you do.
You slip out of your office attire, shimmy out of your black a-line knee-length skirt, remove your black stockings, and replace them with the green and white striped ones that match your costume. You remove your red blouse and remove the straps of your matching lace red bra, unhooking the straps so that your bra is now strapless. You take out the naughty elf dress and pull it over your head and adjust it until it covers your ass so that if you bend over no one will get a full show but maybe a peak at your red cheeky panties.
Usually, at work you have your hair up, but tonight you're letting loose, you let down your mid-back length merlot highlighted brown hair and use your portable hair curler to add just a little bounce and volume.
You fix your makeup and add some sparkles and glitter to make you into a sexy elf, and normally you would wear a hat with this costume but you want your sexy locks to shine in the lights, so instead you add some product that adds a nice peppermint scent to your hair along with some glitter. You add some sparkly red lipstick and apply your favorite perfume (Sexual Noir from Michel Germain). Before you lock the doors, you put your garment bag back in Nick's closet. You take the key fob and use the hook that you bought that attaches to your garter belt so that you don't lose it.
You take the elevator up to the top floor, which holds the office party room, it also has access to a gorgeous patio with couches and a hot tub for the office staff to use to relax. The holiday tunes are blasting throughout the room, everyone dressed as holiday characters, which is a strange sight most of the time but for this office, it's downright unbelievable. You make a beeline for the nearest bartender and request the specialty 'Naughty Candy Cane' holiday-themed cocktail.
As you make your way through your co-workers on the dance floor and tables, you see your bestie Joy hanging with some of the other assistants. You run behind her and hug her from behind.
"Surprise!!" you say as you wrap her into a hug.
"It's about time you got your young fine ass down here" Joy replies.
These comments from Joy are common, she is in her late 50s and is the office manager, she always gets along well with all the younger female assistants, sometimes reliving her youth through their lives.
"Holly, do you want to get some fresh air?" Joy asks.
"Yeah, sure let's go onto the patio," you reply and head outside to the heated patio.
"Alright girl, let's get real, when are you going to move on up, you have so much potential, you have your law license and passed the bar, why are you still working as his assistant?" Joy asks, moving into mothering mode.
"Joy, we have been over this, being Nick's assistant will open a lot of doors for me in the future, I just got to show him I can do more and hopefully I can prove to him that he can take me on as his junior associate but I can't just ask him."
You know Joy has a point but the real reason you don't want to possibly risk your career is you have a huge crush on Nick, and you secretly think that he likes you back, the casual glances and hungry, determined looks that you secretly share while working on those files late at night, and any wrong move could wreck not just your career, but his as well.
"Speaking of Nick, where is he? he told me he was going to show up to this thing," you mention to Joy.