My client greeted me at the office lobby, gave me a firm handshake and said, "Hey, Vikas. We are pumped and excited to see your demo. Everyone's in the room. Come on! Let's show them what we have been working for the past three months!"
I entered a large conference room. There were only four people in the room, though the table could seat about twenty. l knew all of them.
As I set up my laptop I heard someone say, "We are waiting for one more person. You will be working closely with her for our presentation tomorrow. Ah! Here she is."
I looked up to see a young woman enter the room, quietly. She seemed nervous, and approached the table and sat down, hesitating to speak.
"Vikas, meet Muskaan, your counterpart at our vendor xxx."
"Muskaan?" I said, and rose to shake her hand. "What a beautiful name!"
I was smiling broadly by this time. She gave a limp hand and nervously shook mine, and blushed at what I said, and this did not go unnoticed by the others in the room.
"What?" asked someone in a perplexed tone.
"Muskaan, means 'Smile'," I said, still looking at her. "It's a name that would make anyone smile, if they know what it means, don't you agree?" I asked no one in particular.
"Oh! Yes, that IS a nice name, we did not know the meaning, sorry! It's her second day here and we hardly know her!" a lady said, and all laughed.
But I still had my eyes on Muskaan. She was a demure, shy girl. Being the center of attention of all the people in the room probably unnerved her and it showed. She smiled and looked down and shifted in her chair nervously.
I quickly started talking, trying to put her at ease. "Okay, everyone. Let's start. As you know Muskaan and I have to do some work on this before tomorrow's big presentation. I only have the skeleton ready. The plan was to have the folks at xxx complete the data integration piece. so..."
As the meeting went along I could not help but take a measure of Muskaan. She would have been from somewhere from the sub-continent no doubt. India? Bangladesh? Pakistan? - I couldn't say. She did not speak much or interrupt me, and it appeared she did not have a grasp of what was happening and what she was supposed to do. I presumed she was rather new to the role and was not ready for what was required of her. Typical of consulting companies to thrust an unprepared and unqualified resource just to pad up their billing hours.
She did not look like she was new to the US. Her taste in clothes reflected an experience in the American workplace. She was neither petite nor full-figured. She was plump but not very fat. She was by no means a beauty. She was normal looking with shiny, jet black hair that fell to her shoulders. Her arms and legs looked thick, and her breasts were big and straining at the front of her shirt under her jacket. I could see a ring, so definitely married. Not sure if she had any kids. I put her age about early to mid twenties, about twenty years younger than me.
Something about her presence excited me. I had been consulting for many, many years now and I couldn't recall a gig in the recent past when I had to work with a young girl from the sub-continent. Most of my projects had been staffed with Americans and older desis like myself. It was very rare to see such a young, green person in projects of this magnitude and importance. I was surprised but she piqued my interest. I was looking forward to working with her.
Perhaps, I could get to know her better? Take her out to dinner at a good Indian restaurant or something like that. Let's see," I said to myself, "This will NOT be the usual, dull project. This is going to be interesting!"
The meeting took all afternoon. We had a couple of bio-breaks during which I got to chat with Muskaan. We of course started talking about work, and it quickly became clear that she needed help with the subject at hand. I also found out that she was from Bangladesh, was married for about a year, and was in the US for just about the same amount of time.
The client had arranged for vendors like us to stay in a hotel close by the office. It turned out that Muskaan and I were in the same hotel. She agreed to share a cab with me for the short ride.
I was surprised when she started talking confidently as soon as the two of us were in the car. "Oh god, Mr. Vikas, I don't know what to do. My company pushed me into this project as I was on the bench for a very long time. I have done next to nothing for tomorrow's presentation. They will want to see this demo working. I am done for. I need help and no one at xxx is there!" She continued in this manner bemoaning her condition and afraid of how she could get this work done.
I tried to calm her, "Let's not talk now. Let's discuss at the hotel."
At the hotel, we sat down in the lobby and I tried to calm her. She was a nervous freak by now. I had a vast experience in this, of course, having given thousands of presentations and demos and I knew how to handle any circumstances. In fact, I could recall many occasions when I was in a similar situation as her, or worse, but had come out unscathed.
"Hey, Muskaan," I said. "Not the end of the world. I will help you. Let's work together. Tell you what. Let me get my workout, and I will meet you here in about an hour and a half and we will work on this. Not to worry. I know the client. We will get through this..."
She interrupted me, "You are going to the Gym? Now? Oh, God! I thought we could sit here and you could help me now..."
"Hey. Working out is how I unwind. Listen, I will help you. Just relax in your room for a while and meet me here."
I showered after my workout and took my stuff and went downstairs to meet her in the business center where it was quieter.
She had also showered and changed into a sleeveless dress that went down to her knees and showed her thick arms, rounded thighs and calves. They looked extremely smooth and free of flaws, with no hint of any hair on them. The neckline of her dress exposed her cleavage and I could see her slightly thick, short neck and the plumpness of her boobs. Her tits were loose under there and I could notice them bouncing a lot. As she crossed and uncrossed her legs, her dress rode up her thighs, highlighting how thick they were. The naturalness of her body without any kind of lotion or makeup or other cosmetic products was a welcome change to me. I presumed she had not put on any perfume or deodorant as I did not get a whiff of anything artificial. But her nervous state made her perspire lightly and I got the whiff of distinctive scent of female sweat. Her movements exposed more and more of her. I found all this pleasingly distracting. I wondered what she wore under her dress. How her body was shaped. She definitely did not have an hourglass figure. She must have some fat around her. Was she not wearing a bra? I couldn't see the outline of anything there or a bra strap. What about her panties? What kind? I could see that her armpits were clean shaven. Would her mound be too? Would it be packed like other plump women? Man, this was driving me fucking crazy! She had no idea the effect she was having on me. The tension and stress of the day's work needed a release and I guess this was the way my body was reacting. What can I say, I was a pervert.