I'm standing in my socks, bra, and panties, looking at my closet like a fifteen-year-old girl on the first day of high school. For the last decade of my life, I've had two types of outfits; my uniform, and slut ware. Now I'm supposed to show up in a suit with short heels like a professional? I have only a few items that almost work, and they're for funerals.
"Staring at it doesn't get you dressed," Derek says from my doorway with a cup of coffee in his hand. Fully dressed like the morning person dick head he is.
"I just realized I don't have anything that says I'm a detective. I can show up with butt huggers and a tight shirt, but that's not exactly the impression I'm trying to make," I say and sit on my bed.
"Unless your undercover vice. Here is a tip. Slacks with a belt, blouse, heels shouldn't be higher than an inch, hair up, minimal jewelry, make up is fine but avoid gloss and eye shadow," Derek says, and I groan. So no fun.
"Can I go back to being a uniform?" I ask.
"Not on your first day detective," Derek says and leaves the doorway.
I don't have clothes, so what now? Thinking for a moment, I realize I may have a temporary solution. My neighbor across the hall is about the same size as me and is a lawyer. How does that conversation go?
'Hi, I'm Jill. I know you keep trying to be nice to me and I keep ignoring you. We've had several dozen awkward one sided conversations at the mail boxes, and I fucked your boyfriend last year, and you still don't know about that. Can I borrow your clothes?'
I may leave a few things out.
"I'll be right back," I say, grabbing my robe off the back of my door and exiting my bedroom then the door to my apartment. I walk out and knock on the door immediately across the hall from me and wait. I hope she's home. The door knob turns, and a man opens it. Turns out she's still dating that boyfriend who nailed me last year.
I'm going to be perfectly honest, he was a drought breaker. Even women get droughts in their sex lives. A real dorky looking guy with lesbian thick rimmed glasses and mangled hair he thinks makes him look indifferent. It just makes him look like a guy who takes no pride in himself. Skinny like a gymnast, but without the relative body strength or cut physique. I can't believe I let this guy fuck me.
"What are you doing here?" He asks, shutting the door slightly in a small panic.
"Not here for you. Is your girlfriend home?" I ask, and he looks confused. I forgot we didn't have sex here, we had sex in the basement bathroom of a bar we met at when he and my neighbor got into a fight. I normally wouldn't have, but I needed a dick. We had never interacted here after I saw him with her in the lobby. He probably doesn't know I live here.
"What?" He asks.
"Your girlfriend, I need to ask her to borrow some clothes," I say and he quietly goes into the apartment to get her. I just realized I can't remember her name.
My neighbor opens the door a minute later, smiling when she sees me. "You need to borrow clothes Jill?" Of course she remembers my name.
"I do, long story," I say, strategizing ways to avoid having to use a sentence with her name in it.
"Come on in," she says, opening the door for me and walking into her apartment. I close the door as I enter, looking at the small table next to her door with a key bowl. I'm looking for any mail, a magazine, something. There was an issue of 'Good House Keeping' on the table addressed to a 'Leslie Kirkland'. Solved one problem.
"Les, we'll be in the bedroom for a minute," she says to her boyfriend who says nothing in reply. Wait? He's Leslie? And he subscribes to 'Good House Keeping'? My body convulses for a second to hold back my laughter.
"What kind of clothes do you need?" She asks as she opens her closet.
"I just got a new job..."
"You're not a cop anymore?"
"I'm a detective now, and my wardrobe hasn't evolved since college. I've had one thing to wear to work everyday for nearly ten years," I say and she laughs.
"Definitely makes having to look professional difficult when you have more thongs than blouses. Been there. Law school was fun, but then suddenly I'm in court as a public defender, having enough time for thirty minutes of preparation for a case, if I'm lucky," she says, and I kind of smile. She does understand my situation.
"Public defender?" I ask because I'm actually curious. She could be the one representing the people I arrest.
"I wanted that experience before I apply to any named firms. Defense attorney is more my field than prosecutor," she says and pulls a few items off the rack and throws them, hanger and all onto her bed.
"I was recommended slacks," I say, when I see only skirts.
"I got those too," She says and throws a cream colored pair on the bed. "Try those."
She is definitely more ass than me. They almost feel like they sag in the rear, but they fit. We have the same frame, but I'm all tits and no ass, she's all ass and no tits. The blouse I try on is tight across the chest. I could loosen a button, but then I'm the pretending to be professional woman who's just prowling for other girl's husbands at the office.
"Damn I want your boobs so bad," she says, eying my chest as I take off the first blouse and reach for another.
"Your boobs are fine," I say. They are, don't get me wrong. They're not my boobs fine. Then again, my ass isn't her ass fine.
"Yours are porn star perky, I can't even get a bra to simulate that," she says, and I look at my tits. I have had a lifetime of pride in them. I've had them since I was fifteen if you could believe that. It's been a good seventeen years my old friends.
The second blouse fits better, still tight, but I don't have to loosen a button just to breathe. Cream colored slacks, with a light blue boob hugger blouse. Black belt and black shoes to tie it all in. The shoes are slip on half inch heels, the heel spike wide. This is as good as we're going to get before I shop tonight. I'll work with a pony tail until I figure out which bun I'll go with.
"Looking professional. You can borrow a few more things to tide you over until you get your wardrobe up to snuff," she says as I eye myself in the mirror. I barely recognize myself. Thigh, hip, or shoulder holster is the next question. Probably hip.
"Thanks for this, I feel more embarrassed than anything," I say and she assures me its fine. "Thanks neighbor."
"Please, we're sharing closets now, we're on first name basis. Call me Billy," she says with a grin. A girl with a boy's name, dating a guy with a girl's name. Leslie is technically a guy's name, but good luck explaining that.
"Jill," I say back, and she opens her door, so we can leave the room.