Penny was missing her fuck friend, Gavin, who hadn't been around to please her for over a week. She was not in an exclusive relationship with him, so she could have gone in search of someone else for release, but she'd been so busy with classes and her job that there was little time left for any serious boy-hunting. And Gavin wouldn't be back for another couple days.
Even now, with the hands on her watch crawling past seven-o-clock on a surprisingly slow Saturday evening, Penny was at work in a lingerie shop in the mall. The customers had been coming through steadily throughout her shift, but not in the numbers she was used to. It probably had something to do with the near-blizzard conditions outside that had been coming and going since before the weekend.
Penny had just finished helping a customer when Sharon, the bitch assistant manager, snuck up behind her. Sharon was only 42, but she seemed much older. Not because she looked old, but because she tried so hard to succeed at the impossible task of looking 20. Collagen, a little plastic surgery, and a bad taste in clothes and make-up did help make her look attractive, but only attractive for someone who appeared to be in her late fifties, and anorexic. The one thing that was undoubtedly immature about Sharon was her attitude. She yielded power like a reckless teenager, and held grudges as badly as any junior high school girl.
Quite opposite of the bitch was Penny, who was no size two, or even a four, but carried the little extra weight she did have as good as anyone could. Her natural Ds looked prime to burst from the low-cut top she wore, and, this being a lingerie store, having the lacy trim of her crimson bra showing from beneath her top and framing her generous cleavage was by all means acceptable. There wasn't a client who met Penny that didn't steal a glance at her expertly displayed chest, man or woman. Her very plump, round ass would also get high marks, for it was consistently wrapped up in tight slacks or, as was the case today, a black mini-skirt. Penny was a little shorter than average, but nobody seemed to have trouble meeting her deep blue eyes. She had an adorable smile that was rarely missing, and her long, blonde hair was thick and lustrous.
It was probably this natural beauty that made Sharon hate Penny from day one, and Penny wasn't the only person who suspected that.
"Penelope," Sharon spat, using her full name like always, in some failed attempt to make Penny feel small. "There are two children in dressing room 7. Go take care of it."
The command was generic and concise because Sharon, in order to say as little as possible to those she loathed, which was most employees, spoke in code. "Children" meant that two people, whether they were sixteen or sixty, had entered a dressing room. One of these "children" was a male, and one was a female (and in the case that two females went in, they were referred to as "little girls"). "Go take care of it," meant that Sharon believed there was some hanky-panky going on, or that there soon would be, and someone was going to have to ask one or both customers to leave the store. And today, Penny was that someone.
Sharon was too full of herself to believe Penny would not do as instructed, so once the command was given, she went back to the sales floor. Penny headed to dressing room 7.
Dressing room number 7 was notorious for "children" and "go take care of it" orders because of its distance from the other dressing rooms. There were seven in all, and while the first six lined a hall with three on each side, seven was at the back of the hall, alone, and around a little corner. It was also larger than the other rooms, and because of the position of the overhead speakers, the music that played, even when at lower volumes, helped drown out sounds from room 7 more than from any of the other six.
Rumor was that it had once been a storage closet. Other rumors were that Sharon was pushing for it to return to a storage closet. Until that happened, there would likely always be couples going in room 7 together, utilizing it's seclusion and size to help them fulfill a fantasy of doing something naughty in a public place while wearing lingerie they didn't even own. Penny had considered buying some of the undergarments that were often left in room 7 and selling them over the Internet to horny teenagers and single loners desperate for a sniff of pussy.
Penny stood outside the curtain and listened, hearing whispers and nervous giggles. One of the whispers was definitely male.
"Do you need help with anything?" she asked politely.
Dead silence was her response, and then a young girl's voice replied, "No. Uh, thank you."
Yeah right, Penny thought. Did they really think she was that stupid?
"Okay," she said, trying to hold back her smile so she sounded more professional and serious. "I just thought you should know we have a policy against couples being in the dressing rooms unsupervised. Can you open the curtain please?"
Penny thought she'd get an "Okay, just a minute," as they hurried to compose themselves, but instead the curtain swung open right away, and a beautiful young woman was instantly in her face. The poor girl looked terrified.
"Okay, okay, please," the girl whispered, grabbing Penny's arm and pulling her closer, drawing her into the room. The girl's eyes shifted nervously from Penny to down the hall at the entrance to the dressing room area. "We're not doing anything. I mean, we haven't done anything yet."
Before she knew what was going on, Penny found herself fully in room 7 with the couple, and the girl was closing the curtain.
"Did you see my mom out there?" the girl asked, frightened nearly to tears. "She has a black sweater on and a bag from Macy's."
Penny didn't know how to react. "Um...no. I don't think so..."
"So she didn't send you?"
"No, miss. The manager—"
"Oh, thank God," the girl sighed, and she collapsed onto a chair in the corner of the five by six room.
