This story is collaboration and developed out of an encounter with my on-line friend Cassandra. We've gone to a lot of trouble to keep it authentic and accurate. Hope you like it.
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I paced the floor, agitatedly looking at my watch and willing the minutes to pass by more quickly. In fact, I hadn't been able to settle to anything since Cassandra had called me at work to tell me she'd been shopping for clothes on the internet. She'd insisted on coming round to my home that very evening to show me what had arrived in the morning's delivery and I knew I was going to enjoy the show.
I'd met Cassandra in the local supermarket where she works as a check-out supervisor. She's just the type: bubbly and energetic, good with people, seemingly patient on the surface and able to cope with the long and erratic hours. But that's not what attracted me to her when be began to chat on my ever more frequent visits to her store. I found myself shopping there only when I knew she'd be working on the store sales floor and deliberately fluffing the self-scan check-out just so she'd come across to help me. She'd stand close and tower over me; 17 years younger than me she's at least 7 cm taller, much more when she wears high heels. Slim verging on skinny, she has the most captivating green eyes, long dark hair and legs that go on for ever. So is that what makes her stand out? No, it's her clothes.
I work in recruitment and am spending 3 months in Canada trying to persuade experienced fashion industry professionals to move to England where I'm finding it increasingly difficult to fill middle management positions in clothes retail sales and distribution. But Cassandra has more appreciation and understanding of how to dress sexily and provocatively than anyone I've met inside the clothes industry. A college drop-out, Cassey (as she likes me to call her) is intelligent, highly perceptive of people and their behaviour and is frankly wasted in supermarket work.
Despite hours of eager anticipation I still jumped when the bell rang. Opening the door to my temporary home in the upper middle-class district of Calgary, I stood in awe as I looked up at the stunning young woman standing in front of me. Seemingly even taller than usual, her eyes shone down on me from under her strikingly imaginative lightning-strike face make-up, her hair glistened and she smiled sensually as he accepted my invitation to enter.
Cassey was wearing jeans and a jacket. But being Cassey it was no ordinary outfit. The jeans were a dark blue colour with patterns all over of very thin swirls and numerous small stars. Pale bleached lines traced up from where they ended just above the floor, flaring widely to cover whatever shoes she must have been wearing to stand so tall. Then narrowing to tightly encase her legs from her knees upwards to finally disappear under her jacket. This was made from a random patchwork of irregularly shaped swatches of brightly-coloured leather. The neck was zipped up high under her chin and the waist was tightly fitted. The front was almost flat as Cassey is not classically curvy. The hem widened out aggressively to finish just below her bum, but the sleeves were the most remarkable, flaring out from below her elbows to almost totally cover her hands.
I took Cassey's shoulder bag from her and offered to help her out of her jacket but she declined, purring "Not yet, sweet Julie, but soon." Then she leaned towards me and planted a long sensual kiss directly on my lips. I shuddered.
Of course, we made the usual small talk and she wandered around my home making polite and very astute observations about the owners' taste in furnishings and fabrics. But we both knew the atmosphere was highly charged and even though this was the first time we'd met in a totally private place we were not going to spend the evening discussing drapes and cushions.
Cassey followed me into the kitchen and we chose a bottle of cold white wine from the refrigerator and I poured two large glasses. My new friend swallowed half of hers in a moment then giggled, grabbed my hand and half led and half dragged me back into the living space. "Bring that too!" she insisted, pointing to one of the high breakfast-bar-stools, which I carried though and, guessing her intent, I perched on it and intently observed my bubbly bouncy companion.
Rummaging in her bag Cassey pulled out a high-capacity computer memory card and explained she'd just downloaded a liveset by one of her favourite Trance Music DJs and insisted I play it over the music system. The bass-line thumped in 4/4 time and Cassey began to sway.
"Hey, Julia, do you like the jacket then?" she enquired rhetorically, moving her arms away from her sides to draw more attention to the distinctive sleeves. She'd known straight away that I did by the look on my face as I opened the front door. But I was more interested in the whole package than just the jacket.
Cassey danced and twisted seductively to the intense and atmospheric music as the sound developed and evolved with an underlying powerful emotion. My private dancer then took hold of the zipper of her multi-coloured jacket and began to pull it downwards. Little by little. And very slowly.
As the high neck parted I saw she had a wide green choker around her neck, seemingly assembled from numerous tiny crystalline beads threaded onto wires.
As the zipper continued its downward journey, more bare skin emerged until, from my vantage-point perch, I could see the beginnings of her top. Also green but this time quite shiny and apparently made from metalised stretchy fabric. All the time Cassey looked me in the eyes and each time I dropped mine to admire the evolving show, hers were still focussed on mine when I looked back up. Until, that is, she'd completely unzipped the jacket (this had taken at least two minutes so far, with frequent stops to gyrate to the music).
Cassey held the jacket closed, pouted and purred: "Do you want to see what else I've bought, Julia?" but instead of opening the front she turned her back towards me and, looking over her shoulder and shaking her long dark brown hair, she shrugged the jacket off her shoulders.