Hi! Has it been about two years since I last submitted something? Wow.
Anyway, I intended to write a sequal or follow-up to one of my other stories but I kept getting side-tracked. Instead, I just had one character make a special appearance in this story.
This is slightly different than most my other vignettes. This has a little more story in it and to it. Probably not as much as some of the other writers have (beginning, middle and end with characters going somewhere) but still this more than my usual. :)
I really should edit it some more but after the eighteenth time, I'm sick of seeing it. :(
Thank you for all who have written me asking how I am and if I intended to submit more stories.
I am well and yes I intend to continue submitting stories.
And thanks to Literotica for keeping my stories alive for all to read and comment on.
As always, I wish you all well. Looking forward to your comments. (Hope it's not too long either!)
Vic ---
Jenny leans back in her chair and stretches. She lifts her arms over her head and that irresistible urge to yawn transforms her face for a moment. A very un-lady like noise slips from between her lips and she quickly covers her mouth with one hand. She turns to the door to see if anyone saw or heard her. She is glad no one was there. Jenny takes a quick glance at her watch.
Just another hour and a half to go, she thinks to herself. End of day is so close and yet so far away. Sighing to herself, she reaches for her keyboard to start on the next thing she needed to get done. It is mindless work. Not really, but she has done this so much that it is like mindless work to her. She starts thinking about this and that.
Jenny wanted to go out tonight and made it known to her boyfriend, Sam. Her girlfriends have been telling her about this new club downtown. Her girlfriends have been going every weekend for the last two months and not a single night was bad. (That is what they tell her.) Some of her girlfriends were single and some were not. Whether bringing someone or not, everyone seem to have a good time there.
Jenny is not much of a club go-er. She likes dancing and even enjoys the loud music sometimes. When she was younger, she did hang out with her friends. They went clubbing all the time. It was fun to let loose, working the stress away in the form of dancing, drinking and laughing. Today is one of those days where she wanted to do something. She wanted to go to dinner and have a good time. And if Sam was good to her, he may even get lucky. Jenny smiles to herself at that thought.
"Now that is one mischievous smile you have there, Miss Jenny." a voice broke her line of thought.
Jenny turns to see Jack pushing a covered cart, probably full of computer parts.
"Oh, hi Jack." She says, smiling at him.
Jack is one of the company's many IT guys. Jenny would say one of the nicest and best IT folks the company has on staff.
"So what kind of joke are you planning?" Jack says as he starts to move some computer parts aside.
"I'm going out tonight." She said, excitedly,
"But," she waves dismissively and continues, "No joke planning here."
"Good for you!" He glances up to smile at her. Then he looks back down into the cart and frowns.
"What's wrong?" Jenny asks.
"Oh, nothing. I just forgot to bring something."
Jenny nods.
"So. You're going out with the girls or the boyfriend tonight?" Jack says, continuing with the earlier subject.
Smiling, she says, "Both. I'm meeting the boyfriend for dinner and then the girls are going to meet us at the club. One of our friends knows someone who knows someone that put us on a list to get in tonight."
"The club?" He asks with surprise.
"I don't look like the club go-er?"
Jack laughs and says, "No no. Just surprised. After a week like the week everyone seemed to have had, I would have guessed everyone would go home to crash early."
Jenny nods, she understood completely. There had been a series of emergencies all week long and to top it off, there were some corporate wide computer problems. Luckily, there was nothing too serious with her department. The biggest problem she faced was computer related.
Still, Jenny had faced several days of restoring lost information or verifying recovered information for her boss.
"I don't know. I guess this week has got me all revved up. I feel like burning off some energy."
Jack winks at her and says, "Don't let the boyfriend hear that or else you'll never make it to the club."
She grins and says, "He can wait. If he is a good boy tonight, I'll reward him."
Jenny is happy to hear Jack talking so freely. It seems a few months back, it would have been very difficult to have gotten Jack to look her in the eye, let alone talk in such a manner. Not that they should and she is sure Jack would not complain to HR about such talk.
Jack whistles at this and Jenny laughs.
"What are you and Theresa doing tonight?"
Jack looks up at her and thought a moment.
"Oh no Jack, don't tell me you forgot!" Jenny giggles.
"No no, we're not doing much tonight. It's going to be dinner and movie at her place." Jack smiles at Jenny.
"You can join us at the club!" Jenny smiles at Jack.
She is hopeful and excited at the thought. Theresa also knows a couple of her girl friends, May and Mindy. Jenny thought it would be nice if Jack and Theresa enjoy an evening out with some other folks at work.
Shaking his head, he says, "Thanks, but maybe another time."
Jenny frowns slightly and nods but after a pause. She then slyly says "Maybe I should make a suggestion to Theresa or ask Susan to make an event of it."
Jack laughs nervously. He looks at his watch and quickly says, "I need to work on your computer. It might take a while." Jack adds, "You might want to call it an early day."
Jenny looks at her watch and asks, "How long will it take?"
"As I say to Theresa..." Jack says as he walks over to Jenny.
Jenny glances up at him as he leans down. She sees him smiling mischievously this time.
"I like to do it slowly and make sure everything is right." he whispers into her ear.
Jenny shivers inwardly and outwardly, she reaches up with a hand and pushes Jack away.
"Susan has been teaching you bad bad things. It is not right to tease a woman so and then tell her to go." She frowns at him.
Jack laughs and says, "Sorry, I couldn't resist. Look, it is going to take a couple of hours at least. Since your boss isn't around today, kick off early. I won't tell anyone."
Jenny smiles at him and the idea. She quickly gets her purse from her desk and stands up.
"But, Theresa is right, you're the nicest techie there is!" she says excitedly and gives him a quick hug.
Jack laughs and without looking at her he uses one hand and does one of those bored shooing motions.
"Okay, have a good weekend Jack. Give Theresa a big wet kiss for me." Jenny said with a wink.
Jack looks up into a blank space and leers at the fantasy Jenny just placed in his imagination.
Jenny mockingly says, "Men!" and storms out the door.
Jenny laughs to herself as she walks towards the elevator. She likes Jack. And even more so after he had come out of his 'shy shell'. And that was due to Theresa. Well, from the rumors, it was more Susan's doing. She heard stories about their antics starting from the Holiday party at the end of the year. But she could never get Jack or Theresa to admit to anything. Jenny and Theresa used to work in the same area. And she knows of Susan's many special events. Jenny has never participated but she has heard about them. Her friends May and Mindy have been at some of these events. If what she heard from May and Mindy about those events were true, then she is glad she never accepted an invitation. Even after moving down here in a different department, the stories and rumors and gossip reaches down here thanks to Susan.
Jenny's first boss had retired and got her the new position with her current boss. She has no complaints about her new boss and she was quite happy with the job.
She steps into the elevator and presses the button to get to street level. She steps back and hears her cell phone go off.
Picking it up, she answers, "Hello?"
"Hey."
"Sam?"
"Yeah. So are we still on for dinner tonight?"
Smiling into the phone, she says, "Yeah. Then to that new club!"
"Uhβ¦"
Frowning, Jenny asks, "What's wrong?"