It was ten o'clock on a Friday night. The convenience store I worked in was packed; I'd had to ask my manager to come out of the office to help me out. Everyone was getting ready for their weekends of partying, which meant plenty of beer, cigarettes, and condoms were needed. Fortunately, or unfortunately from my point of view, we sold all three.
I tried not to look at the line; if I saw how many people were waiting in front of me, it would probably send me over the edge. I needed to pee, I needed a drink of water or soda, and I needed to sit down. But the rush had been going on since seven o'clock and it was unlikely to end any time soon.
"Hey, baby."
I looked at the customer who'd spoken. He wasn't anyone I'd seen before. "Can I help you?" I asked.
"How about your phone number?"
I glanced at my manager. He kept bagging up the bottles of soda his customer had bought, and didn't seem to notice the guy I was waiting on. "How about not," I said. "What are you buying tonight?"
"How much for an hour with you?"
The guy was seriously pissing me off. The old me would have just smiled and gone with the "customer is always right" philosophy, but I'd gained too much confidence to put up with this moron's crap. "If you aren't buying anything, get out of my line," I said. "And my company's worth more than you could imagine."
"Look, bitch, I was trying to be friendly."
"Be friendly to someone else."
"Hey, get a move on," someone called from the back of the line.
"Samantha, what's the problem?" my manager asked.
"Your little chicky here's having an attitude with me," the customer said. "I'm trying to be nice, and she's getting all bitchy on me."
"Samantha?" the manager said.
"He called me baby, asked for my phone number, and asked how much it would cost to spend an hour with me," I said. "I asked him a few times what he's buying, but he seems to think pick-up lines are more important than getting out of the other customers' way."
"Samantha, you can't talk to customers rudely." He turned to the customer. "I'm sorry about that. Is there something I can help you with?"
"A pack of cigarettes, please." He named the brand and shot a glare at me. "See, that isn't so hard, is it?"
"It's not so hard when you're not a jerk," another customer said.
Recognizing the voice, I grinned. "Hi, Jay. Be with you in a minute or ten."
"You're here to wait on customers, not to socialize," my manager snapped. He handed the annoying guy a pack of cigarettes and told him the price. "Get back to work, Samantha."
I made a face after he turned his back, earning giggles from some of the customers. I took the money for the jerk's cigarettes; when I tried to hand him his change, he grabbed my wrist. "Don't ever be a bitch like that to me again," he snarled.
"I strongly suggest you get your hand the hell off my girlfriend." Jay left his place in line and came up to the counter. "You need to learn to take no for an answer."
"Shit." The guy let go of me. "I didn't mean anything."
"Good to know. Now take your cancer sticks and get out of here."
"And you get out of here too!" The manager's forehead veins bulged. "I won't have anyone in my store threatening a customer!"
"But it's okay if one of your customers threatens your employee?" Jay said. "Sam, come with me."
"I'm working," I protested.
"Not here you're not. You quit."
"I do?"
"She does?" the manager said. "I don't think you can do that."
"Hurry up!" one of the other customers said.
I looked at the line, looked at my manager who was glaring at me as though this was my fault, and nodded at Jay. "You're right. I quit. As soon as this line goes down." I wasn't staying out of any sense of obligation to help the manager; I just didn't want the customers to have to wait any longer than necessary.
While I waited on the rest of the customers in my line, my manager avoided looking at me and Jay stood nearby in case of any more problems. Knowing that he was looking out for me made me smile; I felt protected.
Finally, after almost an hour of nonstop customers, the store emptied. "Are you really quitting?" the manager asked.
"I was harassed by a customer and you told me I should stand here and deal with it," I said. "You acted like I was the one with the problem when he was making inappropriate comments to me. Not to mention I've been here since four o'clock with no break, and I need to go to the bathroom. Yes, I quit."
"Then don't show your face here again. Not as an employee and not as a customer."
"No problem," Jay said. "There are plenty of better stores in the area. Come on, Sam."
I left my spot behind the register to stand beside Jay, and dropped my nametag and smock on the counter. "I'll have my brother drop off my uniforms tomorrow, since I'm no longer allowed here," I told the manager. "Have a good life."
Jay took my hand and led me outside. "How do you feel about that?" he asked.
I laughed. "I can't believe you did that! Telling my manager that I was quitting? I thought his eyes were going to pop out!"
"He definitely wasn't impressed. Don't worry about it, though. You'll get another job easily. If you need help finding something, just let me know."
"You have connections, huh?"
"Indeed I do." He leaned on his car and pulled me against him. "Right now, I'd love to be connected to you. What time's Randy supposed to pick you up?"
"He isn't. I told him you were bringing me home."
"And what do your parents think about that?"
"They don't know," I admitted. "I figured you could drop me off at the corner."
"Sam, you told me a couple weeks ago that you were going to talk to your parents about us," Jay said. "When are you going to do that? I don't like it when people don't keep their promises."
"I just haven't had a chance to talk to them yet."
"Make time."
"Are you mad at me?"
"No, baby." He stroked my hair. "It's pretty damn hard for me to get mad at you. But if you tell me you're going to do something, do it, okay?"
"Okay."
He pressed his lips against mine, and his tongue pushed into my mouth. I met it with my tongue, enjoying the kiss until Jay put his hand on my boob. "Don't do that," I said.
"I thought you liked it when I play with your tits."
"I love that. But people can see us."
"So your sexually frustrated ex-manager might see us having fun. That bothers you?"
"Kind of. Sex is supposed to be private, isn't it?"
Jay grinned. "It can be. It doesn't have to be. I've had sex in public before. It was fun, it was hot, and since no one caught us there was no problem. Well, I got caught once or twice, but in those cases the people who caught us didn't mind. They even joined in one of those times."
"Strangers joined in?" I knew Jay had a wide range of sexual experience, but some of the things he told me astonished me.
"Sure, why not? It wasn't like they forced their way in. It was two guys; they were standing there watching and playing with themselves, and the woman I was with asked me if I minded her helping them out. I didn't mind; I like watching too. So she asked if they wanted to play. We were in a state park, and it was pre-season, so no one else showed up or she probably would have invited them in too."
"Wow." I tried to imagine having sex with three guys, but I couldn't even begin to figure out how that would be possible. And I wasn't sure I wanted to find out; Jay was plenty for me. "Well, I'd rather not have anyone else join in."
He laughed. "I didn't think you'd want that. You're just so sexy, Sam, that sometimes it's hard for me to keep my hands off you. But if you're uncomfortable, let's get in the car and go to my place so I can attack you there."
As I was getting into the car, I glanced at the store. Sure enough, the manager was at the window, watching us. I hoped he'd enjoyed the show; Jay was probably right about him being sexually frustrated.
Instead of driving to his house, Jay took me to a spot nearby that overlooked a river. "Come on, babe," he said. "Let's see what kind of trouble we can get into here."
"Outside. Where it's cold."
"It isn't that cold, and I'll keep you nice and warm. You were interested in the idea of outdoor sex, weren't you?"
"Yeah." It had sounded exciting, though I thought I'd done a pretty good job of hiding that from Jay. Then again, it shouldn't have surprised me that he'd pretty much read my mind. He'd known me since I was little, even though we hadn't seen each other for several years before the night he'd walked into the store and kept me from being robbed. He knew me well.
"This is the quietest place I know. I've never seen anyone else here, not this late at night anyway. So let's try it. You might like it."
I wanted to. I always wanted to have sex with Jay, and the thought of being where we might be seen made my pussy tingle. But I wasn't sure I dared. "What if someone does show up?"
"Then you can decide whether you want to invite them to join." He laughed at the look on my face. "It's okay, Sam. No one will see. Look, if you really don't want to do this, just say so. I promise you, I'll never make you do anything you don't want to do. But I think you do want to try this; otherwise, we would have just gone straight back to my apartment. Was I wrong?"
"No." I couldn't look at him as I admitted, "I want to."
"Then let's get out of the car and see what happens."
We did. Jay went to the front of the car; when I joined him there, he lifted me onto the hood. "You're supposed to wear skirts when you're going to see me," he reminded me.
"I couldn't wear a skirt to work."
"I suppose not. But that means I'm going to have to take off your pants. If you had a skirt on all I'd have to do is push it up, and I'd be able to get at that hot little pussy of yours. Guess it's a good thing you'll be finding another job. Find one that will let you wear skirts."
"You want me to take my pants off out here?"