Chapter 4: Mary Jo Joins the Club
Mary Jo tried hard to focus on what her assistant Brad was talking about. She was convinced that he knew that she had nothing on under her skirt, even though logic told her there was no way he could know.
She had met with Fred shortly after lunch for their regular talk about the quarterly medical staff newsletter. They covered the necessary topics in short order, as they usually did, but then she sat there quietly, not moving.
"Anything else?"
She took a deep breath. "I had lunch with Alexandra a while back."
Fred nodded. "About two weeks ago, right."
"She told me about your... secret fun." Fred said nothing, just looking at her. She squirmed and felt nervous sweat on her lips and arms. "I know she said you can't talk about details until I've... made my commitment. But... " Her voice trailed off.
After a moment, Fred said, "You and I have had several conversations about very sensitive matters that required complete confidentiality, and neither of us has ever broken that pact. Whatever you're worried about, you can rely on my silence."
She sat there for what felt like a long time, just staring at him. She wanted to ask him to open his file drawer, but knew he wouldn't. And she remembered that she had walked out of the building with a totally naked Alexandra and waved to him in his car. Finally, she took a deep breath, put her papers on the floor, and stood up. "Can I close the door?"
"I don't see why," Fred said.
She stepped to the doorway, checked the hallways, and came back into the office. With a deep breath, she reached under her skirt, slid her hands up to her waist, and pushed down. It took a little tugging, but after a moment, she pulled the panties to the floor and stepped out of them. Without a word, Fred pulled open his file drawer, and she dropped them in.
"Have a seat," he said as he shut the drawer. "I know that took a lot of nerve. And trust. So, thank you. Did Alex tell you the rest of it? As long as they are in the drawer, we can play games with you. If there's something you don't want to do, you can say no, but if you say no three times, we'll stop. Okay?"
Mary Jo sat in silent amazement at what she had just done. Part of her wanted to grab the panties back out of the drawer and run from the building; another part was very excited at what might happen. At the same time, the analytic part of her brain was churning with questions. "Is that if I say no to a whole project or just to one part of it?"
"I don't know. That's never come up. You're part of the rules committee now. Why don't we make that rule when we need to?"
That made her chuckle on her way back to her office. There were three of them, so far as she knew, and already a committee.
Back at her desk, though, she began worrying that her secret would be discovered. Every time somebody looked at her or called her name, she checked that her skirt was still in place. Ridiculous she knew, since she was behind a solid desk and the skirt reached almost to her knees
After her meeting with Brad, where she thought she must have seemed very distracted, she stayed at her desk working. Around 5:15, as some of the staff began leaving, her phone rang. It was Fred.
"How are you doing?"
"Okay." After a pause, she chuckled. "It feels weird to have nothing on down there. I was sure everybody knew. Stupid, I know."
"Sounds like a normal reaction. Are you at your desk?"
"Yes."
"Slide your skirt up so your legs are bare."
She got a sudden chill at the uncertainty of what might happen, but slid her skirt up anyway.
"Make sure you pull it all the way up, so your butt is on the chair. Now run your fingers along your legs. How do they feel?"
Her breath got shallow as she ran her fingers along the top of her thigh. She kept her eyes on the staff still outside her office, but nobody looked her way.
"It feels nice. A little scratchy maybe. I guess I need to shave."
"What part of your leg are you touching?"
"The thigh, the top part."
"Move to the inside of the thigh. How does it feel?"
"Softer. Smoother," she said after a brief silence.
"Now move your hand to the top of your thigh and the space between. Tell me about that."
Mary Jo giggled quietly before answering. "It's furry."
"And the soft tissue beneath the fur?"
There was silence, then a quiet moan. "What was that?" Fred's voice was quiet and deep, more like a voice inside her head than on the phone.
"The nub," she whispered with a sigh.
"Your clitoris?"
"Mmm hmm." She heard him breathing as she stroked herself, running her fingers over the folds of flesh between her legs. She kept mostly silent, with occasional gasps, as she stroked circular motions over her labia, getting wetter and looser with each stroke.