Marlene had been on her feet most of the day, filing papers and attending meetings, all the while answering the phone and taking messages for her boss. As the executive assistant for Donald Levinson of the Park/Levinson Law Firm, she was used to the daily hustle and bustle. But, today was Friday and that always seemed to lend itself to an extra measure of last-minute rushing around to end the workweek.
She flopped herself down into her desk chair with a heavy sigh, gratefully taking the load off of her aching feet, and paying absolutely no attention to how her skirt had risen high enough on her thighs to expose the dark, opaque bands of her stockings. At that moment, she could not have cared less. And besides, she reasoned, she was seated in rather modesty behind her desk where no one in the office in front of her might perceive her skirtly indiscretion.
After taking a few moments to relax, reflect, and catch her breath, she glanced up at the clock on the wall. She smiled to see that the clock had finally moved closer to closing time. Some days, and this was certainly one of them, it seemed time would just crawl by. Earlier that very afternoon, she had looked up at the wall clock and noted the time was 2:15 pm. In what seemed like it had to have been at least an hour later, she had again glanced up at the clock to see that it was now 2:25 pm. Thankfully, the time was now 4:45 pm, and her workday, and workweek, were both finally coming to a close.
With nothing more to do in the final fifteen minutes, she leaned back in her chair and crossed her legs. In doing so, she once again felt a very familiar sensual presence between her legs. A sensation that had been with her for most of the day, every time she moved, crossed, or uncrossed her legs, and even as she walked from office to office. A subtle sensation of sensuality that announced its presence with even the slightest nuance of movement. A pleasant tease, a breath of sensuality that had kept her in a mild state of arousal for most of the day. She understood the teasing sensation very well, it was her body's subtle, yet insistent, manner of making her aware of the fact that she had gone much too long without having any kind of sexual contact.
And THAT, she thought with a frown, pressing her lips together firmly with a shake of her head, was entirely the fault of her soon-to-be ex-husband. The vision of Gary fucking his office assistant once again flashed into her conscious thoughts. Even though the incident had happened well over a month ago and had lasted no more than a few seconds, every explicit detail was indelibly burned into her memory and vividly recalled.
The girl, his twenty-something office assistant, that cute little blonde thing. What the hell was her name? Christie? Chrissie? Whatever, she shrugged with a dismissive shake of her head, it mattered not. What MATTERED was how the young woman had been sprawled face down over Gary's desk, her curly blonde hair splayed out over the top of the desk. She was bent over from the waist with her legs spread ever so accommodatingly, her short pleated skirt pulled up and bunched around her waist and her pantyhose pulled down just enough to bare her Lilly-white buttocks. Gary, with his slacks and boxers puddled unceremoniously about his feet, was thrusting into her lustfully, the girl squealing and gasping with each forceful thrust of his hips as their bodies came together with resounding slaps that seemed to echo loudly in the small confines of his office.
She had just stood there frozen in place, gaping in stunned silence for several seconds before quickly coming to her senses and retracing her steps, backing silently from the room, and closing the door quietly behind her. The couple had been so engrossed in their ever so pleasurable activity, neither had noticed her entrance or exit at all.
She barely remembered the drive home, her eyes blurred by her tears. Once she arrived home, however, she had calmly and methodically packed two suitcases with most of the clothing she needed for work and other everyday essentials and, having nowhere else to go, had arrived in tears on Louise's doorstep. God bless her best friend Louise and her husband Ross, who had taken her in without question and afforded her the use of their spare bedroom for as long as she needed.
The very next day, Ross had even put her in touch with a good lawyer and she promptly filed for divorce on the grounds of infidelity. To her complete and utter astonishment, Gary had not only contested the divorce, but he also countersued, claiming extreme mental anguish and abject mortification because of his wife's "lewd and lascivious" behavior in public in front of other men.
He was, of course, referring to the many occasions when she and Gary had attended parties at Louise's house, and the many occasions Ross had coaxed and cajoled her into dancing to "The Stripper".
It had all begun a little over a year ago and had all been in innocent fun. During one of Louise's parties, with at least a dozen other couples present, she had been standing alone looking out the front window of their house momentarily lost in her thoughts with a glass of wine in her hand. And, knowing herself, it was likely her third, or fourth... or tenth glass of wine. She hadn't been drunk, per se, but she had been definitely feeling no pain that evening.
Ross was always in charge of the music, and he took great pride in his music collection and keeping those parties lively with good classic rock music on his sound system. Never too loud, but loud enough to keep everyone's feet tapping or to dance if anyone felt like it, and they often did.
On that particular night, Ross inexplicably put on a recording of "The Stripper" by David Rose and his Orchestra. He was probably trying to be funny, an inside joke to someone at the party, and many people DID laugh. But, when that particular piece of music began to play, she had, without conscious thought, begun to move her body as she had remembered seeing those classic strippers do on television and in the movies, all the while staring absently out the window and sipping her wine. She had unconsciously parted her legs to the extent her tight skirt would allow and moved her hips suggestively, punctuating the musical crescendos with forceful pelvic thrusts, just as she had seen the exotic dancers do.
When the music ended, she turned her attention back toward the party and, to her complete surprise, saw Ross staring at her from across the room with a curious smile on his face. Realizing she had been dancing rather suggestively and that he had been watching her, she felt the hot flush of embarrassment rise to her cheeks and she averted her eyes and turned away from him.
Moments later, he startled her as he suddenly appeared behind her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Marlene?" he said with a broad smile. "My dear, I think you may have missed your calling. With moves like that, you could have been a world-class exotic dancer."