Pennys New Job
Due to covid hours at her office job had been cut, forcing Penny to look for a job on the side to recoup the lost hours. She had sent resumes out to ads she found online, but often the interviewer was looking for more experienced workers.
Luckily she found an ad looking for a nighttime manager at a retirement home. The ad specified no experience necessary, and the hours worked perfectly on her schedule, so she phoned in for an interview, and got the job a few hours later. Penny smiled to herself at how easy the job was, she just had to walk around and check up on everyone, if there was an emergency she just had to call the nurse on standby, easy.
On her first shift, she quickly realized that easy also meant bored. There wasn't much to do, she walked around the first hour, talking to everyone, but people either were eating, playing some games, sleeping, or watching tv.
Penny glanced at the clock from her desk and groaned seeing that only 2 hours had passed, she still had another 3 to go! She didn't have her phone on her, that was against the rules and she had to put it in the office. The only thing she had was her purse and the only thing that could keep her distracted was a piece of gum, lipstick, and her car keys.
Another half an hour passed and soon the room started to empty out. "Huh, guess everyone has an early bedtime," Penny muttered to herself.
There were only 3 retirees in the room left with her, they were all sitting at a table talking amongst one another. Shrugging to herself she got up to see what they were up to.
Halfway to them, she saw they were playing a card game. She wasn't sure which one, she was never one to play games growing up, except of course if drinks were involved.
"So what game are you three playing, when you should be in bed this time of night? Go-Fish? 21?" She asked them as she reached the table.
"Poker." A bald man answered she thinks his name was Larry. "Wanna join us?"
Penny glanced nervously around the table, she was vaguely familiar with the game, but as she looked at the center she saw they were gambling real money. The point of working here was to save money not to spend it.
"Poker? Sorry gentlemen but I'm here to make money not spend it." She said shaking her head, she turned around to start walking back before she felt someone grab her wrist.
Penny turned around and saw it was Larry. "Heyyy, not so fast Penny, were just having a friendly game here, you can bet as much as you're comfortable with." The other two men were nodding in agreement.
Penny bit her lip, she would be in big trouble if she got caught playing games instead of working, and she didn't want to lose any money. But as she looked at the pile of money at the center she could only imagine how much she could do with all of that. She would have more money to spend on clothes, maybe even enough to fix her car.
"Sure, I could play a few hands." She smiled at them sitting at an empty chair.
Larry had been kind enough to explain the rules to her, she thanked her lucky stars he was being kind. She initially cashed into the game at $50. It was the most she felt comfortable losing if she was horrible, and plus she had more money in her purse for rent. But the first hand came out and she won!
Penny squealed in excitement as she won her first hand, and her pile of money grew bigger. The next hand came and she won again! Penny started to get really excited as luck seemed to be on her side, no matter which hand she had, and whether it was good or bad she always came on top.
'I can't believe my luck! I should go to casinos more often!' Penny thought to herself as she won another hand. Soon she had around $200, if she were thinking logically she would've bowed out by now, but she was hooked on this game and wanted to continue playing. Unfortunately, she was too caught up on her winnings she didn't notice to glance Larry made to his friends before dealing the next hand of cards.
The next hand was dealt and she had a pair of 6's. She smiled to herself as she knew a pair was always good, so she bet big. When it was time to reveal she had a giant smile as she showed her hand. Before she could reach over and grab it she saw one of them show a hand of a pair of kings. Penny's heart dropped as she realized she lost, and she saw the pot go further away from here.
'It's okay, I was bound to lose eventually, but I still got it!' She thought confidently to herself.
The next hand came and she saw she had a 2 and a 6, not good. Still believing that maybe she'll still get lucky she continued to match bets. However, in the end, she didn't even come close to winning and watched more of her money being taken away.
Penny bit her lip, she still made more money than what she came in with, she could back out now. But as she had to admit playing poker and winning was very fun, and as she glanced at the clock and saw she still had a while before her shift ended, she figured playing more wouldn't hurt.
It did hurt, very much. Penny learned the hard way that the house always wins. Any good luck she had was gone as with each hand her hand got worse and worse, and whenever she thought she was about to win, whether it was with a full house or three of a kind Larry always had a better hand. But the thrill to win was still there so when she eventually ran out of money she reached in her purse and threw her rent money in as well. To her horror that still didn't stop the losing, spending every cent on her to recoup her lost money, but as the final card turned over she groaned as she lost another hand.
"Okay, one more hand! Deal me in!" She spoke up as the deck was being shuffled.
"Sorry Penny, but you're out of money," Larry told her while shuffling.
Confused, Penny glanced down and her jaw drop as she realized she had no money left! She started to breath harder as she realized what she just did, she just lost her entire rent money for the month! She wasn't going to get paid for a few weeks, she was screwed.
"Please! One more hand, you have to let me win back my rent money! I'll be kicked out of my apartment if I can't pay this month's rent!" She pleaded, hoping they would give her mercy.
Larry gave her an innocent smile. "Well, we want to let you in but you have to barter with something. Neither of us are interested in the purse, and we're sure you wouldn't gamble away your car."
Penny gave him a confused look and where he was going, but as she went through the list of things she on her person the only thing of value she could think of was her clothes.
"You want me to play strip poker?" She deadpanned. It wasn't the first time she was propositioned to play that game, men at parties always offered the same game to her, of course, every week she rolled her eyes at them and tell them to get lost, she knew this time would be different.
She glanced at her current outfit, all she was wearing was a red blouse, skinny jeans, bra, and panties. She was in shape, her C cups were still perky, there was nothing wrong with showing off her body, but she was not interested in stripping, but as she looked at the large pile of money each of the gentlemen had, and as she looked at her empty pile she knew she had to get back her money. Her luck had to turn around eventually.
"Alright, I'm in." She finally said.
She saw the three of them smile at her, and the game resumed.
Of course, that ended up not changing her luck as she lost the hand. Penny sighed heavily as the three of them looked at her expectedly.
"My heels count as one right?" She asked, half pleading. All three of them shook their heads.
She groaned as she started fiddling with the buttons on her blouse, with each one undone she was exposing more and more of her cleavage until all the buttons were undone. She shrugged off the blouse conscious of the fact the men were all staring at her chest. She kept her eyes down as she threw it into the middle.
'It's okay, its just a blouse, a right really cute blouse you loved to wear on dates.' She just hoped her luck would finally turn.
Her luck didn't change as with the next hand her heart dropped, it was a 5 and 9. Nothing good came about it was only another 5 came up, but someone else had beaten her with a straight hand.
She knew which clothing she had to take off next. She sighed heavily as she stood up and unzipped her jeans. They were a bit tight and she had to shake her hips a bit to get them off, causing her breasts to giggle in her bra. She blushed as they fell down her legs and pooled by her feet, she covered herself as she was now standing in the middle of the room in just her bra and panties.
'Oh god, what am I doing? If I get caught not only will I get fired but possibly arrested! I don't need my mom asking me questions on why I'm only wearing underwear in jail!' Penny started to panic.
"Another hand Penny?" Larry asked shuffling the deck, he made no effort to hide his staring.
Penny's face further reddened as all of them were staring at her body. It's not like she wasn't used to attention from the opposite sex for her body, and she did do a lot of stupid things growing up that involved nudity, but she was young, stupid, and most importantly drunk. Here she was standing in the middle of the room in her underwear, somber, and regretting every moment.