This is number twenty of the twenty-one parts that make up the Friends series. Each story can be read independently, but the characters and plot line make much more sense if you have read the earlier parts. The series tracks the growth, personally, professionally, and sexually, of a group of friends, all in their mid-twenties. Alan and Lisa are a young married couple. Audrey and Tim were recently engaged and are Alan and Lisa's best friends.
This chapter begins on a Thursday morning, the day after the previous chapter, "The Games Begin" ends. On Friday, Alan and Lisa will host Lisa's work colleague Michelle and her new girlfriend Lizzie for a fancy dinner. Audrey has a Saturday pool tournament paired with Maria, the wife of Javi, another work colleague of Audrey and Lisa. The story returns to being told from Lisa's perspective.
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Marty sticks his head in my office, "Emergency meeting with you four in the conference room, now."
I can see him heading over to Michelle's office from my mine.
Soon Audrey, Javi, Michelle, and I are all looking at each other. The four of us are somewhat running the company now. Other than Marty, who founded the firm, the partners seem to have largely checked out from any day to day operations of the company.
Unbeknownst to us at the time, Marty hired all of us straight out of college a few years ago with the intent to grow us into taking over the company. We each learned of this plan a few months ago, including that we are to be named official partners in six to eight months, when the existing partners fully retire.
"Eddie quit today and did so dramatically," Marty announces, "He was on a two day visit to a client This morning, in the middle of a public meeting with the client, he stood up, announced that he quit, and walked out. I have previously talked with each of you about the expectation that he would eventually quit, but even I didn't expect him to do so this unprofessionally."
Eddie was supposed to be the fifth of us, Marty's dream team of budding superstars. Eddie's specialty was economic development. While the four of us had thrived, Marty had lost faith in him and Eddie had been notably absent from our recent promotion to Senior Analyst.
Audrey and I had long referred to him as, "Sleazy Eddie". I don't think Michelle thought any more highly of him; he regularly hit on all three of us women. Javi didn't seem to like him either. I suspect Eddie was a racist along with being a misogynist pig. He tried to hide this all from Marty, but Marty is spookily aware of our secrets.
"I am about to hop a plane to visit the clients and smooth over things. Audrey and Lisa, I need you to work together, reviewing everything you can find about his economic development plan he was working on and look for any holes and any ways to improve it. I will be combing through the files on the plane, but I want you two to send me what you find and anything I can use to sweeten things for them by the time I land. Michelle, start thinking about how to present this to any other clients who hear about it. Javi, I don't think I need anything from you, but pass any brilliant ideas through either Michelle or Audrey. Thanks everybody."
As we start to head out, Marty adds, "I will check in with you this afternoon and tonight. Anyone not able to stay connected tonight?"
Everyone seems comfortable with the plan. Audrey checks with Becky, Marty's assistant / office manager, to see if anyone needs the conference room today. Hearing no, Audrey and I start pulling all the paper files along with two extra laptops around the conference table.
Audrey is pouring through the financials of everything, while I am trying to understand the impact on the city itself. Is this the best way to spend their money? Are these the right districts to focus on? My specialty is neighborhood revitalization plans, but I was backing up Eddie recently, knowing this day was coming. Audrey is a finance and accounting geek at heart, at least if you completely ignore sex and pool. But when she was first hired, she was helping with the economic development work until Eddie came on board.
After an hour, Audrey asks Becky to order lunch for the two of us so we can keep working. Phil, one of the retiring partners, sticks his head in about an hour later. I hadn't seen him in almost a month, but he was the company's original economic development guru. We can definitely use his experience.
Audrey and I explain what we have found and where we think things could be improved. He likes most of our points, but explains why a couple won't work. After some more thought and more discussion. We find alternatives and soon Audrey is writing a three page memo for Marty, containing talking points and ways we can improve the plan. And Audrey has found some good ways to shave the costs for the city, to put a cherry on top.
She sends our write-up to Marty by the time his plane is scheduled to land. Ten minutes later, we get a thanks, looks good note back.
Audrey and I stick our heads into Michelle's office to give her an update. The two of us return to the conference room to divvy up Eddie's existing clients between us. She sends Michelle a list of which clients each of us will handle, in case a question comes in. I think we both will be working well into the night reading files, bringing ourselves up to date on each of them. At least all of this should be electronically available, so we can work from home.
Audrey and I had carpooled this morning, so we talk more about economic development and Eddie on the way home. I drop Audrey at her apartment. We got back too late for her to see Tim before he left for Aikido; she has a quiet evening to herself to study the reports.
Alan is home when I arrive. I had texted him already, warning about my evening. He can work from home as well and always has work he needs to do, especially tonight, since he is taking tomorrow afternoon off to prepare the big feast for Michelle and Lizzie. We grab a quick dinner at Tito's, a local high-end pizza place, but neither of us have our usual alcoholic drinks with dinner.
I work later than I usually stay up, but I am at least reasonably aware of the state of each of the clients suddently in my care.
I apologize to Alan, but I am too wiped for any extracurriculars in bed tonight. He is a bit disappointed. I think he can survive; Audrey played my game last night. She was tied to the table, stark naked. And four of us (including Tim and MaryA) drew cards for the right to do whatever we wanted to her sexually for a turn, time determined by the card. It is almost as much fun on the player side as it was when I was the one tied to the table last month. I think all five of us were sexually sated last night and that will have to last until tomorrow for Alan.
I wake up in the morning to the sound of Alan's shower. I would love to roll over and go back to sleep. But Audrey is not carpooling with me today, so I can't count on her waking me up. For all I grouse at her, I do enjoy her watching me wake up, ogling my body. And I promised myself I would go to the gym this morning; that is why we are not carpooling.
Then I remember Alan's disappointment last night. If I get up now, I can make that up to him in the shower and still make it to the gym. And I need to catch back up on my own work after spending all my time on Eddie's yesterday (and last night).
I slip out of bed and sneak into the back of the shower, grabbing Alan from behind. I squeeze him in a big hug, then start teasing his nipples. I slide a hand down to his quickly rising member. He turns around and kisses me.
"I don't think my lady parts are quite awake enough to do anything, but I can give you some morning relief."
"That would be greatly appreciated."
We go back to kissing for a minute before I crouch down and take his cock in my mouth. It never takes him long in the morning; I think he would rather shift most of our sex life to the morning, but morning sex generally doesn't work well for me.
I pull off at the last minute and he sprays the top of my tits with his cum. He likes the feeling of cumming in my mouth, but he does enjoy the visual of marking me. With the easy cleanup, the shower is the ideal time to satisfy that kink.
We eat the leftover raspberry chocolate chip muffins from breakfast yesterday and some fresh fruit before heading out. At the gym, I stick to my new routine of fifteen minutes on the rowing machine and a half hour stationary bike ride. I feel virtuous by the time I get to work, still earlier than my usual arrival.
I dive into work preparing for my trip next week, my last sales trip paired with Marty. I will get a break from these for a month or so, then be doing them with Javi. My style is to just absorb as much information about the client cities as I can. I don't have Marty's charisma; I have to win customers over with competence, and for me, that starts with knowing as much as I can.
