The polished, coolly professional businesswoman sitting across the table is looking at me with more than a bit of concern. "Are you feeling all right?" she asks.
I've got to pull myself together. If I play today's meeting right, this client could bring in the only steady work I've had since I decided to go freelance six months ago. I need the money, and the assignments would be at least mildly interesting. But I feel her eyes on me and know I'm blowing it. I have an intense, overwhelming headache today. It's so distracting that I'm having trouble focusing, and I'm certainly not making a very good impression.
There's only one thing to be done when I have a headache this bad. I know from experience that drugs won't make a dent, and since lying down in a dark room isn't really an option right now, I'm going to have to wing it. I've got to have an orgasm, and soon, if I'm gonna land this job.
My eyes sweep the sparsely populated restaurant in search of the ladies room. I spot it in a far corner, next to a waiters' station. I quickly excuse myself and make a beeline for the door, only to crash headlong into one of the waiters (who fortunately isn't carrying a tray at the moment). He rights me with steady hands.
"Oh God! I'm so sorry," I blurt. "I have this awful headache and it's turning me into a complete freakshow."
He gives me a quick once-over--I've gotten all dressed up in work clothes for this business lunch--and says, "I'd hardly call you a freakshow," then blushes charmingly, which makes me instinctively like him. He's one of my favorite physical types, tall and lanky, kinda punky and barely cleaned up for work, with longish dark hair and a couple of tiny rings in one ear. I want to stay and chat him up, but my head is clanging so loud I can't even fathom flirting. I give a rushed "I've got to go," and continue toward the bathroom.
I slam into a stall and collapse onto the toilet seat. Fortunately the place is deserted, because even with my exhibitionistic tendencies, I think I'd feel a bit odd getting myself off in a public restroom if anyone else was there. I rummage around in my purse until I find the sleek little vibe disguised as a tube of lipstick. (Hey, you never know when you're going to need one, today being a case in point.) I try to get comfortable on the cold seat, leaning back, reaching beneath the conservative skirt I'm wearing to rake my fingernails up my thighs, giving myself the shivers. I can feel my nipples hardening under the flimsy, silky material of my only good dress blouse. So far, so good. Now the tough part when going for a quick climax--getting the perfect set of mental images to coax me on. But today it's simple: the waiter.
I imagine flirting with him in the middle of the restaurant, moving closer to him so I can gaze up at him from under my lashes, a pose which always makes me feel vulnerable and girlish. His piercing hazel eyes traveling up and down my body and his pupils dilating a bit with desire. In the fantasy I've got a few buttons open and he can, I know, see straight down my shirt from his angle, catching glimpses of my lacy bra and the pale curve of my breasts. And my skirt's shorter in my mind than it is in real life, so that when I turn around to lead him toward an empty booth, the hem rides up with every step I take and he can't help but notice the top edge of each stocking and the straps leading upward, no doubt to a garter belt.
(I'm getting closer, I think, even though the fantasy hasn't even gotten explicit yet. Sometimes the anticipation, the breathlessness of the approach, is even more exciting than the hardcore stuff. But I can't linger here. I've just got to get it over with and get back out there before the client leaves in a huff.)