[Author's note: This story is part of the
On The Job Challenge 2024
]
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Oh shit, he answered back. My heart rate spikes and I have that strange, dry feeling in my mouth. He answered back and now I have to do it. I'm at work and I have a Masters Degree in Engineering and I need to send him a naked full-body picture of myself looking like a fucking dumb bimbo within the next five minutes.
How did I ever get into this mess?
I get up from my desk, taking my phone with me, mind racing. The bathrooms would be easy but he doesn't want that. He doesn't want a picture of a bimbo slut in front of a toilet bowl. Where? I pace down the corridor in my neat workwear, trying to work out what I'm going to do.
The meeting rooms are all glass-fronted. If I stripped off there, anyone could walk past. Anyone could look in on me and see their well-respected, intelligent work colleague pouting like a blonde airhead for the camera. The mere thought of it ignites that feverish ache in my crotch.
Four minutes.
It's not as if I didn't ask for it, but now I'm here, heading down the fire stairs to the basement carpark, taking the steps two at a time, conscious of the seconds ticking by. Why on earth am I even doing this, sending a picture of myself to a stranger? Worse, sending a naked, full-frontal picture of myself?
No, it's too late for self-delusion: worse than that. He wants a picture of me naked looking like an airhead slut in my birthday suit pouting for him, full body with my face clearly visible, to post on a forum where everyone will see me. I know what will happen from there, the way the picture will spread across the internet, from chat group to chat group, turning up on threads in all the little corners of the internet, spreading way past the point that I'll ever have a chance to stop them.
I open the door and hurry out into the basement, heels clicking on the concrete as I stride between the parked cars into the corner of the carpark. This looks good: out of the way of the door, three rows back, in the gloom, sandwiched between a hulking SUV and the bare concrete wall. No-one will see.
Three minutes.
Then the irony hits me, that I've found a spot where I can do this unseen but he wants me to send the picture to him so that he can show it to everyone. I work in a technology company; there are bound to be people on my floor who frequent the same forums I do, or have friends who do, who will stumble across a new picture of a woman exposing herself in public. I begin to strip off.