Candice Walker had just left the office after another boring day of answering phones and greeting clients as she headed the front of the busy law office she had been working at for six years. She sighed to herself as she rested into the seat of her Honda Pilot and laid her purse in the passenger seat. She closed her eyes for a moment then opened them lazily, looking into her rearview mirror and glancing over her features.
Candice, at twenty-six she had practically grown up at the law firm straight out of high school. She stared back at her bright green eyes as she traced over the pointed features of her face, her pert nose, and almond eyes. Her lips parted as she let out an exhausted breath fluttering a stray lock of her brown hair into the air just to fall back on her soft features. She pursed her lips and pulled the seat belt over her small bust before starting the car.
Candice was your average young professional, with no real distinguishing characteristics beyond the norm. She was raised Methodist and was still a devout practitioner; she finished high school a year early, choosing to skip most of the extracurricular activities and having music as one of her only driving interests.
The radio kicked on moments after starting the car, leading her to hum the predictable tunes that flooded into her airwaves as she drove out of the parking garage. Candice's green eyes peered toward the jamb packed toll road as she assessed her trip home. She rolled her eyes thinking to herself the waste of time she was about to endure lounging restlessly in the traffic.
As she waited at the red light while her mind mentally went off the checklist of things to do for the night. Work-out, groceries, dinner, then pick up a book and knock it out before bed. A pretty standard night actually. Going through the list she decided to forego the traffic and head to a nearby Gold's gym instead of the one closer to her apartment. This diversion had become a new ritual for her as construction crews had seemingly destroyed the path home causing massive delays for the thousands of people that routinely used this particular artery into town. Finding ways to burn time and let the traffic die down was increasingly more interesting to her, 'anything to put a damper on the mind-numbing boredom that is traffic.' She traveled the short few blocks and parked at the busy gym, killed the ignition, and reached for her gym bag in the back seat before getting out. She flung her purse over her right shoulder followed shortly by the gym bag.
Her high heels clicked sharply on the pavement as she walked the aisles of cars into the massive gym, unaware of the few men in the parking lot checking her out as she strolled in. The inside was no different, once she walked through the doors her small-tight body demanded the attention of every living breathing male in the place. At five foot three inches, and barely a hundred-ten pounds, she was at her ideal weight. Her medium-length brown hair pulled back into a tight ponytail minus one stray lock tracing her face. She smiled at the attendant as he greeted her and scanned her pass, handing her a fresh towel in the practiced automatic motion of the clerk. She blindly smiled, nodding her head before walking to the locker room to change.
The young brunette found an empty bench and laid her bags down before resting her lithe weight beside them. She kicked off her three-inch pumps and curled her toes under the cool air hitting her nyloned soles; her fingers traced down the buttons of her blouse quickly un-latching them and then untucking her white blouse from the modest navy skirt. She quickly took off her blouse revealing her small naked breast. She stood up from the bench and unbuckled the small accessorized belt from her waist, leading to the zipper, releasing the skirt from her slender waist. The skirt fell to the ground and she stepped over it, bending at the waist to collect it, fold it. She reached down and hooked her thumbs around the waistband of her nude pantyhose and began to peel them from her legs slowly, leaving her concealed only by a small pair of white French cut panties. She reached into her gym bag and pulled out a red sports bra and black shorts before putting them on; socks and running shoes followed.
Candice neatly folded her clothes and placed them in her bag before finding an empty locker to stow them in. She exited the locker room and headed upstairs to treadmills, where she could easily burn an hour or more alone. 'Hey' they greeted, She offered smiles to the multitudes of meatheads walking past her toward her destination. She ended up on the center treadmill amid three empty ones; soon after she was flanked by more men begging for her attention. Conversations were mainly superficial, with the men always finding amazement in that she was single, but no real substance after that.
Her workout was pretty uneventful for the next hour, as she hammered away on the belt beneath her. She was pretty new to this location so most of the fellow members were fresh to her, a nice change to the usual. As she began to cool down, out of the corner of her eye she caught a familiar glance her way.
'Candice?' The older gentleman asked, 'I didn't know you worked out here.'
Candice slowed her run as she turned off the machine; smiling at her co-worker. 'Oh, I don't usually, just since they've started work on the toll road expansion I've been looking for ways to kill time while traffic dies down, you know?'
The lawyer was shaking his head, agreeing, before she even finished the sentence, 'Yeah, I know. Hey, if you want to work out sometime let me know. It's nice to have a familiar face to talk to up here.' He smiled resting his fist on his hips.
'Totally. If you want to hit some weights I'm up for that. I just got done with my cardio!' She wiped the towel over her forehead as emphases.
'Actually, I need to get going, the wife should have dinner ready in a few. But maybe tomorrow, just let me know, Okay?' Her lips formed a genuine frown.
Candice too liked the idea of working out with John, he always seemed to respect her at work, and never treated her like an object, much like the rest of the office, or the world for that matter.
She muttered, 'Okay. Sounds good.' And waved as he walked off.
Another sigh to herself. 'Seems all the good ones are taken...'
She thought briefly thinking John Simons over. Tall, handsome, proper, educated, married. 'Ugh.' Candice finished up her workout and headed back to the locker room for a quick shower and change of clothes. She stripped out of her gym clothes and grabbed a fresh towel and headed to the shower bank. Cleaning herself she noted the patch of thick brown hair on her pubic mound, noting that most of the women in the showers were either shaved or trimmed, something she had never been a fan of. The idea of doing that seemed to go against everything God had made her out to be. She couldn't grasp the trend.
In the locker room, she made mental notes to herself, critiquing herself maybe. Noting the other trends in the room, the various different types of panties and bra's they wore, some with slips, some in stockings, others in pantyhose, minus panties. Bras were never her thing either, her small A-cups really weren't demanding of a bra. She wondered if she was just too traditional with panties too; thinking the thongs most of the women in the room were wearing, just looking uncomfortable. She slipped on a fresh pair of panties before putting her navy blue skirt back on.