Jessica was sitting at her desk this afternoon, looking out the window and starring at the people walking around on the street below. She allowed herself to watch and daydream, while pondering what went wrong. It was a beautiful sunny early November afternoon and it was a Friday. She was thinking about the weekend or anything else, other than work. Normally, she didn't mind working in the office; she liked her career very much and she liked the company she worked for. Just today, she wanted to be anywhere other than the office.
Things were not going so well for Jessica today. Her boss was mad at her for not being able to finish her assignment on time for the presentation he was going to give to his superiors at the monthly meeting. She was not sure what went wrong. She normally handles much more complicated assignments; yet, this was not any ordinary assignment, as it was a little beyond her comprehension and a little difficult to complete. There were so many complications and so many parts of the project, in which she had to compensate for numerous data errors. The assignment was time consuming, prone to errors and delays. It was simply very frustrating to do.
She knew she was neither incompetent nor stupid; yet, it was very difficult for her. She could and did ask for help but help was little and very infrequent. Her colleagues didn't really like to help her. She was not sure why people were reluctant to help her. She was not a bitch; she treated everyone nicely and was friendly to all. She also helped her coworkers whenever they needed help. Yet, they were very reticent to reciprocate.
Jessica thought about that too, as she looked at the sunny sky. She refused to believe that her inability to receive help from her office mates had anything with her youth, beauty and intelligence. Could it be that they were intimidated by her beauty and intelligence. She knew of her intelligence, beauty and talents; yet, she did not flaunt it in the office but she did know how to use it when it was required.
Jessica was a documented beauty, as she won a beauty contest 3 years earlier, while at university. A 23 year old woman, she is a very beautiful and young woman with long shimmering blonde hair and a beautiful, slender and tall hour glass figure with a beautiful and well formed rack of well proportioned and small breasts, a very pretty 36A. Every part of her body was well proportioned with no unwanted fatty parts. Jessica has a sexy and demure demeanour with a warm and bubbly personality. While stunning to look at, she was no dumb blonde. She disproved the popular belief that blondes were dumb. She has an IQ of 165, won several mathematics competitions in high school and university, and graduated with a mathematics degree in university. She specialized in computer science and statistics. With all this intelligence and knowledge, she was surprised when she could not master that assignment. She should have been able to do it with great ease.
At any rate, she was not going to worry about it this afternoon. It was a sunny and warm afternoon, and she decided that she was going to enjoy the rest of the day. Afterall, there are too many such days in November on which one can enjoy sunshine and a little warmth. Therefore, Jessica left work a little earlier and stopped at a local coffee shop for a coffee and light snack. Once outside the office, she called and invited her special girlfriend from university to join her for a cup of coffee. She met Lilly in her second year of university at a Christmas party, hosted by the Mathematics faculty. Lilly was an unlikely woman to meet at this party, since she was studying Psychology and Journalism. Lilly was invited to the party by a male friend she was seeing at the time. Jessica came up to her, started talking to her, and found
that she was both quite pleasant and very intelligent. She had a lot to talk about and her life was full of experiences, even at such a young age. Jessica was impressed and intrigued by her knowledge, experience and intelligence. They became fast friends, even though the male friend, Lilly was seeing, faded out of her life. They weathered a lot of things, life threw at them over the years, and their friendship blossomed over the years. They became friends for life and talk about all kinds of things. They talk regularly in person or by telephone, and exchange ideas, experiences and even each others advice on all matter of things. We all know that there are many roadblocks and bumps along the way for 2 young women.
"Hi Lilly! I need to talk to you about something." She said in the telephone call. "I am having a bit of a life crisis now, and I need to talk to someone about it." Lilly was a wonderful friend who was available for Jessica when she had troubles. Lilly was a lovely woman too with a lovely disposition and friends galore. That is probably why they like each other. While her IQ was not as high as Jessica's, Lilly had a wealth of life experience, which Jessica sometimes lacked. She was also smart, beautiful, and had no shortage of female and male friends. Jessica was a little envious of her success in that department.
Lilly was already sitting at a table in the coffee shop when Jessica arrived. Lilly did not lack in the beauty department either. Lilly was dressed in a lovely pant skirt with beautiful sweater that hugged her curves beautifully. Jessica came to the table with her coffee and sat close right next to Lilly, so close that their hips were touching each other. Jessica really wanted to talk to her about a personal matter, and she wanted to sit close enough so that she didn't have to talk too loud and risk others hearing them.
Jessica began with a loaded opening question, "Lilly! What is the matter with me? I had a really rough day today." Lilly sat there and listened attentively. She began to realize rather quickly that this would be an intense conversation.
"You know Lilly that I am a very smart woman, and that I have the education and experience to do my job well. Why is it that I am having trouble with this current assignment? My boss was disappointed in me when I had nothing for his meeting this afternoon," Jessica continued to say.
"Jessica", Lilly answered. "I am not certain there is anything wrong with you. This was a complicated assignment. You told me earlier that there were so many complications while doing the assignment. Perhaps, it went beyond your control."
"Yes, there were many problems with the data with all of those errors," Jessica answered.
"I believe there is something, other than work, bothering you" Lilly continued to say. Lilly had been observing Jessica recently and she noticed her beautiful and lovely friend was troubled in some way. She hated to see her lovely, and usually bubbly and smiley friend, being so troubled. She wasn't quite sure what it is, but she was determined to find her problem this afternoon and help her, if she could.
Lilly repeated herself, "I believe there is something personal bothering you. I so love the times we are together. We are like sisters who can talk about anything. However, lately, you are not your usual cheerful self. I miss that bubbly smile and cheery feeling when you talk. Where is that exuberance?"
"Lilly? Yes, there is something troubling me," she admitted slowly after a few minutes. "I am a little envious of you."
"What? What do you mean?" Lilly asked.
"I am smart and beautiful. I have a beautiful body that I would imagine men would swoon over. I certainly get a lot of turned heads and looks from men. I am young, talented. I can cook very well as you know. That should be enough to win any man's heart. What is wrong? Look at you, Lilly! You have so many friends and a wonderful boyfriend." Jessica really started to say what was on her mind. She opened up and let her emotions flow. Tears were slowly beginning to flow down her cheek.
