Alice Dorothy Taylor wished she didn't have to do this much planning.
The pale-skinned, Perth-born beauty had been trying to figure out why Timothy Warner never wanted to take things to the next level--or any level, it seemed. She saw the bright spark in his brown eyes whenever they passed each other in the halls of ABS Studios; she loved the look of his brown skin next to his crisp white shirts, and imagined what it would be like to feel his big hands on her arse. Yet he never approached her for a cup of coffee, never seemed to do anything more than have short, friendly conversations. Why was he so shy?
One day, Alice approached Yolanda Miller, a friend of Timothy's who took the train with him into Manhattan every morning. Yolanda had done so much to help Alice out in the two years since she moved to America and started working at ABS, but Alice wasn't sure she'd help with this particular task.
Alice pulled Yolanda into a spare office.
"I need you to help me out."
"Sure," said Yolanda, brushing a strand of hair from her forehead.
"What do you know about Timothy?"
"Well, he talks about you all the time."
"Really?" said Alice.
"Yeah, he's always talking about how good you look in your dress, how he likes your smile, how he likes your accent--he thinks it's sexy."
"Oh, my God!"
"Yeah," Yolanda smiled. Alice looked at Yolanda--with her full breasts and arse, so much larger than hers--and wondered why Timothy wasn't attracted to her.
"So, why doesn't he approach me?"
Yolanda looked down.
"I think he's afraid."
"Why?"
"He's asked white girls out here before, and they all turned him down."
"Really? But he's so cute!"
"I know...but there's still a lot of white girls who have those hang-ups, you know."
"That's a shame."
"I know he likes you, but he probably thinks you'd rather be with a white guy, like all the other white girls."
Alice looked down.
"But I want to be with him. How do I..."
"You want to hook up with him?"