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?"
"You mean, sex? Sure!"
Yolanda smiled. "Well, I think I have an idea..."
Timothy was at lunch, and Alice and Yolanda sneaked into his office. Alice was impressed by the sheer volume of books in his office; Timothy was known as a guy who preferred a good book to a good TV show. Yolanda walked over to a shelf and pulled out a copy of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man."
"Oh, I've read that book," said Alice.
"They even have it in Australia?"
Alice shot Yolanda a humorously sarcastic look. "Of course, they do. It was a great book."
"Well, do you remember this part?"
Yolanda flipped to chapter 24, and the scene where a white woman seduces the book's black protagonist by removing her red robe to reveal her nude body. Yolanda began to read the book's description of the protagonist's arousal upon seeing the nude white woman. Then, she turned to Alice and winked.
"Can you get a red robe?"
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A part of Alice thought this was a patently silly idea, that there was no way she could pull off a seduction of Timothy. Yolanda insisted that the sight of Alice removing her robe to reveal her pale body would make Timothy recall the book and immediately arouse him. She wasn't sure.
Yolanda told Timothy that Alice wanted to have dinner with him at her apartment and that her roommate was out of town. Alice hoped that Timothy wouldn't be too nervous, that he would respond to her advances--and that he would fulfill all of her black fantasies. After she finished cooking lemon chicken and rice, she changed into her planned outfit--pink panties and a red robe tied closely to hide the fact that she was nude except for her panties. She let her long, straight, light-brown hair spill about her shoulders; Yolanda told her that Timothy had always raved about how beautiful he thought her hair was. She took a deep breath and waited for Timothy to arrive.
He showed up at six o'clock that Saturday evening, a bottle of red wine in his hand. "Hi," he said, his voice slightly nervous. He looked so gorgeous in his crisp white shirt, blue jacket and black pants; it was all Alice could do not to kiss him right there. He took off his shoes and stared at her pale, bare feet; Alice smiled slightly, reasoning that this handsome black man had quite the foot fetish.