It's Friday afternoon, approaching three-thirty, and I've mentally checked out for the week.
"C, please come in here," my boss Lisa calls out from her office, jolting me back into real time.
Grabbing my electronic notebook, I quickly move to her doorway, and tap softly on the frame.
Still gazing down at the document in front of her, and without looking up she says, "Inside," as she holds up the back of her left hand towards me and waves her four fingers twice.
I move to one of the empty chairs in front of the desk, but before sitting she says, "Close it."
I immediately think, 'this can't be good,' as I know people are being laid off, with others designated to new positions. 'This can't be possible', I say to myself, I'm one of the division's top performers, and have been given a number of awards, and even a promotion in the last year.
"Over here," Lisa says pointing to the couch along the wall next to her desk, again not looking up, as I'm attempting to sit down in the chair for the third time in less than a minute.
So I sit....and wait, as she continues to read and scribble on the paper. Finally looking up and tilting her head back with closed eyes, Lisa breathes in and exhales loudly, almost as if she's mentally exhausted.
Rolling her chair away from the desk, and closer to me, our eyes finally meet when she says, "These heels have been killing my feet and calves all day. I need a massage," as she lifts her right leg onto my lap, shoe and all.
A bit dumbfounded by her behavior, I stare down at her leg while still holding the notebook. She then moves her heel into my crotch, and I toss the notebook into the air in reaction to her move. Quickly catching it before it hits the carpeted floor, I set it on the couch, arm's length away from me, and hastily grab her ankle before she can push any further.
"I need my legs massaged," Lisa nearly shouts, and certainly gets my attention when her left leg joins the other on my lap.
As I look up at her, she says, "Remove my shoes, and let's get this show on the road."
A 'show'? Is that what this is, I ask myself? Gently grasping her left leg, between her ankle and her calf, I turn her foot so that I can unbuckle the heel. Having years of practice at this, I use my thumb and middle finger to hold the buckle, while pushing the strap back through with my index finger until the 'mound' created causes the prong to release from the straps hole.
With the strap now loosened, I gently remove the shoe from Lisa's foot as she gives an audible sigh. Repeating the process with my other hand on her right leg, as she moves the left from my lap and lays it on the couch beside me. I can feel her warmth pressed into my outer right thigh as I now work both thumbs around and into the bottom of her foot, as I hold it with the fingers of both hands as she watches.
Lisa's dark brown stockings closely match her cocoa skin tone, and create a 'slippery' effect that allowed my thumbs and fingers to move effortlessly, while generating just enough heat to warm her skin.
Let me further describe Lisa.
An attractively athletic Black woman, she stands 5'8" without heels. Lisa has a runner's lithe body, with 34B-sized breasts and a taut ass you just want to reach out and grab as she walks by in slacks. Of course, you'll lose a hand doing that, at the very least.
Today, Lisa is wearing a red-gray-black patterned mid-knee dress. As she spreads her legs a little to get more comfortable, I can see a just a bit more of her inner thighs.
Now holding her ankle with one hand, the other is making circles around her shin and calf, gently kneading the entire calf area as I make my way around and back. At this point she closes her eyes and lays her head back, and her shoulder-length, lightly curled hair hangs down behind her.
Her mouth still facing the ceiling, she tells me, "Another minute or two, and start on the next one."