Author's Note: It's been a long time since I've published a new story and an even longer time that I've been working on this story! It started off as a one-shot script for a comic but as the laws around cannabis usage changed it then evolved into a short story. However, even though it took me so long to complete, I think I like these two enough that I may write another one.
It should be obvious from the title but this story does contain some cannabis references and usage.
Hope that you enjoy!
The faint patter of rain rattles against a singular rectangle window pane taking up nearly the entire wall of a modern room. Rain and fog were typical in Seattle at this time of year. It was so thick tonight only the pale white of the lamps in a quiet residential neighborhood lined the shrouded street below. No one would ever be able to see anything but a faint neon glow coming from the second floor of a townhouse at the end of the row.
Small yet neat, the open and stereotypical minimalist architecture was filled with a plethora of leafy green plants, pastel furniture, LED lighting strips that cast it in a soft lavender glow, and stacked floral paintings in a corner surrounding a large well-used wooden easel. The easel was the one place where there was a bit of a mess but even that was fairly contained by a lightly splattered canvas tarp on the floor and surrounding walls. Ambient music played softly in the background, something with no talking, light tones, soft flutes, and ocean wave accents.
Yet it didn't damper the cheerful mood of one petite little dark-skinned woman wrapped in a white knit oversized sweater, fluffy slouch socks, and nothing else posing provocatively in front of her computer on a plush shag rug. Cute yet glam with long dark lashes, glassy pink nails, perfectly bronzed makeup, and wavy dark hair cut into a bob just below her jawline - she looked so much the part of a classic pin up with a modern day twist down to her red lipstick.
Even her figure was nearly just right for it. Her breasts made modest mounds against her oversized sweater but her waist was tiny, her hips wide, while her ass and legs were plump yet defined. It was a body that she spent an hour or two on the treadmill in the gym maintaining and she did her best to avoid junk food. Her fridge full of nothing but vegan options, lean meats, fresh fruit, and the weekly tub of ice cream or big candy bar was a testament to that.
Just out of sight of her webcam, an e-nail clicked itself on atop her coffee table to keep a rig hot and ready while a tiny bit of golden oil to dab rests on a long metal tool atop a low acrylic coffee table. A somewhat sophisticated set up clearly for someone who has made cannabis part of their lifestyle.
"Well guys this was fun! But it's time for me to go, I'm tired and it's late-" she says cheerfully to her screen that pings the entire she talks, a chatroom on a cam site that's fairly brimming with fans and admirers. Each 'ping' is a small tip from a crop of usernames, all of them saying their goodbyes. Then there is the sound of gushing coins, a big goodbye tip, which makes the brown-skinned girl blush and giggle cutely.
"Nice try but I took the tip vibrator out, you can try again tomorrow! Same time, boys. Think about me at work and I'll be here right after, okay? Don't forget to follow my Twitter and subscribe to my AVN Stars and OnlyFans linked below if you're new!"
Reaching forward, she takes her mouse and clicks the log off button before closing the window and then her laptop entirely. As soon as the glow of it is off her face, she pulls the webcam's usb cord, sighs aloud, then leans back against her couch and closes her eyes. She'd started getting ready for cam at 1:00pm, signed on once the sun set around 4:00pm and the clock on the wall nearby now said 10:45pm. When the Big Dark came to her city it always screwed up her sense of time.
Eyeing her last dab, she huffs and weighs her options, the pot shop nearby closes at 11:45pm and maybe she could perhaps catch her favorite budtender there to serve her. One of the managers and she suspected co-owners, Lyl.
But she couldn't let Lyl see her in her glammed up work face and it would take time to get all the makeup off and change clothes. Grunting, the girl pushes herself up from the floor and pulls off her wavy, black bob wig. Her own hair is actually an immaculate undercut fade, the top of it plaited tightly so her wig could lay flat, and dyed a shade of powdery pink that took her stylist hours to achieve. Rushing into the bathroom, she wipes away her makeup as carefully as possible without staining her sweater and pulls the braids loose with well practiced fingers.
She looks entirely different from her cam persona, there are freckles on her cheeks and her eyebrows are much sparser but she still has long thick lashes framing her big brown eyes. She went in once a month for refills to make sure of that. Her pastel hair falls to her shoulders in thick waves thanks to the braids, the curls still smelling faintly of coconut oil and rosewater. Leaning into the mirror, the young woman checks for stray eyeliner her wipes missed, splashes water and cleanser on her face, then smooths some moisturizer on her face and over her lips.
Not bad for a woman approaching her thirtieth birthday. She's been mistaken for a college student but those days were long past.
Picking up her phone, she winces at the time and heads downstairs for the door, cursing to herself about driving in the fog and always being late. She has her hand on the knob when she remembers she isn't even wearing pants, panties, shoes or her fanny pack with her keys. Glancing over at her shoe rack, she slips into pastel pink leggings left atop it close to the color of her hair. Sucking her teeth and cursing herself, she clips on the gold fanny pack already filled with essentials beside it, making sure it falls at the smallest part of her waist over her sweater. And lastly, she steps her socked feet into a pair of matching pink slides. Internally, she thanks her past self for thinking so far ahead for her forgetful future self and allows the door to slam shut on her way out.
The pot shop is a short 10 minute drive at the most but it's 11:36pm when she leaves.
And she's just a few minutes too late.
The fog is relentless but thinner here, she can actually see partway down the street but not entirely. Sometimes they stay open a bit after closing if there are still customers and the girl crosses her fingers that there are. Heading up the driveway, she notices a tall figure locking up the darkened "Jade Queen" and some other figures waving goodbye as they walk away. Panicked, she checks her phone and groans but jogs up anyway in hopes that perhaps the security guy might take pity on her and call someone from the back. Hopefully, it would be Lyl.
"Hey! Hey, wait!" She calls out as she runs up, her flip flops slapping loudly on the wet pavement through the fog until she finally makes it to the storefront. Drawing nearer, she realizes the tall figure is broader than she thought and larger than she thought and when they turn around her face heats up immediately in reaction.
It was Lyl locking up. Exactly who she wanted to see but also a clear sign that she was much too late for a grace period.
Lyl is a tall, thickly muscular, and masculine woman with deep brown skin. She was often mistaken for a man and had long since embraced it. Her square jaw, thin lips, short haircut and often simple all black clothing down to her Nikes lent to her handsome androgynous looks but one thing gave her away. Topped with dark, sharply tapered brows that added to her hard appearance, the one soft thing about her were the almond shape of her eyes. They were a brown so deep they appeared black in most light. A gift of her Korean ancestry on her father's side.
"Well, if it isn't a little Kitten come by." She remarks in a deeply smooth voice completed by a soft smile. The smaller pink-haired woman blushes. Lyl had been calling her "Kitten" since her first visit to the Jade Queen some months ago and the nickname stuck. She didn't mind.