It was just a job. Like a billion other jobs smeared across the want ads every day, scoured by the bored, the desperate and the luckless.
Well, I WAS a little bored. But I wasn't desperate. And, hokey-smokes Bullwinkle, I sure wasn't luckless...though I thought at first that I was.
I wasn't real sure about working for a woman younger than myself. Lisa was only 27, and I am...well, I am older than that. Oh, no walkers, no being led gently back to my room by Nursie...but I am older than 27.
My first mistake, if it was one, was to wear my favorite sweater set to work on my second day there. A sleeveless wool turtleneck with a matching sweatercoat. I felt so sensual, just sitting there at my computer, so wrapped up in warm softness. No sense of urgency. No striving to achieve corporate goals. Sweater Slacker Queen rides again!
Not to say that I am not a good employee. It is just that, well, I have this thing about sweaters. So, there I was, feeling rather languorous when Lisa walked into my cubicle, my wretched little cell.
She bent to look over my shoulder at my computer screen. Oh, I was so glad it was not showing Collapse or Bounce Out or Bash the Bouncing Muskrat or something. Oh no, my computer, at least, was hard at work, a busy little beaver of a good machine.
And Lisa saw this as she leaned close to look.
As her hand rested on the back of my neck.
As her perfectly manicured index finger ran almost imperceptibly just above the neck of my sweater, like the kiss of a breeze. Oh my.
It was certainly an accident, I thought. Of course.
But no...
Her finger deliberately stroked my neck as she leaned close and I could smell Hugo Deep Red. I started to shift in my chair.
Lisa said quickly, peremptorily, "Don't move." There was a long moment, a bizarre shift from reality, and I thought this is inappropriate, this is insane, illegal, this is...her hand held my throat gently..this is oh, something, something...
I didn't move. And my nipples stood up. I was sure Lisa could see them through my sweater. So disobedient they were! Such tattle tales! This won't do, I thought breathlessly. How dare she, I thought happily. Hmm.