Author's Note
Risk Versus Reward is a prequel to Girl Friday and focuses on the story of Karin, the 'H.R. Lady' who provided Charlotte's rather unique interview experience when she was hired. You do not need to read Girl Friday to understand what's going on in Risk Versus Reward. But if you enjoy this story, Girl Friday should most definitely be on your reading list.
In the last chapter, Karin got to experience the joys of The Academy's own special version of home economics class as she was turned into a living appetizer tray under the direction of a slightly sauced Miss Chowdury. And while Karin was served up at the faculty luncheon she finds herself intrigued by an attractive woman she refers to only as Miss Spiced Latte. So intrigued in fact, she decides to offer her mystery woman a happy ending under the luncheon table. But what will become of Karin's
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I hope you enjoy Karin's continuing story.
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Chapter 9: Spirits in the Night
Dinner that night was the usual weirdness. We were served a wonderful gourmet meal by the lovely lab-coated wait staff and the wine seemed to be available to us in endless supply. All we had to do to get the royal treatment was to follow the advice of the flat panel monitor that showed a cartoon girl pressing a rather uncomfortable-looking conical-shaped plug between her butt cheeks. The animation was especially amusing tonight in that it showed the poor girl in various stages of frustration and having to try again several times -- once with lube, another time by placing the plug on a bench and sitting down, and then finally with the help of a friendly cartoon girl sporting a lab coat and nitrile gloves.
If you've never sat down to dinner with a plug up your butt -- and really why anyone in their right mind would do that outside of The Academy's walls I don't know -- but you do sort of get used to it after a while. I'm no scientist, but I suppose that after being stretched long enough, the human sphincter muscle sort of adapts to the new reality and accepts the fact that things are indeed bigger on the inside. Add to that the wineglass that was never allowed to become completely empty, and except for when I shifted my posture I really didn't take much notice of the plug. I don't think any of the other girls paid it much mind either. Everyone seemed to be laughing and talking and enjoying the culinary delights presented to us.
I sat with Desi of course. We were nearly inseparable these days. But rather than being seated right up next to each other in sets of two, all of us girls sat along one of two long benches with plenty of elbow room factored in. Celia was on my other side, and nobody was tied at the wrist at the moment which definitely made it easier to enjoy our meal. Just a bunch of girls having a nice dinner while our butts got stretched. We talked about the classes we had this morning, and it's definitely Contemporary American Literature for me tomorrow, though a couple of the girls look positively enthralled as Desi and Celia recounted my luncheon experience in all of its harrowing detail. The way they talked it up I wouldn't be surprised if Miss Chowdhury had a full class tomorrow.
Desi and Celia also knocked back a fair share of wine as they gabbed, and though not quite as pickled as Miss Chowdhury was at ten in the morning, they did start to get a case of the wandering hands. As a result one or both of them would plunge a finger between my thighs or their own and then bring it up above the table to be presented to any one of us, or in some cases selfishly kept and savored alone. Soon they really got going and started likening it to the sorbet used to clear the palate between courses. Except with those two, the sorbet seemed to come with every third bite.
"What's with you Karin?" Celia teased. "You've been so somber since lunch. Miss Chowdhury wore you out, huh?"
I shrugged. I knew what it was and it wasn't Miss Chowdhury, that was just the warm-up, the introduction. The current source of my whoa was Miss Spiced Latte all dressed up in a white suit, but I wasn't about to tell these two characters. I'd never hear the end of it.
"She just needs another sorbet, that's all." Desi grinned as she and Celia both presented me with their fingers simultaneously.
"Thanks." I slurped them both off with a great smacking of lips and curling of tongue and that was enough to convince my two slightly obnoxious friends to leave me alone for a while. So every few minutes I would slurp at a juicy finger to let them know I was still here, but otherwise I let my mind turn inward to the woman I had met while cling-wrapped to a platter serving up appetizers.
Why was I so obsessed with her?