Summary:
A young lawyer finds a mysterious suitcase that helps her have a little fun...
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For Elizabeth, that Friday had thrown up little in the way of surprise. She went to work, she dealt with her clients, she came home.
So far, so usual. Same old, same old, she thought on the train home. Oh, she thought, for something a little more exciting to shake up my routine.
She always felt this way on a Friday - something about the work week that seemed to drain the energy out of her, getting her ready for a weekend's relaxation.
Elizabeth arrived home, and carefully hung up her coat. She removed her heels, and then went upstairs to change into something a little more comfortable for lounging about.
And then, the first surprise of the day.
There was a small suitcase waiting on Elizabeth's bed - waiting for her.
For some reason, it didn't feel a source for concern, despite the fact Elizabeth lived alone. Oh, she allowed herself a moment's flight of fancy, for the day when I finally find a partner and come home to half-expected unexpected surprises like this. Sure, she'd get round to it, she thought, but she was just too busy with work at the moment. She was a lawyer, and she only noticed the rueful smile at how much work was interfering with her love life as it left her face.
She wasn't worried, either, despite the fact that case simply wasn't her style at all. It was gaudy, boasting a leopard-print design, and the scuffed wheels suggested that it had lived a long life.
No, that certainly didn't match Elizabeth's style.
As befitted her work, she was often dressed in business wear - pantsuits, blouses, pencil skirts, heels. She always tried to play it professional, although she'd be lying if she didn't also aim for a little bit enticing - a little bit sexy. She knew that those clothes hung tight to her thin frame, accentuating her bubble butt and her pert breasts. She chose darker colours as a contrast to her long blonde hair, and a touch of red lipstick - dark, but not too dark - to bring out her lips.
Sure, perhaps it was a bit cheap to amp up the sex appeal, she thought, but you had to use every weapon you had in the courtroom.
She allowed herself a small smile at the dual thoughts of her success and her sexuality - she was a couple of years away from 30, and she was rising through the ranks at one of the most prestigious law firms in the city. Everything was going so well.
So predictably well.
Eager to break away from dwelling on the monotony of her days, her mind forced her back into the room.
Or, specifically, it forced her attention back onto the suitcase.
Where had it come from, she wondered?
She stared at it, her focus solely on the suitcase, not sure what to do. And then, she stirred, and something in her body drove her to lean close and sniff it.
It stunk - a bad smell, a combination of old perfume, of smoke, of sweat, of sex. It was dreadful, and Elizabeth wanted to be sick. Her nausea even threatened to overwhelm a slight tingle down below - a pleasant, small wave of arousal.
Of anticipation.
Anticipation, she thought. Anticipation of what?
The solution was easy, she realised - she should just open it. God, she thought, with an astute legal mind like hers, it's amazing it took her that long to come up with that. Work must really have drained her, she thought.
Her hands reached out, slowly, approaching the suitcase with a feeling of mystery and - that word again - anticipation. Whatever it was, whatever the case contained, it was doing something to Elizabeth. Her brain was firing more than she'd ever known, and she could feel the beat of her heart, the sweat on her skin, the dryness in her mouth.
She touched the suitcase zip, and it felt like a spark of electricity had passed through her. Elizabeth paused, needing a moment to regain her breath, and she was conscious of a tingling between her legs, which seemed to ramp up every moment. She closed her eyes and inhaled deeply, needing a moment to force her attention back onto the matter at hand - if she didn't, she'd have given up on the suitcase and started playing with herself on the bed there and then.
Wow, she thought, I'm getting horny over a
suitcase
- I really need a man.
She took hold on the zip again, and slowly pulled it, unzipping the suitcase.
Could you sensually open a zip, she wondered? She was certainly trying.
And then, the big moment. Elizabeth licked her lips (god, I actually licked my lips, she thought), and she inhaled deeply.
She opened the case, and saw -
Clothes.
Her legal mind immediately wanted to rationalise. It was a suitcase - really, clothes were the obvious thing you'd expect to see. But this wasn't her suitcase, and these weren't her clothes - so where did they come from, she wondered.
She picked up the suitcase and flipped it, emptying the contents onto her bed.
The clothes fell out - well, she thought to herself, to the extent that they could be called clothes, she smirked to herself.
Elizabeth saw some very skimpy piecing of clothing. There was a black, wet-look mini-skirt (with emphasis on the mini, she thought), and a leather crop jacket. She saw a white tube top that would just about cover your breasts - if that.
It was a good thing the top was there, because Elizabeth didn't see a bra or any support anywhere. She did see some red panties, however, which were clearly dirty and well-used. She didn't want to touch them, but she could certainly smell them a way off, and she wished that she hadn't. They made a good match with the old, laddered thigh-highs - these were clothes that had been worn, and well-worn at that.
The most substantial piece of clothing was a pair of black, thigh-high vinyl boots with a definite heel. Elizabeth almost laughed at how surreal it was.
She saw a small clutch bag, and she opened it up.
Nothing too unexpected - some cheap make-up, some jewellery, some cigarettes, a lighter, a brown perfume bottle, some condoms... wait,
condoms
?
Something brought Sara to mind. She was a young prostitute that Elizabeth had represented in court a few months prior on exhibitionism charges, and she'd helped her walk free. Elizabeth immediately realised why she'd made that connection - when she first met Sara, sitting in her cell in prison, she was wearing an outfit that looked something like this.
Was this a prostitute's case, she wondered?
And if it was, what was it doing