The second chapter in this series, hope you all enjoy. As always, any and all criticism is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading,
Apo
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Emily had that feeling. The one you get where you know you're forgetting something important, but you can't quite put your finger on what. Ever since she'd got home late from work yesterday she hadn't been able to shake the feeling that there was something she was meant to be doing.
She'd tried retracing her steps in an effort to remember, but she had been so tired that her memory of the day was foggy. She had a vague recollection of falling asleep on the bus, and then of arriving home late that night. The next thing she remembered was waking up to her alarm in a tangle of her sheets wearing her good lingerie and with her favourite vibe in her hand.
After taking a long, hot shower, Emily chocked the gap in her memory, as well as the nights events, up to exhaustion and her body needing release. However, as she was tying her slightly damp blonde hair up into a ponytail and glanced at herself in the mirror, she got a familiar feeling of something about her being off.
Emily was 5"6, reasonably thin but with noticeable curves, she was comfortable in how she looked and never had any trouble garnering attention. Taking a closer look at herself in the mirror, nothing seemed to be off, at least that she could see. However something still felt wrong. There was an indescribable ache, a need that she couldn't quite shake no matter how much she tried to ignore it.
Resolving herself to fight the urge to jump back into bed and fully wring out that tension, she instead got dressed into her usual jeans and white t-shirt, threw on her converse and ran out the door for her bus to work.
As usual, the bus had ran out of seats by the time it got to Emily's stop, leaving her to stand, clutching the railing. Using her morning playlist to focus herself before she arrived into work, Emily fought off the repeating lapses of sleep that seemed to creep over her whenever there was a break in the music through her earphones.
Something about the vibrations spreading up through her legs into her brain was making her nod off, and only the music seemed to be able to drown it out. It got to a point where she was too tired to fight them off and simply let herself cycle between alertness and the dreamlike state the vibrations brought on. Each cycle acutely reminding her of the vibe currently lying underneath her pillow, waiting for her to get home later that day as she ignoring the friction in between her thighs brought on by the bus's movement.
When the bus finally pulled up at her stop, Emily embraced the sudden wave of wakefulness she felt planting her feet on solid ground. Hoping to distract herself, she threw herself into work and tried to keep herself busy. However, she found herself getting repeatedly distracted throughout the day.
At one point when she was restocking shelves, the store's music system malfunctioned and broadcast white noise through the loudspeakers. When the music finally started back up, Emily realized that she had lost five minutes staring blankly at an empty shelf, and had drool running down her chin. Luckily it happened during a slow hour so she didn't think anybody saw as she quickly wiped her chin clean and got back to work.
One upside of the day was that her manager, Mr Duffin seemed to be in a better mood than usual. Normally he spent the entire shift barking orders at the employees and getting angry at any and all mistakes, no matter how small. However, today he was being very kind, giving Emily detailed instructions and assigning her jobs the she could genuinely take pleasure in doing, even if she hadn't before.
In fact, whenever she was doing something that he had specifically asked her to do, she found herself having no trouble at all focusing. She would get started as soon as she had been told what to do, and work nonstop until the task was done. In fact, throughout her shift those were the times she enjoyed the most, doing a good job as she had been told and making Mr Duffin proud by being a good girl.
When Emily finally got to the end of her shift, she was feeling fantastic. Each time she had done a job for her manager the good feelings had just snowballed, leaving her on cloud nine. When Mr Duffin grunted at her to lock up the front of the store, she found herself instinctively responding "Yes Sir", only noticing what she had said after the fact. Luckily it didn't seem like he had noticed, though strangely a small part of her wished he had.
She had never thought much of Mr Duffin. He was short, overweight, balding, and had a perpetually red face that made it seem like he was always just finished shouting at somebody. But today, something about him drew Emily to him, leaving her hanging on his every word. At first she had just taken it as a newfound passion for her work, but as they day went on she noticed more of a sexual undertone to the attraction, which surprised her deeply.
Putting those thoughts out of her mind for the moment, Emily focused on doing a good job of closing up shop and cleaning up. As soon as she finished closing the shutters and mopping the last corner, she yelled a quick "I'm finished" into Mr Duffin's Office on her way to the storage closet.