Ch 11.
Continuing story of Stephen who sees emotions as vivid colour. In this chapter Stephen helps Geoff and Gary stay on the straight and narrow. The Girls are out on the town and Stephen and Dad have a boys night in. Jen needs some relief.
Thankyou readers for the positive feedback. Nice to know people are enjoying this tale, and I'm liking the writing of it so Stephen still has quite a journey to go. As always comments and thoughts most welcome, really want to hear what you think.
All characters are over 18 years of age.
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At 7:30 my alarm went off waking both Jen and I from a deep sleep. We were well rested after the exertion of the previous evening. We greeted each other with a smile, I drew her warm naked body towards me and kissed her passionately. I felt her soft breasts squashing up against my chest and my cock stiffened.
Feeling my growing hardness against her thigh she reached down and felt my balls and hardening dick. "You're insatiable aren't you," she said.
I kissed her again and said, "Yes, but we better not, or we'll be late for work."
She drew away and climbed out of bed, still naked she headed towards her room to get some clothes and head to the shower. In the hallway I could see she ran into Dad.
"You look lovely," he said.
"Thankyou," she replied, giving him a hug.
Dad kissed her lips and reaching down gave both her ass cheeks a firm squeeze, then releasing her, he headed down to breakfast.
I climbed out of bed, showered, dressed for work and headed down as well.
Mom still in her night dress, had breakfast ready when I got down. Dad was reading about the latest Trump indiscretion. Mom's boobs were wobbling around as she moved and every now and again her night dress would rise up allowing me a sneaking peek of her pussy or ass. My cock chubbed up a bit but I knew I there was no time and I resisted the urge to nail her right there. It wasn't long before Jen also came down. She was dressed for work in a short skirt. Her tight blouse showed off her tits nicely.
I had a morning check-in meeting with Helen so couldn't wait to give Jen a ride into the city and I left home for the 30-minute drive into the office. I do enjoy these quiet rides into work that give me time to collect my thoughts. My newfound senses were foremost on my mind. As I considered some of the more definitive interactions I've had recently patterns were starting to emerge.
A green flux seemed to be associated with contentment or happiness. I couldn't be 100% sure however a grey and white flux appeared to be associated with lies or truth and purple seems to be related to anger or stress. I also thought hard about how I have been able manipulate the yellow sex drive flux which has been proving quite advantageous. Smiling to myself I thought about how good it was to get my lover off. I needed to be careful that I don't fuck someone to death -- although you know - what a way to go!
It occurred to me that if I could move around the yellow flux that I might be able manipulate other fluxes, and what benefits that might bring. Driving as if on autopilot, I was still deep into my thoughts as I turned my car into the car park. I parked the car and made my way to the office.
Arriving at work, I was just in time for Helen's stand-up meeting. I retrieved a note pad from my desk before moving to the meeting room and taking a seat. Angela and Maisy were already seated, Geoff and Gary followed me in. A purple haze surrounded the girls when they noticed Geoff and Gary filing in. Geoff and Gary were surrounded by a green, things had obviously picked up in their world.
Helen arrived moments later, and got the meeting started without any pleasantries.
She immediately turned to Angela and Maisy, "I was rather disappointed with you two yesterday, I hope you have got an improved status to report?"
They were immediately flustered, an orange flux surrounded them, "Yes Mam," Angela replied.
The flux around the boys turned a brighter shade green contentment.
"Really?" Gary said. The green turning to grey. "I told you I needed the marketing budgets yesterday; without them I'll never finish the financial analysis."
"I can't be silent any longer," chimed in Geoff, "you two are a complete liability."
The thick grey flux surrounded them both now.
The orange flux turned to purple then white, "You did no such thing," cried Maisy.
"Are we really going to play this game again?" said Gary.
Helen's flux was turning a bright red but she hadn't spoken yet. I didn't need the flux to recognise the anger buried deep in the lines on her face.
On instinct I lied, "Hang on Gary, Maisy and Angela were with me all day after our meeting, when did you ask for the financials?"
Another plume of grey flux began to form but before he could speak, I gathered a ball of white flux and buried it in his chest.
"No your right," he said, "I only emailed them this morning because Geoff forgot to mention it yesterday."
Geoff recoiled after having been thrown under the bus. His flux alternated purple and grey as he recovered.
I gathered the green and white flux and forced it into him. His flux briefly changed colour then reverted to his usual state of grey. The flux surrounding Gary's also turned grey as it bounced between them.
"No, I'm sure now, sorry Gary, I remember telling them yesterday."
At this point Helen had heard enough, "Gary and Geoff, get your story straight, from now on I want to review your plan personally, and copy me in on any requests from other teams. That way I'll know precisely what is going on." She demanded.
Helen then regained control of the meeting, getting a briefing from each of the other groups in turn, and bring the meeting to a close.
As we filed out of the room, she turned the Gary and told him she expected better from him.
Thank God I thought, finally these two will be called out for their bullshit, couldn't have happened to a nicer pair.
Angela, Maisy and I were left gathering our materials. Angela turned to me, "Thank you for saying what you did, you took a big chance."
"I just had a feeling he was lying," I said, "and we have all been the victim of at least one of those jerks."
"Anyway," Maisy continued, "That was genuinely nice of you, can I show my appreciation and buy you lunch today?"
"Sure," I said, "who am I to knock back a free lunch from two lovely ladies, "12:30 OK?"
"Great," they replied in unison and then laughed.
With a lunch date set I retired back to my desk to complete my presentations. I worked for a while but it wasn't long before my thoughts returned to my new found abilities.
I had determined a few new things. I'm sure now a grey flux was related to lying while white was truth. Red appeared to be related to anger while green with contentment or happiness. Yellow, well we know what yellow is.
I also appeared to be able to push these fluxes around and into people much like I could with the Yellow flux. This was a new development and one which I thought I should be able to use to my advantage. The question was how?
I retrieved my notebook and noted my further discoveries.
It wasn't long before I felt a pang of hunger in my stomach, a glance at my phone told me that it was nearly time for lunch with the girls. I tidied up my desk and rose to go to lunch. I approached office reception and could see both girls were waiting for me at the elevator.
"Where are we going to eat?" I said as approached and pressed the down button.
"I have some news," Maisy replied not answering the question.
The elevator door opened and an empty elevator greeted us, we entered, pressed the ground floor button and waited in silence for the doors to close again. I had a sense that the news was going to be big. Maisy's flux was throbbing blue. This was new I thought to myself. Maisy was fidgeting. I could see she was anxious or nervous about something.
"Spit it out," I said breaking the silence.
"Go on," Angela said, "you may as well tell him now."
"Well," she said, "Angela's dad owns a small 4 star hotel downtown, we were discussing our work with him and the cut throat politics that seems to continually play out. I'm just not cut out for it. Angela's dad offered us both jobs at the hotel. Entry management positions. It will mean a pay cut but I know I will be happier there than working here."
"Wow," I said, "have you actually resigned? Can I talk you out of it?"
"Yes, we just met with Helen, and no I certainly won't be talked out of it," Angela replied for both of them.
"Well, that's disappointing," I said.
Just then the elevator doors opened, and we were on the ground floor. People were milling about, and the opportunity to continue the discussion passed. We left the building and headed towards a little eatery that was popular with many in the office. It was only a short walk and we arrived in a few minutes. We were seated and ordered our lunch a short time later.
"You know," I said, "I've been having similar thoughts about leaving."
"Wow," Angela replied, "I guess there are few of us looking for a change of scenery."
"Well, I'd like to, but I'm not really sure what's next."