Frank rolled over and grabbed his phone. He hit snooze on the alarm.
Three snoozes later, he made his way to sitting up in bed, looking red-eyed at his phone.
"Do you have to hit snooze so many times, Frank?" his wife asked, still rolled up under the covers. "I'm trying to sleep. Just set your alarm for when you are actually going to get up already."
"What the fuck do you know about it," he snarled, but he stood up, and made his way to the bathroom.
He heard the coffee maker in the kitchen beeping right on time. Good enough. He finished in the bathroom and made his way to the kitchen. He poured a cup of coffee and reached into the refrigerator for some milk.
There wasn't any milk.
Fucking woman, he thought. Sleeps until ten each day and can't even keep God damn milk in the house consistently.
He found some almond milk like what the California kids liked. He unscrewed the cap, smelled it. Smelled pretty bad to him.
Black it is, he thought. I'll make her go to the store later.
Sitting at the kitchen table with his coffee, he opened up his email.
But he probably shouldn't have. The first email was from John Claire. Frank hated John Claire. He had no idea why he hadn't fired John Claire when he wanted to last week.
Good morning Frank,
John wrote.
Good news- not only can we consider phase one of the security upgrades completed, but we've made great progress on the phase two metrics. About a quarter of the way done, and we didn't need to use up as much weekend overtime as we thought we might have needed to get caught up. Let's set up a meeting -
Frank closed his laptop. Jesus fucking Christ.
His phone vibrated on the table. He picked it up and took a look.
A message from baby doll.
Nice, he thought.
I hope you like it,
she wrote, next to a little winking smiley emoticon.
And there she was, beautiful little baby doll, wearing nothing but some sheer and expensive looking underwear in a picture. There were a few pictures of that, one of her kneeling, one with a view from her tight little stomach up to her plump tits, one she had taken of herself from above.
His cock jumped in his boxers looking at Morgan wearing the underwear he told her to buy.
Good little baby doll, he thought, sliding his stiffening dick out from the slit in his underwear. Good and obedient like always. You know who takes care of you.
He looked at her unsmiling lips in the pictures, and thought about her wrapping her mouth around him, sucking up and down on him, drinking the cum from his squirting dick the way he liked to make her do. He got harder as he thought about that.
"Frank? Are you still out there?" his wife yelled from the bedroom.
Fuck.
"What the fuck do you
want?"
he yelled back. He got up and got into the shower.
***
"Ooh, I like your coat," Zoe said, stroking the wool. "It looks so warm! Is it
new?"
Morgan blushed.
"Yeah, you know... my old coat was wearing out, and wasn't very good... I got myself a new one."
"Lucky
you.
Looks
expensive."
"I guess."
"Good for you. Treat yourself."
Wei walked into the shared office space, holding a cup of green tea in a clear glass jar, the leaves swirling around inside.
"Oh! Nice coat, Morgan," she said.
"Thank you."
Wei pursed her lips together looking at Morgan. She seemed stressed, Wei thought. Like she hasn't been sleeping enough.
"I'm sorry I've been a little rough on you," she continued, taking a sip of her hot tea. "I've been a little stressed this semester, you probably have too. Sorry I took it out on you."
Morgan hung her new coat up on the rack. She walked over and gave the smaller woman a gentle hug.
"I know, Wei. I'm sorry, too. I haven't been myself lately. I'm trying to be better."
"Group
hug!"
Zoe announced in a singsong voice and embraced the other two women.
When the three women separated, Wei kept her hand on Morgan's forearm.
"I've noticed that you haven't been yourself. I hope you know that I care for you. I hope you know that I'm your friend, and that you can always come to me."
"I know, Wei," Morgan smiled. "I know I can. But I'm OK. I think it's just the stress of school and working here. I'm not sure I'm learning what I thought I would be learning at this internship."
Wei smiled.
"Right. Fucking Excel, you know?"
"Something like that."