"Are you sure we haven't met?" the young woman asked, her high pale forehead furrowing in an almost comical expression of consternation. Roxanna couldn't help feeling a tiny warm glow of satisfaction at putting the stranger on her heels just a little bit; the petite brunette with the wide hazel eyes and the slash of burgundy lipstick that looked even darker against her milky complexion had been acting supercilious and arrogant from the moment the conversation began, and Roxanna was getting a quiet satisfaction out of making her question herself even for a moment.
That satisfaction turned to annoyance when the other woman shook her head as if to fling free any last little wisps of clinging doubt and said, "No, I think you've probably just forgotten. No offense, dear," she added, looking Roxanna up and down as if she was evaluating everything from Roxanna's frizzy blonde hair to her heavy chest to the little run in her pantyhose that happened when she was sprinting for the bus this morning and finding every last bit of it wanting. "But between you and me, you seem a little bit, well... D-U-M-B." She shot Roxanna a conspiratorial look, one that absolutely infuriated the administrative assistant. But of course it didn't pay to let her frustrations show.
Even so, she couldn't help seething with anger. Bad enough that she had to come in on Saturday... again... to do a bunch of the extra work that always seemed to pile up on her desk by Friday. Bad enough that some smug little goth bitch who barely came up to Roxanna's tits was wandering into the office asking for help with some abstruse request that didn't make any sense and sounded a lot like it was intended for a different company entirely. But to have her insult Roxanna's intelligence by spelling things out in front of her as though she was some kind of ditzy Fifties secretary and not a competent, capable professional? It was... it was absurd, was what it was. There wasn't even anyone else here. Unless she thought that Roxanna didn't know 'D-U-M-B' spelled... spelled....
Roxanna giggled nervously, unable to explain in that instant why her brain refused to parse the letters into words. "I, uh, n-no, I really don't think we've... uhhhh, ummm... met?" She found herself uptalking at the end of her sentence, an old nervous habit she thought she'd broken back in her freshman year of college, and a deep blush spread across her ruddy cheeks as she realized she was also playing with a ringlet of her long blonde hair as she spoke. Clearly she was more flustered by the stranger than she thought if she was letting the conversation get to her this bad.
The brunette smiled. "And of course, thinking is something you're so used to," she murmured wryly, playful contempt dripping from every syllable. "I don't mean to be rude, but someone as...." She leaned in a little, looking Roxanna not in the eye but directly down her top. "You know... S-T-U-P-I-D... as you can't really be trusted to keep her own memories straight. I was in here last Saturday, remember now? You were here by yourself doing a bit of catch-up, and I stopped by to see if I could book an appointment. But you said you didn't know how to work the office calendar, so I figured I'd come back today to see if you'd smartened up at all."
She chuckled, taking in Roxanna's expression of glassy-eyed confusion and her slowly slackening jaw. "Guess not."
Roxanna blinked heavily, a muzzy fog settling over her thoughts as she tried to reconcile her absolute conviction that she'd never met the brunette before with the dim, fuzzy memories slowly unveiling themselves in her head. She had talked to the younger woman last week, hadn't she? They, they'd talked about something, some business thing, but it was all so complicated that Roxanna hadn't even been able to parse it out. Some weird, incomprehensible request about a... a.... Wait. Something just happened. Something happened in that last exchange and Roxanna missed it because she was feeling so unaccountably....
"What did you just say?" she asked, acutely conscious of the way her voice had slipped into a higher register. She sounded breathy, like she was constantly about to break into a fit of giggles. Why was that? Why couldn't she figure that out without the help of a woman who looked like she was barely on the high side of the drinking age? Roxanna's head drooped forward, the effort of concentration exhausting her after only a few moments. Thinking shouldn't be this hard, but the simple act of stringing one notion to another was already getting to be too much for her.
"Oh, did you not catch it?" the younger woman asked, her voice syrupy with mock concern. "I said it didn't surprise me that a silly girl like you wouldn't remember, given how H-O-R-N-Y you're probably getting right now. I expect it's hard for you to even think straight... not that I want you especially straight, if you get my drift." She laughed, and Roxanna laughed along with her, even though it was getting harder and harder to figure out quite what the joke was. But everything seemed so naturally fun and funny that the blonde couldn't help but giggle along.
"I, um... yeah, straight!" Roxanna babbled,unsure of what she was agreeing with but wanting to trust the stranger's confident attitude. Her head felt so unaccountably fuzzy, and she had a warm wet throb between her legs that simply wouldn't stop, and here was this smart pretty woman who seemed so well put-together and so sure of herself and, and, um, and... wait. That throb wasn't there a few minutes ago, was it? Roxanna couldn't be certain of anything anymore, but she didn't remember being so turned on just a little bit earlier. The, the woman, she said something, or s-spelled... something....? Roxanna rubbed her temples, struggling to recall the letters. It started with an 'H'....