Jerome was met at the door by the Hanson's daughter Laura, a petite sprightly 18 year-old. He let his eyes travel down her lithe body, taking in her small breasts and slim, muscular legs, the glossy short-cropped black hair framing her impish face.
"Yeah?" she asked, lacking interest. One of her dad's co-workers, most likely. Great.
"Is your dad in?" Jerome asked, smiling, "Need to talk to him about the merger."
With a shrug, Laura let him in, took his coat and left him in the living room. Ted arrived and greeted him.
"Look, Jerome, my wife just called, I need to pick her up at the airport. Would you mind waiting here? It won't take more than an hour. The merger file is on disk, you can go over it." Ted asked.
"Sure, I guess." replied Jerome.
Thanking him, Ted exited, and was gone. For the next twenty minutes Jerome worked on Ted's computer, than decided he needed a smoke, and a check of his pockets revealed he had left them in his coat. He moved into the hall, but as he retrieved them he noticed his wallet was missing.
"I know I had it in my breast pocket. What-" he thought to himself, than a noise from upstairs caused him to draw the correct conclusion.
He ascended the steps silently, and slipped down the hallway until he reached the pink door at the end. It was open a bit and he peaked inside. Inside was a typical teenagers bedroom, posters, stereo, clothes on the floor. Laura stood with her back to him, but in her dresser mirror he could clearly see her thumbing through his wallet. Smiling to himself, he slipped inside and silently came up behind her.
"Surprise!" Jerome said, grabbing the billfold over her shoulder.
Laura jumped, and spun around in shock. "I-I-I... uh..." she stammered.
"You what?!" demanded Jerome, glowering down at her, "Your father will here of this."
"Oh, shit, please man, if he finds out he'll go ballistic. I got a trip to Paris coming up, he'll cancel it!" she was near tears.
"Should of thought of that before. Sorry." Jerome turned to go, but Laura was past him and closed the door.
"Don't I'll do anything, please." she grabbed his arm.