It started as a regular working day. I put on my white blouse, suit suit-like steel grey trousers, black heels and a grey jacket. I finished my outfit off with a Thomas Sabo bracelet, my Rolex date-just and a LV handbag.
Unlike most days, I drove to my office in London on this day instead of taking the trains as the weather was particularly bad and my villages train station was going through some maintenance and wasn't available anyway. The only trouble is my office doesn't have its own underground car park, so I parked a few blocks away and would still have to walk through the crappy weather to my office. As I did though, the rain had stopped but after a day and a half of rain, when an asshole drove in the bus lane to overtake some cars, they kicked up a massive puddle that went all over me and other pedestrians.
A lot of people started gesturing and shouting and another even called over a police officer who just happened to be standing by. I didn't join in the fuss though as I had a busy day of work, a morning team meeting and this also happened right outside the building. Therefore, I thought I could run in, go to my office and look decent again in the ladies toilet.
I wanted to dive straight into the bathroom when I reached my office floor but I could see my colleagues had all setup in the conference room early. I stuck my head in and excused myself, explaining what had happened and of course they all excused me. My office only has a small number of staff but we are a diverse and respectful team - there's just me and 7 other men from Saudi Arabia (1), India (2), Pakistan (1) and Hungary (3).
My problem in the bathroom was the lights weren't operating properly, so my vision of my condition wasn't great. I put my handbag and blazer down (which I wasn't wearing at the time of the splash) and tried to tidy up my mascara and hair. After a few minutes, with the dim light I had, I felt I'd got myself looking presentable, and dashed back out of the toilet and into our conference room.
I took my seat, the last one closest to the door and quite far away from the projector as we began a conference call with our head office in Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
About halfway through, I noticed my two Indian colleagues seemed distracted and out the corner of my eye, I could see them constantly looking over at me. I didn't do anything to draw attention or to think they'd made me uncomfortable in case they weren't even discussing me but I just had this feeling that it was about me.
After another 30 minutes, the conference was over and I went to my office, dropped my bag off and went back to the bathroom to try and dry myself off a bit more. It was then when I walked back in and the lights were working as normal that I realised something awful... despite wearing a thick blouse that I found kept a bit of cold off me and allowed me to wear a bra without my nipples showing was still very wet around my areolas and you could see my breasts almost clear as day! My heart started beating at 1000 miles per hour!
I went back to my office and went to review the conference call that we'd just had but thankfully the recorded footage shows I'm too far away to spot anything. I sighed in relief but as the video played I watched my colleagues and realised that the two Indians across from me were in fact pointing and talking about me. As I forwarded the video, I even spotted the slightly tubbier one, Amal, with his phone and it was clear he was taking photos of me!
I sat there for a while trying to work out what to do but I calmed down upon realising Amal is married, surely he wouldn't do anything with those photos. I convinced myself of this and within next to no time (although now with the blazer over me) I resumed my work.
The day went on as normal and in the afternoon, I took some files and went through to our file room where we keep some confidential files but also the copy machine. The room is only accessible via a code which is unique to each of us which is just to make sure if anything goes missing, the company knows who to come after!
I punched my key in and went inside where I saw Amal on the phone and by the copy machine. His phone call quickly ended.
"Hey beautiful" said Amal with an air of cockiness to him (which was very rare).