Author's note: This is based off a fantasy I had about my own, real life Mr. Richards, my boss! Who I don't like. It's written from a more casual perspective than I normally write. I hope you enjoy!
It was awkward from the start. This man had known me since I was three, making that nineteen years, and it's not as if we had spoken one-on-one in that time. He was my Dad's business partner at first, and then his best friend. And
then
a few years ago he moved to Vancouver for some kind of business (I don't know... blockchain? VPNs? I think they do VPNs in Norway though, so I admit: I don't know what he does. Something with computers.) and so they turned their friendship into that kind of thing old men have where they call each other at the end of ballgames. When my Dad tags me on facebook posts (
UGH
) his best friend would always comment at me there. He wouldn't
@
me, though, he would just like... type my name. But every other relation still using that place would comment too, it wasn't like a weird thing. In fact all his comments were the same bland "lovely girl," "she's all grown up" stuff old people always said. Or most of them anyway, the rest could go to hell.
But that half-assed form of communication for a "relationship" that had lasted almost my whole life was the problem!! What the hell do I call Greg to his face? When I was little it was Mr. Richards (he'd say "sport!") and when I was a teen it was just mumbling or fake talking and then I was out the door and in the family car and I was gone. And of
course
I didn't ever reply on facebook (lol). But when I moved to Vancouver last year for uni, and Dad insisted that Greg take me out for a good dinner one night, I was put into this awful spot:
what the hell do I call Greg to his face!!!
I didn't even think about it until I was picking out my shoes. I had a pair of strappy black heels with a red undertone dangling off two fingers and it hit me. "Fuck."
I was
not
going to call him Mr. Richards. I was an adult, making my way on my own, an
excellent
history student and, as I recently discovered, very good at drinking. Or at least I was an enthusiast!! I wasn't a child and he wasn't a prof or a cop or whatever! So I guess he would have to deal with "Gary". Looking at myself in the thin Walmart mirror I had propped up against the closet by the door I tried it out. "Thanks for dinner Mr. G--"
I shook my head. My cute violet-tipped slut strands slapped softly against my cheeks.
"Thanks again for dinner,
Gary
, my Dad is
such
a worry-er, as you know." I cocked my head in a sophisticated gesture. "He
must
calm down Gary dear."
I reached my hand out towards the mirror, all while still bent over with my dangling shoes, as if I was gently resting my fingertips on his forearm. "
Do
reassure him that his daughter is alright, won't you?" I cocked my head in the opposite sophisticated direction and my breasts swung and wiggled back. "Perhaps the next time the Cubs lose?"
Or the Nicks or whomever. I wasn't studying baseball history.
I wondered if he would blush the first time I called him Gary. I laughed at that thought. I was going to blow this old guy's mind tonight, ha ha ha!
He was taking me to The Boar in Steel, which was like sixty dollars a plate from what I could see. I googled it to see what to expect and all I got was a "local expert" picture of a thick wooden door with a long bronze handle, the plain logo carved (by hand??) into a sign, the basic information of hours and old prices, and a bunch of positive reviews from short-haired white dudes whose profile pics were usually them and their wife smiling on a boat, or at a vineyard, or on a golf cart. It was kind of cute. But I bet I was younger than any of their kids. And there were dozens of them! And here's the part you'll flip at: Gary Richards was one of them!!!
His profile picture was actually pretty good. He had someone else take it
for
him (or so I assumed, since I don't think you know how to work the timer setting on the front camera if you're over 40) and so you got a good shot of him, at his big oak desk, from the waist up. A huge window showed off the city behind him, big tall buildings reaching up like disastrously huge columns, lined along unevenly across Greg's straight broad shoulders. His crisp white sleeves were rolled up in a master's roll and they sat patiently before the crooks of his elbows, showing off two huge hands and arms covered in salt-and-pepper hair that made him look like a well trimmed wolf. His smile wasn't too big and it wasn't even a little bit self conscious. Straight jaw to match those shoulders, too.
Old straight confidence man Greg Richards selling bitcoin through VPNs through the Apple store.
Anyway, his review read: The boys at the Boar in Steel always know how to treat a regular. As dining goes, it's the cadillac of Vancouver's night-life dining. Discretion, exemplary service, the best food from here to the east coast in either direction, and the perfect lighting for a beautiful night. Thanks again, boys!
It was five stars. "You'd give 'em six if you could, wouldn't you, Mr. Richards?"
I fought Dad so hard to get out of this, but I hadn't eaten anything but tomato soup for... quite a while. My last splurge on food had been a philly cheesesteak I bought at 1:57 AM (they closed at two but if you and your friend have loose shirts, pierced nipples, a good smile and a set of working arms they don't mind at all) (they didn't seem to, anyway). I had three bites of it and dropped it in a field, then I had two more bites and dropped it in a puddle.
So Greg's offer was actually coming at a pretty good time. I could kill an hour and a half talking about, I don't know, Heraclius or something, the friends I was fucking but wouldn't mention fucking, and the "clubs" I wasn't in but could fake being in, and then say I had a test and I should turn in. If it was early enough I could
ppppp-probably
get a boy from Tinder here before it was bed time for little old Elly.
But anyway, The Boar in Steel seemed like a good opportunity to dress up. Tonight, every white-haired head from those profile pics was going to be turning from their tablet camera to my ass (lol). I had my black hair totally degreased from the night before and pulled up into little buns (except for my slut strands which I would never abandon), my hangover was mostly gone, my face was beat like an angel getting curbstomped in heaven onto an especially sexy marshmallow, and This. Dress. Greg might die when he saw my dress. If I had put on a freshman fifteen it was ten across my tits and five in my ass.
Actually,
I thought, pausing,
I guess he might die when he sees my tits!
Giggling, I thought of the old guy seeing me for the first time, seeing the tits I'd grown in the years in between. The mindfuck was going to be fun, lol.
"Can I look? Can I comment? Don't be weird, this is your buddy's girl!"
But I can't help that my body describes sex just by its shape! I could enjoy it, even highlight it, but just me without anything sitting in a corner would drive a guy wild. And tonight I had This Dress, which my friend Becky had