Skirt Day

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Skirt Day - by C. Maxwell

Chapter one: how it began

Lisa wondered why it was that despite her successful career in
middle management and a plethora of dating options consequent to
her tall, blond good looks, she still felt empty and unhappy.  In
fact she didn't much like dating - all too often she would find
the guy's shallow attempts to impress, to make her laugh, and to
get into her jeans to be frustratingly unsatisfying.  She usually
delivered a forceful rejection to each guy, and even went on to
instruct him on how to improve his life.

Her career was taking off - she felt a promotion coming - and with
a recent raise and no children, a paid-off house and car, and
fully paid student loans, she had all the money she needed and
more; an indication of 26 years of hard work and little play, she
thought.  Why not more happiness from such early stability and
success?  This she asked her recently hired therapist, Joan.

After several weeks, Joan found it a major breakthrough when she
realized that Lisa's dating disappointments - and perhaps business
disappointments as well - came from her displeasure at docile
partners.  Joan explained her theory to Lisa: you find forceful
men attractive, but you are so self-confident that you are too
forceful with them to allow them to assert themselves.

Joan thought of a potential therapy for Lisa.  She began asking
Lisa questions about how she could tone down her aggressive
stature.  One session, Joan had an idea:

"Lisa - I notice that at every session, you are always dressed
quite similarly.  Baggy jeans, a dark-colored blouse or sweater.
You never dress in a particularly . . . feminine way," Joan asked,
looking for something.

"I prefer to dress this way.  It's comfortable."

"And fairly gender neutral . . ."

"So?"

"So, why don't you ever wear a dress?  Maybe a low-cut top?  High
heels?"

"I don't think I would be taken seriously if I wore those things.
People would think I was, you know, just a girl."

"Do you even own any dresses?"

"I have one floor-length evening gown that I bought for a
Christmas party some years back, and another that I've had since
high school."

"Floor length?  I'll bet it was more conservative than the other
dresses at the party."

"Of course.  Many of the wives of the employees wore short little
cocktail dresses.  You could just see the men looking at their
legs and breasts the whole time.  I would never wear something
like that to an office party.  What if my colleagues saw up my
skirt?  They should be talking to /me/, not my breasts."

"Maybe so.  But Lisa - I think this might be a route to explore
ways to enrich your life.  I think you box yourself in too much.
You are always so concerned about earning respect and being the
leader.  It even cuts into your wardrobe.  But your wardrobe is
one of the easiest things we can augment.  So, doctor's orders, I
want you to try this:  after today's session, I want you to go
shopping.  I want you to find something feminine - a dress or a
skirt - to wear to our next session."

"That shouldn't be hard."

"Actually, it should be, so I'm going to make it a little harder
on you.  I want it to be short.  Well above the knee.  I want you
to buy a skirt that seems just long enough to you, but absolutely
no longer, and wear it here with bare legs.  The weather is plenty
warm for it."

"You're not wearing a skirt, Joan.  Why should I?"

"I almost always wear a skirt on a date.  Do you?"

"No."

"Well, there you go."

That afternoon, Lisa went shopping, figuring she must be paying
her therapist for something.  She had not worn a skirt above the
knee since childhood - and then she never liked the threat of
being exposed and teased by the boys.  But she was an adult now
and she could handle it.

She tried on about 5 skirts and ultimately ended up buying a dark
green, loose a-line skirt that fell to just above her knees.  She
put it in her closet and forgot about it until her session a week
later.  As she shaved her legs that morning, it occurred to her
that although she shaved her legs almost every morning, there was
never really any point until today.

The feeling of going outside with her legs no longer safely
wrapped by denim or cotton pants, or at least knee-length shorts,
was one she had not felt in a while.  She could feel the slightly
cool air on her knees and thighs as she took the subway to her
session, and she knew that she looked more feminine, more exposed,
more weak than her usual self.  But there was something else.

"What else?"  asked Joan.

"I guess I do feel more attractive.  That's the point of this,
right?"

"That's part of it.  It is very nice looking, although you still
look quite conservative.  What I want for you, Lisa, is to feel
/vulnerable/.  I think that's what you're missing."

"Feeling vulnerable doesn't sound like a good thing."

"I think for you, it will be.  Do you have a date next week?"

"No."

"An important business meeting?"

"Just one departmental meeting.  Why?"

"This is what I want you to do: tomorrow, take your new skirt to a
tailor.  Ask him to shorten it by 4 inches.  Don't try it on for
him, just ask him to do it.  Ask him to call you when it's done.
Then, the day he calls you, whatever day it is, you pick it up.
And then the next day will be important.  On that day you will
wear the skirt, again with bare legs.  You will wear it even
though it will feel too short for you.  You will do this because I
told you.  And whenever you wear that skirt, I want you to try to
be passive.  I want you to do whatever anyone tells you, whether
it be a coworker, a friend, or even a stranger.  So that as you
wear that skirt, you are labeling yourself as a humble servant, at
the mercy of the world.   Of course, it's really our secret that
you will do what anyone asks, but that won't change the /feeling/
of it.  Do you think you can do that?"

Lisa was shocked.  She did not know if she could do it.  But it
sounded like a challenge.  She thought about it, and Joan added

"I dare you to do it, Lisa."

So it was a challenge!  Lisa believed nothing was too difficult
for her, so this shouldn't be, either.

"Remember, when you wear that skirt, you will do whatever anyone
asks, starting with putting on the skirt in the morning and
wearing it all day."

The tailor gave Lisa a slightly funny look when she asked to have
her perfectly nice skirt shortened, but would only tell, not show,
how short.  Lisa felt a little embarrassed, but she did not let it
bother her since it wasn't her idea.

For the beginning of the week, Lisa felt a great anticipation for
her "skirt day."  She resolved that she would indeed do what
anyone told her (not that anyone would, since no one would know
that they could) and the thought somehow excited her.  She
rationalized that it was the danger of it.  It's highly unlikely
that a stranger on the street could stop her and ask her to strip
naked and have sex with him, but if he did, she would /have/ to.
The more Lisa thought about it, the more simultaneous dread and
excitement filled her.  On Tuesday she picked up the skirt, which
looked noticeably smaller in her hands although she did not try it
on.  On Tuesday night she had a little trouble sleeping, wondering
what would happen the next day.

Wednesday morning.  Lisa wakes up, showers, shaves her legs,
brushes her teeth, takes her birth control pill, and returns to
the bedroom.  Wrapped in plastic is her fate for the day, hanging
next to the white blouse she planned to wear with it.  She picks
out her favorite set of underwear - somewhat high cut white
panties and a bra with just a little push to it.  She buttons up
the blouse (all but the collar button), and then removes the skirt
from the plastic.  She slides it up her legs, and when the hem
reaches her knees she realizes that the waistband is still half a
foot from her waist.  She slides it higher and when finally she
fastens the button at the waist she feels that her legs are almost
entirely exposed.  She wonders after all if she can go through
with this!

She looks in the mirror.  The skirt only covers half of her
thighs.  She feels exposed, vulnerable, and anxious.  She turns
around and bends over.  It's hard to tell in the mirror, but she's
confident her panties are still covered, even though the backs of
her thighs are in plain view.  She tries sitting down, exposing
more thigh as the skirt rides up.  "This is how it will be all
day," she says.  She knows she has to go through with it now.

Then she feels it: with the vulnerability comes excitement.  What
will happen to her?  What adventures will befall her now that so
much of her is exposed?  It seems very different, slightly scary,
and above all, /alive/.  As she puts on a pair of flat sandals she
purchased yesterday, grabs her purse, and walks out the door,
locking her house and her pants behind her, she pulls down her
skirt as far as it goes, swallows her fear, and realizes why she
has been paying Joan all this time.  For the first time in years,
she is looking forward to her day.

Chapter two: skirt day

The skirt is really too short for comfort.  The loose cotton sways
around the middle of her thighs, reminding her that her white
panties are not far from view.  As she walks down the steps to the
subway, a sharp underground breeze flies up her thighs to her warm
crotch.  She quickly grasps the hem.  Did her skirt fly up?  Did
anyone see?  Does anyone know how vulnerable I am?

As she waits for the train, she feels the eyes of the other
waiting passengers.  A large black man on the bench blatantly
stares at her.  (Will he order her to unbutton her blouse?)  A
blue-suited businessman offers repeated glances from behind his
newspaper. (Will he demand her panties?)  An Asian woman, herself
in a mid-thigh length dress, seems to be absentmindedly gazing at
Lisa's knees.  (Would she make Lisa kneel and lick her feet?)

Lisa realizes that her thoughts are crazy.  Her skirt says nothing
about her self-promise to obey.  The pleasant weather had several
women dressed in short skirts and dresses (although very few as
short as hers).  The thought brings her down to reality, leaving
her a little disappointed.  Then she remembers: those other women
don't have to obey.  But I must.  The thought excites her; she
cannot understand why, and she realizes she is becoming aroused.

When the train rolls into the station she holds her skirt down,
wondering what might have happened if she hadn't.  She boards the
train and sits in a side-facing seat across from a young male
passenger.  She places her purse on her lap and begins reading the
ads above.  Of course, she has seen those ads a thousand times.
She just reads them to avoid eye contact.  But today she is facing
her fears, she thinks.  She looks at the passenger across from
her.  He is clearly looking at her thighs, hidden more by her
small purse than by her tiny skirt.  He realizes that she sees
him, and looks up to meet her eyes.

She is suddenly gripped by terror.  Maybe it will start here, she
thinks.  This confident young male will ask her to take her purse
off her legs, and to spread them apart so that he can see her
panties.  Then he will make her follow him . . . what about her
modesty, her job, her responsibilities?  How can she so easily
have sex with a stranger from the train?

But he says nothing; rather he gives an embarrassed smile and
looks away.

Lisa knows that strangers are not going to tell her to do
anything.  She can merely walk among them, on her way to work like
everyone else, and they will look at her exposed legs, but they
don't know what those exposed legs mean.  They don't know that it
means she's . . . available.

As she rides the elevator up to her office, it occurs to her that
it will be different with her coworkers.  Her boss, her employees.
They know her - they will interact with her.  What will they say?

She tries to tell if they are looking at her legs as she walks to
her desk, but if they are they are trying their best to be subtle.
Lisa does not have her own office (yet) - she just has a slightly
fancier cubicle than those she manages.  As she enters her
cubicle, she looks down at her legs.  So much of them are naked!
She sits at her seat and feels its rough fabric against her bare
thighs.  "This skirt is not appropriate for the workplace," she
thinks.  She is flushed with embarrassment.  What was she
thinking?

She turns on the computer and rubs her left thigh as her computer
boots.  It feels good to rub her bare flesh here at work she
thinks . . . but is anyone looking?  She wishes her cubicle
offered more privacy.

The computer comes to life, and her email program starts and
instantly sends a message.  Lisa remembers, too late she thinks,
that she had programmed it to automatically send out a reminder on
Wednesday mornings for the departmental meeting after lunch.  She
has to chair that meeting!  That means standing in front of her
entire department in this tiny miniskirt.  She wonders if she
should cancel, but the email goes to the entire department,
including herself.  "Don't miss today's meeting," it says.  She
remembers: I will obey, even orders I sent myself!

When she reflected upon her day later in the evening, she
remembered that every time she left her desk that morning felt
like an adventure.  Her walk to her mailbox.  Her walk to the copy
machine - her hope that no one else would enter the copy room as
she made her copies.  Her walk to the desk of their new
administrative assistant, Steve.  He was definitely checking out
her legs as she gave him a routine set of orders.  He doesn't know
that he could be giving me the orders today, she had thought.  The
idea of what he might ask if he knew he could ask it distracted
her for a full 15 minutes after the encounter.

When it came to be noon, she realized that she was heavily
aroused.  She stopped in the ladies room on the way to the
cafeteria, and entered a stall.  When she pulled down her panties,
she noted their dampness.  The thought of masturbating, right here
in the public bathroom of her own workplace, crossed her mind.
But she knows it would make noise.  Someone would know.  They
would know it was her.  She couldn't.  She had to survive her
arousal.

At lunch, she recalled, she was somewhat grateful to have a napkin
covering her bare lap.  She thought, although she wasn't sure,
that when Art from engineering dropped his fork from across the
table, and got down on his hands and knees to find it, he may have
been trying to look up her skirt.  She believes that the napkin
maintained her modesty.  "If Art had only asked me to remove it .
. . "

After lunch, it is time for the departmental meeting.  Lisa sits
at her desk and rubs her bare knees.  She has never been to work
in a skirt, and this skirt is /too short/.  She will have to stand
up in front of everyone and give a progress overview.  Will they
listen?  Will they look at her thighs?

As she ponders, she realizes she is running late.  She grabs her
notes and rushes to the conference room, her short skirt swaying
as she walks with long strides.  She can hear the chatter in the
conference room, and as she opens the door there is an immediate
hush.  All eyes are upon her.

"Uh," she says, "thank you all for coming."  (I never thank them
for coming - it's their job!)  She starts to go through her notes
and wonders - do they see how nervous I am?  Do they see how much
I wish I could sit down?  And then to her horror she wonders - can
they smell how aroused I am?!?

But she would never know.  The meeting proceeds as it has every
week, and it ends no differently.

As the afternoon wears away to six o'clock, and most have gone
home, Lisa has calmed down.  She thinks about how on edge she has
been all day, and reminds herself why she went through it.  Most
days she felt so empty.  But not today.  It worked, she thinks.
It worked for one day, and all the time and money with Joan has
paid off.

At the same time, she realizes that the edge is fading.  She has
promised herself that when she wears the skirt, (or any skirt, she
decides), she will secretly promise to obey.  And maybe there will
be slight excitement.  But in truth, she feels safe.  No one has
given her opportunity to obey - and nobody will.  There is no real
danger, she thinks.  Why should this disappoint her?

As she shuts down her computer and swings her chair out from under
her desk, Steve stops by.

"Hi!" he says.

Lisa is now sitting in her chair, uncrossed legs almost fully
exposed, and Steve is standing above her, leaning on the side of
the cubicle entrance, looking down at her.

"Hi Steve," she responds, "Working late?"

"Yeah, I guess," he says.  "I . . ." he hesitates.

"Yes?"

"I think you look awfully nice today, Lisa," he says.

"Thank you Steve."

He warms to her nice response.  Clearly he was nervous.  Lisa
wonders if this is going to get awkward.  She has no intention of
dating one of her employees, but he's clearly here to flirt.

"I like that skirt."

"Thanks, Steve, but I think it's a little shorter than I thought
when I bought it . . . " Don't want him to think I did this on
purpose, she thinks.

"Nonsense.  It's perfect. I think you should wear it more often."

"Excuse me?"

"It really made my Wednesday.  You should wear it every
Wednesday!"

Lisa knows he is trying to be funny, or flirtatious.  Her initial
reaction is to be offended, or maybe creeped out.  But this is it,
she thinks.  This is where my mettle is tested.  That was an
order.  And she has promised herself: she will obey.

"Okay, Steve, we'll see.  I need to be getting home now."

She stands and pulls down the hem.  Steve is watching every move.
He lets her out, watching her.  It occurs to her that he was
trying his best to be confident.  She likes to encourage
confidence in her workers.  But more than that . . . she feels her
safety taken away.  She must obey.  She /will/ wear the skirt next
week.  She will obey whenever she wears it.  And if Steve gets
what he wants this time, will he want more?

The vulnerability and excitement that kept her aroused all day
reach a peak.  She rushes to the subway and from the subway rushes
to her apartment.  She throws herself on the bed, pulls up the
skirt, and shoves her hands on her panties.  Here, in the privacy
of her bed, she can moan all she likes as she pleasures herself to
the best orgasm she has ever had, followed by another, more
comfortable one.

Chapter three:  Just the beginning

Lisa had mixed feeling about her next session with Joan.  She
almost didn't want to tell Joan about her feelings.  Joan seemed
to understand too much, and Lisa's private thoughts seemed too
private even for her therapist.

"No skirt today?"  was the first question Joan asked.

"Um, no, but I did what you said.  On Wednesday."

"And how did that go."

Lisa hesitated.  "Well, Joan, 4 inches was a lot.  That skirt was
really too short for work.  I don't think I should do that again."

"Maybe once is enough," said Joan, "but tell me how you felt."

"Well, embarrassed, I guess."

"And . . .?"

Lisa didn't know what to say.  She could not admit the pleasure it
gave her.  She had just done it because Joan dared her, right?

"Well, you wondered if I could do it, and I did.  I promised to do
whatever anyone said, and I did."

"Did someone tell you to do something?"

"Well, yes.  Steve, the new, young hire, asked me to wear the
skirt again next Wednesday.  So I will."

Joan smiled.  "You don't really have to, Lisa.  If you really felt
embarrassed . . . "

I did, but it felt good, she thought.  "No, I can't back out now.
That was the point.  I will wear it again."

Joan clearly sensed something, and seemed to drop the subject.
"Two weeks ago we talked about how stressful you feel when an
employee disappoints you . . ."

And then the session with Joan turned back to normal.  Lisa later
thought: thank you Joan.  I still need your help, but you revealed
my need to feel vulnerable at the hands of others.  You showed me,
but did not abuse it.

Next Wednesday.  Skirt day.  Lisa, hair wet from her shower, looks
at the skirt, hanging in her closet.  It's so short, she thinks
again.  She'll be more naked if she doesn't go with bare legs, she
thinks.  She'll buy some pantyhose.  Just like pants, they will
be, and she will still be obeying by wearing the skirt.  Of
course, she doesn't own any.  She can be a little late for work.

She stops by a drugstore, on the way to work.  She buys a few
pairs of dark pantyhose.  She finds a restroom, removes the
packaging, and pulls them on to her legs.  Much better, she
thinks.  Just like pants.  Just tighter, and more transparent . .
. maybe not really like pants at all.

The subway is packed this morning, probably because she's a little
later than usual.  The crowd in the train is so thick she cannot
turn around.  She keeps one hand on her purse and the other on the
metal bar above her head.  She knows she needs to worry about
pickpockets in crowds this thick.

Suddenly, between stops, she feels a hand on her inner leg,
between her knees.  She cranks her head around to see who it is,
but this causes the hand to disappear, and all the passenger faces
look the same: innocent, normal, waiting for the train to get to
the next stop.  She looks forward again, and the hand appears
again.  It must be someone sitting, for the hand to be that low,
she realizes.  There are really only two possibilities, then.  It
was either that Hispanic guy, or the other guy I didn't get a good
look at.

I am wearing the skirt.  I will obey.  I will let him touch me.
This time, she does not try to look back.

The hand feels good rubbing against the nylon on her legs.
Without much friction, it wanders freely over her knees.  Lisa is
nervous, but the hand feels good.  She realizes she doesn't know
whose it is.  Someone has no idea who she is: he just knows she
has pretty legs, and they are shown off by this skirt.  Perhaps he
couldn't resist.  Or maybe, somehow he knows what the skirt means?
Lisa realizes she is getting warm, especially at her crotch.  The
combination of panties, pantyhose, and skirt keeps all that warmth
and moisture in.  And that hand in starting to move upwards - it
is now caressing her inner thigh, at the hem of her skirt.  It
does not have much higher to go.  It seems to be hesitant, though.
Is it afraid of getting caught?  She must obey.  She will let it
go as high as it has confidence to go.  She realizes, in fact,
that she wants it to go.  She wants to feel it against her crotch,
she wants it to rub her here on the crowded subway car.  She
/needs/ it.  As the hand slips under her skirt, she hears herself
give off a quiet moan.  The older man standing next to her glances
at her face; she blushes.  Nothing going on here, she hopes he
will think.  I'm just standing here, not feeling a hand underneath
my skirt.  Not feeling it wander higher.  No, it has not now
reached the junction of her thighs.  I can't feel the hand
squeezing between them.  No, sir, I am not spreading my legs ever
so slightly, no, it's not wandering higher still, no OH!  That's
not a strangers hand on my panties, applying a massaging pressure
against my OH YES!  Just a little more, I need it . . .

But the hand stops when the train reached the next stop, and the
hand is lost in bustle of passengers pushing their way off the
train.  Lisa fights her urge to put her own hand there, and give
herself a little more.

When Lisa arrives at work, she realizes her panties are soaked.
She is almost uncomfortable.  She heads towards the restroom, but
is stopped as she passes Steve's desk.

"Lisa - you wore it!"

Lisa blushes.  She had forgotten why she had worn it.  It had been
Steve's orders, she realizes.

"Oh, yes, I guess I did."  She doesn't know what to say.  She
fears what Steve will ask next.  But she cannot leave.   She must
obey.

"Listen, Lisa, I'm really amazed that you wore that again for me.
For the past few days your clothes went back to normal - so I
thought I'd never see you like this again."

"Well, Steve, every once in a while I like to dress up a little."

"Every Wednesday, right?"

Was that an order or a joke?  Lisa worried for a moment.  But it
must be a joke.  He can't possibly know that she will obey . . .
even his jokes.  /Vulnerable/, Lisa thought.  Vulnerable and
alive.

"Lisa?"

Lisa realized she had stopped responding.

"Lisa?  I was wondering if maybe you'd like to get some dinner
with me tonight."

There it was.  The standard date request.  Dinner.

"I don't know, Steve.  I'm your boss, technically, and . . ."

"No one has to know.  Meet me at Chez Lou's at 7pm.  I'll have a
present for you."

That's how the date was made, Lisa remembers as she sits in her
apartment, asking herself whether she will really make the date or
not.    She remembers that she was taken aback by his sudden
confidence.  Joan claimed she would find this attractive . . . and
she did.  Even though Steve was younger, and an employee . . .
anyway, it didn't matter what she thought, because it was a skirt
day, and on skirt days she would obey.  It made her feel
vulnerable, and alive, and she would not give it up.  She would
obey.

"I'll see you there," she had replied.  And she intended to.

It was shortly before her weekly departmental meeting, later that
day, that she realized how warm and squishy she again felt between
her legs.  Right before the meeting, she retreated to the ladies
room, pulled down her pantyhose and then removed her panties.
They were sopping wet.  She had no desire to put them back on.
She cleaned herself up as best she could, and pulled her pantyhose
back up.  They would offer enough decency, she thought.

But as she stood in front of her employees, she could feel that it
was a little breezier under her skirt than normal.  The warm
cotton of her panties somehow offered more protection than the
nylon of her pantyhose.  Protection from what, she wondered?

Now she has to decide whether or not to put on a clean pair of
panties for her date.  Already she feels warm.  She knows it is
because of the danger.  She knows that Steve's confidence is
increasing, and she knows that she cannot stop obeying now.  She
knows that she will do what he says, and all she can do is hope
that he will be a gentleman tonight.  What if he isn't?

Needing a little more protection, she finds a pair of modest black
panties in her drawer, puts them on, and heads for the restaurant.

Steve is waiting at a table for two.  There is an open bottle of
red wine.  There is a small box, wrapped in shiny green paper.
This must be the present he promised.  He's trying too hard, she
thinks.  He doesn't need to give me a corny present.  It is
probably chocolate.  Not that she didn't like chocolate.  It just
seemed too much like payment.

"You made it," he says, as she sits, briefly showing her
nylon-clad legs as her green skirt rides up, but hiding them under
the tablecloth immediately after.

"Steve," she says, "before this goes further . . . "

Steve pours her a glass of wine.

"Thank you.  Now, before this goes further, you should know . . ."

"Lisa, I understand.  I'm younger, an employee.  This doesn't have
to go any further than you let it."

I have to let it go, Lisa thought.  I cannot let you let me feel
safe.  But what will people think?

"Let's just not let it get out of hand, okay?"

"Okay.  Now, order.  They always have good fish here."

By the end of the meal, the wine has left Lisa a bit tipsy.  She
eyes the green box.  Mmmm . . . chocolate.  Steve sees her looking
at it, and hands it to her.

"For you," he says.  "But don't open it now; open it when you get
home."

"Awww," she replies, "I can't open it?"  She weighs it in her
hand.  Too light for chocolate.  What could it be?

"Open it later, when you get home.  I really hope you like it."

"I'm sure I will," she says.  And then she thinks . . . "when I
get home."  This means she will be going home.  Steve will be a
gentleman, tonight.  Oh goodness, she thinks, I /am/ attracted to
him.  Or am I attracted to the idea of doing everything he says?

She thanks him for the dinner, and he walks her home.  Not so much
as a good night kiss is offered as he says goodnight and leaves
her, present in hand, to return to her bedroom.

What is in the box?  She cannot wait to find out.  She lies on the
bed with the box and tears off the green wrapper, revealing a
plain white cardboard box.  She removes the lid, and unwraps the
white tissue.  It is a garment, black.  She pulls it out, and
holds it up.

It is a skirt.  Black, pleated . . . and short.  Maybe only an
inch longer than the one she is wearing, but she is not sure.
There are many pleats, and the skirt sways around as she holds it.
It looks like it is even her size.

In the box, is a note:

Lisa,

    Please, please wear it tomorrow so that I know if it fits.
Return it to me if it doesn't.

- Steve

Lisa remembers her promise to herself: when I wear a skirt, I
obey.  She looks down at her green skirt, and then the note.  If
that little black skirt fits, then I will have to wear it
tomorrow.  And then tomorrow I will have to obey as well.

Anxiously, she removes her green skirt and pulls the black one
over hips.  It sits a little higher on her waist then the green
one, but it has a little strap that she pulls tight and buttons.
It fits perfectly.

And she was wrong.  It is shorter, perhaps an inch shorter than
the green one.  And as she poses in the mirror, she twirls, and
the skirt flies up.   Those pleats aren't meant to keep it down,
she thinks.  And she believes she saw her panties!  She twirls
again, and there they are!  She can't wear this to work!  One
overenthusiastic turn and her employees - and maybe her boss -
will see her underwear!  How can she?

But she knows she will.  She must.

Chapter 4: Intensification

Thursday morning.  The black skirt lies on the bed.  The pleats
taunt her.  This skirt is way too short.  I will be exposed.
Everyone will see how vulnerable I am.

Already she feels warm and moist between her legs.  She remembers
how uncomfortable her cotton panties felt.  The pantyhose are
enough by themselves - but the skirt leaves her so exposed!  If
someone does see under her skirt, she cannot let them see the
shadow of her pubic hair under the nylon.  She puts on black
panties - any other color would be too visible, followed by the
dark pantyhose.  She looks in the mirror again, and cannot help
but twirl.  She must remember not to do that in public!

The breezes in the subway seem especially fierce this morning.
She has to hold down the skirt with both hands, and still she can
feel parts of it blowing up.  She knows that the nylons are more
transparent around the upper part of her thighs, where the
material is more stretched.  She knows someone else must be
noticing that, too.

As she boards the subway car, she realizes that she stands in the
same place as yesterday.  A little less crowded, but still quite
packed.  She remembered her experience yesterday - that warm hand,
so confidently massaging her legs, and wandering upwards.  What if
the same person sits in the same place?  Would the same thing not
happen?

She forces herself not to look at the seat, where the man must
have been sitting.  She turns the other way, puts one hand on her
purse and the other on the metal bar above her head.  Here I am,
she thinks.  Both hands are occupied.  I cannot protect myself.  I
cannot see you.  My skirt is even shorter, my legs are even more
inviting.  She stands and waits, hoping the hand will return.
Maybe I'm too early, she thinks.  After three stops, she can feel
her pussy begging for the hand, any hand to rub her legs.

But no hand appears.

As she enters the office, she immediately sees Steve at his desk,
watching the door.  When he sees her, his face lights up with a
smile.  Lisa blushes.  That's a knowing smile.  He knows.  He
knows he has me.  He knows. . . . what I am.  The thought thrills
and terrifies her.  The safety she thought she had from no one
knowing was gone.  But still there was a little: Steve seemed to
be a gentleman.  Of course, despite their date, she still knew
very little about him.  Fresh out of college, his resume did not
say too much of relevance.  What would he make her do?  Would he
leak the secret?

Right before lunch, she was nervous.  She had been since she first
arrived and sat down.  She had booted up her computer.  An email
awaited her:

"L-
    Meet me for lunch, third table from the salad bar.

                        -S"

There was no "please."  It was clearly an order.  She noted that
her nylon-clad thighs were nearly completely exposed by the skirt.
She would obey, of course.  But she did not leave her cubicle that
morning.  She had some paperwork that she would normally give to
Steve, but she did not feel she wanted to interact with him, at
least not before lunch.  She set it aside and decided to bring it
to him later.  She worked quietly at her desk, hiding her new
skirt from the office, when another email arrived.

"Lisa:

    Can we have a meeting in my office at 3 today?
    I'd like to discuss your recent progress.

Regards, Jim"

Jim was her boss.  He had been watching her carefully recently,
she hoped because a promotion was in the works.  But did she have
to meet him today?  In this little pleated black skirt that
flashed her panties whenever she moved?

She was nervous, but she would make her lunch date.  She walks to
the cafeteria carefully, her hands at her side to keep the skirt
from flipping up.  She can still feeling it swaying behind her,
accentuating the movement of her ass.  (Was she wiggling it more
than usual in this skirt?)

Steve is waiting for her at the bare wooden table.  She pulls out
a chair and sits across from him.  She feels the cool wood through
the nylon on the back of her thighs.

"I'm pleased it fits so well," says Steve.  "It looks great."

"It's a little short for the office," says Lisa.

Steve smiles.  "I think it's perfect."

Lisa has no response.  Maybe he doesn't know.  Maybe he thinks
she's just being nice.

Steve pauses for a moment, studying Lisa's nervous face.  "Now,"
says Steve,  "I want you to go to the salad bar and make me a
Caesar salad with croutons, shaved parmesan, and a little bit of
cucumber.  Also bring me a Coke.  You may get some extra for
yourself."

Lisa feels her mouth fall open.  Her first instinct is to glare at
him, put the acid in her voice and tell him to get his own salad.
But she stops herself.  If she does that, then she has not met her
personal challenge.  If she does that, she goes back to the old
emptiness.  If she is going to feel this way, she has to answer
his question.  She has to say yes, I will do what you say.  You
found me out.

She gets up, and prepares the salad and drink to his order.  She
realizes that she is paying for it as well - somehow this reminds
her more directly that this is not just a simple favor.  She
brings the tray back to the table - as she holds it she feels the
skirt flipping around, but she cannot hold it down.

After she puts the tray before him, he says, "One more thing.  I
accidentally dropped my napkin, and it floated over there."  He
points to the ground, where a napkin lies about 5 feet away.
"Could you get it for me?"

She knows what he wants.  He wants to see her bend over.  He wants
to see her panties poking out from behind the skirt.  But he did
not ask for it, so she faces him, and picks up the napkin by
crouching down.  More of her thighs are revealed, but she doesn't
think he could see her panties.  Still, he is smiling as she hands
him the napkin.

"Thanks," he says.

Lisa is short on words.  She steals a few bites of the salad she
assembled.  She is hungry, but she feels she needs to hide under
the table as best she can.  Steve seems to be scheming.

When Steve finishes, he says, "I'll let you get back to work.  You
probably have some paperwork for me, since you didn't see me this
morning - feel free to deliver it at any time.  I don't want
anything that's happened to interfere in our work."  With that
Lisa returns to her desk.

At 3 o'clock Lisa heads to her bosses office, and knocks shyly on
the door.  "Come in."

Jim's office is large and elegant.  His desk is a large glass
table on black marble legs.  Art-deco lighting and several
abstract paintings decorate the walls, and a large window looks
over the city.  Across from his desk is a cushioned arm chair, to
which Jim beckons Lisa to sit.

As she sits, she notes that her tiny black pleated miniskirt rides
up her thighs showing the full length of her nylon pantyhose.
Lisa crosses her legs to make sure her panties are not showing,
but she realizes that more of the side of her thigh is shown to
Jim.  She has no desk to hide behind.  She is worried about the
impression she is giving.  But, she thinks, that fear is what I
need.  A new fear to face.  Face it I will.  I will obey no matter
what.

Jim and Lisa discussed various business matters for nearly an
hour.  When the loose ends seemed to be tied, Jim paused, seeking
words.  Lisa fidgets with the hem of her skirt.

"You've been doing good work, Lisa," he says.

"Thanks."  Where was this going?

"I want you to know that I've noticed your good work."

"Okay . . . "

"I guess what I want to say is that I have /also/ noticed a change
in your attire."

"Ah," she says, "If you ask it of me, I have no problem dressing
more conservatively.  It was actually my therapist who recommended
. . . "

"Lisa, I would never ask that of you.  In fact, what I really
wanted to say was that I like your change in attire.  You're
showing a little more personality and that is increasing the
morale of your subordinates.  It's up to you, of course, but I
think you should keep it up."

No, it isn't up to me.  I would never wear such a revealing skirt
if Steve hadn't made me.

"Well, I don't know if it's really me . . . "

"Lisa, you know the opening for assistant director of marketing is
coming up."

"Yes sir."

"You know you should call me Jim.  Anyway, you probably know that
you are in strong consideration for the position."

"Thank you."

"If the rest of the board thinks like me," Jim says, hesitantly,
"then your new state of dress ought not hinder your
consideration."

What did that mean?  Lisa gives a confused look.  Jim clearly does
not want to explain.

"Thanks Lisa.  We'll talk again soon," and with that Jim waves her
out of the office.

Lisa's head is spinning.  Could her short skirts prevent her from
getting the promotion, if the board disagrees with Jim?  Is that
what he meant?  Or did he mean that, in his opinion, the short
skirts would help her get the promotion?   She would not accept
the latter - she had to make it to where she was going with hard
work and intelligence.  If the former, then if she does get the
promotion, it means she gets it /despite/ the short skirts.  A
woman, truly a woman, dressing as womanly as she chooses, rising
to a position of respect.  That sounds good to her, but she
doesn't know if she can do it.  It sounds like a personal
challenge, she thinks.  "I can do this."

Her nerves thus restored, she takes the paperwork that has been
sitting on her desk to Steve.

"Steve, I need this done before you leave today."

He smiles.  "Of course.  I'll drop it on your desk before 5."

Lisa's confidence is restored, and she finds that she has a very
productive afternoon.  So much so that she finds she can leave
early, and she greatly desires to get home to the privacy of her
bed where she can take care of the arousal that has been taunting
her all day.  She turns off her computer at 4:30 and makes a quick
trip to the bathroom.  When she returns, the completed paperwork
from Steve sits on her desk.  On top of the pile is another box.
A plain, white cardboard box with a thin, dark green ribbon around
it.  A small note says "L - Open it now. -S."

Lisa feels her legs weaken.  She knows that Steve knows her
secret.  She knows that the box must contain another order,
probably another skirt.  It can't possibly be a shorter one, she
thinks.

Nervously, she cuts the ribbon and slowly opens the box.  It is,
as suspected, a garment, black, beneath a white note.  The note
reads

"Lisa,

    You looked beautiful today.  Almost perfect.
    This will bring you closer to perfect.
    Please wear it with the same black skirt you wore today.

-Steve."

She looks at the garment in the box.  There's something lacy,
strappy, and something else underneath and she is not sure what it
is.  She doesn't want anyone else to see it here at the office,
but she cannot tell unless she pulls it out of the box, so she
does so.  She holds it up, and her heart stops.  It is a black,
lacy garter belt, with nylon stockings underneath.  She has never
worn such a thing - what would it feel like?  She quickly returns
it to the box and closes it before anyone sees.  "I will obey,"
she reminds herself, and she rushes home in order to appease her
throbbing arousal.

Chapter five: Underneath

Friday morning, as the hot water pours down her naked back, Lisa
contemplates her situation. It's not so bad, she thinks. So I
attracted a man who likes to see me in sexy skirts and stockings.
I can do that. It doesn't change who I am.  Very little has
actually changed. Then she thinks of the four orgasms that she had
the previous night, and realizes that she has to continue, no
matter what. She has not felt this fulfilled in a very long time.
Probably never, she thinks.

She begins to have doubts in her abilities to continue, after she
puts on the stockings and clips them to the garter belt. The belt
and lacy stocking tops frame her black panties, as if her pussy
were a work of art on display. She imagines her co-workers seeing
what she sees in the mirror. Their eyes would be instantly drawn
to her womanhood. She imagines this, and it excites her, but it
also scares her. She quickly reaches for her skirt to hide the
sexy undergarments.

When she pulls the black skirt up, however, she realizes that she
can't do what Steve said. The lace of the stocking tops are not
fully covered by the short, pleated black skirt, and when she
twirls the skirt swishes up, revealing her white flesh above the
stocking tops. She simply can't wear this to work!  It is too
indecent!

She wonders whether to back out of the whole promise, but decides
that she doesn't want to be so easily defeated. She finds the
green skirt in her closet instead. It's a little longer, and as
she pulls it on, she is happy to find that it covers the stocking
tops, although just barely. Steve was probably not aware of how
much the stocking tops would show in the black one, she says to
herself. He'll understand.  She puts on a lacy white bra (her
favorite) and a cream colored blouse, which she tucks into the
skirt.

She rushes into the kitchen and microwaves some water for her
morning ritual of instant coffee.  I am such an addict, she
thinks, as she pours the coffee into her thermal mug and rushes
out the door.

As she steps outside, and locks the door, she immediately feels a
cool wind on her naked upper thighs. The waving trees on the
street tell her that it's a windier day than most.  Her coffee in
one hand allows her to only hold down one side of her skirt at
once.  As she walks to the subway, she can feel the wind blowing
her skirt up, above the stocking tops. She can feel the eyes of
the men on the street, hoping to catch another glimpse. She is
embarrassed, and she rushes as quickly as she can into the subway.

Again she is running later than usual and again the subway car is
completely full.  And again, she finds herself standing in the
same place, one hand on her purse and the other on the metal bar
above her head.  She can feel her breasts pressed against the man
standing next to her; the car is packed like sardines.   Just like
the other day, she thinks.  The other day when . . .

And then she feels it.  At first she thinks she must be imagining
it, but then she realizes it is back.  The hand.  It is gently
stroking the smooth nylon of her inner left knee.  She closes her
eyes.  Her heart speeds up.  She will not look back.  She will not
move.   Is it the same hand, she wonders?  Does it matter?

At first, the hand just strokes the soft nylon at her knees and
lower thighs.  It feels delightful, but then she remembers that
she is not wearing pantyhose today.   The hand is sure to wander
upwards, where it will find her bare inner thighs!  Her instinct
is to shut her legs to stop it, but she does not.   Vulnerability
- that is the point, she reminds herself.  But she realizes as she
considers her options that her panties have become very, very wet.
Surely the hand will discover this!

The hand begins its upward journey and Lisa's heart beats even
faster.  She can feel it at the hem of her skirt.  She can feel it
stroking the inside of her thigh.  It strokes higher, inching its
way, until it finds the warm, exposed flesh above the stocking.
The hand is now completely under her skirt, feeling that tender
expanse of flesh between her stockings and her panties.  Lisa
cannot help but moan, it feels so good to be touched there, in
that sensitive area, on a crowded subway train.  The hand then
cups her panties and caresses her sex through her panties.  She
feels her own wetness - and knows that whoever is so boldly
touching her knows she is enjoying it.

She is nearing orgasm and she wonders whether she can go through
with it here on the subway train.  Nervous that people are
watching, maybe even someone she knows, she tries to hold back.
The hand continues its caresses, and she is not sure she can stand
it any more.  She feels she will have to come at any moment.  She
decides she has to . . . she wants to.  She presses her crotch
against the hand, hoping for a firmer touch.  The hand complies;
it finds her clitoris through the cotton panties and applies
pressure.  It feels so good!

But the orgasm, so close to happening, is prevented by the train
reaching the station and the subway car clearing out.  Lisa is on
edge - she needs that orgasm!  She looks around for a public
restroom and the only one in the station is locked.  "Out of
Service," reads the sign.

Late, she rushes to her office building.  The elevator is crowded,
and she wonders if any of the men standing inches away from her
know about the sexy stockings beneath her skirt.  Did any of these
men see my stockings in the wind outside?  Do any of them now how
aroused I am right now?

When she reaches her floor, she walks immediately towards the
restroom.  She needs to satisfy her arousal; she doesn't care if
another woman hears.  But as she rushes to the bathroom she is
stopped by Steve.

"Lisa!"

"Oh, hi Steve."

"Come into my cubicle."  He is stern.  Lisa remembers that she
disobeyed slightly by wearing the slightly longer green skirt.

Lisa enters his cubicle and stands by his desk.  He is seated in
his office chair.  Suddenly, she feels his hand on her thigh.  It
reminds her of her experience on the subway, and she is flushed
with excitement.  Again, she feels the hand caress her and move
upwards, past the top of her stockings.  But this time, it is
Steve, and he is looking at her face.  His hands touch the bare
skin above the stockings and Lisa realizes that if he feels her
panties, he will discover that they are sopping wet with desire.
How embarrassing, she thinks!  He will know how much this turns me
on!  He will know how much I need to come!

But the hand stops and leaves her skirt.

"I'm so glad you wore them," Steve says.  "Why not with the skirt
I bought you, though?"

"It was too short," Lisa says, "The stockings showed."

"Ah," says Steve.  "We can't have that."  He smiles, and Lisa
feels relief.  She did not know what she would do if he did not
approve.

"But," says Steve, "I think we both know that I asked you to do
something and you didn't, and I'll bet you agree that some sort of
punishment is in order."  Lisa's jaw almost drops to the floor.
Punishment?  Her instinct was to slap him.  But why were her
panties so warm and moist?

"Your punishment, Lisa," he says, "is going to be a little
uncomfortable.  Take this."  He hands her a bottle of water.
"Drink this down before lunch.  You are not to use the bathroom
without my permission."

Lisa doesn't understand.  Without his permission?  Is she back in
grade school?  "Um, okay, well, I need to use the bathroom now.
May I?" she asked.

"No.  Now get to work."

Lisa ambles back to her desk, aroused, confused, and uncertain
about the future.

Chapter six:  Cheryl

When she visits Joan later that afternoon, Lisa has trouble
remembering exactly what happened earlier that day, after Steve
sent her back to her desk.  She does remember that Steve's order
not to use the bathroom heightened her urge to do just that, and
her willingness to obey the order provided a continuation of the
arousal that had been increasing in her all morning.   After she
got back to her desk, Lisa found it extremely difficult to work.
She continued to be extremely horny for hours - all she could
think about was that hand on the subway, feeling her wetness
through her panties.  That hand had felt so warm against her bare
thighs.  But more than that - had anyone been watching her?  She
could not even remember, even though it had only happened a few
hours before.  Someone must have noticed, she thought.  She had
probably moaned.  She had probably been writhing.  She had a
picture of herself in the subway, flushed with excitement, humping
the hand of some unshaven homeless pervert, trying to cum while
mothers hid the eyes of their children on the train.  Was I that
bad?   Her memories were already blurred by the pressure and the
insistent itch of her crotch.

Add to this the fact that she really, really needed to pee.  Her
morning coffee and half a bottle of water were pressing her
bladder, but she was afraid to ask Steve's permission to use the
bathroom.  And she needed his permission, she remembers, because
the day was, like the day before, and the day before that, a skirt
day.

She tried her best to ignore her bladder and her morning's
adventures and get some work done.  As soon as she started typing
her weekly report, however, her thoughts wandered and her right
hand perpetually drifted to her lap.  How easy it was to sneak
that hand under her skirt.  How nice that there was nothing but
those thin cotton panties between her hand and the source of her
pleasure.  She tried to type with one hand as her other hand
stroked herself beneath her short green skirt.

Suddenly, "Lisa, can I get a copy of the Roberts report from you?"
It was Cheryl.  She poked her head into Lisa's open cubicle.  Lisa
looked down and realized her skirt was resting far above the tops
of her stockings and her hand was . . . oh my god, did Cheryl see?

"Um, of course, hold on a moment," said Lisa, as she straightened
her skirt as if she had only been innocently scratching her knee.
She dug to the bottom of a stack of folders on her desk and found
the report.  Cheryl stood at the cubicle door, silent.  Lisa
handed her the report, looking into her eyes to see if there was
any response.  Cheryl was silent and stoic.  She took the report,
smiled, and then abruptly walked away.

I have /got/ to get my own office soon, Lisa thought.  She has
some 10 employees - does that not warrant her an office?  But then
she thought: why do I need my own office?  So I can masturbate
while I'm supposed to be working?  She sat in contemplative
stillness for probably twenty minutes.  Did Cheryl see?  What did
she think?

Finally she snapped out of it. Oh my god, she thought, I so need
some privacy, a splash of water, and a pee!

She stood up and pulled her skirt down as far as it would go,
which was not very far, she thought.  She marched to Steve's
cubicle.

"Steve, may I /please/ use the restroom now?"

"Did you drink the bottle of water I gave you?"

"I drank half of it.  If I have any more I'll burst.  Please
Steve."

"Stand a little closer."

Lisa approached Steve, who remained seated in his cubicle chair.
She is quite tall and his chair was low, putting his face at the
level of her crotch.  His hand reached for her thigh, which he
gently stroked.

"Why do you want to use the restroom now?  I was going to play a
little game with you at lunch.  All part of your punishment,
remember?"

Lisa shuddered at the feeling of Steve's hand on her thigh.  It
was different from the subway hand; that hand was much firmer, and
its anonymity made it seem larger.  Steve's hand was gentle,
almost a tickle - and she needed more than a tickle.  She looked
at Steve's face; at his large, childish grin, and wondered what
she really felt about this man.  He is assertive, but . . .

"Steve, I need to pee.  Okay?  You said not to go without your
permission, but I have to go, NOW."  Steve's hand had now gone
under her skirt, where his fingernail was gently tickling her bare
thigh.   He tickled her for a few seconds, as Lisa waited for a
reply, her distraction mounting.

"Okay, boss," said Steve, " . . . but we'll play a little game
right now instead of later."  He removed his hand from her skirt
and folded his arms.  "That's a nice blouse you're wearing," he
said.

Lisa looked down at her blouse.  With the garter and skirt, she
had barely given any thought to her shirt that morning, choosing a
simple cream cotton blouse.

Steve turned away from Lisa and jotted something down on a piece
of paper, which he then folded twice.

"Here's the game: on this page is a number," said Steve.  "It is
the number of buttons of your blouse you will have to unbutton in
order to use the bathroom now.    If you want to use the bathroom,
you have to tell me a number of buttons.  If it is smaller than
the number on this page, then you may /not/ use the bathroom;
rather you will have to wait until after lunch.  If it is equal to
or larger than this number, then you have to unbutton the number
of buttons that /you/ say.    And the buttons will stay unbuttoned
all day long."

Lisa was confused at first, but then she thought about what number
to guess.  She couldn't guess too low; she HAD to get into the
bathroom NOW.  She had to guess Steve's number.  She looked down
at her blouse.  Five buttons showed above her skirt.  He wouldn't
ask for all five - that would not pass in the office.  Neither
would four.  Three might, MIGHT just barely pass for decent.
That's probably his number.

"Three," said Lisa.

"Well, then," said Steve, his grin wider still, "unbutton three
buttons."

Lisa did it, she guessed right!  She unbuttoned the buttons; the
first was one she might have unbuttoned on her own when it got too
hot.  The second showed a bit of cleavage.  The third showed the
middle of her lacy white bra.  The thought of her office mates
seeing her underwear unnerved her.  I have to leave these open all
day?

"Now," continued Steve, "you may use the restroom, but only to
pee, since, as you said, that's the reason you needed to go.  You
may do nothing else.  That's an order."

Steve handed her the piece of paper and turned back to his
computer.

Lisa walked down the hall towards the restroom.  As she walked,
her blouse strayed open, showing large amounts of her upper chest.
She hoped no one would see her in this state of dress.  She felt
so exposed - her legs were on display, her thighs were naked under
her short skirt, her white lacy bra was visible to all - and her
pussy felt like a river with a leaky dam about to burst.

But 10 feet from the bathroom, her boss Jim turned the corner and
spotted her.  "Hi, Lisa," he said as he passed, an obvious smirk
on his face.  Lisa rushed into the bathroom.

Finally in the privacy of a stall, she lifted her skirt and pulled
her panties down to her stocking tops.  (That was easier than
usual, she thinks.)   The relief of emptying her over-full bladder
filled her with pleasure, and she almost orgasmed from it.
Almost.  As she sat on the stall, feeling relieved, she noted she
was still holding a piece of paper.  What's this?  She unfolded
it.  Scrawled in pencil was a single large number: "1."

Oh, she thought.  She looked down at her chest, at her B-cup
breasts behind the lace of her bra.  She could have guessed 2.  Or
even 1.  And then she would not have had to have her bra on
display.  She must have been confused by the game.  It was that
hand at the subway, she thought.  It left me so confused.  She
again started stroking herself, as she sat on the toilet.  But I
must not do that, she thought.  Steve ordered me not to.

She cleaned up as best she could - finding herself and her panties
extremely wet - and exited the stall.   Then she saw something
that gave her pause.

There, in the large mirror above the sinks, she saw a 26 year old
blonde woman, whose blouse was open to her bra, whose skirt was 4
inches too short, and one of whose stockings had fallen so low
that the start of the lacy stocking top was visible beneath the
skirt's hem.  Her cheeks were red, her breathing was heavy, and as
she looked she could see that the woman's right hand was sneaking
under her skirt, stroking her pussy through her wet panties.  That
woman in the mirror is going to go back out to the office, looking
just that, she thought.  Everyone will know that she desires sex.
They will see it in her exposed cleavage, in the glimpses of bare
thigh above her stockings.  They will smell it in her pussy which
gushes all day, feeling no relief.  And anything they ask, she
thought, anything, she will do.  That woman in the mirror - that's
a SLUT.  Look at how lustfully she is rubbing her panties.  But
she won't let herself orgasm, because Steve told her not too.
Yes, a slut.  She thought of saying the word out loud.  It is what
Steve wants, isn't it?  She said it.  "Slut."  Her stroking
intensified.  "SLUT."  She knew Steve ordered her not to
masturbate, but it felt so good.  So very, very good.  Her entire
body was warm and sensitive with pleasure.  "Ssssslut" she gasped,
as she felt the orgasm, the biggest one ever, she thought.  Her
fingers were inside her panties, her skirt pulled obscenely to her
waist, and the pleasure overwhelmed her.  She felt the orgasm hit
her, and hit her hard.  Her eyes closed as the waves of sexual
release began to surge through every part of her body.

But just then, the door opened.  Cheryl walked in, and without
another word walked right back out.   Lisa was shocked by the
intrusion; her orgasm was cut short and she tried to quickly
straighten herself up, but she knew it is too late.   "She
definitely saw this time," Lisa said to the slut in the mirror, as
she felt the pleasure start to fade away.

        Chapter seven: The First Relapse

This has gone too far, Lisa decided.  She buttoned up her shirt,
including even the collar button, which she would usually leave
undone, to make a point.  She pulled her stockings up and assured
that the tops are well hidden by her skirt.  She splashed some
cold water on her face.  She had disobeyed, but it is for the
better, she thought.   She couldn't go into the office looking
like . . . that.  She could not let her employee give her orders.
This had all gotten quite ridiculous.

Satisfied that she looked as professional as she could in her
cream blouse and miniskirt, she left the restroom and immediately
went to Steve's desk.

"Steve," she said.  She saw his eyes scan her shirt, buttoned to
the top. "I need you to put the final touches on my weekly
progress report.  I'm going to take a long lunch and then I have
my usual afternoon appointment.  I don't think I will return today
after that.  I'll see you Monday morning."

"Uhh, okay, boss," said Steve, with obvious disappointment in his
face.

Feeling back in control, Lisa walked back to her cubicle, emailed
Steve the documents he needed, packed up her handbag, and walked
out of the office, down the elevator, into the street, into the
subway, making eye contact with no one.  She went straight home,
laid in her bed, and stared at the ceiling for the better part of
an hour.

She meets Joan that afternoon, after changing into some old, comfy
jeans and a baggy sweatshirt.  Joan's office looks a little like a
library; three of its walls are covered in bookshelves, mostly
filled with books and journals, with the occasional piece of
sculpture or framed free-standing photograph.  Two armchairs face
each other in the middle of the room.  Sitting in one is Joan, who
wears a dark blue skirt-suit with bare legs.  She is gazing
through her bifocals at Lisa, who sits silently in the other
chair, thinking about her day while reading the titles of the
books.  "Modern Psychology."  "Games People Play."  "The Problem
of Sex."

"Lisa?"  Joan's tone is gentle.

"I don't want to talk about it," says Lisa.

"Isn't talking about it what you pay me for?" jokes Joan.  "Well,
talk about something.  Don't be childish."

"Childish?  I am /not/ being childish.  Fine.  I'll tell you."

Joan waits.

"Okay.  Ever since your little 'dare' I've been following the
orders of this employee of mine."

"And?"

"And today I found myself in a public bathroom, half-naked, ready
to prance around my office like a . . a . . . like someone not as
professional as I am and should be, all because of . . . "

"Why were you half naked?"

"Well, it was a skirt day.  Like you said.  I was wearing a skirt
and opening myself up.  Big mistake."

"Why a mistake?  You seemed to enjoy the feeling last week."

"But it got out of hand."

"How exactly?"

"Well, the skirt was so short - it only fell this high on my
thighs."  Lisa gestured with her hand how long the skirt had been.

"Well, that's about where my skirt is sitting," says Joan,
pointing out her own hemline.  "That still passes as professional
in this decade."

"Well, it's not only that; my shirt was undone."

"All the way?"

"Well, three buttons, but . . . "

"Lisa, that seems a little more revealing than usual for you, but
it's actually quite trendy these days to wear a blouse half
un-buttoned.  I still don't see why this is 'out-of-hand.'"

"Well, I was in the bathroom, looking at myself in the mirror, and
my co-worker, Cheryl saw me."

"So you were in the privacy of a woman's bathroom, and a coworker
saw you in a skirt as short as mine and with three buttons of your
shirt undone.  And this is out of hand why?"

"I looked like . . . a slut."  Lisa blushed as she said the word.

"Lisa, I doubt it.  You looked a little sexier than usual, for
sure, but a slut?  This is the problem, Lisa.  You are too hard on
yourself."

"Well, my employee, the one who was giving me orders, made me get
his permission to use the bathroom."

"And you obviously got it, since you were in the bathroom."

"Well, that's why my shirt was unbuttoned.  To get permission."

Joan waited for more, but Lisa fell silent again.

"Lisa, last week you told me that not backing out of these little
orders was the point - that it made you feel better.  And now?  Is
there something you're not telling me?"

"No, but . . . "  Lisa rolls her eyes and starts reading the
titles on another bookshelf.  "Fear of Flying." "My Secret
Garden."

"Lisa," says Joan, leaning forward,  "I think we need to find out
where all this. . . repression comes from.  You've told me that
your father left you when you were, what, twelve?"

"Yes."

"Lisa, did he ever . . . touch you in a way that he shouldn't
have?"

"Oh my god no!"  Lisa exclaims.  "No!  If anything he didn't touch
me enough.  He mostly ignored me, except to scold me for staining
his precious furniture.  No!  How could you ask such a thing?!"

"I'm sorry, Lisa," says Joan, "modern psychology is a quagmire of
inappropriate presumptions.    Let's focus on the present.  When
was the last time you had sex?"

Lisa is silent.

"I'm guessing it's been a while.  A year, maybe?"

Lisa blushes.

"More than a year?"

"Not since college," she says, reluctantly.  "I've been busy, and
guys have been so . . . well, I've been busy."

"I see.  Have you been masturbating regularly?"

Lisa's blush intensifies.  "I don't want to . . . do we have to
talk about this?"

Joan pauses, contemplates, and then asks "Lisa, were you
masturbating in that bathroom today?"

Lisa's hands fidget.

"Well, were you?"

"Okay, yes.  Yes I was.  I was masturbating in a public bathroom.
Are you happy now?  And I'm mad at my employee because he told me
I couldn't but it's not the sort of thing you can stop, you know?"

Joan allows a brief pause, and continues.  "Lisa, I think I see
what happened today.  Masturbation is a natural, innocent
activity, but you don't see it that way.  This is why you thought
you were slutty.  It's not because of your flirtatious games with
Steve."

Lisa shoots back: "How did you know his name is Steve?  I never
mentioned him by name!"

"You said his name last week!"

"I did not!  You know him, don't you?  Oh my god, you told him I
was going to follow his orders!  That's how he knew!  That's why
he was so confident!  You knew all along!"

"Hold on, Lisa, hold on.  I don't know Steve.  Heck, I don't even
know what company you work at, or even what exactly you do.  I
only know his name because you said it last week."

"I didn't!"

"You did!"

Another silence pervades the room.  Joan says calmly, "Lisa, you
are very untrusting right now.  You are defensive, suspicious . .
. and it's all because you were caught masturbating."

"I'm sorry, you're probably right."

"Look, I am right.  Now, let me ask you - are you going to keep
going with this skirt dare, or are you going to back out because
of this coworker who caught you at a moment of being a normal
woman?"

"Oh, Joan, you're right, I've been silly.  I shouldn't give up so
easily, should I?"

"Here is what I would recommend.  Are you listening?"

"I'm listening."

"Okay: a new rule, for when you are wearing a skirt.  You may only
masturbate with someone's permission.  You have my number - you
can call me up if you want.  Or call up a trusted friend.  Or ask
Steve.  But if someone else tells you it's okay to masturbate,
then you won't feel so guilty about it.  Do you understand?"

"I do."

"Do you think you can do it?"

"What if I really, really need relief?"

Joan smiles.  "Then you'll really, really need permission."

"Okay Joan," Lisa says.  "I'll try again."



That weekend, Lisa went shopping and bought a new skirt.  It was a
little more conservative - dark brown, straight cut, and almost
knee length.  A long slit up the back made it somewhat sexy,
though, she thought.  Professional but sexy: that's what I'll be.
And no matter what, it was still a skirt, and she would still
follow the skirt day rules.  She looked forward to it.   She felt
worried and lonesome all of Saturday and Sunday, and found that
she missed the feeling that she was "following orders."  She did
like Steve, and although it was awkward to have to be his boss and
follow his rules at the same time, it seemed more awkward to
ignore the warm feeling his knowing gaze could give her.

On Sunday night as she drifted to sleep, she made a resolution: on
Monday, I will go to Steve.  I will wear my new skirt and the
stockings he gifted me.  I will pull him out of the office and go
someplace private - the park adjoining the office complex - and I
will apologize.  I will tell him that I will do whatever I can to
make it up to him for not obeying his orders.

She wondered what he would do.  The thought made her pussy
moisten, for the first time since her episode in the bathroom, but
she was too tired to do anything but drift into a deep but anxious
sleep.

Chapter 8: Lisa's Dream

That night Lisa had a dream.  In her dream she was in high school
again.  She saw herself walking down her crowded high school
hallway, wearing her green skirt - this was before it was
shortened, knee length.  Of course, she didn't have that skirt in
high school; indeed, when she was in high school, she wore jeans
all the time, just as all the other girls and boys did in real
life and in this dream.  But Lisa was definitely wearing a knee
length green skirt.  Conservative, calm, she is stopped by a boy
she had dated.  Brad.

In her dream, Lisa knows that her skirt is very, very strange.
It's length . . . changes.  It changes when she is aroused.  The
more aroused she gets, the shorter the skirt gets.  As Lisa stands
by her locker, chatting with Brad, she is aware of her girlfriends
looking at her from across the hall.  They see her finger playing
with her hair as she chats with Brad, about homework, about the
dance coming up, about television.  And they giggle as they see
her skirt shrink.  They know why it's shrinking!  Lisa hears them
giggle and looks down: half her thighs are now visible.  Her legs
are naked - she is the only student not wearing jeans, showing off
her 15-year-old thighs.  They are soft and fair skinned and they
seem to glow, and Brad can see them too.  Lisa is blushing, and
with each blush the skirt goes higher, because she is aroused at
the thought of Brad seeing her legs.   She cannot make the skirt
stop shrinking, so she keeps talking to Brad as if nothing is
wrong.  Soon her butt cheeks will be poking out, and the giggling
will intensify.

Somehow, she finds herself in French class - and now she is
wearing a cheerleader's uniform.  When she will wake up later, she
will find the memory of this strange, since there were no
cheerleaders at her high school, and she certainly has never
donned a cheerleader's uniform in her life.  But it doesn't seem
strange in her dream.  It seems like she was supposed to be
wearing it, because the big game was that day, and all the
football players need to have their spirits lifted.  So she is
wearing the uniform, for the football players, who grunt at each
other and drool as they ogle her bare legs.  Her white and red
sweater is tight, showing off the shape of her perky teenage
breasts.  Her blonde hair is pulled back into two little pigtails
- has she ever worn her hair that way?  And of course her skirt
barely covers her legs.   If her green skirt shortened as much as
it did earlier, what will become of this very open garment?  And
she is still aroused, and it does make the skirt get shorter, and
shorter.  The desks in the room are arranged in a big circle; the
middle of the room is empty, and she can feel all the boys and
girls in the class, all wearing blue jeans and tee-shirts, looking
at her exposed legs.  She needs to stop her skirt from getting
shorter, or else it will vanish entirely.  She has to stop her
arousal.

She opens her legs, and hears a gasp from the boys across the
room.  Her hand slips between her thighs, to her extremely wet,
bright red cheerleader panties.  When she touches them, they
completely melt and drip down her leg, making a little puddle on
the floor by her feet.

At the thought of wearing such a short, shrinking skirt with no
panties at all, her arousal doubles, and the length of her skirt
shrinks correspondingly.  She must stop it!  She must get relief!
She starts stroking herself, rubbing her wet clit, as the boys and
girls all watch with open mouths.  The humiliation is
overwhelming, but oh the pleasure!

As her climax nears, her French teacher, Monsieur Brideaux, slaps
a ruler on the desk,

"Excusez-moi Mademoiselle!" he shouts.  But she cannot stop.  He
opens his mouth to speak again and says:  "Beeeeeeeep"

It is Lisa's alarm clock.  She wants to return to her dream.  What
was her teacher going to say?  She wants the orgasm - she needs to
stop her skirt from disappearing!  She slams on the snooze button
and falls quickly back asleep.

She is dreaming again, but she is no longer in French class.
She's at the mall, where all the kids are hanging out.  And she's
wearing her green skirt again, but this time she is wearing her
new stockings and garter.  And she hears her friends start to
giggle again.  Brad is there, looking at video game posters in a
store window.  She is trying to get his attention, "Brad?  Brad?
Do you want to fuck me?  Brad?"  But he is paying no attention.
As her friends' giggling gets louder, she realizes she is still
aroused.  She never got her orgasm in French class!  The alarm
clock had prevented it.  So her skirt is still shrinking!  "Brad!
I need you to fuck me now!"  But Brad has started playing a demo
of some game.  Her skirt is still rising.  It is now at the top of
her stockings.  "Please, Brad!  Hurry!!!"

"Hey Lisa," calls Samantha, one of the girls, "nice stockings!"
Her skirt is now two inches above her stocking tops, and she
cannot pull it back down.  There is simply not enough material any
more.  She tries to look nonchalant as her friends giggle, but she
knows everyone can see her naked thighs above her stockings.
Soon, her short skirt will expose her bare pussy.  The skirt rises
higher.  "Brad!  Fuck me now!!!"

Brad turns to her, annoyed, and says "Beeeeeeep."

Oh dammit, Lisa says.  She looks at her alarm clock.  She is going
to be late for work.

This is not the first time she has woken up from an erotic dream
with her right hand on her crotch, so wet her pajama pants are
soaked through leaving a small puddle on the sheets.  No, it
happened one month ago.  And probably a month before that.  This
is the time of the month when Lisa is at her horniest.

Of course, she remembers that last month she had no men in her
life, nothing sexual in her agenda, and so she lay in bed for
nearly an hour fingering herself to multiple orgasms.  As she
arrived at work, late and exhausted, she rationalized her guilt
and emptiness in a language of hormones and biological necessity.

This month was different though.  This month - this Monday of this
month - Lisa had an agenda for feeling better.  Yes.  She was
going to don a new skirt, Steve's stockings, a sexy top, and she
was going to march right up to Steve, fresh and on time, and
apologize for not following his orders on Friday.  She would make
it clear that she was still . . . available.  For she would be,
she drilled to herself: she will do what he asks; heck, what
/anyone/ asks, and she will not selfishly amuse herself, no.  This
time, she will not masturbate without permission.

Her morning shower almost made her late again.  She could not get
her mind off her dream.  Brad had never fucked her - neither in
her dream nor in real life.  Her college boyfriend, Eric; he was
the first, and as she recalls, the last, since she decided since
then that her own hand did better work than the only cock she ever
felt.  But she had a feeling that Steve would be different; and he
is clearly interested.  Lisa realizes as she has these thoughts
that she is again stroking herself under the spray of warm water.
She snaps back into focus and turns the water off.  I must be
fresh for Steve, she thinks.

A little wet from the shower, legs freshly shaved, she examines
her nude body in her mirror.  Her skin is fair - almost pale, but
very smooth and unblemished.  She notices that her nipples are
hard from her arousal.  She picks out a bra - as she did last
week, she chooses a white, lacy bra that adds a little lift and
covers her pointy nipples well.  She picks out panties: white,
simple, functional.  She then puts on her new garter belt and the
stockings Steve gave her, rolling them very carefully up her legs.
She looks at herself again in just her underwear; she looks sexy,
but still herself, she thinks.  Yes.  This is me - the new me.

Her spirits brighten when she pulls her new skirt out of the
closet.  To think, before a week ago she did not own a single
skirt; only two formal dresses.   But now she has a skirt that she
bought just for today, her third, and the excitement builds in her
as she considers what it means.   This is a skirt.  When I wear
it, I am making myself vulnerable.  Sexually vulnerable.  And at
least one man knows it, and today I am going to remind him.
Suddenly, an image comes to her mind of Steve with no pants and a
large, erect penis, nearly ready to plunge into her own very wet
slit.  She smiles as she pulls up her skirt.  She needs this.

This morning she pays more attention to her shirt than she usually
does, trying on several before choosing a thin, pale blue sweater.
It is sufficiently tight that the shape of her breasts is very
clear, and it shows off how thin her waist is.  It is a little
short, and the skirt is a little low on her hips, revealing about
an inch of flesh at her waist when her arms are raised, or behind
her.  Perfect, she thinks.  She notes how the outfit shows off the
curve of her hips and the fullness of her breasts.  She has never
felt this sexy - this attractive - in her entire life, and as she
drinks a quick mug of coffee, eats a cold bagel, slips on her work
shoes, and runs out the door, she thanks Joan again for allowing
her to look forward to her day.

Chapter 9: A New Skirt

The subway is a little more empty today, as she is running about
thirty minutes late.  Still, part of her hopes that the hand - her
hand - will somehow find her again today.   She knows the slit in
the back of her new brown skirt should make it easy for the hand
to find it's way to her bare thighs again.   As she stands in her
usual place on the train, she feels a scratching at her
nylon-covered leg.

"Oh!"  She involuntarily releases a small moan at the feeling,
knowing how good the hand will feel when it starts to rub her.

"Excuse me," mutters the businessman behind her.  She turns to
look and sees that the scratching was the corner of his notepad
sticking out of the top of his bag on the floor of the train.
There is no hand.

And in fact, Lisa looks more carefully and sees that this
businessman's notepad snagged her stockings enough to cause a
small run.  "Dammit!" she says, and then she stares at the
businessman, "Watch it, buddy!"

"I'm sorry," says the man, but then the train stops and he rushes
out.

As Lisa walks to her office, the run in her stockings keeps on
running, and by the time she reaches her cubicle she declares them
a lost cause.  As her computer boots, she walks to the bathroom,
enters a stall, and takes off her skirt.  She pulls the stockings
off her legs and removes the garter belt.  Dammit, she thinks, I
wanted to wear these for Steve when I apologized to him.  I hope
he understands.

Maybe, it occurs to her as she walks back to her cubicle,
stockings balled up in her right hand, legs bare, maybe he'll do
something to punish me again.  The thought wakes up her sex drive
again; she feels that spark of arousal and decides that she cannot
wait to apologize to Steve.  She changes course and walks directly
to his cubicle.

It's empty.  Maybe he's late, or getting coffee.

She walks back to her own cubicle and stuffs her stockings and
garters into her handbag.  She opens up her email program, and a
variety of messages arrive.  Most are business related, but two
are personal.  The first reads

Lisa -

I'm taking a sick day today.  Sudden cold.  I should be back
tomorrow.

- Steve

Damn, she thinks.  There goes her plan.  The second email reads

Dear Lisa,

I think we should talk about what happened on Friday, so that
things don't get weird between us.  Maybe we can meet for coffee
this morning?

Best, Cheryl

Oh great.  Lisa sinks into her chair and says aloud, "I hate
Mondays."

At about 11, Cheryl pokes her head into Lisa's cubicle and asks,
"Is now a good time to talk?"

Lisa, who had never bothered to reply to Cheryl's email,
hesitates, but then replies "Okay, Cheryl.  Let's see if there's a
conference room free."

Situated behind the (mostly) sound proof glass of conference room
#2, Cheryl and Lisa sit in silence at first, following a short
conversation about how warm the weather is becoming.  Lisa looks
at her bare thighs, slightly exposed by her new brown skirt, and
tries to remember the joyous anticipation she felt this morning at
the thought of giving herself to Steve.  A meeting with Cheryl to
talk about an obviously mutual embarrassment was /not/ in her plan
today.

Finally, Cheryl speaks up: "So, on Friday, after seeing what I
saw, at first I didn't think I should say anything, because what
you do is your own business, but then I thought about the fact
that I do need to work with you, and we have to work in an
environment in which we feel comfortable, and I think maybe you
should keep up the professional environment that all the rest of
us do, so that, you know . . . "

Cheryl pauses for a moment.  Lisa is speechless.

Cheryl has short red hair.  She is slightly short and plump, but
only slightly.  She is wearing beige slacks, tight black blouse,
and 3" heels.  A little bit of makeup makes her face seem girlish;
Lisa guesses, however, that Cheryl is about 5 years her elder.
Lisa remains silent as Cheryl catches her breath and starts again.

"That came out wrong.  Look, Lisa, if you think about it, what you
do in the public places of this office do affect those around you,
like me.  I have to admit I was a little annoyed at how you were
so blatantly flirting with Steve, . . . and the way you so coldly
rejected him, after all that.  You need to be a little nicer to
him, but most importantly you need to take this behavior out of
the office."

"Wait a second," says Lisa, "I never 'rejected' Steve.  I don't
think you understand."

"Lisa, as I see it, you made Steve think you were interested in
him; I saw you chatting with him at your cubicles and at lunch.  I
saw how you were dressing for him, with those short little skirts
and your breasts hanging out of your blouse.  And then on Friday
you clearly revealed, to me at least, that you were only doing it
for self amusement, as evidenced by your . . . displays at your
desk and in the restroom.  And everyone saw how curt you were with
Steve right before you stormed out of the building, not returning.
Jeez.  Steve must have been devastated.  It's no wonder he didn't
come in today."

"No, wait, Cheryl, you have it all wrong."

"Do I?  Well, feel free to correct me, then."

Lisa begins: "well, I was. . . " and then she pauses.  How can she
explain this?  How can she tell Cheryl about her skirt days, and
what they meant to her?  And if she does tell her, then Cheryl
will know her secret; she will know her vulnerability.  The
thought of this again causes a stirring below Lisa's waist.  She
crosses her legs, and her rising skirt reminds her of her dream.
I have to tell Cheryl the truth, she thinks, as she feels her
courage waning and her panties moistening.

"Okay, here it is," she begins.  "I was wearing those skirts
because Steve told me to.  See, I have this rule that whenever I
wear a skirt, I have to obey, so Steve was telling me stuff to do.
He bought me the skirt I wore on Thursday, and the stockings I
wore on Friday, and he made me wear them to work, even though I
thought they were too revealing.  And on Friday, he made me
unbutton my blouse before using the bathroom.  That's why I was
dressed like that.  And on Friday I rushed out because I started
to find the whole situation a little too embarrassing, after you
saw me, you know, touching myself.  So that's why I left."

Cheryl looks confused.  "I'm sorry - why are you doing whatever
Steve says?"

"It's because it's a skirt day.  It's because I'm wearing a skirt.
That's all.  It's because I want to, really."

Cheryl nods her head.  "I think I get it.  This is about the
position that's opening up.  The assistant director position.  And
the empty office.  I've seen the way Jim has been looking at you,
and I heard him talking about you at lunch.  You're probably
flirting with Jim to get the position, and playing your little
games with Steve in order to get a good employee recommendation
from him."

"No, Cheryl.  I wouldn't do that.  I would not use my body to get
ahead."

"I didn't think you would either, but how else can I understand
this sudden change in your behavior?"

"It's very simple, really, Cheryl.  I just wanted to feel . . .
vulnerable, so I decided that I would wear a skirt and be
vulnerable, and Steve took advantage.  It's no more complicated
than that.  It's not about the position.  Really."

Cheryl eyed Lisa suspiciously.  "If it's that simple, then you
should be doing what I tell you to do, too, right?"

"Well, sure, I guess.  I mean, within reason.  I'm not going to
give you all my money or anything, or take out your garbage, but
if you want me to rub your shoulders or something . . . it is NOT
about the position!"

"Lisa, stand up."  Cheryl spoke with conviction, but watched
Lisa's response inquisitively.  This is it, thinks Lisa.  My test.
She stands up.

"Close the blinds."  A little nervous, Lisa closes the vertical
blinds separating the conference room from the rest of the office.
The windows of the other wall remain open, offering a view of the
city from the 23rd floor.

"If that skirt means only what you say it does, then take off your
sweater."  Lisa feels a warmth in her crotch at the command.  She
looks into Cheryl's blue eyes as she pulls her sweater over her
head, revealing her lacy white bra.

"The bra too," adds Cheryl.  Lisa blushes, and unhooks the bra
from behind.  She puts it on top of her sweater on the conference
table.

Cheryl sits back in her chair and looks at Lisa's breasts.  "Very
nice," says Cheryl, "but not as nice as mine.  You skinny girls
have your drawbacks."  Lisa says nothing.  "Okay, you can put the
sweater back on now."

Lisa reaches for her bra.  "Leave that with me," says Cheryl.  "I
want to see those little nipples pointing through your sweater all
day.  If they soften up, give them a little pinch to wake them
up."

Lisa pulls the tight sweater over the breasts and indeed sees her
hard nipples clearly through the thin cotton.

"I guess I'm going to believe you," says Cheryl, "but I'm not too
sure what to think.  I'll get back to you."  Cheryl takes Lisa's
bra and stands up.  "I'll be checking on your nipples from time to
time, to see if you're really into this or if you're just making
up a story."

As Cheryl starts to leave, Lisa stops her, and before she has a
chance to think about it, blurts out, "Wait, Cheryl, there's one
more thing.  You see, when I wear this skirt, I also need
permission to, you know, masturbate.  I was going to ask Steve,
but he's out, and maybe he's mad at me, and I don't want anyone
else to know, and it's that time of the month when I'm really
horny, and so I wonder if you would just give me permission."
Lisa closes her eyes in embarrassment.  I can't believe I just
said that.

Cheryl smiles.  "We'll see," she says, as she walks out.

Lisa looks at her nipples again, still hard and very visible.
Right now, her urge to find a bathroom stall and pleasure herself
seems overwhelming, but she knows she cannot.  She straightens her
skirt, summons her courage, and walks back into the office.

Chapter 10:  A Little Help


Throughout that day, Lisa felt the eyes of the office on her
nipples, and did not find that she needed to, as Cheryl put it,
"give them a little pinch to wake them up."  No, they were quite
awake on their own, as well as the rest of her body.

At about 3:15pm, she found herself in the bathroom.  Sitting in
the stall, her panties and skirt at her knees, she noticed that
her finger was teasing her clit.  She pulled it away, but the
pleasure she so desperately needed drew it back.  The conversation
she had with Joan about getting permission seemed to make sense at
the time - and isn't that why Friday had gone so awry?  But she
had barely managed to get any work done at all that day, thinking
only about her naked legs, about her pointy nipples under her blue
sweater, about Steve tickling her thighs, and about the smile
Cheryl gave when she left the conference room.  And about her
pussy, which selfishly demanded attention.  Getting permission
seemed like a good idea, but maybe not this time of the month when
her hormones were telling her to find a man, now!

Then it occurs to her: Cheryl hadn't /denied/ her permission.
Maybe she could get permission from someone else!  Then she could
give her needy pussy the attention it craved and not feel guilty
about it!

She pulls up her panties and skirt and rushes to her cubicle, and
picks up her phone.  Who should she call?  Her first thought is
Steve, but then she thinks better of it and realizes that Joan
will surely give her permission.  Quickly she dials her
therapist's number.

The phone rings three times.  A recording comes on: "Hello, you
have reached the office of Joan Goldman.  I am with a patient
right now and have de-activated my phone.  However, I will be
happy to return your call as soon as I have a free moment.  If
this is an emergency, press pound at any time.  Otherwise, please
leave a message, including your telephone number.  Thank You."  As
the beep sounded, Lisa started to panic.  Is this an emergency?
What will Joan thinks when her session is interrupted by a request
to masturbate?  Should she leave a message?  What should she say?
And will someone in the next cubicle overhear her?  This is
hopeless, she thinks.  She hangs up.

The moment the phone hits the hook, it rings again.  Hopeful, Lisa
picks it up.  "Hello?"

"Lisa!  It's Jim.  I got a busy signal the first time I called.
Who were you calling?"

What should she say?   She can't tell her boss she was calling her
therapist!  Not if she wanted that promotion. "A client.
Roberts."

"Oh? I thought we were close to closing that account.  What was
the call about?"

Lisa feels like a schoolgirl in trouble.  She looks down at her
lap and thinks: you!  You got me into this!  It's time to be an
adult, she thinks.

"I'm sorry Jim, it wasn't Roberts.  It was a personal call I'd
rather not discuss."

There's a pause.

"Hey, no problem.  As long as it wasn't long distance."

"No sir, of course not."

"Listen, Lisa, I'm trying to set something up.  It could be a good
opportunity for you.  But I need to ask you a personal question.
Do you mind?"

Does Jim know something?  She responds, "Go ahead."

"Feel free not to answer.  I mean really.  There's no obligation
here."

"Go ahead and ask."  Lisa worries, but reminds herself: it's a
skirt day.  Jim is clearly uncertain, or covering himself against
sexual harassment, she thinks.  But he needn't worry.  She feels
the same suspense she remembered having on her first date.

"Okay: it's just this.  What, um, what dress size are you?"

Well, she knew it wouldn't be something she wrote on her resume.
Jim has something in mind . . . and although she's worried, she is
anxious to know what.

"What's this about, sir?" she asks.

"I'll tell you tomorrow, if I can get this set up.  But if I
can't, then it's better that you not know. "

She realizes she is playing with her hair.  "Well, I'm usually a
size 5, sometimes a 6, depending on the clothes."

"Okay, Lisa.  Thank you.  I'll call you in for a meeting tomorrow
afternoon if this works out, okay?"

"Okay, sir."  Jim hangs up, and then Lisa does too.




At 4:30 Cheryl came to her cubicle.  Her face was bright with a
smile.

"Lisa, listen, I'm sorry I was so cross with you earlier."

Lisa looked down at her sweater and made sure her nipples were
still perky.  Seeing that they were, she smiled back at Cheryl.

Cheryl continued, "You know, I've been thinking about what you
said, and I think I believe you.  Actually, I kind of want to give
you a little help."

"Help?  How?"

"Well . . .  hey, can you take off a little early today?  Maybe we
can get some drinks and perhaps dinner together."

Lisa realized that she was dying to leave work, and Cheryl's
friendly tone was alluring.  "Okay."

Soon Cheryl and Lisa were walking through the downtown streets
together.  Cheryl led Lisa into a parking garage, where her car, a
six-year-old luxury sedan, waited on the third floor.

"How can you afford to drive to work?" asked Lisa, "Parking is so
expensive around here."

"My husband gets two parking spots in this garage with his job."

"You're married?"

Cheryl smiled and showed off her engagement and wedding rings.
The diamond was so large and shiny, Lisa could hardly believe she
had never noticed it before.  "It has its advantages," she said.


The drive out of the city was not quick, as they caught the
beginnings of the rush hour traffic.  But they had plenty of time
to talk.

"I think I believe you that you're not dressing sexy to get the
promotion," said Cheryl, "although it was hard for me to believe
at first.  After all, I'm hoping to get the same position, as I'm
sure you know."

"I'm sure you'll get it, Cheryl.  You've been at the company
longer than me."

"I'm not so sure.  Since you've been here you've really shaken
things up.  We're all very impressed at the efficiency of your
department."

"Well, thank you," said Lisa.  "It's just a matter of hiring the
right people . . . and putting in the extra hours when they're
needed."

Cheryl smiled.  "We all know how often you're the last one out of
the office, Lisa.  How late do you work most of the time?"

"Well, usually until 7pm, depending on how hungry I am.  There's
always so much to do."

Cheryl laughed.  "See, this is why I don't think you're dressing
sexy to get the promotion.  You don't need to dress sexy.
Everyone knows you'll get it, despite my seniority."

Lisa tried to gauge Cheryl's emotions.  Was she bitter?  She
seemed perfectly friendly.

"But," continued Cheryl, "I'll bet you haven't got many friends."

Lisa thought for a moment.  "Well," she said, "My best friend is
Christie; she was my roommate in college.  Of course, she lives in
Denver now, but we see each other every now and then, when she
flies into town."

Cheryl glanced at Lisa, and then back at the road.

"And, well, there's . . . Joan."

"Who's Joan?"

"Joan's my therapist."

Cheryl laughed and put her right hand on Lisa's bare knee.  "Lisa,
since you've come here you've been like a drill sergeant.  You
bark orders at your employees and even your coworkers.  You never
come to any of the office's social functions, except to the very
first Christmas party when you were first hired.  As I recall,
that was the only time - until recently - that I ever saw you in
clothing that isn't described as 'stern corporate bland.'  But
still it was prudish as hell.  It's no wonder you haven't many
friends.  But that's nothing that can't be changed."

Lisa felt the warmth of Cheryl's hand on her knee, and it felt
good.

"I'm sorry, Cheryl; it just didn't seem important."

"Don't be sorry, Lisa.  The point is, it wouldn't make sense for
you to be dressing like you are to get a job.  It's just not you.
Of course, it's not you to dress like this anyway.  Do you often
go without a bra?"

Lisa looked down at her breasts and blushed, and then realized
that Cheryl was laughing.

"I doubt you have too much experience with men, either," said
Cheryl, gently squeezing Lisa's knee.  "I don't mean that in a bad
way.  I mean, clearly you aren't entirely inexperienced, but you
probably don't have as much time to date as you'd like."

Lisa listened carefully; as she knew Cheryl was right.

"I may have not fully understood what was going on between you and
Steve," Cheryl continued, "but nonetheless, you probably did hurt
him pretty badly.  I'll be surprised if he comes to work all
week."

"But he was so assertive.  I doubt he feels rejected.  He's bigger
than that."

"See," said Cheryl, "you /don't/ have too much experience with
men.  Steve's still wet behind the ears.  He's what, 22?  23?  But
don't worry.  I'll help you get him back."

Lisa wasn't sure how to react.  She read the license plate cover
of the car ahead of her.  "Jesus loves you," it said, "no matter
what."

Cheryl continued, "I think it's good what you're doing.  Good for
you.  And for the rest of us."

Lisa looked out the passenger window at billboards crawling by.
"Hey," she asked, "where are we going, anyway?"

Cheryl flipped on her right turn signal.  "To the mall," she said.
"I want to help you pick out the skirt you'll wear tomorrow."

    Chapter 11:   Cheryl's First Cliche


The mall was not very crowded on an early Monday evening, but a
few after-work shoppers and after-school hangers-out gave it a
healthy buzz.  Lisa followed Cheryl past the stores where she
might usually find her pant-suits, her simple blouses, her
conservative sweaters, and her simple cotton slacks, to a smaller
store featuring lots of black, pink, and denim.  The pop music
blaring in the background was neither Lisa's first nor her last
clue that this was not a store for the corporate woman.

"Uh, Cheryl," said Lisa, as Cheryl began flipping through a rack
of black skirts, "I think this store is more for the high school
crowd."

"Nonsense," said Cheryl. "I saw how good your legs looked under
that pleated black skirt.  But I thought you might look better in
something tighter."

Cheryl pulled out a black cotton skirt that looked like far too
little material for Lisa.  "This looks like it will fit you," she
said.  "Go try it on."

Lisa took the skirt into the dressing room.  She looked at the
label: "Hottie," it said, in pink bubble letters.
"Cotton/Polyester Blend."  "Small."   She pulled off her brown
skirt - her new brown skirt that came almost to her knees, she
recalled - and pulled the new skirt up her legs.  When it reached
her hips, she had to pull hard.  The material was stretchy, and
eventually she got the skirt to her waist.

Now she is looking at herself in the mirror, wondering what to do.
The skirt fits her body, she realizes, but does it fit Lisa?  Does
it fit the woman she thinks she is?  The hem hugs her thighs only
inches below her ass.  The material is so tight the outline of her
panties is visible.  She would never buy this skirt, not even for
a date.  But she knows that Cheryl, Cheryl who was so nice to her
in the car, is waiting for her.  She can't back out now, she
thinks.   But she can't leave the dressing room either.  Her skirt
leaves her legs entirely exposed, and lewdly shows off her small
but still very visible ass!   She sits down on the tiny bench in
the dressing room.  As she does so, her white panties come clearly
into view. "How is it?" Cheryl calls from the store.

"Um, I think it's too small."

"Let me see.  Let me in."  Lisa stands up and opens the door.

"See," says Lisa, showing her ass to Cheryl, "It's so tight it
shows the outline of my underwear."

"Oh," says Cheryl, "you're just wearing the wrong kind of
underwear.  Here, take off those panties."

Lisa looked at Cheryl and almost cried.  She felt her pussy
twitch. "You can't be serious."

"Take them off!  I want to see how the skirt looks on you without
that panty-line."

Lisa looked at herself in the mirror again, standing nearly a foot
taller than Cheryl beside her.  It will be okay, she thinks, and
turns away from the mirror, pulls up the skirt to her waist, and
pulls her white panties down to her ankles.  She pulls the skirt
back down as far as she can, but it won't go more than a few
inches past her nude pussy.

"There," says Cheryl, as Lisa looks over her shoulder at her rear
in the mirror, now free of a panty-line, "that looks much better.
This will be your skirt tomorrow."

"Cheryl, I can NOT wear this to work.  It is way too short.  And
tight.  Do you really think this is appropriate for the workplace?
Besides, I have a meeting with Jim tomorrow, and Steve is coming
back, and . . . "

Cheryl puts her finger on Lisa's lips.  "It's okay, Lisa.  It's
okay.  You felt this way when you first put on the skirt Steve
gave you, didn't you?  It wasn't that much longer than this one."

"Well, yes, but . . ."

"And how did that go?  Did the world end?  Were you kicked out of
work?  Did anyone laugh at you?"

"Well, no, but . . . "

"But what?"

"But this is different.  This is . . . scandalous."  Lisa can feel
the cool air of the store's air conditioning on her naked pussy.
She is getting wet again, very wet.  "Cheryl, I simply can't go to
work without . . . without . . . without panties."

Cheryl smiles.  "Is that what you're worried about?  Oh, don't you
worry; you can wear panties.  It's just these white ones won't
work."  Cheryl picks up Lisa's panties off the floor and puts them
in her purse.  "In fact, let's go find you a pair that /will/
work, right now."

Cheryl opens the door of the dressing room.  "Wait!" said Lisa,
"Can't I put on my other skirt first?"

"No," says Cheryl, "I rather like the one you're wearing.  Come
on, let's go pay for it and get you some panties, hm?"

Cheryl leads Lisa to the register, where she asks the salesgirl to
remove the tags from the skirt.  The salesgirl looks like she is
16 years old, wearing tight jeans and a pink tank top.  She looks
at Lisa and smiles.  She comes around the counter with a pair of
scissors and crouches in front of Lisa, putting a slightly sweaty
left hand on Lisa's left leg to steady herself.  She brings her
right hand to the bottom of the skirt, holding it against Lisa's
thigh as she cuts off the tag.  As she brings the tag back to the
counter and scans it, Lisa can still feel the warm spot on her
thigh where the girl's hand had been.  It is high - very close to
her crotch.

"Go ahead, Lisa," says Cheryl, "Pay her."


As they leave the store, Lisa becomes more and more aware of her
lack of undergarments.  Her black skirt rides up a little as she
walks, and she knows that nothing is protecting her modesty
underneath.  She can see that Cheryl is looking at her legs from
time to time, as are the men they pass who turn their heads in
clear indication that they are checking her out.  Some of them,
she thinks, might be looking at her breasts, which bounce around
unfettered beneath her tight blue sweater, her ever-present
nipples making it clear that there is nothing constraining them.

"There's a lingerie store just down this way," says Cheryl, "but
first . . . "

They stop in front of a ladies' shoe store.

"First, you need some better shoes to go with that skirt."

Lisa did think her work shoes looked a little off with this sexy
skirt.  But Cheryl's grin indicated something amiss . . .

"Surely, you know how this works," says Cheryl.  "I'll wait here.
You go in, and see if you can catch the eye of that salesman over
there.  That one.  The one with the green tie.  Yes.  Tell him
you're looking for a red shoe with a four inch heel.  If he asks
your size, tell him you aren't sure and ask him to measure your
foot.  Then let him put the shoe on for you."

Lisa could see where this was going.  Of course, this would have
to happen after buying the short, tight skirt, but before buying
the underwear.

"Cheryl," she says, "I don't think I can do this."

Cheryl puts her hand on her back.  "This is an old cliché, Lisa.
It's more than that.  It's a rite of passage.  All women do this,
at some point.  The salesman has gone through this a hundred
times.  It's your turn now.  Go."

Lisa closes her eyes for a moment, pulls down the hem of her skirt
again, and steps into the shoe store.  The salesman in a green tie
notices her immediately, approaches her, and asks, "Can I help you
Miss?  Something particular you're looking for?"

"Yes," she says, not making eye contact, "something red.  With a
four inch heel."   This store is even cooler than the last, and
Lisa feels it between her legs.  This man is going to see it, she
thinks.

"Ah, we have a couple choices in red.  What size?"

"Um, I'm not sure.  Can you measure for me?"

The salesman smiles and nods.  "Please, have a seat."

Lisa remembers how easily she could see her white panties when she
sat down in the dressing room.  Her white panties were now tucked
in Cheryl's purse.  Cheryl is standing at the window, as if window
shopping for shoes.  Cheryl holds the plastic bag with Lisa's
modest brown skirt inside.    Lisa thinks of walking out of the
store, but she is afraid to tell Cheryl that she can't do it.  All
women do this, Cheryl had said, right?

Lisa sits down on a leather seat.  She feels the cool, smooth
leather against her bare skin; there is nothing between her
nakedness and the chair.  She crosses her legs immediately as the
salesman goes into the back room.  Another salesman, by the
register, is clearly gazing at her legs.  The male half of a
shopping couple is looking over his shoulder every thirty seconds.
"All women do this," Lisa muttered to herself, not believing it
but wanting to very badly.  Her embarrassment heightens when she
realizes how wet she is, and feels her moisture starting to puddle
on the leather chair.

The salesman returns with a foot measuring device.  "Slip out of
your shoes and put your heel here."  Lisa finds it comforting that
he is giving orders, and finds it easy to follow them.  She does
not think much as she uncrosses her legs to bend over and take off
her shoes.  With her legs uncrossed, she suspects the salesman,
who is on one knee, can see her bare pussy.  As she puts her right
heel in the device, there is no doubt.

It takes a few seconds for the salesman to tear his gaze away from
under her skirt and look at the device.  He pushes some metal
pieces around and completes the measurement.  "You're an 8 1/2 ,
Miss.  Let me see what I have in your size."  He gets up and
rushes to the backroom.

The male shopper looks over desperately as the salesman gets up;
clearly he wants a glimpse himself.  Lisa quickly crosses her legs
again, causing her skirt to ride up to the very top of her thigh.

I have never felt so naked in my life, she thinks, as the salesman
returns, with a single box.  He kneels in front of her again.
"Let's try these."

Lisa uncrosses her legs, and her skirt has ridden up so high that
she can see some of her pubic hair past the hem.  She lifts
herself from the seat for a moment to tug down the skirt, but when
she gives her left leg to the salesman to slip on the shoe she
knows it was of little use.  His gaze remains fixed on her crotch,
and she knows she is completely exposed to him.  All women do
this, she thinks to herself.  This is an old cliché.  She looks at
Cheryl, who is watching her from the window.  Cheryl gives her a
thumbs up, which fills her with sudden happiness.  Why is Cheryl's
approval so important, Lisa wonders?  The salesman puts the right
shoe on as well, gently stroking her bare calf as he does so.
"Give them a try," she says.

She stands up, and gives her skirt yet another tug.  The salesman
is watching her.  The other salesman is watching her.  The couple
that had been shopping are now both sitting down, watching her.
And - she looks again to make sure - Cheryl is watching her.

She walks around the store.  She has never worn heels before, and
her walking is unsteady.  These heels seem so tall that she feels
unsafe about putting weight on them, but walking on her toes
doesn't seem right either.  She blushes.  She is doing this for
the very first time, and probably doing it wrong.  She is wearing
the shortest skirt she has ever seen, and her nipples are still
evident in her tight sweater, and it seems everyone is watching
her, wondering what she will do next.  She feels out of place, but
she knows she is putting on a show.  She looks back at the
salesman and smiles; he is kneeling by the chair, where she
notices she left behind a small puddle of moisture.  She turns
away, hoping no one else notices, but feels that her pussy is
still leaking its fluids.  She can feel them on her upper thighs,
and now she feels a drop starting to drip down.  Oh god, how I
wish I still had my panties.   She hopes that her audience will
not notice her juices dripping down her leg, past the hem of her
skirt; in order to not call attention to it, she does nothing
about it.

She looks in a mirror by the register.  Her legs look especially
long and sleek in the heels; the position forced on her calf
muscles gives them a shape that looks especially inviting.  Her
gaze moves up to her thigh, exposed by the short skirt.  She can
see the light reflecting off her inner thigh where it is moist.
She blushes and rushes back to her seat, almost tripping in the
heels.

She sits on the seat, and feels that it is still wet.  "Okay,
they're okay, I'll take them," she stammers as she pulls them off.
"Ring them up.  I'll take them."

"Well, hold on, Miss," says the salesman, "I have another pair
that you should try as well.  Hold on just a minute."  Lisa
watches as the man adjusts his pants, stands up, and runs to the
back room.

Cheryl comes into the shoe store and sits next to Lisa.  Lisa is
almost in tears, and Cheryl hugs her.  "Okay, Lisa, Okay." says
Cheryl, "I believe you now.  I still had my doubts, but now I
really believe you."

Lisa looks into Cheryl's eyes.  "All women do this?"

"Well, most women wear panties when they do this."

"You did this?"

Cheryl smiles.  "Maybe I got married too soon.  I never did.  But
I wish I had.   How do you feel?"

Lisa looks down at her legs.  "Exposed."

"Yeah, but you're not the only one," says Cheryl.  "Did you see
the salesguy?"

"Huh?"

"He had a tent in his pants big enough for a three ring circus.
He's probably jacking off in the back room right now."

Lisa blushes.  "No, he's getting me more shoes."

"Sure he is," says Cheryl.  "Sure he is.  I think this first pair
looks great on you.  Why don't you put them back on and we'll pay
for them.  They don't match your shirt, but they look better than
your old ones.  Then we'll get you some panties, and then a couple
drinks, hmm?"

"Okay."  Lisa slips the red shoes back on as Cheryl puts her old
ones in the box.   They walk to the register, Lisa still unsteady,
just as the salesman rushes out of the backroom, out of breath.

"I have the other pair, Miss."

Cheryl interjects:  "That's okay, she'll take the first pair,
thank you."  Lisa is glad Cheryl is taking over.  "This one's on
me," says Cheryl, as she takes a credit card out of her purse, "a
present."

"Thank you," says Lisa.  As the salesman scans the card, Cheryl
asks, "So, how often does this happen?"

"What?" asks the salesman.

"You know, how often do women come in here and let you look up
their skirts?"

The salesman blushes, and Lisa looks desperately at Cheryl.  "Oh
come on," says Cheryl, "to whom was this a secret?"

Lisa looks at the salesman, making eye contact for the first time.
He looks at Lisa and then at Cheryl and then down at the counter
and says, "Oh, it happens about once a week, but none are as
pretty as yours."

Chapter 12:  Hangover

The alarm clock sounds like an air siren when Lisa wakes up.   She
has a throbbing headache and her stomach is queasy.   As she wipes
the sleep from her eyes and desperately fights the temptation to
stay in bed, she tries to remember what day it is. After a few
minutes of thinking, she realizes it is Tuesday.  Oh goodness.
Tuesday morning, nowhere close to the weekend.  She needs to get
to work!

As she pulls off her pajamas and prepares her shower, she tries to
remember what happened last night.  Why is she so hungover?  She
remembers having a couple of shots of Vodka - Cheryl's suggestion.

Oh yes, Cheryl.  She did this.  She took Lisa out on a Monday
night and got her drunk.  As Lisa stands beneath the warm water,
eyes closed, head aching, she tries to piece together what
happened last night.  She remembers the conversation in the car
(Cheryl really seemed like she was going to be a good friend); she
remembers buying a new skirt (I guess I have to wear that today);
and she remembers . . . the shoe store.  Oh my god, the shoe
store!  Lisa covers her bare pussy in the shower, as she remembers
being so naked.

She snaps out of her reverie.  Must shampoo hair!  Must wash body!
Must get dressed!  Must get coffee!  Must get to work!

She hasn't had a hangover like this since she played a drinking
game in college with a party of girls from her dorm.  Even then
she only had vague memories of what happened during that drinking
game so long ago; she remembers a pair of dice, some complicated
rules, 4 or 5 giggling girls, and having to drink shots of Tequila
whenever she rolled a 6 or an 8.  She remembers something about a
telephone; something else about an envelope.  But the alcohol had
blocked her memory then, and she never spoke of the evening with
those girls afterwards.  She has only kept in touch with one of
them.  Christie.  She should call Christie sometime.  It's too bad
she lives so far away now.

Lisa puts on her bathrobe and goes immediately to the kitchen to
make some coffee.  Her head is pounding and she is not sure
whether breakfast will make her feel better or worse.

Returning to her bedroom, she looks around for some clothes.  On
her dresser, she sees her new black skirt next to multiple bags.

She takes off the robe and pulls on the black skirt first.  After
pulling it past her hips, she is again surprised by how short it
is.  So much of her thighs are visible!  Wearing the skirt reminds
her again of the shoe store, and how much the salesman must have
seen when he held her calf and slipped on her shoes.  What did he
think of her?  Why did he think she was wearing so short a skirt?
And coverless otherwise?  As she remembers it, she starts to feel
aroused.  She feels her bare breasts as she looks at her legs and
skirt in her mirror.  I'm going to wear this to work today, she
thinks.  This tiny skirt will be all that covers me!

The thought of going to work without panties occurs to her and
sends a sudden jolt of pleasure to her crotch, but she quickly
reconsiders.  A stranger in a shoe store is one thing, she thinks,
but how humiliating would it be if her colleagues saw her
unclothed pussy?  No, no, no.  I need panties.

Then she starts to remember.  Last night, after buying her shoes,
Cheryl took her to a lingerie store.  Lisa had never been in a
store specializing in underwear before.  The mannequins wore sexy
transparent garments, some of which Lisa did not even know the
names for.  Lisa blushed to be shopping in a place so devoted to
sex.  But her own sex was uncovered and dripping wet, and the
thought of having panties to protect her made her find the courage
to follow Cheryl in.

Lisa remembers having trouble walking in her new red shoes.  The
heels really seemed quite high, and Lisa noted how effortlessly
Cheryl walked in heels (although Cheryl's looked to be a good inch
shorter).   Lisa was mostly concentrating on walking when Cheryl
held up a very tiny piece of red fabric.

"What do you think?" asked Cheryl.  "Do they match the shoes?"
Cheryl squatted down and held the fabric against the shoes.  Lisa
thought about how much of herself would have been exposed if she
had squatted down like that.  It occurred to her that Cheryl could
have made her do so!  "They look like a pretty good match to me.
I think we've found you some panties!"  Cheryl stood back up and
handed the garment to Lisa.  Lisa held it up.  It was just a silk
triangle of red fabric and three strings connected in the back.

"These are barely panties!" said Lisa.

"These won't show under that tight skirt," said Cheryl.  "Trust
me, they're what you need."

Lisa had never worn a thong.  She imagined how uncomfortable a
string between her butt cheeks would feel if worn all day long.

She remembers that she thought then that she should forget the
whole deal and tell Cheryl she couldn't wear this.  But she knew
Cheryl would ask "Why not?"  Not knowing the answer, she stayed
quiet.

"And to match," said Cheryl, holding up a simple red silk cami
hemmed with lace.  "You'll wear this instead of a bra, with a
white blouse."

Lisa was reminded of her lack of bra.  She looked down at her blue
sweater and saw that her nipples were still visible.

"Okay," said Lisa, suddenly noting that the salesgirl was watching
her underwear being picked out by another woman, "can we just get
out of here?"

Now Lisa reaches into the bag from that store and pulls out the
red silk thong.  She had wanted to wear it after buying it in the
store, but Cheryl had told her not to get it dirty.  Lisa slips it
up her legs; she pulls up her skirt and slips the silk up.  The
panty fits snugly.  She notes a few stray hairs that the small
silk front does not contain.

Lisa thinks: someone might see up my skirt today.  This skirt is
so short, I probably can't avoid it!  The thought terrifies her
but the arousal she feels tells her that she will - she must - go
through with it.  But if someone does see her, she thinks, it
won't do to have these stray hairs!  She finds a small pair of
scissors and, skirt pulled to her waist, panties pushed aside,
spends a few minutes trimming what she can.  "I can't believe I'm
trimming my pubic hair to prepare for work," she says aloud.

After suitably containing herself, she pulls the skirt down.  She
turns around.  The skirt hugs her bare ass.  She feels the silk
string between her butt cheeks; it feels very naughty.  But she
can see no evidence of her underwear behind the tight skirt,
unlike at the store.

She goes back to the bag and finds the red silk cami that Cheryl
had instructed her to wear in place of her usual white bra.  She
slips it on.  The silk feels soft and light against her skin, and
this cami hangs fairly loosely on her.  It is no substitute for a
bra, she thinks.  Most notably, her nipples harden at the
luxurious feeling of the soft silk, like little
pebbles, blatantly visible through the red garment.  She finds a
white blouse in her closet and puts it on, buttoning all buttons
but the collar.  The red cami is only barely visible beneath the
shirt, but the shape of her nipples is still quite obvious.

Finally, Lisa puts on the red shoes that she found next to the
door.  She had worn them all last night, and was never certain
whether her difficulty walking was due to the 4 inch heels or the
alcohol.

She remembers starting to get the hang of walking as she followed
Cheryl from the lingerie store to a restaurant in the same mall.
It must have been 8pm by then, and Lisa remembers being starving.
The popular and bustling restaurant had no tables immediately
available, though, so Cheryl and Lisa waited at the bar.  That was
when Cheryl ordered 3 shots of Vodka.  "One for me and two for
you," she said.  "I will have to drive you home later."

Lisa was not usually one to drink hard alcohol, especially not
straight, but after feeling so humiliated at the shoe store she
thought the drinks might calm her, so she downed the shots, one
after the other.   With her empty stomach and nervous mood, the
alcohol went straight to her head.

Lisa only vaguely remembers the ensuing events.  She remembers
being at the bar for a bit longer.  She remembers that the bar
stools were rather high, and the unpadded stools felt cool against
her nakedness.  She was still wearing that tiny little skirt and
nothing else.

She vaguely remembers Cheryl's hand on her thigh, gently stroking,
as she whispered into her ear.  "You are hot tonight," she thinks
she remembers hearing, although it seemed to make more sense then.
What else?  "Men are checking you out.  They know what you want."
Lisa isn't sure now whether Cheryl actually said these things, or
whether she had just been thinking them.  "I know how aroused you
are.  I can /smell/ it.  It's your wetness.  Your nectar and your
pheromones, leaking out of you.  You smell like you need it.
Everyone in here can smell it."

Maybe I dreamed all that, thinks Lisa.  Her memory of the bar has
become so clouded; she tries to imagine herself there in this
skirt and these shoes and it doesn't seem like something she would
do.  The high heels seem to put her naked legs on a stage; they
seem to make an exhibit of her bare calves and thighs uncovered by
the tiny miniskirt.  "I can't go to work like this," she says to
herself.  She has worn short skirts to work before, but the high
heels add more to her appearance than she could have imagined.

She sits on her bed and considers her options.  She could put on
her favorite pair of black slacks - how comfortably would they
clothe her legs and hide all that flesh from her coworkers.  She
wouldn't have to worry about what people could see when she sat
down.  She walks to her closet and finds the slacks hanging there.
She runs her hand across the material and then thinks: no.  Cheryl
told me to wear this skirt.  If I ignore /this/ instruction, then
I am not doing what she says.  And if I am not obeying, then my
previous behavior must have been my own choice.  Including
exposing herself to the shoe salesman.  No, that was not me,
thinks Lisa.  Cheryl wanted that.  I am proving something here.  I
will wear the outfit she asked.

Having made the decision, Lisa looks at herself in the mirror.  So
much legflesh appears before her!  Her head is still aching from
her hangover, and she is again running late for work.  And most of
all, she realizes, she wants nothing more than to return to bed,
tear her skimpy red panties off, and give her the orgasm she has
been craving for days.

"All right," she says to the mirror.  "I've done this before.  I
can do it again.  I'll wear the skirt.  But I'll wear pantyhose,
in order to stay looking professional."

And that decision was enough to allow her to finish dressing and
to propel herself out the door, through the streets, and into the
subway.

Even that short walk in her new heels, coupled with her aching
muscles and throbbing head, makes her seek a seat in the still
crowded subway.  Only one seat is available, next to a younger man
in a navy blue business suit.

She smiles at him as she sits down, and sees that he is looking at
where the short hem of her tight miniskirt meets her nylon-clad
legs.  She suspects that he is tempted to rest his hand on her
thighs and feel the smooth nylon.  Or maybe she just wants him to.
A skirt day, she thinks.  This man can do what he likes.  She
knows he is not going to touch her, but the knowledge that she is
not going to stop him gives her a familiar thrill that awakens her
desires and makes her forget her headache for the rest of the
subway ride.  And indeed, the young man politely keeps to himself,
even as Lisa starts rubbing her own thighs while her thoughts
begin to distract her.

By the time Lisa reaches the elevator to her office, she realizes
that the thought of her coworkers seeing her in these high red
heels and a skirt that hugs her figure and then stops so abruptly
is making her anxious and very, very horny.  She remembers that
she needs permission to masturbate, and she decides she has to ask
Cheryl again.  It would feel so good right now, she thinks.

Walking down the halls from the elevator to the cubicle, she can
see the men of her office turn their heads.  The heels have
changed her gait, making it into more of a hip-shaking strut.
They make it seem as if she is showing off her body in this
provocative outfit.  What must they think of me?

Then she notices another effect she had not considered: this skirt
rides up, and much more so against the nylon of her pantyhose than
it ever had against bare legs.  Knowing that her office is looking
at her, she finds she needs to tug down her skirt every few steps.

Finally in the safety of her cubicle, Lisa sits down and tugs at
the hem of her skirt a final time.

Her morning email check yielded another message from Steve:

    Lisa -

    Can't seem to shake this cold.
    I'm sure I'll be good to work tomorrow.
    Let me know by email if there's any way I can help from
    home.

    - S

Lisa realizes she was hoping Steve would see her new outfit.
Would Steve comment on the scandalously short skirt and the bright
red heels?  She remembers what Cheryl said: Steve is not sick;
he's sulking.  That's ridiculous, thinks Lisa, and she is about to
write an email apologizing to him when Cheryl sneaks her head into
Lisa's cubicle.

"Good morning!  Did you sleep well?"

Cheryl is wearing black pants and a burgundy blouse.  She looks
elegant and professional.

Lisa tugs at her skirt again before swivelling her chair to face
Cheryl.   "I . . . think so."

"You think so?"

"Actually, Cheryl, I don't really remember what happened last
night."

Cheryl smiles and offers her hand to Lisa.  "You look a little
hungover.  No surprise, after how many drinks you had last night.
Come on, come with me to the bathroom, I'll help you hide the
evidence."

Lisa takes Cheryl's hand and follows her lead to the women's
bathroom, periodically tugging the hem of her skirt.

Both women are standing by the mirror.  Cheryl takes some make-up
out of her purse.

"You need to learn some make-up tricks," says Cheryl, as she
starts her work, first on Lisa's eyes.  "You'd do better with a
bit more, generally, but on morning's like this it's the only way
to hide the evidence of your partying last night!"

"What happened last night?" asks Lisa as Cheryl continued to
work, "I really don't remember anything after you ordered those
shots of vodka."

"You don't remember Joe and Joe?"

Lisa had forgotten, but the names Joe and Joe made her remember.
"Oh, right, they offered to buy us drinks.  I remember that.  Two
guys, both named Joe."

"They saw your cute little skirt and closed in like wolves, those
two," says Cheryl as she continues to work on Lisa's make-up.  "I
think the first Joe, the big one, wanted to get better acquainted
with your bare legs, and the second couldn't take his eyes off
your nipples."

"It was so funny how they were both named Joe," says Lisa.  "They
wouldn't listen when I told them I had had enough to drink."

"Hey, they were paying, so don't complain.  They bought us dinner,
too."

Lisa tries to remember, but only vaguely remembered eating.

"There," says Cheryl, looking in the mirror.  Lisa looks at her
own face.  Her eyes are carefully outlined, her cheeks a little
redder.  She did look less hungover, she thinks, but also more . .
. womanly.

"Um, thanks," says Lisa.

"Do you have any meetings today?" asks Cheryl as she starts to
unbutton the top buttons of Lisa's blouse.

"What are you doing?" asks Lisa.

"I didn't buy that you pretty red cami to be hidden.  It matches
your shoes and your panties.  It's bad enough you've hidden your
panties behind those dark pantyhose.  You need something to go
with your shoes."

Lisa sees in the mirror that Cheryl unbuttoned enough buttons to
reveal the red lace of the cami beneath her blouse.

"Now," continues Cheryl, "do you have any meetings today?"

"Um, one, I think.  With Jim."

"Ah, Jim.  More ass-kissing for the promotion, I guess?"

"No!  Not at all!"  Lisa looks into Cheryl's eyes.  "He called
this meeting.  I don't know why.  I thought you said you believed
me - anyway you should believe me.  I'm not doing anything but my
normal work to get that promotion."

Cheryl finishes straightening Lisa's blouse.  "Oh, you're probably
right.  You're just wearing this sexy outfit because I told you
to, right?"

"Of course!  I wore exactly what you said!"

"Well, not exactly.  These pantyhose were not part of the outfit."

"But, don't you think bare legs would have been too
unprofessional?"

Cheryl looks at Lisa's legs and sighs.  "I'll tell you what," she
says, "Jim is the boss.  It's his opinion that counts.  Here's
what I want you to do.  You can wear your hose while you work at
your cubicle, but right before your meeting with Jim I want you to
take them off and leave them with me.  Then, in your meeting, you
can ask Jim whether you think your attire is suitable for the
office or not.  If he says it isn't, I'll give you back the
pantyhose and you can wear them for the rest of the day.  If he
approves of your bare legs, though, then I'll just keep them, and
you shouldn't ever have to wear them again."

"But . . . "

"But what?"  Cheryl steps closer to Lisa and puts one finger on
Lisa's lips.  Her other hand reaches down to Lisa's ass, tightly
encased in the black miniskirt.  She lightly touches Lisa's right
butt cheek, sending shivers up Lisa's body.  The feeling of
Cheryl's hand there, almost a tickle, is awakening her desire.
"Do as I say," whispers Cheryl, "and later on, I'll give you that
permission you wanted.  I haven't forgotten your request."

Cheryl's hand and the promise of a masturbatory orgasm almost
makes Lisa moan.  Certainly she could think of nothing to say, and
only nods her head.

Chapter 13:  Opportunity Knocks

That is why, when Jim called Lisa's cubicle at 2 o'clock, she told
him she needed fifteen minutes to finish something up.  During
those fifteen minutes, she goes to the bathroom and removes her
pantyhose.

Looking at herself in the mirror reminds her of why she had chosen
to wear the nylons in the first place.  Her tiny miniskirt really
only barely comes a few inches past the juncture of her thighs,
and with her red high heeled pumps, her legs are very obviously on
display.  Her blouse is unbuttoned to reveal her lacy cami.
Looking at herself in the mirror reminds her of last Friday.  She
remembers seeing herself in the mirror then, just as now, thinking
how sexual she looked.  Indeed, her professional stature, her
intellect, her bossy personality - none of that is visible.  All
she sees is something sexual; something that desires pleasure. She
remembers sneaking her hand under her skirt and giving herself
that pleasure last Friday.  She remembers how good it felt.

But then she remembers Cheryl interrupting her, and how guilty she
felt.  Not this time, she thinks.  She fights the temptation to
touch herself.  She tugs down her skirt and marches straight to
Cheryl's cubicle.

When she looks in on Cheryl, she sees that she is in a meeting
with Art, another colleague.  Cheryl sees Lisa.  "Lisa, you have
something for me?"

Lisa's pantyhose are balled up in her hands.  Art is staring at
her; at her blushing face, her silky underwear, at her exposed
legs.  "Yeah, um, I'll just get it to you later."

"Nonsense," says Cheryl, "give them to me now."

Unsure, Lisa hands the balled up nylons to Cheryl, who makes no
effort to hide their identity to Art.  "Have a good meeting."

Lisa rushes away as fast as she can in her heels, not waiting to
see Art's reaction.  She feels humiliated, but she remembers
Cheryl's promise: soon she will get to give herself the pleasure
she's been longing for all day.

She knocks timidly on Jim's door.  "Come in."

She enters the spacious office and sees that Jim is seated at his
art-deco desk.  On that desk is a pair of white cardboard boxes.
"Have a seat," he says.

Lisa looks at the low armchair facing Jim's desk.  With her
pantyhose gone, sitting in this skirt seems indecent.  But she
thinks of no other choice and sits.  She feels her bare ass on its
leather.

"Red!" says Jim.

"What?"

"Your . . . shoes.  I mean.  Your shoes.  Red.  I like your red
shoes."

Lisa blushes.  He must mean my panties. She rests her hands at her
crotch to try to hide them.  An awkward silence ensues.

"Thanks.  About the shoes, I mean."  She thinks for a second,
remembering what Cheryl asked her to do.  "Do you think the heels
are too high for the office?"

"Not at all," says Jim.  "High heels give you more authority, I
think.  They are very professional."

"Sure," says Lisa, "but what about bare legs?   Don't you think my
bare legs and short miniskirt are a little bit unprofessional?  I
shouldn't have worn this today.  Let me apologize . . ."

"Nonsense," says Jim.  "Just like I told you last week, I have no
problem with bare legs; in fact I like your attire."

"Yes but surely bare legs are simply too casual and too
unprofessional for the office?  Would you want me to meet a client
like this?"

Jim smiled.  "We have no dress code here, Lisa.  You can wear what
you want to wear - including when you meet with clients.  Looking
at your reports, whatever you're doing is clearly working, so wear
whatever you want."

"But sir, I . . . "

"Call me Jim.  And really, don't worry about it.  Yes, your skirt
is a little shorter than the norm, but it looks good on you.  Wear
it whenever you want."

Lisa slumps into the chair, defeated.  Jim was not going to save
her.

"However," says Jim, "this leads me to the reason I wanted to talk
to you."

Lisa absentmindedly crosses her legs, and the skirt rides up
revealing most of her ass.  She uncrosses and tugs her skirt back
down again.  She sees that Jim's gaze is directly at her crotch.

"I, um," Jim stammers, "I want you to get the assistant director
position.  I want the promotion to go to you."

"I'm glad to hear it, sir," says Lisa.

"I told you to call me Jim.  Now, my opinion is important, but
unfortunately it's not entirely up to me.  The other directors
have a say, too, and they are inclined to choose someone with more
seniority than you, like George or Cheryl."

"Well, sir, I would understand if . . . "

"Nonsense.  We both know you're more qualified than either of
them.  The other directors have seen your reports but they haven't
met you in person.  That's what I want to change.  I want there to
be a meeting before they decide."

"When are they going to decide?"

"Monday morning.  And, unfortunately, I couldn't think of a
business-related opportunity for such a meeting.  But I did think
of one thing . . ."

Lisa is nervous and excited.  She has been working hard for this
promotion.

"Golf," says Jim.

"Golf?"

"Golf."

Lisa looks confused.  Golf?

"On Friday mornings, me and a couple of the directors meet to play
golf up north.  It's the only chance for you to meet these guys.
I want you to come with us."

"But I don't play golf."

"That's okay.  You can be my caddy."

"Caddy?"

"Look, it's not important.  All that is important is that you're
there, and that you talk to the directors and show them that
you're not too young for the job."

Lisa looks confused, but she says, "Okay, Jim, I'll go golfing
with you."

"Great.  But, there's one thing . . . I hate to mention it, but I
thought it might be an issue.  See, this office has no dress code,
but the golf club does.  And you couldn't go dressed like . . .
that."

Lisa feels blood rush to her face and to her crotch.  "No, sir, of
course not, I wouldn't.  I mean, I only . . . "

"Lisa, don't worry.  I told you I think you look fine.  It's just
the golf club that's a little stuck up.  That's why I bought you
these."  He pushes the white boxes towards her.  "I didn't want
you to feel out of place, so I bought you some clothes to wear.
You'll look like you golf every other day in these."

Lisa opens up the first box and sees a white and green golf shirt.

"They should be your size," says Jim.  "Meet me at the office at
6am and we'll drive together to the course."

Lisa thanks him, still flustered.  She takes the boxes, and
leaves.

Cheryl is waiting outside the door.  "Well?" she asks, as the two
women walk back towards her cubicle.

Lisa stands several inches taller than Cheryl, especially in her
high heels, but the heels, her tiny skirt, and unbuttoned blouse
in contrast to Cheryl's simple elegance makes her feel vulnerable
to Cheryl's judgment.  "He thinks my bare legs are okay," says
Lisa.

"Well, then, that's it.  There's no need for you to ever wear
pantyhose again."

Lisa feels a new wetness in her crotch.  She feels the air
currents beneath her tiny skirt; her skimpy silk panties provide
almost no protection.  And now she is forbidden the protection of
her pantyhose!

"What else did he say?" asks Cheryl.

"He . . . he wants me to go golfing on Friday.  He asked me to go
golfing with him."

"He invited you to Friday golf?"  Cheryl is silent for a moment.
"Interesting.  Very interesting.  Oh, I have a great idea.  Are
you leaving from here?"

"Yeah, I guess.  6am."

"Great.  I want you to come a little early - say 5:30.  I might
have some advice for you."

"Advice?"  Lisa looks worriedly at Cheryl.

"Oh, and see if you can wear a skirt that day.  I want that day to
be another skirt day."

"Actually, he bought me some clothes to wear.  It's probably a
pair of shorts."

"Probably?"

At this point the women have reached Lisa's cubicle.  "I think
so," says Lisa, but to make sure she opens the second box.  She
pulls out the white cotton garment.

It is a skirt.  Pleated.  She holds the skirt against herself and
sees that it comes nearly to her knees.  She looks at the tag:
"Bob's Golf World.  $218."

"Oh my god," says Lisa, "it's over two hundred dollars!"

Cheryl grins.  "I always suspected Jim was a . . . well, he's a
good guy.  What a nice gift.  A golf skirt.  So, it looks like
Friday will be another skirt day.  I'll see you at 5:30."  And
Cheryl walks away.

    Chapter 14: Permission

Lisa has a bad feeling about Friday.  Her feelings on Cheryl are
mixed.  Cheryl seems so nice, but she worries that Cheryl is going
to make her humiliation worse and worse.  She wishes she had never
told Cheryl about her skirt day promise.

And yet, Lisa finds herself checking her email, hoping that Cheryl
will send her a message.  She rubs her bare thighs, feeling the
soft flesh close to her red panties.  The thought of what Cheryl
has in mind on Friday makes her nervous, but then she thinks about
meeting the directors of her corporation in a skirt, knowing that
she has to obey.   Her pussy moistens and beckons her to touch
herself.  She looks over her shoulder to make sure no one can see
her and starts to touch the red silk of her panties.  The material
is so soft, and the combined feeling of the soft silk and her own
wetness against her lips sends warm waves of pleasure through the
rest of her body.  She rubs the silk top behind her blouse,
feeling her nipples.  They are very sensitive, and she pinches
them through the silk.

Usually, this time of the month she masturbates at least twice a
day.  Ever since she started taking her birth control pill, in
college, her hormones have driven her mad at this part of her
cycle.  But now, she has promised not to pleasure herself without
permission.  She remembers that Cheryl said she would give
permission!  She looks up Cheryl's number and calls her.

"Cheryl here."

"Cheryl, it's Lisa.  You told me earlier, in the bathroom, that if
I did what you said you would give me permission to . . . you
know."

"I really love it how you ask.  So shy.  Remember when you asked
last night?"

"Last night?  No, I don't really remember.  I asked last night?"

"Oh, you were so drunk last night.  Joe and Joe were having a
great time.  You don't remember sitting between them at the
table?"

"Oh, I'm starting to remember."  Cheryl's words made Lisa recall
the scene.  They were in a booth in the restaurant.  Lisa was in
the middle, and Joe was sitting to her left.  His larger friend,
also named Joe, sat to her right.  And Joe the larger had started
feeling her bare leg.  Lisa could barely complete a sentence at
that point in the evening.  But Joe's hand was warm and she
remembers thinking that it would feel good on her bare pussy.  So
she opened her legs a little for him, but this bumped Joe, the
smaller, in the knee.  When he saw what was going on, he put his
own hand on her leg.

This hardly seemed real to Lisa now.  She had just met these two
men; they had bought her several drinks at the bar, and then all
that wine with dinner, and now their hands were on her bare
thighs.  She thinks she would have crossed her legs and clamped
them shut, but she knows she didn't.  No.  She opened them, just a
little.

Big Joe's hand was about midway up her thigh, and little Joe's
hand was only inside her knee.  But little Joe slid his hand
upwards until he collided with big Joe's hand, which caused Big
Joe to slide his hand higher.   Lisa looked at Cheryl, who sat
opposite her, in a chair on the other side of the booth.  Cheryl
had a knowing smile on her face.

"So," Lisa had said, trying to break the silence, "What kind of
work are you two boys into?"

The larger one said, "I sell computer equipment."  He slid his
hand to the hem of Lisa's skirt, mere inches from her naked pussy.
"Joe is a high school teacher."

"Really?" said Lisa, turning to the smaller Joe, but the feel of
big Joe's hand against her upper thigh was driving her crazy.  She
wanted to feel his hand on her pussy.  She knew it would be enough
to make her come, and with the alcohol, she didn't care who saw.
She needed to feel it, and knew she would.

"Lisa, are you still there?" says Cheryl, over the phone.  Lisa
had been silent as she tried to remember what had happened the
previous evening.  Her memory again starts to fade.

"Yeah, I'm still here.  I'm still having trouble remembering what
happened last night.  Did Joe, you know, the bigger one, did he .
. . touch me in that restaurant?"

"You really don't remember, do you?  You were pretty wasted.
Don't worry.  I thought you'd regret having an orgasm in so public
a place, so I made him stop."

"You did?"

"Oh, he was touching you alright!  It was pretty obvious.  You
probably weren't aware of how much you were moaning and writhing
around.  The couple at the next table were having a ball watching
you.  They knew what was happening too!"

Lisa felt her entire body blush.  The thought of all those people
watching her being fondled in a public restaurant . . .

"But you made him stop?"

"That's right.  You were about to come, and I told him to cut it
out or he'd regret it.  He got pretty nervous.  You don't remember
any of this?"

"Only a little.  I . . . I remember him touching me.  His hand was
warm and, well, he knew what he was doing.  I was so wet, and his
fingers had found my . . . oh my god, Cheryl, we should /not/ be
talking about this in the office."

"Relax, no one can hear.   Yeah, he was pretty nervous when I made
him stop.  But then you were just adorable.  You looked at me with
little puppy dog eyes and mouthed the word 'please.'  You looked
so desperate!"

"I didn't!" exclaims Lisa.

"Oh, you definitely did.  I could see you squirm when Joe's hands
- and the other Joe's hands -- returned to the table.  Big Joe had
to clean off his fingers with his napkin!  It was a riot!"

Lisa wants to hide, she feels so ashamed.  And yet, she can feel
that she is very, very wet.

"Cheryl, can I do it now?"

"Not just yet, Lisa.  You probably have lots of work to do, and
besides, you don't want to get caught pleasuring yourself in the
middle of the work day!  I'll tell you what, though.  Around 6pm,
get yourself an early dinner somewhere nearby, and come back to
the office.  I have something I want to show you after everyone
has left.  And then, you can have permission."

The rest of Lisa's day passed in horny frustration and
anticipation.  She knew Cheryl had something planned - something
exposing and humiliating and horrible - but nonetheless she found
she could think of little else, and could hardly wait for whatever
it was.

    Chapter 15: Cheryl's second cliché

Lisa had dinner at a sandwich shop on the first floor of her
building.  The shop was fairly crowded around 6, mostly with
businessmen in large groups who would come into the shop, see Lisa
in her short skirt and high heeled shoes, her nipples poking
through her blouse.  They would comment to each other as if she
weren't there, eating her sandwich, trying to keep her legs closed
even though she knew everyone could see her panties.  Lisa tried
to ignore them, but found that their audible comments and their
laughter only served to heighten the arousal that had already
reached record highs in anticipation of Cheryl's unknown plan.

When she comes back to the office, it is indeed empty.  One or two
workers are still there, but from countless nights working after
hours Lisa knows the place would be deserted in a few minutes.

She finds Cheryl in her cubicle.  She is reading her email.

"Hi," says Lisa.  Cheryl looks over at her.

"C'mon," says Cheryl, "let's go over to your cubicle."  Cheryl
grabs a black bag from under her desk before they go.

At Lisa's cubicle, Lisa sits in her usual chair and Cheryl pulls
up a chair from the next cubicle over.

"Okay," says Cheryl, "It's time we had a talk."

Lisa is worried.  This is all so much easier if she doesn't have
to talk about it, she thinks.

"Did you enjoy yourself last night?" asks Cheryl.

"Well, yes, I guess I did.  I don't really remember."

"Do you remember the shoe store?"

Lisa tugs at her skirt.  Her legs are still naked.  "Yes."

"Did you enjoy showing off?"

Lisa remembers how aroused she was.  It felt so very good, but . .
. but how could she have enjoyed such humiliation? "Of course not.
That was . . . obscene.  I would never do that again."

"Really?  You seemed awfully . . . turned on . . . at the time."

Lisa crosses her arms across her chest.  "Well . . . " she
admits, "I was turned on, because I didn't know what would
happen.  But that's all.  I would never do it again.  Never."

Cheryl smiles and reaches into her bag.  She pulls out a long,
plastic object with a power cord dangling from one end.

"Lisa, I want you to put your hands behind your head, and leave
them there.  It's a skirt day, and this is a direct order."  Lisa
gives a worried look but puts her hands behind her head.  Her body
seems to be presented to Cheryl.

"Are you turned on right now, Lisa?" asks Cheryl, touching Lisa's
bare knee.  "You don't know what's going to happen now, do you?"
Cheryl traced her finger up Lisa's thigh, sending shivers
throughout Lisa's body.

"I am very turned on," says Lisa.  "You said I could have
permission."

Cheryl plugs the plastic object into an outlet by Lisa's desk.
"Do you know what this is?"

Lisa looks closely at it.  White, plastic, smooth, wand-shaped.
"It looks like . . . a vibrator?"

"Have you played with one of these before?"

Lisa had heard of them, but had always been too shy to go to any
kind of store where she could buy one.  "No."

"Well, then, I can't wait to see what you think."  Cheryl pushes
Lisa's legs apart and rests the tip of the plastic wand against
Lisa's panties.  The feel of the hard object against her makes her
shudder with pleasure.  "Are you ready?"

Lisa can feel her pussy gushing.  She couldn't believe she was
letting Cheryl do this, but she knew she wanted it.  "Yes," she
says.  And suddenly, a flick of Cheryl's fingers starts what felt
the injection of pure pleasure straight into Lisa's engorged
clitoris.  Lisa had no idea how good it would feel.  The
vibrations on her barely-covered sex cause her to moan and push
herself against the wand.  She can feel her orgasm coming
quickly, very quickly!

But Cheryl flicks off the switch.  "How was that?"

"Oh my god, I need more.  I need more NOW," says Lisa.  "Please."

Cheryl pulls the vibrator away.  "Then be honest with me.  Did
you enjoy what we did in the shoe store?"

Lisa still has her hands behind her head, but the arousal in her
crotch left behind by the vibrator seems to scream for one of her
fingers.  She looks at the vibrator.  "Please, Cheryl.  Please!"

"Did you enjoy yourself?  Just be honest!"

"I already said I did!"

"Would you do it again if I asked?"

"Well, if you asked, I guess I would."

"But you said you'd never do it again."

Lisa feels like she is on trial, but she could feel the juices
from her pussy starting to leak from her silk panties.  This would
all be so much easier if I could just have that orgasm, she
thinks.

"I really would do it again if you asked."

Cheryl smiles.  "I'm not so sure.  We'll come back to the vibrator
in a few minutes; I want to show you something first."

Cheryl reaches over to Lisa's computer keyboard.  She opens a web
browser and types in a URL.  "This is what I want to show you."  A
web page loads with a window for streaming video.  Cheryl clicks
the play button.  The video shows an office Lisa has never seen
before.  Nothing happens for a few seconds.

As Lisa watches the movie, Cheryl lightly touches Lisa's thighs,
occasionally brushing her fingers against Lisa's panties, just
inches from the hem of Lisa's skirt.    "There's no sound," says
Cheryl to Lisa, "so I'll have to tell you what's going on."

A blonde woman in a beige, knee-length skirt, white hose, and
white blouse enters the office.  The camera's field of view
includes one edge of a large desk; the blonde sits at a chair a
few feet away from that edge of the desk.  Cheryl says "This
woman's boss is on the other side of the desk.  He is asking her a
few questions, and reminding her of an agreement they had made the
previous day."

Lisa sees the woman start to look worried.  She looks down at the
buttons of her blouse.

"See," says Cheryl, "this woman is a lot like you, except she got
herself in some trouble.  Her boss caught her making fraudulent
purchase orders in order to embezzle over $14,000 of company
money.  She should have been fired and sent to prison, but she was
saved by her good looks.  Watch this."

The woman starts to unbutton her blouse.  When it is completely
unbuttoned, she pulls it off and hands it to the man on the other
side of the desk, off-camera.  Her white bra is extremely low-cut,
and Lisa thinks she can see the woman's nipples, except the
resolution of the video leaves her unsure.

"Like you," says Cheryl, "this woman agreed to do everything she
was told.  That's why she's undressing.  See, she has no choice."

Lisa watches as the woman unhooks her bra and removes it.  Then
she stands up and pulls her beige skirt up to her waist, revealing
a white garter belt holding up her white stockings.  Lisa sees
that she is not wearing any panties.

Meanwhile, Cheryl's hand is tickling Lisa's inner thigh, reminding
her of her own arousal.  Cheryl whispers "That woman is so aroused
right now, she can barely stand it.  She is just like you.  Well,
almost."  Lisa's hands are still behind her head, and she wishes
Cheryl would touch her panties again.  She has never before been
touched by a woman but the vibrator left her in dire need.

The woman in the video sits back down in the chair and, looking
ahead across the desk, hesitantly reaches between her legs and
begins stroking herself.

"He has ordered her to pleasure herself," says Cheryl.  "She says
no at first; she says she can't possibly do that in front of
someone else, but then he threatens to go to the police, and she
tells him she'll try.  What do you think?  Is she going to go all
the way?"

Lisa sees the woman close her eyes as her rubbing speeds up.  Lisa
has never seen another woman masturbate, and it desperately makes
her want to touch her own pussy.  "Yes," said Lisa, "I think she
really wants to go all the way."

"Wait.  Watch this."  Lisa watches.  It looks as though the woman
in the video is now looking at her, Lisa, right in the eye!  She
must be looking at the camera, Lisa thinks!  "He told her she's on
film and pointed out the camera."  Lisa notices that the woman has
not stopped touching herself.  Now the woman is looking at the
camera as she strokes her clit.

Lisa is transfixed by the woman.  "See," says Cheryl as she pulls
away from Lisa and gets another item from her black handbag, "she
is just like you, but unlike you, she has no choice.  She needs to
do this or go to jail."

The woman's eyes have closed again, and she is clearly writhing in
pleasure.  Both hands are at her pussy now, and their motions are
nicely framed by her white garters and stockings.

"You can touch yourself now, Lisa, but you may not come," says
Cheryl.  Lisa takes her hands from behind her head and starts to
rub her panties as she watches the woman.  Cheryl is doing
something in her bag, but she looks up and says, "Take off your
panties, Lisa.  Don't worry, no one is here."  Lisa pulls the red
silk panties off and pulls them down her legs, leaving them
puddled at her ankles.  They really do match her shoes.  She
immediately starts rubbing her clit again.  It feels so delicious
to finally touch myself, she thinks, as her fingers fill her with
her familiar warmth.

"Now," says Cheryl, "don't come yet.  Just listen.  You are not
like that woman, because you have a choice.  You don't have to do
this."

Lisa is confused.  "Yes, I have to do this.  It's a skirt day.
I'm wearing a skirt.  So I have to do what you say."

"What will happen if you don't?"

"Well, nothing, but . . ."

"Who enforces your skirt day rules?"

"Just me, I guess, but . . . "

"But nothing," says Cheryl.  "You have a choice.  You could stop
touching yourself right now, pull up your underwear, and go home,
couldn't you?"

"I guess."

"Wouldn't it be nice to not have a choice?   Wouldn't it be better
if you knew that, like the woman in the video, you were doing what
I and everyone else said because something awful would happen if
you didn't?"

Lisa is furiously rubbing her clit now, as is the woman in the
video.  Lisa can see that the woman in the video is close to her
release, but Cheryl had told Lisa she could not yet come.  Why
/did/ she have to listen to Cheryl?  She knows she could disobey
and have the orgasm she craves right now.  Not having a choice
seems easier.  It seems . . . better.

"Be honest, Lisa," says Cheryl, "this is all your choice, but you
would rather it were mine, don't you?  If you're honest with me,
then you may use the vibrator."

The thought of the pleasure that the wand brought her drives Lisa
to the edge.  She has to stop rubbing to keep from coming.  "Yes,"
she says, "yes!  It would be better!"

Cheryl finishes her work in the bag and pulls out a digital
camcorder.  She points it at Lisa.  "Okay, Lisa.  Like the woman,
you are on film."  Lisa pulls her attention from the video and
scrambles to hide her wet, nude pussy from the camera.    She
looks at the camera lens which seems to stare at her, unblinking.
"If you want to," says Cheryl,  "you can take that vibrator and
give yourself all the pleasure you want.  But if you do, I will
capture it on film."

Lisa looks at the vibrator and remembers how good it felt.  "You
can get up and leave right now if you want," says Cheryl, "but
then you and I will always know that your skirt days are your
choice.  We will both know that you are the sort of woman who
simply enjoys shoving her wet, naked cunt in the faces of
unsuspecting shoe salesmen.  But if you're really doing it because
it's not your choice, then it shouldn't matter if I've caught you
on film."

Lisa looks at the camera, confused.  She looks at the woman on the
video who is now clearly moaning her pleasure as she orgasms on
film.  The woman's nipples are hard, her back is arched, her head
is back, her eyes are closed, and her fingers are deep inside her
dripping pussy, and although there is no sound Lisa can almost
hear her screaming in pleasure.  Lisa's own sex can still remember
the pleasure of the vibrator, and Lisa is dying to feel it again,
but the camera continues its steady gaze.

This is it, thinks Lisa.  She thinks about what has led her to
this point.  She knows that if she pulls on her panties and
leaves, her life will go back to normal.  But if she gives herself
the orgasm she craves, then she knows that she is embarking on a
new, sexual adventure that could lead her to unthinkable
pleasures.  She reaches for the vibrator on her desk.  She knows
the camera can see up her tiny skirt; she knows it can see that
she is wet, that her clit is giant and red, and she knows that it
can see her touch the vibrator to herself.  "Good," says Cheryl.
"Go ahead, turn it on."

When Lisa flicks the switch, the pleasure is overwhelming.  With
the vibrator in her hands, Lisa realizes that nothing, not Cheryl,
not even a pair of panties, stands between her and the orgasm.
The vibrations on her clit are almost too much; they make her
scream out loud.  She moves the vibrator between her lips with one
hand and touches her clit with the other.   She gently pushes the
vibrator inside her, feeling the vibrations emanate pleasure all
through her body. The pleasure is so intense she forgets the
camera, but only for a moment.

"If you disobey me," Cheryl says as she films, "then this video
will end up on the internet, just like that woman's."  Lisa looks
over at the video and sees that there is now a large black man in
the shot, his pants around his ankles, his cock in the mouth of
the blonde woman.  "She disobeyed, and now everyone knows.  Think
about that, Lisa.  Do you want to end up like her?"  The
vibrations are sending Lisa over the edge.  She looks at the
camera.  She knows what this means.  This means she is committed.
This means that she will have no choice.  She is now thrusting the
vibrator in and out of herself as she furiously rubs her clit.
This means that skirt days are for real.  The thought that Cheryl
can now ruin her if she backs down sends the final jolt of
pleasure through her body, sending every muscle in a violent,
pleasurable convulsion.  "OOOOH GOOOOOODDDDD!!!!" she screams as
the orgasm rips through her, stimulating every nerve from head to
toe.

The orgasm seems to last for hours, coming back in little spurts
as Lisa returns the vibrator to her clit, as she opens her eyes
and sees the camera's unblinking lens, as she recalls what she has
gotten herself into.

When it is over, she feels completely exhausted.  The video is
still playing; she sees that the woman is now being fucked from
behind by the large black man, whose uniform suggests a custodial
position.  She realizes what Cheryl's video has captured.  It has
captured Lisa, in her cubicle, at work, furiously masturbating
with a vibrator as footage of a woman giving a blowjob to a large
black man is showing on her computer screen.  The video shows no
struggle, no circumstance, no context.  Lisa realizes that if her
coworkers saw this video, she could not work here again.  She
probably could not work anywhere.  And yet, she thinks, she did
this to herself.  She wanted this.

"Please," says Lisa, "Don't show that video to anyone.  Please."

Cheryl smiles as she packs the camera and the vibrator in her bag.
"Don't worry," she says.  "It will be for my eyes only, as long as
you stick to your promises.  When you're wearing a skirt, you do
what anyone says.  Just like you promised.  If I find you've
disobeyed me or anyone else, then I know just how to get that
promotion."  Cheryl patted the camera.  "But as long as you stick
to the deal, you'll probably get the promotion.  Heck, you deserve
it more than me.  You work much harder."

Lisa pulls her panties up her legs.  The wet silk makes contact
with her even wetter pussy.

"And don't forget," says Cheryl, "to meet me before you go golfing
on Friday.  And no more pantyhose, ever.  And no masturbating
without my permission."

Lisa nods, realizing that she will really have to obey, now.  "Oh,
and I almost forgot.  You and I are going to a party on Saturday.
My friend Martin - you'll like Martin - he gave me lots of advice
about you and really wants to meet you, so he's throwing a small
party.  I'll pick you up at your place.  Wear one of your skirts,
of course.  We'll go shopping and buy an appropriate cocktail
dress before we go."

Lisa's nervousness grows.  But now she has no choice.  "Okay," she
says.

"I have one last thing for you to do this evening," she says.  She
takes a notepad from Lisa's desk and scrawls down an address.  "Go
to this address now.  You can get there by taking the red-line.
Don't worry, it's a safe neighborhood.  The apartment is just a
couple blocks from the subway stop.  Knock on the door, and don't
leave until someone answers.  Then you are to do everything that
person says.  Understood?"

Lisa again nods.

"Good night," says Cheryl.  "See you tomorrow morning!"

Cheryl leaves with her black bag.  With the vibrator that gave
Lisa so much pleasure. With the camera with the footage.  With
Lisa's future.

Meanwhile, the blonde in the video is still being fucked from
behind, this time by the janitor's mop handle.  The woman is still
screaming in ecstasy.   "Is this really real?" asks Lisa, as she
looks at the footage more carefully.   It starts looking more and
more like a low-production-value porn movie.  "It doesn't matter
now," she thinks, as she closes the window and shuts down her
computer.

Chapter 16   Who's the Boss?

The city is dark and uncrowded as Lisa takes the subway to an
unfamiliar stop.   She feels vulnerable in her tiny skirt and high
heels, but indeed she is able to find the address Cheryl gave her
without any difficulty.

It is a small apartment complex.  The apartments make a U-shape
around a shared parking lot.  She looks at door number 3, where
she is supposed to knock according to Cheryl's instructions.

She tries to imagine what---and who---lies behind the door.  Her
imagination tends toward the large black janitor, forcing himself
into the blonde woman who had no choice.  What if she was going to
have to have sex with this person?  What if this person beats her?
She feels very frightened.  Her trust for Cheryl is uncertain, but
not completely absent.  The danger awakens her pussy again.  She
has no choice, she thinks, as she feels the warmth return to her
pussy.

She knocks on the door three times.  After a brief pause, she
knocks again.  "Hold on," shouts a male voice.  She waits.

Finally, the door opens.  She looks down and sees that the man is
wearing simple gray sweat pants and a plain white undershirt.  She
looks at his face, which is unshaven and looks confused.

Then she recognizes him.  It is Steve.

"Lisa!" he says, "Wha---what are you doing here?"

Lisa is as surprised as he.  "I. . . didn't you talk to Cheryl?"

"Cheryl?  Cheryl from the office?  Why would I talk to Cheryl?"

There is a pause, and Lisa can see Steve's eyes wander down her
body, past her red lacy camisole beneath her mostly unbuttoned
blouse, to her black skirt, barely hiding her sex, and onwards
down the full expanse of her bare legs to the high red heels. Lisa
feels exposed, standing outside Steve's door.

"Can I come in?" asks Lisa, and Steve nods, watching her ass as
she walks past him into his small living room.

"I, um," stutters Steve, "I've been sick, but I'm okay now, and
was going to return to work tomorrow morning."

Lisa lets out a little laugh.  "Oh, don't worry about it.  I
understand.  May I sit?"

"Of course," says Steve, as he clears some newspaper from a small
black couch.  The couch is quite low, and as Lisa sits she
suspects that she cannot help but show Steve her bright red silk
panties.

Steve sits on an armchair across from the couch.  Then Lisa
notices: Steve's loose grey sweatpants reveal a rather large lump
at his crotch.  He's clearly hard.  Very hard.

She realizes that she is staring, and Steve seems to notice.  He
uncomfortably crosses his legs.  Lisa wonders---does this
embarrass him?  Is it humiliating for him to have his arousal on
display in that way?  She crosses her own legs, knowing that this
exposes more of her ass than she feels comfortable with.  She
smiles at him.  He smiles at her.  An awkward silence ensues.

Lisa waits for Steve to speak, but he seems nervous.  He seems so
different from the confident, almost cocky man who ordered her to
wear stockings, to unbutton her blouse, to do all those things.
She finally loses her patience with his hesitant silence.

"Steve," she begins, not quite knowing what to say, but trying to
imagine instead what Joan, her therapist, would say, "maybe we
should talk about why you \emph{really} have not been at work. You
haven't actually been sick, have you?"

Steve blushes and uncrosses his legs.  His erection is still
visible through the thin sweatpants, and Lisa catches herself
staring again, but then forces herself to look at Steve's face. He
crosses his legs the other way. "Well?" she prods.

Steve stammers, "Well, I guess, when you wore that skirt, like I
asked, I thought maybe you wanted to play a game with me, where I
was the boss.  You know, with the stockings, and the water bottle,
and all that.  You really seemed to be into it. But then you got
really upset, and you yelled at me and gave me a huge pile of
work, and I got really worried.  I didn't know what to do or what
would happen on Monday so I took a sick day.  This morning I still
didn't know. . . "

Lisa remembers that she had meant to apologize, and that she never
got around to it.  But Steve's reluctance this evening, and the
sight of his large erection beneath his pants, somehow makes her
feel less apologetic.  Perhaps even a little annoyed with him.  He
was supposed to be calling the shots, right?  Why does she have to
direct this awkward conversation?

"Well, Steve," says Lisa, feeling herself for the first time
today, "that was a pretty wimpy response.  Apparently, if you
don't know what to do, you just don't show up."

"I thought maybe. . . "

Lisa finds herself on familiar ground.  She is the boss.  "I don't
think you thought at all, Steve. I expect my employees to confront
their problems.  If you need to ask for help, ask for help.  But
don't just run away."

"I thought you needed time."

Lisa raises her voice.  "And how can you possibly know what I
need? The fact is I needed you at work.  And if you want to keep
your job, you had better return tomorrow morning, since it is very
clear that you are not at all sick!"

Steve's erection only seems to grow as he silently listens to Lisa
berate him.

When she seems to be done, he raises his hand, as though he were
again a young student in the schoolroom.  "Yes?" says Lisa, still
wearing a scowl.

"Are you going to wear a skirt tomorrow, again, like last
Wednesday?"

Lisa is stunned.  Usually her stern voice and harsh words resulted
in only hushed compliance.  Perhaps it is her naked legs and her
visible red underwear that undermined her authority, she thinks.
Unable to take her eyes off Steve's crotch, she feels her pussy
moisten again.  How would that cock feel inside her?

"I am," she says, with waning confidence.

"And does that mean you're doing what I say, like last week?"

Lisa again does not know what to say.  Cheryl had told her to obey
Steve, hadn't she?  And she promised to obey while wearing a
skirt.  The answer is clearly yes.  Yes, Steve, I will do what you
say.  She thinks it but does not say it.  She again looks at the
shape of his cock beneath his sweatpants; his erection had not
shrunk in the least.  Yes.  Yes.  Fuck me, yes.  Yes!

"Maybe," she says.

"Maybe?"

Lisa starts to feel uneasy.  Does she want him?  She begins to
feel threatened.  He looks. . . big.  Ever bigger.  Will it hurt?
It has been so long since she's been with a man, and that one time
was. . . small.

"What is it that \emph{you} want, Lisa?"  Steve raises his
eyebrows, expectant.  Lisa feels she has lost her ground, but
somehow, after everything that happened with Cheryl, wants to
regain it.

"I want you at work tomorrow.  I have a lot of work for you to
catch up on."  She tries to exert her authority, but her voice is
now uneasy.  I want you to fuck me, she thinks.

"Okay," says Steve, "I'll go to work.  Is there anything else?"

How would it feel? she thinks.  Maybe I could just touch it. . .

"If not, I guess you should be getting home.  It's getting late."
Steve stands up, and his erection is even more obvious when
standing.  He walks to the door and opens it.

"But. . ."  Lisa stands up, spreading her legs and flashing her
red panties as she does so.  "Wait, Steve, I. . ."

"Yes?"  Steve holds the door open, waiting for Lisa to speak.

"I. . . " Lisa still does not know what to say.  She cannot ask
him for what she wants, can she?  If he knows. . .

"The answer is yes.  Yes, I will do what you say, when wearing a
skirt."

Steve smiles.  While still holding the door, he pushes Lisa by her
tightly-skirted ass through the door.  The feeling of his hand on
her rear is electrifying, but very brief.

"Excellent.  Then this is what I want you to do.  Tomorrow, I want
you to wear the world's shortest skirt."

Lisa is again standing on the doorstep, conscious of her
visibility.  She sees a couple walking down the sidewalk; surely
they can see how much she wants him, in her tiny skirt, high
heels, and unbuttoned blouse, desperately trying not to leave.
They must think me lusty, horny. . . and why doesn't Steve want
me to stay?  And what did he just say?

"What?" asks Lisa, "what do you mean, world's shortest skirt?"

"Here's the rule," says Steve,  "and this goes for every
Wednesday.  I want you to wear the shortest skirt in the world.
The one you're wearing would probably do, it's barely there; but
you really shouldn't wear the same thing twice in a row.  So
whatever skirt you are wearing, make sure that no one is wearing a
shorter one."

"But how will I know if someone is wearing a shorter one?"

"Well, how about we work it this way.  If I see someone wearing a
shorter skirt than you, I will point her out, and then you'll be
in trouble.  Then you'll be punished."

"Um, punished how?"  Lisa feels her arousal build.  Why won't he
just fuck me?

"When we find someone with a shorter skirt, you will be required
to give me your underwear.  All of it.  That's the rule.  Now, I
had better get to sleep.  I have to go to work tomorrow."  And he
shuts the door.

Lisa stood on the doorstep, perplexed, for a few minutes, before
walking back to the subway, barely balancing on her heels. Why
must he play these games? She thought of his hard cock, straining
his sweatpants, and wondered why it was not inside her, right now.
Oh well, she thought, I'll just have to get myself off when I get
home---but then she remembered Cheryl, and her skirt, and knew
that she could not.

Chapter 17: World's Shortest Skirt

The next morning, Wednesday, skirt day, Lisa spent nearly an hour
deciding what to wear. She was horrified at the idea of being
pantiless at work, so she wanted to make sure she was indeed
wearing the shortest skirt she had.  That would be the one she had
worn yesterday.  But Steve had indicated that she shouldn't wear
it again, and it was SO short. She cannot remember anyone in the
office---or for that matter, anyone at all---wearing a skirt so
short.  Surely, she could get away with wearing a longer one.

She considered the black pleated skirt that Steve had given
her---surely it would be short enough!  But then she remembered
how every twirl exposed her underwear.  What if Steve saw a
shorter skirt and she had to remove that protection?  That skirt
exposed so much.

She thought of her brown skirt, the one she bought to feel a
little more covered on her skirt days.  Maybe that's too long, she
thought, and she looked in her dresser and closet but could not
find it, anyway.  Cheryl must still have it, she thought.  She
would have to buy another one.

That left her first skirt, the green one that used to be perfect
but that she had shortened by 4 inches.  Still only mid-thigh
length, but less likely to flip up than the pleated one.  She
tried it on her naked legs.  A lot was exposed, she thought.  This
would be short enough, wouldn't it?  Still, she knew her white
panties would be only inches from view.  She imagined confronting
her coworkers without any panties at all under so short, so open a
garment, and prayed she wouldn't have to.  It's short enough---no
one wears skirts shorter than this unless they're forced to, she
reasoned!

Looking at her naked legs in the mirror, she remembered that she
was forbidden pantyhose.  And her only pair of stockings were
torn.  She would have to buy more.  But today she would have to
leave her legs bare.

With the skirt she wore one of her white blouses.  It was low cut
and slightly transparent, she could see the outline of her white
bra through it.  She didn't have a jacket to go with her skirt,
though, and her open window told her that the day would be warm
enough. Should she find a more conservative blouse?  Something
less tight, less see-through?  No, she thought.  She wanted to
impress Steve.

What about shoes?  Her new shoes were too much---too high, too
red.  She dug in her closet and found a pair of black, 2-inch
pumps.  Heels were expected of her now, she sensed.  She would
have to buy more.

As she prepared and drank her morning coffee and bagel, she jotted
down a shopping list:

    more short skirts
    stockings
    high heels
    thongs?
    camis?

She posted it on her refrigerator door and rushed off to the
subway.

As she walked, she took note of every other woman she saw.  What
if someone is wearing a shorter skirt than me?  Should I tell
Steve?  Most women she saw on her walk were wearing jeans, or
shorts, or calf-length skirts.  Just before entering the subway,
she saw a brunette woman with a straight-cut beige miniskirt
walking down the street. Her heart skipped a beat, but then she
realized that the woman's skirt almost reached her knees.  She
looked down at her own skirt and saw much, much more exposed
thigh.  At first she felt safe, but then exposed.  She found
herself strangely anxious for Steve's approval.  As she thought of
how he would react to her outfit, she could feel the first pangs
of arousal.  Her pussy was waking up, and already starting to
moisten.

As she waited for the subway train, her thoughts drifted to
Cheryl.  Cheryl!  She had forgotten about her, and that video
tape.  What would Cheryl make her do today?  The thought scared
her, but also excited her.  She was now decidedly horny.

Finally, the train arrives.  The subway car is packed, as usual
for this hour.  She squeezes past the (mostly) business men by the
door to find a spot to stand near the seats.  She holds on to the
bar overhead with one hand, and clutches her handbag close with
the other.  The train begins to move, and Lisa looks down at her
breasts, avoiding contact with the men she is so closely pressed
against.  She notices her bra, slightly visible through her
blouse.  She begins to regret the choice, but knows she cannot
turn back now.

After the first stop, the train becomes even more crowded, and
Lisa is pushed from all sides.  She cannot move; her arms are
fixed in position as the train continues its journey.

Then, ever so lightly, she feels it.  A hand.  The hand.  It is
ever so lightly caressing the inside of her knee.  It feels warm.
She knows it will journey upwards, up her naked flesh.  The first
time, she remembers, she was wearing pantihose.  Then, stockings.
Now, her entire legs are bare, and the hand's caress feels
especially intense.

She cannot resist looking behind her.  Who is doing this to me?
How do they always find me? But she can barely move to turn
around, and there are so many people she cannot tell who it could
have been.  She suspects a large man in a suit sitting at the
nearby seat, but she cannot see his face.  She stops looking back,
and takes in a breath as she waits for the hand to return. Please
come back, she thinks, as blood rushes to her sex.  She spreads
her bare legs a little, inviting, anticipating. . .

. . . and she is not disappointed.  The hand returns, immediately
feeling the soft, warm skin of her inner thigh.  It strokes her
gently, and then more firmly, and then wanders upwards, towards
her ever moistening panties.  Lisa's breathing quickens.  She had
forgotten how it felt to be touched in so private, so sensitive a
place while surrounded by so many men.  She wants to thank the
hand, somehow -- to return the favor, if she could.  All she can
think to do is to spread her legs apart as far as she can in the
crowded car, and she does.

The hand seems to embrace the invitation by firmly cupping her
crotch.  Lisa knows it can feel how wet she is.  It must realize
how turned on she is, how much she wants it.  How nice it would be
to have a morning orgasm, here on the train, before even getting
to work.  All that tension, all that horniness, would be
dissipated without needing to ask Cheryl's permission.  She gives
in to the hand and pushes herself against it.  It starts to
vigorously rub her clit.  "OH GOD YES!" she moans, as she writhes
herself against the hand.

Her moan does not go unnoticed.  It seems to echo in the crowded
train for a second, followed by an embarrassed silence. She sees
most of the eyes of the train shoot in her direction. The hand
disappears. A deep blush appears on her face. Some of the men are
smiling, some are whispering. She knows they can see her naked
legs, her see-through blouse. They heard her lustful moaning --
can they smell her need? What has she become? She has never felt
more embarrassed in her life.

When the train reaches the main station, she notices that many of
its riders sneak an extra look at her as they disembark.  Lisa
tugs her skirt down as low as she can and folds her arms across
her chest as she walks the short distance to her office.  Her
little show left her ashamed -- but very, very aroused.  She feels
that spark of exposure as her skirt sways around her thighs. This
is not my fault, she thinks. This is Steve's doing. Or is it
Cheryl's? Or is it her own?

Few people are in the office when she arrives.  Lisa walks from
cubicle to cubicle, slyly peering in to each open entrance to
check out the women. She is looking for skirts.  After her
mortifying subway experience, she could not bear to lose her
underwear.  It would be too much.

Fortunately, the few women in the office she sees are all wearing
pants.  She returns to her cubicle, and begins her work day, which
begins with her email.  There is nothing out of the ordinary --
and nothing from Steve.  What was she expecting?  Her final email
is from herself.  "Don't miss today's meeting," it says.

After a short while, Cheryl arrives and finds Lisa in her cubicle.
When Lisa sees her, she worries -- Cheryl would be the one to wear
a skirt shorter than me!  She's working with Steve to humiliate
me! So she looks immediately at Cheryl's legs.

But Cheryl is wearing elegant black slacks.  As usual, she looks
conservatively professional.

"So," Cheryl asks, "how did it go last night?  Did you find
Steve?"

Lisa is nervous.  "Sure.  We talked for a while and then I went
home."  Lisa looks back at her computer screen.

Cheryl does not leave.  "You just talked?  I saw how you were
dressed last night.  I'll bet Steve jumped you as soon as he saw
you.  Tell the truth, Lisa."

Lisa continues looking at her computer.  "No, Cheryl, he did not
jump me.  We just talked, and I went home."

Cheryl gets close to Lisa's ear, and whispers, "Listen here, Lisa.
You know what I'll do if you lie to me.  I want you to be
completely honest, or you will very much regret it.  Now, what
happened with Steve last night?"

Lisa speaks softly, still not looking at Cheryl.  "We really only
talked.  I wanted to have sex but he showed me out."

"Hmm.  What did you talk about?"

"I made it clear to him that I would do what he said.  It's all
been spelled out."

"And did he ask you to do anything?"

Lisa hesitates.

"Or should I ask him?" Cheryl threatens.

"No, I'll tell you.  He said I had to wear the world's shortest
skirt.  He said that if he sees anyone wearing a skirt shorter
than me then I'll have to remove my underwear.  And I really can't
do that today.  I chair my department meeting today and it would
be humiliating to do it without panties.  So I'm praying that no
one will wear a shorter skirt than me today."

Cheryl laughs.  "With that tiny thing, you probably don't have to
worry."  But then Cheryl thinks for a second.  "But you might go
down to the third floor and see what Yukie is wearing."

"Yukie?  Who's Yukie?"

"You don't know Yukie?  You've probably seen her on the elevator
once or twice.  She's a secretary on that floor, from Japan.  She
likes to wear really, really short skirts, every once in a while.
She really has the legs for it, too.  Cute girl.  She's only been
in the U.S. for a few months.  I should introduce Steve to
her. . . "

And so Lisa finds herself on the elevator, going down nervously to
the unfamiliar third floor to find a girl she's never met, and
compare the length of her skirt.

As the elevator doors open, Lisa sees a Japanese secretary at a
nearby desk who simply must be Yukie.  Beneath her open desk,
Cheryl sees white and black striped socks stretching from her
platform mules to a couple inches above her knee, followed by bare
thigh. Lisa knows there must be a skirt up there somewhere, but
she cannot see it. Her hair stands in two vertical pigtails, and
her eye makeup shows shapes of pink and blue.  Glittery earrings
hang from her ears.

Lisa approaches her, tempted to peer under the desk, but not
seeing a way to do so politely.  "Can I help you?" asks Yukie with
a high-pitched voice.

Lisa smiles.  What should she say?  "Are you Yukie?"

"Yes!  Pleased to meet you."  She pulls her chair away from her
desk and extends her hand for a handshake.  "And you are?"

Lisa looks at Yukie's lap.  Her navy blue, pleated skirt is barely
there, leaving Yukie's bronze thighs exposed to the top of her
over-the-knee socks.

"I'm Lisa.  I work upstairs.  I heard about you from Cheryl, and
thought I should meet you."

"Cheryl's a nice lady," says Yukie, nodding.  "Pleased to meet
you, Lisa."

Lisa smiles again.  How can she explain?  Should she just ask her
to stand up and show off her skirt? "Yukie, do you want to come
downstairs and get some coffee with me?  My treat."

Yukie looks briefly at her desk.  "Okay, but we must be very
fast."

Yukie stands up.  Lisa notices first that Yukie is more than a
foot shorter than herself.  Then she notices that Yukie's skirt
falls down her thighs barely at all.  It is clear that Lisa's
fears are confirmed -- Yukie is actually wearing a much shorter
skirt! It seems to cover Yukie okay, but then, Yukie's short
stature and thin hips allow the short garment to be sufficient.

As Yukie and Lisa get back in the elevator, Lisa wonders what to
do.  She knows that Cheryl will show Yukie to Steve.  She feels
her panties against herself, that small, thin protection, and
already begins to miss them.  What should I do?

The elevator quickly reaches the first floor, and as they get out
Lisa notices Steve waiting at the elevators.  Oh no!  He'll see!
Quickly, she pulls Yukie around the corner into a public restroom,
hoping that Steve didn't notice.  She thought she saw him turn his
head.  Was she fast enough?

"What are you doing?" demands Yukie, looking at Lisa as though she
is crazy.  "I think I should leave."

"No, wait, Yukie, I'm sorry.  Please don't leave.  Let me
explain."

Yukie folds her arms and waits.  Lisa hesitates.

"Well?"

"Okay, okay.  That guy out there, waiting for the elevator,
he's. . . well, we have a deal.  The deal is that I have to be
wearing the world's shortest skirt, or at least the shortest in
the nearby vicinity. I simply have to be.  And I heard you were
wearing a shorter one, and I was afraid he'd see you.  That's why
I pulled you in here."

Yukie smiles.  "That's funny!  Why did you make this deal with
him?"

"It's. . . a long story.  But you see, that's why we have to
hide."

"I need to get back to work.  My boss will be angry if I am gone
for too long."  She walks toward the door.

"Wait!  He might still be out there."

Yukie turns around.  "So what do you want?  You want to wear my
skirt?"

Lisa had not considered the option.  Did she have a choice? "Would
you mind?  Do you think it will fit?"

Yukie looks down at her skirt.  "I've had this skirt since high
school, in Japan.  It used to be my uniform."

"That was your uniform?  It's awfully short, isn't it?"

"Well, we shorten our skirts to our tastes.  There was cute boy in
my class and I wanted his attention, so I shortened it a lot!  We
went out on a few dates after that.  Of course, then I was stuck
with this tiny skirt every day at school!"  She giggles.  "I'll
tell you what. We can trade, but only if you do something for me."

Lisa paused.  Another one, she thought?  "Anything," she says.

"Buy me lunch today, be my friend!  I've been here for months and
only boys to talk to."

Lisa smiles.  "Of course!  You've got it."

Yukie smiles and unfastens her skirt.  She pulls it down her legs
revealing white panties with cartoon kittens.  Lisa tries not to
stare as she removes her own skirt, revealing her plain white
cottons.  She feels a little strange, standing in a public
restroom with this half-naked girl she's never met, wearing only
her blouse and panties.  She hopes no one comes in!

The girls trade skirts.  Lisa pulls Yukie's skirt up her waist,
and, although it must sit high on her slim waist, she is able to
fasten it. Meanwhile, Yukie fastens Lisa's skirt.  On Yukie, the
skirt comes almost to her socks.

Lisa is not so nicely covered.  Lisa's extra height, the fact that
the skirt sits so high on her waist, and the simple fact that the
skirt is very, very short leaves Lisa looking indecent. She looks
in the mirror and thinks she can barely see the bottom of her
white panties.  She tugs the skirt down as far as she can, and her
panties seem to be covered.  Just barely.

Of course, the skirt is pleated.  She gives a twirl and her
panties are immediately on display.  She would have to move very,
very slowly today.

"Okay?" asks Yukie.

Lisa is not so sure.  She is barely wearing anything on her legs.
She can't possibly go into her office like this, can she?  What
about her meeting?!?  But what choice does she have?

"Okay," says Lisa, and they leave the restroom.

Lisa is grateful to see that Steve is not waiting for them.  Maybe
he didn't see them.

The girls decide to meet at Yukie's desk at noon.  They return to
their respective offices.  As Lisa walks from the elevator to her
cubicle, she is very conscious of her short skirt.  She tries to
hold it down as she walks as slowly as she can.  She wishes she
had not worn heels, as they add a motion to her hips that makes
the skirt swish around, probably exposing her panties.

When Lisa returns to her cubicle, she is glad to be out of sight,
and eagerly returns to her work.

At about 11am, she gets an email from Steve.  "Lisa, please come
to my cubicle.  I have the paperwork you requested."

Lisa reads the email and scowls.  Usually, Steve brings her
paperwork when it's done.  Clearly, he wants her to have to walk
across the office.

She stands up and tugs down her blue pleated skirt as low as it
will go.  She thinks it is covering her panties, but she is
worried.  She pauses, takes a deep breath.  She thinks Steve will
be impressed, and the thought reawakens her arousal.  She hopes he
will touch her.

She walks between the long rows of cubicles, occasionally noticing
glimpses from her male coworkers.  Some of them poke their heads
out of their cubicles after she passes.  They try to be subtle,
but she notices them.  She hears their chairs squeak; it is the
only sound except for the sound of her heels on the linoleum
floor, announcing her humiliating parade.

When she reaches Steve's cubicle, she steps in, away from the
prying eyes.  Steve looks her up and down and smiles.

"You've outdone yourself, Lisa," he says.  "When I said world's
shortest skirt, you took it to heart, didn't you?"

Lisa blushes.  "Can you see my panties?"

Steve looks carefully.  "Um, no, not quite.  They're covered."

"Good.  Do you like it?"

Steve smiles.  "I do.  I like that shirt, too.  Nice and tight."
Lisa blushes, and feels herself get wet.  He approves!  He looks
her in the eye. "Say, did I see you on the first floor this
morning, with a Japanese girl? I couldn't tell, but I thought
maybe she was wearing a shorter skirt than you."

Lisa panics.  "No, that couldn't have been me.  How could anyone
be wearing a shorter skirt than me?  Look at this thing!"

Steve laughs.  "Yes, I suppose you're right.  But maybe, when I
saw you, you were wearing a longer skirt?  Perhaps your green
one?"

Lisa remains silent.  She knew she was caught.

"The rule was that you had to wear the world's shortest skirt all
day.  You've only half followed it, haven't you?"

"But. . ."  Lisa is scared.  How could he take her panties now?!?

"Maybe you should, therefore, be half punished."

"No, please, Steve, come on, look, this skirt is clearly short
enough!"

"Don't try to cheat me, Lisa.  Now, the punishment was for you to
remove your underwear.  So your half punishment is for you to
remove half your underwear.  Remove either your bra, or your
panties.  Your choice.  You may come back here in 5 minutes with
either in your hands."  Steve turns away.

Lisa doesn't know if she can do it, but the instruction from
Steve, she realizes, has awakened in her a lust and excitement
that is by now familiar but no less intense.  Yes, of course she'd
do it.  As she walked to the restroom, she considered her options.

If she removes her bra, she is certain that the outline of her
nipples would be visible through her thin blouse.  But if she
removes her panties, in this tiny pleated skirt, then she will
truly be naked.  Nothing will cover her ass, and everyone will see
her most private parts if she so much as turns a corner too
quickly. She could not have that.  She decides to remove the bra.

And that she does, while watching herself in the restroom.  She
pulls off her blouse and unhooks the bra.  Looking at herself in
her mirror, she realizes just how large her breasts are.  And as
she buttons her blouse, she realizes just how tight -- and low cut
-- it really is.  She had worried so much about her skirt that she
hadn't realized how much her buxom chest was exposed.  And now,
without the bra, the full shape of her breasts and nipples were
evident through the thin, almost transparent blouse.  What will
her coworkers think of her now?  As she looks at herself, she lets
her right hand creep under her ever-so-short skirt and touch
herself through her panties.  Why does it feel so good to be so
exposed?  Do I enjoy this humiliation?  Why am I so horny?

Knowing that the clock is ticking and that Steve is waiting, she
takes one last look and gives her skirt a final tug.  She makes
the long walk back to his cubicle, her bra hidden in her hands,
and delivers it to Steve.

"Good choice," he says.

Lisa thinks, will you fuck me now?  Please?

Steve puts the bra in his drawer and gathers a large, disordered
stack of papers from the top of his desk.  He stands up and hands
the stack to Lisa.

"This is all the work you've given me over the past couple days.
It was a lot but I've been working hard.  I hope you find it
acceptable."

Lisa looks down at the stack of papers.  Forms, letters, memos,
purchase orders, inventories -- everything she asked, all filled
out.  But she wished the stack were more orderly.  She could
barely hold all the paperwork in her arms.

"Do you mind if I organize the stack a little before I go?"

"Yes, I do mind.  Please, I don't want to see them anymore.  Go."

And with that he pushes her by her ass out of his cubicle.  Just
like the night before, Lisa yearns to feel his hand more, but the
push was ever so brief, and Lisa finds herself in the hall holding
the ungainly stack of papers with both hands.

She starts to walk back, and realizes that her skirt is swaying as
she walks, probably flashing her panties.  She tries to free up
one of her hands to hold it down, but she almost drops the papers.
While recovering, she hears a sharp yell: "LISA!"

It was Steve.  She turns around to look at him, and as she does so
the stack of papers falls and scatters around the floor.  Other
workers hear the yell and they all poke their heads to see the
commotion.  What they see is Lisa, the bitchy, arrogant young
professional, wearing the world's shortest skirt and a tight,
see-through blouse, surrounded by a stack of papers and holding
only a file folder, swaying open, its contents on the floor below.
Everyone in the office eagerly awaited her picking them up.

Chapter 18: The Cold Seat

Lisa knew that if she bent down to pick up the papers, her panties
would be clearly on display.  Even if she squatted or knelt, there
is no way her modesty would be maintained.  For a few seconds she
stared down at the papers, wondering what her office would think
of her after everyone saw her panties under her skirt---and
indeed, it seemed everyone was watching.

As she stared at the papers, Steve walked over.  Lisa turned and
saw him, and realized that this was all his doing.

"Why did you yell at me?  You knew I'd drop these papers.  They
were a mess when you gave them to me!"  Lisa's loud voice could be
heard clearly throughout the otherwise silent office.

Steve's smile faded and he started to speak. "I . . ."

"Forget it," she said.  "This is intolerable.  I want you to pick
all these papers up and bring them to my desk in a neat pile.
Now!"

And she quickly marched off to the semi-privacy of her cubicle.
She sat down at her chair and stared at her blank computer screen
for several minutes.

A thousand thoughts went through her head for those minutes.
Mostly, she was regretful for yelling at Steve.  All day, she had
been hoping to feel his hard cock inside of her.  She could not
put the image from the night before of the bulge in his sweatpants
out of her head.  Didn't he think she was attractive?  Why didn't
he take her, then?  And now she has yelled at him, while everyone
was watching.  Did she embarrass him?  Will he be mad?  Would it
have been that bad to flash my panties for him?  Why did he yell?
What would he have said if I hadn't interrupted?  She yearned for
his touch more than ever, but she knew she would not---could
not---apologize.  Having her wear short skirts was one thing, but
making her pick up his messy papers from the floor while everyone
gawks is just unreasonable, isn't it?  Still, she wonders how many
of the men were aroused by her legs, by her hard nipples poking
through her blouse. . . she began wishing she had bent over at the
waist, and just let them look as she gathered the papers.  Maybe
one of them would have whistled their appreciation---it occurs to
her that no one has ever whistled at her that way, and that she
would love to be appreciated in that way once in a while . . .

Her thoughts are interrupted by Cheryl, who walks uninvited into
Cheryl's cubicle and hands her a neat stack of papers.

"I ran into Steve on the way here," says Cheryl, "and when I told
him I was on the way to see you he was happy to let me deliver
these to you."

"Was he mad?" asked Lisa.

"I don't know.  We didn't talk much."

Lisa starts to leaf through the papers.

"Put those down," says Cheryl.

Lisa puts them on her desk.

"Nice skirt," says Cheryl.  Lisa looks down.  Her pleated skirt
covers almost none of her bare thighs.  Lisa rests her hands over
her thighs, attempting to hide her panties.

"Nice shirt, too.  I see you're going without a bra again!"  Lisa
blushes and folds her arms around her chest, again exposing her
thighs.  She hopes no one in nearby cubicles is listening to
Cheryl.

"That must be Yukie's skirt, hm?" says Cheryl.  Lisa nods.

"But I remember you wearing a bra this morning.  Why did you take
it off?"

Lisa feels nervous as Cheryl stands over her, and knows she should
tell the truth.  "Well, since Yukie was wearing a shorter skirt
than me, I had to remove my underwear."

"Because of Steve's game?"

"Yes."  Lisa speaks quietly, hoping that Cheryl will be similarly
quiet.

Cheryl obligingly whispers: "So, you're not wearing any panties
under that tiny skirt? No wonder you made Steve pick up those
papers!"

Lisa whispers back: "No, no, I'm still wearing panties.  Since I
was only wearing a longer skirt for a short time, in the morning,
we decided I only had to remove half my underwear---so I gave up
my bra."

"Why not your panties?  Your shirt is almost see-through, but your
skirt isn't.  You want to show off your nipples, huh?"

"No!  Not at all.  It's just that this skirt is so short, and it
flips and sways all over the place, and I just couldn't possibly
chair my meeting this afternoon worrying that everyone might see
my bare ass, or my . . . I just couldn't."

"You couldn't?"

"No!  It would be too humiliating."  Lisa's whisper is barely
audible.

Cheryl has a huge grin on her face, and a stern glare.  She puts
her mouth right next to Lisa's ear and whispers "Take off your
panties, Lisa.  Right now."

Lisa's hands instinctively cover her crotch.  "What?!?  Why?"  Her
desperate voice is no longer a whisper.

"But we agreed that losing the bra was enough!  I get to keep the
panties!"  Lisa wishes she had said that more quietly.

Cheryl shakes her head.  "Take them off.  Now."

"No!  It's not fair!" Lisa emphatically whispers.

Cheryl whispers back, sternly:  "Fair?  Why is it fair that you
play Steve's games, but then you yell at him and make a fool of
him in front of the whole office!  Everyone saw that YOU dropped
those papers, so YOU should have been the one to pick them up.
Steve may be your employee, but I doubt his job description
includes the words 'picking up the crap my boss drops.'  Besides,
you're the one who made the rules, and they were very simple.  If
you're wearing a skirt, you do what I say.  And I'm telling you to
take off your panties, right now, unless you want the whole office
to see the little video I made!"

"Okay, okay!" whispers Lisa.  "Can I go to the restroom and bring
them to you?"

"No!  Why?  Just reach under that little skirt, and pull them
down!"

"Okay, but can I PLEASE have them back before my meeting?"

"I'll tell you what.  Since you asked so nicely, you can have them
back right after the meeting.  Come to my cubicle to pick them
up."

Lisa pauses and nods.  She looks around Cheryl to make sure no one
is watching.  She reaches under the skirt and does not have far to
reach.  She quickly pulls the panties down, knowing that she
probably flashed her bare pussy.  She pulls them from her ankles
and Cheryl snatches them away.

"Now," says Cheryl, as she puts the panties in her pocket and
bends down to whisper into Lisa's ear again, "was that so bad?"
Cheryl puts her hand on Lisa's thigh.  Lisa tries to cross her
legs, but Cheryl's firm touch discourages her.  "Spread those
beautiful thighs a little, Lisa.  I want to see if you really
wanted those panties or if you're just being a brat."

"What do you mean?" asks a very nervous Lisa.

"If you're really as turned-off and concerned as you say you are,
then maybe I'll give you your panties back.  But if you're wet
down there, then that tells me you're enjoying this, despite all
of your bratty complaining.  Now spread your thighs."

Lisa shuts her eyes and opens her legs, just a little, as she
feels Cheryl's warm hand caress it's way to her bare snatch.  She
knows what Cheryl will find.

"Oh my god," whispers Cheryl, "you're like a faucet!"

Cheryl's fingers swirl Lisa's moisture around her clit, sending
pangs of pleasure through her body.  All too quickly, though,
Cheryl withdraws her hand and puts it in front of Lisa's face.
Lisa is overwhelmed by her musky scent.

"I think you like it.  Would you like to taste yourself?"

Lisa scrunches her nose at the idea, but can see by Cheryl's face
that she has no choice.  A moment later she finds herself with
Cheryl's finger in her mouth, sucking off the juices of her own
arousal.  This position, these clothes---what have I become?  she
thinks.

Cheryl smiles and pats Lisa on the head with her hand, now moist
with saliva.  "Good girl," she says.  "I'll see you after your
meeting."  And she leaves.

The rest of the morning, Lisa tries to work, but the thought of
being so naked and so wet under her tiny skirt distracts her.  She
spends much of her time reminding herself to walk slowly, to be
careful bending over or sitting down.  If she's careful, she
thinks, no one will notice.

When lunchtime comes, she remembers her promise to buy lunch for
Yukie.  She wants to stay in the refuge of her cubicle, but she
knows she wants to keep her promise, since Yukie had been so nice.
She stands up and slowly walks to the elevator, holding her skirt
down to keep her swivelling hips from swishing her tiny skirt
around and exposing her secret.  She can feel the cool,
air-conditioned air of the office on her moist pussy. She can
sense the eyes of her coworkers as she walks past.

As she waits for the elevator, a crowd of men emerge from another
office.  Their noisy chatter stops as they approach her, and she
can hear them whisper to each other.  She does not look at them,
but only pretends that they are not there.  She knows that they
are looking at her body so exposed by her short skirt and tight
blouse.

When the elevator arrives, everyone packs in.  It is more crowded
than the subway was, and Lisa is pressed against men on all sides.
She feels something hard pushing at her hip, and hopes it is not
what she knows it is.

Finally at the third floor, she has to push her way through the
men to leave the elevator.  She feels her skirt get caught as she
does so, and worries about what the men might have seen in the
second it took for the garment to fall back into place.

She finds Yukie's desk.  Yukie looks modest in comparison to this
morning, her green skirt hiding her thighs and her stripy socks
covering the rest of her legs.  Upon seeing Lisa, her face lights
up with a smile, and Lisa finds that she cannot help but smile
back.

"Where do you want to go for lunch?" asks Lisa, and Yukie looks at
the ceiling as she considers her options.  "Mmmm, how about the
diner across the street!  I love their hamburgers!"

Lisa nods their assent, and the two women walk back to the
elevator, discussing the relative merits of the different
hamburgers available in the downtown area.

When they step outside, Lisa immediately notices the breeze under
her skirt.  This is the first time she can remember being outside
without anything covering her sex, and with so short a skirt she
fears she could be exposed at any moment to the busy crowds on the
sidewalks.  But the crosswalk is flashing red, and Yukie makes a
run for it.  Lisa hurries to follow, letting go of her skirt and
feeling its pleats swish around her naked ass as she trots across
the street.  She hears a stopped car honk.  Was that for me? she
thinks, noticing that the light has not yet changed.

When they reach the diner, they find a couple of seats facing
against the large window to the sidewalk.  Lisa puts her purse on
the small wooden shelf and climbs up on the stainless steel bar
stool. The exposed metal feels cold on her ass; her skirt is not
long enough to cover her and without panties, it is her bare flesh
on the metal.

Yukie and Lisa continue to chat about their workplace and the
weather, and finally a waiter takes their order: two hamburgers,
two side salads, a milkshake for Yukie and a diet coke for Lisa.
"How can you drink those milkshakes and stay so thin?" asks Lisa,
and Yukie giggles.  "I'm lucky, I guess."

By the time their food arrives, Lisa is feeling quite comfortable.
Yukie's girlish excitement relaxes Lisa and helps her forget about
the stress of her job.  She hadn't had a hamburger for lunch in
some time, and she begins to wish she had ordered french fries and
a milkshake for herself.  "Do you want to share mine?" asks Yukie,
and Lisa enjoys a few sips of the chocolaty drink.

They were done with their food and their bill and were chatting
about a recent movie when Yukie looks Lisa in the eye and says:
"Don't look! But have you noticed the guy who has been standing
against that parking meter for the last 20 minutes? Don't look!"

Lisa looks.  Indeed, there is a young man in tee shirt and blue
jeans with dark hair and sunglasses, arms crossed, standing at the
parking meter just beyond the window outside the diner.  "He's
been looking this way," continues Yukie.  "He's looking away now,
but he's been looking at us.  I think he likes your legs."

Lisa feels a deep blush in her face.  She looks down at her legs.
On the bar stool, her legs are slightly spread and facing the
clear glass window.  The floor of the diner is slightly raised,
and on the high stool she knows that the man has a good angle of
view straight up her skirt.  "Oh my god," says Lisa, "he's looking
up my skirt."

Yukie giggles.  "So what?  So he can see your panties.  People see
my panties all the time when I wear that skirt.  That's why I have
to choose my underwear very carefully in the morning!  I think the
guys like white ones the best, they always get the biggest smile!
Anyway, he's kinda cute!  You should wink at him!"

Lisa's blush grows and she crosses her legs, revealing her thigh
up to her ass.  This doesn't seem any better, so she uncrosses
them again and clamps her legs together.  "Yeah, I guess he could
see my . . . my panties.  I'm so ashamed!"

"Don't be silly!" says Yukie.  "He's not offended!"

"I'm not worried about offending him.  Don't you think it's
inappropriate to show your panties in public?"

"Well, sometimes, I guess.  I told you that I shortened that skirt
in high school, you know, for my boyfriend.  I had to wear it
every day, and I was always afraid the other boys would see my
panties.  But it's not that hard to prevent, so it's not a big
deal."

"It seems hard to prevent to me!  I can't even sit down in this
without revealing everything!"

"Back in school, I would ALWAYS sit in the front of the class, so
that all the boys were behind me.  Then only the teacher could see
up my skirt, and I don't think he was looking."

"That's a good point.  I guess people who are sitting behind you
can't see up your skirt.  Simple but true.  I'll have to remember
that for my meeting today.  If my coworkers saw my . . . my
panties, I think I would just die."

"Good luck!"

"Thanks," says Lisa.  "Speaking of which, we'd better get going."

"Okay!" says Yukie, jumps out of her stool, and bounces over to
the door.

Lisa looks out the window as she stands up.  She sees the man's
glance steal away.  She knows he has been looking at her all
through lunch.  She knows that he knows she's not wearing any
panties!  What does he think of her?  But as she stands and walks
to the door, she sees him walk away down the sidewalk, as if he
had been waiting for a friend who never showed up, or just chose
that spot to rest during a long walk.  Lisa hoped she would never
see him again.  Although Yukie was right, she thinks, we WAS kinda
cute.

As they walk back to the office, Lisa holds the back of her skirt
to her ass.  She simply does not want to take any more chances,
and the breeze outside threatens to bare everything to the world.

In the elevator, Yukie says: "That was a lot of fun, Lisa!"

Lisa smiles in agreement.  "That was the best lunch I've had in a
long time!"

Yukie continues: "So, every Monday a bunch of the secretaries have
lunch in that diner together.  There's about 6 of us who go.  I
don't really know any of them well, but I always go.  I know
you're not one of the secretaries, but you seem a lot of fun and I
think you should come with us!  I'd love if it if you came!
 Please?"

Lisa hesitates to answer.  Her status as a rising executive was
important to her --- what would people think of her if she hung
out every week with giggling secretaries?  And yet, she did have
fun with Yukie, until she realized the show she was giving through
the window, at least.  She couldn't decide what to say, but then
she remembered. This is a skirt day, isn't it?  She felt her pussy
moisten at the concept, at not having to make the choice, at
having her garment or perhaps her moistening pussy decide for her.
"Yes," she said, "yes, I will join you!  See you Monday."

After leaving Yukie on the third floor, Lisa realizes she is again
running late for her meeting.  On her own floor, she rushes down
the hallway of cubicles to get her notes.  As she goes, she can
feel her skirt flip around her thighs, but she knows she doesn't
have time to get it under control.  She just hopes nobody notices.

She grabs her notebook from her desk and rushes into the
conference room.  Her entire department is already there, seated,
and complete silence enshrouds the room at her entrance.  All eyes
are upon her.  Lisa looks down at herself.  She can see her
nipples through her blouse.  She can see the entirety of her naked
legs.  Her skirt is just barely hiding her ass.  She can see the
top of her chest start to turn red, and she knows her face must be
a similar hue.  And her lack of panties becomes most obvious to
her as she feels the moisture of arousal start to slide down her
inner left thigh.  "Oh my god," she says to herself under her
breath, and all she can think about is masturbating.  It would
feel so good.  Maybe Cheryl will let her after the meeting!  Her
frustrating arousal is getting the better of her, she thinks!  "I
can't believe I'm thinking of masturbation at a time like this!"
she thinks to herself.  She tugs at her skirt and says to the
room, "Art, you're first.  Let's hear your report."

She needs to sit down and do her best to hide.  A few chairs are
open in the conference room, but she sees that one of the tables
in the front of the room is free.  She remembered her conversation
with Yukie: if I sit in the front, they can't see up my skirt.  As
humiliating as her outfit was, she couldn't be seen without her
parties!  So she quickly rushes to the seat, hangs her purse off
the back, puts down her notebook, and sits.  She feels the wood of
the seat against her completely bare ass.

Art begins talking about the budget and Lisa's mind drifts.  She
starts to wonder how she should approach Cheryl about
masturbating.  She is annoyed that Cheryl took her panties for no
good reason, but she wants Cheryl's permission to masturbate!  She
decides she should be very nice when she goes to get her panties
back, and ask.  She knows Cheryl wants to humiliate her, so she
will show humility when she asks.  Then she realizes that as she
daydreams about masturbating, she is missing the budget report for
her department! She needs to pay attention!

She picks up her pencil and begins to take notes on Art's
presentation.  As she starts to get lost thinking about how to
change spending to compensate for the low numbers Art is
presenting,  she feels a slight itch on her lower back.  She puts
her pencil down and reaches behind her to scratch her back, and
she hears some giggling behind her. She quickly turns to look to
see who it is. The giggling behind her stops as she turns around.
Who was giggling?  Were they giggling at her? Could they have
somehow discovered that she was pantyless today? And if so, HOW?!!
Oh my god, she thinks! What if I'm not covered from behind?!? She
looks behind her and found that her scratching was lifting up her
skirt, and the skirt is so short that her bare ass might have been
visible from behind!  Embarrassed, she sits up and pulls the skirt
under herself as far as she can, but it hopelessly falls away
behind the chair again.  She tries to return her attention back to
the budget report but she finds that she cannot focus.  Did
someone see her bare ass?  Does someone in the room know?  She
looks at Steve, who is sitting at the side of the room, but he is
taking notes and paying no attention to her.  Who saw? Who was
giggling?  Maybe they were giggling at something else.

When Art finishes his report, Lisa barely notices.  As the
chairperson of the meeting, the room's attention falls on her, but
she is still adjusting her skirt, trying to hide her decency.
Finally she notices the silence and snaps back to attention.  "Uh,
thank you Art, no questions from me today.  Anyone?"  The room is
silent.

Lisa is flustered.  Her pussy is screaming at her for attention,
but she is in the middle of a meeting and in charge of directing
it!  Never before has she felt so much in the "hot seat," although
ironically her seat still feels cold on her bare flesh!  "Thank
you all for coming to the meeting today, but I think I need to go
make some decisions regarding Art's very revealing, um, figures.
Numbers.  His numbers.  His revealing numbers.  So let's cut it
short today -- send me an email with any other concerns, and we'll
meet here again next week."

Lisa tries to smile at her coworkers as they file out of the room.
They are giving her strange looks.  Usually these meetings run for
hours and hours as she asks questions and piles more and more work
upon her employees.  Even those at the meeting not directly
employed by her feel burdened by the work they have to catch up on
after talking to her.  But today, she thinks, today she just
seemed clueless.  She wasn't even paying attention.  What is wrong
with me?

She knows what is wrong with her.  She needs to have an orgasm.
Something about the way all these men are looking at her,
something about how Steve's hand felt earlier as he pushed her by
the ass into the hallway, something about how Cheryl demanded her
panties for no good reason --- all these things have turned her on
to the point of frustration.  She needs to orgasm now, so she can
focus her mind back on her work.  And she knows that if she does
it without permission, she will feel guilty and worry all day that
Cheryl might find out, and somehow punish her!

She stands up and smooths out her skirt.  With her handbag and her
notebook, she walks slowly, so as not to be any more exposed than
she has to be, back to her desk.  She drops off her things and
slowly approaches Cheryl's cubicle. Cheryl is there, working on
her computer.

"Cheryl," whispers Lisa.  Cheryl continues working on her
computer.

"Cheryl!" whispers Lisa, a little louder.  Cheryl, still looking
at her computer screen, holds up a finger indicating to wait.

Lisa waits.  She waits a little longer.  She is standing at
Cheryl's cubicle door at a time in the afternoon when there is a
lot of traffic in the hallway, and she feels the eyes of passersby
on the backs of her naked thighs.  She holds down her skirt,
hoping her buttocks are not visible.  Cheryl continues reading
from her computer screen.

"CHERYL!  CAN I TALK TO YOU PLEASE?" says Lisa in her loudest
whisper.

Cheryl snaps her head around and looks sternly at Lisa.

"Bend down here," whispers Cheryl, "I want to whisper something in
your ear."

Lisa bends her knees and squats so that her ear is close to
Cheryl's mouth.

"No, not like that," says Cheryl.  "Keep your knees straight and
try again."

Lisa stands up.  She knows at least the bottom of her ass will be
revealed if she does it.  Should she refuse?  She reminds herself:
be nice, ask permission.  She does as instructed and bends over at
the waist.  She feels the skirt ride up the tops of her thighs and
then up her bare ass.  She knows people are walking down the
hallway behind her.  Surely someone will see!

Once Lisa's ear is close to Cheryl's mouth, Cheryl whispers "I
told you to wait, and you did not listen.  You are not my boss
yet.  Now, I told you I'd give you your panties back, but now I'm
not so sure I should."

Lisa, still bent over with ass exposed, whispers back, "Cheryl,
I'm truly sorry.  I just . . . well, I really need to orgasm.
Please, may I have permission to go to the bathroom and touch
myself?  I don't think I'll be able to get any work done if I
don't."

Cheryl turns her chair and puts her left hand on Lisa's thigh.
"Aroused, are we?"

Cheryl's soft hand feels like electricity on Lisa's sensitive
thigh.  "God yes.  I really need it."

Cheryl touches Lisa lightly, and traces her fingers up the insides
of Lisa's thigh.  "Tell me again what you need?"

Lisa feels Cheryl's hand coming close to her very wet pussy.  It
reminds her of the hand on the subway, except Cheryl's is gentle
and teasing.  Lisa yearns to be touched higher.  "I need to come.
I need very badly to come.  Please."

Cheryl slides her hand up Lisa's skirt and puts her thumb on
Lisa's naked pussy lips.  They are extremely moist, and Cheryl
rubs the moisture up and down.  Lisa's knees become shaky and she
releases a small, whispered moan.  "I like you like this," says
Cheryl, "all frustrated.  I don't like it when you're pushy, like
you were a few seconds ago."

Lisa can barely stand the touch of Cheryl's teasing fingers.  Her
arousal is causing her head to spin.  If Cheryl would just touch
her clit, she knows she could orgasm, right there with her butt
exposed to the whole office.  That would be so humiliating, she
thinks --- so much that maybe Cheryl will do it!  She finds
herself yearning for it.  "Please," she says, "Cheryl, please
touch me harder.  Touch my . . . my . . ."

"Your what?" asks Cheryl, as she continues to tease Lisa's wet
lips.

Lisa can't bring herself to say "clitoris" out loud.  It seems
like such a dirty word.  "You know!  Please, I'm begging."

Cheryl smiles and whispers, "Now, Lisa, you know you are not
allowed to orgasm without permission."  Lisa nods, her mouth
gaping open from pleasure, "and you do NOT have permission.  Pushy
girls like you don't get to orgasm until they learn not to be so
pushy!"  Lisa's heart sinks.  "Also, you are forbidden to ever
orgasm while not wearing a skirt, do you understand?  This means
you only get to come on skirt days, and even then only when I say
you can.  Do you understand?"

Lisa tries to rub herself on Cheryl's hand, but Cheryl pulls away.
"Do you understand?" repeats Cheryl.  Lisa, now left hanging and
frustrated, whispers "yes, I understand."

"Now," says Cheryl, "I promised you your panties back and here
they are."

Cheryl opens her bottom desk drawer and takes out a plastic bag.
She hands the plastic bag to Lisa.

Lisa stands up and takes the bag.  When she opens it, she gets a
strong whiff of something.  What is that smell?  It is familiar,
but she has not smelled it in a long time.

She pulls the panties out of the bag and sees something drip from
them.

"Eww," she says, "they're wet!" Cheryl smiles as Lisa examines the
panties further.  She looks inside them and finds that the inside
of the crotch is covered with a white slime.  That's not from me,
she thinks.  Then she realizes what it is --- what she smelled.

Cheryl laughs as she sees Lisa slowly come to understand.  She
beckons with her finger, "Bend back down here."

Lisa squats down.  "Not like that!"

Lisa straightens her knees and again bends at the waist, never
failing to notice her tiny skirt raising above the bottom of her
butt cheeks.  "You don't get to come," says Cheryl, "because you
were so pushy.  But you've got a secret admirer who had quite a,
shall we say, bountiful orgasm.  He also knows you weren't wearing
panties today.  As soon as I mentioned that and handed him this
garment he shot his load into it like there was no tomorrow.  I
wish you could have seen it!"

Lisa cannot believe what she is hearing.  Her humiliation washes
over her, and she feels a little queasy.

"Go ahead, put them on!"

Lisa looks again at the drenched panties.  "Who was it?" asked
Lisa.

"I won't tell you unless you put them on.  And even then I might
not.  But if you don't put them on, then your little video is in
an office-wide email in about 15 seconds."

Lisa looks at Cheryl and sees that she is serious.  She bends down
and puts her high-heeled shoes through the panty legholes and
begins pulling the wet, smelly garment up her legs.  When it
reaches her thighs she can feel the slightly warm, gooey fluid on
her bare leg.  She pauses, and Cheryl beckons her to continue.
When she pulls them all the way up, a small squishy sound is heard
and she can feel the soaked crotch against her own wetness.

"There now," whispers Cheryl, "you're decent."

"Who was it?" asks Lisa.

Cheryl smiles.  "I promised him I wouldn't tell.  And I always
keep my promises.  Now do try to get some work done!"

Chapter 19: Willpower

Lisa was not able to get much work done.  All day, her pussy
continued to gush and she could think of little except how good it
would feel to touch herself.  As she tried to read budget sheets,
her hand unconsciously drifted under her tiny skirt to her
panties.  She was disgusted by the presence of an unknown man's
slime there, mixing with her own honey, but she could not help but
touch that wet spot.   After fingering herself mostly to orgasm
she would stop, remembering both that Cheryl had forbidden her,
and that any passer-by could peer into her cubicle and see this
very private behavior.  She cursed herself each time, first for
raising the risk of getting caught masturbating in her office, and
second for keeping her arousal so high.  If she could just forget
about it, perhaps she would calm down?

But she did not calm down, and when the clock struck 5pm she
decided it was time to give up and go home.

She had avoided any further departures from her cubicle, knowing
that her panties were so easily exposed in her ultra-short skirt,
and that anyone could see how wet they were.  What would they
think?  As she walked out of the office, she did so slowly,
attempting to hold down her hem.

The subway was especially frightening, since the gusts of wind in
the tunnels threatened to flip up her skirt, and the cold air made
her especially conscious of her moistness.  When finally she got
in a subway car, she decided not to even try sitting down.

By the time she got home, she was shaky.  She had been on edge for
hours: nervous, anxious, horny.  As soon as she walked in the
door, she pulled off the wet panties and threw them into her
laundry hamper.  ``So nice to get that disgusting thing off," she
said aloud.

She ate a microwave dinner and had a glass of wine and decided to
head into bed early.

Sitting in the privacy of her bed, her hand drifted beneath her
pajama pants as she thought of her day.  Goodness.  It hardly
seemed real.  Thinking of herself in that skirt, and that blouse,
with everyone watching.  It seemed more like a slapstick cartoon
than her life.  But she had no doubts about her feelings: the idea
that her dripping wet pussy was so close to being exposed to her
entire office gave her a warm, tingly feeling that she did not
fully understand.  As she thought about it and touched herself,
she felt herself come closer to orgasm.

She stopped herself.  Cheryl had forbidden her.  But really, she
thought, how would Cheryl know?  There would be no way for Cheryl
to prove if she brought herself to orgasm, right there in her bed
before going to sleep.  So why not?

The temptation was overwhelming, and the orgasm so very, very
close, but she thought of her cartoon life and somehow knew that
the warm, tingly feeling she had all day would be ruined if she
didn't show her willpower now.  Yes, Cheryl was trying to
humiliate her --- and maybe so was Steve --- but she felt that her
own self dignity would only truly be lost if she gave in to this
temptation.  So she removed her hand from her pants, closed her
eyes, and tried to sleep.

She had trouble sleeping, though, with images of Steve's erection
through his sweatpants and Cheryl's unblinking video camera
running through her head.  She wasn't sure when she drifted off,
but it was surely after two in the morning.

When her alarm clock rings at 6, then, Lisa can barely get out of
bed.  Her eyes feel as though they are glued shut, and her muscles
don't seem to respond.

Her shower wakes her up a little, but her body truly arises when
her routine comes to her clothes.  What should she wear today?

She looks through her skirts.  There's the pleated black skirt,
that swirls around, threatening to expose her with every step. And
then Yukie's skirt, which actually /does/ expose her with every
step.  And then the black skirt that Cheryl bought her, which is
tight and hides nothing.  And that's all that's in her closet!
Where is the brown skirt she bought?  Where is the green one?  She
didn't pick out any of this!  All these skirts leave her
practically naked from the waist down!

She couldn't bring herself to pick one out.  Despite all she's
been through, it seems wrong to her to dress so provocatively in
the office!  She only did so previously because she was ordered
to, she thinks.  So she runs through her memory: what do I /have/
to wear today?  Thinking about it, she can think of no
instructions.  It's not a Wednesday; nobody said anything about
what I have to wear today!

This simple revelation has a strange effect on Lisa.  She is not
certain whether it is relief that she feels, as she picks out her
favorite pair of beige slacks and slides them up her legs, or
whether it is disappointment.

Dressed in a normal work outfit, she gets her usual morning coffee
and boards the subway at her usual time.  No strange looks greet
her as she enters the office, and when she gets to her cubicle,
her normal workload occupies her mind and her time.

As the hours drift by, Lisa begins to acknowledge that her life
has not changed much.  Her coworkers still seem to treat her with
respect.  She has heard nothing from Cheryl---no humiliating
orders!  And although she tried to smile at Steve more than she
used to he seems to be his normal, businesslike self.  Did all
that stuff really happen, she wonders?  Was that really me?

Her lunch goes by, and as usual, she eats alone.  She looks for
Steve but cannot find him in the cafeteria.  She thinks of saying
hello to Yukie but would not know what to say.  She finds herself
even hoping to hear from Cheryl.  But besides the usual
interaction with her coworkers, her day goes by without so much as
an unusual glance.  I suppose my beige slacks and green blouse
don't turn as many heads, she thinks.

At about 3 o'clock, her telephone rings.  Not expecting any calls,
her head goes through a list of possibilities as to who it could
be.

"Hello?"

"Lisa?"

"Yes, this is Lisa."

"Lisa!  This is Christie!"

"Oh, hi!  You know, I was just thinking the other day I should
call you!"  Lisa is excited to hear from her old friend.

"Were you?  You haven't called me in over a year, you know."

Lisa knows that she is bad at keeping track of her old friends.
Christie is the only one she has tried to stay in touch with, but
she knows she lets herself get too busy, and forgets to ever pick
up the phone.  The weeks turn into months, the months into years .
. .

"Oh, I'm so sorry.  Has it been that long?  The time seems to just
fly by.  I'm so busy with work, you know, and - "

"Don't worry about it, Lisa.  I've heard all that before.  I know
you're busy.  And heck, I haven't called you either, have I?
Anyway, I know you're at work so I'll keep this short.  I'm flying
into town a week from today!  I can explain why later.  It's kind
of complicated.  But anyway, do you think I could stay with you in
that big empty house of yours?"

Lisa laughs.  "Of course!  I look forward to it!"

"It is still empty, isn't it?  Or is there finally a man I might
meet?"

"Oh," Lisa begins, not certain if she should say anything about
Steve, "I've gone on a date or two.  Um.  Well, I guess it was
only one.  Seems like it was more . . . "

"Well, even one sounds like progress for you!  Anyway, I'll let
you go, but I'll see you in a week and we'll talk all about it
then. I'll call you from the airport; I get in next Thursday about
6pm. Kay?"

"Great!  See you then!"

Thinking back on it that night, Lisa realized that if it were not
for one other event, that phone call would have been the only
out-of-the-ordinary event in her entire day.  Have all her days
been so empty, she thought to herself?  Am I that boring?

Lisa was not worried, though, because of that other event.  As she
had walked down the hallway on a small errand later in the day,
she ran into her boss, Jim.  He smiled at her, said "I'm looking
forward to tomorrow.  It's your big chance!"  And he made a Johnny
Carson golf swing gesture.

Lisa had not forgotten about the golf outing, but now that the
event was near she started to worry.  She knew nothing about golf.
What if the directors didn't like her?  What if . . .

 . . . what if Cheryl chooses this event, which could be the most
 important in her career, to completely degrade and humiliate her?

 Of course!  Cheryl had instructed her to show up at the crack of
 dawn in the office before leaving.  5:30 am!  Cheryl wouldn't
 come in that early unless she really, really wanted to do
 something horrible, Lisa thought.  What could it be?

 As she lay in bed early that night, Lisa couldn't tell whether
 her anxiety was fear of Cheryl's unknown plan---or eager
 anticipation. "Probably it will be horrible.  Humiliating and
 horrible," she said to herself in the darkness of her bedroom, as
 she made herself pull her hand out of her pajama pants in order
 to sleep.

 20: To the Links

When Lisa's alarm began it's cruel buzzing at 4am Lisa was
extremely tempted to turn it off, sleep in, and forget about her
whole career.  But she knew she could not do that, so after a few
cycles of the snooze button she got out of the bed and made
herself a cup of coffee.  The sun was not yet up at this hour,
but she had to prepare for her big day.

A long, warm shower helped only a little to shake her from her
sleepiness.  She simply had not gotten enough sleep.

After the shower, wearing her long bathrobe and sipping coffee
from a white mug, she laid out her clothes for the day.  They were
chosen, this time, by Jim, and she realized that she had not yet
even tried them on.  "I hope they fit" she said to herself.  She
lay the green and white golf shirt and the white pleated skirt on
the bed and searched for some suitable underwear.

She began with a simple pair of cotton panties and a matching
bra.  Then she pulled the green and white golf shirt.  It was
actually a little tight over her breasts, and the slightly rough
cotton material hugged them tightly.  However, it was the right
length and fit well in the arms.  Then she pulled on the skirt.
It fit very well at the waste and came to just above her knees.
The pleats gave it a nice A-shape and a nice swirl when she moved.
"Downright prudish compared to the other skirts in my closet," she
said aloud again.  She picked out some white socks and athletic
shoes, and made her way to the subway.

It was now 5:05 and she was running late.  It seemed unlikely that
she would reach her office by 5:30, when she promised to meet with
Cheryl, but at least she was in a pair of running shoes so she
could rush into and out of the subway train.

The subway itself was almost empty at that hour.  Hardly anyone
was awake at that hour to see Lisa running from the train, her
skirt swishing as she jogged to her office.

It was 5:48am when she rushed directly to Cheryl's cubicle.
Cheryl was at her desk sipping a cup of coffee.  She gave Lisa a
stern look when Lisa arrived at her door, panting.  "About time,"
she said.  "You're late!  We don't have much time.  Come with me
to the ladies room."

Lisa followed Cheryl to the bathroom, wondering and worrying.
What is she going to make me do? she thought.   She noticed Cheryl
carrying a brown paper bag.  What's in there?

Once in the privacy of the bathroom, Cheryl reached into her
paper bag and first pulled out a blindfold.  "Put this on.  This
will be more fun with a little bit of surprise.  Hurry."  Lisa did
so and found that the darkness greatly increased her worry and her
arousal.  She felt herself beginning to moisten.

She heard the rustle of the paper bag, but nothing happened
for a few minutes.  She could hear Cheryl doing something, but she
could not figure out what it was.  Suddenly she felt Cheryl's
hands reaching under her skirt and pulling down her panties.

"Can I please keep the panties today, Cheryl," Lisa pleaded.
Cheryl laughed and she lifted Lisa's feet one by one to remove the
cotton garment.  Lisa felt vulnerable.  She had to meet the
directors of her company today.  Her career depended on today.
She always imagined that on a day like this she would at least be
wearing underwear.

Suddenly, Lisa felt a cold, slimy, firm object beginning to enter
her asshole!  "Oh my god!" she shrieked.

"Quiet!" said Cheryl, as the large but slippery object slid
further into Lisa's ass.  "I'm sorry I don't have time to do this
less brutishly, but you were late."  She felt the object inserted
inside her and it seemed to get wider and wider.  Lisa worried
that the pain would get worse and let out a yelp.  Cheryl
continued to push it in firmly, and Lisa eventually relaxed and
let it in.  Lisa worried as it got wider still, seeming to fill
her from behind, and then suddenly it stopped and stayed there!
She expected it to fall out, or keep going in, but it did neither.

"We're not done," said Cheryl.  Lisa felt the urge to push the
object in her ass out, and she even tried doing so with her
sphincter, but it persisted.  Then, she felt Cheryl's hands on her
pussy.  "Nice and wet," said Cheryl.  "I knew you'd like this."
Lisa could feel Cheryl rubbing some slippery fluid on her slit and
a little on her clit, and indeed it felt extremely erotic.  But
just as Lisa felt an orgasm starting to build, Cheryl stopped for
a moment.  Then, Lisa felt something hard and round at her slit.
Cheryl was pushing it in.

This time Lisa said nothing, expecting another large dildo-like
object, but a moment later she felt the object slide in
completely.  It must have been small, about the size of a golf
ball, although it felt much, much larger.  "Is that my golf ball
today?" she asked, dying to know what Cheryl was doing.  Her
blindfold left her completely sightless.

"No," said Cheryl, "this one will stay hidden.  I'm sure Jim will
provide other balls for you to play with.  You are not to take
this one out for any reason today."  Lisa could feel the little
ball inside her.  She also felt a small piece of stiff string
against her inner thigh.  That must be for getting it out, later,
she thought.  Then she felt Cheryl's hands on her ankle, lifting
one foot, and then the other.  Then, the biggest surprise of all!
Cheryl was pulling Lisa's cotton panties back up her legs!  Cheryl
pulled them all the way up and adjusted them neatly.  She then let
Lisa's skirt fall back down.

"Thank you," said Lisa, genuinely grateful for the protection of
her underwear.

"We're not done yet," said Cheryl, as she started to pull Lisa's
shirt off.  Lisa helped get the tight golf shirt off.  She felt
Cheryl starting to unhook her bra.  "Since you asked for your
panties so nicely, I thought I'd let you keep them.  But I'm
taking this horrible bra."  Her breasts bare, Lisa then felt
Cheryl rubbing and pinching her nipples.  They became stiff.  She
then felt Cheryl pull the nipples out and wrap something tight
around them.  Lisa guessed they must have been little rubber
bands.  Then Cheryl put the tight golf shirt back on Lisa, without
the bra.  The rough material again rubbed against Lisa's breasts,
and this time with no bra the feeling on her erect nipples was
electric.

"It's 6:04, Lisa.  You're late.  You'd better go find Jim," Cheryl
said as she took off the blindfold.

Lisa took a quick look at herself in the mirror.  She looked like
she had in the morning.  Her knee-length skirt hid her thighs and
her golf shirt looked quite appropriate for a country club,
although she could easily see her nipples poking through the
shirt.  Obvious though they were, she hoped they would be
sufficiently subtle in front of the directors---heck, she thought,
they might even help me get the job.

But as she turned to walk out of the bathroom, she almost fainted
from the sensations.  The object in her ass felt like a baseball
bat, and it seemed to move around inside her as she walked.  The
object in her pussy also moved against her inner walls as she
walked, making her feel full and calling constant attention to her
crotch.  But also the motion of her arms rubbed her tight, rough
shirt against her nipples, which were constantly pinched by the
rubber bands leaving them extremely sensitive.  Even as she walked
the 8 feet from the mirror to the bathroom door, she was extremely
conscious of her ass, her pussy, and her breasts, and felt almost
as if the sensations could lead her to orgasm.

When she got out of the bathroom, she realized she was not
receiving these sensations in the privacy of her bedroom, or even
the ladies room.  She was now in her office, and some of the early
birds were starting to arrive.  Cheryl whispered in her ear just
before she left, "Keep everything how it is until you get back
from your trip.  No touching any of your clothes.  Now hurry.
Have a good time!"

Lisa walked quickly to Jim's office, feeling the plug in her ass
and the egg in her pussy wiggle and torment her.  Jim was there,
waiting, wearing khaki pants, a navy blue golf shirt, and a white
baseball cap.  "There you are!" he said.  "Are you ready to go?"

"I'm ready!" Lisa said, and she followed Jim to the underground
garage for his car, feeling her insides sensually poked as she
walked.

The ride to the golf club took about forty minutes, during which
time Jim and Lisa mainly spoke about work.  Lisa did her best to
concentrate on the conversation, but the giant plug in her ass and
the constant irritation of her nipples distracted her, and to make
things worse she was still feeling sleepy.

As Jim pulls into the club, he changes the topic of the
conversation.

"Today we'll be golfing with Bill Masters and Tony Parkins.  Bill,
Tony, and I have been friends for a long time.  They will have a
lot of clout to help me get you that promotion.  After I introduce
you, call them Bill and Tony.  If you call them Mr. Masters or Mr.
Parkins you will seem undeserving.  And be sure you only call me
Jim.  No "sir" today.  Is that clear?"

So, Lisa thinks, he wants me to think of myself as an equal.  She
chuckles for a moment, thinking of her skirt, her promise to obey,
and today's "preparation."  She is anything but an equal today!
But she sees Jim trying to help, and knows she must take his
advice.  "Okay, Jim" Lisa says.

They park and Jim takes his golf clubs from the trunk.  "So, you
said you don't know how to golf?  Do you have any experience?"

Lisa swallows nervously.  She had blocked from her thoughts the
fact that actual golfing would take place.  "I've never touched a
golf club," she says.

"Well," says Jim, "it doesn't matter.  Just follow us around.
We'll teach you a thing or two whenever we're far enough ahead.
But it's probably not worth renting your own set of clubs . . ."

Lisa begins to relax knowing that she wouldn't be expected to
compete.  But then Jim begins to quickly walk from the parking lot
to the clubhouse, and Lisa keeps pace.  Every step moves her
butt-plug around and causes her pleated skirt to swish around her
bare legs.  By the time they come in sight of the start of the
course, Lisa is feeling very distracted and very aroused.  She
isn't sure she will be able to last the whole day!

As they approach the course, Lisa sees two men waiting with their
clubs in a golf cart.  They spot Jim and wave.  "There they are,"
says Jim.  He then reminds her: "It's important that you make a
good impression."  At that moment, Lisa suddenly feels a sensation
in her pussy unlike any she has felt before.  "What the?" she says
out loud.  She nearly collapses.  The sensation is pleasurable,
but intensely so.  After a moment she realizes that the object
Cheryl inserted in her that morning has started vibrating!

"Is something wrong?" asks Jim, looking surprised.

Lisa glares at him.  "Why are you doing this to me?" asks Lisa.

"Excuse me?" Jim and Lisa stop walking for a moment.  "I'm
introducing you to Bill and Tony because I want you to get the
promotion.  You're the best we've had in our department since I
arrived, and even though you're young you're the most qualified.
It's that simple.  Now please don't be nervous and just - "

"No, not that," says Lisa, the pleasure beginning to overtake her.
She worries that she is beginning to sweat noticeably.  She
worries that she will soon orgasm.  "The other thing."

"What other thing?"

"You know, the other thing!"

"Lisa," says Jim, "I really don't know what you're talking about."

Lisa looks for a smirk or a knowing glance from Jim, but she sees
only confusion.  Maybe he doesn't know what's happening under
here, thinks Lisa.  She quickly looks around, wondering if Cheryl
is hiding in a bush somewhere with a remote control.  But she sees
nothing suspicious.  Lisa decides she must play it cool, and
despite the giant plug in her ass, the vibrating egg in her pussy,
and her extremely erect nipples rubbing against her rough shirt,
she wipes the sweat from her forehead and resolves to make the
most professional impression she can.

"Never mind," says Lisa.  "It's nothing.  I'm ready to meet Bill
and Tony."

---------------

February 26, 2005 Dear Readers,

As many of you know, it is now nearly March, and this latest
addition follows a silence from me that has lasted since October.
I fear that another silence will follow, which will likely last
just as long.  Alas, there are pressing urgencies in my "real"
life that have taken precedence over this writing.

But I assure you that I continue my intent to not only continue
this story, but also to answer every email that you send me, even
if it takes many years.  And indeed, I only have rushed out this
addition to attempt to favorably address the many email requests I
have recently received.  I also have recently had an excellent
idea for a new story that I am very excited about writing, but I
must wait for a time to give it a proper treatment.  Add this to
the 4 or 5 other ideas that have only barely begun to become
stories, and many years of writing will result.

So please be assured that I have not vanished, that I will still
answer your email, and that someday this and other stories will
continue.

If you would like to be informed when this distant day comes,
please let send me an email with a request, and I will add you to
an email list for that purpose.  I promise not to share, sell, or
otherwise abuse that email address.

I apologize for this lag in writing, but you get what you pay for
in this life.

I thank you for your interest.

C. Maxwell flapaddict@yahoo.com

P.S. Still to come:

Ch. 21: Links, in which Lisa receives a few lessons from Bill and
Tony, which she later discusses with her therapist.  What
impression will she make?

Ch. 22: Party, in which Lisa buys a party dress with Cheryl and
becomes the guest of honor at a dinner party.  Who is invited?
Here she catches a brief glimpse of a larger BDSM community.

Ch. 23: Promotion, in which Lisa goes shopping on her Sunday, and
finds a skirt she simply must wear on Monday.  On Monday morning
we find out who gets the big promotion.  Is it Lisa?  Is it
Cheryl?  Or is it someone else?

Ch. 24: Lunch with Yukie and the other secretaries.  Where exactly
does Lisa belong?

Ch. 25: Lisa's second relapse.  On Tuesday and Wednesday Lisa gets
pushed too far.

Ch. 26: Christie.  A visit from an old friend reveals secrets from
Lisa's past.

And onward . . .

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