Miltone
Shameless Romantic
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OOC: Isn't it amusing how your life can take an unintended turn, and pleasantly so, when you least expect it? Sometimes it's just the result of throwing off your usual concerns and simply taking a chance, for often things are not what they appear to be. Please follow along as Original_Cyn2 and I tell this little story of sexual serendipity. Will Randi want to accept the job? Will Chazz be tempted to fool around with the hired help? Will Randi find a way to “inspire” Chazz to finish his latest novel? Hmm, so many questions …
Chazz Mitchell
“Oh, shit! God-damn! Motherfucker! Fuck it all!”
Chazz looked over toward the neighboring table where the cursing had come from. The voice had been husky sounding and female. Chazz expected to see a wizened old broad. Instead he saw a young woman, maybe early twenties slamming her cell phone down onto the table. She shook her head, her shoulder-length jet-black hair swirling about a pretty face. She took a healthy drink from her latte and fumbled with the papers in front of her, pulling up the folded up newspaper want ads and peering at them closely. She ran a hand through her thick hair brushing it back from her face so she could read. Chazz realized that he was staring and started to look away when she looked over at him, her light sky blue eyes catching him with a penetrating gaze.
“What?” she said loudly. “You got nose trouble or something?”
“Nothing,” Chazz said with a smirk. “Just kind of odd to hear a pretty young woman cussing like a truck driver this early in the morning.”
“You heard what I said?” she said, her glaring gaze softening a little as a light blush reddened her cheeks. “Sorry, I didn’t think I was that loud.”
“You were,” Chazz chuckled. “But … no big deal.”
He turned back to his table. Like many other mornings lately, Chazz had come to the California Café for a cappuccino and a look at the complimentary newspaper as a break from his work. Two months into his latest novel and he had only a handful of decent pages to show his agent. Not writer’s block exactly, but starting to look like it. In his mind, he knew the story on which he was working, he knew the characters and where he wanted to take them. He was just having a difficult time working up the motivation to pour out the words onto the page … er, computer screen.
He turned back to his newspaper and tried to read but caught himself glancing over at the young woman across from him. She was sitting cross-legged at her table, one hand holding a cell phone while the other held her newspaper. Her eyes brightened and she set her paper down and began to punch out a number on her cell phone. Chazz looked back to his own paper but couldn’t help listening to her side of her phone conversation. The girl’s voice became sweeter with just a slight flavor of sex.
“Hello, I’m calling about the job you advertised in the Journal … yes, uh-huh … okay, I’ll hold on …”
Chazz tried to remain inconspicuous as he watched the girl out of the corner of his eye. She uncrossed her legs. She was wearing a very, very tight pair of jeans that rode low on her hips and a soft pink t-shirt top that clung to her body and revealed a lovely band of tanned skin around her midsection. Her foot began to rock up and down anxiously. When she leaned forward and rested her elbows on the table, Chazz could see that she was sporting a nice pair of breasts, not too big, not too small, just a nice sweet pair, maybe a little more than a handful. Chazz smirked and looked back to his newspaper and sipped from his cappuccino.
“Okay, thanks,” the girl said into her phone, straightening up in her chair and running her hand through her black hair again. Why do people primp when they’re on the phone? Chazz asked himself and made a mental note for his book. It was easy to see that the girl had a very pretty face, pleasing bone structure, high rounded cheekbones, a wide spaced mouth, and beautiful brilliant white teeth that she showed off nicely when she smiled. “Hi, I’m calling about the job that’s in the Journal … Yes, uh-huh … Can you tell me just what kind of position it’s for? … Oh, I see … I understand … Do you have any other openings? … Well, can I leave my number or something? … Resume? Yes, I have a resume … To the address in the ad … Yeah … All right … Thank you for your time … Okay … Bye.”
“Shit!” the girl swore in a much lower toned voice than before, but the look on her face spoke loudly of her anger and frustration.
Chazz pretended to be reading his newspaper. There was an interesting article about a book about Iraq published by the US Military back in World War II that drew his attention. But from the corner of his eye he saw the girl glance over at him, kind of giving him the up and down and then she smiled and turned back to newspaper want ads. She let out a deep sigh and began to tap her toe to an imaginary beat. A few moments later, she looked back in Chazz’s direction and he looked up from his paper and their eyes met. They both sort of nodded in acknowledgement and smiled. She was a beautiful girl. Chazz figured that she would be able to get a job on just her looks alone.
“Job hunting?” he ventured.
“Yeah,” she said with another disgusted sigh. “I hate looking for a job.”
“What kind of position are you looking for?” he asked trying to sound as earnest as he felt.
“At this point, I’d settle for hotel maid,” she laughed. Chazz chuckled too. “But I probably wouldn’t get that cause I don’t have any experience.”
“What kind of experience do you have?”
“Office, clerical kind of things … secretary,” she said.
“Anything recent?”
“Yeah, but I just got fired yesterday,” she admitted sadly. “They said that I screwed up some computer files or something, but I know it was cause I wouldn’t fool around with the boss.”
“That sucks!” Chazz commiserated. The girl held her head up and smiled proudly. She had spirit and wasn’t going to take any shit from anybody. Chazz liked that quality.
“And there isn’t anything in here,” she said sadly, tapping her pen on the want ads. She sighed again and looked closely at Chazz. “Say, you wouldn’t know anybody who’s hiring would you?” she asked boldly.
“Hmm, let me think,” Chazz said, rubbing his chin and leaning back in his chair. He had a few friends who ran their own small companies but not a one of them had any openings of which he knew. “Not that I know of,” he said.
“Well, thanks,” she said dejectedly. “Figured it was worth a shot asking.”
Chazz glanced over at her, watching a sad look creep over her face as she turned back to the newspaper. Poor kid, getting fired over something like that. She looked so sweet and so sad. He wished there was something he could do to help her. Maybe she could come to work for me, he thought. I could use some help organizing my research and papers, and my publisher did give me a healthy advance, more than enough to cover the cost of a “personal assistant” for a few weeks at least.
“Say, now that I think about it, I do know someone who might be hiring,” Chazz said. The girl looked up quickly and eagerly.
“You do?”
“Yes, me,” he said. The girl tilted her head slightly to one side and leaned toward him.
“What kind of work?” she asked sounding pretty suspicious.
“I’m a writer and I need someone, sort of like a personal assistant, to help organize my papers and research while I work on my latest novel,” Chazz replied. “You see, I live alone and my place is kind of a mess.”
“You’re a writer? Cool!” she said, her outlook brightening. “What do you pay?”
“Pay? Let me think,” he said his mind scrambling to come up with an offer that might appeal to her. It had been a long, long time since he had to be concerned with wages and salaries. “Well, the last girl who worked for me was making about $750 a week,” he lied. He had never hired someone before and was used to living and working alone, but there was something about this girl that prompted him to make the offer on the spur of the moment.
“Really?” the girl replied, a hint of hesitation in her voice.
“That too little?” Chazz interjected.
“Too little?” the girl laughed. “That’s only like twice of what I was making at my last job.”
“Oh, so then you’re interested?” Chazz asked.
“At this point I’ll consider anything,” the girl replied. “You see, I’m losing my apartment at the end of the week and I really, really need a job to find another place.” She looked down as if ashamed. “It was my old boss’s apartment.”
“Well not to worry, I have a guest house over the garage where you can stay if things get tight,” Chazz offered.
“Thanks, I’ll think about it,” the girl said. “So what kind of novels do you write?”
“Erotic thrillers … you know, beautiful women … wealthy, big houses, fancy cars … threatened by vicious creeps or unfaithful husbands … saved by handsome cops or cute young pool boys … that sort of thing.”
“Just so you know,” the girl said warily. “I’m not the smartest girl, you know, like school and language and all that. I hated English class.”
“But you can read and write?” Chazz asked. Hell, I don’t know a thing about this girl but what has happened over the last half hour, but I’ve got a good feeling about her, he thought.
“Oh, yeah,” she giggled. It was a cute giggle, very young and girlish and innocent. “I can do that … I can do lots of things.”
“We’ll see about that,” Chazz said, unable to keep himself from thinking about all that her answer implied. “So do you want to have a look around and see if you are really interested?”
“Sure,” the girl said, gathering her stuff together. Chazz rose from his table and grabbed his cappuccino.
“By the way, I’m Chazz … Chazz Mitchell,” he said extending his hand formally.
“Oh, yeah,” the girl giggled, standing up and placing her hand in his. “I’m Randi … Randi Meadows.”
“Nice to meet you,” Chazz said. Randi’s hand was soft and light and warm, her long slender fingers capped by lovely manicured nails. “Very nice.” He led the way to the door and couldn’t resist checking her out as they walked toward his car. Luxurious jet-black hair, brilliant blue eyes, pretty face, gorgeous complexion, trim shapely body that was definitely to die for; from her head to her toes, Randi was perfect.
“Your name is familiar,” Randi said. “Would I have seen your books someplace?”
“Maybe if you’ve been in an airport bookstore lately,” Chazz said. The girl looked puzzled but squeezed off a polite little laugh. Sure, he had started out wanting to write the great American novel, but had discovered early on that the reading public loved cheap tawdry erotic thrillers, especially if they contained some hot illicit sex. After his first six potboilers sold out, he stopped worrying about artistic merit and started taking the checks that showed up each month straight to the bank.
“Where’s your car?” Randi asked, clutching her newspaper and folders with her resumes tight to her firm breasts.
“Over there,” Chazz said, gesturing toward the dark green coupe sparkling in the late morning sunshine. “The Bentley. It’s new.”
“Wow!” Randi exclaimed. “You must be a really good writer.”
“Not good, hon, just successful,” Chazz laughed, as he opened the door and watched as Randi slipped inside. He grinned as she tucked her long legs safely inside. What had started out as a really crappy day for both of them had suddenly taken a bright turn. Even the sun had burned away the fog and was now shining brightly.
Chazz Mitchell
“Oh, shit! God-damn! Motherfucker! Fuck it all!”
Chazz looked over toward the neighboring table where the cursing had come from. The voice had been husky sounding and female. Chazz expected to see a wizened old broad. Instead he saw a young woman, maybe early twenties slamming her cell phone down onto the table. She shook her head, her shoulder-length jet-black hair swirling about a pretty face. She took a healthy drink from her latte and fumbled with the papers in front of her, pulling up the folded up newspaper want ads and peering at them closely. She ran a hand through her thick hair brushing it back from her face so she could read. Chazz realized that he was staring and started to look away when she looked over at him, her light sky blue eyes catching him with a penetrating gaze.
“What?” she said loudly. “You got nose trouble or something?”
“Nothing,” Chazz said with a smirk. “Just kind of odd to hear a pretty young woman cussing like a truck driver this early in the morning.”
“You heard what I said?” she said, her glaring gaze softening a little as a light blush reddened her cheeks. “Sorry, I didn’t think I was that loud.”
“You were,” Chazz chuckled. “But … no big deal.”
He turned back to his table. Like many other mornings lately, Chazz had come to the California Café for a cappuccino and a look at the complimentary newspaper as a break from his work. Two months into his latest novel and he had only a handful of decent pages to show his agent. Not writer’s block exactly, but starting to look like it. In his mind, he knew the story on which he was working, he knew the characters and where he wanted to take them. He was just having a difficult time working up the motivation to pour out the words onto the page … er, computer screen.
He turned back to his newspaper and tried to read but caught himself glancing over at the young woman across from him. She was sitting cross-legged at her table, one hand holding a cell phone while the other held her newspaper. Her eyes brightened and she set her paper down and began to punch out a number on her cell phone. Chazz looked back to his own paper but couldn’t help listening to her side of her phone conversation. The girl’s voice became sweeter with just a slight flavor of sex.
“Hello, I’m calling about the job you advertised in the Journal … yes, uh-huh … okay, I’ll hold on …”
Chazz tried to remain inconspicuous as he watched the girl out of the corner of his eye. She uncrossed her legs. She was wearing a very, very tight pair of jeans that rode low on her hips and a soft pink t-shirt top that clung to her body and revealed a lovely band of tanned skin around her midsection. Her foot began to rock up and down anxiously. When she leaned forward and rested her elbows on the table, Chazz could see that she was sporting a nice pair of breasts, not too big, not too small, just a nice sweet pair, maybe a little more than a handful. Chazz smirked and looked back to his newspaper and sipped from his cappuccino.
“Okay, thanks,” the girl said into her phone, straightening up in her chair and running her hand through her black hair again. Why do people primp when they’re on the phone? Chazz asked himself and made a mental note for his book. It was easy to see that the girl had a very pretty face, pleasing bone structure, high rounded cheekbones, a wide spaced mouth, and beautiful brilliant white teeth that she showed off nicely when she smiled. “Hi, I’m calling about the job that’s in the Journal … Yes, uh-huh … Can you tell me just what kind of position it’s for? … Oh, I see … I understand … Do you have any other openings? … Well, can I leave my number or something? … Resume? Yes, I have a resume … To the address in the ad … Yeah … All right … Thank you for your time … Okay … Bye.”
“Shit!” the girl swore in a much lower toned voice than before, but the look on her face spoke loudly of her anger and frustration.
Chazz pretended to be reading his newspaper. There was an interesting article about a book about Iraq published by the US Military back in World War II that drew his attention. But from the corner of his eye he saw the girl glance over at him, kind of giving him the up and down and then she smiled and turned back to newspaper want ads. She let out a deep sigh and began to tap her toe to an imaginary beat. A few moments later, she looked back in Chazz’s direction and he looked up from his paper and their eyes met. They both sort of nodded in acknowledgement and smiled. She was a beautiful girl. Chazz figured that she would be able to get a job on just her looks alone.
“Job hunting?” he ventured.
“Yeah,” she said with another disgusted sigh. “I hate looking for a job.”
“What kind of position are you looking for?” he asked trying to sound as earnest as he felt.
“At this point, I’d settle for hotel maid,” she laughed. Chazz chuckled too. “But I probably wouldn’t get that cause I don’t have any experience.”
“What kind of experience do you have?”
“Office, clerical kind of things … secretary,” she said.
“Anything recent?”
“Yeah, but I just got fired yesterday,” she admitted sadly. “They said that I screwed up some computer files or something, but I know it was cause I wouldn’t fool around with the boss.”
“That sucks!” Chazz commiserated. The girl held her head up and smiled proudly. She had spirit and wasn’t going to take any shit from anybody. Chazz liked that quality.
“And there isn’t anything in here,” she said sadly, tapping her pen on the want ads. She sighed again and looked closely at Chazz. “Say, you wouldn’t know anybody who’s hiring would you?” she asked boldly.
“Hmm, let me think,” Chazz said, rubbing his chin and leaning back in his chair. He had a few friends who ran their own small companies but not a one of them had any openings of which he knew. “Not that I know of,” he said.
“Well, thanks,” she said dejectedly. “Figured it was worth a shot asking.”
Chazz glanced over at her, watching a sad look creep over her face as she turned back to the newspaper. Poor kid, getting fired over something like that. She looked so sweet and so sad. He wished there was something he could do to help her. Maybe she could come to work for me, he thought. I could use some help organizing my research and papers, and my publisher did give me a healthy advance, more than enough to cover the cost of a “personal assistant” for a few weeks at least.
“Say, now that I think about it, I do know someone who might be hiring,” Chazz said. The girl looked up quickly and eagerly.
“You do?”
“Yes, me,” he said. The girl tilted her head slightly to one side and leaned toward him.
“What kind of work?” she asked sounding pretty suspicious.
“I’m a writer and I need someone, sort of like a personal assistant, to help organize my papers and research while I work on my latest novel,” Chazz replied. “You see, I live alone and my place is kind of a mess.”
“You’re a writer? Cool!” she said, her outlook brightening. “What do you pay?”
“Pay? Let me think,” he said his mind scrambling to come up with an offer that might appeal to her. It had been a long, long time since he had to be concerned with wages and salaries. “Well, the last girl who worked for me was making about $750 a week,” he lied. He had never hired someone before and was used to living and working alone, but there was something about this girl that prompted him to make the offer on the spur of the moment.
“Really?” the girl replied, a hint of hesitation in her voice.
“That too little?” Chazz interjected.
“Too little?” the girl laughed. “That’s only like twice of what I was making at my last job.”
“Oh, so then you’re interested?” Chazz asked.
“At this point I’ll consider anything,” the girl replied. “You see, I’m losing my apartment at the end of the week and I really, really need a job to find another place.” She looked down as if ashamed. “It was my old boss’s apartment.”
“Well not to worry, I have a guest house over the garage where you can stay if things get tight,” Chazz offered.
“Thanks, I’ll think about it,” the girl said. “So what kind of novels do you write?”
“Erotic thrillers … you know, beautiful women … wealthy, big houses, fancy cars … threatened by vicious creeps or unfaithful husbands … saved by handsome cops or cute young pool boys … that sort of thing.”
“Just so you know,” the girl said warily. “I’m not the smartest girl, you know, like school and language and all that. I hated English class.”
“But you can read and write?” Chazz asked. Hell, I don’t know a thing about this girl but what has happened over the last half hour, but I’ve got a good feeling about her, he thought.
“Oh, yeah,” she giggled. It was a cute giggle, very young and girlish and innocent. “I can do that … I can do lots of things.”
“We’ll see about that,” Chazz said, unable to keep himself from thinking about all that her answer implied. “So do you want to have a look around and see if you are really interested?”
“Sure,” the girl said, gathering her stuff together. Chazz rose from his table and grabbed his cappuccino.
“By the way, I’m Chazz … Chazz Mitchell,” he said extending his hand formally.
“Oh, yeah,” the girl giggled, standing up and placing her hand in his. “I’m Randi … Randi Meadows.”
“Nice to meet you,” Chazz said. Randi’s hand was soft and light and warm, her long slender fingers capped by lovely manicured nails. “Very nice.” He led the way to the door and couldn’t resist checking her out as they walked toward his car. Luxurious jet-black hair, brilliant blue eyes, pretty face, gorgeous complexion, trim shapely body that was definitely to die for; from her head to her toes, Randi was perfect.
“Your name is familiar,” Randi said. “Would I have seen your books someplace?”
“Maybe if you’ve been in an airport bookstore lately,” Chazz said. The girl looked puzzled but squeezed off a polite little laugh. Sure, he had started out wanting to write the great American novel, but had discovered early on that the reading public loved cheap tawdry erotic thrillers, especially if they contained some hot illicit sex. After his first six potboilers sold out, he stopped worrying about artistic merit and started taking the checks that showed up each month straight to the bank.
“Where’s your car?” Randi asked, clutching her newspaper and folders with her resumes tight to her firm breasts.
“Over there,” Chazz said, gesturing toward the dark green coupe sparkling in the late morning sunshine. “The Bentley. It’s new.”
“Wow!” Randi exclaimed. “You must be a really good writer.”
“Not good, hon, just successful,” Chazz laughed, as he opened the door and watched as Randi slipped inside. He grinned as she tucked her long legs safely inside. What had started out as a really crappy day for both of them had suddenly taken a bright turn. Even the sun had burned away the fog and was now shining brightly.
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