Bill, Jack, Tom and Mary got to the bar just before six and were greeted by Julie. "I saved your same table and the usual beers?" Julie asked as she started to lead them back.
Mary interrupted, "Can we get another chair there? We should be joined by a fifth."
"I have something better" Julie said and spun to the right and led them to a corner booth that would easily fit five or six. "Who else are you expecting, I can send them back." Julie said.
"Her name is Crystal, she's my height, blond...beautiful." Mary replied.
"What? You asked someone to join our group without clearing with us? And a beautiful babe on top of that? Amazingly presumptive of you." Bill said jokingly and turned to slide into the booth.
"I cleared it, she is fully vetted." Tom laughed. "She could be Mary's sister, but seems to reveal a bit more in her attire."
After they were seated, Jack looked at Mary. "What is different about you? I know, you look less uptight, You've unbuttoned your top button. I like it. Why the change?"
"I know, Tom informed me that I was too stuffy and looked like and old school marm, so I thought I'd let some light in, so to speak. Anyhow, how was training? Did you have Patterson there? He's so good." Mary replied.
"Yeah, we had him for two sessions, he was good, but I think your friend has arrived." Jack said looking over Mary's shoulder.
Mary turned to see Julie leading Crystal back dressed in tight white shorts cut low on her flawless stomach and a red blouse tied tightly under her full breasts. Mary got up and received a warm hug. She self consciously felt her nipples harden and was aware that Crystal's had also. "I'm really glad you came," Mary said breaking the embrace, "you know Tom, this is Bill and Jack going counter clockwise around the booth. And this is Julie, our good friend here so you have to be nice to her." Mary said laughing.
Crystal smiled at Julie and gave her a hug, then turning back to the booth and while holding her arms down to her side said, "I feel under dressed." Looking around the table at everyone wearing suit coats then over at Mary, "Even you, Mary...Anyhow, it is nice to meet you all, is everyone at your company a hottie?" Crystal looked appraisingly around the table. "Mary, are all these single guys? Your husband lets you hang around with them?"
Jack got up and gave Crystal a quick hug and offered the booth. Crystal slid over between Bill and Jack and in response to Julie asking what she wanted to drink asked for a dry margarita, rocks, with salt.
Jack turned to Crystal, "Tom mentioned that you and Mary could be sisters and I'm amazed how similar you both are. Tall, blonde...great figures, however, " looking over an Mary, "he said you dress a bit more revealingly. Any way you could work with Mary on that?"
Crystal laughed, "She lets her hair down, but apparently everyone of you needs to let their hair down. This is how you relax with suits and ties? I know, the ties are loosened, but Christ I feel naked sitting here with this group." Crystal turned to her right and yanked the tie off Jack and pushed the coat off his shoulders which he shrugged off and hung on the hook by the booth. Then she made a show of slowly unbuttoning the top three buttons on his shirt revealing his muscular, hairy chest. She sat back admiring her work. There, that is so much better, Bill you are next. Soon the guys were sitting there looking a lot more relaxed. Crystal turned to Tom, "Perhaps you could help Mary loosen up a bit?"
Tom looked at Crystal with raised eyebrows and then at Mary. Mary shrugged and turned to face Tom who slid her jacket off her shoulders then took it and draped it over the back of the booth, then turned to look back at Crystal.
"The buttons, are you too shy to touch her chest?" Crystal ordered.
Tom looked at Mary who sat facing him like she was waiting. Tom reached over and popped the second and third buttons, then hesitated and pulled the two sides apart revealing Mary's bulging cleavage and the top of her lacy bra.
"That's better, now I don't feel like I'm a stripper and I'll be needing to give you all lap dances." Crystal laughed.
"Speaking of being a stripper, what do you actually do?" Bill asked pulling his eyes away from Mary's spectacular cleavage. "Are you still in college?"
"No, I work over as a waitress, but I'm really trying to get acting roles...like Penny on The Big Bang." Crystal laughed. "I'm even from Nebraska. So, you guys are a team, how long have you worked together?"
"How long have we been at team? They put us together in 2010? So, five years." Bill replied.
"What does your team do? Sales?"
"We do sales, but also we are also IT architects. They wanted a team trained in a variety of technologies who could go into a client's place and suggest the optimal technological solutions for whatever issues they might have. We were encouraged to work closely together and to mesh our varying skill sets into a cohesive unit." Bill looked around and laughed, "I'm pretty sure I completely erased any...um, sexual tension we might have had. I think I have a new skill set." Looking at Mary, Bill added, "I'd much rather find out what got into Mary to let her hair down...and the opening on her blouse. I know this is inappropriate since we are colleagues, but I've thought about what you are hiding. Sorry, sorry, I shouldn't say anything." Bill stammered blushing.
"I'm not sorry, at first I was disappointed I wasn't sitting next to Mary, but being here across the table, I'm over that." Jack laughed. "Why have you been hiding those assets all these years? I'm not saying you should walk around the office with three buttons undone, but two would be appropriate. You always dress like a nun." Turning to Crystal, "Thanks, you are a good influence on our girl here."
Mary blushed, fingering her third button, "I think this might actually be too much and perhaps two undone is more appropriate, like you say."
"Garbage! Leave it. You look so much more relaxed and Mary...as they say, if you got it, flaunt it. You know how much more in tips I'd get if I had those." Julie who had come up to the table nodded down to Mary's cleavage. "From here, the view is so much better. So, another round?"
They ordered another round and when Julie left, Jack got up and headed back to the restrooms. When he got back he stopped and looked down Mary's blouse, quietly nodded to himself and sat back down.
