Ashley was pretty much a brat. Anybody that knew her for more than ten minutes could tell you that. But beautiful, sexy, single women in their twenties often get away with being brats by being...sexy. Ashley was used to getting what she wanted and what she wanted most often was sex. In fact, she was somewhat addicted to it.
Oddly enough, however, Ashley's sex life was unusually predictable and routine. A guy would ask her on a date. She accepted. They fucked. And so it went.
None of those dates were with the men Ashley secretly desired. There were reasons for that, none of which mattered much to Ashley. She wanted them.
It was a month before her thirtieth birthday and Ashley was having drinks after work with her older sister, Kayla. Ashley used the straw in her drink to play with the ice, swirling the cubes around aimlessly. The music in the bar was nearly loud enough to cause ripples on the surface, but Ashley didn't seem to hear it.
"What is wrong with you?" Kayla asked.
"Nothing."
"You've been moping around all night," Kayla said. "I sure hope you aren't sulking because of the birthday you've got coming up."
Ashley looked up and said with a frown, "I'm going to be fucking thirty, Kayla. How did YOU feel when you turned thirty?"
"Like I was one year older than twenty-nine," Kayla replied. "Get over it."
"I can't. It's depressing as hell. My entire life is passing me by and I can't stop it."
Kayla laughed and said, "You've got everything you need. What more do you want?"
"It's not always about material things, you know," Ashley answered. "There are other...things...that are important in life. Things that can't be bought."
"Like...?"
"You wouldn't understand, Kayla. You've always been happy with whatever you have. I want...more. I want it all," Ashley said.
"Give me an example."
"I could give you a whole list."
Kayla, slowly losing her temper as she often did with her little sister, said with disgust, "Fine. Give me a list. Write down everything you want that you don't have."
"You'll think I'm a pervert or something," Ashley said.
"Why?"
"Because what I want is mostly...well...physical things."
"Like sex?" Kayla asked.
"Yeah. Mostly."
"Write them down. I want to know."
When they met the next evening at Kayla's house, Ashley provided her list. Kayla hadn't expected her sister to actually follow through on the task and was somewhat surprised to find herself opening up the sheet of paper Ashley handed her. She began to read.
"Oh my God," Kayla said.
A few seconds later, Kayla uttered, "Fuck. Are you kidding me?"
"I told you," Ashley said.
Kayla folded up the paper, unfolded it, read it again, and said, "These are your fantasies?"
"Yep. I'd give anything to do any of them before I'm too old."
Kayla kept the list and spent considerable time after Ashley left thinking about what was in it. Ideas flew back and forth across her brain and plans began to formulate. As much as Kayla thought her overindulged sister didn't deserve it, Kayla saw the opportunity to give Ashley a birthday she'd never forget.
The next day, Kayla set forth making the first item on the list come to fruition, unbeknownst to Ashley.
***
Jason was Ashley's newest co-worker and Kayla heard about the shy, handsome man from the day he was hired. He was twenty-eight and single, but with an on-again, off-again girlfriend. Ashley found Jason to be extraordinarily frustrating as attempts to flirt with him were disregarded; or so she thought.
Truthfully, Jason was uncomfortable with the public setting of Ashley's advances and found the little blonde with the great body to be on his mind far more than he expected when they first met. Not being the kind of man to initiate anything with a woman until he knew her fairly well, his attraction to her went unacted upon.
Then, he got a phone call.
"Hello," Jason answered one morning in his office.
"Hi, Jason? My name is Kayla. I'm Ashley's sister."
"Hi, Kayla. What can I do for you?"
"Actually, it's the other way around. Do you have a minute to talk?"
Jason and Ashley were among the first employees to arrive each day on a floor that held about twenty people in private offices. Ashley had attempted to use the 'quiet time' in the past to chat with Jason and get at least a date out of him, without success.
Half an hour after Jason's phone call, Ashley was pleasantly surprised to find him standing at her door.
"Jason. What's up?"
He entered Ashley's windowless office and closed the door, silently locking it at the same time.
"Hi, Ashley. Sorry to bother you so early, but can you stand up."
With a look of bewilderment, Ashley stood.