It was a lazy Tuesday afternoon in dreary and rainy suburban Seattle and Tyler, a 32-year old and rather successful salesman for Brownie Points Incorporated (a radio and television sales agency), sat in his office sifting through paperwork on a deal he recently closed with a local sports bar. Tyler loosened his tie knowing he was the only member of the sales team in the office today. He was about 6'1" and had very little body fat because his part time job as a minor league baseball umpire in the Pacific Coast League kept him in shape. Tyler spends most of his weekends on the ball fields, but manages to mingle with locals at bars near his hotel after games. Needless to say, Tyler was fairly attractive but much too busy to settle into a marriage at this stage of his life.
Tyler put the paper work aside and checked his e-mail for his umpiring schedule for the following week. Salt Lake City was the destination and his flight would leave Friday morning at 7:45 AM. Tyler walked to the door of his office and marked it on his calendar - he turned around to head back to his desk when out of the corner of his eye, he noticed Starla taking a call at the front desk.
"Oops" he thought, he forgot that someone else was in the building - but it's only the receptionist so he can leave his tie loose for now.
Starla was a 19-year old college co-ed who just started last week. She's a sophomore majoring in Behavioral Psychology with a minor in Technical Writing. She had just finished her freshman year at Oregon State University and came home to find a job that would help pay for the fall semester. Tyler had met her when she started last Friday but had been too busy to converse with her since then.
Tyler took one image of her in his head while walking back to his desk.. the beautiful smile and slight blush she was making while staring at her computer and talking on the phone. It had been a slow day at the office and she hadn't taken too many phone calls but was hard at work taking messages for his five sales associates who were visiting clients that afternoon.
The image stuck with Tyler and his curiosity got the best of him... "What is it she's blushing at? What can possibly be putting her in such a chipper mood on a day like today?" he thought to himself. Tyler flipped on the "Carnivore" system that he had downloaded off a site one day to spy on an ex-girlfriend's computer. He linked into Starla's (just across the office) and was surprised to see her chatting with a fellow who apparently lived in Anchorage. "Maybe she knows him from school.." he quandered. Either way, he was suspicious and a bit rattled that the new receptionist was chatting while on the job for merely her third day.
Tyler snooped through her dialog box and noticed that their conversation was fairly steamy. He assumed - at that point - that the guy in Anchorage must be her boyfriend. After all, in his college days, his girlfriend lived on the East Coast during the summer and their only connection that they could afford was U.S. Mail.
Tyler zapped back to reality and thought about confronting Starla "just to keep her on her toes" for when things got busy. He wasn't quite sure how he was going to approach her. He looked back to her dialogue box and suddenly they were swapping stories with each other. These stories could have been actual tales from OSU - but he considered that Starla's interest in creative writing might inspire her to write a tale or two of the nature he was reading.
He surely had no idea how to approach her at this point, but that was merely an afterthought after he allowed his senses to take over and realized he himself was becoming slightly turned on. Tyler walked to the office door and shut it, then sauntered back to his computer and continued reading. Tyler's urge got the best of him and he let his hand wander down to his pelvic area and massaged himself ever so slightly while reading Starla's vivid description of a game of Strip Poker gone awry.
This scene stayed the same for about 3-minutes until he heard a knock on his door. Tyler quickly jumped up into his chair and shouted, "Come on in". Starla entered and quickly inferred that Rodger (the sales guy one office over) had just cut a deal with the downtown casino that set the company over its monthly quota. Tyler asked if Rodger wanted to talk to him but Starla explained that Rodger wanted her to spread the word because he had to get back to the meeting to close the deal. Tyler thanked her.