She showed herself to the world as a plain Jane. Hair pulled back severely in a tight bun, no makeup and no smile to brighten her face that was very pretty in reality but not to her. She wore colorless clothing that covered every inch of her body. A body she did not like. She was not fat, but was upholstered and curvy. Unbeknownst to her, noticeably curvy by several men and even a few women in the office.
Every day was the same. She woke up, got dressed while scoffing at her own body and looked in the mirror to pull her hair back into the severity of every day while scoffing at her face. She had no idea of her her raw beauty as it had never become evident to her. A wall flower her whole life, a virgin at 28, hiding in the shadows. But today would be the beginning of a new awakening.
She arrived to work early as usual to blend in quietly. She sat down at her desk and put her phone next to her mouse in exact alignment with her backup drive. Her boss walked by and said good morning. She stuttered and stammered out a "good morning" while looking down at her in file and all the paperwork that was ahead of her. She could not look up at him because she was so hot for him down deep inside that it was almost unbearable. It was as if a disdainful look from him could burn her like the sun. So she chose to always look away and never have eye contact. Today like always, he said his 2 words and walked by. She would not allow herself to let her mind wander to the hot and sexy place she would see in her wildest dreams with him. No use in dreaming of the unattainable.
She grabbed her first file and began to organize the numbers on the sheet to put into the keyboard later. Another drag of a day until 5.
Suddenly, her phone chirped. She checked it and found a new app was available. She had never heard of this one before. It said "Time Stopping S Stopwatch". Curious, she opened it. What she read did not make sense and had to be someone punking her. It said, stop time, stop people, stop what is around you and start it back up again when you want to. "Yeah right" she said out loud, as she went to the internet and typed in S Stopwatch into her desktop keyboard to go check a description for it. Nothing even close came up in the search so it obviously did not exist. Her first impulse was to ask the guy who worked across her cubicle from her if he had heard of it. As she started to stand up to look over the wall that separated them, she remembered her gripping shyness and decided to sit down. Maybe she would just download the app and just try it and see what happened.
She pushed the download button and the download started. She saw that it was going to take a while and at the same time, her boss came back to his office which was right next to her cubicle. Rules are rules and she is not supposed to be using her phone so she quickly looked down and got back to work. For a couple seconds, her mind wandered again and she found herself wondering what her boss looked like without any clothes on. She quickly shook it off and went about her next file. 2 minutes later, she heard a buzz from her phone. Download complete.
Her screen showed a blue button to start the stopwatch. More curious than adventurous, she went to push it with her finger. She pushed it. Nothing. Everything the same as before. She half smiled to herself thinking about what a dope she felt like and wondered what kind of virus she just put into her phone. Then it dawned on her that the quiet music playing from the ceiling speakers had stopped. She peeked out from her cubicle and saw nothing. Same office as usual but really quiet. Again, she dismissed it and worked again on her paperwork getting it ready to put into her computer, for about 15 minutes.
She noticed at some point, that the new delivery of files had not come so she got up to go talk to her coworker who delivered them and to her complete shock, her co-worker was frozen in place. Her position was one of a very uncomfortable stature so she could not be doing this on purpose. Plain Jane walked up to her and asked her what she was doing. No answer. The girl was frozen with eyes open and half in a walking position half getting up from her chair. Jane was a bit frightened and tapped her friend on the shoulder to see if she would wake up. "What are you doing?" she asked in an almost desperate tone. No answer. Eyes open in a dull glare looking at nothing.
In a panic, forgetting about the app on her phone and the mysterious blue button, she ran to her boss' office and yelled, something is wrong with Michelle. As she turned the corner she saw that her boss was in no different shape. Standing in front of his desk looking up at the clock. She walked up to his still body and as she got close, she breathed in his cologne and it made her dizzy with a feeling she was used to but always looked down when she felt it. It was pure, intense desire. For the first time, she looked into his eyes because they could not look back and judge her or ignore her or walk away from her. They were green and beautiful and wide open. She forgot her panic and what she was even there to ask. His eyes were looking at the clock. She turned to look at the clock and saw that the time was stuck at 11:27 am. The exact time she pushed the blue button. The second hand was still.
Her mind wandered from panic to thoughts she had in the darkness of her bed at night but never dared have in the office during the day. Especially when he was walking near her. She felt ashamed but also felt a small thought in the back of her mind that was the understanding of the power she held at that moment. She had wondered for so long secretively how he looked naked. What it would be like to be with him in a way she never dared think about. Never dared to be with any man ever before. Destined to be a permanent virgin of her own creation of shyness and complete void of self confidence, now had a whole new world of possibility for her.
She stepped closer to him and looked intensely at the body she wanted for a long time. His big arms. His tallness next to her. His rugged, carved face and mustache and goatee. She always wondered if she got to kiss him if it would tickle. She reached up for his lips with her fingertips and touched them lightly. She followed the line of his lips with her finger. It was like an electric shock for her to touch them. They were soft, smooth, still. Could not pull away. Could not say anything. They were hers for the taking at that moment.