Special Privilege chapter 2
Mile High Privilege
All the characters in this story are 18 years old or older.
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As Angela was leaning over, handing a hot cup of coffee to the woman in the window seat, she felt a slap on the ass. It wasn't a soft one, either. The sound must have reverberated a dozen isles in either direction. From her unbalanced, hunched over position, she wasn't able to snap at the unseen pervert as quickly as her hot temper would otherwise have led her to. She also had to get rid of the coffee, and the quickest place to put it was into the fumbling hand of the woman who had asked for it. Four seconds passed from the slap before she found herself in control of herself on her two feet. She turned, and found a row full of men staring innocently forward, either into their books or laptops, or dozily at nothing in particular. None of them looked more guilty than any other, and she knew she would achieve nothing by making a scene. The intelligent part of Angela told her to keep quiet.
"Who the fuck did that?" she shouted, none the less, at the perplexed row of men now all staring at her.
"Did what?" one of them, a lanky, long-haired blonde said with convincing obliviance, after a painful silence.
"You know damn well what! Who the fuck clapped my ass just then?" Angela was getting red. All the guys looked away, hoping not to get singled out. Except the blonde, who kept his eyes on her with apparent sympathy.
"Really? That's horrible. I didn't see anything, I'm..."
"Every fucking day," Angela burst out, singling out the blonde. His smug confidence was pissing her off. "I have to wear this tight skirt and bend over the seats and know that every single one of you motherfuckers are staring. Fine. I got a great ass, I know it. As long as you have the decency to look away when I turn around, I'm not gonna say anything. But there's a fucking line, and it goes right about here!" Angela slapped her well-defined ass in front of the blonde for illustration. In hindsight, slapping her own ass in front of a bunch of pervs probably wasn't the lesson she was trying to teach them, but by now she was conscious of the attention she was getting. Everyone on the plane was watching.
There was a silence that went on for ever. Why did she always have to make a scene, she asked herself. Humiliating herself in front of a plane-full of people was worse than a hundred ass-claps. And how was she supposed to de-escalate at this point.
"I didn't do it," was all the blonde offered in the end, holding his hands up in a mock surrender. What a fucking prick.
Angela broke the intense eye-contact, and stared at each of the other men in the vicinity. "I've got my eyes on you," she said menacingly, and walked away. At least she had gotten the last line. At least she could walk away with that.
"Miss?" she heard coming from behind her. She turned, and saw the blonde turned in his chair, looking back at her. He had his hand up, like a student wanting to ask permission to go to the bathroom.
"What?" she snapped, still not quite calmed down.
"Do you think I could have a coffee, please?"
The fucking balls on this guy... Angela was this close to spit in the man's face, but then she noticed Adam, the co-pilot and her boss, staring at her, evidently come out to see what the commotion was about. If she did anything else out of order, it was sure to end up on her permanent record.
"Yeah. Sure." Her voice was filled with defeat.
"Milk, two sugars," he said, just as she was turning away again. She had to stop, look at him, smile, and say "of course." This was going to be a long flight.
The curtain almost ripped of the hooks as Angela pulled it across. She needed to breathe, to get out of the prying eyes of the public. She ran the tap and splashed cold water in her face. It helped a little, but she was still fuming.
It wasn't the first time she had been groped at work. In fact she'd lost count by now. And it's not like she didn't understand it. She was incredibly attractive, with perky tits that would announce themselves against the tightest fabric, and a heart-shaped ass that would jiggle no matter how carefully she walked. She was 26, in the prime of her life, and wearing a stupid flight attendant uniform. It wasn't the touch that upset her. It's not like it hurt or anything. It was the fact that she was supposed to just accept it that infuriated her. It was her god damn body, she and only she got to decide who could touch it. Tapping a girl on the ass or cupping her tit in public is all nice and fair, but woe you if you dare cause a scene.
Tiffany entered the staff-section of the 737, and once she saw the expression on Angela's face, pulled the curtain behind her.
"What's got your tit in a twist?" she asked with her usual subtlety. Tiffany and Angela weren't friends, but they were co-workers, and at 35,000 feet there weren't a whole lot of women to confide in.
"Some fucker clapped me."
"On the ass? God damn it. Is that what the shouting was about? At least you gave him a full round."
"Yeah, and now I'm making him coffee."
"No!" Tiffany was astonished, disappointed even. "You're not getting the perv shit. Not happening."
"I don't know who did it. I was hunched over two seats with a coffee in my hand."
"Ah, the old bend-over, huh?"
"And this fucker, just grins at me. Doesn't even have the common curtsey to look away. The slimy, bony, oily, small-dicked fucking..."
Tiffany's mouth dropped, her eyes bulging, and Angela knew straight away what was going on. She turned around, and saw the blonde guy standing right behind her. He was taller than she had guessed, and carried himself with an ease and confidence that made him look like a complete dork.
"Your coffee's coming, sir, just have a seat," Angela said without missing a beat. She would put on an act in front of her boss and the entire plane, but back here, where no one were watching, she couldn't give two shits about 'customer satisfaction' and all that bullshit.
"It really wasn't me."
"Says you," Angela grunted as she turned her back on him, to pour the coffee. She could feel his eyes on her neck, but she wasn't giving her the satisfaction of seeing her shirk.
"Why would I lie?"
That was a weird answer, Angela thought, but she finished up the coffee, with milk and two sugar, and handed it over. She had planned to spit in it, but she couldn't well do it now. "Here you are. Now go back to your seat."
The guy stayed, looking at her with an amused grin. "You don't recognize me, do you?"
"Should I? You famous or something?"
"Or something." The guy was smiling. He was obviously anticipating the moment of realisation. It wasn't forthcoming.
She felt Tiffany pulling on her sleeve. She turned around, and saw her co-worker's terrified face. She looked like she had seen a ghost. Tiffany leaned in close and whispered in Angela's ear. "That's Andrew White." No reaction. "The 'special privilege' guy."
Angela suddenly stood stiff, her eyes perking up. She looked at Tiffany in disbelief. "The I-can-do-anyhing-I-want-to-you-and-if-you-say-no-you'll-go-to-jail guy?" Tiffany nodded fast. Angela turned, slowly, to face the slimy, blonde man standing in front of her with an evil grin. He had a certain snake-like feature she hadn't noticed before, his cheekbones were sticking out, ad his eyes were unnaturally blue. He had all the right parts, Angela concluded, but they were put together to make a wholly unattractive man.
"So is this the part where I'm supposed to apologize and beg on my knees for you to leave me alone," Angela said in defiance. A Latina to the core, there wasn't a law written that could force her to be polite.
No matter what else it would force her to do.
"Oh no," Andrew responded reassuringly, "I'm not going to leave you alone. And you'll be on your knees pretty quickly anyway."
There was an interruption to the tense silence as a single PLING rung out through the galley. Both Angela and Tiffany looked to Andrew, wondering what was gonna happen next. Andrew smiled.