An Impulsive Monday

Fuck It, It’s Monday

A pillow goes flying across the room. As Linda’s arm went back onto the bed, she could see that she missed the alarm clock and the pillow hit the wall behind the alarm clock with a soft thud, before falling to the floor. The noisy monster continued.

“Fuck this shit,” Linda said to herself. “I don’t feel like going through a Monday this week at that place.”

Reaching for the pillow and a hard throw back at the headboard, she slams her hand down on the off button on the clock. The t-shirt that she slept in stripped off hurriedly. She steps into the shower. She grumbles about it being Monday again already as the water falls from the shower head.

Looking in the mirror, Linda shakes her head and stops.

“I can’t do another day of video calls.” She thinks about all the calls where joins as the only one that turns her camera on. Her makeup brush falls to the counter. The thoughts about her side hustle go through her mind, where she makes much more money on a night than she makes working for a week. She smiles at the thought.

“Fuck this, I’m taking the day off.” 

Linda’s fingers slide easily over her phone, pressing on the keys as fast as a full-sized keyboard. The message to her boss and her team are polite, but definitely letting them know that she is taking a mental health day.

Laying in the bed naked, Linda picks up the phone and texts a guy she works with. She didn’t really talk to him much now that they are in the time of Covid, as they didn’t work directly with each other.

“Hey Tony, I’m taking the day off… Ever have that Monday where you can’t even log in?”

Linda’s text traversed the wireless phone network before she could change her mind. Then she worried for the next minute until he responded.

“I’ve had many of those Mondays. I was debating taking the day off too. Last week kicked my ass.”

“Call your boss, take an impulse day, and come over and let’s fuck off all day. I could use some company. Only rule is we can’t talk about work.”

Tony took a long time to respond. Linda was getting ready to send a laughing emoji, thinking that she might have overstepped where their flirting may be. Realizing she doesn’t even know if he’s married, has a girlfriend, a boyfriend.

“Yes.” Tony’s simple reply made Linda smile.

“Where do you want to fuck off at? You can come over here and we can watch some movies or something.”

Linda sent Tony her address and told him to come over about 11. She had to take care of a couple of things first. She spent the time until 11 dancing around her apartment cleaning in just her panties and putting things in their proper places.

Boy from the Office, Minus the Office

At a few minutes after 11, Tony stood in the apartment’s doorway. Wearing a pair of sneakers, a pair of jeans, a t-shirt, and a sport coat, he is coming to her straight from a board meeting at a tech company. Linda smiling as she sees him opens the door and invites him in. He slid his hand into a brown bag, pulling a bottle of red wine out.

“Nice coat! Nice bottle of wine.”

“I wanted to be covered in case we go someplace nice for lunch or something. I also thought this would be comfortable if we literally decide to day drink.”

“I literally just want to spend the day fucking off. This bottle will be good for me. What are you going to drink?”

The bottle of wine came from the supermarket a mile from Linda’s apartment. There were 4 bottles of the same wine in her wine rack, it was one of her favorites at a reasonable price. Tony gets an A for effort.

“So, did you have something in mind with this spontaneous day off?”

Linda shook her head no. “Literally just decided on an impulse on what today was going to be like, and boom, here you are. I figured I’d just let the day take me where the day takes me.”

“On my way over, I had two thoughts. I’ll let you pick. We can either hang out here, turn on some Netflix and see what movies we both like, or I saw a park down the street. We can go there, take a walk, enjoy nature and be out of our places for a while.”

“So, I hear you saying, let’s take the bottle of wine and go to the park with the little lake.”

“I believe that is exactly what I said.”

Walking into the kitchen, Linda’s raised a finger asking for a minute.

“Don’t judge me, I may have been at that park drinking before, they don’t like Wine bottles.”

Linda drops below the counter and grabs an opaque water bottle. Setting it on the kitchen counter, she grabs a wine key, opens the bottle and empties the contents into the water bottle. She does it so smoothly that she had obviously done it all before.

“I think we’re ready.”

They both laugh as they make their way out the door, Linda grabbing her mask on her way and stuffing it into Tony’s back pocket.

“I hope it’s ok that I touch you. If we are going to drink together, I might touch you more.”

“I wouldn’t be here if that wasn’t allowed.”

The Empty Wine Bottle

The park was only a half mile from Linda’s apartment. She had drank about 1/4 of the bottle already. Being chatty with Tony, the two continued to a park bench beside the lake. As they stared out over the lake, they passed the bottle back and forth, taking turns taking sips from the bottle. Both of them felt their inhibitions lowering.

“What made you decide to take today off?”

“I woke up, realized I had made more money this weekend at my side hustle than I was going to make this week at work. So I decided to just take the day off.”

“Oh, you have a side hustle. Let me guess.” Tony paused for effect. “You write stories on Medium about our work?”

“Seriously,” Linda’s voice raised. “How did you know to get it so wrong?”

Tony laughed at her answer. 

“What is your side hustle?”

“Have you ever heard of OnlyFans?”

Tony’s voice cracked, and he left a pregnant pause, unsure of how to answer Linda’s question. Finally, he answered meekly with a nod. “To be honest, I had seen a woman on there about a month ago and talked myself out of thinking it was you. I almost subscribed because I wanted to see you naked.”

“You should have subscribed. So, what did you see then?”

“Just a couple of the free pictures. I wasn’t sure what the protocol should be since I was doing it to see if it was you.”

Linda, holding up the empty bottle, “We should head back to the apartment and get another bottle, maybe I’ll show you my studio.” She held her fingers up in air quotes at the last word.

Tony stood up first, then reaching out. He lifts Linda from the bench. Walking fast, they made their way back to the apartment, holding hands, starting about halfway back.

Opening the door of the apartment opened. Pulling Tony’s head down, Linda went to kissing him. Kicking the door closed, he started lifting Linda up and pushing her against the wall. 

“Take me in the bedroom,” Linda said. “Let’s make some content, and I’ll split it with you.”

Tony’s eyes went wide open as she pushed him into the bedroom. There were 2 cameras at the foot of the bed and 4 more spread around the bedroom. She turned on some soft lights, he could see the red lights on all the cameras, and she crawled into the center of the bed. 

“Come on, let me show you how this works.”

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