Novella
Chapter 2 of 19
The 5 founders of the company met whilst studying for their MBA together. Starting the company was a heady, crazy adventure. Venture capital flowed in. They were successful. Long hours, stress and excitement followed. They were determined to keep everything equitable, and equal and maintain the unique company culture that made them successful.
The dynamics shifted subtly over the first year. It was hard to understand exactly when things escalated. The most notable event was when she slept with Dave after a big celebration party. Dave was the scientist in the group, an amateur hypnotist and mind trickster. Always trying to be entertaining. He wasn’t the cute one, the big one, or the genius but they were happy drunk and exhausted. She immediately fell in love with the feeling. However, when she came on to Dave for a repeat performance he was mortified with guilt. Dave was worried about the team dynamic and felt they should clear it with the team. An awkward team meeting ensued where fair and frank discussions were held. The sexual tension has been building over the year and threatened to rip them apart. So they did what they always did. They brainstormed solutions and agreed. Thinking back now she probably should’ve objected at this juncture. Why did she agree to go ahead with this? For some reason, it seemed like a completely reasonable idea at the time. Everything was for the good of the team.
The solution was basically this. To restore equality everyone had to cum equal times. Equality of outcum they called it. Since she already came and so did Dave she was not allowed to cum again unless she made the other 4 men cum too. That seemed to have settled it. For six months nothing untoward happened. Things went well and she and Dave were forgiven.
That might have been the end of it. Except, she needed release. She craved the release she found with Dave. She struggled to break the emotional bond she found with him. She probably should’ve let this go. But 6 months after Dave she slept with Charlie. Charlie loved playing games and teasing her but agonisingly did not allow her to cum! The next team meeting was not only awkward but her obvious frustration and protest against the no-cum rule made the men even more resolute to keep to the plan. It took another 3 months before she relented and slept with Marius in the full knowledge that her frustration would only increase. True there was some release of tension and anxiety. But she wasn’t allowed to cum. Cumming started to become her goal. Her marathon. Jokes about how hard she was going to cum once she had permission to cum again became running banter. When she set out the principles for openness and transparency it didn’t occur to her that it would be applied to her intimate sex life. No arguing with principles though especially those you enforced yourself.
Of the 5 Klaus was the least physically attractive and social. Where the other men were naturally attracted to her and unashamedly flirted with her Klaus was withdrawn and circumspect. She wasn’t looking forward to having to sleep with him. The fact that everyone in the office knew that he was the last remaining hurdle for her to get to cum again made him even more evasive self-conscious and avoidant. This could’ve been a turning point. A way to get off this path of self-destruction. A natural conclusion to this ill-fated self-appointed mission. Her sex drive was having none of it. By this point, her pusy wanted to devour her leg. She was locked in on her goal.
She started dressing more provocatively. Skirts become shorter, the double D’s maximised to their full effect, and heels become longer and longer pushing her butt out and her chest forward. Her makeup became more bold yet Klaus remained aloof. In desperation, she got the rest of the team together for a secret meeting to help her solve her “Klaus” problem.
“Can’t you just hypnotise him or something Dave” she proclaimed after a frustrating 15 minutes of dead-end plans. “Won’t help I am afraid. Even if you could get someone to do something they weren’t willing to do, Klaus just isn’t very suggestible. Some people just aren't.” Everyone spent a perplexing and worrying moment wondering how it was that Dave knew that. The moment passed.
“I cannot believe you guys know so little about Klaus after all this time. Don’t men talk?” She challenged. “Maybe he is not attracted to women”, offered Marius. A coughing fit erupted from Charlie. Responding to the quizzical looks he affirmed: “ He definitely is”.
“Well, that is definitely progress, how exactly do you know this” Dave enquired.
“Err”, with a worried look at Elke, “not sure I can divulge that with HR present”. After a stunned silence that said “really” better than any words could he hurriedly continued. “I have access to his internet history”.
Another awkward silence as everyone pondered what else Marius knew about them.
“Almost 2 years of knowing each other and only now we are really starting to know each other” said Elke in exasperation.
Marius, realising he just dodged a bullet, added: “He likes women but he seems to have some fetish kinks. Maybe it's a German thing but he seems to like discipline. Rules.”
“How does that help or hinder” Elke asked. “At the moment I can’t even put that on the menu, I cannot even talk to him”. All the guys exchanged knowing looks at this latest admission. Seems Elke is open to more suggestions than they realised in order to reach her goals.
“Wait, we can work with this” proclaimed Dave a sudden start of realisation. “We’ve been going at this all wrong. We’ve been trying to informally engage Klaus in this, err, ‘activity’. Find ways to socially trick him to ‘participate’”, with a quick glance to Elke as he accentuated the words. “He likes structure, rules, organisation. Why don’t we give him just that?”
“How?” Proclaimed Elke in exasperation.
“Same way we always do. We call a team meeting about our ‘problem’ and include Klaus in the solution. In fact, secret meetings not including Klaus are probably feeding his paranoia. This is not the team we wanted to build. We solve our problems together”.
As Elke was chewing over this fact Marius exclaimed, “How exactly do you propose we do this”?
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