'Your Dress Is Too Revealing'

I had a long and exhausting day at work so I got home enveloped in tiredness. After opening the door with my spare key, I made my way into the house and embraced the quietness that welcomed me.

Entering my room, I kicked off my heels and discarded my bag on the floor. I fell facedown on my bed and hoped Tamara would not come home in time till I get a proper nap.

"Hey girl! What'd I miss!" My sister entered my room through the open door and jumped up and down on my bed for a few seconds before landing on my back.

"Ugh!" I groaned, regretting why I didn't lock my door.

"Get off me!" I shrieked, my voice was muffled because of my position. My back began aching because of Tamara's full weight pressing me down.

Tamara sat on my bed and I sat up right beside her.

My middle finger brushed away a few strands of my hair trapped inside my mouth. "Could you not jump on me again?"

Tamara waggled her brows at me and at the same bearing a cheesy grin on her face.

"I'm not making any promises." She grabbed my handbag and extracted my phone from it. After searching the device for what she had in mind, she looked up at me.

"How was your day at work?" she demanded.

I sighed and proceeded to narrate what had transpired at my workplace. When my narration ended, Tamara yawned and stretched her hands above her head.

"I'm going downstairs."

I laid back on my bed. "I'll join you in twenty minutes, let me change out of these sweaty clothes."

"Take all the time you need."

She left my room after hugging me.  I smiled as I walked to the bathroom to take a long shower.

I went downstairs in a tank top and a pair of Jeans shorts. After making a beeline to the refrigerator in the kitchen, I brought out my meal which mostly consisted of fruits, vegetables and some other stuff.

Oh I didn't state it, I'm a vegetarian, well I've been a vegetarian since I became 16.

From what I remember, the sight of meat, fish and eggs repulsed me so much that I decided to get rid of any animal-related  food item in my diet.

Being a vegetarian does not however mean I eat only fruits. There's rice, beans, maize asparagus, broccoli, tomatoes, carrots, barley, buckwheat, rice, oats, Lentils, peas, chickpeas and a wide range of options to choose from.

I sat beside Tamara who was munching some chips she drew occasionally from a bowl positioned on her crossed legs.

"Care for some chips?" She offered me the bowl,

"No, thanks." She made a face before retracting her outstretched arm. I smirked and took a bite of my apple.

We watched a movie till mom arrived from work. She hurried in with shopping bags in her arm and her Gucci bag in the other arm.

"Hey girls, mom's back!"

We rushed to hug her and we relieved her of her burden.

"Hey mom, what are these?"
Tamara enquired peering into one of the bags.

"I got them for the both of you." Mom said, playing with Tamara's hair.

"Thank you so much mum!" I hugged mom again before bringing out the contents of the bag.

My package contained a teal blue sequined dress with tiny diamonds at the waist, and a matching pair of sandal heels.

Tamara's was a cream colored flowing gown which i concluded from mere looking at it that it  would fit her slender figure perfectly.

With the shopping bags strewn around us, we plonked on the sofa, my mom in the middle and I and Tamara at both sides, leaning on her shoulder.

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Next day, I arrived at work at exactly 7:50a.m, I sat in my office after exchanging pleasantries with Alice and the rest of the staff apart from Stacy who put on an attitude.

A mail from my boss arrived shortly, it was a couple of minutes to eight and I was quite baffled as to how he knew I was already at work.

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I need file 309, bring it to my office immediately.

I pulled out the required file and ambled to Mr. Philip's office with it.

I knocked on the door and stepped in after hearing a ' come in '.

"Good morning sir."

I walked towards him with the file in my hand, his eyes roamed up and down my body as I advanced.

"Here's the file you asked for." I respectfully handed the file to him and he yanked it out of my hand.

I turned to leave because he would likely keep me standing again.

"Where do you think you're going?" He snapped and I turned to him.

Is he always this rude?

"To my office of course." I retorted and he shot me a dirty look.

I continued walking towards the door.

"Your dress is too revealing." He said, succeeding in taunting me.

I paused in my steps and turned angrily to him, my fist formed a ball at the same time.

"Excuse me, I don't see anything wrong with my dress, it's quite decent."

A scowl appeared on his face. "Don't you talk back to me." He fired.

"I can and I will whenever my personality is insulted."

He slammed  his hands on his table and rose angrily.

Uh oh.

He walked menacingly in my direction and I did what I had to do, I bolted.

I got to my office breathless and I tried catching my breath back with a hand placed on my chest.

My boss was silent, he didn't send any mails requesting for files or something like that, so I sat in my office idly. I picked a nail lacquer and lacquered my finger nails with it.

I thought we would get along really well, but I thought wrongly. If he would remain being a jerk, we wouldn't, not even in my wildest dreams.

At lunch time, I hurried to meet up with Alice for lunch at the canteen situated on the fifth floor.

"Hey, how are you doing?" She asked as soon as I stepped into her cubicle.

"I'm okay."

She put away the papers she was holding and stood up. We walked to the canteen and sat at a corner after ordering our foods.

I ordered a plate of vegetarian fried rice and Alice stared at me in a questioning manner when my food was placed before me by a pretty lady who seemed to be in her mid-twenties.

"Are you a vegetarian?"

"Yup" I replied, taking up my spoon and regarding my reflection in it.

We were silent for awhile before she spoke.

"How's your job?...how's Mr. Philip treating you?"

I didn't know if it would be wise for me to let her in on what's going on, but then, it might just be a trap set by my boss.

"He's not that bad." I ended up saying, and she raised a brow as if in doubt.

"Wow, that's surprising... to your predecessors, he was really bad...he's a terrible headache.. seriously..."

You have no idea.

She ended up ranting about Mr. Philip's poor behavior to his staff.

After lunch, I hurried back to my office and checked my laptop, I had a mail from my boss, I opened it.

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Bring file 133 to my office.

Whatever happened to 'scan and send it through mail'.

I took the file to his office and handed it to him, sensing his eyes on me as I left his office.

After closing from work at 5:30pm, I hurried back home and took a refreshing shower, lay on my bed and kept myself busy by reading a couple of newspapers on my phone.

Tamara checked on me, and I updated her on what happened at work. She flipped out when I disclosed how my boss said my dress was too revealing.

"What is his problem?" She asked and walked to where I had discarded the dress for washing, she raised it up.

"What's wrong with this dress now?"

"Other than it was forced down my throat?" I mumbled and turned off my phone, catching the roll of her eyes.

"I have a date with Michael." She informed.

"That's really nice. Don't forget to take some protection with you, just in case." I teased her and she slapped me playfully.

"I'm not like that, you know me well." she protested before walking out of my room.

Yeah,  she was right,  I and my sister were chaste, although she had her first kiss in high school, made out with one of the popular guys on Prom night, she hadn't danced the 'dance' yet, me neither, we were saving ourselves for the right guy who'll cherish us eternally, and not for  random guys to ' taste our dishes ' and run away like Medusa's after them.

She had met Michael at a fundraiser, according to her, she felt instantly attracted to him and he felt the same way, so they clicked, and they've been dating for 3 months now.

As for me, my dating history's blank, I haven't found a decent guy who fits into my list of the qualities I need in a guy. I'd rather not be in a hurry to date someone who only cares about getting in between my leg and then will leave me with a broken heart.

My body was too precious to be dishonoured.