“Remember I told you that I might have to fire someone over sexual harassment? Well that someone is going to be Ron and when he starts job hunting he is going to find out that he is not going to get anything near a good recommendation. The way the laws are written I can’t really bad mouth him without opening myself for a lawsuit, but I can say in the strongest terms possible that he is not eligible for rehire. If we get real lucky he will leave town.”
“Do you really think that it will work?”
“I don’t know, but I can’t think of anything else, can you?”
“No, but I do have a question. I know why you are doing this, but how about you Sally, what are you getting out of this?”
“Revenge! I told you that I had a fling with the guy, right?”
I nodded my head yes.
“Well I pretty much fell for the guy and then one night after a date he dropped me off at my place and when I asked him if he was going to come in he said no, that I was a lousy piece of ass and he wasn’t going to waste any more time on me. I wouldn’t have minded if he had said something like “Sorry Sally, but we just don’t seem to click,” but the way he did it pissed me off and I swore that I would get back at him and this is my chance.”
I nodded my head in understanding. “Okay, when do we start?”
“Today” Meredith said. “When I get back to the office I’ll call Sam in and tell her that since she doesn’t want you I’m going to make a play for you. Your end is to show up at my office tomorrow and take me to lunch. Then for the next two nights we will stop after work for drinks and you go home late. If Sam asks you why you’re late you tell her you were with me. After the third night Sally tells her story and you wait one day and then doctor Sam’s douche. After that we will play it by ear.”
The first person to see me come off the elevator was Sam. She got up from her desk and headed for me. “What are you doing here?”
“I’m having lunch with Meredith.”
“Why?”
“Why not? She’s a friend. It isn’t the first time I’ve had lunch with her and it probably won’t be the last.”
“Am I invited?”
“No. You aren’t exactly one of my favorite people right now and I’d just as soon not have to look across the table at you.”
I walked away from her and headed for Meredith’s office. Sam was looking daggers at Meredith and me as we left the office. In the elevator I asked how Sam had taken the news that Meredith was going to make a play for me. “Not well sweetie. She wanted to know how I could be her friend and do something like that. I laughed at her and pointed out that her actions with Ron pretty much said she didn’t care for you so how could she get pissed at me because I might? You won’t believe her answer.”
“What was it?”
“She said, “It’s not the same thing. I don’t love Ron, but I do love my husband and I want you to leave him alone.”
I broke out laughing when I heard that and then we went to lunch. The next two days I followed the script although on both of the nights I stayed out late Sam wasn’t home when I got there. To make the plan work I had to go down the block and park and wait for Sam to get in before going into the house. Both times she was visibly upset when I told her where I’d been and with who, but considering where she had been and what she had been doing she didn’t dare say a word.
The next day when I got home Sam had dinner waiting. When I walked in the kitchen I noticed that she was wearing a bathrobe over high heels and nylons. “Going out tonight I take it?”
“No” she said as she took off the robe. She was naked except for the heels and hose. “I thought you might be interested in dessert, either before dinner or after or maybe even both.”
“You can’t be serious.”
“Why not? You used to think I was the best.”
“That was before you started out on your career as a gangbang queen. Before you got hung up on eleven inch dicks.”
“Baby, I’m sorry. I didn’t set out to make it happen, but I can’t change what happened either. I still love you baby and I want to make it up to you.”
“How? By killing me? By giving me a social disease like AIDS? You have any idea where all these guys Ron has you fucking have been? Did you get a doctor’s certificate from the saying that they had been tested and were STD free? Or did you just lay down and spread your legs and say next? Some of those diseases can take a month before they show up. How do I know that you haven’t already given me AIDS, herpes, gonorrhea or god alone knows what else? The one thing I know for sure is that if I don’t have it already I’m damned sure not going to give you another chance at infecting me.”
Sam stood there looking at me stunned and I honestly believe that she had never even given any thought to the problem. I was laying it on heavy and I wasn’t through. “If you ever want to get in my bed again you are going to have to break it off with your asshole boyfriend, wait a couple of months and then come to me with a clean bill of health from a doctor. Until then I’ll share the house with you, but that’s all I will share.”
Samantha turned and ran crying from the room. I’d planted the VD idea and now I had to make it appear to happen.
The next day I went through the phone book looking for novelty shops. I found nine listed and started calling around. The first seven I talked to were adult bookstores and the novelties they sold were dildos and things like that. The eighth one is the one I was looking for. It handled stuff like exploding cigars, hand buzzers and magical tricks and yes, they did have itching powder. I hit the store on the way home from work and bought three packages of the stuff. Once home I went and found Sam’s douche and took it down to the kitchen. I dumped the douche in a bowl and then opened the packages of itching powder, dumped them in the bowl and then stirred the mixture until the powder was dissolved. After pouring the mixture back into the bottle I cleaned up my mess and put the douche back upstairs where I’d found it.
I was in bed when Sam got home that night, but the noise of the shower woke me up. If Sam douched she would wake up in the middle of the night with a problem and by morning she should be in a panic.
Meredith called me at eleven the next morning. “Sam just left my office. She is suffering severe vaginal discomfort. You know anything about that?”
“Who, me?”
Meredith laughed and the said, “I called my brother and he said to send her over and he would fit her in and then I told her she was in deep shit if what Sally was saying was true. She asked me what I meant and I told her that Sally was telling everyone that Ron had given her the clap. She got a shocked look on her face and then left my office and went looking for Sally. Dan said he would put the fear of god into her. He is going to tell her that the law says he has to turn her name into the Public Heath Department so they can investigate whether she has spread the disease. He will let her talk him out of it, but only on the condition that she tells everyone she has been intimate with that she might have infected them. Then he told her he was going to call me and tell me to make sure she did it. And just to help make your day I terminated Ron an hour ago.”
“How did he take it?”