Fifty Grand Girl and The Intern

“Adding another girlfriend to your harem, Jay?” Becca asks you teasingly, and Maddy continues to blush even further, which Becca notices immediately. “Apologies. I was only joking. It seems the lack of humor in my voice has come to backfire on me once more.” Becca apologizes to Maddy.

“Oh! No, no! It was funny! I wasn’t embarrassed. At all.” Maddy tells Becca with a **** laugh. “See? I knew it was a joke.” Maddy continues to say, forcing out an even more awkward laugh.

“Indeed.” Becca tells Maddy, her eyes wide in confusion as to why Maddy was acting like that. Becca doesn’t address Maddy’s awkwardness any further and turns to you instead to formally greet you. “Good afternoon, Jay; and to your companion as well.” Becca greets, trying to reset the awkwardness of the conversation. You instinctively stood up, like Celeste and Viv did back at Dorsia, making Maddy stand up as well.

“Hey, Becca. Good afternoon to you too.” You greet her. “This is Madeleine. She’s the granddaughter of one of my neighbors.” You formally introduce Maddy to Becca, and Maddy offers Becca a handshake before introducing herself to Becca as well.

“Would you like to join us?” You ask her politely.

“I’m sadly only here on business and will have to return to the office once I’m done. I wouldn’t say no otherwise. I only wanted to say hi and update you that Celeste got to her flight without a problem the other day.” Becca belatedly gives you an update. You already knew that, of course, as Celeste messaged you that she got home safe yesterday.

“Yeah. Celeste messaged me yesterday.” You tell Becca.

“Did Celeste mention anything about me by any chance?” Becca asks you, taking you by surprise. Unsure as to what Becca might be curious about that Celeste may have told you.

“No. Can’t say she has. Why? What would it be about? I can ask her if it’s important.” You reply.

“No, no. It’s fine. I only wanted feedback if she enjoyed her brief stay at my apartment. That’s all.” Becca explains.

“Oh, she didn’t mention it to me anymore. I’m sure she enjoyed her stay with you though. Thanks for having her over and taking her to the airport by the way.” You add.

“It was the least I could do. Based on the security footage from The Aphrodite, I could have done more and asked if you wished to continue the party at my place. At least you wouldn’t have had to be carried by Brooke across the club to get home.” Becca teases you, making you rub the back of your neck a bit and **** out an awkward laugh. You notice Maddy has a confused look on her face.

“I’ll tell you about it later.” You tell Maddy. “We wouldn’t have wanted to intrude on your meeting.” You tell Becca, and she looked a bit confused for a moment before remembering that Celeste stayed with her because of that meeting.

“Ah, yes. Of course. The meeting I asked her to help me with.” Becca replies.

“Besides, you were already more than generous that night. Thanks for that by the way.” You address Becca again.

“It was no big deal. Celeste and Vivian are my friends; and, like you said, Celeste helped me with my ‘meeting’. It was a fair trade.” Becca replies.

“You’re friends with Ms. Vivian, Ms. Becca?” Maddy asks.

“Yes, Madeleine. Vivian and I are friends. I’m also her business partner at this restaurant. It seems you and Vivian know each other, as well?” Becca explains. “Also, please, Becca’s fine.” Becca tells her.

“Yes. We only met each other last night, but she’s been really friendly to me. Also, you may call me Maddy.” Maddy replies.

“Becca!” you suddenly hear Stella call out. You turn towards her direction and you see her, with Cassie and the friend she was referring to in her text, making their way to your table. Their friend looks somewhat familiar to you, so she’s probably someone you’ve seen Stella hang out with before; just not regularly, you suppose.

“It’s nice to see you again Stella, Cassie, and... I apologize, I don’t think we’ve formally met.” Becca greets them.

“Hi Ms. Hoffman, I’m Paige Halliwell.” Stella’s friend introduces herself.

Paige Halliwell? That name does sound familiar…

“Oh, have Stella and Cassie talked about me?” Becca asks, and Stella and Cassie shake their heads, seemingly just as surprised as Becca that Paige knew her already.

“No, Ms. Hoffman. I was an intern at Hoffman Enterprises’ Marketing Department last summer. We haven’t formally met. I used to—” Paige explains.

“Understood.” Becca says, cutting off Paige while also raising her hand to signal Paige to not continue her sentence. You notice Becca’s demeanor changed back to what you originally saw at Dorsia, upon hearing that Paige worked at Hoffman Enterprises at some point. She’s back to exuding authority, unlike when she initially said hi to you and Maddy. You notice Becca didn’t bother answering Paige any further and went back to talking to Stella.

“I must say, I preferred your outfit the last time we met.” Becca says teasingly.

“Thanks! I liked that dress too.” Stella replies, although you could swear that Becca says “Dress?” under her breath; and you’re reminded that the last time Becca saw Stella, she was in her underwear due to Viv’s dare.

“I have to admit that I prefer you calling me Becca than the last nickname you picked.” Becca adds.

“Oh crap. What did I call you when I was drunk?” Stella asks her.

“Fifty Grand Girl.” Cassie chimes in, making Stella react in embarrassment.

“Why’d you call Becca Fifty Grand Girl?” Maddy asks.

“It seems you haven’t told Maddy the story of your night out yet.” Becca observes. “I’ll leave you to it then. It was nice meeting all of you once more.” Becca adds. “Jay.” She says as a way to say goodbye.

“Becca.” you reply, mirroring her, before she walks away to what you assume is the office area.

Stella sits next to you on your right, while Cassie sits next to Maddy opposite you and Stella, and Paige sits to Stella’s right.

“You guys know Rebecca Hoffman!?” Paige asks in disbelief, as soon as she made sure Becca was out of earshot.

“We don’t know her that well, to be honest. We only just met her the other night.” Stella explains to Paige.

“You guys were talking so casually! Everyone at Hoffman’s quakes in fear of her. Even my former bosses stutter when they speak to her.” Paige shares with you.

“Yeah, well, once you see her makeout with one of your neighbors just to demonstrate how she doms her, you’ll be a lot more casual with her too.” Stella jokes.

“Oh my gosh! She’s the gazillionaire dominatrix you were talking about last night?” Maddy reacts, upon connecting the dots in her head.

“Those rumors were true!?” Paige asks in disbelief once more.

“I thought she was open about that being a part of her life? The way Becca acted at Dorsia, I—” Cassie started saying, but was cut off by Paige with her reaction.

“Dorsia? The~ Dorsia? You ate there? Holy shit! I’m so jealous!” Paige reacts. You can’t blame Paige for reacting that way after eating there though. “Oh, sorry for my language Mr. Craig.” Paige adds in apology. You look at Stella with wide eyes, mentally asking her why she can’t be more like her friend when it comes to using swears.

“No need to apologize, Paige. I should be thanking you for setting a good example for my foul mouthed daughter.” You reply to Paige, taking a shot at your daughter teasingly.

“Fuck that.” Stella immediately replies, goading you. The girls seem to find it funny as Cassie, Maddy, and Paige let out chuckles. You just sigh and just concede that that’s not the hill you want to die on right now.

“Cue the waitress appearing out of nowhere…” Stella continues to joke.

“We have a waiter today Stella. You can relax a bit.” You tell her, making her sigh in relief. You’re not sure if she was doing it jokingly, or if she was actually relieved.

“Plus, I think you need to be more graphic than that. Maybe describe how much tongue Becca used when she made out with Viv.” Cassie jokes.

“Oh, wow! So Mr. Craig wasn’t kidding. Ms. Viv really does like making out with girls?” Maddy reacts.

“She doesn’t call herself an ‘Evil Lesbian’ for no reason.” Stella reacts, making Maddy react in surprise.

“Ms. Viv is a lesbian? I thought she wanted to date Mr. Craig?” Maddy asks.

“Notice Maddy didn’t react to Viv being evil?” Stella jokes under her breath so only you could hear.

“Sorry to interrupt, but you still call Mr. Craig... uh… Mr. Craig? I mean, isn’t he your boyfriend?” Paige asks, immediately getting Maddy to blush again. Stella even nudges you to point your attention to it like you didn’t notice Maddy’s blushing.

“Oh! Sorry, Paige. Forgot to introduce you. Paige, this is Maddy. She’s staying with our neighbors for the summer before going to college. She’s not Tanya, Jay’s other girlfriend we told you about.” Stella explains.

“Oh! I’m so sorry! I didn’t know! It’s nice to meet you Maddy.” Paige tells Maddy, who was still obviously blushing. Maddy tried to play it off like she did with Becca earlier and tried to casually introduce herself to Paige as well.

“Why’d you ask what she calls him, Paige? Thought it would be kinky if one of us called him Mr. Craig during our foursome? What we actually call him is even kinkier.” Stella asks Paige suggestively. You were about to react to Stella’s apparent oversharing of your activities in the bedroom, but it seems Stella was rightly paranoid about the supernatural waitress for a reason.

“Hi everyone!” the waitress says from behind Stella.

“Jesus Christ.” Stella flinches in surprise upon hearing the waitress’ voice.

“Your food will be served in the private function room as requested by Ms. Hoffman. If you would be so kind as to follow me?” the waitress asked.