"It was just a safety presentation."

“So, let me get this straight...” The boss was sitting in front of the girls, who had been carried to the side of the assembly line to let the workers keep doing their jobs. Ana and Cheryl were still pressed against each other atop the metal plate, a situation that neither of them liked.

“The late manager was worried about security in the workplace, so, before he passed, he asked you two to make a demonstration showcasing why it’s important to wear security gear in the factory... by not wearing anything at all.”

“Yep, all part of the show,” Ana replied through gritted teeth.

“Do you realize how dangerous that was?”

“Yes, which is why we had to do the demonstration, otherwise the workers would never learn!” Cheryl bluffed. “We practiced the routine a thousand times. Very convincing, right?”

The boss remained silent, his expression grim. Ana could feel her job slipping away by the second.

“You know what? You are right, and very original too. That was the best safety demonstration I’ve seen in all my years in the industry.”

“R-really?That’s wonderful!”

“Matter of fact. Jenkins! You have the full video?”

“Yes boss.”

“Excellent, we are going to share it with all the other branches, worldwide. You two will be the face of workplace security for now on.”

“A-all the branches?” Oh no, just how many factories was that? Wait, Ana remembered the latest monthly newsletter from HR, about how they were celebrating being the first company to have plants in …every continent. Even Antarctica for some reason. “You can’t do that! The late manager insisted that we only do the demonstration for this factory…”

“Nonsense! It would be a shame not to show the result of your labor to the whole company… Unless, of course, this wasn’t a safety demonstration at all, was it?”

“N-no sir, I mean yes! It was a safety demonstration!”

“Good, then we’ll share it around the corporate family. It’s what the late Steve would have wanted…”

The boss gave the girls a coy wink. D-did he know? Was this a punishment? It didn’t matter. Ana sunk her head and accidentally head-butted the redhead trapped beneath her. “Nice going Cheryl, great lie,” she whispered into her coworker’s ear, punctuating her sentence with an angry pinch on the redhead’s bottom.

“H-hey, it’s not that bad. You are never even going to see all these people ever again! That’s the beauty of the night shift.”

“I’m so impressed…” continued the boss. “That I’m promoting you to the day shift! You’ll be the first and last face each of our fine workers sees at the start and end of their day.”

Ana glared at Cheryl. She pinched her coworker’s bottom with relentless fury. “Ow-ow- owppreciated! Speaking of, when do you think you are going to get us out of here?”

“Sorry girls, but this really is an emergency order, all hands are on deck. We’ll send couple of our guys with hydraulic cutters to get you free when we can, until then, sit tight.”

The boss left the duo in the corner to supervize the line. They both could see their coworkers giving them the not so occasional side-glance. Ana and Cheryl wriggled and squirmed some more. They knew it didn’t accomplish much, but it was almost an involuntary reaction.

Caught in an embrace with her coworker, Ana could feel herself working out a sweat. All of Cheryl’s heat was beamed into her skin, and vice versa. The redhead was also starting to sweat bullets. Ugh, so icky.

With no other avenue with which to express her frustration, Ana kept pinching the redhead. “Ow-ow-ow stop! This isn’t as bad as you think!”

“Of course it’s not so bad for you, my tits are covering your tits! You are not the one with her ass on display for the whole factory!”

“Ow, ouch, ow! Sorry! Stop, you are making an even bigger scene! Ouch!”

“Why would I stop?! You are the reason I am in this mess to begin with!”

“Look, I am sorry, ok? What if I pay for your lunch for the next two months and we call it even?! OW! Ok, six months. Ouch! A year, stop please!”

“Fine.” Relented Ana. “But I get to chose what we eat, capiche?” Cheryl timidly nodded her head. Free meals for a year, a promotion and a raise. It was almost enough to make her crazy adventure worth it.

Ana longingly stared at the factory line wondering when they were going to release her. She spotted a couple of the workers staring at her, one of them even winked at her …She was already missing the graveyard shift.