Miss Peeg Admonishes

“Mr. Roberts, I have tidied up the office except for yours of course, I wonder if you’d mind um cleaning your desk for me.”

Miss Peeg stood in the doorway of Richie’s office with polish and cloth in hand.

Here it comes; Riche thought he’d been waiting for it. Two days had passed since the embarrassing incident. “Of Course Miss Peeg, I’d be happy to. Sorry for the uh embarrassment I caused you.”

“Oh it was not me sir, but this is of course a place of business, one must expect doors will be opened, phones will ring and clients will visit. One should anticipate that sir and conduct one’s self accordingly.”

“Yes ma’am,” he said suppressing a grin. “I can assure you it won’t happen again. I did lock the outside door,” he added in his defense.

“Yes sir you did but then I have keys don’t I so that I may complete my work that you have assigned me.”

“Yes ma’am the uh polish…”

“Yes sir now you only spray a bit and rub with the cloth.” She handed him the cleaner and went back to her desk satisfied she’d made her point. She did love Mr. Roberts but he could be such a naughty boy.

Richie dutifully cleaned his desk and looked underneath remembering Toni’s panties and stuffed them in his pocket. He took them out smiled, thought better of it and stuck them in his pocket again.

“There that’s got it,” he said bringing the cleaning supplies back to her.

“If you’ll just toss the cloth in the waste bin sir,” she said taking the polish from his hand.

Richie cocked a brow at her and dropped the cloth in the trash.

“Thank you sir,” she said smiling.

“Yes Miss Peeg,” Richie returned to his clean desk and fumbled around for what he had been working on before she appeared in his doorway. He looked up a moment thinking, why was it he always felt like a grubby little boy around her? He half expected her to want to inspect his hands and look behind his ears. He shook his head and returned to his work.