Dating Stinks by Kris P. Kreme
Getting ready for her second date with Morris, eighteen year old Leah isn’t sure how to dress, how to act, or what to do. She’s always been sure about her future, raised by a single mother who made a name for herself speaking and writing on female empowerment.
Having a talk with her mother while they wait, Kelly reassures her daughter but those reassurances change when a sales girl shows up at the door.
Pushing a Trance-tory fragrance called Docile Happy Slut, the blonde insults everything Kelly stands for. When she squirts a sample bottle at Kelly, the scent may stink up the house, changing everyone inside it, including Morris when he arrives for his date with Leah.
When eighteen year old Leah is getting ready for her second date with a guy from school, nothing seems to be as sure in her mind as the bright independent future she has planned out educationally.
With a mother like hers, one of the most acclaimed authors on female empowerment, a woman so strongly confident and empowered she still runs her own company, Leah knows she should be capable of figuring this out. But social things like dating never came easy to her.
For one thing Leah wants to look nice but not as though she is trying to draw attention to her body, wants to seem friendly since Morris is a nice boy and not one of the arrogant jocks many other girls go for in school… but not too friendly. She’s just not sure since this is only their second date.
After finally figuring out what to wear, something distinctly feminine and yet not at all slutty, Leah is clearly bothered as she walks downstairs. Her mother, Kelly, has an eye for behavior, especially considering her recent success with a series of publications on female empowerment in the workplace. She’s even completed a book signing tour recently for her latest book called Feminine Strong, specifically about the balance of remaining proud of femininity and yet still succeeding in work more than men in the corporate world.
Kelly has always been proud of how she’s raising Leah, having made mistakes at Leah’s age herself. Back then she bought into the subservient expectations of a girl, depending on and needing a boy in her life. Fortunately not too long after Leah was born, she recognized her flaws and kicked the arrogant prick Leah’s father turned out to be out of their lives. She never looked back and has had success ever since as an inspiration to women around the world with her books and lectures.
Of course right now, she realizes, she needs to be an inspiration to her own daughter. As she talks with Leah, waiting on Morris to come pick her up for their date, Kelly encourages her daughter that there are guys out there who respect a woman, who can even sit back and let a woman lead in this male-dominated society.
Morris might very well be that kind of boy, especially since as Leah concerns herself over, he seems to generally just float through life, not really all that outgoing, nothing remotely like the arrogant jocks in school, but also not very study oriented. Maybe, Kelly says, Morris is perfect for being in Leah’s life, since Kelly knows her daughter has everything planned out, perfect grades, a bright future cleanly laid out in her near and far future.
Kelly is confident that her daughter will enter a work world where women lead, where the man stays home more, where things aren’t so limited for a little basic female empowerment. And yet a ring at their doorbell may soon change all of that and much more.
Leah panics thinking Morris is an hour early to pick her up, but when Kelly goes to the door, it definitely isn’t Morris. A busty blonde who looks straight out of the 1950s stands there twirling her hair and popping gum, as ridiculously ditzy as Kelly has ever seen. And at first she assumes it must be some sort of joke, a slant against her female empowerment reputation.
When the woman claims she is selling door to door perfume, and is looking for the little woman of the house, Kelly couldn’t be more insulted. She lets the woman continue, this busty simple-headed blonde talking about the latest scent from Trance-tory Fragrances, holding up a little round crystal bottle with a squeeze bulb on top and some red fluid inside.
Embarrassed for the woman, Kelly wants to try and help, as little as she cares for the disgusting stereotype she literally embodies, but when the blonde keeps insisting that Kelly’s husband should definitely buy some of this fancy new scent, Kelly is only getting angrier. She tells her that not every woman needs to have a husband, that women can be independent and think for themselves.
Yet all this pesty woman seems to think about is selling her perfume. Kelly is just about to ask her to leave, to shut the door in her face, but when the blonde mentions the name of that special new scent from Trance-tory, it stuns her into hesitating just long enough to get sprayed with what the blonde calls Docile Happy Slut.
Spitting, wiping at her face, Kelly shoves the door shut, hardly caring that the bubbly blonde dropped the perfume bottle inside before the door is shut. Ranting and angry for so many reasons, Kelly reassures her concerned daughter that it was not in fact Morris showing up too early.
But as Leah and her mother go back to talking about the worries she has about Morris and their date, the expectations a boy might have on a second date… somehow that pungent perfume keeps getting to Kelly.
Could the scent somehow be changing her very thoughts? Is the successful independent author and company runner seeing things from an entirely different perspective as time passes… and will her advice to Leah slowly get corrupted by submissively docile thoughts and ambitions for her daughter?
When Leah notices the smell permeating the air, even she is beginning to be affected with increasingly unnatural thoughts, submissive ideas. But when Kelly embraces the new feelings she is having, spraying her daughter with the bottle left behind, will Morris be arriving to a very different mother and daughter?
And how will the scent affect him as Leah decides to have their date at home, cooking a meal for him? Will the slacker boy who at least is not arrogant find a new dominating personality, and just the girl he wants to dominate?
It’s a different world where women can be as strong and decisive as they want to be, but that doesn’t mean relationships are easy, not when Dating Stinks like this.
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