📋 The Personal Assistant

Who plays who

• A — The Boss: you give the instructions, and you are used to being obeyed.
• B — The Personal Assistant: whatever the boss needs, whenever, wherever — and you take the notes.
• A leads Acts 1–3 as the boss; B takes the lead in Act 4 and through aftercare.

What you need

• A notepad or a real clipboard, and a pen that actually works
• A phone set to silent and face down — the boss is not to be disturbed
• Whatever "the office" is tonight: a desk, a chair, a closed door
• Water for two on the desk, because this one runs long

Act 1 — 🕯️ Setup

The office is closed, the desk lamp is on, and the assistant is still here because the boss said so. You are both very clear who is who tonight. The assistant does not sit until told.

Beats

• The boss gives three small, real tasks — a note, a file, a reminder.
• The assistant does exactly the task named and nothing more, nothing less.
• The door stays closed and the boss never explains why they are still here.

Lines to say

• "One more thing, before you go. Sit down."
• "Take this down. Word for word."
• "You never ask why. I like that."

Act 2 — 🔥 Build

The tasks get smaller and more personal: straighten my collar, hold this, come closer to read the page. The assistant keeps taking notes because the boss keeps dictating. Every order is a test neither of you wants to pass.

Beats

• The orders stop being about work. Each one is about proximity.
• The assistant writes down what is dictated, even the parts that are not instructions.
• Neither of you breaks: the boss gives, the assistant obeys, until the notes run out.

Lines to say

• "Closer. I can't read your writing from there."
• "Read that last line back to me."
• "Stay where you are until I say move."

Act 3 — ⚡ Escalate

The notepad is closed now. The boss names the next task plainly, and it is not anything a job would ever describe. The assistant still does not move until told. The room is yours, the door is shut, and nobody else exists until this ends.

Beats

• The boss gives the order they have been circling all night, in one clear sentence.
• The assistant obeys — or negotiates, in character, on their own terms.
• Clothes come off in the order the boss names, one item at a time.

Lines to say

• "Lock it. Then come here."
• "You take orders all day. Tonight you take mine."
• "Tell me what you were hoping I'd ask for."

Act 4 — 💥 Climax

The assistant has taken the lead, exactly as the boss half hoped. There is no dictation, no orders, no notes — just the two of you using the room you have. Whoever is in charge now stays in charge to the end.

Beats

• Whoever holds the lead keeps it; no trading mid-act unless someone wants to.
• Nobody narrates. If it has to be explained, the scene is already broken.
• Let it end the way the two of you want, not the way the script says.

Lines to say

• "Look at me. Don't look away."
• "That's it. Stay right there."
• "Say it back to me."

Act 5 — 🤍 Aftercare

The job disappears with the lamp. You are two people again, and the clipboard goes back to being just a clipboard.

Beats

• Come back to your own names out loud — boss and assistant are finished for the night.
• Water, a blanket, and skin on skin with no orders attached.
• Say which instruction you would give again and which one you would tear up.

Lines to say

• "That was really good. Thank you for taking it as seriously as I did."
• "Next week I want the other side of that."

Aftercare

Water, a blanket, and the lamp off, with no orders left standing. Say one thing you liked and one you want next time, out loud, in your own voices. The assistant should be told clearly, in plain words, that the obedience was wanted — and that no real power exists between you.

Ground rules and consent

• The boss is a character only. There is no real job, no real salary and no real power imbalance between us — either of us can stop the scene.
• "Clipboard" outranks the boss. Said once, the scene ends immediately, no explanation owed.
• The tasks are pretend. Neither of us is ever actually doing anything we do not want to do.
• The shift ends when either of us says it does; in character until then, and out loud about it afterwards.

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