The temperature gauge in the room was stuck at 103 degrees and had been so for the past three days. The humidity was so high, globules of persperation formed on the windows as the soft whir of an air-conditioner purred throughout their living room. It was the only room that they could afford to cool, and therefore, they'd spent the past three nights sleeping, eating, living, and breathing in this room and this room alone.
She rolled her eyes as he flipped the channels for the umpteenth time in the past few minutes.
"What?" he grinned.
"You're starting to get on my nerves," she groaned. "Please just pick something and stop flipping."
"Damn, you're cranky," he smirked, settling the television to the local news.
"It's this heat," she sighed. "I'm dying!"
"It's not that bad in here right now," he shrugged. "We've got the AC cranked."
"Chris, what if that things breaks down? What will we do? We'll melt into puddles overnight."
He laughed at this, and ran a hand up her exposed leg. "We worry about that if it comes to it."
She winced. "I don't want it to come to that!"
"Me either, but shit happens," he sighed. "Now quit your bitching."
She giggled and smacked him playfully.
"Oh no, alert the press," he grinned. "Julie's horny!"
Clothes were quickly shed and the pair, spent, fell asleep in one another's arms on the leather sofa. The night moved on, the heat inside their small apartment escalating to just below unbearable.
Julie awoke with a start.
"Chris?" she whispered.
"Mmm?"
"Wake up!" she slapped him.
"What?"
"The air-conditioning went off. It's hot as Hades in here."
Chris grimaced and climbed off the sofa, padding towards the silent unit in their window.
"You're naked!" Julie giggled.
"And?" he smirked.
"You're going to play Mr. Repairman in the buff?"
"Why not?"
"I see," Julie grinned. "I'll watch."
Chris beamed a devious smile at her and began fiddling with the dials and buttons on their air-conditioner. He smacked the unit and winced, returning to his careful inspection of the various dials across the machine.
"It's broken," he sighed.
"Really?" Julie snorted. "I would never have guessed!"
"It's about eight hundred degrees in here right now, Julie, and I don't appreciate your sarcasm," he sneered, smacking the AC unit once more.
Nothing happened.
"You're going to knock it out of the window, Chris!" Julie giggled. "Stop hitting it."
"I'm mad."
"I know, but stop being violent."
"It's hot in here."
"Yes, it is, and I'd say you should take off all your clothes but...." her voice trailed off seductively.
Chris turned to face her and shook his hips, displaying vividly his nudity.
"What on earth are you doing?" Julie erupted into giggles.
"I'm dancing nekkid for you, baby," he grinned. "Shake it, shake it, shake it."
"That's just wrong," Julie giggled. "Stop!"
"Why should I?" he grinned, moving closer to her and shaking his flaccid penis in her face.
"Stop!" Julie giggled.
"I can't help it, you make me wanna groove, baby!"
"CHRISTOPHER!" she giggled.