This is a re-write of a five-chapter story I wrote years ago, and lost. I found all but Part 1, and have remade it here. It was written based on prompts from another erotic writer.
When the pandemic hit, I got stuck with an unwanted house guest.
In the month before it got really bad, my girlfriend Natalie begged me to let her best friend Jessica stay with us for a little while. It seems that Jessica's landlord was one of those 'it's all a hoax' guys, and he and Jessica had gotten into a big argument about it, and he had evicted her. I wasn't surprised to hear this. Jessica was loud, opinionated, and argumentative. These aren't necessarily negative qualities, but she brewed them together into a bitchy persona that, while it might be appealing to some, struck me as absolutely intolerable.
But I loved Nat, and we had a spare room, so I gave the OK for Jessica to move in. I foolishly assumed that she'd be with us for a week or two while she searched for a new place. But the pandemic got worse, and then they announced a city-wide quarantine. So it looked like she'd be our roommate for the foreseeable future.
Then it went from bad to worse. I was able to telework, thanks to my office's excellent IT branch. But Natalie's work decided that she was essential, and they had to have her in the office to get their accounting done. The first day of quarantine, Nat was in her office and sneezed in front of the CFO. He panicked and sent everyone home, and insisted that Natalie isolate herself in the office. Apparently everyone else had telework capability, but Natalie's job had to be done in person. Completely unfair, but we were all going crazy back in those early days, and nobody knew how cautious was too cautious.
So Natalie set herself up a little living space in her office building. They had a nap room with comfortable enough beds, showers in the gym, a food delivery service, and they set her up with a laundry service. She camped out there for the next two weeks, completely physically isolated, only able to speak to me (or anyone else) over the phone, email, or video chat. One of the first things she did was order a test kit, and -what a surprise!- she tested negative. But the news and the city government were saying "Shelter in Place" every day, only essential workers and delivery services were allowed out on the street, so Natalie was stuck where she was.
So it was me and Jessica in the apartment. I tried to keep things cordial, but Jessica seemed determined to turn the situation into a drama. She would dispute every decision I made about the quarantine, from where to order food to what kind of hand sanitizer to buy. She turned every conversation into an argument. And several times she tried to walk behind me topless when I was on video calls!
I suppose I should say a little more about Jessica. She was a tall redhead in her late twenties, the same age as Natalie and I. She was good-looking, yeah, even verging on gorgeous, but she carried it with an attitude of 'you should feel lucky you even get to look at me' that was so off-putting that it became repellent. I suppose she used that as a defense to fend off the creeps, but there was nobody here but the two of us, and I'd made it clear I wasn't into her, so there was no need to keep acting that way. But she still did. Maybe it was her default mode.
She was bi, and proud of it, and salacious in the way she talked about relationships. When she brought up sex in an otherwise normal conversation, it seemed like she was doing it to annoy me, but she'd known Natalie longer than me, so she probably knew that Nat loved dirty gossip. I did too, I just preferred it to be in a private conversation, not over dinner.
Natalie was bi as well, and had told me a few times that she had a crush on Jessica. This didn't make me jealous. I would have been fine with Natalie having a little lezzy fun now and then, and I didn't have a problem with opening our relationship, or even trying a threesome. But I felt like Jessica was a bad choice, and I told Nat so.
"You don't know her like I do, LH," she told me. "Yeah, she's got a lot of attitude, but she's different with women. She's really compassionate, and easy to talk to, and soooo smart and funny too. I know this roommate situation is annoying you, but I hope you get a chance to see that side of her."
"If she only shows it to women, how can I?" I asked. "Do you know what she did today? I was on a video chat with my boss and an important client. Jessica comes walking out of her room, with no top on! Tits just hanging out."
Natalie giggled. "Oh no, what did you do?"
"Well I concentrated on keeping my eyes on the screen and paying attention. She walked in front of me to the kitchen, grabbed some food, and on her way back, she deliberately changed her path to walk behind me! She was trying to get herself seen by my camera!"
"Oh no, did your boss see her boobs?" Natalie had a playful tone in her voice that told me she was enjoying the story, but also maybe already knew what had happened.
"No, I got up and turned around, keeping Jessica behind the camera. She went back to her room, with a fucking smirk on her face. She did it on purpose, I know it." Nat giggled again. "What, babe? What's funny?"
"Oh, it's just that, she told me she was going to do that." Natalie continued to giggle uncontrollably as she explained. "I helped a little. I told her what time you'd be on an important call today."
"Babe!"
"It's fine, honey, I knew you'd handle it with your quick reflexes, and it's just a little fun. We're all going crazy in this quarantine stuff. Hell, by the time it's over your whole office will be attending meetings in their pajamas."
I had to laugh at that. "Well, I guess. But tell her not to do it again, OK?" (Jessica would go on to do it three more times in the next two days.)
"So you saw her boobs? Nice, right?" Natalie's voice was now less giggly and more sexy.
"Well, yeah, they are nice. They've got that 'teardop' thing going where the nipples look like they're being pulled out just a little. But yours are better babe," I quickly added.
"Thanks hun, but I know she's got great boobs. You're just saying mine are better because you get to touch them. Jessica let me touch hers once, and they're amazing."
"Well, yeah, but yours are attached to you, the person I love."
"Awww! I love you too baby!"
I should have ended the call at that point, but I couldn't help but be a little curious. That curiosity would end up getting me in quite a lot of trouble. "You touched Jessica's tits?"
"Yeah! We were trying on some bikinis, and I told her how good they look, and she asked if I wanted to touch them. This was like, four years ago. They're really great,
babe. I bet if you ask, Jess will let you give'em a squeeze."
"I don't think so."
"Baby," Nat's voice got insistent. "You are going to need some sexual release during this quarantine. Believe me, Jessica's boobs, heck, Jessica's body, is so hot, you'll get off fast."