Episode One - https://literotica.com/s/sweat-16
Episode Two - https://literotica.com/s/scrubs-2
Episode Three - https://literotica.com/s/the-party-starter
Episode Four - https://literotica.com/s/oral-4-you-oral-4-me
Episode Five - Talk Dirty To Me
All week long, there were work trucks in and out of Kate's driveway. Carpenters and painters from the conditions of the vehicles and the crappy logos on the sides.
I was fetching my mail Wednesday afternoon when Kate was leaving the house... for work, I guess. My mailbox is down at the street so I'm right there as she pulls out of her driveway next door.
I wave, like always, as she starts down the hill. She usually waves back and smiles. Not today. She stops in the street right where I am, rolling her window down in the process.
I start the conversation.
"Having some work done at the house?" I query, doing my best imitation of Captain Obvious.
"Yeah, re-doing the guest room," Kate answers. "It's the only room that hasn't been redone in the whole house. I've found a different use for it now and I want to freshen it up... rearrange a few things."
Of course, her guest room is where we have our appointments. Our sex sessions. Oh, THAT different use...
She's testing me. I can see the glint in her eyes. And the little curl at the sides of her mouth.
But I can small-talk with the best of 'em.
"Ugh," I respond. "Those re-do projects... they always take longer than you think. But then you're glad with the results when they're over."
"I know, right?" she beams. "They were supposed to be done this weekend but something's on back-order.
"Now it's going to be like the middle of next week"
Another test. I can almost see her gears turning. How is Randy going to react? Why didn't he ask what kind of work is being done? Isn't he curious?? Is he going to ask about Monday? Like... right out here in the street?
Then, maybe because I haven't asked... she delivers the zinger.
"K... gotta get to work," Kate announces. Then, instead of driving off, she turns back to me.
"So..." she begins, and then abruptly interrupts herself. "This is going to sound funny, because I know you've told me before. Please remind me... of your... name?" She finishes with an embarrassed little giggle.
It's the exact thing... the EXACT thing... she said to me on my porch about a month ago... the day she proposed our current fuck buddy arrangement. After our shower encounter. Before the last two weeks of pretty awesome Monday-morning sex. In her guest room. That she's now having re-done.
This girl knows how to play. And she's got a wicked fastball.
I smile. "I'm Randy," I reply. I try to not color my answer at all... to not let her think one thing or another about what *I* might be thinking.
My head voice: ((Low whistle). Wow. Well played, my man...)
She beams a smile that I read as appreciative... that we've played the round to a draw.
"Of course," she coos. "I'm sorry that names are just my worst thing.
"Have a great day, Randy," she chirps as the window goes back up.
And she zooms away, leaving me standing... sort of like a doofus... in the middle of our street.
Fortunately, I haven't gotten my mail yet. So moving to the mailbox is a natural thing to do, in case any of the other neighbors are watching.
Usually, my Head Voice just delivers snarky one-line commentary. Now, he wants a conversation.
(What the hell did THAT mean? "What's your name again?" That's insulting!)
"She's teasing... just playing a game," I reply. "I thought she played it quite well. I thought it was kind of cute, actually."
(Well... what about Monday? What gonna happen concerning Monday?)
"I don't know. It's only Wednesday. Why don't you calm down and not worry about it."
(What do you think she's doing to y'all's room?)
"Okay. First, it's not OUR room. It's her house. I'm just invited in every once in a while.
"Second, I don't know what she's doing... and I'll just have to wait to find out."
(Urrrrrrggghhh!!)
There's talk of rain all weekend, and I need to get some chores done on the outside of the house on Friday.
I'm on a ladder, probably higher than a should be, and I feel the feet slipping and the ladder starting to tilt, with me still on it. I have a choice: Ride the fucking thing to the ground, or jump off and take my chances. I choose the second option.
I land at an angle, perpendicular to the fall line of the slope up to the house. Physics take over and the weakest point is my downhill ankle. It rolls under me as I roll over it.
I know right away that it's at least a sprain. I've felt it before. I wish I could say it was from chasing down a bad guy on the city streets or being the last defender to keep the other team's star running back from the winning score. But, no. They've been wholly pedantic injuries. Like this one.
I drive myself to the quick-care just so they can verify that it's not cracked or broken. Then it's back home to rest it, elevated, and try not to overdose on advil or tylenol.
Head Voice: (I guess this answers what you'll NOT be doing on Monday.)
Shut up, head voice.
My bedroom is upstairs so I spend most of Saturday and Sunday in bed, getting up only to pee or stretch things out a little. The pain saps my appetite so I force myself to eat at least a little something. Sunday evening I fix a sandwich. I'll wash it down with bourbon.
I'm about to climb back in bed when I think about Kate's signal. I can't NOT check on it. I sit on the side of the bed for a second or two, then rise to limp across to the bonus room and see what I see.
There's only one candle in the window. She wants to see me tomorrow morning.
Sleep doesn't come quickly, nor do I sleep well. It's either pain or anticipation. Probably both.
I follow my regular routine Monday morning. Shit, shower, shave, yada-yada. The ankle feels better, but I still limp like a peg-leg pirate everywhere I go.
I put on more regular clothes - button-front sports shirt and khakis - than I usually wear for my encounters with Kate. I convince myself that today's going to be fun. It's just going to be different kind of fun than our previous encounters, that's all.
When I'm not limping, the trek from my back door, through the gate in Kate's fence, and up to her back door takes four minutes. I've timed it down to the micro-second, it seems. Today, I give it eight.
As I step through the gate into her back yard, I can see Kate standing in her kitchen window. She gives me a little wave and I return it as I pull the gate toward me to close it.
Head Voice: (Why is she in the kitchen instead of upstairs?)
"I don't know," is my silent reply.
Kate's demeanor changes from cheery to concerned as she sees me beginning to limp toward her deck. She's out the deck door and onto the deck in a flash. She moves to lean against the deck rail.
"Randy!" she cries, albeit softly. It's like the loudest whisper she can possibly utter.
"Randy... what on earth??"
Her doctor's instincts kick in and she rushes down the steps and to my right side as I approach.
"Here... let me help you!" Kate cries as she gets to my side.
"No need, sweetie... I'm okay," I reply.
She skips right over me calling her "sweetie." I didn't intend to... it just came out. Truth is, I call lots of people "sweetie." Waitresses, some co-workers (unless they've warned me against that or they're just... you know... bitches).
"What happened?" Kate asks in a worried voice. "Are you okay??"
"I was on a ladder at my house on Friday and the ground beneath it didn't hold," I started. The first part was true, anyway.
"It's just a sprain... it'll be okay. It's still a little hard to walk, that's all."
Kate's a dainty little thing. At first she tries to somehow support me... actually from the wrong side. After a step or two she realizes that. She grips my arm instead. We're almost to the deck steps anyway.
At the bottom step I turn to her. "You go ahead," I instruct. "I've got this."
Kate scurries up the steps, opens the deck door and stands within it to watch me slow-walk... one step at a time... up to the house level of the deck. Thankfully, it's only four steps or so.
The concern on her face is real. Hey, she's a doctor. She hasn't heard the whole story yet, that this kind of injury isn't new to me and that I'm two days on the road to feeling better. I truly don't try to milk her concern. But I don't have to.
Kate's furrowed brow and worried eyes follow me all the way to the deck door where she's waiting. As I get to where she's standing she throws her arms around my neck in a hug. She's starting to replay what she's learned in the last minute or so.
"This happened on Friday?!?" she pulls back and asks with what could be called incredulity. I don't take it that way.
"You've been over in your house... alone... since Friday?? Why didn't you call me??"
It's a perfectly natural thing for her to say. Neighborly. Human-like. Doctor-like.
My response is also a perfectly natural thing to say. With deserved incredulity, if I want to go there. Thankfully, I choose to make a little joke of it.
"Kate," I smile through a chuckle, "I don't have your number."
The realization hits her. Maybe she plays her own voice in her head, what she said to me on the day we forged our agreement: "Randy, this is important. I don't want to leave any kind of a trail that my daughter Amanda could discover. No phone calls. No voice mails. No emails. No texts. Nothing like that... understand?"
Kate's demeanor softens just a little. Her shoulders seem to relax a little. Her hands unwrap from my neck and drop softly down across my chest and off to her side. She lets out a little sigh.
"I wish I could have been there to help you," she whispers. Her beautiful eyes change from worry to compassion.
"I know how you could help me now," I offer.
"What?" she exclaims. "Of course! How?"