Later that evening, Amy tried her best to close the front door as carefully as she could. Hoping Nick would sleep tightly. That was the problem with sharing quarters. She felt as if she was back at the dorm again, tiptoeing whenever she felt like having a late night out with the girls. She chuckled softly of the thought of resembling a teenager who had to sneak past her parent's bedroom in the middle of the night to avoid a quarrel.
If only she could get a hold on that damn handyman that was supposed to install the new door to her apartment. Talk about a lazy fellow. She would never use that company again, even though Nick had recommended them highly. Oh well, perhaps tomorrow her door would arrive and she wouldn't have to continue all this tiptoeing around her brother's best friend. That would indeed be a happy day, she smiled as she walked toward the darkened kitchen.
"Ouch," she yelled as her foot hit something heavy lying on the floor that should never have been there. "Bloody hell," she snarled as she jumped around on one foot holding her hands around the offended body part, trying to discover whether her toes were still connected to her body or not. "Oh god," she groaned as she hit another mysterious but similar hard object and fell down on the carpet -- both feet feeling as if she would never be able to stand up again.
"What is all this ruckus?" Nick grumbled from somewhere above her. The lights were turned on and she could see a half naked god staring down at her.
"Oh-my-god," she mumbled quietly as she tried to collect her thoughts. The pain had vanished and she was practically salivating over the half-naked body so close to her. Every detail of his well trained torso highlighted by the warm light evaporating into the room.
His chest was bare, and his lower body was only covered by some washed-up jeans, hanging low on his hips and barely fastened at the front. His belt was open and simply hung from the loops in his jeans. She stared at the smooth skin on his muscled chest and watched the warm temptation disappear beneath his jeans, as she anticipating what pleasures could be found underneath the fabric. For once she longed to be a pair of well-worn jeans instead of another human being.
"What are you doing?" the god finally asked in a grumpy voice that clearly ruined the mood. "Are you trying to awaken the entire house with your slamming or have you started another fire perhaps?"
His harsh voice made her start concentrating again. He wasn't a god. Not even a half-god. Only the bad-tempered brother-substitute who took his pleasures in plaguing her.
Her temper stirred in response to his anger and she snarled at him. "No, I'm not. But some clout laid out booby traps in the hallway, just to make sure I broke an ankle. Are you afraid of being attacked in your sleep perhaps?"
"What? What are you talking about?"
"All this stuff lying about. It wasn't here earlier this evening, so you probably laid the traps out on purpose."
"Ah, and then I just lay in wait for you to trample in and ruin my sleep at two in the morning? Look, Missy, some of us have regular jobs, you know, and we value our sleep. Besides, what have you been doing out at this ungodly hour?"
"Don't even ask, Nick. It's none of your business."
"Sure it is." He folded his arms over his muscled chest and put on his most haughty tone as his flexing muscles backed up his arrogance. "You're my responsibility now that your brother is not around, and I know you have this tendency of getting into all kinds of trouble."
"All right," Amy glared at him, while she got up on her feet again. The creep weren't giving her any help at all, just continued staring haughtily at her as if she was recalcitrant child that needed to be taught how to behave, or simply given a good example. Well, she was not having any more of his high-handed morality.
She put on a pout and said sweetly. "Are you sure you want
all
the details, Nick?"
"Huh?" he was puzzled by her abrupt change in attitude.
"I mean, absolutely
all
the gory details?"
"What have you been up to?" he said icily.
"Nick, dearest, just remember to keep calm. We can't have that blood pressure boiling off the top all the time. It simply isn't good for your health, you know."
He just glared at her.
"All right, so I was at this bar, and there I noticed these hotties."
"Hotties?"
"Yes, you know, some really hot men with their cocks on display. Oh, you know the kind."
"What
are
you talking about?
"You wanted to know what I've been doing, wasn't that so? Anyway," she droned on, "we had some dances and some drinks and since one thing generally leads to another, we finished off by having some really wild sex in the backroom."
"
What
?"