It was time for the annual conference in pool chemical technology. And, as usual; Dave and Stephanie had been chosen to go. At similar ages, their work life together was one a flirtive rivalry. They worked closely together and on occasion, seemed to all who didn't know them as a couple.
It would be the usual get up, arrive, check into the hotel, prepare for the weekend of meetings, meet people, check out and go home. It was boring and they always tried to use it as an opportunity to have a laugh. As the pair arrived in the hotel lobby, Dave headed to the reception to check in and get their room keys. As Stephanie looked on as she stood beside their bags, she could tell he was getting more and more frustrated. The heated debate concluded by him grabbing a key card and turning to make his way back towards her.
"Is everything ok Dave?" Stephanie asked, curiously.
He grit his teeth, breathing deeply before looking her straight in the eyes and answered.
"No...well... I have good news... and some bad news!"
"Hm... well, give me the bad news first!" Stephanie responded tentatively.
Dave looked at her and gave a loud sigh, his body language still a little wound up from dealing with the staff.
"They accidentally issued our rooms out to other guests already!" he said, waiting for her reaction.
Stephanie gasped loudly in a mixture of anger and disappointment. "Well, what are we supposed to do? It's taken us hours to get here! Look at the place, it's rammed, we'll never find another room."
"It's ok... calm down" he told her, his body language calm and collected.
Stephanie looked and noticed him, she stood silent briefly as he responded "Well, there is good news.." her eyes lit up, realising there must have been something. "But there's a bit of a catch!" he continued.
Producing the keycard, he flashed it to her and teased with a smile. Stephanie's eyes relaxed but just as she seemed to relax a while he added "there is a catch though..." as he spoke, she breathed in a gasp and waited to hear what.
"There's only one room, we have to share!" he told her with a gasp.
Stephanie suddenly grinned and her shoulders dropped as she relaxed into the idea of no longer worrying about a room, then looked at him up and down. She realised that they would have to spend the weekend together in the same room and gasped a little. "Well, I suppose we don't have a choice, do we?"
"Not really, besides; we can do this, right?" he replied, grabbing his bag and encouraging them to walk towards the elevator.
As they walked towards the elevators Stephanie was quietly contemplating things, sure they'd flirted and she'd even fantasized about the two of them. This however, was new, what would their colleagues think? Perhaps it's best to keep this between them.
"Exactly, I mean, it's not like we're strangers - right? And we've seen each other in swimsuits! Remember the boss' pool party?" Stephanie giggled cheekily.
Dave laughed as the elevator doors opened and they entered, "hmmmm I do remember that, I do believe you were purposefully teasing that day!" Dave smirked as they moved up to the 3rd floor.
"What? It was just a swimsuit!" Stephanie giggled.
The doors opened and the pair walked out, down the corridor "Room 306.. Should be down here!" He breathed as he walked.
They arrived at the door and he opened it. As the door swung wide Stephanie walked in gasping as she stood and inspected the room. There was a corridor that flowed into the main room, on the left was the bathroom door, a big double bed in the centre of the room with a small set of draws nested each side of it.To the right was a wardrobe set beside a minibar, a wide panoramic view of the city set in the corner.
The pair walked in and Dave placed his case on the bed. Stephanie did the same then went to the window immediately to see the view.
"Well, it's not shabby!" She said, looking across the dusk sunset of the cityscape. "We can do this."
"Yeah... definitely!" He replied, unzipping his case. He grabbed his folded suit jacket from the top and carried it to the wardrobe.
As Dave hung his suit up, Stephanie moved to her case on the bed, looking into Dave's as she did subconsciously. She noticed his selection of tight fit looking trunks and lycra style shorts. She found herself biting her bottom lip as she imagined him in such tight fitting garments. She undid her case and opend it, grabbing her trouser suit from the top, packed much the same as his was. Just as Dave did, Stephanie did the same, moving to the wardrobe to hang it as Dave returned to the bed.
"Left or right side Steph?" He asked, taking a glance into her case, smirking at her selection of underwear and other clothes piled up inside tightly.
"Left!" Stephanie replied happily, growing more comfortable with the situation as they unpacked.
Dave slid his bag closer to the bedside drawers and proceeded to unpack his clothes, placing his washbag on the bed. Steph had moved to her bag and had started doing the same, they awkwardly unpacked their underwear in silence and the stark reality of their situation was beginning to sink in.
Steph pulled her wash bag out too then immediately and rather sheepishly slammed the bag shut. At the same time, Dave had finished unpacking and had grabbed his washbag to take to the bathroom.
"Oooh would you mind?" She asked, handing him her washbag.
He took it and made his way towards the bathroom. As soon as his back turned, Steph quickly reopened her bag and grabbed the vibrator that she usually packed for such trips and bundled it quickly into the top drawer.
Dave opened the bathroom and walked in, giving a moan of approval. The bathroom was large; there was a toilet, a built-in sink/vanity mirror and a large walk-in shower that occupied the rest of the tiled space. Placing the bags on the shelf near the shower controls, he turned and gave a quick inspection and returned to the main room.
Steph was flushed with a little embarrassment, hoping he'd not noticed her sex toy. She'd rather him see her lace thong and bra than that! As he approached her she finished unpacking, taking her blue lace bra and thong, almost teasingly flashing it at him as she put them away. Dave couldn't help but to stare a little, his mind automatically dressed her in them and he flashed a smirk. Despite their constant flirting previously, this seemed so different. The real possibility of being tempted seemed to spur them on. Steph wanted him to see her lace, she wanted him to imagine what she would be like wearing them for him and how he would react if he did.
She drank in the sight of his smirk and knowledge that she was indeed having the desired effect on him. Was it so bad if they were open about things? After all, they were sharing a room for the weekend and they were so close to each other anyway! The sexually charged atmosphere held the air for a good minute as he watched her neatly put her lace away. He broke his gaze away and moved towards the minibar, opening it to see what it contained,
"Well, I suppose there's an upside to all this!" he said, laughing.
"Oh?" Steph replied.
"For the inconvenience, we have a free minibar!" Dave told her as he looked inside the fridge.
Steph put her bag on top of his in the corner and made her way over to the minibar where Dave was, they both looked inside at the selection of min-spirits, wines and soft drinks.
"No need to go to the bar downstairs then!" she grinned, placing her hand on his shoulder, giving it a gentle squeeze as he closed the door. The closeness of her, the scent of her perfume and teasing tone her voice had adopted only served to drive his imagination more. He had always liked the bar aspect of this trip the most; usually because they both got drunk and flirted even more, but had always gone to separate rooms at the end of the night. This time of course, they would be in the same room, and they didn't need to go to the bar to get drunk.
He turned to her and their eyes met, paused in the tense emotion as Steph came to the same realisation. She too enjoyed the conference for this singular reason, it was a chance to unwind and enjoy his company without external pressure or judgement, they could be themselves in front of each other and it didn't matter who saw them or what they thought. Although she usually spent the rest of her night in her room, masturbating with her toy from all the flirting and double entendres. She bit her lip thinking about what had happened last year, smirking at the thought that this year there was no safe-haven to go and cool off if things got too sexy in their flirting.