It was four in the afternoon the next day, and Jess still wasn't dressed. She had already mopped the kitchen and the bathroom once, vacuumed the carpets twice, and scrubbed her shower from top to bottom. She had sent Jordan her address, and he confirmed when he'd be getting off. He said it would take him about twenty minutes to get there.
Jess alternated between excitement and anxiety throughout the day. One minute she was beaming and bubbling with anticipation -- the next she remembered another filthy spot of her apartment that needed a deep clean.
With three hours until Jordan's arrival, Jess finally decided there was nothing left to clean. She put the mop, bucket, and sponges away, and walked over to the bar that separated her kitchen from her living room. She picked her phone up off the bar and checked the time: 4:24 PM, and no new messages.
She unlocked her phone and opened up the conversation with Jordan. She texted:
Hey, what do you think about dinner?
Still nude, she set the phone back down and started looking through her fridge and cupboards.
Bzzzt, bzt-bzt.
Her phone vibrated and lit up. Jess walked over and looked at the lock screen: '1 new message from Jordan.' She unlocked it and read his reply:
As a concept, I have many controversial thoughts. But if you're talking about tonight, sure! What'd you have in mind?
Jess grinned.
lol ofc I meant tonight, you ass! Was thinking maybe... spaghetti?
she responded.
A pause, and then she saw the three dots. He was replying. She folded her arms under her chest and looked around her kitchen again. Jess knew she had the ingredients for spaghetti, and it was one of the few dishes she was confident she could make. She brought the phone up and rested a corner of it on her lips.
Bzzzt, bzt-bzt.
Sounds great! Need me to bring anything? :D
Jordan wrote.
"Cool," Jess said to herself.
Just you. ;)
she sent. Remembering the joint she saw backstage the day before, she added:
And maybe some weed? Lol
Jess realized that she forgot to empty out the coffee mug she regularly used as an ashtray. She left it on her balcony, so she went to grab a towel to cover herself before retrieving it. It didn't occur to her until her phone buzzed again that the joint might not have been his. She opened up her phone to let him know she was 'just joking,' but he had already replied:
Indica, sativa, or hybrid?
Oh thank God,
Jess thought.
Sativa, since we're gettin creative and all lol
, she typed. She was then able to cover herself up, walk out to her balcony from the living room and grab the coffee mug. Once she gave it a good scrub, Jess started pulling out everything she needed for dinner.
Bzzzt, bzt-bzt.
Indeed ;)
he wrote.
Any anxiety that once remained in Jess had now evaporated. She started humming to herself and threw an apron on over her naked body. She turned on the stove and got to cooking. While her noodles boiled and her meat sauce simmered, she walked on the balls of her feet out of the kitchen onto the sand-colored carpet of her living room. She twirled around once, twice, still humming all the while, and stopped in front of her mirror.
She gave herself a once-over in the mirror, twisting her body left and right. She folded the apron between her thighs by crossing one shapely leg in front of the other. She admired the way her hips appeared to curve outward from the apron. She turned around to face away from the mirror. She then twisted her hips so she could look back at her ass in the reflection.
"Hey!" she said to an imaginary Jordan. "You're early! Oh, don't mind me. I was just making din- hm? Oh, this?" she said, sliding her hand from the top of her exposed sideboob down to her ass. "Well, I didn't think you would
come
so early, and oh my God that's corny as shit," she laughed to herself.
She turned back around. Her breasts rested underneath her apron and pillowed out like marshmallows that had soaked in hot cocoa. Jess briefly considered greeting Jordan at the door like this, but thought better of it once she noticed her large, black areolae peeking out the sides of the apron as well.
Jess sighed and returned to the kitchen in time for her timer to go off. She drained the noodles and killed the heat on the stove, then combined them with the sauce in a big bowl. Jess checked the time: 6:52 PM, and 1 new message from Jordan.
He wrote:
Hey, managed to sneak out early. Heading out of the dispensary now. See you in a bit!
It was sent at 6:26 PM.
"Shit!" Jess yelled. She ran into the bedroom and threw off the apron. "Uhhhhhh, okay! What've we got?"
She thought of the night before, and inspiration struck.
Jordan pulled into the parking lot of Jess's apartment complex and killed the engine. The LEDs on his dashboard slowly faded with the message 'Have a good night, Jordan!' The personalized messages were a feature that came pre-installed in the car when he ordered it; he couldn't figure out how to turn it off.
Hey, just got here. It's #337, right? 3
rd
floor?
He waited for a full minute, his face lit only by the dull glow of his phone. He reached over and pushed in on the glove compartment door to open it. He reached in and pulled out two green plastic tubes. Each tube had a white label stuck to it that read 'Green State Dispensary,' followed by the contents of the joint within.
His phone vibrated as he closed the glove compartment.
Yep, come on up,
said Jess.
Okay, omw,
Jordan wrote. He stuffed the tubes in the hand warmer pocket of his hoodie and opened the door. He got out and pressed a button on his key fob. The driver-side door closed and locked automatically. Jordan walked up to the building and passed by Jess's truck. He smiled, and walked a little faster towards the stairs.
333... 335... 337, here it is,
he thought. He took a deep breath, and rang the doorbell. The sound of the chime from behind the door faded, and soon all Jordan could hear was the faint hum of the fluorescent lights above and the
tink tink
of a fly bouncing off of them.
He reached for the button again, and heard the thumping of footsteps inside #337. They rapidly got louder.
Ka-chunk. Ka-chunk.
The deadbolt had been thrown, and the door opened.
Jess leaned forward with one foot behind her and one hand on the doorway. "Hey, you're early!"
Jordan felt like he was seeing her anew. She was wearing a tight, ribbed, white cotton undershirt, a black lace bra that was clearly visible underneath it, yellow booty shorts with blue trim, and white knee-high socks with two blue horizontal stripes near the tops. Her hair was in the twin puffballs just like the night before.
Jess grinned and pushed back from the doorway. "Well? You comin' in?" she said. She turned around, and Jordan could see the bottom of her asscheeks peeking out from under her shorts.
"Uh, yup," Jordan said, his voice cracking slightly.
Oh God, I'm in trouble,
he thought as his face cracked into a half-smile. He walked in and closed the door behind him.
Jess walked to the living room-side of the bar and started dishing up the spaghetti onto two powder-blue stoneware plates. She had already placed her laptop on the tempered glass of the black coffee table in front of her couch. She had left it open with the Kuhani logo displayed in Photoshop.
"Would you mind locking the door?" she asked Jordan.
"Yeah, sure," he said.
Ka-chunk
.
"Thanks. Dinner's ready, by the way."
"Cool," Jordan responded and took his shoes off. "And I brought 'dessert,' as requested. 'Silver Haze' and 'Thor's Hammer.'" He pulled out the joints from his pocket.
"Very nice," she approved. "Just leave 'em on the table. Here you go," she said, holding out a plate.
He set the tubes on the table and took the plate from her. "Thanks," he said, blushing. "Oh, sorry about my, uh, 'outfit.' Like I said, just got off work. You mind if I take this off? It's a little warm in here." He tugged gently on his sweater.
"Be my guest!" Jess replied. She had turned the heater up a touch hotter than normal, and she was glad she did. Jordan pulled his hoodie off to reveal a thin, long-sleeved shirt with buttons that went down just past his chest. All but the bottom one were undone, and his sleeves were rolled up to just below his elbows; the forearms and pecs were firmly on display.
"So," Jordan said, clapping his hands once in front of him. "shall we get started?"
"Y-yup," Jess replied.
Oh God, I'm in trouble
, she thought.