Chapter 20 Emily, Graham and the Pizza guy
The meeting on the Monday with Art went well. He had obviously watched us on the screen. We were all in agreement that it was not obvious that any tenants would not make the grade so we were keen to encourage them. Art had a new flat ready, a fairly small one, just one open-plan kitchen lounge, but still with a double bed in the bedroom and wondered if I could find someone for it. I told them I thought I had a single girl who would fit into the scheme of things beautifully. If she agreed did they want to meet her?
'Not necessarily,' said Art.
'Yes please,' said Darren.
That kept Art and I with big grins on our faces for the rest of the meeting, even after Darren's blush had faded. I told him I would arrange it.
I came up with a couple more money-making ideas, not for the present but to be stored for the future when we were a bit bigger. I suggested that they keep and segment the high spots from the archives that I suspected Darren still had and perhaps make them available 'on demand' at an extra price. I thought it was important to keep the preceding twenty-four hours for free so that people would only need to tune in once a day to see the high spots. The other idea I envisaged was an on-line shop, selling perhaps sex novelties, handcuffs and the like, similar to a regular sex shop, where we could push items that we know were used in the flats by the girls. A certain fancy dress perhaps, Santa's Elves, maybe. We could give each of the flats one for the girls to wear at Xmas and then sell off the rest of the stock to make a profit. If they didn't want to have to hold a lot of stock I am sure I could do a mail order deal as agent for Joe, the manager of Love Unlimited.
We agreed a date and venue for the next party and I said I would report back on the new flat tenant.
'When do you want to meet her Darren?'
'Oh shut up. If she's a friend of yours she will not be worth meeting.'
'You didn't say that Friday night when you met Bryony Sam and Melissa.'
That evoked no response, except a muttered 'Tuesday afternoon.' as he buried himself in his computer.
The very first thing I did was to call Tracy and see whether she would like to move into our new flat. I felt she was the right sort of girl to keep the cameras happy, and if I played my cards right, keep Darren happy as well.
She was delighted with the idea. She knew how the cameras affected our living environment and was more than happy to try. She was going to have difficulties explaining it to her mother. I suggested she tell her father all about it, as she would probably want him to visit sooner or later, but tell her mother that she was getting it free as she was looking after it for a friend who was going to Australia for a while. She agreed to talk to her dad about it and I arranged to let her 'interview' with Darren on Tuesday afternoon. I explained to her that he was the head 'Techie' and controlled the computers and the cameras and would be very influential in making sure she got the flat if she came across well. Of course, that play on words, 'come across' was exactly what I was expecting from her. I didn't think I needed to be more explicit. She had not had a boyfriend for the best part of a month so was gagging for it anyway. I arranged to meet them a couple of days later in the Crest and Feathers, right opposite Darren's flat.
The other responses to the party, apart from those of Art and Darren, were the number of invites we got to visit other flats. Susan had been fielding calls all weekend and we had a busy schedule mapped out for the next couple of weeks.
The first invite was from Emily and Graham for pizza and drinks. We turned up not really knowing what to expect in the way of enhanced sex, if anything. I had kept an eye on all the flats, monitoring any increase in flesh or activity and sure there were signs of it in most flats. Emily was only wearing panties and a t-shirt most of the time, and they had made love every night on top of the covers. A definite improvement. We arrived soon after seven with a couple of bottles of wine, Prosecco, of course, and a bottle of red. They both drank the bubbly leaving me to the red on my own. Suited me.
'I have booked a couple of Pizzas for eight thirty,' said Emily, 'unless you have any big dislikes in which case I have time to change the order?'
We were happy with anything so the conversation quickly turned to the party last Friday.
I asked whether they thought they could ramp up the sex in order to improve their rating.
'I think so,' said Graham. 'In fact, I think we have already.' I didn't tell them that I had been watching, and that while it was definitely an improvement they would still need to go a little further. It seemed a little unfair, sitting here face to face.
'What might improve them,' I said, 'is if you encourage us to take some clothes off, perhaps by turning up the heating, or just asking us, or even for preference by showing us the lead in what you could expect us to wear around here.'
They looked at each other.
'We are a little overdressed compared to normal,' said Emily. 'I don't normally wear a skirt and blouse on our own in the evenings.'
'Woah, you mean you have put extra clothes on for us coming over. Do you think perhaps that we get upset at the sight of flesh after I spent the whole evening last week trying to get you to disrobe?'
She had the grace to laugh. 'I guess not. We are conditioned by our parents I suppose. Can you imagine sitting in their parlour with a glass of sherry in just our underwear.'
We all had a good laugh at the image that conjured up and Susan admitted that we had felt that way when we first took the flat over.
The mood relaxed, I looked at Emily and raised my eyebrows. She quickly understood what I was getting at and said.' Oh well guys, if you want... I mean I am just about to... look do you mind if I ...'
Susan laughed and said, 'Emily instead of embarrassing yourself why don't you just excuse yourself a moment, go into the bedroom and come back wearing what you would feel comfortable in tonight. I can promise we will not embarrass you by sitting here scornfully. We will undoubtedly join in. Alex is trying in his ham-fisted way to make the two of you make the decisions rather than accept 'suggestions' what to do by us. What we would have done at home, in case it is easier for you, is that Alex would have told me what to wear before you came over and then if he wanted me to remove more later in the evening he would either tell me outright to do it, or take me into the kitchen and tell me quietly. If Alex tells me what to do, I can feel that showing off my body is actually his responsibility. And being told what to do, as he told everybody on Friday, turns me on. Try it Graham.'
'Ok,' said Graham, 'Good idea. Why don't you go to ...'
'No no no,' Susan interrupted. 'Why don't you is a request.'
'Oh right. Emily go into the bedroom and take off your blouse and skirt.' He looked very proud of himself. Susan looked a bit shocked, possibly he had never made such a statement before.
'Graham, but... but...'
'No, buts,' said Graham masterfully, looking even prouder.
She stood and slowly moved towards the door.
'Of course,' I said, 'She will only prevaricate by leaving us. She will probably be more turned on if you made her do it here, in front of us.'
'Good point. Emily, why don't... Emily, come back here and stand in front of me and remove your blouse please.'