"Hey, Mike, thanks again for watching the house for us this weekend, we really need to get away for a little while."
"Yeah, no problem, man, I'm glad to help out."
Yeah. Not like I had anything else going that weekend, anyway, so I had agreed to housesit for my buddy Rob, maybe help myself to a little bit of his liquor cabinet, make some easy money for my troubles.
"Ashlee definitely could use the time away from work, too, she's been super stressed out lately," Rob went on,
Which was probably true. Ashlee is Rob's wife; she works as a nurse, so I could imagine she probably did need to decompress. I got along pretty well with her, which was good, it meant I didn't dread having to deal with her every time I came to visit.
Plus, to be honest, she wasn't bad to look at, either. She was fair-skinned, with a slender, long face with dark blue eyes and jet black hair that she wore parted down the middle. She wasn't stacked, I'd probably guess she was a B-cup at best, but she definitely took good care of herself and stayed active, between her being on her feet all day at work and her gym regimen, and it certainly showed, she had a nice toned little ass and some damn fine legs, especially on nights when she'd just gotten back from working out.
I more or less zoned out a little bit while Rob went over everything he thought I needed to know, where they would be staying, when they were supposed to be back, how to turn the security system on and off if I needed to go somewhere, the usual. I already knew most of it already, I was just waiting for him to finally head out so I could kick back, crack open a beer, and avail myself of Rob's 90" TV.
"Alright, man, have a good weekend!" he said as he finally got into his car.
"You too!" I said back. Ashlee, from the passenger seat, smiled and waved at me, and I gave her the same back. It seemed like this would just be a nice, normal weekend. And for most of that afternoon, it was. I sat back and relaxed, waiting for the sun to go down so I could take a few drags off my weed pen and really start feeling good. When the time finally came, I put it to my lips and got nothing. I looked at it for a second.
"Shit, I forgot to charge it before I left the house," I said to myself. No worries, I had an extra charger in my car out in his garage, I'll just go run out and grab it and set this thing to charge up. To get through the garage, you have to go through their laundry room, and as I walked through it, I noticed a half-filled hamper sitting on top of the washer.
"Huh, guess they didn't bother to do laundry before they left," I thought to myself as I passed through. I got to my car, grabbed my charger out of the glove box, hooked it up in the kitchen and waited for it to get charged. In the meantime, I also helped myself to a glass of Scotch, thinking that I might as well start getting right in the meantime.