Wherein work intrudes and we invite Shark Girl home to dinner
Author's note
: this is part 5 of a 12-part story arc which I've put under Group Sex (see Chapter 1). Like all my stories, it begins with character development and in this case, over several chapters. The chapters can have the elements of a number of different categories and I will try to give advance warning. This one is primarily Erotic Coupling (i.e., one-on-one) and more background. And a gentle reminder: this is all Fiction – Willing Suspension of Disbelief recommended...
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I woke in the same bed I'd fallen out in, but someone had cleaned me up and there were different sheets on the bed, and covers over me. It was dark, but there was enough ambient light that I could see I was in the studio. I remembered where the bathroom was and eased out of bed, suddenly aware of being very, very sore, and picked my way over to it.
When I flipped on the light, the blaze of yellow-white nearly blinded me and I actually winced a little. But it didn't stop me from making it to the toilet and sitting down. And chuckling.
Across from the toilet, next to the shower door, was a towel rod with a towel draped over it. Someone had pinned a note to it:
Good Morning, Fair Lady!
There is coffee, otherwise known as the Elixir of Life, available:
1) In the kitchen,
2) In the living room,
3) At the bar by the pool,
4) In your room (you'll have to brew it)
Your appreciative servants,
Los Cinco Hermanos y Dos Hermanas
Laughing made certain rather intimate parts of me ache. Remembering the anesthetic ointment in the medicine cabinet in Dave's room, I decided to rummage the one in here and was rewarded with another tube of Nupercainal.
Jerry's guests must get sore on a regular basis,
I thought as I applied some liberally to my nethers and anus.
My belly hurt from cumming so hard and for so long, as did my back and thighs. I decided the only cure would be some kind of snack to appease my complaining stomach, a drink to anesthetize the rest of me and a soak in the jacuzzi. I finished up and wandered out of the bathroom in search of my clothes. I found the sundress and my shoes, but that was it. No panties. So I decided
Screw it
and just took the dress and shoes with me, not bothering to put them on.
I headed up to "1" first, looking for the kitchen and something to snack on. This was either Sunday night or Monday morning, and which would determine my course of action. I found a fresh pot of coffee on and didn't have any trouble finding some cheese and crackers, fruit, some cinnamon buns and apple juice. I also found the clock on the stove, which read 22:30. I looked out over the lights of L.A. and realized that meant 10:30 in the evening. So it was still Sunday. Either that or I'd slept through my Monday check-in meeting.
Finishing my snack and taking the biggest mug of coffee I could find, I headed back down to "2" and searched out "my room". I was feeling rather saucy walking around in nothing, and I liked it, so I left the sundress and shoes in the room, found my phone in my purse and took it and the coffee in the direction of the pool.
I found Dave, Ron and Jackson doing laps in the pool, and Jerry, Paul, Ginger and Molly in the hot tub. I walked over and sat on the edge of the jacuzzi and started checking my email.
"Hey, beautiful!" Jerry greeted me as I sat. "You find everything you need?"
"Snacks, coffee, cell phone..." I indicated, then waved my arm at the universe, "freedom. Check, check and double check. Thank you for taking such good care of me. All of you. I need to see if I have to go in to work in the morning."
"Check away," Jerry smiled. "Join us when you feel like it. There's fresh coffee behind the bar. Help yourself. Oh, and before you get lost in the world of ordered electrons, allow me to tell you how incredibly impressed I am with you, as a sex partner, a porn starlet and a person. You've won over several hearts this weekend, mine included. I'll let you deal with your work..."
He closed his eyes and rolled his head, stretching his neck.
"Anything you need, you let me know," Molly smiled.
"Ditto-ish," Ginger told me. "Although she runs this place."
I nodded my appreciation and checked my messages.
Most of it was crap, especially being copied on the techies pissing on each other over who broke what, but the one I cared about was my boss' boss calling an all-hands meeting for 9am in the big conference room at PAMC. That one, I needed to be at and looking sharp.
I set my phone on the chaise and eased into the spa, the jets of hot water hurting at first, then numbing me out while massaging me.
"I have to be at a 9am meeting," I told Jerry. "At PAMC. How do I have to time it?"
"Give yourself an hour for the half-hour drive, plan on getting there by 8:30, and back that up by however long you need to get ready. Tell us and we'll make sure you're up."
"Okay, that's great. I appreciate it. I'll need to be up at 6:30 and tell me where to find breakfast before I leave. I don't like their liquid mud and stale donuts. Also, Jerry, do
all
your bathrooms have Dibucaine?"
He just got a silly little grin on his face and said, "What do
you
think?"
"You'll get a wake up at 6:30 and I'll have breakfast waiting for you in the nook, or the kitchen," Molly told me. "Any preferences?"
"Just like you did yesterday and this morning... simple and delicious. And thanks. You're a hard worker, Molly. I hope Jerry appreciates you."
"Oh, he does," she smiled. "I don't have classes tomorrow, but I do the rest of the week, so I won't be around as much. Hopefully, by then you'll be able to fend for yourself!"
I lay back and let the water pound away at me...
Sometime later, Dave and Ron joined us. They informed us Jackson had decided to go do some free-weights, then hit the spa before turning in. Jerry took his leave, telling us he wanted to get some editing done before crashing, but that thanks to my natural talents, most of the editing had already been done in the camera. It was just splicing it all together. He promised a sneak preview when he got it done.
Dave, Paul, Ron, Ginger, Molly and I chatted for awhile about the amazing shoot and our favorite parts and whether our asses were going to look too big on-screen – well, that one was mostly mine – and how lucky we were that Linda had fallen and cracked her head.
Even though I had slept since passing out after the shoot, I was still tired. I told the others that and excused myself.
"I think I'll sleep alone, tonight," I told them. "Nothing against any of you. You've been fantastic!"
"Go recuperate!" Ginger laughed. "We'll leave you alone – until we sic the dogs on you in the morning!"
"If you're inferring I'm a bitch, you bitch..." Molly broke in with faux indignation.
"No, bitch, I'm not
inferring
you're a bitch..." Ginger smiled, and Molly laughed.
"Okay, guys, I'll see some of you in the morning," I told them as I climbed out, grabbed my cell and my coffee mug and headed for my room.
A lot of thoughts went running through my head as I lay there, drifting off to sleep, but the main one was,
what kind of rabbit hole did I fall down to end up in this kind of Wonderland?
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The sea of blank faces listening to the political spin, sipping their institutional mud and trying to stay awake, was a pretty good indication of how things were going. I, at least, had smuggled in a thermos of Jerry's coffee.
The official company line was, due to unforeseen technical difficulties, the implementation had been delayed until this week, but now we were ready to go and everybody needed to bring their A-game. By noon the system would be fully operational and validated, and by 13:00 we were expected to start classes.
Today would be an abbreviated day with the generalized intro to facilities management and patient care being given to everyone in the afternoon. Those who couldn't be spared would get it in the morning. Class sizes, times and assignments were being completely revamped to accommodate the foreshortened implementation schedule, so check with our supervisors for our new assignments, blah-blah-blah.
I came out of it wishing I were back up in the Hills. But at least I knew I'd be working a 9-to-4 today through Thursday, and a 9-to-noon on Friday. After that, theoretically, I'd be going home. I immediately began planning to tack some vacation time onto the end of this gig.
When four o'clock came and I could tell my class, "so that's the overview of how the parts of the system interact, and who is responsible for what within the processes – any final questions?", I was hoping like hell that they wanted to get out of there as bad as I did. And apparently they did, because there weren't any questions. Unfortunately, I got stopped on my way out by my supervisor, Sandra. Not Sandy – she hated being called Sandy – but definitely the formal Sandra. It crossed my mind that she could use an introduction to Los Cinco Hermanos.
"You're looking rather bright-eyed and bushy-tailed," she told me in her cheerful schmoozing voice. "Last week, I thought you were ready to kill someone. Have a good weekend?"
"Actually, yes," I told her in my best cheerful and charming voice. "I realized I was getting pretty grumpy, what with all the screw-ups, so I got out, did some sightseeing, basically decided to reboot. Finding out we were actually a 'go' this week didn't hurt, either."
"That's great to know," she went on and I got a feeling she might be fishing for something. "Would you like to have dinner tonight, at my hotel? Or maybe whatever hotel you've moved to?"
Oh, shit. I hadn't moved out, but she obviously thought I had. I needed to be careful with this one.