"Hey, Jax!" Emily shouts from the office.
"What
now?!
" Jackson testily responds from the patio. Scrubbing out the hot tub after yet another party is getting to be an annoying chore.
Jackson and Emily Foster have been tearing up the Internet looking for work after Steve and Cyan Albertson generously whisked them away from their desperate straights, standing on the side of a freeway on-ramp in the middle of the Mojave Desert, looking for somebody -- anybody -- to deliver them to Em's parents' place in Albuquerque. Jax and Em had lost their jobs when their previous employer went belly-up, and circumstances left them with few resources to fall back on.
Fate certainly had a hand in bringing the two couples together -- both were experienced swingers with a romantic bent, and it was mere minutes after their introduction that they clung to each other in what would become a joyous union of four, a "fourple". So what if there were fifteen years between them, the magic they had together was irrefutable.
"Seriously! Why the grouchy? Sandy and Miriam were all over your ass Saturday! And there wasn't a room in this house where you weren't fuckin' the crap out of Claire!"
"I guess. Yeah, doin' Claire in the front yard behind the hedge was a shitload of fun. What's up?"
"Check your e-mail! I just got the offer from Amalgamated! Oh. Ho-lee fuck!"
"What?"
"The offer! More than we were doin' in L.A.! Damn!
Get your adorable ass in here
and check your mail!"
"Jackson?" they hear Steve call from the kitchen. "That little stunt with you and Claire..."
"I know, I know. We got carried away.
She
wanted to do it in Davenport's yard."
"No shit?! And get yourselves busted?" Steve laughs and shakes his head. He leans into the office doorway curious about the commotion.
"Not that it's any of my business, Em" he asks, "but just how big is this offer?"
"Six figures, Steven. 130K."
"Nice! I won't be snarky and imply that your time with Tom this weekend has anything to do with it."
"He's a really nice fuck, lover. Love that cock of his. And how he uses it!"
"You've said that."
Jackson has made it into the office, pushing past Steve in the door for his chair and PC to retrieve his own messages.
"Okay! Have one from them too. Opening... opening... 'We are pleased to inform you...', blah blah blah. Okay. One twenty-five. Ohmyfuckin'gawd."
Steve mulls, "Well, I gather that both of you are going to take it. Even considering the other offers."
"No shit
I'm
going to take it, Steve," Emily chuckles. "I mean, we don't have to move or nuthin'."
"Same here," Jackson adds. "The offers I got from San JosΓ©, Boise, and Denver were certainly tempting, but there's that cost of living thing with those."
"Yep," Steve agrees. "You can build yourselves a pretty nice nest egg if you stay with it. Think it through. With my financial strategy help and even without it, you can be fully retired before you hit 40. Not having to pay for housing is a big, big deal for you guys."
Emily rises from her chair to hug Steve, slipping her hand under his robe to fondle his package.
"But we need to pull our weight, Steven. Now that we can. Ohmygawd do we owe you and Cy."
"The house is paid for, sweetie. You knew that."
"Yeah, but you have other expenses. Taxes, maintenance... improvements like that sound barrier we talked about. It ain't free."
"Besides," Jax adds, "you can't be footing the bill for every party, Steven. You and I go to the grocery store together and I know what it costs. Gawd. That last trip to Friar Tuck was nearly $400.
Just for booze!
"
"Okay, okay. Uncle," Steve relents. "Let me mess with my spreadsheets and we'll figure something out in the way of expense sharing. I don't want to do a rent arrangement or anything like that. Out-of-pocket only. Okay?"
"We can deal with that, can't we, Em?" Jackson offers.
"Sure can. What's Cy doing?"
"Cleaning our bathroom and the guest bathroom," Steve answers.
"And there you go!" Jax grins.
"'There I go
what?
"
"Housecleaning service.
Pay
somebody else to do the scutwork! And have a pool service do the tub."
"Yeah, Steve!" as Emily squeezes Steve's junk. "Save you, Cy and us for the important stuff. Like fucking each other silly!"
"Not a bad idea, guys. But paychecks first before we go hog-wild. When do they want you to start?"
"Mine says October 2nd," Jax answers. "First Monday."
"Hmm," Em responds. "September 25th on mine. A week before."
"Okay. We have two weeks." Steve proposes, "Wanna do anything special 'tween now and then, or just hang here?"
Emily muses, "Uhhhhh... Anna available?"
"Usually. Why?"
"Road trip?"
"You didn't get that out of your system?"
"We had way too much of a good time, Steven."
"Okay. Where to?"
"Florida. They have nude beaches down there, don't they? Someplace where Cy and I can show off our tans."
"A couple. I'm not up to date, though. I heard through the grapevine that one we liked was shut down."
"How about trains? That shit is fun!"
Steve rolls his eyes, "I guess. I know a couple of spots."
"Then it's settled," Em grins real big. "Any downsides you can think of?"
"Yeah. Mississippi. We can't route through Mississippi. They don't take kindly to folks from out of state on their two-lane roads. Get off the Interstate and you'll wind up with a county cop on your ass dogging your every move until the next county line. Happened to us three times!"
"Wow! Okay. Wow. Any places you know of to play en route?"
"Several. Bookstore in Nashville, a nudist resort west of there, there's an old tourist hotel in Chattanooga..."
"Oo. Sounds like Tennessee is fun!"
"Not just there. We've been to a place in the Georgia mountains that was nice, too. Overnighted in a cottage there, had a sweet young thing in the hot tub. Her husband was full cuckold, too. He jumped into the
very cold
swimming pool next to the tub so he could shrink himself up while watching me do his cute wife."
"Now you're bragging." Emily sticks her tongue out at Steve.
"Maybe." He returns the facial expression. "
Cy?!
" he calls into the hallway.
"
Yes?
"
"You might want to join this discussion. Our bed. C'mon, guys," he suggests to Em and Jax.
"We gonna?" Jax grins.
"Certainly hope so," Steve grins back. "Ladies will determine
that
."
"OOOOF!" Steve protests. Emily has just squeezed his balls,
hard!
"Uh, I think you're gonna want those to feel good, sweetie."
"Why do you think I did that? You love it."