I'm a salesman and as I travel around I've learnt a few tricks that save me the odd dollar here and there. Take motels, for instance. They generally have a common laundry that's free for the tenants and they don't check to see if whoever is using the laundry is a tenant. If you have a load of laundry, and you're away from home, just drop in on some large motel and use their facilities. Saves you the Laundromat charges which seem to go up every time you turn around.
This was one of those occasions and I'd dropped in at a place I knew. I've used them before. The motel is one of those big ones with the laundry in the basement. Quite a big laundry, too, so I was almost guaranteed to get a machine, especially around lunchtime.
I fronted up and headed down to the laundry. If you just walk in as though you own the place everyone assumes you're a tenant and they just don't see you. I loaded my laundry and then sat back to read while the machines ran. I was the only person there, which didn't really surprise me at lunchtime on a sunny day.
I'd barely opened my book when this sweet young thing came waltzing in. She didn't notice me sitting in my little corner. I hadn't chosen the seat so as to be out of sight, it just happened to work that way. If she had really opened her eyes and looked she'd have spotted me. Perhaps she should've.
I idly watched as she loaded her washing into the machine. She was a pretty young thing. It wasn't until she had apparently finished loading the machine that things got interesting. The soap powder had been added and she was about to close the lid when she hesitated. A quick glance made sure that no-one else had entered, although she still failed to spot me in the corner. Then she reached up the shift she was wearing and pulled down her panties and dropped them in the machine with a giggle. A little bit of wriggling and her bra joined the panties. Presumably she'd wriggle back into them when they eventually came out of the drier.
Lid down, machine on, and the young lass picked up a book from her washing basket and looked for a seat. She spotted the chair up against the far wall and headed towards them, finally spotting me sitting there, looking amused.
She faltered to a red-faced stop, obviously wondering what, if anything, I'd seen. I politely rose to my feet, and indicated that the choice of seats was hers.
"Hi. I'm Thomas," I said, smiling.
She just looked at me, apparently struck dumb.
I laughed, gently.
"Ah, that is your cue to tell me your name, how old you are, how you like being on the Gold Coast, how long you're staying, your cat's name and what a beast your brother is."
That finally got a rise out of her.
"I'm sorry," she said. "You startled me. I didn't know there was anyone else here. I'm Cynthia, I love it here, we'll be here for another week and I don't have a brother or a cat. Oh, and I'm eighteen. Yesterday was my birthday."
"Well snap," I said, my smile bigger than ever. "I'm a little older than you, thirty six, but my birthday was also yesterday."
"What are you reading?" I asked and she blushed as she showed me the book. I'd have called it a bodice ripper, but the young lady on the front had already not only lost her bodice but all her clothes. Her hands were bound behind her and a piratical young man was looking her over with great interest, the rags of a gown in his hand.
I lifted my eyebrows up and down a couple of time, giving a lecherous smile.
"Tell me, does the young lady get rescued in the nick of time, or does she find herself entertaining the pirate in a number of interesting ways."
"He's not really a pirate," Cynthia assured me. "He's undercover, fighting the real pirates."
"Uh-huh. And you neatly dodged the young ladies fate."
"Well, he didn't have much choice, if he's acting as a pirate, but he didn't hurt her."
"Fair enough. Just dragged her to his bed and had his wicked way in a gentlemanly fashion."
"Not really," said Cynthia, giggling. "They didn't make it to a bedroom. There was a convenient couch and he had his wicked way there. In a gentlemanly fashion, of course."
"Of course. I'm actually more interested in knowing if she resisted or succumbed to his charm."
"Succumbed to his charm. She's fated to marry him as her one true love and she knew that as soon as she saw him."
"And when was that? When he was tying her up or when he was ripping her dress off?"
"He didn't rip her dress off."
"Yes, he did. Look at the picture. He's holding her torn dress in his hand, having just ripped it from her quivering body. She's mortified and trying not to look at him."
"Well that's not how the book goes. Call it artistic license."
I grinned and placed the book on one of the chairs. With the same motion I took hold of the bottom of her shift and lifted it straight up. I had it up past her breasts (her naked breasts, remember) before she even realised what was going on.
I held the shift above her head, bunched in my hand. Cynthia's arms were tangled inside it and her head was covered. I just held it there, watching her wriggle, her nude body twisting suggestively below the shift. With my free hand I reached out and lightly brushed a nipple with the palm. A very light touch and I promptly repeated the touch with the other nipple.
Cynthia was squawking indignantly, her voice muffled by the shift. The squawking became faster and louder when a finger ran slowly across her mons.
"Cynthia," I said, loudly enough to be heard. "If you keep wriggling like that you'll tear your dress. Stop struggling about and think of what you're doing."
Oddly enough she had enough common-sense to actually listen to what I said. She stopped wriggling, and then pulled first one arm free and then the other, finally pushing the shift up off her head, leaving her standing in front of me, naked but free.
"You, you, how dare you do that. Give me my dress."
"The undercover pirate would have had a problem with you, wouldn't he," I said, tossing the dress to one side.
"No, don't go grabbing for it." I caught her as she reached for the dress.
"We'll now transfer my earlier question from the book to you."
"What questions?"
"Basically, will you be rescued before I have my wicked way with you and are you going to struggle or succumb to me charms?"
The look on her face went from angry to wary. Until that moment I don't think she realised that she was in danger of more than a bit of friendly groping.