Day 6 - Wednesday 22nd May
Steve sat there, waiting anxiously. He didn't really know what to expect. It was five past five already - he had only just got back from Dorset - and Lucy was due at seven. He hoped this wouldn't last too long, as he wanted to get everything ready for when she arrived.
He wasn't sure what to make of Tim's call, which he had taken as he was driving back. All he had said was that they needed to chat and that he would be over as soon as he could. Steve asked plenty of questions, but Tim wouldn't answer any of them on the phone, saying that they would talk later. Although Tim was Steve's best mate, he wasn't really somebody who would just 'chat'. Any deep or personal conversations were usually initiated by Steve, not Tim. And he normally had to prise information from him if he thought they needed to talk. And that didn't happen very often at all.
So what would he be calling about? He worried that it had something to do with yesterday, but it couldn't have been, could it? They only had a brief chat, but it didn't last long and then they went their separate ways. It couldn't be about his back that he had lied about. If his back had really been playing up, it wasn't something that was going to lead to deep conversations. No. Something like cancer maybe, but not his back.
Tim didn't have any family and he lived alone. He didn't do too much beside work long hours and drink at the pub. On the phone he didn't sound worried at all, he seemed pretty normal, so maybe it was some idea he had that he wanted to chat through. Who knows. But he would find out soon.
Steve walked into the kitchen and switched the kettle on. If he offered Tim a beer he was more likely to stay longer and have a few more, he thought, whereas a cup of tea would hopefully keep him to fifteen or twenty minutes and then he would be off.
Then the doorbell rang.
"Hi Tim, how are you doing? Come on in" he said, as he opened the door to him. "I've just put the kettle on - cup of tea?"
"Sounds good, thanks" Tim replied and followed him through to the kitchen. "Everything ok with your back?"
"Oh, yeah, sure. It's gonna be fine. Just need to keep a check on it, that's all."
Steve took the milk out of the fridge, and started to make the tea. "Anyway, how are you doing?"
"Me? Yeah, I'm fine, thanks. All good. I'm on nights tonight, so have been taking it pretty easy today. Making my way through 'Breaking Bad'."
"What on a day like this? We're having one of the best summers in years, and you are spending your day in front of the box?"
"I went for a short walk this morning, but I'm not the biggest fan of this heat. It's alright when you're abroad on holiday on the beach, but here? In England? It doesn't really seem right."
"Fair enough."
Steve motioned for Tim to come through to the lounge and sit down, they both ambled through and Tim sat down on one of the sofas. Steve handed him his tea and sat down on the other sofa, facing him. He put his own tea on the coffee table.
"So what's up Tim? What did you want to talk about?" he asked, appearing relaxed, but still uncertain.
"I'm not really sure how best to go about this, so I'm just going to say it" Tim said, with obvious unease at the situation. He too had put his cup on the coffee table, and was playing nervously with his hands. Steve was intrigued.
"I know you didn't go and see Clive yesterday" Tim claimed. Steve raised his eyebrows, trying to hide his surprise and his frustration.
"I saw you and Lucy together" he said, seriously, looking directly at Steve.
Steve sighed deeply and lent back in the sofa. "What exactly did you see?" he asked.
"I'm pretty sure I saw everything" Tim said, laughing nervously. "I followed you into the storeroom and watched everything you did to her. Seems like things are a bit more serious than you were letting on."
"Christ, I thought we had got away with it" he said angrily, and then sighed again. "I'm not really sure what you want me to say." He was deeply unhappy at the situation.
"Well, I just wanted to say that you should be careful, you know? It was lucky that it was me who saw you, and not anybody else. You know that I should really report it. And I don't know what would happen to Lucy, or to you for that matter, if I did."
"You wouldn't do that would you?" Steve said, worried.
"No, of course I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that to you. But if it was somebody else, they may have done. I'm just saying you need to be careful, especially somewhere as busy as the hospital. Anyway, how long have you two been together?"
"Ok, thank you, I appreciate that. We've only been together a few days." He shuddered a bit at saying 'been together', but thought he should probably go along with the idea that she was his girlfriend.
"A few days? Really? How did you meet?"
Steve laughed. "She was the girl I crashed into on Friday."
"Oh yeah, I see you've still not got your car back yet. But if you only met on Friday, how did you manage to get in a situation where you had her tied up and gagged" he counted on his fingers mouthing the days of the week "four days later?
"And how come you called her 'slut' and she called you 'master'? Come on, I think you've got quite a bit of explaining to do. I didn't realise you were into bondage. How long has that been going on?"
"Nothing has been going on. Look, this is all very new to me" Steve said, thinking through how best to play this. He knew that the questions were going to keep coming, and if he started lying again he would be found out. So he decided to just tell him the truth.
"Ok, ok, fine. This is what happened. She was the girl from the accident on Friday, and it was her fault - I know I told you it was my fault, but it was hers. She wasn't fully comp, so she tried to convince me to take the blame. It sounds ridiculous saying it to you now, and I'm still not quite sure how I managed to make it happen in the end, but ultimately I agreed to take the blame for her if she agreed to be my slut for three months."
Tim almost spat out the tea he had in his mouth in surprise.
"So she isn't my girlfriend, and we are not together" he said, making speech marks with his fingers as he said the word 'together'. "She is my slut and I can do whatever the fuck I want to her for three months. And I am making the most of it."
"Fucking hell!" Tim shouted. "Mate, you've struck gold there!" He sat back in amazement, trying to work everything out. It all made sense now and his story seemed consistent. So that's why he didn't want to talk about it.
"She's a pretty little thing too" Tim said.
"Yeah, she sure is. And she is up for it. She was a virgin on Friday, but now she's absolutely gagging for it, and nothing I've done to her so far has been too much. Look, I'm sorry that I lied to you yesterday, but this isn't the kind of thing I want to broadcast, you know?"
"Sure." This would make Tim's plan easier. He figured that if they were in some kind of BDSM relationship, there was a better chance that he would be able to use this as an excuse to get involved.
"So, have you thought about how far you would take it with her? What you would do to her?"
"I have a lot of ideas, I'm not sure about how far I'd take it, but she definitely seems up for everything so far."
"What about gangbangs? Or at least threesomes?"
"I hadn't got that far, Tim. Maybe one day, maybe later on. But for now it is just me and her."
"But how can she be a slut if she only ever fucks one person? A real slut needs more than one cock to satisfy her. If she is gagging for it that much, then I think she can take it. And I think she would love it, based on how she reacted to you yesterday."
Steve didn't really know what to say. He mostly felt jealousy. He didn't like the idea of another guy fucking her. She was his slut, after all.