THE ISLAND
Part 21: Murder Death Kill
By Gortmundy.
"These guys are a right bunch of murderous gits", muttered Natassia.
She was lying stretched along the couch reading a book, still dressed in a short negligΓ©e that showed an enticing amount of leg and a generous amount of cleavage, with an old fluffy-looking housecoat on top. She casually held the book in one hand while indolently sipping her morning coffee with the other as she lounged comfortably and chilled out.
Susan wiped the sweat from her face and glanced across, "Huh?".
The blonde was standing in front of the large flatscreen TV finishing off the last part of her morning exercise video. She was bouncing about vigorously in time with the instructor and a sheen of sweat covered her face and dripped from her hair as she jogged in place furiously. She wore her usual exercise outfit of tight, form-fitting shorts and a boob tube, and her hair was tied loosely back in a long ponytail.
Natassia, who was of the firm and certain opinion that exercising was a terrible habit to get into still found watching the antics of the stunning blonde to be both thoroughly entertaining and more than a little exciting. She found herself becoming distinctly distracted from the pages of her book as she watched the panting blonde stretching, showing the spectacular curves of her lithe and supple body. As shows went it was better than most on TV and she felt both her pulse and her libido responding.
"Er... wha? Oh, yes... wow. I er, borrowed this book from Anton, it's one of them Game of Thrones books and they're all a bunch of murderous gits, when they're not busy shagging I guess."
"Lot of shagging?" Susan inquired innocently as she bent with legs straight to clasp her ankles and Natassia almost spilt her coffee as she took in the young woman's gorgeous posterior.
"Holy fu.. What? Oh, Yes! Er, a bit. Not as much as in that 'Fifty Shades' book you told me about, but enough."
"My mum liked that book."
"Huh?"
"The 'Fifty Shades of Grey' thing. My mum liked it, said it spiced up her sex life with my dad."
"Ewww."
"Yea, why do parents think it's okay to tell their kids stuff like that?"
Their discussion was interrupted by a light knocking on the door. Natassia was midway through her morning croissant but looked up dusting off flakes of pastry long enough to shout, "Come in!"
The door opened and Stella entered, eyes darting about with a mixture of curiosity and nervousness. Spying Natassia on the couch she bobbed a quick curtsy and held out a data pad, "Sorry to bother you on your day off Miss Natassia but Mrs Beatrice asked me to bring you this."
"Oh hey, come on in Stella, how's your bum? No hard feelings?"
Stella blushed, "Nah, I've had worse, and then som...", her voice trailed off as she saw Susan doing her stretching exercises. Reaching down, legs straight, with feet widely spaced, to grasp her ankles, the beautiful curve of her posterior enhanced by her pose and made obvious by the tight shorts,
"Wow."
Natassia grinned at Stella and Spared Susan another appreciative glance, "Yup, wow."
With some effort, Stella managed to tear her eyes away from the curves of Susan's butt, "Er, yes, what was I saying? Yea, right, Mrs Beatrice was hoping you could look over this, it's the menu for the beach barbeque... Wow, she's sooo bendy.... Sorry, sorry, that's just
really
distracting."
"Try living with it."
Stella sighed dreamily, "I wish."
Natassia couldn't help but laugh, "Okay, come on then, let's have a look, you can give me a hand. You want a coffee or anything?"
"Me? But I'm just new, I don't know anything about the menu."
"You going to the barbeque?"
"Yes but..."
"You gonna eat anything?"
"Well, yes, obviously, but."
"Then you're a perfect judge. Come on, let's have a look and you can tell me what you think, grab yourself a croissant, by the way, chef made them fresh, they're fantastic."
"Won't Mrs Beatrice be expecting me back?"
"Just tell her the truth, that I asked you to stay and give me your input. She'll be fine with it."
Susan watched the exchange with interest and grinned.
It didn't take too long for the two women to go over the menu and between them, they added a few notations, but generally, the food and drink situation looked damned good, with a large fire-pit used to roast the chef's 'special' and multiple other barbeques as well as huge tubs of ice for the unnumerable bottles of beer and champagne.
One section of the menu was sealed and neither Natassia nor Stella could get it to open for them, but otherwise, everything looked great.
Stella stood, "I best be heading off I guess and take this back to Mrs Beatrice."
"Finish your coffee at least first."
"Thanks."
Natassia nibbled a fingernail nervously, "Hey Stella?"
"Yea?"
"Look I'm sorry about the other day, I really am."
Stella gave her a broad and mischievous grin, "It's okay Miss Natassia, it might have been worse if Mrs Beatrice did it. Besides, now you've identified yourself as a legitimate pranking target I can plot an act of hideous revenge."
"Enough of that young lady or you'll end up over my knee."
Stella gave her a wicked smile, "Oh, I could think of worse things."
"Behave yourself. Anyway, I'm still sorry, I hope it doesn't hurt too much."
Stella gave her a broad smile, "Don't worry about it, I've had worse, probably will have again, besides the marks are almost gone, look," turning she reached under her skirt and began tugging at her underwear.
"Woah! Jesus girl, I hope you don't drop your knickers so easily for that boy I heard about, what's his name, Louis?"
"Oh no, Miss Natassia, I make sure he has to work for it, well most of the time."
Natassia shook her head and smiled at the rambunctious little blonde, "A woman after my own heart I see."
Stella ran her eyes along Natassia's legs and cleavage before glancing at Susan, "Well Miss Natassia, I think your heart's already taken, but I can think of a few things to do with the rest of you."
Natassia blushed and couldn't help but laugh, "You're terrible! Get thee hence back to the kitchen young lady, before I get tempted. If Mrs Beatrice needs anything else, I'll either be here or down by the pool."
"Yes, Miss Natassia."
After Stella had gone Susan piped up with a grin, "Do I have competition now?"
"Ha! I think she'd be too much for either of us."
Susan smiled, "Oh, I don't know, she kind of reminds me of someone."
Natassia blushed even more, "It's a bit weird isn't it."
"I think it's absolutely adorable. We have to get her and Bethari together. If anything can boost that girl's confidence, it's exposure to Stella."
"Oh, dear God, that doesn't bear thinking about."
Susan turned to the brunette, "Aaand another thing. What's this 'Miss Natassia' thing all about?"
Natassia reddened, looked at her feet and mumbled something incoherent.
"Nope, I wanna hear this."
"Okay, okay! Mrs Beatrice made me the assistant housekeeper, I have to help her manage the staff and sort out a whole bunch of other stuff, like sorting out menus, making sure there's enough food, stores, fuel and everything else, sorting out the mail, resolving staff disputes, and a whole ton of other crap I never even knew she did. It's awful, I think I love it," she looked pensive, "does that make me a horrible person?"
Susan wrapped her arms around the girl's shoulders, "Nope, it just means Mrs Beatrice is one smart cookie. But didn't she give you a hiding for giving her lip? Come to think on it, from what you said she really beat the hell out of you."
Natassia looped her arms around the blonde, "I'm not so sure. I mean yeah, my arse is still stinging, but part of me is beginning to think the old bat did that so I'd remember what it's like if I end up having to do it to someone else. I can never tell with her. By the way, you're very sweaty."
"I sure am."
"You going for a shower?"
"That's my plan."
"Got room for me?"
Susan smiled and pulled her close, "Always."
...
Stella nervously tapped on the door of Mrs Beatrice's office.
"Enter."
Inside she found the housekeeper sitting behind her desk as usual. The older woman pushed her computer screen aside to regard the young blonde as she approached.
"Ah, Stella, that errand took a bit longer than anticipated, you've not been up to some mischief or other in the meantime, have you?"
"No Mrs Beatrice, I'm sorry for taking so long but Miss Natassia asked me to stay and help her with the menu."
Mrs Beatrice stunned the young woman by giving her a bright smile, "Oh she did, did she? That's excellent, and were you able to provide some input?"