The loud click of the unlocking door woke us up. We looked at our clock but it only flashed twelve, twelve, twelve... just like every night since the storm. The garish red letters created a strange glow in the room that reflected off my girlfriend's breasts in a most seductive way. It was a rhythmic glow, pulsing like a throbbing head after too much Thunderbird and too little sex.
"Damn!" We looked at the VCR, but it flashed too. With the window blinds currently locked closed we had no way of knowing what time it was. The security system kept the time, locking and unlocking the doors and outside blinds on a preset schedule. Unfortunately the clock on the security system had a battery backup, but when the lights went out I pulled the battery to work my flashlight. Since then the time was screwed up on the system and since my lights are also programmed on our security system we have to wander around most of the day in darkness.
We heard the door lock and I moaned, "Oh hell, I had forgotten the doors relock after only five minutes unless the system is reset."
"What does that mean?" my girlfriend asked.
"We're stuck here until the next time the system unlocks it."
"When is that?" she asked
"I'm not sure exactly, if it was on the battery backup it would unlock every two hours waiting for a reset, but since I pulled the battery, who knows when it will go."
"So we just wait?"
"Yeah, I guess so. There's not much we can do in the dark."
"Well the video doesn't work and who knows if the lights are coming on again, so no TV or reading, what else can we do."
In the dim, flashing red light I watched as she opened her legs and ran her hands between her legs. "I know what we can do in the dark," she said seductively.
"Again? Didn't we just..."