“Argh! You’re still here! I’m surprised Sam didn’t opt to drop your annoying ass off at home!” she fumed.
“Then he would have dropped your annoying ass off too,” Josh said as he deflected her playful slap. “Hey, I’ll come around to your side and carry you in,” he said to her.
“Like hell you will!”
Alison abruptly was alert and hopped out of the SUV. I stared at Josh, and he shrugged.
“All I have to do is threaten to pick her up. Works like a charm.”
I led them inside, and before either of them had the chance to sit down, I showed them the kitchen and handed each of them a bottle of water.
“Follow me,” I instructed, and led them to the stairs.
“Oh, fuck me … stairs?” Alison moaned.
“I said I could carry you,” Josh offered again. Alison slugged him and pushed him to walk ahead of her.
Once upstairs, I led them down the hall toward the bathroom that the two guest rooms shared. Reaching into the dark room to the left of the bathroom, I flipped on the light. I darted across the hallway in front of Alison and Josh and turned on the light in the other guest bedroom. I stepped into the bathroom, turned the light on, and then went to the top drawer.
“Come in,” I invited them as I pulled out a couple of packaged toothbrushes. I set them on the counter and then opened the linen closet directly across from the toilet. Alison and Josh both stood inside the doorway of the bathroom while I pulled out some towels and set them on the counter. I leaned against the counter and pointed to the doors that led from the bathroom to each bedroom. “It’s a ‘Jack and Jill’ bathroom. Please keep that in mind when you enter. The top drawer has some other travel-size toiletries and shower sponges. Help yourself to them, and there are more towels in the linen closet.”
“Okay, thank you,” Josh said.
“I get the blue toothbrush,” Alison claimed, leaving the purple one for Josh.
“Josh, do you need anything?” I asked, hoping he would feel comfortable enough to speak up and tell me if he needed something.
“Nope, I’m good. I just need a pillow,” he replied as he rocked on the balls of his feet.
“Alison, can I offer you a t-shirt and some shorts to sleep in?”
“A t-shirt, please,” she requested.
“I’ll go get it and set it on your bed.”
As I left the bathroom and headed to my bedroom, I could hear their back and forth banter.
“Try not to jack off in here. If I come in here and catch you pulling that big dick, I’m going to do what I came in here to do.”
“Try not to play with yourself in his bed and wipe your fingers on his sheets.”
“Try not to jizz in his bed.”
“Okay, try not to hump one of his pillows.”
“What? I don’t hump pillows!”
“Yes, you do. I can hear you in your room at night. I know you ride that thing.”
“Has it occurred to you that I might actually have a large dildo in me?”
I turned the corner entering my bedroom and effectively drowned them out. James had to have gagged both of them when he first started to work with them. At least Alison. Alison seemed the most out of sorts, though.
I picked a white undershirt from my top drawer and braced myself for entering their space. Everything seemed quiet. The bathroom door was still open, letting me see that Josh was shirtless and brushing his teeth. I went into Alison’s room and found her sitting on the bed sipping on the bottle of water. I handed her the t-shirt and told her to get some rest.
Even though I was pretty tired myself, I couldn’t prevent myself from thinking about the two down my hallway. Helping and guiding was in my nature, and I couldn’t help but think that with James occupied with Brandon, Alison and Josh were reeling. For sure, Alison was. I’d seen her play at the club before, and I didn’t recall her being this bratty. James had all the patience in the world, but I definitely didn’t. I was patient to an extent, but my training model was very simple. Good behavior earned rewards, and poor behavior earned punishments.
I had lots of vacation time at the hospital to burn and could easily step into the mentoring shoes. It had been a while since I had been to the club to play. With Alison and Josh in need of structure and discipline, I could step in and dedicate time to help them.
