Dominoes 112c: Exploring

Saturday Afternoon

“Well, I think last night was more exciting,” Jennifer said, from the bed next to Jervis, “but this was fun too.”

For Jervis today had been infinitely more fun. Mom was still gone, Suzy hadn’t come back, the door had been locked and closed…

“Show me around your house, will you?” Jennifer asked, getting up and pulling him over to the door. Jervis’s heart pounded as she opened the door and, with them both naked, pulled him into the hallway. “That’s Suzy’s room over there, I saw that last night. What is this room?”

Jervis gulped. Mom wasn’t supposed to be home for another hour or so but Suzy… he had no idea when Suzy would get home. Not that he cared about her seeing him this way, but Jennifer! That is, the two of them! “This is a library,” he said.

“How nice,” Jennifer said, pulling him past the library. “And here?”

“That’s my parent’s suite,” Jervis said, hoping she wouldn’t go in…

But she did, and pulled him in after her. “What a wonderful shower!” she said. “Come on, I could use a shower.”

And so the two of them showered, in his folks huge shower, and used his mom’s towels, which Jennifer dropped on the floor and then, as naked as before, pulled him off downstairs. “I saw all of this last night,” she said, wandering around the downstairs. “Well, except this door. What’s down here?”

Jervis, who never let anyone into his basement sanctuary except his Mom, who would come; his Dad, who owned the house and would walk perfunctorily through just on general principles, and Suzy, who waged guerrilla war against his privacy at all hours and days, but, however annoying, would never tell anyone, followed Jennifer gratefully down the stairs, closing the door behind him. He wasn’t thrilled at anyone getting to see his lab, but parading around his own house, naked with a girl in tow (or, worse, in tow behind a girl) was killing him!

“What is this?!” Jennifer asked.

“My laboratory,” he said, a little proudly, and started showing her around. If he hadn’t been stark naked, and she hadn’t been stark naked, and thus he was totally nervous, he might have enjoyed getting to show off his work. Not that he was willing to tell anyone what it did. Not really.

“What do you do with it all?” she asked.

“I’m exploring the nature of alternate realities,” he said.

“I’m finding you an alternate reality,” Jennifer said, giving up looking at the equipment and coming over and kissing him.

An hour later he heard a door upstairs and panicked. “Stay here!” he said. Mom would be annoyed but not shocked at his coming up from his lab in the buff. He did it often enough, mostly just to annoy her. So he could dart through and come back with Jennifer’s clothes, somehow, and then smuggle her out of the house… But when he got to the kitchen he saw, “Suzy?”

“Jervis!” Suzy started to say, “I wish you wouldn’t run around like that down here. One day I will bring a friend over and…” her voice trailed off and she was staring behind him. He whirled around and saw Jennifer, standing casually and, still, stark naked, just out of the door to the basement.

“Hello, Suzy,” Jennifer said. “How are you doing?”

Jervis whirled back to Suzy, whose mouth was open and whose eyes seemed almost glazed over. “Suzy, I, you…” he started, but Suzy held up her hands.

“Hey, I’m good with it. Shocked and all, but good. Just put something on, you two, before Mom gets here!”

Jervis and Jennifer went off toward his room, Jennifer walking far too slowly for Jervis’ comfort. But they made it there, and back down to the kitchen (fully dressed!) and Jennifer was sitting at the kitchen table talking brightly with Suzy by the time Mom came in.

“Well, Jennifer, Dear!” she said, and came and kissed her. “I’m so glad that Jervis was able to find your number, and that you could come over.”

Jennifer shot Jervis an amused look, but merely responded, “I’m so glad I had the afternoon free. Did you have a nice time at your function? What was it?”

Jervis listened, relieved, as Jennifer quizzed Mom interestedly on her ‘function’, but then had to keep himself from blushing bright crimson as Suzy kept glancing over with ‘knowing’ looks.