“I’m sorry, Mr. Jameson” said Maria, her
face conveying a sense of guilt. “Oh, it’s no big deal,” replied June
before Rob could respond. “Maria, be a dear and zip back to the
cleaners and pick them back up. I’m sure they will still have Rob’s
things.” “Ok, back in a jiffy. Anything else you need?” “Yes, another
case of white wine. I think we’re out.”
With that, Maria was off again down the road. June hobbled over to Rob
and pushed him down on the poster bed, which was still not made up from
last night. “That was really very nice last night, Rob,” she said,
lying half on top of him, propping her head up on one arm and slowly
stroking his chest down to his navel and below. “Very nice,” she
continued, kissing him while moving her hand down further to his
quickly growing erection. Soon Rob was fully sprung, aroused but also
nervous. “What if Maria comes back right away?” “She won’t. But so what
if she did?” said June, climbing fully on top of Rob and smothering him
with her affection and kisses.
Rob was indeed fully erect when Maria returned in 25 minutes, and his
face was red and flushed with sexual arousal. June hopped off him and
was back in her chair when Maria entered the room, looking downhearted.
Rob was on the bed with his stomach down, hoping his hard on would
wither quickly, but it did not. “I’m sorry, Ms. Fox, but the cleaners
said the truck came and picked up Rob’s clothes just 15 minutes before
I got there. I feel really bad about it.” “Did you remember the wine?”
June asked. “Oh, yes, I got that,” Maria beamed back, glad to have some
good news to report.
Rob hopped out of bed, his erection now gone, and paced the floor
nervously, wondering how he was ever going to get clothes back on his
back. Soon he had another idea. “Ok, Maria, here’s what I want to ask
you to do. Here are my house keys, and here, let me write down my
address for you. I want you to drive to my house, get me a change of
clothing and bring it back as fast as you can. Ok, do you think you can
do that,” Rob asked, going to June’s desk and reaching for a pencil and
paper to draw Maria a map. “Sure, Mr. Jameson, no problem.”
Soon, Maria was on her way again. Rob continued to pace, but June told
him to relax. “I’ve got everything you could possibly want in this
house – food, drink, tv, books, me, everything – so let’s just have a
good time until Maria gets back,” she said. Rob stopped pacing and let
out a deep breath. “Right, except for my clothes!….Of course, you’re
right. I’m being ridiculous.” “Go and get us two glasses of champagne
and we’ll try to start this morning over again the right way.”
Rob headed downstairs, and wandering naked through her kitchen he
managed to find everything and bring it back upstairs, where he popped
the cork and poured two glasses. Soon they were again both feeling fine
and giggly, and Rob forgot about his missing clothes. He forgot so
completely that he did not notice that over an hour had passed and
Maria had not returned with his change of clothing. In fact, neither
Rob nor June noticed a thing until they saw a flashing light out in the
driveway and heard Maria entering the door with a female police
officer. “Ms. Fox, can you please come downstairs now,” called up
officer Karen Riley, speaking loudly but calmly in her trained police
voice as her radio buzzed on her hip. “Oh no, officer, she sprained her
ankle and can’t walk. We’ll have to go upstairs.”
By this time June and Rob had had two glasses of champagne each, and
neither was fully in control of their action. Neither knew that Rob had
failed to warn Maria about the security alarm at his home or to give
her the shut off code. So Officer Riley responded to the alarm and
finding Maria there in the house with no ID and no good explanation for
being there, she took Maria into custody. Maria explained about June,
Rob, and the clothes and pleaded with her to take her to June’s place
where she and Rob could straighten everything out. When Officer Riley
and Maria entered June’s bedroom, June was back in her chair and Rob
was sitting on the bed, trying again to cover himself. “You had better
get some clothes on Mr…. Mr… Mr. ‘Jameson’ is it?” “Well, Officer,
that’s just the problem. I don’t have any clothes to put on!” With
that, June started giggling at the absurdity of the situation, with
Officer Riley questioning the naked and half-intoxicated Rob while
Maria trembled with fear. With that, Rob started to become angry at
June. “What’s so God-damned funny about this? If it were your clothes
that had gone missing, you’d be hysterical!!” With that he rose from
the bed and started to approach June, who started laughing even harder,
making Rob grow redder and redder in the face. “Stop it and get me back
my clothes!” Rob shouted, his anger fuel as much by alcohol as by
June’s irreverent laugher.
With that, Officer Riley stepped in between Rob and June, and putting
her hands on Rob’s two shoulders said, “I’m going to have to tell you
to turn around and put your hands behind your back.” She continued to
spin Rob around with one arm as her other hand reached for her metal
police handcuffs. Rob began to resist but his reflexes were dull. Soon,
Officer Riley had clicked on the cuffs behind his back, and now Rob
stood naked and bound before the three women.
“Ok, maybe now we can have a reasonable conversation about what was
going on here with Maria and about your missing clothes. Now, Ms. Fox,
is it true that Maria here works for you, and is it true that you and
Mr. Jameson sent her over to his house to get some clothes?” she began
her interrogation. Maria and June answered all Officer Riley’s
questions, including the ones about how Rob’s clothes had disappeared
in the first place. Just when they were on the verge of persuading
Officer Riley that this had all been one giant misunderstanding, the
officer’s radio squawked and a voice blasted out over the speaker.
“We’ve got a robbery in progress over at the intersection of Capitol
and the Interstate. All available squad cars are needed there
immediately,” it said.
Officer Riley quickly said “Thanks, that’s me, I gotta run…” and in an
instant she was flying down the stairs, out the door, and into her
squad car. As the dust settled on her drive, June burst out laughing
again, replaying the whole amazing scene in her mind. Maria sat down on
the poster bed, hyperventilating at her close brush with the law and
the risk that, had things gone further, she might have been deported.
As for Rob, he stood before June and Maria listening to the clink of
his handcuffs as he moved his arms back and forth behind him.
June poured herself another glass, and then poured a second, handing it
to Maria. “Here, you look upset. Why don’t you have one of these to
settle down your nerves.” Maria looks at her for a moment, breaks into
a weak smile, and says thanks. Rob, still standing, looked over at the
two women and asked them if Officer Riley happened to have left behind
a key to the handcuffs on his wrists. “No, it doesn’t look like she
did!” says June, pausing for a moment before bursting again into gales
of laughter. “Oh great,” said Rob, “now I’m not only naked but I’m
cuffed behind my back. Can this possibly get any worse?” “Well,” said
June, “well…” before she again dissolved into a laughing fit as Rob did
a slow boil. “Probably yes!”
Maria, on the other hand, was not laughing. She had downed the entire
glass of champagne in just two swallows, and she got up to pour herself
a refill. Walking over to Rob, she looked at him angrily, gripped his
shoulder, and said, “You had no business sending me over to your house
without telling me about your security alarm. No right at all,” she
said, her voice shaking. “Do you know I was almost arrested just now?
Do you know that if I had been arrested they would have taken me
downtown, run a background check on me, and learned that I don’t have a
green card? Do you know,” she said, with her voice rising to new
heights, “that I could have been sent back to Mexico for this?”
Rob’s anger returned with her attack on him about his failure to warn
Maria about his security alarm. “Do YOU know that I’m still stark naked
after all these hours? Do you know that I’ve spent all morning naked in
front of not just one, or just two, but three women. Do you know that
I’m not only naked but in handcuffs, and all because you took all my
clothes and sent them to the cleaners?”
“How dare you compare your inconvenience and embarrassment to my nearly
being deported?” shouted back Maria, slapping Rob sharply in the face.
Rob reeled back, stunned by Maria’s boldness and suddenly with no words
left to say in reply. The silence lasted only a few seconds, however,
until June once again broke into laughter that continued for another
minute or two until she again refilled her glass. Maria downed another
glass, and as the minutes passed, Rob became fully sober as the two
women now in control of him, Maria and June, became more and more
drunk. Soon June fell asleep and Maria went downstairs to fix herself
something to eat before beginning her daily chores. That left Rob awake
in the bedroom with no way to escape. His arms were beginning to ache
too, and there was nothing he could do about it.
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