“Jim darling, your shirt is on inside out… and backwards…” I looked at her and she winked. Looking down I realized that she was right. The little tag was in the front and tickling my chin. Before the door closed I heard Jules stage whisper to Michelle “Girl… your shirt is on backwards.” I couldn’t help but to barely stifle a groan as I walked a few steps to the patio table and peeled my shirt off and turned it right side out before putting it back on. I grabbed a chair and brought it back to the house. Penny smiled knowingly and held the door open for me. Once everyone was seated we began passing food around and eating. Most of the talk was simple and small and safe. Maggie and Penny talked to each other about their appointments in vague terms, Jules commented on the other jobs she had going on elsewhere. They all wanted to know just how much Michelle and I had accomplished in the apartment. For a moment both of us traded worried looks that bordered on panic especially since Penny bit her lip and looked at Michelle and I with her eyebrows arched questioningly. Those big blue eyes of hers were screaming with mischief and joy. I cleared my throat and glanced to my left at Michelle and told everyone that we had finished with the front room and all the furniture was covered with a drop cloth. The bedroom was all moved in to the center save for some pictures remaining on the walls but other than that it was ready to be covered as well. I told Jules that Michelle and I could do that after we finished eating. Jules made a point of looking at her wrist watch.
“It’s getting late in the afternoon Jim, maybe I should help the two of you so you won’t be late for your dinner shift at Dom’s tonight.” She said with her signature smirk and a knowing glint in her eyes. I looked at the clock on Maggie and Penny’s stove and realized that she was right. We had just eaten lunch but it was closer to time for dinner than lunch. Crap! Where had the time gone? Oh wait… I remember. I offered to help Penny and Maggie clean up from the meal they had just fed us but Penny shooed me and Michelle away.
“That’s okay darling, you two run along with Jules and tidy up the bedroom in the apartment. This is mostly disposable so it’s no bother.” Penny purred giving me a knowing look and a quick wink. Maggie caught the wink and raised one eyebrow giving me a sidelong glance as I exited the room behind Michelle and Jules. I moments Maggie would be well informed on at least Penny’s suspicions if not the facts about all that happened while Michelle and I were left alone to work in the apartment. I groaned internally but then had to smile… it was worth it. Oh my god was it worth it! I followed along behind the girls as we went down the stairs to the basement and to the apartment. Jules in front was just her normal self, but even thought it might have been my imagination, and I really don’t think it was, but Michelle was putting a little extra sway and swish in her gait. Those curves were pumped up, at least in my eyes anyway, and part of my anatomy was responding. Damn! I paused outside the apartment door and readjusted, pushing my John Thomas back down into a less noticeable position. Or so I hoped. I grabbed the second drop cloth package from beside the door and went inside.
I found Michelle and Jules in the bedroom taking the last of the picture frames from walls. They set them in the bottom drawers from the dresser, as they were on top, on the bed. I opened up the package and pulled the plastic drop cloth out. Jules took one end of the fold and I the other and we stretched it out. Michelle then took one corner from me and we walked it apart to open it up. She repeated the same on the other end with Jules. With a few billowing waves and some tugging we managed to get the plastic sheet over and covered everything in the middle of the room. Coming back around from her side of the newly formed tent, Jules was rubbing her chin as if in thought. She looked up and turned to Michelle.
“Michelle, could your run upstairs and ask Maggie or Penny to come down here for a moment?” Jules asked. Michelle said sure and left the room through the galley kitchen. Jules then sidled up next to me and nudged me with her elbow and grinned.
“Buddy…” She said in a low chuckle. “You might want to take a quick shower before you leave to go to Dom’s in a few minutes… Hard work huh?” she said with a knowing leer. With a concerned expression I sniffed at my shirt and decided that she probably had a point. When Michelle came back with Maggie I asked if it would be alright if I went upstairs and took a quick shower. Maggie smiled and told me yes of course. I excused myself and told Jules I’d see her at work later. I pulled Michelle to the galley just out of sight of Jules and Maggie and we exchanged goofy grins and I leaned in and kissed her quickly. It wasn’t quite a peck but rather a rather short if sensual lip lock. We stood there forehead to forehead sharing a breath or two before I pulled back and backed away reluctant to leave. She smiled and motioned with her hand to call her later. I bit my lower lip and nodded before turning and making my way through the apartment and upstairs. I went to the guest room and got one of my clean tee shirts from my drawer, then headed back towards the bathroom. As I was passing Penny’s room the door opened and she reached out and grabbed a handful of my tee shirt and pulled me inside. Closing the door she pressed me up against the door jamb and attacked my lips with a passionate hungry kiss. Her left hand was still gripped holding my tee shirt was sandwiched between her breast and my chest. Penny’s right hand was grasping at my left side just above my hip and waistline, groping and pawing.
After a few moments of Lip aerobics and tongue dueling, Penny broke the kiss and pulled back a bit to look me in the face. There was a hungry look on her face but there was something else in her eyes… I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Something akin to pride or satisfaction maybe mixed with a little reserved sadness. I started to ask her what this was but she brought her right hand up and put her index finger on my lips to shush me. In a lust deepened low voice she said.
“You don’t know how proud I am of you darling… proud and maybe a little jealous of that wonderful darling little minx Michelle. I’m proud of her too though. I’m so happy for the both of you really and it’s driving me crazy. I’m only going to say this once, even though I probably don’t even need to with you… but Jim darling… Today was special. Probably more special than you can even fathom at this moment. Please darling… Call Michelle this evening. Just say hello, anything, just let her know that you’re here for her. It will mean more than you know to her. Now go… before I devour you myself you naughty boy.” She said the last as she swatted my hip and winked. I reached behind me with my right hand and turned the doorknob and opened the bedroom door. But before I slipped back out into the hallway I reached up with my left hand and grabbed Penny by the back of her neck and pulled her into one more quick passionate kiss. For a second she resisted and then she seemed to melt into the kiss for the second or two that it lasted. I pulled back and she looked up into my eyes and with her blue eyes bright and wet she smiled and pushed me out of her room.