Ae's time alone

Thursday rolled around for Ae and she was nearing completion on her mural. As she approached the deadline she rewarded herself with a nice evening off. She knew that David had that date tonight so with any lunch she would have the place to herself. She could relax in comfort without the fear of roommates walking in.

Because Ae worked odd contract hours it wasn't unusual for David to leave for work before her. He left at 6 am in the morning to commute to work. She stayed in bed until nearly noon. Sunlight had already crept through room between the shade of the blinds and made its way back into a nice dark cave.

The cat was the one who rousted her from her sleep. He was hungry. And like all cats, he felt the need to inform his humans that he was going to starve and wither away if something wasn't done about it immediately.

Ae got up and put one scoop of food into his bowl and made sure his water was clean. She got herself a glass of milk from the fridge and drank it down in one whole gulp.

She rubbed her head and felt the tangles in the mop of hair. She was still wearing her shirt from yesterday and a pair of panties. She didn't like sleeping in much else because of the constricting feel of it. She spent large parts of her day in clothes and paper coveralls. The extra layers made her hot and uncomfortable so she liked to let everything breathe when she could.

She put her glass in the sink and reached down to scratch the cat on his butt. The cat curled around her legs and purred as she played with the area right above his tail where he liked to be scratched. Prrrrrrrr Prrrrrrrrr Prrrrrrr was all the cat said as a reward to his human.

"That's right. Momma knows where you like it, you filthy cat." She smiled and talked to him like the cat was listening and might reply.

The rest of her day was finding ways to be lazy and concentrate on anything except for work. Her bills were paid into the budget already by David. She honestly had nothing to do except sleep, eat, and clean herself at some point.

She looked at the clock when she stood up from petting the cat and saw that it was 1:30 pm already. The sun was peaking over their apartment and light would be coming in from the windows on the opposite side. Her options were to lay in bed again and read or take a shower and get clean. She lifted up the armpit of her shirt and sniffed it. Who said girls couldn't be as gross as guys. She took in the smell for a second and tried to decide if she was funky enough to warrant a bath.

Her own aroma convinced her that she needed to clean. She had that smell of good Mexican food around her and she felt like having a soak for once.

She ran a bath and turned on the radio and grabbed one thing she very rarely got to use. She put a new game cartridge into her Nintendo and went into the bathroom. She was going to soak in a bath of essential oils and music while playing her game. If that wasn't relaxation she didn't know what was. The chance to be girly and enjoy a bath was rare for her because she worked in a male-dominated field and she felt the need to keep up.

By the time she paused her game to check the time it was getting close to David's time to get home. She got out of the bath and pulled clothes out of her closet. She put on a set of comfortable underwear and an old t-shirt from high school that she kept. She grabbed a pair of shorts from her drawer and pulled them up to her hips, hopping a little to tug them up the last little bit before she buttoned them. When David left she would put on a pair of old loose basketball shorts but she was going to look like she at least accomplished getting dressed today.

David came home shortly after she got dressed. She had grabbed a book and was sitting on the couch with her legs tucked under her. She was reading a book she had purchased over a year ago before she started this contract and had yet to finish. Honestly, she had already forgotten what happened in the first chapters but she hoped as she read on she would remember what had happened.

"I see you are up finally!" David said as he came into the house and closed the door.

"Day off, I'm reading. Be quiet." She said holding her finger to lips to look like she was very intently enjoying this book. She really just wanted him to go in the other room and change first so she could get comfortable again.

David held up his arms in submission and laughed. "Sorry, Sorry! Read away, ma'am." She said backing into his bedroom and shutting the door.

She smiled and enjoyed the quiet again. She could hear him shower, change, and blow-dry his hair. He came out about an hour later and walked into the middle of the room.

"Okay, how do I look?" He said, breaking her concentration and not leaving yet.

Ae looked up from her book and gave him a lookup and down. The outfit worked. He was clean and well-groomed. Nothing looked out of place. It looked like he was going to make some kind of halfway decent first impression.

Ae decided to mess with him and sucked on her teeth with the back of her tongue. "I don't know... Screams desperate two-time divorcee who shops from the catalogs to me."

David threw his hands up, "Thanks for nothing!" he walked into his room to check the mirror. "NO I DON'T!" she heard from his bedroom.

"Well if you don't think so then go on this date. Come here real quick." She said to the empty room loud enough for him to hear. She hadn't lowered her book yet. She was pretending to read at this point. She was really thinking about taking care of some other business or taking a second shower.

"What is it?" Said David as he walked back into the room with his hands on his hips.

"You look fine, god your so easy to fuck with." She put her book down a little and looked him in the eyes. "I know your nervous on the inside because I can see it on your face. Just be you, but don't talk about anything too dorky. Let her talk, get her interests out of her, and for the love of Christ on a pogo stick don't talk about home..."