Author's note: 'I'd really love some feedback on both new and old stories. Please leave comments to help guide my future writing. I know some of them are long but I'm really proud of them.'
This is the follow up to my story 'My hospital stay' So far we have gotten through Monday and Tuesday.
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Stephen's mind was still buzzing after Nina helping him shower yesterday. He'd been thinking about it all day and it still put butterflies in his stomach. But as much as he was thinking about it; even yesterday couldn't match what had happened on Monday with Carol. As soon as he got a really vivid picture of Carol in his head she appeared in the flesh.
Every time she had passed by the entrance to the room, she had waved at him and smiled. Her mouth even said 'hello' but there was no breath behind it to make even the slightest noise. Carol's smile was as genuine as it always was. There was not even the smallest trace of mischief in it that might have alerted her colleagues to what had happened.
With all the Nurses around, doing all their little things, it was surprising that Carol and Nina were the only ones knew what had actually gone on. Stephen kept looking at the faces of the nurses, trying to figure out if they were in on things or not. He looked for the slightest smirk or the cheeky wink of an eye; but there was nothing.
The more he thought about things, the more he realised that what they had done was probably grounds for at the very least suspension. It probably wasn't a good idea to gossip about it in case it got back to management. He certainly wasn't going to complain.
It had been another depressingly glorious day outside. Depressing because he couldn't enjoy the warmth of the sun or smell the clear blue skies. It was almost 11 PM and well past the average patient's bedtime. The daytime hustle and bustle had now been replaced by the sneaking footsteps of the much smaller nightshift staff.
Stephen thought he'd heard delicate footsteps coming into the room... but nothing more came of them. Even though he was the only patient in the room, the curtains had still been drawn around his bed for his privacy.
Even though it was late, he just couldn't sleep. With the fingers of his uninjured hand, he pried open his laptop once more. The hardest thing was trying open it all the way up without ripping half the keys out or knocking it off the table. With a little persistence, Stephen eventually succeeded.
After turning it back on from standby the screens came back to life just as he'd left them. He had about half a dozen windows opened with an eclectic mix of subjects. A YouTube video of upcoming computer games, another with a music video, a movie review. By now he'd forgotten what two of them even were. Somewhere hidden in the middle of the windows was a site with some adult pictures.
He'd touched himself a couple of times; but mostly he just liked scrolling through and clicking on the images just to look at them for a little while.
"Can't sleep?" Carol's voice came softly.
When Stephen looked up she was already standing there at the side of the curtain. She'd appeared as if from nowhere.
Stephen's first response was to defensively to pull the bed sheets up over himself a little. He then looked at his laptop and instantly realised that he still had the pornographic page up. Reaching up with his hand, he pushed the lid back down. For something so simple, his left hand was still so clumsy.
After excising a few deep and nervous breaths he made eye contact with her and gave his reply. "I just don't seem to feel tired."
Carol was still standing there smiling at him. She knew from his reaction that he was hiding something and couldn't help her curiosity. Gracefully she stepped in beside him and pulled the tray trolley to an angle that she could work it. When lifted the lid back up the screen was still active and lit up the dark cubicle.
Stephen realised to his embarrassment that he hadn't closed the lid far enough for it to go back onto standby. He felt powerless to stop her from looking at it.
Delicately she stroked the scroll pad to look at his screens and satisfy her inquisitiveness. Page by page discovered what he'd been looking at. Even in the low light she couldn't help but see his erection making a tent underneath his sheets. Ironically it was his attempts to hide it that had so obviously drawn her attention to it. She stared at his bulge for a moment before directing her attention back to the laptop.
With the scroll pad, she looked through his screens one by one. The first three screens where just normal boy stuff and she could read the headers of the last two which would appear to be more of the same. Just from the titles alone, she could see that the two that sat in the middle were a little more interesting.
Carol clicked on the first one and it showed a series of pictures of an adult model. The images began with her standing by a sofa in a figure hugging dress. As she scrolled down the page and the story progressed the woman gradually stripped off naked and ended up masturbating with a glass dildo. Carol savoured the images for a moment before clicking to the next window on Stephen's screen.
Stephen stared sheepishly up at her... but Carol placed all her attention onto the screen.
The next screen was a video of a sex scene that had been paused half way through. Carol delicately stroked the pad and tapped it to resume the clip. It continued to play with the sound muted. It took only the slightest movement of her nimble fingers to turn the sound up just enough that people in the corridor wouldn't be able to hear what it was; only they could.