Editor's note: this fictional work contains scenes of completely fictional mind control, rough, reluctant, dubiously consensual, consensually non-consensual (CNC), or non-consensual sex or scenarios.
This story was written for the
2025 'On The Job' challenge
, where all stories must take place entirely at a place of work. This story contains M/M sex. Skip it if you're not into that.
Just one more room
, Jay told himself, pushing the cart up the narrow hallway. One more room and then he could clock off, hit the bar and spend an afternoon drinking and gazing at the girls in their bikinis by the pool.
The season was wrapping up now and the hotel was quiet, but there were still a few late summer holiday-makers taking advantage of cheaper prices and quieter bars. As long as the guests were still in the rooms, Jay still had a job.
He'd thought it would be a bit more exciting to spend his summer working in an expensive resort hotel on the Mediterranean, and doubly so when he'd found work at an adults-only resort. His friends with similar jobs regaled him with stories of the wild times they'd had. These places, they said, were filled with horny women, away from home and all the responsibilities that came with it, reinventing themselves by jumping on every dick they could find. In the weeks leading up to flying out he entertained himself with thoughts of nubile 19-year-olds letting loose, of older women desperate to reclaim their youth through steamy nights with hotel bartenders. Sun, sand, sex, and a healthy bank balance when he came home. What more could he want?
And maybe he would have had more luck had he been working the bar, especially if he'd landed in one of the swim-up pool bars. The guys working there spent their days chatting up giggling girls in bikinis, over-pouring their drinks, closing the bar on a whim to go and get a sneaky blowjob on the tennis courts that nobody was using at this time of year. Jay desperately wished that was him.
But no. He'd landed a job as a cleaner, somehow. He spent his days in the dark, empty corridors of the hotel, mopping floors and making beds while everyone else sunned themselves outside. The most action he'd had was finding a used condom in a bathroom bin, or sliding his cart past locked doors from behind which the sounds of muted fucking filtered out, Do Not Disturb signs hanging limply from the handles.
He let himself into the last room, knocking to announce himself before propping the door open with his cleaning trolley.
"Housekeeping," he called, his voice echoing off the marble and glass. "Anybody here?"
He'd surprised a few people over the last few weeks, but so far he hadn't had a chance to live out any of the porn-fed fantasies he'd come here clinging on to. Nobody was waiting in their room for the cleaner to fuck them, more's the pity. The closest he got was having to clean around dirty underwear dumped on the floor, and that wasn't exactly erotic.
He knocked again, just to be safe. No answer. The room was empty, the curtains across the balcony doors partially drawn, letting in slices of warm Mediterranean sunlight. From behind the glass he could hear the muted sounds of splashing, occasional flutters of laughter or raised voices from the pool outside. He'd be out there soon. Just this room to do.
He sighed and got to work, stripping the bed first as he always did to give the sheets time to air while he cleaned the bathroom. He tugged at the rumpled duvet, revealing tangled sheets beneath. As he pulled the top sheet away, something tumbled from between the folds, landing with a soft thud on the hard floor.
He froze mid-motion. There, next to his foot, lay an unmistakable silicon object. Sleek, tapered, and clearly designed for a very specific type of intimate use. The flared base left no question about its intended purpose. The gemstone sparkling on the bottom of the base looked suspiciously like real crystal rather than painted plastic.
He stared at it for a moment, his mind racing between professional detachment and the vivid reminder that the guests in this room, in any room, had a sex life far more exciting than his own. It was almost mocking him, this abandoned toy on the floor of the last room of his shift.
He hesitated, unsure what to do. Did he dispose of it? Pretend he never saw it? Put it in the bathroom where its owner might expect to find it? He'd never covered this scenario in training, and somehow asking his supervisor now seemed both hilarious and mortifying. He tried to imagine communicating this in his broken Greek and had to laugh at the image.
Deciding that he couldn't just leave it on the floor, he pulled on a pair of gloves from his trolley and bent to retrieve it, feeling a small thrill as he did so. Closer to it he could see that it had definitely been used and not cleaned, and despite knowing which part of the anatomy it had occupied, despite knowing exactly what sort of fluids were still on its surface, he suddenly found himself incredibly aroused.
He moved to the windows, looking down at the pool and the mostly-naked bodies lying prone around it. He wondered whose room he was in, which one of the women he'd been lusting over all week had left this behind. He wondered if he'd ever spoken to her in the corridors, or by the poolside after his shift. Maybe he'd see her tonight, neither of them knowing that earlier in the day he had been one step removed from being inside her.
He realised he was standing and staring, butt plug clenched in his gloved hand, slowly stiffening in his shorts as his mind ran away from him, and all this with the door of the room propped wide open for anyone to see him. Hurriedly he moved back into the room, suddenly at a loss as to what to do with the toy now that he was holding it.
Clean it
, he thought, feeling stupid.
You're a cleaner. Clean it
.
He carried the toy to the bathroom, careful to keep it contained in his gloved hand. The opulent marble gleamed in the filtered sunlight, the haze lending this strange moment a surreal, dreamlike quality. He turned on the hot water tap, letting it run until steam ran from the basin.