This is a true experience, in the first year of our relationship. I wrote it naked, as directed. It took one whole weekend and I was naked the whole 60 or so hours.
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My life had changed, very much for the better. Mostly. I'd moved to another community. I and a lady of some quality, and the right demographic niche β age, education, etc β and damned nice looking into the bargain, had been pursuing one of those slightly fraught distance-relationships for long enough, with enough success, to want to consolidate it somewhat. An opportunity had come up in my career field β a career in which I'm very experienced, highly regarded, and extremely proficient β so I'd taken it. And here I was, we were, in the same community. Albeit still proceeding with some caution. So our residences were still separate apartments, but within two streets of each other.
The only thing not in the new community was my accumulated goods and chattels. Everything. Every single box and case. Evidently, between there and here, the train carrying the container carrying everything I was moving had de-railed β apparently catapulting the container into some impenetrable ecological environment laden with lethal creatures. Or something like that. (But have you tried getting accurate information from people you're paying for a service these days?)
Short version: all I had was my laptop, the razor, etc., always tucked away in my laptop case, and the clothes I was standing up in. The clothes I had been standing in for four days...the clothes even I could smell so it was getting pretty bad.
Which is how I came to be in the Laundromat down the block from my new apartment after yet another long long day of settling into the new office. Which is when the dilemma of the situation actually struck me.
Being silly, I sent off a text.
Ping! came the usual announcement of her reply. 'That's the opening for a sexting session, right? I hope. Lol.'
As I said, Amie's a good lady. I replied: 'Well it could be...lol. But I'm actually quite serious.'
It took only a moment, then Ping! 'Let me get this straight...you're worried about not having anything to wear if you wash all your clothes and you have to wash all your clothes. Why then are you at the Laundromat rather than the laundry room in your building? Inquiring minds want to know...lmao.'
'Because I don't yet have a key for the laundry room in the building and I can only get one during the day and you may have noticed I haven't surfaced as yet during non vampire hours. Besides, what difference would that make?'
'Point taken. Poor Ba-bee. Suck it up Buttercup...lmao...what are the odds of anyone coming in this time of night? Except me maybe? It is the one just down the street, right? wink '
'Yes. wink!' Chuckling, I finished unbuttoning my shirt and undid my belt and slacks, leaving the phone face up on the little counter beside the machines. I'd worked out I could probably get away with doing my shirt, slacks and socks. Slacks now around my ankles, I picked up the phone again and sent, 'Easy for you to say. You're not the one in the brightly lit fishbowl.'
'Even better. I can park outside and ogle to my heart's content and you'll be none the wiser. Besides, I would've bought fresh undies at some point in the last 4 days. wink'
Slacks now off and the contents of the pockets on the counter beside the phone, I typed in: 'Not sure how to answer that...lol.'
'Just say yes-superior-female-being, how-high-superior-female-being...get em off and in the machine and get on with it. 4 days?! Ugh...I'm actually thinking you should burn them...lol'