Ethan

The commotion was more than I wanted to process after ass like that. The tiny bathroom was full of a few other people staring at us. I didn’t care to cover up and the women in the party were sizing me up. Molly, the one from before was smiling at me and smiling at her waitress.

“Well it’s about damn time Denise.”

Denise wasn’t taking all of the attention very well. She was embarrassed and I thought her whole body was going to turn bright red like her hair. She was certainly on her way to that very thing happening. I didn’t know what to say to make it better, but I did have the wherewithal to at least get a towel and help her wrap it around herself.

“What in the world are you doing here Molly? I’m kind of in the middle of something right now.”

“Yeah, I can see that honey. I think we all can. I was worried about you when you didn’t answer your phone. I thought something had happened to you.”

No one had backed off from the door and now that Denise was covered she seemed able to process what was going on better. She had a smile on her face when she looked at me and it was the first time that I was thinking about covering myself up.

“Honey, you’re going to have to cover up or we aren’t going to be able to get much talking done. Put that thing away. It looks like you finished.”

I don’t know what was stranger. Some women telling me to put it away like she did or the fact that it was done so casually. It was like no one there seemed to get that they were interrupting a very intimate moment. I felt like I was being sent to the kid’s table and I wanted to know why they were there as well. Was it because I was an outsider that I wasn’t allowed to hear what is going on?

“I’d rather stay and hear what’s going on.”

Molly started to disagree, but she waved me off like it didn’t matter anyways.

“Someone burned down the restaurant. They think that I’m sympathetic to the corporation rolling in here and I guess they wanted to show me a lesson. If people around here knew how much I’d given up to leave Nome the way it was, this would have never happened. But the restaurant is gone and I had to make sure you weren’t there or something hadn’t happened to you as well. I’m not too worried about a building, but I had to make sure that you were alright Denise.”

“Yeah I’m okay.”

She smiled at me. “I can see that. I will let you two get dressed. I need you to talk to Jimmy and see if you remember anyone acting strange today and stuff like that. Sorry to have come in on you. It wasn’t my intention. I really was afraid something had happened to you.”

Denise told her that it was okay and we watched them not just leave the bathroom, but the tiny house altogether. It was a little better, but I was still stuck in a very small bathroom and I walked out into the rest of the house where I could stand up better and started to get dressed.

“Sorry this didn’t turn out like I had it happening in my head. I was thrown off with the house and the busting in bosses.”

She giggled and shook her shoulders. “That’s just my luck all the time on display. I surprised we got that far.”

I wanted more and Denise seemed uninterested. She kissed me quickly on the cheek, but then she was going outside and talking to Molly. It was a big deal of course, but what we had done was as well. It was as if we hadn’t ever even been together and that hurt my pride more than anything else. I’d found heaven in those couple of minutes of rutting and fucking. Now she acted like that hadn’t just happened and I can’t say that I liked the feeling it gave me very much.

When I got outside, I pulled the jacket closer to me. My body was wet from not properly drying off and the short hair on my fair head was helping the water cling to me and make me colder. I scanned for Denise and she was talking to a police officer about who had come in the day before and what, if anything had been said that was going to explain who would have burned it down. Arson was a common crime up here and it was usually some form of revenge. The newcomers, me, coming in weren’t helping matters, but I was hoping that the town was starting to move on from the anger. Many of the people I talked to were very nice and I think I had made some real friends while I was here.

Denise smiled my way before she turned back to the police officer and I was debating if I was going to wait around or not.

“You should wait. It won’t take that long.”

I turned to see her boss Molly staring back at me and she had this funny look on her face. I wasn’t sure what to say, but it was like she had read my mind. I wanted to stay and talk to her, but at the same time I felt like an idiot standing here waiting around after everyone had seen me naked.

It was a tough call, but Molly’s words convinced me that I wanted to stay and instead of standing around, I talked to a few guys that I knew there. Then I saw Charlie and I relaxed a little bit. I needed a familiar face at the moment and I knew that it was going to be easier now that he was here.

The sooner they got their information, the sooner I could get back inside that tiny doll house she calls a home and finish what we started in the shower. The floor had to be a better pick than the shower anyways.