Housemates

Chapter 23

Ellie waited beside the ute for Mia for come back outside. To come back out and grope her some more.

Ellie felt a little bad Mia was doing all the carrying now, but only a little bit bad. It was really Mia’s fault that Ellie couldn’t help, because it was Mia who kept touching Ellie, making Ellie’s knees not work right, which meant she wasn’t any use for carrying.

So Ellie stayed where she was, and watched.

Mia came out the front door, and walked towards Ellie. She was holding a bigger box, was almost hidden behind it. She was legs, from where Ellie was watching. Just her bare smooth legs, which did the things they did.

Mia reached the ute, and slid the box onto the back, and then came around the side to Ellie. She kissed Ellie, slid her hand down Ellie’s front, towards Ellie’s shorts.

“No,” Ellie whispered. “Not your hand this time.”

Mia stopped.

“Do the thing with your leg. Show me that.”

Mia hesitated. She glanced around.

“Please?” Ellie said.

“I want to, but I really can’t right here.”

“Extra please? With extra horny?”

Mia grinned. “It’s just kind of obvious. Like how we’d be moving around. Someone might notice.”

“In the ute?”

“The ute would be moving.”

Ellie felt disappointed. She must have looked it.

“Later,” Mia said. “I will. I promise.”

“Later?”

“Or another time.”

Ellie wasn’t sure what to make of that. Another time almost sounded like she was going to be disappointed.

“Soon?” she said, and Mia nodded.

“I’ll remember,” Ellie said, and was about to start kissing again, but Mia grinned, and stepped back, and went inside for another box.

Ellie stood there, and watched her go, and was almost frustrated enough to slam doors and shriek. She decided she had to do something. She had to hurry Mia up. She couldn’t stand to keep being teased like this all afternoon.

She thought for a moment, trying to think of some excuse to get away for half an hour. To run an errand, to race to one of their houses, and make Mia finish what she’d started.

She could fake a message that she was needed at home, she thought, and say Mia needed take her. That seemed almost reasonable, since they only the ute, and Ellie hadn’t brought a car. She almost did that. She even almost lied to Mia too, just to make sure it happened, in case Mia had some kind of conscience about abandoning Rose.

Then she had a better idea. A flirtier idea. An idea that was more weird, and unusual, and far more her and Mia.

She opened the ute cab’s door, behind her, and got out all the water bottles she could see. One full, one mostly empty. She checked under the seats and made sure there weren’t any more.

She stood there, holding them, and waited.

Mia came outside again, and put another box on the back of the ute. She stood there, all grinning and hot, with her bare legs right there. Perfectly aware her bare legs were right there, Ellie thought, and aware of how Ellie was noticing them.

“So,” Ellie said, and opened the full water bottle, and started tipping it out.

Mia looked at her, and seemed a bit surprised. As she would be, Ellie thought. They both watched the water glug and splash. Ellie felt a little splatter of cold on her ankle, and suddenly smelled wet concrete and earth.