Page 56 of Her Sloth

I stand there like an idiot, impossible to move.

“What’s up with you?” she asks as she returns, fully dressed, hair made, perfect makeup with the mascara that brings out the blue in her eyes even more.

She is so beautiful my mouth drops slightly open.

“You, naked,” I say, croaking out.

“Why?” she asks. “You never seen naked titties before?

“I have,” I snap at her, “But it’s—it’s—you make me—“ Whatever it is she makes me, the words don’t make it out.

She laughs.

I don’t. Because right this moment she reminds me of Elise in ways I can’t grasp.

I roll back my shoulders to remove the sensation that comes with it.

“Relax,” she says, grasping my shoulders left and right. “Won’t happen again.”

I grunt in confirmation.

“Bathroom is that way,” she says as she lets go of me and tilts her head behind her.

“I’d rather do that at home,” I say stiffly.

“Oookay,” she says. “Someone woke up on the wrong foot.”

“No, I didn’t,” I snap at her harshly. “But there is no point in showering when I have no fresh clothes to put on.”

“Take some of mine,” she says carelessly, shrugging her shoulders and walking away.

“Come here,” she shouts. I follow her voice only to find a massive closet next to the bathroom, with another door leading to a fitness and wellness room.

I shake my head in total disbelief.

Fucking rich people.

“Here, that could fit you,” she says and throws a hoodie to me. “And this here should fit your tomboy needs, too.”

“I’m not—“ I say as I see the sportive panties in her hand.

“You are,” she says, interrupting me. “Shut up and go shower.”

I rip the clothes from her hand and stomp to the bathroom.

She chuckles behind me, which makes me want to kick the door closed. Only there is no door to kick.

It’s some sort of weird sliding door—one I can’t figure out.

She walks up to me, presses a⁠—

Her scent washes over and everything in my mind goes blank.

I look up—she is so close I can see every single one of her nonexistent pores.

One corner of her mouth tugs up as she leans back and the door closes.

I am too flabbergasted by what just happened.