“What do you mean you’re full,” Richard shouted irately. “We both have reservation confirmations!”
“I’m very sorry sir and madam, I don’t know what happened. All I can tell you is that we are completely booked up, there are no rooms available. I’ve been searching the other hotels to find a couple of rooms for the two of you but there’s a massive conference going on and there are no rooms to be had anywhere.”
“I know there’s a big conference! We’re both here for that conference!” Richard growled, his blood pressure spiking, turning his face and neck red with fury.
“Sir, all I can do is keep looking. I’ll do the best that I can but I doubt – ” the last and final supervisor’s supervisor said before being interrupted by a firm hand on his shoulder from behind. When the top supervisor saw who it was, he swallowed nervously and silently stepped back.
“Sir and madam I sincerely regret this error and believe I can resolve this to everyone’s satisfaction. I have a personal suite in permanent reserve which I can make available to you, at no charge of course.”
“Uh, we’re not a couple. There’s no way we can share a room, and ironically we have to be charged room fees in order to get our travel expenses covered by our company.”
“I understand. The suite has two bedrooms, each with its own en suite and the hotel will provide individual room bills for Richard DeCamp and Ying Tai. Will that be acceptable?”
“I don’t know … what do you think Ying?”
“I think you too prudish. Sound good, take it.” Ying said in exasperation, unconsciously allowing more of her accent to ooze out than she normally did.
Still uncomfortable about people finding out that he shared accommodations with Ying, even though they would have individual bedrooms and baths, Richard followed Ying into the private suite. “Whoa, this is amazing,” Richard said in wonder. “It has everything, a gourmet kitchen, separate dining and living rooms, even its own movie room.” Finding one of the bedrooms, Richard exclaimed, “This bedroom is huge,” as he looked around at the king sized high oak poster bed, antique Armoire, massive burgundy leather chairs, and a huge polished wooden desk, all tastefully accented inside the pale green room with stained oak crown dental molding. “Wow, I wonder what the other bedroom looks like?”
“Don’t care, I take this one.” Ying declared. “I’m tired and want to wash up. You take other bedroom. Go ... out,” she pushed and closed the door behind Richard.
Spotting what had to be the other bedroom door, Richard wheeled his suitcase over and entered. “Oh crap!” Richard exclaimed. The second bedroom was just as fabulous as the first one but the décor was distinctly different. It too had a high king sized bed and antique Armoire, but it was a canopy bed with white lace trimming the canopy. Elaborate Queen Ann chairs clustered around an antique tea table. An elegant and feminine desk sat in one corner and antique makeup vanity sat in another. The room itself was a pale pink with white crown dental molding.
Sighing to himself, Richard briefly considered asking Ying to switch rooms, but they’d worked together long enough for him to know that not only would she not switch, she would take great delight in the arrangement. Unpacking his suitcase, Richard made use of the spa-like bathroom to freshen up.
Clean and dressed in a comfortable pair of cargo shorts and a polo shirt, Richard wandered around the incredible suite in awe of everything. He was secretly glad that he’d been able to exit his room and close the door before Ying could see it, but he knew perfectly well he was only postponing the inevitable teasing.
“What the hell?” Richard said to himself as he found the damnedest thing. On a little table tucked away in a little corner niche in the living room was what appeared to be a marble sculpture of an oversize penis. Next to it was a plaque declaring that it was the HIMEROS in heavy gold lettering followed by small black descriptive text that described the sculpture as a magical artifact and explained its so called magical properties.
“What you find?” Ying demanded from behind Richard, making him jump. “Oh, you find big dick. Let me see,” Ying said pushing in front of Richard. After a a minute of reading and thinking, Ying said, “We should try this.”
“Seriously? I mean I knew you were going to say that, but seriously? You’re a computer expert. How can you give even the slightest credence to magic?”
“I didn’t say I believe it would work, but it only take a moment to try. I take shaft, you get head,” Ying said grasping the shaft of the penis statue.
“You just want to embarrass me,” Richard said.
“Yes, that true, but also fun. What, you never touch penis? Come on Dick, grab dick.”
Richard hated the common nickname and knew that Ying knew he hated it. “Fine, let’s get this over with. Happy now?” Richard asked as he grabbed the bulbous head of the penis statue.
“One more thing, have to agree on control,” Ying said. “Might be interesting to see your desires play out if you had control but probably boring. More fun if I have control.”
“Oh good gawd, fine you take control.”
“I agree, I take control.” Ying said.
Immediately there was a deep soundless thrumming pulse.
“Did you feel that, what was that,” Richard asked?
“I think it worked,” Ying grinned.
“Yeah right,” Richard laughed, letting go of the embarrassing statue. We haven’t eaten since the flight, I need to get something to eat, how about you? It looks like the kitchen is fully stocked, I could make something. Oh, there’s a big Meet-N-Greet starting soon. They will have hors d'oeuvres and drinks, we could go there for something to eat, but we’d have to dress up. Come to think of it, I didn’t bring anything really dressy.”
“Not problem now. HIMEROS say I can make clothes. I dress you up. We eat and strut our stuff.”
“How long are you going to play this silly game?”
“Not silly, already tested. It real!”
“Yeah right! Go ahead, have at it. Consider me personal your dress-up doll. Do whatever you like.”
“This be fun,” Ying snickered.