About an hour later I decided that I had enough of the sun. I stood up and stretched out. I looked at Nicole
and she had a pleasant smile on her face. “I’m going inside,” I said. She nodded slightly. I walked inside
and scoured the bedrooms in order to determine which ones held our clothing. I was slightly surprised to see
that our bedrooms were next to each other. They were also connected by a door in between them so that you
could go from one to the other without entering the hallway.
I went through the clothes in my bedroom and found a pair of shorts to slip on. I was still a bit warm from
being outside so I didn’t want to make myself sweat. I also took the opportunity to inspect the bathrooms on
this floor. Each bedroom had its own private bathroom that was at least twice as large as the bathroom from
our apartment. They all had separate bathtubs and shower stalls, as well as double sinks.
I didn’t really know what to do next so I sat on the bed in my room. I found the remote control and turned on
the television. I just channel surfed for a while. Somehow I ended up on the local news, which was odd since
I never watched local news. What caught my attention was the story they featured, which was an increase in
the area crime rate. This was something I’d read in newspapers but never paid it much attention, since
nothing ever happened in the area where we lived.
According to the story, what started out as just a string of robberies had escalated into things far worse.
Over the last six months there was a noticeable increase in both rapes and murders. I watched the story and
was utterly dismayed by what I saw. I had always taken for granted our area as being safe. It appeared I was
very much wrong about that.
At that point Nicole sauntered into the room. “Whatcha doing?” she asked. I loved watching her walk in the
nude like this. She had a really great figure and I couldn’t help but get pay attention to the way her
breasts jiggled as she walked. “Other than staring at the goods,” she teased.
“Can you blame me?” I asked.
“Nope,” she said as she sat down next to me. She looked at the TV and saw what I had on. “Oh, yea, I’ve been
hearing about this. Makes me sad.” I didn’t want to spend time dwelling on something sad right now, so once
the story ended I turned of the television. “Come up with anything yet?” she asked.
“No,” I sighed with disappointment.
“Good thing I have,” she said.
“Do tell,” I said eagerly.
“I’m starting to think you’re right,” she said. “If we have to make wishes that change people’s thoughts, in
order to protect ourselves, then we’ll just have to.”
“Uh huh,” I said.
“Here’s what I’m thinking,” she said. “This is a huge house. It’s going to be pretty empty if it’s just the
two of us. We need someone else around so that we don’t crazy just being around each other. And I think it
can help with not making us seem like total shut-ins.”
“What did you have in mind?” I asked.
“I think we need like a butler and a maid,” she said. “Maybe a gardener or chauffeur, too.”
“The gardener wouldn’t have to be here all the time,” I said. “And the butler could be the chauffeur.”
She thought about it for a moment. “I guess you’re right,” she said. “So what we would do is we hire a
couple of people and…see what happens at first, I guess. If we need to make adjustments, so to speak, we can
do it as needed.”
I liked the idea she had. It would be better with others in this huge house. I also liked that she wasn’t
going to keep objecting to wishes with mental implications. “Where do we start looking for these people?” I
asked.