The kissing was tender and pleasant compared to her last attempt and if asked she would say it was because Neil was older and more experienced. He tas...ed of whiskey and though she didn’t much like the taste she was too nervous about the imminent fingering to care. “Get on with fingering her already!” Simon said and they both ceased kissing to look up and Sarah and Simon who were watching and waiting for the show. Neil began fumbling with Ellies buttons and tried to reach his hands down the. Monique: “Yes, well, I guess we’ll see about that. As you know, our systems have been bogging down for several weeks now. Since you and your team weren’t able to identify the problem, I brought in an outside contractor to investigate.”Paul: You did? Without even telling me?Monique: “Well telling you would’ve defeated the purpose, wouldn’t it Paul? I mean, given that the whole problem was due to your running some sort of personal project on our servers that was eating up bandwidth like a. "With a louder than normal zzzzttttt, the device was suddenly painfullyhot in my hand. I winced in surprise, but managed to avoid droppingit. I plopped it down quickly into my bag as I shook out my hand.Fuck, I hadn't broken it had I? This had happened before, but ithadn't been that bad. It had been working fine just a little whileago. Why was it so hot now?Luckily my hand didn't seem too badly burned and the thing didn'tappear to be on fire or melting or anything. I certainly didn't smellany. After a minute, I felt foolish hiding. I will show myself and if they show signs of distress, I will leave them alone.They see me and Mike smiles, his face clearly friendly. I walk to them and sit on the other side of the table just to say hello. They both smile now and Linda looks away quickly. I prepare to leave them when I hear myself ask them if they would like a drink.I grin with boyish glee as I take the drinks to their table; as I pass the drink to Linda, she surprises me by moving.