Operation: HANDCUFFS
Chapter Eleven: Shower? No, it's not a dream!
"Um...Numbuh 5?" Numbuh 1 said unsurely.
"Ya'll havta hold my T-shirt, ok?" Numbuh 5 said like she didn't hear him.
"Uh...okey...but, why?" he asked, his heart still beating faster.
"Because Numbuh 5 can't take it off completely cause of the handcuffs, and I don't want it to get wet" she explained.
"Oh...okey then" Numbuh 1 said. Numbuh 5 was standing in silence for a while, she felt very embarrassed. She only pretended the cool and relaxed attitude, but truely she was really stressed. She didn't want Numbuh 1 to know about that though. She sighed nervously to calm herself down a little and then grabbed the edge of her blue T-shirt. She pulled it off and let go of it so it slipped down her hand. It was swinging on the chain of the handcuffs. She then pulled it on Numbuh 1's hand a little.
"Hold it on your arm, so it wouldn't get wet" she said rather quietly and with a little overtone of stress in her voice. Numbuh 1 held the T-shirt with his other hand so it wouldn't slip off, he felt it was still warm. He tried very hard to think about something else, but it wasn't easy. Especially when the thought that she was now almost completely naked came to his mind. He blushed and turned his head in other direction, though he had the blindfold on his eyes. Numbuh 5 took her shoes and her black shorts off and blushed when it came time for her knickers. She thought then that she can't really do this. But now there was no turning back. She hit on some idea, she went under the shower and drew the curtain. She left her right hand stuck out of the curtain. Then she jreked Numbuh 1's hand so he would come closer. When he approached a bit she could hide her right hand behind the curtain as well.
"Numbuh 1?" she called him and that made him flinch a little.
"Y-Yeah?" he asked unsurely and turned his head a little to Numbuh 5 to hear her better.
"Um...could ya hold the edges of those two parts of the curtain together with your left hand?" she said as she held it with her right hand and waited for Numbuh 1 to grab it.
"Oh, ok" he said, then slowly and unsurely reached out his left hand to grab the curtains.
"And don'ya dare to peek!" she added.
"I wasn't gonna do that!" Numbuh 1 said with indignation. Then he grabbed the curtain. Numbuh 5 had both hands free now so she took off her knickers and put it away. She took the rubber band off her braid and loosen her hair. She let the water run and set it so it wasn't too hot, nor too cold, and then she stood under the flowing stream of water. The water wet her dark skin and her black hair. She closed her eyes and tried to relax a little. When Numbuh 1 heard the water's running his heart skipped again. He gulped, then shook his head and started to sing some song in his mind just to stop thinking about that situation. Though when Numbuh 5 was moving her right hand his left one, that he was holding the curtains with, started swinging, and that made him come back to reality, and he forgot what song he was singing. He could feel his cheeks were becoming more and more hot. Numbuh 5 tried to not move her right hand too much, but sometimes it was necessery. The shower took her a few minutes. She tried to do this as fast as she could. When she finished, she wrung out her hair, then reached out her left hand and took the towel from the rail. She wrapped the towel around her body. Numbuh 1 could hear the water stopped running and he knew she was going out of the shower now.
"Okey Numbuh 1, ya can let go of the curtain now" Numbuh 5 said. He flinched again on the sound of her voice, and let go of the curtain. She came out slowly. He was standing his back tuned to her. She watched him for a few seconds and her cheeks turned red. She turned her head from him and looked in the mirror, she swept her hair back and turned to take all her clothes. She then thought that it's a chanse to change her underwear, while she already was at it 'Yeah...but how am I supposed to do it?' she asked herself in thoughts 'I would have to go to my room to get it' she thought. She was thinking about every for and against this idea but she couldn't really figure out which one was better 'A what the hell...' she thought and turned to Numbuh 1 who was very stressed and his heart was beating as fast as never before.
"Okey Numbuh 1, your turn" she said and his heart jumped to his throat. He gulped again. Then slowly turned his head to her, though he couldn't see her because of the blindfold.
"Heheh...?" he laughed nervously.
"Oh come on, Numbuh 5'll help ya with that band" she said and approached him. Numbuh 5 was a bit stressed but not as much as before, she tried to act cooly, so Numbuh 1 wouldn't realise that she was embarrassed as well. She slowly reached out her hands and grabbed the band on Numbuh 1's eyes. A strange feeling reached him when he felt her fingers on his face, a very nice feeling. She pulled the blindfold down. As Numbuh 1 opened his eyes he saw Numbuh 5 in a towel standing in front of him, her hair was loose and wet. Now he thought his heart was really going to jump out of his chest. He could feel his cheeks were crimson. He was just standing there and couldn't take his eyes from her. He just never saw her in loosen hair before, she looked soo...beautiful. The drops of water were dripping from her hair down on her shoulders, then wandering down on her dark skin to the towel on her chest. Numbuh 1 let go of her T-shirt that he was holding and it slipped off his arm and stopped on the chain of the handcuffs. Numbuh 5 felt embarrassed and a slight blush appeared on her cheeks. But she decided to pull herself together and she waved in front of Numbuh 1's face to wake him up.
"Hey. Numbuh 1" she said like there was nothing embarrassing in that situation. That brought him back to reality again.
"Huh?...oh...um...w-why didn't you..." he begun confused "um...put your clothes on?" he finished with embarrassment.
"Uh...Numbuh 5 wants to...um...go for some new...underwear to her room, ya know..." she answered with perplexion. Numbuh 1 felt perplexed as well, he thought that was a stupid question, though he couldn't really think of anything else in that moment.
"Oh...okey..." he didn't know what to say so he decided to change the subject "um...yeah, my turn now" he said and that surprised Numbuh 5 a little, cause he didn't want to take a shower a few minutes ago. Numbuh 5 grabbed her T-shirt and pulled it up on her arm.
"Numbuh 5'll hold your sweater" she said.
"Oh, sure, thanks Numbuh 5" he said a bit more calmly. Then he approached the shower.
"Um...Numbuh 1" Numbuh 5 said and he turned to her again "The band" she said and pointed on her neck to remind him that the blindfold was on his neck.
"Oh...uh...yeah" Numbuh 1 said and pulled the band through his head, then passed it to Numbuh 5. She took it and pulled it on her head to cover her eyes. Now she was the one who couldn't see anything. She turned her back to him just to not disconcert him more. Numbuh 1 watched her for a while, then took a deep breath. He took off his shoes and sweater. When he did that the sweater slipped down his left arm, and stopped on the chain of the handcuffs. Numbuh 5 felt it was swinging on the chain "Ok Numbuh 5 you can take my sweater now" he said and she pulled it a little on her hand. And just as was the case with Numbuh 1, she could feel the sweater was still warm. And she also noticed it smelled like him. After that Numbuh 1 took off his shorts, then he hit on the same idea Numbuh 5 hit on before, to take his underpants off when he'll be already behind the curtain. And that's how he did it. Numbuh 5 heard him going under the shower. She was nervous and she tried to breathe regularly to calm down a little.
"Um...Numbuh 5'll hold the curtain like ya did befo' Numbuh 1" she said.
"Yeah...okey Numbuh 5" Numbuh 1 answered and grabbed the two parts of the curtain in his left hand. Numbuh 5 reached out her right hand and took the curtain from Numbuh 1's hand. Now he had both hands free. Though he was in better situation than Numbuh 5, because his right hand wasn't handcuffed and Numbuh 5 had to use mainly her left hand. He let the water run and the sound of the falling water reached Numbuh 5's ears. She felt very embarrassed and her heart started beating faster. Numbuh 1 hurried as much as he could to finish the shower. When he was finally finished he turned the water off. Then he reached out his hand to take the towel from the rail, he wrapped it around his waist. Numbuh 5 heard the water stopped running and she let go of the curtain. Then Numbuh 1 stepped out of the shower. Numbuh 5 heard his steps and then she felt he was approaching her.
"I'm done Numbuh 5" Numbuh 1 said and her heart seemed to stop beating for a while. She turned to face him. Then pulled the band down to her neck, and a slight blush appeared on her cheeks so she turned her head in other direction so Numbuh 1 wouldn't see it.
"So...can we go now?" she asked quite quietly and slid down his sweater from her hand and passed it to him.
"Yeah...let's go" Numbuh 1 answered. The water was still dripping from his hands, but he didn't care about it. Numbuh 5's skin was dry already, except for her back, cause the water from her hair was dripping down. Numbuh 1 put on his shoes and Numbuh 5 turned to the door. She wanted to get dressed as fast as possible, cause she couldn't stand the tension that was rising in the atmosphere. Her heart was still beating very fast, though Numbuh 1's as well, and they both were blushing. The strange thoughts that poured into her head really scared her. But Numbuh 1 didn't feel a bit better, he could feel the hot wave that was engulfing him.
"Um...would ya...mind if we went to Numbuh 5's room first?" she asked quietly.
"No...of course not" Numbuh 1 answered. Then he put on his sunglasses. They took their clothes with them and left the bathroom. Numbuh 5 was walking first, she didn't want to look in Numbuh 1's eyes. She found it quite risky. As they reached her room they entered it and Numbuh 1 felt completely embarrassed. This whole situation made him very exhausted. Numbuh 5 led him to the closet, then she turned to face him, though it took a lot of courage from her. She pulled the band through her head and put it away.
"We won't play in that any more, right?" she said a little perplexed, but with a smile "Numbuh 5 trusts ya" she added.
"Uh...thanks Numbuh 5" Numbuh 1 said with a surprised face.
"Just turn 'round" she said with blush on her cheeks. Numbuh 1's heart again started to beat faster and he turned his back to her. Numbuh 5 took one pair of the knickers from her closet and put it on, but not taking the towel off. She had to use her both hands so Numbuh 1's left hand swung a little. He closed his eyes and gulped. He tried to control all the strange feelings that were born in his mind and body, just to not make something stupid. They were best friends, but she was a girl after all (very beautiful girl), and she was now almost naked standing right next to him. When Numbuh 5 put her knickers, she straightened and detached her towel. It slipped down on the floor, and that sound reached Numbuh 1's ears. He automaticly wanted to turn around, but in the last moment he stopped himself. Numbuh 5 put her black shorts and her T-shirt on and turned to Numbuh 1.
"Okey Numbuh 1, Numbuh 5's ready" she said and Numbuh 1 slowly turned to face her. She had her clothes on, but her hair was still loosen and wet.
"Heheh...now we're going to my room, right?" Numbuh 1 asked a bit nervously.
"Yeah...but if ya want to stay that way, Numbuh 5 won't force ya" Numbuh 5 said and Numbuh 1 laughed. That defused the situation a bit.
"No thanks, I wouldn't like to catch a cold" he said with a smile and they headed for his room. The situation in there was almost the same, though Numbuh 5 didn't want to turn when he was dressing up. She was strong to the whole end. Somehow she got uesd to all this faser beating of her heart, it was quite nice when she didn't fight it. When Numbuh 1 was finished and they turned to face eachother, it took a while until Numbuh 5 looked straight into his eyes. But when she finally did it, she couldn't take her sight from him. They were looking at eachother for a while not saying anything. But Numbuh 5 decided to break it when she felt her cheeks were becoming red again, and only then she remembered that she left her hat in the bathroom.
"Eh...heheh...well...this whole bath wasn't so scarry after all, right?" she said trying to keep her cool attitude.
"Uh...yeah...it wasn't" Numbuh 1 said.
"Oh, um...Numbuh 5 left her hat in the bathroom" she said to change the subject.
"Well, no problem then Numbuh 5. We'll go get it" he answered with a smile. Numbuh 5 smiled in response and they left his room. They were walking through the hall in silence. As they got to the bathroom and entered it, Numbuh 5 looked around for her hat. She noticed it lying on the shelf and approached it, dragging Numbuh 1 behind her of course. She took it but didn't put it on her head, because her hair was wet. She turned around and started walking towards the door. But suddenly her foot slipped on the wet floor and she started to fall over. But Numbuh 1 was standing close to her and he caught her before she fell on the floor. He had his hands wrapped around her body and she had her left hand rested on his arm. They were standing like that for a while not moving, just so all the situation could sink in. They both had surprised faces. Then Numbuh 5 raised her head to look at Numbuh 1.
"Uh...um...thanks Numbuh 1" she said perplexed and with a blush on her cheeks, but she didn't move.
"Um...yeah...no problem Numbuh 5" he answered not changing his position and still looking into her eyes. There was another while of silence between them until Numbuh 5 spoke.
"Um...ya know...ya can let go now..." she said still perplexed. Numbuh 1 blushed and panic appeared on his face, just like he would only now realised he was holding her.
"Oh...um...sorry" he said with perplexion taking his arms off her quickly and panicly, now Numbuh 5 could stand on her own feet. She cleared her throat and said:
"Well...let's go to the living room then" her cheeks were still slightly red.
"Yeah...let's go" Numbuh 1 said and they left the bathroom. This time Numbuh 5 was wathing to not slip again. They headed for the living room in silence.
Okey, that's all for now. Yeah...a lot of blushing and heart beaiting in this chapter. I hope you liked it! I was afraid that I won't be able to come up to your expectations in this chapter, so review and tell me what do you think! I hope I did it good! Bye then! See ya next time!