It was late. Cruella showed Alonzo to his new room. She had decided that if he slept there during the week it would be easier on them both. Weekends he could do what he wanted with, she figured.
"This is much too big" he said as she sat down on the bed.
"I don't have any smaller rooms." Cruella said. "Unless you want to sleep in the uppermost room."
Alonzo shivered at the thought. "This will be fine, thank you!" he said.
"Well, you know where everything goes, just make yourself feel at home! But don't go crazy." she said and left.
Cruella went into bathroom. "STELLA!" she hollered as she tugged a sash-looking rope that made a bell ring in the servants hall.
Cruella waited for about a minute or so before before Stella came rushing.
"You holl- erm, called, madam!?" Stella said.
Cruella rolled her eyes.
"What can I do for you, madam?" Stella asked.
"I'm going to take a bath." Cruella said.
Stella nodded and went over to fill the bathtub. She threw in various types of scented herbs and oils.
She proceeded to set Cruella's hair in to an up-do before she removed her makeup and smeared a cinnamon face mask on her face.
"Thank you" Cruella said and waved her off.
She locked the door, threw her black lace negligee on the floor.
Just as Cruella had gotten comfortable in the bath she heard light knocking at the door.
"WHAT!" she yelled.
"I made you some tea!" Alonzo stuttered.
Cruella got up and covered her front with a towel before she unlocked the door.
"Put it over there." she said and pointed at a side-table beside the tub.
Cruella dropped her towel and got back into the tub.
She heard a whiny noise from behind her. When she turned she saw Alonzo standing shivering.
"What are you still doing here?" she demanded.
"I ..I don't know" he said and hid his face in his hands.
"Well, you're still here, I might as well get some use out of you." she said.
"What?" Alonzo blurted out.
"Calm down.." she said. "Come on, give me a back rub!" she said and sat up in the tub.
Alonzo didn't know what else to do, so he followed instructions. He took a few steps towards her and got down on his knees. He just couldn't bring himself to touch her. He dared not touch her fully robed, much less completely naked, afraid of getting his finger bit off.
"Well?" Cruella sneered.
At that Alonzo removed his white gloves. "Neck rub?" he asked, sounding like a prepubescent 12 year old.
"Whatever, just get to it!" she said.
Alonzo gently put his hands on Cruella's shoulders and started massaging her.
Alonzo tried taking it easy, but he was tripping. It felt like he was high on something he couldn't quite put his finger on. He didn't feel dizzy, it was more like his head was about to explode.
"Mmm, that's it, right there" Cruella exclaimed, to Alonzo's big shock.
"Is this pleasing, madam?" he asked.
"Yes, keep going, I need this. I've been so damn tense the las few months, you wouldn't believe it!" she said as she cracked her neck both ways.
"I can tell, the knots are unbelievable!" he said. He surprised himself, being able to talk and all!
"I know" she said as she laid her head down on his hand. "Mmm, thank you, this is doing wonders!" she said.
Alonzo could feel his pulse raisng. Amongst other things.
Alonzo started biting his lips, trying to resist whatever he was trying to resist, he didn't even know himself.
"Thank you" Cruella said as she laid back, exposing her bare breasts.
Alonzo's eyes almost fell out, and his jaw almost her her on the head. "No problem!" he stuttered as he tried to stand up. He fell on his rear end and knocked down a clothes hamper.
"I'm sorry, madam" he said as he put it back up.
Facing the opposite wall he walked out the door like a crab muttering "Sorry" over and over.
"He really is a weird kind of gentleman" Cruella thought to herself as she lit up a cigarette.
Alonzo rushed back to his bedroom. "Oh my god" he said to himself. "I need to get rid of it, holy cow, what if she noticed!" he thought to himself.
He took a brush from the vanity and started carefully hitting himself with it. It had no effect. He ran into the bedpost. "OW" he screamed. That did the trick.
As he laid in bed that night he couldn't help but think of what had happened a few hours earlier. It was permanent now, there was no way of getting rid of it.
Well, there was one way. "I can't, she's in the next room, oh my god" he thought to himself.
"Oooh I can't stand this any longer!" he whispered to himself.
He got up from bed and walked in to his bathroom, cursing himself, convinced she would notice.
He turned on the cold water in the shower. He stared at himself in the mirror. "I'm very frustrated." he told his reflection. He stepped into the cold stream of water. It was hell, and it didn't seem to work very well. The flag was still up.
"I guess there's only one thing to do." he said to himself. He turned on the hot water.
Alonzo slept very well that night.