I finished all of the tasks I didn't finish yesterday within the first hour of working, feeling myself work a lot faster now than I did yesterday. The new task I had today was to fix a few machines in the kitchen then meet up with some of the other men to add on another wing today for any new people that would show up.
I quickly finish the task for the kitchen leaving me with a few hours of free time before lunch and I would have to meet up with the other guys at 3 oclock. So I had close to 7 hours before I had to do any more tasks for the day.
I decided I need to clean up my ship bay. I put my tablet in the wall and search for some music on it . It turns out there are speakers in the room that are linked to my tablet. I start a playlist of music and then get to work.
I start by moving the barrel I have deemed the trash barrel into the corner on the other side of the door from where the tablet was in the wall. I find some rags and start wiping down the tables and setting up the equipment that was pushed over and wiping it off. I clean most of the tables and have pushed everything into place on the left side of the room. I start cleaning the back of the room, taking the tools laying around and putting them in the spots I wanted them, laying some on tables needing some more intense cleaning.
I got to the far wall from the door and after I moved all the tools and stood up what had fallen down it seemed like there was a forge. I found some tools that belong to it and put them next to it, cleaning more of the space out and nearby under a fallen workbench was an anvil.
I turn on the forge which makes the room really hot really fast. I take off my shirt and throw it on one of the tables back on the clean side of the room. I let the forge run through the extra stuff that was inside of it as I started picking up the rest of the room, putting away the materials the best I could.
I found some steel bars in a barrel that was pushed over and filled with trash. I finished cleaning the room, sweaty and satisfied with the now clean room. I grab a steel bar and bring it over to the forge and start heating it up. A handle hung out from the ceiling in front of the forge. I grab a pair of leather gloves and start to pull down on the handle causing the forge to come more to life heating up the metal even more. I grab a hammer and set it next to the anvil.
"...james…..JAMES '' I turned to see Charlotte standing a few feet behind me holding a basket of food with a blush along her face. I turn to her and signal to her saying one minute then move the metal in the forge letting it heat naturally. I walk over to where she was then guide her over to one of the clean tables, she sets the basket down and I go and grab a chair and put it next to the table for her to sit.
"What are you doing here?" I ask her now standing next to her. "It is lunch time," she says, avoiding looking at me. She keeps playing with her own hands. I realize I don't have my shirt on, letting my toned chest, abs and arms show with sweat all over me, making my hair fall a little bit into my face. I walk over and grab my shirt off the table nearby and put it on the sweat making my white shirt practically see through.
"Well what did you make for lunch" I say taking off my gloves and hooking to my belt loop with a clip . She grabs something out of the basket in front of her and puts a sandwich to my mouth. Her face is bright red but she is looking at me with those bright blue eyes just holding the sandwich to my mouth. "Sandwiches" she says now looking away. I take a big bite of the sandwich then grab the napkin wrapped sandwich out of her hand. I quickly finished my sandwich. A loud noise from the forge makes me grab Charlotte moving her away from the direction of the noise. Realizing it was the forge I let go of her and I hurry over to the forge and move the metal around flipping it so it heats all the way through.
I look over at Charlotte who is now eating her sandwich and fanning her face with her hand. I grab the handle once again and pull it down heating up the forge with a blush forming on my face as I steal glances at her. I grab the metal out of the forge and place it on the anvil and start hitting it with a hammer making it long and flat and in the shape of a sword. I flipped the sword when needed and put it back into the fire a few times between hits.
I stole a few glances at Charlotte while working, and caught her watching my body move while I worked. Every time making me blush and work a little bit harder.
I stole a glance over at her after putting the sword into the fire and saw she wasn't there. I took a second look thinking my eyes deceived me. And there she was right behind me about to tap on my shoulder with the basket hanging on her arm. I check my watch. It's 2:30. I would have to go soon and i'm guessing she saw my alarm.
She smiled ay me when i looked up from my watch. "I should probably get going" She said straightening her back a little more.
"Hold on I will walk you back" I shut down the forge and take off my gloves latching them to my belt once again. I looked over at Charlotte who was staring at my chest she saw me looking and cleared her throat and turned away a blush creeping on her face once again.
I grabbed the basket from her and walked beside her to the door. I opened the door letting her walk through before me and turning off the music and grabbing my tablet.
I slung the tablet over my shoulder and closed the door behind us. I picked up my pace to walk beside her.
She talked about her day as we walked and what else she had planned and about a book she read last night. We reach her door quickly giving me a smile and taking the basket from me she went into her room closing the door behind her.
