whether or not Rick was a cool guy. He could be a cool enough guy that he didn't let something like sex suddenly become a big thing. But some guys would, and if Rick was like any of those guys then he'd start to become possessive, maybe instead he would become dismissive. It was always hard to tell with guys if they were going to be nice about sex, or if it was going to turn into some kind of sitcom esque style drama that no one really cared about anyway.
Jen didn't know what else to do but wait for Rick to get up. She needed to talk to him about the gig today, and about the upcoming tour. It was important for her future that he went to both of them, but she knew that it would be an uphill battle. So to pass the time she slipped into the shower and turned the water on hot. As the shower cascaded over her shoulders, she thought of how that even though Rick wasn't happy in life the best thing he could do was make something of himself. That meant going on the tour. If he didn't like it, then at the end of it he could just not renew the contract with the Collective. It would really be that easy for him. And after that he would be free to do whatever he wanted. But if he skipped out on the tour it would be really hard to find anyone that would work with him after that. Skipping something like that would cost the Collective so much money, and it would really be a black eye for Rick as well when word got around about it.
But, Jen had to admit, it was fucked up that the Collective hadn't told Rick about it. When she'd been told that she was the one that was going to tell Rick about the tour she figured it was because he was a bad drunk or something and his friends didn't want to deal with him anymore. She'd read up on the role of a manager of rock stars and found that often times the band mates just couldn't deal with how poorly things were going with a certain member, or how the member always turned to getting fucked up to cope with things, so they'd hire someone to do it for them. Jen had, at first, believed that this was the reason she'd been hired to talk to Rick. But now she was thinking that maybe it had much more to do with outright manipulation of Rick.
Before she could think anymore about it, Rick slipped into the shower behind her. She couldn't say anything before he'd bent her over gently and started rubbing her slit. They made love in a rough fashion, with Rick pulling her hair and playfully choking her. It was just the kind of sex that Jen liked, and she enjoyed every minute of it. They almost fell down right in the middle of going at it, but luckily Rick caught himself on the side railing of his shitty shower. Before she came Jen realized that this was the best sex she'd ever had, this lay in the shower and the one before in bed earlier. She wondered what she would do if she wasn't able to get sex from Rick anymore. Even though they'd only slept together two times, she knew that she wasn't just going to be able to head out into the world and find someone else as good in bed as Rick. When she came, Rick came, and together they basked in the ecstasy of the feeling of coitus.
Chapter 10
When they'd finished, they both sat at the table wrapped in towels. The towels were clean, much to Rick's surprise. It wasn't often he had clean anything in the apartment, but boy was he more thankful now than ever that he kept clean towels around. He knew that it was one thing to be able to have sex with a woman in a dirty shower, but completely another to ask her to sit and chat while wrapped in a dirty towel.
“So,” Rick said. “I've been thinking about the charity gig tonight. And I'm going to do it. Even though a lot of this is starting to irk me in ways I never thought possible, I'll play along with the Collective's whims for now. But I want you to know that when the time rolls around for me to sign papers with them again there is pretty much going to be no way whatsoever.”
Jen nodded. Rick could tell that she wanted