The low hanging fruit

Staring at the ray gun in one hand, and the note in the other. I was contemplating just who to test this thing on, and suddenly remembered what I was doing right before the damn thing tried to break my nose.

Sarah.

It was perfect. She was easily accessible, and I could test it on her while we were both alone in the apartment. That way if it didn't work, I didn't have to explain to anyone else why I was carrying around a toy ray gun, and sounding like an idiot. Sure, I might get into another fight with Sarah, but honestly that's not a big deal to me. I have more than enough money to pay the rent on my own for a few months, and it shouldn't be too hard to find another similar or better job considering I now had 4+ years experience in the field. My former managers may not have been willing to back me up against Ezra the terrible, but I'm pretty sure I can get a good reference out of at least one of them.

Yeah, the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. I'd just 'zap' her in the morning before breakfast, and see if there's anything to this.

Joke or not, that's an enjoyable thought. So with a smile on my lips and images of Sarah's confused and gullible face in my head. I tucked the ray gun away in my night stand and laid down to a peaceful nights sleep.

--Morning

I woke up early for the first time since my vacation started. I waited for Sarah to get out of the shower and get started on the rest of her morning routine before I went to take my own morning shower. I wanted to make sure she was already in the kitchen when I was done, so I could 'zap' her from the hallway without looking like I'd gone crazy.

Showered, shaved(trimmed), and dressed. I retreated to my room and picked up the toy gun. I suddenly realized I was actually a bit nervous and laughed at myself. Taking the ray gun with me I started down the hallway, eyes fixed on where Sarah should be in the kitchen. As i rounded the corner I saw her. She was making toast, she had her back to me! Perfect.

Sarah was being a bit of a bitch the last month or so, but I didn't want to do anything to cruel to her in case this thing worked. So I set the ray to 1. I took aim at her back, and fired. Sarah's body jolted slightly, like she felt something touch her back. She spun around to look but there was nothing behind her. Which was when she noticed me. She had a look of shock on her face.

"Up early for once?" she asked, sounding like she was half impressed and half mocking me condescendingly. Before turning back to face the toaster.

Oh please let this work! I thought, after hearing the tone in her voice.

"Yep, sure am!" I replied with my best customer service cheerful voice.

"I thought a lot about what you said last night. About how I shouldn't be lazy and waste my vacation, and you were right." I continued.

I paused to wait for a response and didn't have to wait log. Sarah turned back to look at me again, and had the cutest confused look on her face. "Oh, right. Well I'm glad you realized it. If you just laze around the whole time, your vacation will be gone before you realize it." she said, her voice lilting up at the end of her statement like it was a question. The look of confusion still evident on her face. She opened her mouth a few times like she was going to say something, and her look of confusion intensified before she closed her mouth again. It was pretty adorable. I never really realized it before, but Sarah is actually kind cute.

I moved into the kitchen and placed the ray gun on the table before opening the fridge to fish out the eggs to start cooking my own breakfast. Emboldened by my apparent success I decided to take a bigger risk. "I also thought a lot about what you said about me finding another job, and I think you're right there as well" I said pausing to crack an egg into the pan.

"Exactly.." Sarah began, but then suddenly trailed off.

I spoke quickly to try and cover the confusion.

"You were clearly right, there's no rush in getting another job. You explained it very well, that I've got more than enough money to enjoy a few more months off, and that I might never get this kind of chance again until retirement. It would be a crying shame to waste it." I said. "Well, I mean, I don't need to tell you, your said the same thing practically word for word last night after all. I just wanted you to know that I was listening, and I apricate your advice, and your concern. You're a really good friend." I finished. I cracked another egg into the pan. I could practically feel the confusion radiating from her as she processed my words. I moved to throw out the egg shells and put the egg carton back in the fridge, stealing a glance at her as I did. She was standing very still. Just then her toast popped. She didn't move. I was suddenly worried that I was either wrong about the first test working, and was about to get an ear full, or I had done something to fuck up her brain.

Before I could think of what to do, Sarah sudden took a huge breath and let out a huge sigh before laughing as she took her toast out of the toaster and started to scrape her "I can totally believe it's not butter, but I delude myself into think it's healthy" butter on her toast.

"What's so funny?" I asked, trying not to let the nerves creep into my voice.

Sarah looked over her should at me, with a full smile on her face. I was momentarily stunned. Not only was she apparently not mad at me, she also look really pretty when she smiled like that.

With a little chuckle Sarah said. "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

"Oh yea? Try me." I responded, now feeling much more confident that the ray was working.

Sarah looked over her shoulder at me again, before turning to face me and nervously taking a bite of her toast. "Promise you won't laugh." she stated flatly after she swallowed her bite, and looked at me expectantly.

In for a penny...

"Come on Sarah, you know I'd never laugh at you maliciously. We're friends. I can't promise not to laugh though, I have no idea what you're about to say. I might find it funny, even if I'm not laughing 'at you'. Don't you remember we had this same conversation last week, and you completely agreed with me on how ridiculous that was to make another person promise." I said.

Sarah blinked a few times before she looked up at me apologetically. "Oh shit, your right. Sorry....it's just. Well it's weird is all. I could have sworn last night we got into a fight, and I told you to get a job. I was even all upset when I woke up this morning and prepared to be mean and scowl at you when I got home today." She said. Then after a moment she burst into laughter. I was a bit unsure but I joined in on the laughter, albeit a bit nervously.

After she caught her breath she looked up at me, laughter in her eyes and a smile on her face. "I can't believe I almost made you promise not to laugh at that. I couldn't even hold it in." She said, before taking another bite of her toast, grabbing her coffee and moving to the table.

"Must have been one hell of a dream you had." I said with a much less nervous chuckle, and going back to cooking my eggs. "What ever was said in that dream must have sucked, I'm sorry you had to experience that." I said.

Sarah looked at me with a bright smile. "Thanks James!" she said. "but its not a big deal, it was just a weird dream is all, kind funny even now that I remember our actual conversation." she finished.

Sarah looked at me and smiled before tucking into her toast. She looked genuinely happy.

How about that. It works.

I finished cooking my eggs, and brought my plate to the table sitting opposite Sarah. I had to slide the ray gun off to the side to make room for myself.

"What's that?" Sarah ask with a mouth half full, gesturing to the ray gun with what was left of her toast.

"Oh, that's an old toy ray gun I found when I was going through some of my old things last night. It's the damndest thing. I can't for the life of me remember who gave it to me, but I clearly remember carrying it around all the time when I was a kid." I said before taking a bite of my eggs.

"It might sound a little weird but after our talk last night I just thought I'd start carrying it around again. Ya know, like how I'm not going to waste my vacation, I don't want waste my life being afraid of doing silly things if they make me happy." I continued before another bit of eggs.

After a brief silence while I contemplated I continued. "You don't think that weird right?" I paused for a brief moment before cutting Sarah's answer off with a laugh. "Nah, of course you don't. Your way to good of a friend for that. What was I even worried about? You're definitely the kind of friend that would not only be ok with it, but would defend my right to carry around a stupid toy if I wanted to. I'm really lucky that you bonded with me so strongly these last few weeks." I finished with another laugh.

I watched the change come over Sarah's face as she accepted what I said. Absently finishing her toast. The look of confusion as what I said registered was adorable. Then as she accepted what I said and brightened up, she looked pretty, and then when her face finally blossomed into a small, with just a hint of blush, she looked truly beautiful.

I'm not sure if it was the feeling of power, or just now noticing how attractive my roommate was that was doing it for me, but I decided in that moment to push things a bit further.

"In fact, I think we should come up with another word for what we are to each other. After all, after everything we've been though together these past few weeks were waaay more than friends." I said.

"Remember two weeks ago, when we were watching beach vendetta and I got that awkward boner when the lead girl practically got her cloths ripped off during the big fight scene?" I asked. That was true, it's just that I hid the awkward boner from her immediately.

"I was embarrassed and tried to hide it from you, but you noticed and instead of making a big deal out of it. You just reached over and grabbed my cock through my pants and told me" I cleared my throat and did a bad high pitched Sarah imitation. 'It's nothing to be embarrassed about James. I'd like it if you were comfortable enough to get hardon's around me. After all I'm perfectly comfortable with you being hard around me. It's perfectly natural, and more than that it's extremely flattering.' I finished with a smile.

I watched the emotions play off Sarah's face, as she took in what I said. I watched as her eyes flicked down to my crotch as though she could see it through the table, before looking back up at me blushing, then immediately forcing her embarrassment down, and finally smiling again if a bit awkwardly.

"In fact if you recall, you started stroking my dick through my jeans after you said that, and you kept stroking it all through the next movie. Even after we both got up to use the bathroom and I wasn't even hard anymore when we both got back to the couch. You grabbed my crotched anyway and rubbed me until I was hard again, and then continued to gently and firmly stroke my dick for the next two hours." I continued. "You even kept saying things like how great it was to be this comfortable with each other, and how you were really happy that I was getting more comfortable around you. How happy you were that I was letting you be this close with me and that we were way to close to let something like that be anything but normal and accepted between us. Because were both adults with needs and desires who care about each other deeply." I said, doing a light imitation of Sarah's voice for her parts.

I paused to finish up my eggs. Watching Sarah's reaction.

"Oh, right." She said with a blush across her cheeks. "I.. I..uh" she stammered for a minute.

I stood up to take care of my plate, and stopped by Sarah to scoop up her plate and mug before planting a light kiss against the side of her blushing head.

"You should hurry up and head out so you're not late for work. Don't worry about the dishes I'll take care of them."

"Um, right!" Sarah said, as she stood up and made to leave. Clearly flustered and aroused.

I called out stopping her right before she got to the door.

"Oh Sarah, after everything we've been through recently, and considering you initiated almost all of it. I think it's only fair that you think about what we are, if we're that much more than friends, don't you? You can let me know what you come up with when you get home tonight" I said.

Sarah immediately brightened at that. "Definitely!" She exclaimed, and ran over to plant a kiss on my cheek before scurrying out of the apartment.

I was stunned for a second. What caused that sudden change at the end? Was she excited to have something to do? Maybe it was giving her something real to do to tie all the bullshit I just spewed at her together. I'll have to think about that.