Hosed off

Lauren crawled out of the kiddie pool with a whimper. She just started to make her way to the house when Jessie slapped her rear again, making her yelp.

“You are not going to be tracking that red gunk through my house, missy!” Jessie scolded.

She then walked towards the side of the house and picked something up. When she came back, Lauren noticed that she was carrying a garden house. Lauren whimpered again as she saw Jessie aim the hose at her and turned the nozzle, spraying Lauren with a blast of freezing cold water.

Lauren yelped as Jessie hosed her down, making sure to get all the parts of her body that were covered in tomato gunk. After about ten minutes, Jessie turned the nozzle off and placed the hose down in front of Lauren, who was shivering from the icy blast. Laughing, Jessie then pulled a towel out of the box and proceeded to roughly dry Lauren.

“There you go,” Jessie said, having just finished drying Lauren, “all dry. You can go into the house now; I placed a mat by the door that you can lie down on.”

Lauren was at least glad to hear that. She followed Jessie towards the house and went through the door. Once she was inside, Jessie closed the door behind Lauren. Lauren looked out the window and saw Jessie take off her gloves before reaching into the box and pulling out a change of clothes before heading into her tool shed.

After a few minutes, Jessie emerged from the shed in a different outfit; she had a plastic bag in her hands, which Lauren guessed had her clothes. To her horror, Jessie then proceeded to place the bag into a pit filled with wood and struck a match. All Lauren could do was whimper as she saw Jessie’s bonfire incinerate her clothes.

Lauren hung her head, mentally berating herself for this bet. This was going to be a long two weeks.