Eavesdropping

Maria and Laila had been waiting in the hallway for about five minutes when a giggling sound came from the other end of the hallway. The tipsy mistress and Jake were approaching their room as they were giving each other lustful looks and whispering some things to one another. The moment they spotted the two of them, Maria and Laila ducked to make sure they were fully hidden behind the square, stone planter that resembled a wall. Through the bushes of the small bonsai tree, Maria was recording all that was going on at the other side of that low wall as both of them tried to breath shallow breaths in order to not give their presence away.

Once Jake and the mistress had entered the room and Laila and Maria heard the door lock, they got up and rushed to the door. At first Maria examined all angles of the door in order to find a way to get a visual of the inside but she soon realized this was hopeless. Instead, with their ears glued to the wooden door that was standing between them and the couple inside, they tried to hear what was going on. Shortly after their eavesdropping began, they heard a loud shriek of joy, which they assumed was caused by the mistress seeing the gifts they had prepared. But other than those loud sounds, the rest of what was going down was difficult to hear. When their faces were pressed as closely to the door as possible and they still couldn't fully hear what was going on inside the room, Maria was suddenly reminded of something.

She grabbed her purse and started digging around before she held her hand up with a 'Ta da!' type of movement. Laila looked at her with some bewilderment and waited for her friend to explain herself as she usually did. Not long after Maria began pushing the small item in her hand through the gap underneath the door, using her credit card to push it as far inside as possible, did she begin to explain what that item was and what she was planning on doing with it.

"This, my dear Laila, is a microphone. It was part of a state of the art gadget and I almost forgot I even still had it. I had to use those gadgets during one of my former jobs, where I had these tiny earpieces with a built in microphone to record my conversation with clients for real time analysis and assistance during important deals. One day I dropped one and accidentally stepped on it, breaking the shell that held the parts but breaking none of the individual pieces inside. I got issued a new one but I kept the parts of the old one. Thinking it might come in handy one day. Though I haven't thought of this thing in years, I don't know why, but today I suddenly remembered this thing and felt that I should put this in my purse just in case. I am glad that I did because this is going to allow us to hear and record what is going on inside that room."

Once the microphone, that was no more than a small, black circular object, no bigger than the tip of her pinkie, was inside the room, Maria grabbed her phone. She typed something before she signalled for Laila to follow her and they headed to their own room. There Maria explained some more and told her that she had asked her former colleague to give her access to the records of this specific microphone as they were all numbered and secured. By the time she and Maria had reached their room, a floor below that of Jake and his mistress, Maria had already received a reply from her former colleague. He had come through for them and in record time sent her the link and access-code for the microphone that was currently in Jake's hotel room. While Laila set up the connection with the recordings of the microphone, Laila used room service to get them some snacks as she figured that they were going to have a long night.

As the two of them were lying on their stomach on the large, soft, bed, snacking away on all the different kinds of junk food Laila had ordered, they listened to the live recordings of Jake talking to his mistress. Their talks had started quite innocently. Focussing on the gifts that had been prepared and the woman gushing over Jake, telling him how amazing he must be for the hotel to prepare something like this on such short notice and without being asked. But in no time did the topic change from eating the strawberries to Jake having a different activity in mind for the two of them.

Maria and Laila continued to listen and record as they talked, gossiped, giggled and shared stories of their own bedroom adventures under the enjoyment of their many snacks. With Laila being Jake's wife in her other life and having shared the bed with him multiple times over the years, Maria couldn't help but be curious about how Jake was in that department and whether he was better or worse than Noah. But when it came to topics like this, Laila was fine with listening to other people talk but didn't like talking about herself too much. Of course Maria knew this as well but that didn't stop her from teasing her friend by putting her in an awkward spot. With a big grin on her face, she waited for Laila to answer her questions while the sounds of Jake's affair were playing in the background.