The Great Cleanup - стр. 16
The redhead pointed to an armchair:
“Please undress and leave your clothes here. While you take a shower, we shall prepare the baths, fresh underwear and clothes…”
Then she opened the door inside the room and disappeared into it, along with the mulatto.
Anna thought she might well do without a bath and without someone else's clothes. After all, her dressing-gown was not so dirty; she did not fall, nor did she end up in a puddle or a ditch. But, to keep a healthy body and spirit, she really did need a shower. So Anna undressed, placing her dressing-gown and underwear, which she did not intend to leave behind, in a neat stack. Entering the shower cabin, she turned a handle, and many streams of warm water gushed at her from all sides. A blissful shudder ran across Anna's body. One could get lost in these streams for a lot of time, but Anna changed the mode of the shower and swiftly washed herself under a tight bundle of water coming from above.
She did not have to lose time looking for a shampoo or shower gel. One of the shelves in the cabin had everything necessary for washing. Anna did see such things before, but she never ventured to buy them. Her husband earned decent money, but they could never afford this kind of soap, shampoo and conditioner. Right now, however, she was not burdened with such choices, so, with a clear conscience and a clean spirit, Anna enjoyed the very expensive soap, shampoo, conditioner and something else, she was not exactly sure what, in a pretty tube with “eco-friendly” in a few languages on it.
Upon exiting the shower cabin, she did not find her underwear or dressing-gown. A few towels of various colours and sizes were lying in their place. Anna dried herself off with the yellow and light blue towels, wrapped herself with an emerald one, placed a pink one in a turban shape on her head and opened the door that the girls went into.
She found them waiting for her in another room, in armchairs, looking through some fashion magazines. The ladies were wearing swimsuits now. The redhead had a green and blue monokini with narrow cloth bands, while the mulatto sported a red bikini that seemed to consist of thin ropes. The spacious room was well-lit and warm like the previous one.
As they saw Anna enter, the girls stood up. The redhead pointed at three baths, which were level with the floor in the centre of the room:
“The first one has milk. The second bath contains liquid chocolate. Champagne in the third. Which one would you like to start with?”
Upon hearing of the complete set she was being offered, Anna decided to delay explanations regarding who she actually was and what she was doing here. After all, she could just as easily settle everything after trying these promising baths. It was, of course, not so easy to work out the best beginning…
“So, milk in the first… chocolate is second… champagne, third…”
As she repeated this again, it dawned on her that she did not have to worry about the right order, that she could do exactly as she pleased; the girls were ready to obey any of her whims and nobody would judge her here. Thus she made her verdict:
“You know, let's just do it as it is. The milk one, the chocolate one, and then…” she remembered how her husband's friends discussed vodka and beer, “…let's polish it off with champagne.”