“When I found out what you do for a living. You’re used to keeping confidentiality with patient records. I don’t have to train it into you.”
Relief filled Skye that she hadn’t just jumped into some massive internal volunteer personality battle or something. “Ah. Yeah.”
“You wouldn’t believe what people don’t stop to think about sometimes. As a volunteer, you cannot say, ‘Oh, yeah, when so-and-so was here last week.’ Or if someone calls here during the night looking for a particular member, you can’t say oh, sure, they’re here. Uh,no. Anything like that. We can’t do it. People not used to that accidentally let information out without realizing what they’re doing.”
“I can see where that would be a problem.”
“Big problem. Fortunately with no ramifications yet, but Marcia, June, and I talked and yeah, we’re going to really start hammering on that with the office volunteers.”
The procedure manual was simple and easy to follow, and set up in such a way that a person would have to be really dumb not to be able to follow it. Less than ten minutes later, they had the office set up and ready to go.
Two more new volunteers arrived while they were doing that. With the office squared away, Cali took Skye and the other newbies into the dungeon and showed them around, how to set up the kitchen area, where the supplies were kept to make sure the bathrooms were clean and well-stocked.
It was run like an efficient business, Skye was happy to see. She’d played in clubs and in private “clubs” and in homes, and she’d seen everything from this level all the way down to places she wouldn’t go barefoot in, much less want to use the play equipment. Here, the floors were clean, the equipment both safe and sanitary, and Cali had already told her they both had a business license as well as liability insurance. They weren’t flying by the seat of their pants—they were totally legit.
I think I’m home.
And that was agreatfeeling.
* * * *
Tony and Shayla showed up while they were going through the opening checklist for the dungeon.
“So she hooked you in, huh?” Tony grinned. “You realize once you have one of these name badges, you sort of aren’t allowed to bail.” He flapped his own name badge. “We hunt you down and drag you back if you try to leave. Trust me, weknoweffective restraints.”
She liked the guy. “Yeah, that’s okay. It’ll be nice feeling like I belong for a change.”
“Tell me more about your play experience…”
Five minutes later, Tony was playfully arguing with Cali that he was going to steal Skye for the DM staff, and Cali was threatening to sic June on him.
She hadn’t met June yet, but apparently her reputation preceded her, because Tony held up his hands in defeat. “Okay, all right. But I call dibs if you have enough office staff. Someone who’s an experienced player and has some medical knowledge? That’s the gold standard, thank you very much.”
“Damn Doms,” Cali groused. “Don’t go sniping my pet her first night here.”
Skye laughed. “Pet?”
“Eh, metaphorically speaking. Not kinkily speaking.”
Sean and Max, Cali’s other halves, arrived a few minutes later. Tonight was predicted to be a less busy night than the average Saturday, especially with the focus mostly on rope. A short rope 101 was being held by Ross and Loren, who’d been at the munch Sunday night.
As people filtered in, Cali patiently walked Skye through the procedures to check someone in and run their payment option through a tablet with a Square reader on it. It wasn’t difficult, just repetitive.
“Tomorrow night will be easy,” Cali said. “Marcia and Derick are taking the weekend off. They really need it. This is the slow weekend, apparently.”
“Cool.”
By the time she left the club at the end of the night, Skye had almost forgotten about her promise to text Axel when she got home.
As soon as she parked in her parents’ driveway, she texted him.
Just got home safely.
He replied as she was unlocking the front door.
Thank you. :)
She didn’t get the bad kind of controlling vibe from him. This definitely felt more like genuine concern.
