🛁 The House Sitter

Who plays who

• A — The House Sitter: you have the keys, the run of the place, and a hot tub that is far too tempting.
• B — The Owner: you come home earlier than planned, and you are not supposed to be here yet.
• A leads Act 1 alone in the house. B leads from the moment they "arrive" in Act 2.

What you need

• A hot tub, a bath, or a deep tub you can fill — bubbles optional
• A key, a keyring or a code, so the "keys to the house" are real props
• Robes and towels for two, and something cool to drink afterwards
• The owner's coat, bag or shoes, so the return home has something to arrive with
• A "catches you" cue — a door, a knock, a car in the drive

Act 1 — 🕯️ Setup

You let yourself in with keys that are not yours and the house settles around you. Lights on, music low, a hot tub already steaming under its cover, and one job that takes ten minutes. You were only supposed to water the plants. By the time the front door sounds behind you, the house has been completely yours for an hour.

Beats

• Do one real house-sitting task first — plants, post, bins — before the tub is uncovered.
• Get in the water alone and stay there. Do not check the door yet.
• Leave the borrowed keys on the hook by the door, on purpose.

Lines to say

• "Plants are done. That's the job. The rest of it is just being here."
• "Nobody's home. Nobody's coming home for hours."
• "The water's already hot. It would be rude not to."

Act 2 — 🔥 Build

A key turns and the owner comes home early, coat still on, and finds the covers off the tub and you up to your shoulders in it. There is a very short silence. The house sitter is caught, and the owner is not actually angry — that is the game. B has the lead from here, because it is their house.

Beats

• B arrives with props — coat, bag, keys — and takes a full minute to say anything.
• A stays in the tub. A does not get out or explain until asked.
• The "punishment" is decided out loud by B, and A agrees to it in words.

Lines to say

• "I came home early. That was the plan all along."
• "Stay exactly where you are. Don't get out."
• "So this is what my house does when I'm not in it."

Act 3 — ⚡ Escalate

The coats come off and the owner gets into the water with the house sitter, keys safely in a pocket. The roles hold: B owns the house and sets the terms, A owes something back. Getting caught stops being a problem and becomes the whole point, and the hot water makes everything slower.

Beats

• B says plainly that the "punishment" is staying in the tub and doing what they say.
• A agrees out loud, and the keys stay with B.
• One thing each comes off and goes on the side of the tub, in the order B decides.

Lines to say

• "You used my tub. So now you do what I say in it."
• "Keys stay with me until I say otherwise."
• "Water's still hot. Don't get out."

Act 4 — 💥 Climax

The jets are off, the water is going cool, and neither of you is getting out. It stopped being a punishment two instructions ago, and the keys are on the side of the tub where you both stopped looking. This stays in the water to the end.

Beats

• Everything happens in or right at the edge of the tub.
• The keys, the coat, the "caught" moment — all of it is spent here.
• Let it end the way it wants, then get out together.

Lines to say

• "Look at me. Right here in the water."
• "Don't get out yet."

Act 5 — 🤍 Aftercare

You both get out, towels and robes, and the house goes back to being just a house with a hot tub in it.

Beats

• Out of the water first, dry off, and drink something cool before anything else.
• Put the house back: cover on the tub, keys on the hook, plants checked.
• One plain sentence each about the "getting caught", in your own voices.

Lines to say

• "Best house-sitting job I've ever done."
• "You weren't really angry, were you."

Aftercare

Out of the water, dry and cool first, then put the house back — cover on the tub, keys on the hook. Sit down together in your own voices, say one plain sentence each about being "caught", and check the water temperature story matches. Nobody was actually caught; you can say that out loud now.

Ground rules and consent

• The house is ours. Nobody is actually house-sitting for anyone else, and there is no third party whose home this is.
• Nobody is actually caught. The "arrival" is a cue we agree on in advance, not a real surprise and not a real intruder.
• "Jacuzzi" stops the scene in one second, said from the tub or the doorway, and the water goes cold right there.
• Hot tub water is hot. If either of us is too warm, dizzy or uncomfortable, we get out — that is not part of the game.

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