A Bad Girl Part 1: The Awakening
Or: You gotta be cruel to be kind
I went to a Catholic girlâs school, where we were under strict orders to dress and behave with exemplary modesty. When our plaid skirts rose above the knees we considered it daring. Nowadays thereâs a lot of guff about âletting children express their personalitiesâ, but I think our personalities were well expressed. As in many other environments where uniforms were the order of the day, we expressed our personalities in our dickeys (the abbreviated tie all the girls hated), in our hair ornaments (no more than two plain barrettes were allowed, but the boldest of us wore combs), and in our shoes.
I was never the most daring, but I pushed the envelope a little, like we all did. When I was in tenth grade I was sent home to change my shoes by Sister Mary Chang, known to us all as the Dragon Lady. Sister Mary actually took a ruler and measured, determining that my heels were 3/8 of an inch too high for a Grade Ten girl (grade niners were only allowed flats).
So when, to my surprise, I graduated in the upper tenth of my class, I found the heady and comparatively permissive atmosphere of a secular college a bit confusing. It was co-ed, for a start, and I didnât have a lot of experience with boys.
My room at college was shared with âTennis-ballâ Turner. People called her âTennis-ballâ for her corn-yellow hair, cut into a boyish bob, or sometimes âT-Ballâ. I called her Jacquie, short for her full name, Jacqueline. She was, as she liked to say âfresh off the farmâ, and seemed to be intent on getting into as much trouble as the city could offer her. As a âgood girlâ rooming with a party animal, I naturally got a bit of a reputation for being stuck up. I didnât know it because I dedicated myself completely to my studies for the first semester. My grades were excellent, but I didnât seem to meet a lot of friendsâat least not a lot of people I wanted to hang around with.
Christmas seemed bleak. I hung around the dorm until it was time to go home. At home my mother accused me of âmopingâ. My father just seemed relieved that I hadnât turned into some sort of radical, stoned lesbian. I found the whole week stifling, and wondered what I had in common with these two old, boring people. Eventually I left early: I returned to the freedom of being able to do what I chose.
Which was exactly nothing. I read and moped some more.
True to form, Jacquie showed up at two oâclock in the morning the day classes were due to start. I heard muffled giggling, and the scraping as her key missed the lock several times.
Of course she had a boy with her. I vaguely recognized his voice: It was Wayne Williams, a hulking great brute who majored in football.
âYou sure yer roomieâs not home?â He asked in a drunken rumble.
âLet me check.â I heard her say, irritably.
Jacquie popped her head into the shared bedroom, and I heard her sigh. I was about to speak up, to tell her that it would be alright if the two of them came in, Iâd sleep on the sofa, when she suddenly said under her breath:
âGood old Flock, you never let me down, do you, you old stick.â
I lay there with my cheeks burning as she went back to the door. I heard her whispering:
âNo, Wayne. Wayneâstop it (giggle). Iâd love to, but Iâm really tired. . .We
canât
. My roomieâs home and sheâs a real tight-ass. Sheâd have the Resident down on me like a ton of bricks!â
That was grossly unfair, and I found myself getting angry. I hadnât ever reported Jaquie for anything, not when she smoked, not when she brought boys homeânot even when Iâd found a baggie of pot on the floor.
Eventually, Wayne left, sulkily, and I heard Jacquie close the door and let out a long, slow breath.
Jacquie slipped into the room, and quietly began to undress in the dark. As she pulled off her sweater she was silhouetted in the moonlight, fine bra-less breasts with big, hard nipples. As the sweater came off she let out a yip, and something shiny flew across and landed on my bed. Without quite knowing why, I caught it.
âIâm awake.â I said âTurn on the light.â
She was cursing and holding a hand to her ear.
âBeen awake long?â She asked casually.
âSince you and
Wayne
got here, yeah.â I said.
âOh.â I wondered if she remembered what sheâd said.
The light clicked on, and in the yellow dim, I saw Jacquie sitting on her bed a few feet away, looking concerned, her tits bare.
âWhat did you mean,â I asked âwhen you told him Iâd report you to the Resident?â
âOh!â she said embarrassedly âI just said that to keep him out. He just wanted to make out, and I wasnât in the mood.â
âThatâs a first,â I said grumpily âanyway, whyâd you call me an old stick?â
Jacquieâs eyes widened, âOh Flocksie,â she always called me Flocksie, and I hated it. âDonât get tangled up. Itâs okay to be. . .the way you are, I mean itâs. . .â
Now I was angry.
âWhat the
hell
do you mean by that?â I asked.
âWell, come on honey. Itâs pretty well-known around here that my roomie doesnât, yâknow, get out much.â
âGet
around
much, you mean.â I accused.
Now it was her turn to flush.
âJesus youâre an uptight bitch. Yâknow,â she said, fishing in the drawer of the nightstand âyou oughta smoke a joint occasionallyâitâd relax those tense anal muscles of yours.â
I was at a loss for words. No-one had said anything like that to me since before Iâd graduated high school. I blushed and felt a dull throb of anger. Tennisball contemptuously fished a joint from a baggie, lit it, and inhaled deeply. After a moment she gave me the joint to hold, and turned to open the window between our beds. I took the pot wordlessly, with tears pricking behind my eyelids. She knew damn well Iâd never tried it, and had no plans to. As she turned around I angrily stuck the joint in my mouth and sucked it hugely and inexpertly.
Once the coughing fit had died away and my eyes stopped streaming, I got nervous. What if I went nuts? Iâd heard pot could make you do that. Jacquie was grinning sloppily, her yellow hair drooping into her eyes. She came and sat on the bed and took another hit. She was still topless, and by the bedside light I could see how her big pink nipples crinkled in the cool air from the window. I reached up and brushed the hair away from her eyes; I felt something electric. Maybe it was the pot, or something else.
âHere,â I handed her the shiny objectâher lost earring âyou dropped this.â My fingertips were tingling when she touched my hand to take it. Her hand rested on mine for just a beat too long, it seemed.
âThanks,â she said, looking at me with something like wonder in her eyes.
âYouâve got freckles all over, Tennie. . .I wish I had freckles.â I found myself saying in the long silence that followed. I touched the little dots which showered her shoulders. Then I sat up in bed to give her a kiss on the lips, soft and hesitant.
Iâd never kissed a woman on the lips before. They were soft, and burned like fire against mine. Our tongues touched.
âMmm.â I pulled away and looked at her.
âWhyâd you stop? Itâs okay.â she said.
âWhat . . . I mean, what do we, what are we. . .?â
âWhat do you want to do?â
I didnât knowâI felt as though I wanted to own her, take her, control her beautiful body. Iâd invade her, violate her, make her do things. . .
âI wanna
own
you. Does that sound silly?â
âNo. . .â A long pause, and then she gulped out: âI wanna be a slave.â
It was a pure appeal, like something sheâd been hiding from me all this time. My pussy (which until that night Iâd have definitely called a vagina) seemed to have a sweet little cramp when she said that. My breath caught in my throat, and the blood pounded in my head. Pot and lust were suddenly making me dizzy.
âIf youâre my slave, you do what I say.â I teased her, but I wasnât really teasing.
âYes. . .Mistress.â Another rush of blood; to my nipples this time.
âStand up.â
As she obeyed, I threw off my blankets. Underneath the bedclothes I was wearing a cheap cotton nightshirt that went to my knees. Tennisball eyed me warily, like a dog that starts to growl at you only
after
youâve entered the yard.
âYouâre overdressed,â I said, caressing her shoulders âNo. Donât look at me. Keep your eyes on the floor. Take off your jeansâwaitâturn around and take âem off.â
I donât know where the feeling came from, where I got that strength. I was the mousiest girl in school, usually. But now I felt drunk with power, watching her skimpy french-cut briefs appear as her denim hit the floor. Her bottom wiggled a little as she reached for the waistband of her panties.
âStop,â I ordered âI like you like that. You look like a proper little. . .slut.â
I would never have used that word before, but it was appropriate now. Tennisball was small and lithe, compact and sexy. I put my arms around her and felt inside her panties. She was soaked, and she rubbed her back against my chest.
âAre you my slave?â I asked, feeling my face blush as I said it.
âYes, Mistress.â