I learn my place, at the hands of two powerful women.
I'd just called in for a coffee, but as I have nothing pressing to do for the rest of the evening, I stay for a glass of wine, then a second. It's not unusual for coffee to become wine. I've been calling in after work just to chat, maybe bring some take-away, for a couple of months. Not every night, but most. We're both single, after a fashion, but there haven't been any awkward moments or anything, or any pressure. We've just been hanging out, enjoying each other's company, and talking through shit. Yeah, so the subject would swing back around to sex more often than it wouldn't, but that's standard. We're comfortable around each other, sharing secrets, the occasional fantasy, a bed when the sofa looked too lumpy. But still, up until now, we were behaving like the proverbial gentleman.
She's dressed in a dark check skirt, pleated, dark tights or stockings, otherwise barefoot, and a black pencil top, showing a polite amount of cleavage. Her bra strengthens the shape of her chest, and unique among women, appears to fit. Her dark hair is pulled into a low ponytail, straightening hair that is usually wavy. She wears Lacoste Pink, the only fragrance I can identify by name, because it drives me wild. I love it and everything it stands for. If I had to save one thing, organised religion, currency, medicine,
anything
, over Lacoste Pink, I would let the world descend into post-apocalyptic pandemonium, with scruffy anarchists smelling sweetly of orange and jasmine.
By now it's after 10, and we're in 'taxi home' territory, but there is no indication that I'm overstaying my welcome. Yet, anyway. I push my luck.
As she sits cross-legged on the sofa, ubiquitous cushion on her lap, I place my hand on her thigh. There is absolutely no reaction. The fibres of her black nylon stockings snag on the rough skin of my hands. She is firm, her muscles are taught. I follow the progress of my hand with my eyes, watching the material of her skirt pile up as I move closer to her crotch, my hand shifting from the 'friend zone' into the twilight of her skirt. The tips of my fingers glide over the top of her stockings, the change in texture from satin to skin, before they graze the lace material of her knickers. I glance up at her face to see an expression of powerful curiosity, like a lioness who watches a mouse approach. The power is so terribly unbalanced, any interaction fatal. Just what does the mouse think it's doing? I don't realise I'm the mouse.
Eyes one mine, she grips my wrist suddenly, and twists it painfully around on itself, in some sort of night class self-defence. I'd be impressed if it didn't hurt so much. The surprise is written as clear on my face as the satisfaction is on hers. I'd be reluctant to say this next bit under normal circumstances, but since this is by far the least of my humiliations this evening; my eyes well up a little.
I splutter an apology, but I get a grin in response.
'Do you trust me?' she asks.
'Pardon?' I'm confused. She's going to snap my wrist. That's my right wrist, that I... y'know, write with. She repeats her question, and I quickly answer 'yes'. I'm released to massage my wrist, mouth still slack with surprise.
'Good. Take off your clothes, and go and wait outside'. She has a look in her eyes that I have not seen yet. Her voice was calm, level, and authoritative. I didn't need to ask her to repeat, or clarify, there's no way I misheard. Hesitating only long enough for her to raise an eyebrow at me, I take off my clothes.
I've seen male strippers at work, and yeah, it's hot. I mean muscles, dancing, music, I get it. That's not how I looked. I didn't feel that was the way she meant, anyway.
Lola stood and watched, one eyebrow arched, lips pursed together, appraising. Her hand rested on her hip, the other twirled some hair about her shoulder. Then, once I was undressed, that hand gently gestured towards the door, palm upwards, lazy. It made her control, her power, more complete, wielded lazily like this. I frowned a little, hoping she would perhaps enlighten me, but nothing forthcoming I turned and left the room, closing the door behind me. She shouted 'outside' after me, so she clearly didn't just mean the hall. I trudged out of the front door, and waited.
Her house was a tall, Victorian townhouse, red-bricked, all dark wood and caustic tile. It was semi-detached, surrounded by a large Cypress hedge, so I was spared the looks of the neighbours. I must have spent ten minutes outside, standing in the cool night air, arms crossed, the skin turning white as blood concentrated about my primary organs.
I can only assume that she sent a text after I'd been evicted, because sweeping through the gate, striding purposefully, the hip-swaying walk of a catwalk model, was a deliciously tall woman of about our own age, confidently striding up the path towards the house. Her black dress was very short, revealing most of her thighs. Her shoulders were completely covered, a deep vertical slit over her chest, where cleavage might be, though she is quite small, nipples moulding the fabric, and her back exposed in its entirety from her shoulder blades down to the very bottom. No bra strap crossed the wide void of porcelain skin, she is devoid of jewellery, and her face adorned only by dark mascara and artificially reddened lips. Her hair, the colour of tarnished copper, shone in the light coming through the window.
I weakly raised a hand to wave, she passed inside and closed the door sharply behind her. If she saw an awkward-looking 6ft tall naked man in her periphery, she made no indication.
I didn't recognise her, though from the length of time I'd been outside before she showed up, she must be local. I'm pretty new to the area, Lola one of the first people I got to know here, so it's not surprising that she still has friends I haven't met, although there'd been no indication so far that she had friends like this. I couldn't wait to be introduced. She was fit!
When I'm finally invited in from the chilly night air, I am half the man I was twenty minutes ago. I'm treated to a humiliating up-and-down, before Lola and Amy (as she is briefly introduced) revert to their original conversation. I stand close to the fire, to try and warm up a little. Although I'm less than impressive in one aspect, the cold taught skin, hair and nipples on end, does make me look a little sculpted, like Michelangelo's David. Nevertheless, my hands cup my genitals. Lola sees this and gently shakes her head, so I let my hands fall to my side. I feel as exposed as my first time naked in front of a woman, combined with all manner of schoolyard embarrassment. It's not quite humiliation yet, but I don't think we'll be without its company all evening.
I'm asked to get drinks, rather rudely, by the newcomer. It's a complicated order for just two people. Some sort of Manhattan I hadn't heard of for herself, and a Mojito for Lola. I took the liberty of fixing a drink for myself; a large tequila on the fuck all. Didn't even dirty a glass.
Dirty Manhattan. This can't be pleasant, I think, reading the instructions from a trendy-looking cocktail book. Ice cold gin, the dashiest of dashes of Vermouth, a splash of brine from a jar of cocktail olives, strained over ice, and garnished with an olive. Fuck's wrong with a vodka & orange? Saying that, I was quietly impressed that the kitchen had all the ingredients. I have less problem with the Mojito, on principle mainly. At least I haven't been made to wear a dickie-bow.
I return, enjoying the warmth of the room, and place the drinks down alongside the two ladies. Amy must have caught a little of the tequila on my breath. She jabbed out suddenly, and squeezed my cheeks, bringing my face to hers, and inhaled, haughtily, turned and nodded to Lola, who reclined with her drink. I watched a heavy pear of condensation fall from the base of her glass, deliciously dropping onto her chest. Meanwhile I received a fiery slap across the face from Amy, who scolded me for taking a drink uninvited.
A series of tasks followed, from picking some music, making the bedroom nice, another round of drinks. Nothing Herculean, but definitely each an ordeal. Whenever I'd leave to do whatever, like getting some coal from outside, for example, I'd come in and find them kissing, hands inside tops, up skirts, sounds of heavy breathing. This made me hard. I stopped at the doorway, bucket in hand, watching. I watched for a good minute before Lola opened her eyes, and the two women parted.
I was told to come closer, which I took as an invitation to join in. I practically leapt across the room to land in the middle of them. This wasn't what she meant. I was told to stand up, and as I stood before them, hard cock an enormous elephant in the room, thinking,
sure,
that this was the moment that I'd be getting my cock sucked, Amy instead brought her open hand down HARD across my cock, a fast slap that stung, before being followed by a flurry of slaps to my thighs, and a short jab to the stomach, until I gathered my wits enough to back away, over the coffee table, sending things flying.
Amy marched over to me, and stood menacingly, accenting certain words with a hard prod to the chest.