This is a true story between consenting adults.
Rachel and I worked at a large electronics manufacturing plant in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. We both worked the afternoon shift which meant that work started at 4pm and finished at 12.30am. Rachel was part of the assembly team who hand placed and soldered some of the larger components onto the PCBs that made up one of our switch mode power supplies. I worked as a test technician doing test, fault find and repair on those completed assemblies, and then built them into the completed product.
Although very different people, Rachel and I had become good friends and after work we often met up at my flat which was a short drive from the factory. We would listen to music, drink, smoke, talk shit and relax until the early hours of the morning at which time she would drive back across Melbourne to the eastern suburbs where her home was.
Rachel was a city girl, had roots in Melbourne and surrounding areas that she could trace back for hundreds of years and had grown up in the thick of Australian culture during a time of sex drugs and rock n roll. She loved music and was fiercely proud of her roots. In stark contrast, I was a country boy from rural NZ and a bit shy in the main part, although my time in Melbourne was quickly changing my perspective on life.
Rachel and I were friends, not lovers. We got on well and were comfortable being noisy drunk and also reflectively silent -- most likely with some modern Australian rock playing quietly in the background, or perhaps her absolute favourite band -- The Fabulous Thunderbirds.
Although I was definitely attracted to Rachel, I enjoyed our friendship very much and I had elected not to try and pursue any physical relationship with her -- it was mostly unspoken but she had also dropped some not-to-subtle hints that she really wanted a friend, not a sexual partner. We each had our own private lives and we managed to keep them separate from our after-work friendship.
Having said that, sex was not a taboo subject for us and it was refreshing to have a somewhat vulgar conversation with a woman who didn't mind talking about a good fuck and what constituted earth moving oral sex. She knew she couldn't shock me with her full-on discussions and so almost nothing was off the table.
Early one morning after work, everything changed. We'd had a few drinks and Rachel was a bit quieter than normal, but this wasn't unusual - sometimes we just shared some quiet times.
Rachel grabbed my hand, leaned her face over to my ear and rested her chin on my shoulder. I thought she was going to do something stupid and have a laugh with me, but instead I got a whispered message which was delivered with obvious embarrassment and a double serve of neediness -- not something I had ever heard from her before.
"I need to be spanked Kev, please".
I couldn't tell whether I was being pranked or not, but quick as a flash I decided to play the game and see what happened. Without pausing I pushed her hand away, pointed to the corner of the room and answered with the best stern face I could manage.
"Then you'd better get your ass over there, face the wall and wait until I'm ready for you young lady".
I expected a loud snort and a laugh followed by a good punch on the arm as the game came to a screeching halt once her bluff was called. But no. Rachel immediately got up, walked to the corner with her eyes cast down and stood there demurely as instructed.
Un-fucking-believable.
Determined to win this game, I walked through to my bedroom and grabbed a blue terry cloth bathrobe, laying it on the edge of the bed and then I returned to my seat on the lounge suite.
Still uneasy about it, I asserted an instruction to Rachel.
"I want you to go into my bedroom, get undressed leaving your underwear on and then put the blue bathrobe on. Once you've done that come back out and wait in the corner again".
Rachel complied immediately. She was gone for only a few minutes and returned wearing my bathrobe. I could see bare legs where her jeans had been and she had her arms crossed in front of her breasts. I noticed a slight tremor in her leg -- she was definitely nervous but was acting totally compliant.
"You remember what Daffodil means Rachel?"
She whispered in the affirmative. Daffodil was a safe word used in a movie we had watched. It meant "stop now, no kidding" and we had had a long and raucous discussion about it at the time. So I had established a safe limit for what was to happen, but I had also sent a signal to Rachel that she was going to get exactly what she had asked for. I could see her breathing quite heavily now and I figured it was time to get on with it and see whether she had played the ultimate joke on me.
"Come here and lie down over my lap, let's get this over with".