The blade doesn't separate the flesh. Not yet, though the graphite point dimples the tender skin of my neck. It draws a line, the most linear explanation of point A to point B, from the left of my collar bone to delicate hollow of my throat. The fear makes me need to swallow, but I am afraid to press myself any further to that blade. You are perfectly poised, and even in the vermilion haze of my alarm, and the growing excitement within my body I can tell you are completely in control. The knife will cut only if you will it. I am fully safe from carelessness on your part. Your eyes are cold, and I shiver naked in their presence. Vulnerable from far more than the weapon, your gaze strips me of any resolve I could muster.
I could almost say that it isn't you. Even if it were your hand holding my wrists behind my upturned back, or your lips set in a cruel line of mocking it could never be you eyes. Eyes so infinitely kind, gentle, or even hurt as I recall your sensitive nature. The eyes that cried with me, sometimes for me. There is a hardness in your gaze, now, completely disassembling of my Self, with complete disregard for my petty gasps and moans. You absolutely see through me. Knowing that though I struggle with breath, tentatively moving my body away from your outheld knife, that I am captive to an unpretty and dangerous desire. Fully confident that if from your position, straddling my chest, were you to reach behind yourself to touch the narrow cleft between my thighs you would certainly feel the slickness betraying my position. And it is your confidence that devastates me.
When did you become the villain half-imagined from a thousand sinister fantasies? What was the distinct moment where you decided to delve into the menacingly erotic thoughts that were tucked beneath my surface? And when did those thoughts, so arousing to me, begin to infect you?
Perhaps I have stared into space too long, or not answered your roughly whispered demand, for you strike me, open handed across my face. The point of your weapon digs deeper, and I am amazed at my skin's resiliency that I do not yet bleed. Though I want to, and that thought frightens me the most. Suddenly the weapon revolts you as something foreign and inorganic, and you toss the blade aside in order to use other means to subdue me to your amusement.
Your hands, strong and hot, clamp around my neck. So fragile, now that you press down and my breath becomes a rasp through my burning throat. A gasp, and then nothing as the blood pounds in my ears and my breath is stolen. At first I merely struggle in jest, striking with playful fists and with half-force. Panic sets in when you do not release me after twenty seconds. Bright flashes of white dance in my vision, and I struggle in earnest, eyes wide and legs kicking at you, anything to gain breath. The importance of begin breathing makes my throat raw and I try to roll to my side. You let me, finally, and I draw in painful breaths. You remark at how you love that sound, how pretty the suffering is to you when you are the cause. And I am undone; wet and aching for you, desperate to please you, to be claimed by you. Eager to please you, to sate you so that I can feel the familiar rub of your body on mine, through mine. The pain, the waiting, the look in your eyes act as the seasoning of the act.