Driving from Monterey Park, Brandi was pleased to be leaving her parent's home where an argument had ensued between her uncle and father. The Chinese New Year celebrations started with a bang then fizzled out with the usual quarrel whether they were Taiwanese Americans or Chinese Americans. It meant nothing to her, so she left them to it.
She also felt guilty because she had lied about returning to the apartment to complete an essay. If she had told them she was going to a club, her parents would have kicked up a fuss. A good Taiwanese girl should obey her parents and Brandi tried to, but how could she when studying at UCLA? There were just too many distractions.
Kelly opened the car door for her and she jumped in. "So you escaped them, I almost gave up on you," Kelly said with a big smile.
There was a devilment to her eyes that told Brandi her long time friend was up to something. Brandi had quickly changed to meet her friend, who looked more like a sister, and they shopped and teased each other like sisters, too.
"So what are you up to?"
"You'll see," Kelly teased. She was the quieter of the two, but lived further away from her parents and was exploring this new found freedom more adventurously. They always looked after one another so whatever was planned for this evening would be OK with Brandi. Besides, they didn't have school in the morning so it could be a late fun evening.
Kelly breathed a sigh of relief. There wasn't a line of clubbers waiting outside, so her friend wouldn't guess what was inside waiting for them. Kelly couldn't wait to see the look of shock on her face and almost burst out laughing.
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The suppressed giggle reminded Brandi of the near disgrace at her twenty-first birthday party only a few months ago. Unwrapping presents before family, she enthusiastically pulled the wrapping off her friend's present to find a vibrator. Before her parents and family had a chance to see what it was, she buried it in the wrapping paper.
"Come on Brandi, show us!" her cousin had insisted, showing none of the restraint of the older family members.
Hearing her friend outside the room making that funny noise of a repressed laugh, Brandi said, "I should open it with Kelly, father." A shy, guilty look turned to relief when he agreed.
Even after six months she remembered the feeling of shame. If her parents had seen that wicked object it would have been embarrassing and dishonourable for her parents before so many family members.
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While her friend bought tickets to the club, Brandi smiled shyly at a naughty thought. It turned to a grimace remembering that she had used the damn thing and almost lost her virginity while in the throws of a passionate fantasy. Well, maybe not exactly, but she was pretty sure she tore her hymen to some degree during the frenzy of playing with the new toy.
Still dreaming, she followed Kelly into the club, not noticing very much. The music was just OK but then she looked around. "Kelly! You bitch! What is this place?"
"It's a BDSM club," she threw her head back laughing. "You're here now so let's explore the place. You had better keep a hold of me. I don't want any of the perverts hitting on me."
The two slim attractive young women held hands, looking for the bar. In tight jeans, t-shirts and tennis shoes, they looked out of place. Everyone around them was either dressed in leather, chains, skin-tight latex or hardly anything at all. Brandi was fascinated. It seemed to be a different world, as though they had dropped onto another planet.
"There he is, no, don't look," Kelly said, her face glowing hot.
"So that's why you dragged me in here. Who is he?" Brandi asked. So she was after some guy. In the quick glance she had, he looked tall and handsome with a cute ass. An Asian guy wearing tight leather pants under a leather jacket with a few chains randomly placed. He didn't look as bizarre as most of the freaks standing around, rather he looked fairly normal for such a weird place.
"He's Kevin, in my psychology class. He's doing a thesis on counterculture. All the girls are keen to get close to him and this is my chance. They will be so envious!" she laughed. She lifted her hair to tie it into a ponytail.
"Shit! When did you have that done? Your parents will go nuts," Brandi screeched.
"Don't worry, all but two are fake. So they look real, heh?" Kelly smiled with satisfaction.
Along both ears were rings that looked as though they were pierced but were just clipped. "My parents would disown me if I had my ears pierced more than once, well almost," she giggled.
In fact, Brandi had no piercings at all. Her parents had forbidden it in high school, and even though she was now in college, it was not something that she had chosen to do. She had thought about it, however, and figured she could easily defend a piercing just once to each ear.
"It would be bad enough if they knew I was in here," Brandi continued. "I can just imagine the lectures every time I went home for the weekend. What are you doing now?"
"Here's one for you," Kelly said while pulling a dog collar around her neck.
"I'm not putting that damn thing on."
"Go on, please, just for me," Kelly pleaded with a mock look of pain on her face.
"You mean for him. OK. OK. Don't go on. Where did you get this? I look ridiculous. I hope it's not from home, a smelly pet or something."
"Of course it's clean. Come on, let's go the restroom, it's over there," Kelly said, pulling her reluctant friend. It meant passing the bar where the guy stood talking to a group of heavily chained people. Brandi couldn't tell which were male or females, they all had baldheads. She nervously ran a hand through her long black hair.
A short cut through the flailing bodies on the dance floor was a mistake. They became separated and a woman grabbed her middle and pulled Brandi close and held on tight. They were hardly moving between the heaving bodies and Brandi doubted if she were safer with a woman.
All of a sudden they were off the dance floor by the bar. "You look cute, girl, you cum here often?" she jibbed with a grin. Speaking close in her ear because of the loud music was just an excuse to be close. The woman licked her ear and her neck.
"I'm not a lesbian!" Brandi exclaimed, wanting her to stop. With a better look at her she seemed about forty, with short spiky dyed blond hair and studs in her nose.
"You never know until you meet the right one," she quipped.
Brandi struggled trying to push her away, but the butch woman was too big and powerful, built like a brick outhouse. The feel of warm saliva in her ear was disgusting. She turned her head almost ready to bite her. The woman pulled away and looked at her with a grin still holding on to her.
"So you like it rough do you? Well, so do I," she grinned, showing off a pierced tongue.
'Oh hell, I'm in trouble now!' Brandi quaked.
"Hey Jude, she's with me."
It was Kevin edging the woman away from her. Jude scowled at him then shrugged her shoulders. "No harm in trying, she's a cute little girly."
Brandi shuddered. "Thanks." She was still a little shaken and didn't know what to say.
He steered her to a quiet corner. "You're Kelly's friend, aren't you? They're not all like that. Most just want to parade around showing off," he said, nodding to a couple of extroverts dressed with their asses hanging out of leather pants.
Brandi realised they were a couple chained together. "Well, that's one way to stay safe together," she laughed. He used a tissue to wipe her ear and neck and she laughed for it tickled. Perhaps his touch did something more than that. The ice was broken and they carried on chatting or at least she listened to his explanation of what the clubbers were about. It was fascinating.
He discreetly pointed to individuals and couples and nodded to others, telling her what their clothing meant.
"Oh! So there you are," Kelly butted in.
Brandi hadn't noticed how close they had been standing and took a step back with her friend's sudden appearance. The look of annoyance meant Kelly was pissed with her, thinking she had moved in on him.
"You should get her to pierce her ears. She talks about it, but never gets around to it," Kelly smiled at her innocently while talking to Kevin.
'No way! What is she up to now? She knows I wouldn't. Not just my parents. Even if I wanted to, I wouldn't do it here,' Brandi thought. She just shook her head "no" and made a shushing sound with her lips.
"You can do it here if you like. They do a good job, too," he said with enthusiasm.
Brandi was about to protest when Kelly leaned in and whispered. "Just get a temporary one like mine in each ear. Go on, I dare you," she said.
"OK! Where do they do it?" she asked Kevin. She didn't want to show her friend up or herself by wimping out. There might have been a temptation to impress Kevin, too.
"I'll show her, we'll be back soon so don't go away," Kelly smiled at him.
Brandi would have to tell her friend not to try so hard; she was being too flirty and obvious.
"I didn't want him to see you get fakes and discover my secret," Kelly explained.
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