Master had hardly had a moment to breathe much less any time to really pay attention to or dote on me ever since he had gotten back from vacation. Vacation … what kind of break is that if it causes your whole life to turn upside down once you return home? Now Master stays busy, don't get me wrong; he works way more than eight hours a day. In fact, there are most days that he isn't even finished with work until around eight in the evening and even then he has to make himself stop. But lately, he hadn't even been able to do that and it was beginning to take its toll. I missed him … desperately.
I'm not a whiner or complainer; I'm really not. What difference would it make any way? That's exactly the kind of girl that Master doesn't want involved in his life and that's exactly where I want to be … where I need to be; in his life. But even I, after a while, can't help but wonder if he even thinks about me during these longs hours and days that I don't even get a chance to curl up at his feet. It hurts so much that I can feel it welling up in my chest like a hurtful lump that I can't swallow past.
But one day I couldn't take it any more. I needed to just be with him, even if it was only for fifteen minutes. So I decided it was time that I took matters into my own hands. Master needed a distraction and I was determined that I was going to be it.
That night I took special pains while he was locked away in the office that we shared, so engrossed in his work that he barely had a spare minute to breathe. I took a long, leisurely bath with scented oils and spent the time necessary to make sure that my body was rid of any hair, working body lotion in afterwards and blow-drying my sun-kissed fiery curls into long, soft waves. I applied very little make-up, only to enhance my natural beauty and dabbed Master's favorite perfume behind my ears, in the hollow of my throat, behind the bend of my knees, at my wrists and just above the inward curve of my navel. Donning the pretty pink collar he had purchased for me, with the heart-shaped tag that had my name engraved on it in small cursive letters, and nothing else, I was ready to help Master relax and take a much needed break.
Quietly I crept up towards the open door of the office and peeked around the door frame. I could see that he was just as busy as ever with a frown on his face and it only steeled my determination to take his mind off his troubles, even if it was for only tonight. Slipping back away from the door, I spied his house shoes beside the couch and I quickly ran to pick them up. With a devilish glint in the depths of my sapphire gaze, I dropped to my knees and pushed the slippers together flat before inserting them into my mouth sideways, carefully holding them with my teeth before falling forward gently onto my hands so that my long mane parted and fell over the curve of my bared shoulders.