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"What're your fantasies?" he asked.
"You mean sexually?" she asked with a frown.
"Yeah," he said with a conspiratorial smile.
"I mean the same as everyone I guess," she dodged the question with her flawless tact.
He snorted at her and settled into the calm demeanor of a mentor or a parent. He was waiting for her to elaborate. She appreciated it most of the time, but now she felt like she had been put on the spot. It made her uncomfortable.
After a few minutes of awkwardly staring at her, he spoke again. "I like to fantasize about us going downtown for you to find some clothes and you go to try something on in the changing room. Except I just slide on in with you to tease your clit for a few seconds between every outfit. Just enough to edge you for a few hours." He smiled at her and wagged his eyebrows suggestively.
She cleared her throat and shifted back and forth. "Tease," she looked at him for another minute. "I want to be tied up," she said meekly.
He didn't flinch, just waited.
"So," she continued more confidently, "I imagine someone tying me to a bed so I can't move and." She faltered, "just doing their thing."
"Doing their thing?" he said with a whisper of a smile on his lips.
"You know what I mean," she said curtly.
"You want to get your brains fucked out without being able to do anything about it," he stated. She shifted again and then nodded. He leaned in closer. "What do you want that to feel like?" he asked in a neutral tone.
"I don't know," she said matter-of-factly and turned her face to look at his shoulder.
He reached out and gently placed his thumb and forefinger on her chin. She didn't resist as he pulled her eyes back to his. "What's it feel like when you think about it," he asked gently.
"There's a lot to it," she resisted weakly, but he waited patiently while his thumb stroked her jawline.
She shivered, "It's hot to not have any control over what will happen. To have to trust someone else to take that power from me. To be tied up and forced to just feel it all. I could struggle all I can and beg for it to stop. Then, get used like a sex doll. I mean, it would be nice for someone to want me enough to use me like that." She clenched her teeth to stem the rambling flow of broken thoughts.
"Is that a fantasy you want to make a reality?" he asked with a deceptive calm.
"You want to do that with me?" she asked incredulously.
He let her chin go, "I don't know the first thing about tying a knot, but I could learn... If you wanted me to."
"I wouldn't mind if you wanted to do that to me."
He looked at her and raised a brow. The silence settled around her chest before he spoke. "Yes or no," he said with force. "Do you want to make that fantasy a reality?"
That conversation hung in Laura's brain for ages. She went back and forth over and over again. Did she trust him? They had had sex. She wasn't worried about him hurting her. So, why did it feel like she was taking a leap by admitting she wanted him to tie her up. What was worse was she couldn't talk to her friends about it! Definitely not her parents. Alex to his credit didn't bring it up again. He just continued on like it hadn't happened. She wished she could just let it go like that.
She was exhausted from work and school when the decision became clear. A hard week of being treated like an ugly, blind, and deaf idiot at work while trying to stay ahead of too many assignments from demanding professors wore her down. She wanted to be free from it all for just a little while. The irony of wanting to be tied up and mercilessly screwed was not lost on her.
She texted Alex, "Were you serious about that fantasy thing?"
Her phone dinged a few minutes later, "Yeah, but only if you were serious."
Her thumbs flew across the keyboard. She hit send before she lost her nerve, "I'm serious."
Plans were made for their next day off. She flew through the next few days with a mixture of dread and excitement.
Laura was using her nervous energy to clean her kitchen the day of. When there was a knock at the door, she flew across the room to look through the peephole. She unlocked the door to let Alex in while she stood behind the door so no one saw her in her fluffy robe. He leaned down and kissed her with an easy smile. They made small talk for a few minutes while he pulled his shoes off.
Then he stood up and looked at her. "You still want to do this?" he asked.