Hey, you.
Fuck. That sounded too casual, didn't it?
I wrote Dear Kitten and crossed it out. That seemed too formal.
Hey, Kitten is better, I think. It has the nicest little ring to it. Just like you.
Well then.
Hey, Kitten.
It's late and I can't sleep. Surprise, surprise, right? My mind is running laps with anxiety tremors running beside it. I'm trying to come down, trying to breathe, to burn off some of this energy.
It's been a minute since I wrote a letter. It was an old technique I used when I would come down off too many meds. Then my therapist encouraged me to journal before bed as a form of therapy.
Now I'm sitting at the kitchen table, writing down this mess in my head, hoping this will straighten it out, maybe even a little.
Or at least make me sleepy.
It feels silly, to be honest. I wish I didn't have to do this. I want more than anything to fall asleep next to you every night - but this is what I do sometimes, just who I am. You know that and you love that. I know because you tell me. You always say, "That's why I love you, Daddy. Not despite it but because of it."
I'm glad you love me despite my flaws - like not being able to fall asleep beside you.
"Just lay down and try to go to sleep," you'll say.
I hear it in my head now.
And I try.
I can be a good boy, too, you know. But you always fall asleep before I do. Always.
So here I am. Trying to get back to you, back into your arms. Back into your world. Trying to capture something on the page to knock me out, to send me to sleep. Some poor handwritten substitute for the warmth of your legs, the scent of your thighs.
I listen to you breathe for a bit before getting up. I can tell when your breathing slows down just enough. You twitch once when you finally give over to sleep. Usually, it doesn't take long. And I can only imagine what you dream about. Your dreams are wild. Sometimes you tell them to me; sometimes you keep it like a secret.
"Last night I had a dream you bought me a red truck. A big one," you told me once. "Maybe next time a Mustang?"
That's all you said. The rest of it, all those dirty secrets that come with those cars, those are safe with you. They may come out, or they may not.
I can wait. I can wait as long as you can, don't you know? You can only dream when you're asleep.
I won't play it if you won't / and I won't say it if / you won't say it first...
We used to sing that to one another underneath the high ceilings of your first apartment.
Let's...go to bed.
And we would. Then we'd wake up and kiss and crawl all over each other once more.
But we were very good at first, weren't we? You were so kind and I was so timid. Maybe we didn't even know where we wanted to end up. Maybe we spent our entire lives arriving at this exact spot.
Do you remember you cried when I explained what "vanilla" meant? You shook; a violent motion. I held your head close to my chest and whispered, "Shhh, it's ok. This is the Past leaving your body. Let it go."
And you did. But you held on tighter. And when finally you looked up, you said, "Was that us? Were we those people?"
Then you burst into tears again.
"Yes," I said. "But not anymore. We were those people. Not anymore."
You laughed and I wiped away your tears with a kitchen napkin because we were so poor that was all we had - toilet paper and tissues were out of the question. We were hungry often, but we always ate each other. We always fed off our energy.
That's why nothing moves in the house when you're asleep.
When you awaken, when you arrive, rooms light up. You know it, too. Watching you take flight is ecstasy. It's so easy; so fluid. You flirt and work a room, bending everyone to your will. They lap it up while you keep pouring it out.
"It's my superpower," you said.
A joke wrapped in the truth.
You can whip a room into a frenzy and lead everyone off a cliff to their exquisite deaths. People form circles around you just to hang on to every word you say at gatherings.
Then, you're gone. You're gone and we're home and I'm pinned to the ground and you're riding me until I'm sure I'll break.
When you understood, finally, you can't break me, that's when you felt free enough to come for the first time.
And when you come, you come everywhere.
You splash wet pussy trails up my chest, on my face, in my beard, soaking my cock. You get so wet knowing that everyone wants you. Because everyone wants to know if you really talk that filthy all the time. (You do.) And everyone wants to know if you'll, 'come to their party next weekend.' (You won't.) Everyone just wants to watch your lips move. You're a pass-around party drug people keep swallowing.
And you are a swallower.
And I love it.
I love when you show off for everyone. I love it more when you show off for me. With those pretty sets of lips and that filthy mouth; everyone's fantasy at parties.
That's just the warm-up, though.
That mouth? The one that everyone is so enamored with? It's even dirtier than anyone knows. And your lips? Your kisses are just like honey. You leave lipstick on Daddy's cock - and I'm the only one who gets to see it. You caress and clean Daddy's cock so sweetly. You take such good care of it with those gorgeous, plump lips of yours, Kitten. You know how to work orgasms out of my body with those lips. Orgasms hid deep within me.
Pull them out with your filthy mouth, Kitten. Please? Daddy loves to watch you work.
You sucked me off and swallowed my cum the first night we met.
Remember? Of course, you do. You did it on purpose.
"I guess I'm just maybe a slut?" you said.
You are that much of a slut. You told me you like to be surprised and you like to get what you want. And you wanted my dick in your mouth that night.
"Please, let me see how good it fits in my mouth?"
How was I supposed to tell you no?
"I love sucking cock," you said. "It puts me in control."
When you're in control, you are fearless. But you needed Daddy to teach you about patience. Patience and the different layers of control, the ways to control more than just orgasms.
We needed to spar at first, didn't we, Kitten? You needed to feel the crush of Daddy's velvet glove in cast iron.
For a while, you only came out at night.
You said you felt scared and lost and you didn't know what you wanted and you weren't sure how to ask for it anyway. You just wanted something new, something "dark and different" - -your exact words.