Joan's Submissive Side -- Rewrite ©by SHAFERLINE
Prolog
This fiction is a rewrite and modification of a story ("Joan Discovers Her Submissive Side") I wrote in 2017 that changes some of the character relationships and continues it for another long chapter. It should be read here from the beginning without going back to the original storyline.
Chapter 1
Joan was going to spend a few weeks with her mother's longtime college friend at her summer home in a remote area of south central Missouri. It was the summer between her Junior and Senior years at the University of Missouri in Columbia. She had turned twenty one earlier that spring. Her mother's friend, Susan was in her early-forties and along with her husband Mike, ran a very prosperous advertising business in St. Louis.
After building the business up over the years, complete with a competent office staff, they could now take much of the summer off and spend time at their rather large country home and nearby Lake House. The summer home was located in a very remote area in a county, about thirty miles southwest of their lake house which was on the Turkey Bend area at the Lake of the Ozarks. They also used that Lake home and their rather large boat there for entertaining business clients which gave them a legitimate reason to spend some time there and at their other home, particularly in the summer.
Joan had always liked her mother's friend Susan since she admired her aggressive business attitude, desire for high fashion, and in particular, her penchant for very-high heels. Susan had turned sixteen in 1984 about the time that spike and stiletto high heels came back into fashion for the second time after their introduction in the late fifties that ran into the mid-sixties before the hippy culture effected both clothing and footwear fashions. Therefore, she was the right age to enjoy their renaissance in the mid to late eighty's when spike heels reappeared. She continued to wear very high spike and stiletto heels of at least 4-3/4 inches through and past the nineties even though they weren't the mainstream trend at the time. She had even much higher heels that she wore for 'special occasions'.
Joan coincidentally turned fourteen in 2003, about the time that high stiletto heels and their variants starting returning the third time, for what appears to be a much more lasting trend. They will probably not be, in the foreseeable future, entirely 'out of fashion', but rather a stable segment of whole fashion scene. During this last period of high heel popularity, Susan had graduated into wearing 5-1/4 inch stilettos in public almost exclusively as they became a trademark of the high end fashion portion of their advertising business. She even appeared in some of their videos and photographic layouts as a model using her ultra-high heels as the focus of big time glamour fashion promotions for some of their clients.
Taking Susan's lead, Joan had also become somewhat of a high heeled devotee starting with a pair of 3-1/2 inch spike heeled opera pumps for her junior high school graduation ceremony in 2003. Her mother finally relented and allowed her to start with such a heel height as most of the other students' parents only allowed them to buy 2 or 2-1/2 inch kitten heels for the ceremony. Joan's 3-1/2 inch spike heels dismayed some of her classmates since it was just the time when high spike heels were coming back in fashion and all fourteen year old girls wanted their first "heels" to be the highest possible.
Susan had helped convince her mother to allow Joan to wear the 3-1/2 inch heels on the grounds that the higher heels were more fashionable at the time and that this occasion was essentially a coming out party for Joan. Although it was never discussed, Joan believed that Susan probably bought the shoes herself since they were much higher quality than what her mother probably would have bought.
Joan practiced for a month wearing the heels and began her first foot training exercises to adapt to high heels in general. Susan had directed her to the quality sites on the internet which were devoted to the foot and ankle training aspects of standing and walking in high heels. Joan had quickly adapted to wearing higher heels because of those high quality sites and other published training materials provided by Susan. In fact, in that month prior to graduation ceremony, Joan had quickly trained her feet and ankles to accept a heel height of 4-3/4 inches. She knew that Susan, at the time, wore at least 4-3/4 inch heels regularly and because she was fully developed and had the same 6-1/2 shoe size as Susan, there may be a time in the future she would let her try on and wear some of her beautiful high heels. Joan was also the same height as Susan at 5' 4" and had similar shapely figures.
As it turned out, Susan did let Joan wear her 4-3/4 inch heels later that same year when Joan would visit their home in the West County area of St. Louis. Joan's parents lived in South St. Louis County, but because of Susan's work and Joan's school over the years, she did not get together with Susan, and her husband Mike, often during that period. Susan and Joan communicated via Email over the years and became very close and in some respects Joan almost considered her more like an older best friend rather than her mother's best friend. All of these events, of course, propelled Joan into the world of very-high heels.
In recent years, Joan spent a few days during her college summer breaks, at Susan and Mike's summer home and enjoyed the time with Susan in particular. Joan noticed that Susan had developed a shapelier figure than hers, although she didn't flaunt it, at least not in front of Joan. She never mentioned it to Susan, but figured she must be in some sort of physical training at home or at a gym.
During those summer days, Joan would always want to see Susan's massive high heel collection that took up an entire huge spare bedroom closet specifically designed for that purpose in their summer home. She also had many duplicates of those same shoes at their home in St. Louis County and at their lake house for wearing to work and other occasions.
Joan always loved to review Susan's latest purchases and to admire the newest choice in shoe and heel styles thinking that she could someday have of her own collection as well. Also In recent years, all of Susan's size 6-1/2 heels, mostly spike and stiletto, were custom made with the heels that were 5-1/4 inches in height. This was at least a half inch higher than any non-platform heels available in retail shoe stores; even with the resurgence of extra-high heels in the mid to late 2000's. They were also about a half inch higher than the typical internet sites selling, non-platform, five inch heels, which usually turned out to be something even less in height for a size 6-1/2 shoe.
Joan had continued her high heel training over the years and learned to gracefully walk in Susan's 5-1/4 inch heels while visiting at their summer home. All of her high heels were 4-3/4 inches as she refused to buy any dress shoes of lesser heel height. Joan, or Susan for that manner, did not buy or wear standard platform soled shoes as they did not want to have their heel height 'synthetically' raised by platform soles and besides, they both thought platforms were somewhat ugly in appearance.
Last summer, Joan had met a young man at Susan's and Mike's house on the lake. He had worked for their advertising agency for about two years and was there for business purposes as he was entertaining some potential clients for the advertising business. Actually, they had planned that so called 'accidental' meeting since they knew that Joan was between boyfriends and they wanted her to meet this young man. They thought she may be interested in him if nothing else because of his knowledge of high heels and their influence in high fashion advertising.
Steve Mason was very "clean cut" and had done an excellent job over the first two years with the company by landing some high fashion advertising clients. He actually was the one who inspired Susan to do some high fashion photo shoots in some ultra high stiletto heels for a high fashion video shoot. His knowledge of promoting high fashion advertising with emphasis on stiletto high heels should, intrigue Joan to at least possibly notice him, they both concluded.