"Joanna? Hi! This is Kim—you know, Jake’s friend?"
She almost dropped the phone. "Oh, shit," she thought. "She knows where I live. I am so screwed."
Jake had taken her twice to visit Kim, and they were wild sexual experiences, both times. Joanna had been led to believe that Kim was a contemptible, heartless bitch and both she and Jake had been mean to her, humiliating her and even slapping her a few times. Jake had made Kim taste Joanna’s cunt, asshole, armpits, and even her piss. Joanna had gone along with it, at first to please Jake and later because she found that controlling the bitch and making her do disgusting things was fun.
[See "Doing Kim" and "Kim Again" for details]
That had been a big mistake, when she found out that Kim had planned the whole thing, both visits, and had secretly videotaped everything. Jake had explained that Kim could use the videotapes to destroy her. Spread nude pictures of her all over the Internet, make her lose her job, alienate her from her family, even get her in trouble with the police.
"Kim owns you, now." That’s the way Jake had put it. She didn’t know what kind of tapes Kim had of Jake, but he was practically her slave. He told Joanna to pray that she would never hear from Kim, but if she did, she damn well better to whatever Kim wanted her to.
Here it was, only a few days after their second visit, and already Kim had her phone number.
"Kim? How…how did you know my number?"
"Listen, I’m sorry about the other night. I said some things that I shouldn’t have, and I want to make it up to you. Would you let me take you out to dinner? You don’t have to if you don’t want to."
Joanna immediately thought of Jake's admonition to do whatever Kim wanted her to do.
"Well, okay."
"Great. Is tonight okay? I’ll pick you up at six o’clock. Wear something nice. Thanks a lot, Joanna. See you at six."
Joanna found herself listening to the dial tone. She realized that she didn’t know Kim at all. Everything she thought she had known about her had been wrong. She had enjoyed it when Jake made the woman lick her all over, she had to admit, but she hadn’t thought about it as being a lesbian act. Kim had been forced to do things which disgusted her, or so it appeared at the time. Aside from a mild curiosity about it, Joanna had never been interested in sex with other women, and the experience with Kim hadn’t changed that. She liked men.
She decided to try and not think about it too much. Kim was an intelligent and powerful woman who had her by the short hairs, and that’s all there was to it. She was going to have to go along with whatever Kim had planned for her. Kim hadn’t even asked where to pick her up, which meant she knew her address, too. Not good. If Kim was a cruel or sadistic woman, Joanna knew she’d find herself deep in the hurt locker in no time at all.
The restaurant was one of the best in the city. As they sat across from each other over the small table and drank wine, Joanna couldn’t help but marvel at how different Kim looked from the way she had looked at her apartment. She was apparently wearing contacts, as the glasses were gone. Some make-up minimized the freckles that otherwise spotted her face, and her hair was fixed up. She was much prettier now than she had seemed before. Stunning, was the word that came to Joanna’s mind.
Kim was thin, and didn’t remotely have the voluptuous body that Joanna had. But Joanna didn’t think anyone would use the word "stunning" in describing her, though she’d been told she was pretty. Kim could stop traffic, in that little slip of an evening dress.
Although Joanna had been anxious about this meeting because of the power Kim held over her, Kim was so bright and friendly that there seemed nothing threatening in their conversations, and Joanna felt at ease with her almost at once. She found herself liking the other woman, in spite of herself.
Kim seemed to be genuinely sorry that she had insulted Joanna on the last visit to the apartment. "So you mean," Joanna said, "that you really don’t think my pussy smells like ‘a dead muskrat that’s been laying out in the sun too long’?" Kim burst out laughing, and then said "No, not at all."
Joanna said "Oh good. So I don’t need to have it sewn shut as a favor to society, then?" They both laughed. Kim apologized over and over for the angry remarks she had made.
Joanna kept in mind that the Kim she was seeing now was funny and confident and a completely different person from the rude and simpering bitch she had been during the two visits to her apartment. She wondered if she was seeing the real Kim now.
The thought that nagged at her through dinner was that since Kim was a lesbian, she might want to have sex with her. If she did, Joanna knew she would have to try to go along with it. She wasn’t repulsed by the idea entirely, because in truth she had secretly fantasized a number of times about what it might be like to make love to another woman, though she had never been nearly curious enough to actually find out.
That was only part of what worried her. Kim seemed to exert a control over Jake that left him little more than a puppet in her hands. A slave, for all practical purposes. That, Joanna had decided, she would not become. She had strength beyond what Kim understood, and there were things she simply would not do. She could not be forced to degrade herself. She wouldn’t stand for it.
She’d go part way, she decided. Maybe she’d let Kim lick her pussy if she wanted to, because she’d been sort of curious about that anyway. But that’s where she’d draw the line. She was bigger and stronger than Kim and could not be forced to do anything. Under no circumstances would she be yanked around on a leash, as Jake obviously was. Fuck that. Let her fuck over my life if she’s going to, she told herself. Let her kill me if she’s going to. I won’t ever be turned into a slave.
After Kim paid for their dinner, she suggested that they go over to her apartment for a nightcap. Joanna agreed.
"Here it comes," she thought. She had suspected that their meeting would involve more than just supper, and she was right about that. But she was completely unprepared for what awaited her at Kim’s apartment.
She was startled, upon walking through Kim’s doorway, to see other women there. Six of them. Joanna’s anxiety began to build as soon as she saw them. Her feeling that she couldn’t be forced to do anything against her will quickly faded. The odds were suddenly seven to one against.
As she looked at them though, she didn’t feel threatened. For one thing, they were all beautiful. Two of them looked to be no older than teenagers, one was older, maybe 50, and the other three appeared to be about Joanna’s age, mid-thirties. They were all made up, and wore short evening dresses. Kim introduced each one, and Joanna shook their hands and exchanged pleasantries. They all seemed genuinely please to meet her, but Joanna didn’t trust her impressions. She believed right away that Kim owned these women, and that they would do anything she wanted them to.
"Okay, ladies," Kim said, addressing everyone, "I’m afraid I attempted to introduce Joanna to the world of better sex a while ago but I screwed up and the experience was an unpleasant one for her. We have to try to correct her first impressions."
She turned to Joanna. "The first thing you need to understand is how much fun it is to kiss a woman."
Without prompting, one of the women Joanna had just met, a tall brunette named Michelle, walked up to her and kissed her on the mouth. Then she reached up and took Joanna’s face in her hands and kissed her again, then turned her face to the side a bit and kissed her again—a long, hot kiss. Joanna felt the other woman’s tongue enter her mouth. She didn’t know what to do, so she did what she figured Kim wanted her to do. She closed her eyes and returned the kiss, sucking the other woman’s saliva into her mouth and pushing out her tongue, as well.
After the kiss had lasted a minute or so, Michelle stepped back and another woman, the older one, took her place. She wrapped her arms around Joanna, and kissed her passionately.
Joanna stood in the center of the room, as each of the six women in turn embraced and kissed her. The lips were soft, the tongues were smooth and wet, the saliva was sweet. She tried at first to pretend it was men she was kissing, but after a while it didn’t seem to matter any more. She felt herself becoming aroused. She couldn’t help it.