Part 14 Entertaining
We got home and I brought the groceries and liquor in from the car. I got everything put away while Katherine sat on the couch and worked on the menu for tonight. I came out into the living room.
Mistress looked up at me. "Go upstairs and lay down in my bed for a while, Candy. I want you rested up for tonight. I'll wake you up in time."
I hugged her gently. "Thank you, Mistress," I said, and went upstairs. I went into her bedroom and peeled my clothes off, and slipped off the shoes, stretching out on her comfy bed, flexing my toes with relief. I was more tired than I'd realized. I turned to the side and pulled the covers up over me and felt myself drifting down into sleep.
I was awakened by Mistress' voice. I lifted myself up in bed a little groggily, and realized that Mistress' voice was coming through an intercom speaker in the wall.
"Come downstairs, pet. It's time to start getting ready. Put your shoes back on and nothing else."
I shook out the cobwebs and swing over to sit on the edge of the bed. I slid my feet into the heels and stood, blinking, still trying to get focused. I had really fallen into a deep sleep.
I made my way downstairs. Mistress handed me a red chef's apron. I slipped it on and tied it. I blushed, feeling the air moving over my naked ass. It was such an odd sensation, being partially covered – the apron, while short, covered me in front, top and bottom, but the fact that it was open in the back and clear that I was wearing nothing besides the apron made me feel somehow more naked than naked.
Mistress smiled, obviously sensing my reaction and thought process. "You look wonderfully . . ."
She paused and giggled. ". . . Wonderfully efficient." I laughed out loud, mostly in surprise – "efficient" wasn't the word I'd been expecting to hear.
Mistress reached down and squeezed my butt, affectionately but possessively. "Mmmm ok . . . let's get dinner going. Our guests arrive in a little over an hour."
I looked at the clock. 4:50. I'd been asleep for quite a while.
Mistress handed me the piece of paper on which she'd written the menu. I looked it over:
Antipasto
Steak
Rice
Asparagus
Ice cream sundaes
I glanced at her a moment. I suppose I'd been expecting something a bit more involved. I was relieved but curious.
Again she seemed to read my mind. "I'm a woman of simple tastes, Candy. Feel free to spruce up the rice and asparagus a bit but don't go crazy. I don't like food that's "overwrought."
I nodded. "Yes, Mistress. I understand."
I went about starting to get things ready. I wasn't sure I understood at all, but I figured my best recourse was to trust my instincts. If things weren't right I knew Mistress would take the time later to explain and correct. I smiled to myself, realizing that. It gave me a sense of quiet security that was impossible to put words to but very warming and powerful.
"OK, time for me to shower and change. They arrive at 6. Be ready to put out the antipasto at 6:20."
Mistress left the kitchen and I planned things out in my mind, a couple of ideas coming to me. I checked the time again and got moving.
I'd grill the steaks and the asparagus. A little olive oil and lemon for the asparagus was all they'd need. The rice . . . well, rice is like a blank canvas. I restrained myself and settled on a fairly simple preparation – sauté the raw rice with some onions, in olive oil, cook it in chicken stock, and than stir in some shaved Parmigiano Reggiano at the end. Sort of a lazy woman's American risotto.
I'd found over the years that most cooking projects get derailed by the unexpected. So I thought a moment about what could possibly go wrong. I looked to the sliding glass doors – the grill. Was there propane? Was the grill clean?
I moved across the great room and out onto the deck. It was a warm day but the gentle breeze made the apron cling to me, reminding me of that "more naked than naked" feeling. I blushed again as I checked the grill. I sighed with relief . . . there was almost a full tank of propane. I opened the lid. The grill was basically clean but did need a once-over before being cooked on. I turned it on high and closed the lid, letting it heat up really well while I went back and prepared the asparagus and chopped up onions for the rice.
That done, I went back outside and opened the grill, moving back from the blast of heat that came out when I did so. I turned the heat off and cleaned the grill with a wire brush, removing the little bit of mess there. I brushed the grill bars with vegetable oil, enjoying the way it made them glisten.
I went back into the kitchen and took stock of the operation. It was 5:12. Things were under control. I smiled happily.
Mistress came down around 5:30 and surveyed the preparations.
"Good girl." She handed me a red apron identical to the one I was wearing. "Go shower and put on the clean apron." I took the apron from her and scampered up the stairs and into the bathroom.
I was quick about it, a bit nervous on several levels. When I came back downstairs Katherine was relaxing on the couch, sipping a drink.
"OK, pet, a couple of final things. Dave and Jennifer as to be addressed as 'Sir' and 'Miss,' respectively. You will offer to them drinks, of course, and serve kneeling as you do when you serve me."
I listened, suppressing a soft gulp. I wasn't necessarily surprised, but I knew that
doing
certain things was very different from agreeing to them or thinking about them.
"Yes, Mistress." I got up and went back into the kitchen to put the antipoasto together, arranging things prettily on the platter, obsessing on minutiae in order to take my mind off of our guests' impending arrival.
I was wiping the already immaculate counter when the doorbell rang.
I took a deep breath and headed for the door. I didn't need Mistress to tell me it was my job to get the door.
I opened the door. Dave and Jennifer were standing there, smiling, and looking somehow even more attractive than they had this afternoon.
"Hi again, Candy," they said more or less at the same time. I couldn't help blushing deeply.
"Hello, Sir, Miss. Come in, please."
I showed them in and Mistress came over and hugged them both warmly and led them into the great room. They settled in and I got their drink orders.
Serving them the drinks affected me more deeply than I had thought it would. Kneeling before another person, even in the non-sexual act of serving a drink, drove home to me very firmly my role and place. I was doing something I would normally never have done, for the sole and simple reason that it was what Mistress required. I swallowed as I served Dave his drink – I could feel his eyes roaming over my body, and felt my collar tighter around my neck.
He laughed to Mistress. "Sexy apron."
Jennifer and Mistress both giggled as Mistress spoke. "She's sexy in anything, but yes, apron and heels is a good look for her." Dave and Jennifer nodded their agreement.
I blushed and looked to Mistress, eyes drifting to the kitchen a bit. She caught my meaning and nodded. "Yes, slut, go and see to dinner."
I rose and walked away, feeling a shiver. She hadn't used the word "slut" in addressing me in front of other people before. The new experiences were piling up rapidly, each one with its own unique feeling.
I got the rice going, came back to out to check on everyone's drinks, and then went out to deck to light the grill again. Mistress, Jennifer, and Dave were chatting away.
Preparing dinner helped me calm down some. Being able to pour all of my focus into that was soothing.
Even better, dinner went off without a hitch. Everyone complimented me on the food and Mistress in particular seemed very pleased. By the time dinner was done I was practically beaming.
I got up and fixed after-dinner drinks for them as they retired back to the great room, and then went about clearing away the dinner mess and cleaning the kitchen. I was half-listening to their conversation as I worked.
At a certain point it got a little quieter out in the great room. I focused on the cleanup task.
Done, I went back out into the great room. Dave looked at me a moment, then at Mistress. Mistress smiled to Dave. "By all means, Dave."
Dave smiled widely and looked at me again. "Come here, Candy."
I walked over to him. His eyes swept over me a moment, up and down. "Kneel."
I had a half-second of uncertainty, but I caught Mistress' eyes and folded quickly down to my knees.
Dave slid down a bit in his chair as Mistress and Jennifer sat next to each other on the couch, moving closer to each other. Dave's eyes met mine.
"Suck me, Candy."
I gasped audibly. I heard Mistress and Jennifer laugh a bit and Mistress said to Jennifer, "see? A bit shy, still." I realized that that was Mistress' gracious way of giving me this one and only second chance. I leaned forward and undid Dave's belt, my fingers seemingly numb as I unzipped his pants, part of me there and part of me in some disconnected semi-dream state.
Dave's cock sprang free. He was already hard. He was pretty big, 7, 8 inches, perhaps, circumcised. I closed my eyes a moment and took him into my mouth, feeling how thick he was. Then the feeling of his hand on my head, so unfamiliar, making me gasp softly around his cock.
I was torn, still. Some part of me wanted to run, some part of me was shocked and horrified that Mistress would have me do this. But as my mouth moved on his cock the other part, that part that wanted only to serve her wishes, got stronger, and slowly took over. My mind swirled with the realization that I truly
was
much more of a slut than I'd ever allowed myself to imagine.