I drove Master Tark to the pet store. It was a Monday morning when I didn't have classes and I was somewhat nervous about going because a few students worked there part time. Since it was a school day, I hoped none of them would be in the store. But what would they see in any case? Their teacher with a friend in his military fatigues and bomber jacket and boots, somewhat gruff, not anyone they'd automatically connect with their professor, perhaps. Certainly they wouldn't begin to imagine my secret enslavement. Nor would they conceive of the butt plug securely lodged in my ass. Tark had said that in a week it would be time to experiment with a larger one. "Although I'm getting impatient, assfuck," he joked and rubbed his crotch.
And the plan was to buy a choke collar for a large dog. If one of my students was there, I'd let him understand that my friend owned a German Shepherd. At the cash register stood a middle-age woman, so I felt relieved. We found our way to the back between glass-fronted pet cages, one side for dogs, the other for cats, etc. At the end of the glass wall rose a rack of chains and collars, suitable for all sizes of dog. Tark started fingering the choke collars when a voice spoke behind us, asking if we needed help. Tark replied that we were just looking, but I turned and blushed to the roots of my hair. It was indeed one of my students, Francesco, a somewhat shy and slender, nice lad with freckles across his nose and thick wavy auburn hair and green eyes.
"Hey, hi there, sir!" I smiled and asked in a mock disapproving voice: "Francesco?" Don't you have a class this morning?"
"Nope, no class until one thirty, so I'm good. What are you looking for, sir? Can I help?"
"I'm with my friend here and he's looking for ..."
Tark then blurted out.
"I need a choke collar for my dog, one that it will feel when I yank it during training sessions. But it has to be large enough to fit and around his neck loosely but not so large to slip off his head. I want heavier links. These seem too small."
"Ah, you're together then?" Francesco asked, staring Tark up and down, clearly impressed by the soldier's muscular body. And again I blushed.
The thing is: Francesco closest friend in class was a bodybuilding, somewhat arrogant student named Nils. I often saw them together, often smirking at the back of the class sometimes, when Nils wasn't sitting in the front, with his legs spread wide. I suspected that Francesco did Nils homework from time to time. And Nils more than once intimated that he was fucking Francesco's girl friend with the boy's permission, as if Francesco was beta to Nils' alpha. She was a pretty, big-breasted girl with cocksucker lips whom I saw in the hallway with the boys from time to time. I always liked Francesco, a tall, slender masculine guy, who was usually quiet in class when not whispering with Nils. The quiet ones often drew my attention because I believed they contained layers and layers of feeling and fantasies. To be truthful, I also sneaked a peek at Nils bulging groin. We can't ever know what someone is really like, judging as we often do by appearances. A quiet student can be a powerful dominant fucker in his private and free life, powerful in many ways. I wasn't entirely sure about Francesco who did give hints of what he liked in the real world, the way he followed Nils around, his scuffed construction boots that always attracted my attention, and the way he talked about his girl friend in my office.
And I had encouraged him to speak to me in my office, as I did with Nils. He was also a very competent writer in his student journals and sometimes I let him write controversial stories about teenage sex and drugs and violence, which he did very well. But he had always taken the narrative point of view of someone on the outside, knowledgeable, but looking in and not participating, as if he was fantasizing, but so far he hadn't explored any domination/submission fantasies. Maybe Francesco was submissive, or maybe he was dominant. Maybe he played both sides of the game. He didn't show it. But, if he was inclined to tell Nils that he met me in the pet store, all he could add was that I was with a soldier friend looking to buy a dog collar. He couldn't speak about anything else, aside from Tark's muscles, nor could he even imagine my submission to the soldier, I tried to convince myself, my butt cheeks clenching the butt plug.
"Well, let's see. Here's an 18 incher," and Francesco grabbed the chain off the rack and held it up.
"Looks small."
"What kind of dog is it?"
"A mongrel bitch like a combination German Shepherd and Lab, a real big fucker."
Francesco seemed taken aback by the language, as presumably customers didn't ordinarily talk that way.
"And it needs a lot of discipline and training to behave properly and so I want a choke collar for sure. Fuck it's hot in here," and Tark removed his jacket to reveal his torso in a khaki t-shirt and biceps and hard pecs, which I noticed practically made Francesco's eyes pop out.
"It would help if we knew the neck size," Francesco said, a quaver in his voice, and out of the blue added:
"Are you a soldier by any chance, Sir?"
"You bet, buddy. Can't you tell by my dog tags? Why? You like soldiers?"
Francesco giggled, and didn't know where to look.
"So you're my teacher's friend ..."
"Yeah, fucking right, we're great friends, ain't we, teach? He likes soldiers, too."
I blushed and noticed that Francesco also blushed as if Tark had struck a chord or recognized some kind of affinity. Francesco smiled strangely at me. Yes, he was going to tell Nils. I knew it. But again: tell him what? That my friend bought a choke collar for his dog? He had no idea who the "dog" was.
"We might have longer choke collars in the stock room. Let me check."
"Why don't we come with you to save the return trip?"
Francesco hesitated. I kept my eyes to the floor.
"Customers aren't permitted in the stock room, sir."
"You can't make an exception for your professor and his soldier friend?"
"It will only take a minute, if you'd wait here."
"Is your boss around?"
"He doesn't come in Monday morning until noon. Only the lady at the cash."
And then Tark placed his hand around the back of my neck and chuckled.
"Well, I hope you have a collar big enough to go around your professor's neck."
At that I raised my eyes to look at Francesco who reddened deeply, the smile wiped off his face, but a fierce light of recognition sparked in his eyes.
"His neck is just the size of my dog. We can try the choke collar on the professor here. How about it, buddy?"
He removed his hand from my neck and gently punched Francesco in the arm as if they, too, were buddies. Francesco paused and looked Tark in the face, and then whispered as if he was doing something illegal but wanted to because he could get away with it. He looked somewhat startled but also intensely curious and also eager to please. Tark picked up on it.
"Okay, if we're quick. This way."