Corisande breathed deeply, remembering. It had been so long since Soames had left. The last night he'd made a surprise visit, Cori had come in, dejected somewhat, from the supermarket.
A project at work was not getting done fast enough, and of course although Cori was head of the group, she sometimes let her employees slack off and bully her. And then, of course...the work didn't get done on time.
So Cori had bought her own flowers at the store, an unusual thing for a fairly attractive (still at forty) gal to have to do.
But it was just to cheer her up a bit, and she'd been surprised, and secretly gratified by Soames being there when she'd gotten in.
"H-hello Soames, it's good to see you."
"What's this? Carnations? From whom?" Soames had snatched the flowers out of Cori's hand. He'd then casually kicked her knee and she'd dropped the groceries, and instantly had to go down on her knees to grub around, picking them up.
"I, I just got them I--"
But, after Cori had dropped her stuff in the kitchen, Soames pulled her to him and ordered her to eat one of the flowers while the rest of the bouquet was being fed down the garbage disposal.
Soames slapped Cori's face a few times, enjoying how his big hand could make her little chin swing back and forth.
"Guess what I found, honey. I was at a flea market with Bonnie--"
Oh, how Cori hated Soames's other girlfriends. Soames often made Cori serve them, and it wasn't pretty.
"And I found a big leather strap like your grandpa used to thrash you with when you spent your college summers with him. Take down your pants, honey. It's party time!"
Normally, after a painful whipping, Cori would blow Soames, and lend him some money, and then after he left, she'd kneel on the kitchen floor frigging herself in the nude.
But Soames told her this time that he was moving to Dubai...
And Cori had begged him to reconsider, "I know you're leaving with a rich submissive...but I will pay you more to stay here, I really will."
Soames had then slapped Cori's face so hard her mouth bled. "Don't you castrate me!"
But then she sobbed, apologizing for her impertinence, and then Soames hugged her and advised her to find someone else.
"It will be good if you grow as a submissive, you don't seem to function well going independently, Cori old girl."
Luckily, Corisande, at odds for a bit, talked to a friend at the Tawse Society, a hard-core submissive called Syri.
It was Syri who told Cori about Miss Pratt.
"Have you ever submitted to a woman besides Soames's slutty girlfriends...and of course your sisters?"
Cori had told Syri about her sisters.
"No, I'm heterosexual, I don't really feel an attraction to women, but I did experiment a little in college."
Cori thought of when she'd been working at a deli for DeShawn, a big burly black girl. DeShawn had correctly perceived that Cori was financially fine and was just working to expiate liberal guilt.
Thus, DeShawn had slashed Cori's back and buttocks behind the dumpster every week and then demanded that Cori turn her paycheck over to DeShawn.
And if Cori's check, delivered from the head office, was not sealed, DeShawn had also used her broken car ariel across Cori's bare nipples!
The rest of the staff in the deli had enjoyed watching the naked white girl bounce and writhe as DeShawn had worked her over...did that count as experimentation?
Syri listened to this curious story with some aplomb.
"My next question would be, would you be willing to pay for a good session?"
Cori was hurt. "I'm pretty cute, Syri. Don't you think? I can see why some fat, bloated dude has to fork out to a dominatrix but why me?"
Syri was quite amused by this.
"Believe you me...I'm, as you know, a former "Mirabella" model, thoroughly heterosexual, and I dropped nearly ten thousand dollars in the homely Miss Pratt's coffers over the past seven years...eaten her cunt a thousand times."
Syri's husky smoker's laugh made Corisande a little nervous. This Miss Pratt was homely too, was she?
"Cori, you need to learn your journey. You should go meet Miss Pratt."
Syri was a wild girl, and she had her own pastry and catering business. Cori had always admired Syri and she now decided to bite the bullet.
When Cori showed up at Miss Pratt's door, she was quite dismayed at the sight of her hostess.
Miss Pratt was a short, pudgy, flat-chested woman of about forty, with thick glasses and a hearing aid.
What could Cori do to explain why she was here? She thought of this as she sat in Miss Pratt's parlor, sipping tea with gin it.
"It's just that after monitoring my staff, looking after my career, being a junior warden at church, and the head of ten committees, and of course making sure Mom is okay in assisted living, I need someone to answer to, you know?"
Miss Pratt nodded, she looked up as a nude woman came in. The girl was quite beautiful, but her head was almost completely shaved.
Her nipples had piercings, and in each, there were little half-pound lead weights.
The girl was carrying a tray of tea and various cookies.
"Ah yes, comestibles. Paige here is like you. She runs an entire information tech department at a bloated corporate behemoth."
Paige gave Cori a brief smile after putting down the tray, and left the room. Cori could see recent red scars on Paige's full buttocks.
"She doesn't work here?"
"Well, not for a living. I let her serve me two or three times a week, janitorial and waitress duties. Two hundred dollars an hour."
"That's really a good amount of money, for such work."
"Yes, but lately she's had to put it on her Visa card, I don't know how long she can continue to afford coming by to clean. What do you think of the shaved head?"
"It's a shame, she looks like she could grow some pretty hair." Corisande remarked.
Cori thought of how, after they roomed together in grad school in their early twenties, she'd been bullied by her sisters--Chanel, Chiffon, and Chablis. (Indeed, Cori had been christened "Charisma Corisande" but with the luck she seemed to have in life, she'd gone by her middle name much of her life.)
Cori's sisters had generally treated her like a punching bag, she felt. And the haircut thing brought back a nasty memory.
Once, after seeing Brad Argenteuil, the Buchanan High tight end toying with Cori's pretty blonde tresses, Chanel and Chablis had thrown Cori down and cut off much of her hair, giving her a sort of Mohawk, which of course got Cori thrown off the cheerleading squad.
Cori's sisters were always jealous of Cori's beauty.
Especially Chiffon, who was a bit flat chested. Sometimes, after watching the way boys looked at Corisande in the school hallways in a tight cashmere sweater, Chiffon would go a bit bonkers when Cori got home.
Cori remembered Chif assaulting Cori, tying her to a tree in the back yard, stark naked, and then Chiffon whipping her bare breasts with thorny brambles and carpet beaters.
Chiffon had screamed "I hate you, you cow!" at Cori as she'd flailed away. But it was no use, Cori was still stacked.
The folks had paid for Chiffon's boob job in junior year, but still she never looked as beautiful as Corisande.
Chanel had not really resented Cori's looks, but she was always mad that Cori, a bit of a dreamer, would do silly things like lose car keys or not pick up dry cleaning.
So Chanel, although a year younger, would exasperatedly order Cori to flip up her miniskirt and pull down her panties and bend over an old barrel in the cellar.
Chanel would beat Cori with the vacuum cleaner cord, and then send Cori to look for the keys around the house, and give her another whipping for every hour she couldn't find them.
And Cori knew she was absent minded and that her sister was lovingly just trying to wake her up a little.
Chablis, the oldest, was also the scariest sister. Chablis was a manic-depressive, a bipolar bitch.
Chablis would come home and be chattering a mile a minute, and exercise her rage by beating the crap out of all the sisters, but Cori got the most of it, because Cori, a Suicide Hotline volunteer, would try to reason with her insane sibling, and get her nose punched as a result.
Cori shivered as she remembered when Chablis had come in one night and dragged Cori out by her ear into the back yard (in December) in only a nightie...
Chablis had then turned the hose on Cori, after which she'd warmed Cori up with Grandpa's Blackwood cane...and then, of course Chablis had wandered off, chattering to herself, and Cori, covered in welts, had had to talk her nutty sister into coming back in the house.
"You think you're so beautiful, bitch" all the sisters said, and it was true.
How was it Cori's fault that she was so pretty? It was true, there was some difference in her parentage, Mom had slept around a bit, and while the other three were clearly their father's children, Cori's dad, a swarthy biker, had put quite a bit in the gene pool for Cori...
Cori's friends often asked her why she didn't fight back against her sisters.
Part of it was because Cori's parents would have been finished in their small town if it had been known that Mom fooled around, and so Cori felt guilty that she was better looking and frankly a lot smarter than her sisters.