"Hello!" Max called as she walked through the door. "Ready for ice cream?" She wore a light sundress in deference to the day's heat and carried a bottle of water in her bag. She let the door swing shut behind her, not wanting to waste the cool from the AC. "Hon?" She glanced around, not seeing Bree.
"Would you mind doing something else first?"
Max jumped as Bree spoke from behind her.
Max clutched a hand to her chest. "You scared me!"
"You like it." Bree smiled with a few too many teeth showing.
Max felt an answering flutter low in her stomach. When Bree smiled like that she usually had PLANS.
"Do you mind waiting for ice cream?" Bree asked again. "There's something I want to try first."
Max nodded. "Yeah, ok. Do you need help with something?"
"Not help, exactly. I wanted to try something." Bree's voice hardened. "Kneel."
Flushing slightly, Max dropped to her knees. Uncertain what to do with her bag, she left it hanging from her shoulder. She glanced up at Bree, but couldn't hold the eye contact and dropped her gaze after a moment.
Bree walked slowly around Max, moving carefully in the small space of the entryway, heading towards the living room and speaking as she went. "Crawl."
Max dropped her bag and followed on her hands and knees.
"Do you remember a conversation we had months ago? I said I could tell you to strip, and you'd do it, so long as it wasn't anywhere crazy. You said you had more fight in you than that. I wanted to see. I haven't had you strip yet, but I think the theory holds so far." Her deliberate steps had brought her to the couch, and she sat. Max knelt facing her.
"You'd do almost anything I told you to right now, wouldn't you, girl?"
"Yes'm."
"Do you like feeling that way?"
"Sometimes, Ma'am."
"Now?"
"Kind of. Yes, mostly."
"Good. Put these on." Bree gestured with her foot to a pair of boots sitting by the couch.
Max reached for the first boot. She took a scant moment to appreciate the texture of the leather under her fingertips. Carefully she loosened the laces, and eased the boot onto Bree's foot. She took care that Bree's foot was settled comfortably into the boot before doing the laces back up and knotting them. The other boot received the same care and attention. When she finished, Max sat back on her heels, hands behind her back, eyes on Bree's feet resting on her legs. She wanted to touch Bree's boots, to kiss them, but knew better than to do it without permission.
Bree raised one foot and pressed the toe of the boot lightly against Max's chest. "Do you want something, little girl?"
"Yes, Ma'am"
"Tell me."
"I want very much to touch your boots, Ma'am. I want to... to kiss them too. If I may, Ma'am."
"Is that all? One kiss would satisfy you? That's all you want?"
Max glanced up, uncertain how to answer. Bree stared back, a small smirk on her face.
"I would... whatever you offer me is fine, Ma'am. If that's just one kiss I would take it and be glad of it. But if you're asking me what I would like, I would like more than one, if I may."
"Nicely put. I'll make you a deal. You tell me why you want to kiss them, and I'll let you. How long I'll allow it depends on how convincing you are. Deal?"