Author's Note: This story is dedicated to A. She is the person who first reads my stories but more importantly she is my source of inspiration.
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All day long I kept staring at the clock across the hall. I've been to the university library to study but I wasn't concentrated. I had opened a blank document on Word to start writing my report for an experiment that I took part in but I hadn't written a single word. I kept looking at my phone, I was excited but nervous at the same time. Part of me wanted to see a message from her saying that she wasn't going to make it and that we had to cancel. Time wasn't passing by. Our date was still five hours away.
This was hopeless. I shut down my laptop, packed my things and left. I decided to go home and take a nap instead. I felt it would relax me. I took my car from the garage but I didn't take the short way home. I went for a longer drive. The roads were packed, it was Friday afternoon and the rain definitely had played its role to this traffic. Every time it rains in Athens, even for five minutes, there is traffic everywhere. It was rush hour, I was stuck in traffic but that was the least of my problems. I tuned up the music, I was listening to some of my favourite tracks, I was singing, loudly. I hoped the other drivers couldn't hear me. They would just think that I was a crazy man who was talking to himself.
Eventually the road opened up and I made some progress. I was able to pick up some speed, I chose to use the motorway that crosses the city because it has no traffic lights. It would normally take me about a quarter of an hour to get home but this time it took me three quarters. Not bad, I thought. One hour had almost passed. About four to go.
I parked my car and went upstairs. I unlocked my door and saw the box with what I had ordered. They were delivered yesterday but I hadn't opened them. I thought that if things didn't go well, I would send them back and ask for a refund. I just took off my clothes and went straight to bed. I fell asleep just a few moments after I lay down.
When I got up, I looked myself on the mirror. I was a mess. My phone said that I had about an hour and a half. I was famished but I didn't eat. We were going to dinner. I went straight to the bathroom, I showered and shaved. The next dilemma was to choose what to wear, I knew she liked business wear but I think it was too formal for our occasion. I chose black trousers and a semi-formal check shirt. Before I left, I noticed that my phone had just 40% of battery but hopefully I wouldn't use it a lot this evening. I grabbed the phone, the keys and the coat and left.
Our meeting place was in the city centre so I chose to leave my car parked on the street and use the underground. I was only four stops from Syntagma Square. I was nervous again, I had lost my appetite completely. But why was I nervous? I knew her well, for more than four years. We were good friends but all of a sudden, a night that I was drunk, our WhatsApp conversation became increasingly hot, we both started revealing our fantasies to each other. Surprisingly we were a match, she wanted to try the submissive role and I liked the dominant one. She was away from town for some days and we haven't talked about that again but when she was back, I asked her out and she said yes, with the condition of her choosing the place.
I focused on the other passengers for this short trip. Most of them were playing a game on their smartphones or were sending messages. But all of them seemed relaxed, I wondered whether they could detect my feelings or not. I hoped not.
I was finally off the train. I didn't know what time it was, I hadn't watched the clock since I woke up. My watch suggested I was half an hour early. I rose to ground level and went for the meeting point. I thought I would wait for quite a long time. But she was there, waiting. She was dressed as I expected. She was wearing jeans, good ones and a white shirt, tucked in. Her coat was beige and she was wearing low heels.
"You're early." I told her.
"You too."
"I lost track of time."
"You used the underground. I'm surprised." She smirked.
"Sometimes even a petrolhead should use the public transport."
"Alright Mr. Petrolhead. Let's go. I've made a reservation." She replied.
"Next time my choice." I teased her
We walked for about ten minutes, we went to a narrow street that I didn't know it even existed.
"Is this any good?" I said as we arrived at the restaurant.
"Don't you trust me on food?"
"Should I?"
"If you don't like it, you choose next five times."
"Sounds fair to me."
"Good, let's go inside."
Despite being a bit isolated, the place was almost full but they had kept a very nice table for us. We could talk freely there, without having the fear that someone could hear us.
"This place has the best pasta in the city, I promise."
"It's five times. You said it."
"Yes I did."
We chose our dishes and our drinks; I am a beer-lover but I made an exception that day and we ordered wine.
We didn't talk about sex through dinner, which was indeed very nice, it was like we were both afraid to open this conversation. It was clear though that both of us were nervous.
"I believe that we came here not to talk about the weather, huh?" she said at some point.
"I agree."
"So talk about why you came here."
"Ladies first." I smirked.
"I think it doesn't apply here but alright. Look, I don't know how you got our conversation. I know you weren't that sober and you might have said things that you didn't want to, or didn't mean."
"It's true that I was drunk, but I could understand what I was doing. I wasn't that drunk. Let's say alcohol gave me a push to open up. But I was wondering about you. You know, it was a big move."
"It was. But I know you for so many years, we have both seen each other at our weakest times. I trust you."
"I'm very happy for that."
"You were the first man I openly talked about it."
"What are we going to do now?"
"I shall be honest with you. I want to try. I know that if things don't work out, our relationship could be gone, possibly forever. But I'm willing to take the risk. Are you?"
"Yes I am."
"Alright."
At this point the waiter came to pick up our empty dishes and we both shut up. He asked whether or not we wanted desert but we were too busy to care about it.
"I shall know your limits Kate."
"I don't know specifically, I haven't tried anything at all. I don't want to do anything with wee and poo, I don't want to do something with extreme pain and I don't want anything that might lead to a scar or sth."
"We have to establish a safe-word."
"Apples."
"Works for me."
"We aren't done yet. I have one more condition before we move on."
"I'm listening."
"Before I submit to you, you will submit to me."
"What?"
"You've heard me. You said you like pussy licking, right?"
"That's correct."
"What I have in mind, it primarily includes worship. Is there any part of my body that you loathe?"
"I don't think so. But I also don't like being the sub."
"Have you tried it?"
"No, I haven't."
"Then give it a try. You might like it. And I promise, if you don't like it, it would be once and for all. At least I would fulfil my fantasy."
"Alright. The reward of having you as my submissive is great. One condition of my own. You will be a sexy domme otherwise I won't do it"