Amy had been visiting him for 10 years, but she still didn't know his name. She hadn't even asked. The contract was very clear that he decides what they talk about on June 12th every year - the only day they were allowed to see each other.
Today was June 12th, and she was ready. Waiting a full year between seeing him was torture, but time never moved slower than on the morning of the 12th.
She opened her purse for the fourth time and made sure she had everything she needed. His requests were surprising this year, and it had taken her four days to assemble everything, but it was all there.
She allowed herself to daydream about how it all began.
***
Her old roommate Tess had put her up to it a lifetime ago.
Tess' day was March 22nd, and its effect on her was obvious the next morning. Amy had been sitting in her favourite seat by the window drinking her morning coffee and reading a fantasy book when a black sedan pulled up and her roommate spilled out.
It wasn't unusual for Tess to arrive late after an overnight tryst, her chestnut brown hair a tousled mess, but this morning was different. Before the front door was even closed behind her, Tess had found Amy and pulled the book from her hand.
Their eyes locked, and Amy saw an insatiable hunger there. A lip bite and the slightest of nods from Amy was enough for Tess to seize control and turn their friendship into something else.
Between Tess' fifth and sixth orgasm that day, she told her friend all about the arrangement.
Amy submitted an application the next day.
***
When you have an assigned day, all you can do is wait for it. The contract stipulates only three responsibilities in advance of the annual event.
The first was a questionnaire, identical every year since year two. Amy had to write her responses by hand and send them to a post office box one month before her appointment. The five questions were:
1) Will you be keeping your appointment this year?
2) Are there any changes to your limits since last year?
3) What moment from last year's session do you think about the most, and why?
4) Describe, in detail, a recent fantasy that you have masturbated to.
5) Did you have an orgasm while writing your responses to these questions?
The answer to question five was always 'yes'. Amy would touch herself with her left hand while writing with her right, and she would mark a star on the paper to indicate the moment when she had climaxed. This year's version of her letter had three stars on it. The fantasy had been very detailed.
In the envelope with the responses, Amy was required to include a recent health test proving a clean bill of sexual health.
The final responsibility was following a list of Instructions that would arrive by mail a week in advance. These changed every time, and could be difficult to complete in time for the appointment.
If you fail to follow any of the advanced instructions, you lose your day forever.
If you miss your day once, you lose your day forever.
Amy could do whatever she wanted for the rest of the year, but on every June 12th she was his for exactly 24 hours.
And that's precisely what she wanted.
***
The correspondence had been more detailed in year one. Amy had to write a letter professing her interest, and that led to an interview of sorts.
The initial response, signed only "Sir", described an outfit that she would have to assemble and wear to a mall across town on a busy Saturday afternoon. Amy and Tess raided their closets and met the request for a green blouse and a black pleated skirt over top of a matching set of black panties and a bra.
He must have been there, but she didn't spot him as she walked to the bench by the elevators and found the note taped underneath that she'd been instructed to retrieve.
The note told her to go into a changing room at the GAP, slide off her panties under her skirt, and touch herself until she was on the brink of orgasm before returning to the mall floor and shopping for another hour.
That afternoon was thrilling, knowing that he was out there somewhere watching her while she went store to store carrying her panties in her purse.
When time was finally up, Tess was waiting at home in her cutest black negligee, ready to be attacked.
He must have been impressed, because another letter arrived a week later requesting her to outline her interest and experience in a long list of kinks. Not long after, he sent her a draft list of rules to follow and an appointment for June 12th.
***
Her first appointment was the only time Amy had considered walking away.
The sedan had driven her across town on a Saturday to an empty office building and left her outside the lobby with written instructions to take the elevator to the tenth floor.
Inside the empty, sterile building, the task ahead felt overwhelming. Was she really going to give herself over to a stranger she hadn't met?
