Evie woke with Jo's arm flung over her, one thigh over hers, two late-twenties girls tangled together. Evie lay and luxuriated in the warmth of Jo's naked body pressed against hers, watching the other girl's face, peaceful in dreaming slumber. The morning light slanted through the shutters on the window, carrying with it small sounds of their neighborhood waking up. But it was a fly-by by the infamous parrots of Telegraph Hill, with their raucous chattering, that finally made Jo's sleepy head stir. She made a pleased noise when she found Evie still in bed with her, and tightened her arm around her. "This is nice," Jo said, moving her thigh against Evie's.
"You're a wonderful thing to wake up to," Evie responded. That earned her an extra-wide smile--gosh, she was a sucker for this girl's smile, for Jo's happy-in-herself, happy-to-make-you-happy grin. She bent her head, Jo scooted up the bed a bit, and they kissed, a soft, light touch of the lips together. Jo's dark hair was a little wild, and with her big, luminous, surprisingly light eyes she looked elven to Evie, like she was some forest nymph, unused to indoors, that she'd manage to seduce.
Then her nymph yawned hugely, and pulled away from her embrace, "I call dibs on the shower," she said, smirking back at Evie as she headed into the bathroom.
Jo's ability to go from fast asleep to calling dibs was something that always caught Evie by surprise no matter how many times it happened. She turned and pressed her face into the pillow, catching the scent Jo had left there, and dozed while she heard the water run. When Jo came out of the bathroom, hair up but otherwise naked, she signed instinctively at the sight of her. It wasn't just because the other girl's body was such a poem to sex and desire, with her narrow waist sloping out to rounded hips, proudly jutting breasts capped with big, rose-blush areolae and gumdrop nipples, the elegant tracery of her collarbone and lithe arms, but also the way she walked, the unselfconscious grace with which she stepped through the world. Evie slid off the bed and approached Jo, took her hand, and kissed it, kissed her way up her arm. Jo laughed, pleased, as Evie's lips traversed her collarbones, trailed up her neck. She smelled soapy and clean, but still with that inimitable Jo-scent underneath.
Evie gave a last lingering kiss to Jo's jawline, and then went into the bathroom. After her shower, she stayed to blow-dry her hair, and by the time she came out, Jo had laid out both her own outfit and Evie's on the bed. Jo's towel was off, and her dark wet hair was down around her shoulders--a naiad, now, a water-nymph. "Time for morning devotionals," Jo said, as she said every morning, and the ritual and repetition of it made Evie smile.
Evie opened the wooden shutters by the big window at the back of their room, letting sunlight flood the room. They sat down at their desks, naked, a few feet away from each other. The house had a backyard filled with leafy trees, but Evie always wondered if some neighbor might occasionally glance up and see two naked young women earnestly writing, side-by-side. She reached out, and lit the jasmine candle at the back of her desk, Jo doing the same. She uncapped her pen, and heard the sound of Jo writing a moment before she began.
"I will always do what Daddy tells me," she wrote, mouthing the words as she wrote them, hearing Jo subvocalizing the same phrase next to her. She wrote the line again, capitalizing the letters in 'will'. Then again, capitalizing always. The sunlight was warm on her skin as she moved down the page, and wrote, "I exist to please Daddy," She took her time with each word, thinking about each one as she wrote it, as she'd been taught. She wrote the next line, "Jo exists to please Daddy," knowing that next to her, Jo was writing "Evie exists to please Daddy,".
Her heart jumped a little when she wrote this. Evie's late teens and early twenties had had confusion in them, and some mistakes. When she met Daddy at age twenty-four after college, she quickly felt such clarity when talking to him, a peace in her mind that had been ephemeral before. That he had been far older than her--twenty years--had seemed both incidental and important, the contrast of his experience with hers reassuring, his firm, stalwart nature a complement to her sweet, generous self, not two opposed halves but an interesting mutualism. She had already known how deeply kinky she was, but there were many things that had blossomed with Daddy that had only been half-described sketches in her head.
Memories like this were both a part of this ritual of dedication and a benefit of it, she smiled back at the thoughts of their meeting, the conversations and flirtations before his first acknowledgement of actual interest, and then the surprising, torrential outpouring of lust between them from the start.
She wrote again, "I exist to please Daddy. Jo exists to please Daddy," and her memory sought out another pearl; the first time Daddy and she had been with another girl before. How fast and different the emotions were that cascaded through her--she had said yes, nearly immediately, when he proposed the idea, feeling his desire for it and wanting to please him. Before that encounter, she had gone through revolutions of feeling, sparks of jealousy whirled away in a storm of curiosity, followed by quiet nights of introspection.
When he first introduced her to the other girl, Evie had felt such a burst of good-will towards her, seeing a trace of shyness, and that had set her tone for the evening. She had admired the other girl, enjoying the interesting sensation of lusting for the same person her dominant lover lusted for, two different perspectives of arousal on the same subject. And when Daddy had finally, after letting the two of them play in front of him, had slid between the other girl's thighs, she had reflexively put her head down on the woman's stomach, eyes wide, watching as Daddy's cock pushed inside her pussy.
Again, a final time, "I exist to please Daddy. Jo exists to please Daddy." When Daddy first introduced her to Jo, she'd felt again a joy, but she had struggled more, in the weeks that passed, with emotions that she couldn't always identify; things that seemed to be jealousy but turned into desire, doubt disguised as need. She felt curiosity about the other woman on every level. Other girls had passed through their lives, partners for a time, and then passing out. She realized what was disturbing, enthralling, attractive and fear-inducing about Jo was how well she fit into their life, not just into Daddy's life but her life. From the beginning, she found her easy to talk to, and easy to be in silence with. Not that long after Daddy had first brought Jo home, she remembered a rainy evening spent curled on the couch with her, Jo's head on her shoulder as she read on her phone, a physical book in Evie's lap--and a deep feeling of contentment at feeling Jo's body so relaxed, so at home against her.
"Being submissive to Daddy is at the core of who I am," she wrote, as her free devotion, the words that she came up with this morning. They flowed naturally, and she sat proudly straight in her chair as she wrote it out two more times. Jo put her pen down, and passed her journal to Evie. Even though she knew it would all be complete, Evie read the same words she had just written, each word another part of the spell they cast together:
I will always do what Daddy tells me. I WILL always do what Daddy tells me. I will ALWAYS do what Daddy tells me.
I exist to please Daddy.
Evie exists to please Daddy.
I exist to please Daddy.
Evie exists to please Daddy.
I exist to please Daddy.
Evie exists to please Daddy.
I belong with Daddy.
Discovering those words at the end was a discovery, a gift. She smiled at Jo, proud of her for having the confidence, courage, and insight to write that, especially on this day. When she opened her drawer to put her journal inside, she saw a white envelope there, sealed, marked 'Open at Seven PM'. She put it down on the desk, seeing Jo do the same.