Another Tuesday Morning
"Baby Domme!" Justine and Juliette squealed in unison, and high fived. They'd started doing that the first Tuesday after the signing of the contract, and hadn't ceased to find it amusing. The counter staff and other customers in the coffee shop might beg to differ, but nobody had said anything yet.
After they'd sat down and Juliette had got a couple of lattes and a free plate of almond macaroons, she started sniggering as she sat down again. Justine raised an eyebrow. "What's up?" she asked.
Juliette contained herself with a serious effort. "I've just thought," she said. "What if somebody watching us do that is part of the inner Circle? They probably have some sort of Mason type secret handshake and think we should be doing that instead of giving each other five."
Justine found herself sniggering as well. "And a secret password as well? Maybe if we were meeting in a pub off campus, or something," she said after she managed to contain herself.
Juliette had stopped laughing but was still grinning like a pumpkin. "Do you think we're maybe not taking this seriously enough?" she asked. She didn't, Justine thought, look like she found the possibility very worrisome.
"Malificent been complaining that she should have found a protege with no sense of humour again?" Justine asked. After a mere three weeks, she couldn't remember which of them had first referred to Madame Morticia as Malificent, but the name had stuck like glue. Justine thought it had probably been Juliette, as Mistress Anastasia hadn't heard that one when she mentioned it, and had seemed to like it a lot.
"You knows it, Baby Domme," Juliette said. "You know that she almost approached you? Instead of me?"
"You're shitting me," Justine said.
"No word of lie, honeypie. Apparently she was looking at your group, but she couldn't work out whether you or Jonelle were the top Domme from looking at you and didn't want to embarrass herself approaching the wrong one."
"Shame she didn't," Justine said. "Arianna would have thrown a fit. A meltdown of epic proportions."
"And then some, if she's as bad as you say," Juliette said. "It might have spoiled your evening a bit, though."
"It might have been a lucky escape for everybody," Justine said. "We'd probably have been made to clean up the floor after her head exploded. Not very dominant, really. "
"You could have made your slave lick the mess up," Juliette suggested. "Finding that out did make me wonder, though. I might have preferred to end up with the nice Dominatrix rather than the poster child for uncontrollable Dominatrix Toxaemia, though."
"Malificent would never have gone for me anyway, according to Anastasia."
"Really?" Juliette leaned forwards.
"So she says. Apparently Malificent's hair owes more to henna than genetics and she resents natural redheads."
Juliette took a sip of her coffee and considered that. "That sounds about right," she said. "I was thinking of getting some lowlights put in after I've grown this out a bit more, mentioned that to her Highness and was subjected to a withering stare. Like really withering, and then some. We're talking Lou Reed with cheekbones. She didn't have the brass neck to say anything about banning me from going more colourful, but it was obviously an unspoken hint."
Justine thought about that. Juliette had always had a taste for lurid fake looking hair colours and changed her look that way at irregular, but frequent intervals. She'd spent most of her last year of sixth form college sporting orange dreadlocks, and Justine was pretty sure that was the longest period she'd ever seen Juliette's hair stay one colour. "Maybe she thinks that you getting some crazy colours would be mocking her own completely natural hair colour," Justine said.
"As if! She's rather put me off going red for a while, put it that way."
"I hear you, baby Domme. Is she still on about your piercings not being Domly looking as well?"
"Only at the start and end of every session. And the occasional email or phone call."
"So we have a woman who dyes her hair and has a navel ring..." Justine started.
"And a pierced minge flap and clitty."
"For real? I can't see her stripping off in front of you."
"No fear, but I have done some research. The internet is great for that, I've found."
"You asked about that?"
"Yep," Juliette said. "Last time she started going on about how my shark bite and pig ring don't look very dominant I asked her if she'd gotten a brand on her bum to go with the rings in her bits. That took the wind out of her sails, and might even shut her up about it for a while."
"At least you're getting paid well for putting up with her," Justine said. That was the very first thing they'd compared notes on. It had emerged that Juliette was making quite a bit more from her chunk of the dual sessions they were being mentored through by their patrons because Morticia charged a hundred and fifty quid more for a session than Anastasia did.