"
I
wondered if I would see you at all this weekend," Jenn said as Elle shut the door behind her.
She had only just arrived back at the flat after her overnight stay at Jack's, and Elle could tell immediately that she was about to get a lecture.
Jenn did this every now and then, took exception to this or that and launched into a lengthy tirade against whoever she deemed to be the culprit. As her flatmate, Elle often found herself to be that culprit. Once, Jenn had caught her throwing a banana peel into the regular trash instead of the food bin and Elle had been forced to endure a thirty-minute diatribe about the impact of food waste on the planet and the importance of every small act to stem the impact of climate change. Another time she sat through an incredibly awkward dinner stunned as Jenn lambasted her boyfriend of the time for calling her 'baby', deeming it to be an example of the patriarchy belittling women in a subconscious attempt to maintain the status-quo. Now, the subject of her disapproval was Jack and she held nothing back as she listed all the faults she had noticed in him, following Elle through the flat. Thinking about it, Elle should have seen this coming.
"I mean, I knew something was up with him when we met that day in Borough Market," Jenn said, Elle tuning back in to listen as she dropped a tea bag into a mug. She could still taste Jack in her throat. "He had this strange look on his face," Jenn continued, "like he wasn't entirely there with us. And then he just decided it was time to go. As if he expected us to believe he had a graphic design emergency, I mean, how stupid does he think we are?" She moved around constantly as she spoke, waving her arms to drive home whatever point she was making. "I just don't trust him Elle! I can't say exactly what it is, but there's something up with him. How'd you meet him again?"
"Online," Elle said. "You know that."
"Oh yes, that's right. And he was very quick to monopolise your time! I mean, how long have you known him Elle, two months? And he already has you spending every weekend with him! It's too fast Elle, there's no way you can really know him."
Elle's tea was now ready and she removed the bag - making sure to put it in the food waste - before adding a splash of milk. Jenn followed Elle into her bedroom, pacing across the floor as Elle sat down at her desk.
"I think I know him quite well," said Elle. This was getting tiring and she was annoyed that Jenn had followed her into her private space.
"Impossible," Jenn declared. "It took me at least three months before I felt I knew Ben enough to let him stay over here with me. Of course a month later he proved that I didn't know him at all, the asshole, but fuck him. You get the point though. What do you even see in Jack? I just don-"
"He has a big dick," Elle interrupted, turning to face Jenn. "And he fucks me so well with it."
Jenn stopped dead in her tracks and stared in disbelief at Elle. Her mouth twitched a couple of times like she was going to say something, but then she just sighed loudly, shook her head and walked out of the bedroom, leaving the door open behind her.
I can't believe I just said that
, Elle thought as she rose to close the door. It just came out though, before she could stop herself. It was so unlike her. She never spoke about those sorts of things with anyone, let alone like that. What must Jenn think of her?
Oh who cares really
? She sat back down in front of her laptop. It had felt good to say it and the look on Jenn's face was priceless. Besides, it worked; she'd gotten rid of Jenn and could focus on what she really wanted to do.
She hit the spacebar to bring the screen to life, opened the browser and typed in the first letters for the store she'd bought the glass plug from a couple of weeks back, the full address autocompleted into the bar and she hit enter. The page loaded quickly as she reached for her tea. She took a long sip, savouring the warmth as she moved the mouse through the menus, clicking when she found the section she was looking for.
***
Jack
hit save and stood up from his desk. He'd barely made any progress on this particular job since starting on Monday. It was now Wednesday and his deadline was Friday evening! He had been finding it impossible to concentrate the whole week so far. If he let his attention slip for just a moment, his mind filled with memories from the weekend. Memories of hours long erections as a result of being brought repeatedly to the edge of orgasm by Elle only to be left hanging at the brink. Memories of how it felt to be so incredibly aroused, so out of control, willing to follow every order given by Elle - realising that he loved it. It was that, more than anything else, that kept him from focusing on his work; the realisation that what he enjoyed most about last weekend and the week leading up to it, what his mind kept lingering on, wasn't the earth-shattering orgasm he'd finally received on Sunday, it was giving up control so completely to Elle. It was following her instructions not to touch himself for a whole week. To put his pleasure entirely in her hands.
Even now standing in his office with a growing erection, under no such instructions, he found himself holding back from touching himself. Elle hadn't told him to keeps his hands off his dick, but whenever he felt arousal building and his cock engorging, he stopped himself from reaching into his pants and stroking it. It just didn't feel right without Elle's approval.
What is happening to me?
he thought, looking down at the bulge in his trousers. He needed to snap himself out of this. To reassert himself. To reassure himself that he could still take control, at least over his own thoughts. He grabbed his phone up off the desk and typed a message to Elle, hitting send before he could have second thoughts.
There
, he thought,
that wasn't so difficult
.
He'd spent the last week and a half at her mercy, quite literally over the weekend. He'd given himself over to her. Now it was her turn to give to him. He settled back into his chair and got back to work, satisfied that he'd at last be able to concentrate enough to finish the job. He still didn't reach into his pants to satisfy his desire, but that didn't bother him anymore. He was making the choice for himself. He was in control.
Elle
was in a meeting with clients, taking notes as her more senior colleague did all the talking, when her watch vibrated on her wrist, notifying her that she'd received a message. She flicked her wrist to bring up the message on the small round screen and glanced down.
I want you to deep throat me.
It was all she could do not to gasp out loud, but she felt her ears turning red and her pulse leap as she read the words that appeared. She quickly turned her attention back to typing, but it was futile trying to take worthwhile notes anymore, her focus was lost.
When the meeting ended she went straight to her desk and took her phone out of her bag, glancing over her shoulder before opening up WhatsApp and reading the short message again. She hadn't heard from Jack since leaving his place on Sunday, but that wasn't unusual and it was only Wednesday. Their relationship wasn't exactly following what she thought of as the typical routines of nightly message sending and sharing of daily details. Instead, they'd fallen into a rhythm of sorts that found one of them usually messaging the other during the week with some sort of idea or instruction for the sexual escapades of the upcoming weekend. So the arrival of this message wasn't exactly unexpected. It was the bluntness though that shocked Elle. Yes, their messages to each other nearly all related to what most would consider kinky sexual acts, but they tended to be a little more subtle than this, or involve at least a short back and forth before getting to the point. She quickly rolled up to see if she had maybe missed any previous messages that might have been leading to this simple statement of desire, but she hadn't. It stood alone below today's date, the large empty space below daring her to respond.