Chapter 11: Absence
*
In fact I was away for nearly three weeks but I spent it on a high.
Bryony sexted, pictures herself in the harness and then one of her wearing her tail. It was the same colour as her hair. 'i thought it was time you saw this' her text read alongside a lovely rear view, clearly taken in the kitchen with the tail hanging down between her firm thighs. The whipmarks I'd inflicted were fading. As well as the harness, she was wearing her boots though they weren't laced up because the new weighted ankle cuffs that went with the harness were quite bulky. There were wrist cuffs too; each a little over four pounds.
The next one was even better; she was down on all fours pulling the tail aside and showing me her lovely tight buttocks and the red lips of her pussy.
I couldn't wait to get back.
The texts stopped four days before my planned return which had then been delayed by nearly a week because I'd had a call from a mate of mine who coaches the hurdles team and really wanted some help for the upcoming games. I guessed Bryony might have been upset but it was an opportunity I couldn't pass up. I wasn't concerned and I certainly wasn't going to appear needy; she was clearly fine.
She wasn't.
The girl who met me at Plymouth station had short cropped hair and dark rings under her eyes; she was wearing a torn off white T-shirt and old tracksuit bottoms over her harness. She was thinner, the muscles in her arms clearly defined especially as she moved them with the added weight of the cuffs.
I could see she was wearing her nipple bridle too.
She was again attracting attention but in a completely different way.
I tried to hug her but she pulled away.
'I don't fucking believe it!' she said as she lead me to the car.
'What?' My heart sank. I realised I'd been a complete idiot. How could I have stood her up?
She showed me a letter lying on the front seat. It was addressed to her.
'This bit,' she said pointing at a paragraph she'd circled.
'...the committee believes this lewd act was demeaning to the Mares' Race and as a consequence for your act...'
She snatched it away clearly still distressed.
'What did you do?' I was relieved it wasn't my delayed return that upset her but I wondered what a contestant in a pony girl race could do to be reprimanded for lewd behaviour.
'That day we walked back from Cassie and Tom's...I was wearing my harness.'
'So?'
'It's not allowed.' Tears sprang to her eyes. 'The race is...sensitive. We're not supposed to go advertising it or we'd have the whole world turning up to watch kinky pony girls racing.'
That explained it to a degree.
'We're supposed to be discrete,' she continued. 'I know it's hard to believe... The tracks in the woods are fine but not in the village.'
'But, what...who...? Fawn?'
'No, not Fawn. She wouldn't use that sort of tactic.' Bryony paused. 'It was that bitch Brazen; those two girls who jogged past us. Remember? The one with the dyed hair.'
'But what's happened?'
Surely she hadn't been disqualified.
'I've been put at the back of the grid,' she said as we pulled angrily out of the car park with a screech of tyres that sprayed a cloud of dust and gravel in our wake.
It took me a while to find out that starting positions were assigned randomly unless there was some sort of penalty applied. We'd likely be starting in the third row, quite possibly two rows behind Fawn and with our progress obstructed by other competitors.
'And where the bloody hell were you when I needed you?' She shot me a look as we slewed off a roundabout onto the A38 and accelerated with a scream of engine noise.
*
It wasn't the most comfortable of journeys but at least we didn't crash or hit anyone.
I didn't say much, deeming it prudent to wait until we made it back to her farm where I could talk to her without the risk that distracting her would leave us both in a far worse state.
Finally, we skidded to a halt in her yard.
'I'm really sorry, I didn't come back when I planned,' I told her. I could feel tears behind my eyes. I knew I'd really failed her.
She looked at me red eyed.
'It wasn't your fault I was careless,' she said surprisingly tenderly.
Her face was pale. Her eyes red.
'Look you recon you can beat anyone except Fawn,' I told her. 'If she's at the back too then at least your level the rest of the field don't matter.'
'And if she's at the front?'
'Then you'll just have to put in a personal best.' I gave her my best 'coach voice'. 'You can do this.'
She sighed heavily but I thought I saw the flicker of a smile.
'Besides, you've got me back now.'
It probably wasn't the most tactful thing to say.
'I hope you haven't put on any weight,' she said rather forcefully.
'I've managed to lose six pounds and if I sweat beforehand I might get it down a couple more.'
She did smile at that.
'We'll do this!' I told her.
*
She'd promised me a fuck on my return but she walked straight towards the stables.
'We have three more weeks to train.' I called after her.
'I want to train now!' She shot back.
'It looks to me like you've been overdoing it.'