And the fun begins! A little bit of backstory, a little bit of sexy time.
Feedback welcome, as always.
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Day 1:
I awaken as the sun begins to shine through the blinds, energized to begin my day. I stretch languorously, feeling the exquisite tension and relaxation of all my muscles, arms, thighs, abs, ass, even my pussy.
Something's off, though. As my right hand stretches to reach out to that half of the bed, I find it empty. Instantly I begin to panic. Have I overslept and missed his wake-up call? Not twelve hours after he tells me that my instructions have no bearing on my usual routine, I've broken routine!
I begin to rush to the bathroom, but stop short when I see the clock next to it. It's not even 6 o'clock yet. So where is Master? Torn between running out to make sure he's okay and making myself presentable in case we had unexpected company, I stare at the clock for a few seconds more.
Six months earlier
"Oh, I got you something, Drew." I reached into the bag to pull out the slim, transparent box that had been burning a hole into it on my drive here.
"It's a clock, in that steamship style that's in these days. I know how neat you think watches and their precision are. The gears on this are oversized and exposed. I saw it at the antique store on the way back from the community center and thought you'd like it. And the metallic finish is both aesthetic and manly." In my nervousness, I'm blabbering and I overdo it - grin and wink at him. Then I still completely as his eyebrows rise.
I knew I was going out on a limb here. Jackson Andrews was Wyatt's friend, and that's why he had been going out of his way to be sociable with me, even after the questions of my finances were settled. But the truth is he had been incredibly helpful sorting through all the paperwork and investments, and I hadn't repaid him at all, because he just wouldn't accept anything. Suggesting I pay him would have been an affront to his friendship with Wyatt, and I couldn't think of what else to do. His house was tidy, he ate well, and was wanting for nothing, really.
And it was so confusing that despite his being very sociable with me and encouraging me to get out and meet people more, he only ever met me alone. I knew he had parties because I drove by one evening and saw several cars on his driveway, but he had never invited me.
Drew rose from his favorite armchair. Oddly enough, instead of just leaning over to grab the package, he walked behind me and put a hand on my shoulder. It sat there, the heat and heft palpable through my simple cotton t-shirt.
In the year that I'd been spending time with him, this was the closest that he had ever stood to me. If I but leaned back, I would be in contact with his crotch. How incredibly inappropriate. He must have sensed that awkwardness too, because though he kept his hand on my shoulder, he dropped to his knees behind my chair, his mouth coming to rest by my left ear, just above the other shoulder.
"How thoughtful of you," he rumbled slowly. There was something in his voice that made me turn to face him, and for a fleeting moment I wondered whether being that close to his crotch might not have been more appropriate after all. I felt him exhale slowly and would have taken in his breath if I could remember to breathe at all. Then his fingers trailed slowly down my opposite arm, leaving goosebumps in their wake, until they briefly encircled my wrist, and then grasped the box.
I drew a shaky breath. Nobody had held my wrist like that since Wyatt died, but I remembered telling Drew on one of my worse nights how I missed the way he held my wrists when we made love. I flushed, thinking of coupling with my husband while surrounded completely by his best friend.
I scrambled to recover some modicum of normality in the interaction, moving my face a few inches back from his, though this had the unfortunate effect of putting me more firmly in the embrace of his arm. "D-do you really like it and plan to put it up? It was just a silly gesture." Yes, just like the way his hand caressed my arm was probably just a silly gesture to him.
He rolled his bottom lip between his teeth before answering darkly, "It's going in my bedroom. I like the thought of having something of yours in my most intimate space, Elaine."
I blanched. That was wrong, so wrong. We weren't intimate. He was my dead husband's best friend, for God's sake! A husband I loved with every fiber of my being, whose sudden loss in a senseless mugging had left me barely keeping a grasp on reality for months. Drew was the one who kept me afloat in the early days, and I loved him dearly for it. But it was friendly love, surely.
There were two men to whom I owed complete and utter loyalty - Uncle Rick, who took me in after my parents died in a car crash. He raised me for nearly a decade and I wanted for nothing from the day I stepped into his home to the day he passed on from a heart attack while I was out at college. And Wyatt, sweet Wyatt, the street urchin that Uncle Rick had taken a chance on, who respected my uncle so much that he never looked at another woman for half a decade after being told that my future, once I graduated from college, was entrusted to him.
That night after fleeing, I held my wrist in my own hand, teeming with guilt. Drew's hands were smooth, having lived a life of comfort since birth, whereas Wyatt lived a rough life until Uncle Rick took him in at fourteen. I was five years his junior, and even though I couldn't quite understand what my uncle saw in him, I was impressed by how well he took to responsibility. By the time I came to live with Uncle Rick, Wyatt was already keeping my uncle's accounts and delivering newspapers at the crack of dawn every day for pocket change in addition to catching up on the studies he missed while he was out on the streets.
I'm so lost in the memories that I jump when the bedroom door opens. Master comes in with a tray of food. I tilt my head at him questioningly. Though we both cook, he hasn't brought me food in bed since the first time he took me on the table, when I was too sore to move after not having that sex in years.
"I thought since we're starting something new today, we could mark it with a celebratory breakfast. We'll eat and then you'll complete your first minute of pleasure for me."