The events and characters depicted in this work of fiction are derived solely from the author's imagination. Any similarity to any real persons, places, or events is purely coincidental.
Tags: Bondage, Submission, Slave, Public Sex, Exhibitionism, Whore, Bitch, Lesbian
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CHAPTER ONE
I don't really remember when I started to recognize that something was going on. There were a couple of times when I was younger when I thought I'd seen something, but the memories were hazy and indistinct. It wasn't until that one morning that I actually noticed that something strange was happening.
"Mom, what'd you do to your arm?" I asked as she flipped pancakes on a Saturday morning. Her arm had what looked like a big raw red mark on it just above her wrist.
"It's nothing." She shifted a bit to make it harder for me to see and adjusted her bathrobe to cover her wrist.
"Seriously, what'd you do?" Concerned that she'd hurt herself somehow, I got up from the table to stand behind her. Reaching around past her waist, I pulled her sleeve up. Her arm had deep twisted grooves around it which looked exactly like someone had tied her wrists together with a rope. Tightly.
"Crista Bennel!" She slapped me with the spatula, connecting with it on the back of my hand. "Get your hands off of me! This instant!"
Surprised, I stepped back and shook my hand where she'd hit me. Seconds later my mom threw the spatula onto the floor and stalked off. By the way she was walking I could tell she was really pissed about something. Having no real clue to what I'd done wrong, I looked at my dad sitting at the table reading the morning paper.
Nothing. The paper shifted and rattled a bit as he turned the page, but that was it. Not that I'd expected anything more than that, my dad didn't seem to care about much that went on in the house. He never had, not really. Mostly it was my mom who raised me, my dad just going to work every morning during the week and coming home in the evening to sit and watch the TV until bedtime.
He worked hard and I know that he cared about me and my mom, he just didn't show it. Not like other people's dads did. The way he treated me and my mom was different but I didn't really think about it that way because it'd been like that my whole life. To me it was just the way things were. Plus he was my dad and if he was a little bit odd; so what? He was still my dad.
Picking up the spatula I gave it a quick wash in the sink then used it to finished flipping the pancakes on the griddle before they burned. Done with that I shifted until I could look in the direction my mom had gone. She was probably upstairs in her bedroom. Well, her half of the bedroom anyway. My mom and my dad didn't share a bed, they had two separate beds they slept in.
Which was odd too.
I finished making the pancakes and set the loaded serving plate onto the table in the center. Snagging a couple, and transferring them to my plate, I silently added butter and syrup, eating them while my dad kept reading his paper. My mom never came back down from upstairs. When I knocked on her door after cleaning up and doing the breakfast dishes, she didn't answer. Concerned, I jiggled the door knob but it was locked.
"Crista, I'm busy." The words came through the locked door after I knocked a second time.
"Can we talk?" I jiggled the door knob again. "Please?"
"Not right now."
"Mom..."
"Crista, I have to get ready for work." There was a pause. "We can talk later but not right now."
The water for the shower started running as I lifted my hand to knock again. Defeated, I did what she wanted and left her alone.
I was in the middle of a game of Jewel Rush, with my highest score ever, when she came downstairs wearing a long sleeved blouse and a skirt. Her hair was up and she had on her favorite necklace. She always wore it to work saying that the iridescent titanium chain was better than anything else because it was feather light and unbreakable.
I thought it was clunky, since the links were the size you'd see on a dog collar and I knew she had other jewelry she could wear. It didn't matter, she still chose that necklace for work. Which made no sense because for all its light weight and supposedly non irritating metal composition, it sometimes seemed to give her a rash.
Without even glancing my way, she grabbed her purse from the little table in the front hall where she kept it and headed out the door, digging her keys out as she went. I dropped my phone on the couch and almost ran out the door after her. I was halfway to the car when she closed and locked the doors before starting the engine. I knocked on her window but she didn't even look at me before putting the car in gear and backing out of the driveway. Seconds later she was driving away down the street.
Totally mystified about why she was acting this way, I went back inside. My dad had moved from the kitchen table into the living room and turned on the TV while I was chasing after my mom. He ignored me when I retrieved my phone before going upstairs to my bedroom. My mom had just dissed me like I didn't matter to her and my dad didn't care. Worse, I didn't know what to do about it.
I was doing my best not to cry when the phone downstairs started ringing. Knowing my dad wouldn't answer it, I stumbled down the steps to pick up the receiver.
"Hello?"
"Virginia, my car won't start and Hank has already left for work. Can you give me a lift to the store?" Mrs. Darcy's voice came through the phone, she and my mom both worked at the same Bed, Bath & Beyond and were good friends.
"Hi Mrs. Darcy, it's Crista. Mom's already gone." I told her that my mom wasn't there before an idea hit me. "I can take you if you want, I'm not doing anything right now."
"Can you?" She jumped at my offer. "I'll pay for the gas."
"Sure. I can come get you right now if you want."
"Crista, you're a lifesaver. Anytime you can get here I'll be waiting."
Less than a minute later I was on my way out the door heading for my beat up Corolla. It wasn't much of a car, but it was reliable. My mom had bought it for me so she wouldn't have to worry that I'd be stranded somewhere because of a breakdown. Mrs. Darcy's husband was a mechanic and he did the tune ups and other stuff when it needed repairs and my mom paid him for the work he did. It was a pretty cool arrangement. At least for me.
Rolling up in front of the Darcy's place, I beeped the horn a couple of times. Immediately, Mrs. Darcy hurried out of her house and opened the car door to get in.
"Thank you Crista, I really appreciate this." She slammed the door closed and tried to give me a twenty. "For gas."
"Mrs. Darcy, that's too much." I didn't want to take it even though twenty bucks would go a long way and I wouldn't have to bug my mom for money.
"Here." She thrust it at me again. "A taxi would cost me a fortune so this is cheap in comparison."
"You're sure?" I put the Corolla into gear but didn't take the cash.
"Yes." She leaned way over and tucked the bill into my T shirt. "I'm already late for work."
I drove straight to the store and dropped Mrs. Darcy off at the red painted curb out front. After thanking me again, she turned and went inside. Scanning the lot, I spotted an empty parking space and got there before anyone else did. Hustling into the store, I looked around trying to spot my mom. She wasn't going to be able to run away from me again. Not here.
Mom wasn't anywhere on the floor that I could see. I didn't even see Mrs. Darcy. Swiftly walking the main corridor that ran around the perimeter of the store, I made my way to the back thinking that if she wasn't out front, my mom had to be in the stockroom. Carefully I peeked in between the spring loaded double doors. Throwing a glance over my shoulder to see if anyone was watching, I slipped through the gap and ducked to one side, using the fire extinguisher mounted on the wall nearby as partial cover.