(Author's note: This episode is the most upsetting one in this story, both because it contains an incident of non-consensual sex, happening to the narrator, and it also involves a death and themes of grief and mourning. Please avoid if you have triggers. There's also some pee play. Because that's how I roll, sometimes.)
A week later, it was evening.
Ciara and I were in her room. She was wearing a white bathrobe. I was indeed wearing a white coat over my ordinary clothes.
Ciara sat on the edge of her bed with her hands in her lap. She had just come out of the shower, and the ragged hairs on the top of her head hung down in damp trails over her forehead. Her skin had cleared up a bit. She looked up at me, rather nervous. No joking around.
'All right,' she said. 'What can I expect.'
'It's very important that you relax,' I said. 'I'm gonna use a lot of lube, but if you don't relax, you could hurt yourself.'
'Okay.'
'It will probably help if you... arouse yourself a bit first, so you're looking forward to it. Have you had fantasies about this?'
'Once or twice, yeah,' she said, going pink.
'What did you imagine it'd be like?'
'Kind of like I had a magical second vagina which was naughty and forbidden,' she said.
I couldn't help smiling, and she mock-slapped my arm.
'Well, I dunno what's like to have someone in my vagina, obviously, but I don't think it would be like this.'
'Right.'
'It's more like someone's using you. In a sexy way. Treating you like dirt.'
'Hmmm.'
'Does that sound like something you'd like to try?'
We had agreed that, if at any point she decided she didn't want to do what we had planned to do, she could say a safe word and I would stop.
I was curious, most of all, to see what it would be like to do this: would we fall apart in laughter? Would it be just uncomfortable and pointless? Would Ciara find it upsetting? Or would she, just possibly, enjoy it?
I knew that if the tables were turned, and I were about to lie on my bed and be sodomised by her with a dildo, I would be panting in anticipation. But I wasn't her.
She looked off behind me for a moment, then took a deep breath and swallowed.
'Yeah,' she said. 'I want to be treated like dirt.'
'Well, you're going to have to imagine some of it, because I'm not calling you names.'
'Fine,' she said, and looked at the bed, and looked up at me.
'Well,' I said, 'better get ready.'
She nodded, took off her glasses and put them on the nightstand, then took off her robe, and got on the bed and lay on her stomach, her face turned away from me.
I looked down at Ciara's naked body, and I felt a wave of fondness for her.
I liked her weird sense of humour. Her strangeness. (I had once casually asked her if she'd ever wondered if she was neurodivergent, and she'd replied 'Of course I'm neurodivergent, you fuckin' eejit' without even raising her voice from a mild-mannered drawl. The thing was, I couldn't even tell if she meant it. Which made me wonder if I was neurodivergent.)
I liked that she trusted me. I didn't even trust myself. I didn't feel like I knew who I was, and yet she trusted me enough to push me to follow through on the promise I'd made, that I'd help her with her issues about her body and intimacy and sex and doing things she was uncomfortable with, but wanted to do.
... Anyway. I was with Adrian. And he was going to refine me and make me a better person.
Ciara reached underneath herself and her hips shifted a bit, and her hand started working at herself. She sighed.
'Oh yeahh,' she said.
'Feeling good?'
'... I've felt worse.'
'Let me know when you want me to start.'
'Okay,' she said in a tight voice. 'Gimme a minute.'
It took her about five minutes, but then, as she was squirming slightly on the bed and starting to pant, she gave me a thumbs up with her other hand.
I picked up the lube in one hand and squirted some on my fingers, and then carefully reached between her buttocks and smeared it deep in there. She made a little gasp.
'Okay?' I said.
'Mm-hm.'
I touched her anus, and stroked it. She made a little whimper: 'Ah!'
I kept massaging it. Her hips were moving back and forth. Her face was turned away from me, the shaggy locks of hair from the top of her head falling over the side of it, so I couldn't see her expression. I sensed that part of her was, despite all her bravado, more than a bit embarrassed to be doing this, but that that wasn't going to stop her.
I pressed at her anus and pushed my finger slightly.
'Ahhh!' she moaned, and stopped moving her hips.
'Okay?' I said.
She paused, then nodded.
I slowly, gently worked my index finger into Ciara's ass, and she shivered and made a sort of whimpering gasp.
'Ahhh-h-h!'
'Want me to stop?'
'Oh god.'
I placed a calming hand on the base of her spine.
'Seriously, want me to stop?'
'No... what is that?'
'That's just my finger.'
'Not the toy?' She sounded worried.
'No. Just loosening you up.'
'Oh fuck,' she moaned.
I began to move my finger back and forth inside her, and she shuddered.
'Oohhhh...'
'Is that okay?'
'Ohhh... I dunno yet... don't stop.'
I moved my finger around, making her feel me, pushing it deeper in. She made another trembling whimper. I watched her keenly, trying to see if she was genuinely uncomfortable.
'I'm here,' I said. 'Are you ready for more?'
'A bit more first,' she gasped.
I took out my index finger and replaced it with my larger middle finger. Ciara made another shaky gasp as it went in.
I pushed some more for a couple of minutes, and then, as her breathing seemed to become less tense and more relaxed, I put my hand on her bare shoulder.
'You ready now?'
'Yeah,' she panted.
I took out my finger and picked up the wobbly pink dildo, glistening with lube.
'This is bigger,' I said, 'so you're gonna really need to relax yourself down there, okay?'
'Okay,' she whimpered.
I put the head of the dildo between her buttocks and pushed it into the cleft. She made another of her panicky whimpers.
'If you open your legs, and roll a little onto one side,' I said, 'it'll help.'
She parted her legs and shifted her torso, and I leaned over her to make sure I was getting the angle right.
Then I pressed the head of the dildo against Ciara's anus, and saw it open up the tight bud of muscle and slip inside her.
'Oh fffffuck,' she yelped.
'Are you okay?'
'Mmmmmmmnnnn...'
'You probably feel like you want to shit,' I said. 'That's natural. Don't worry.'
'Ooohhh...'