*Bzzzt bzzzt bzzzt*
I came to my senses mildly confused. Had I? Yeah. I'd slept.
My phone was slowly dancing sideways across the table.
I managed to pry myself away from the warm pillows under my shoulders, and grabbed for it.
It was Catherine calling. I instantly felt the corners of my mouth lift a little.
She was... what time was it? Yeah, okay, little after six in the afternoon. She was just off from work.
"Hey hot stuff." I tried my best to stifle a yawn.
"Hi... can you come over please?"
There was something in her voice that flushed every bit of sleepiness out of my system.
"Is something wrong? Is it urgent?"
"No. I mean... Look. Can you just come over?"
"Yeah. On my way. I'm there in like, 20. Okay?"
"Okay."
And the call went dead.
"I need you" was never spoken. But it was undeniably there, only left unsaid.
I quickly checked myself over. Slacks, t-shrit, good enough. Threw on a jacket, and... keys?
Keys? Keys? Keys? Why the fuck did my keys always want to play hide and seek?
Finally I was on my way.
I had no idea what was up with Catherine. I was not afraid, or worried. I was just... I don't know.
She was tough as nails, she was smart, she could take care of herself. Having her call me sounding so empty, was strange. If something was urgent, if she genuinely needed help, or if she was hurt, she would have said.
It was still so out of the ordinary, it didn't take me 20 minutes to get there, it took me less.
When I hit her doorbell, she didn't even ask. The crackling tinny voice on the door phone just said "Come on up."
She met me at the door. In a hug that felt a little closer to an attempted body-tackle. The following kiss had a faint taste of white wine to it.
"Hi!" was all I could say at first.
"Hi." came the muffled response, from a face buried in my chest.
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"No. No I don't. But I want you to come take a shower about it with me. Please?"
I was not to deny a request like that.
It took just a minute before we were squeezed together under the hot running water, inside a shower that was meant to fit one person preferably smaller than me to begin with. But we were very comfortable squeezing together, we were very comfortable with one of us being pressed up against the cheap plexiglass walls.
Catherine did not offer much in the way of an explanation. But she was very passionately pressing up against me, while our mouths melted softly together, and hands wandered.
And so we showered together about whatever was wrong, until the hot water tank stopped living up to its name, and we eventually had to evacuate before the water grew outright cold.
Then we spent a little more time with hands running over one another. This time with towels as an excuse.
No words were spoken. And I was not going to press the issue.
And no words were spoken as Catherine led me out of the bathroom and out into the bedroom/living room/kitchenette/literally-every-other-room-that-wasn't-the-bathroom of her small studio apartment, and had us headed towards the bed.
She pushed me down on it, straddled my midriff, and grabbed a scarf that was coming up from behind the bed.
We mostly hung out at my place simply because it was larger. But we did use hers as well. And since we both liked to have fun with sex, her bed did offer certain "amenities" we liked. I had gotten four big solid iron rings, that were slotted onto the legs at each corner of the bed. Four scarves tied to those iron rings, meant that it was indeed very possible to be tied to said bed.
It had so far been Catherine's clear preference to be the one tied up. In this particular moment, instead it was my wrists that were being held to the corners of the bed, while scarves were being looped around my wrists and tied down with determination.
"What have I done to deserve this?" I asked, with a smile.
"Don't. You don't need to talk right now."
Catherine placed a hand over my mouth, while looking around for a second, an almost sardonic smile crossed her face, as she reached out and grabbed for something. A pair of her panties were in her hand. And instead of covering my mouth, she grabbed my jaw and held my mouth open, and stuffed my mouth, gagging me.
"Wh hh fhk Khthnh!?" I asked, by brow furling, a little bit of hot anger flashing through me, lifting my neck of the mattress.
Reaching behind her, Catherine's hand wrapped itself around the root of my cock. I could feel the nails of two of her fingers digging into the base of my balls, at one of the most sensitive spots on my entire body.
"Listen. This is the only explaining I am going to do. I've had a shitty day. And I don't know right now if I want to eat and entire pan of brownies, or scream, or kill one of my co-workers, or kill one of my co-workers with a pan of brownies while screaming."
The words came bubbling out of her in true Catherine free-form rant. Her mouth tended to open and start moving, and sometimes, everybody involved would be surprised to see where the sentence would end up, including Catherine herself.
Her hand squeezed my cock, tugging a little, while the two fingertips kept doing something a part of my brain was finding very interesting actually.
"And none of these things will really help right now. So instead, what I rather want to do, is to gorge myself on you. So my brain gets to switch off a little."
She tugged and squeezed the base of my cock while she spoke. The little spark of anger that had been in me, had had it relaxing ever so slightly, but the touches were having it point determinedly at the ceiling again.
"Now. You get to say no. Of course you do. If you don't want to. But it would help me a lot if you could be a good boy right now. And be quiet about it, with no being concerned about me, and no joking around. Can you do that for me you think?"
Catherine was headstrong as fuck. She was hard as nails. And she was also the sweetest and most giving submissive in the bedroom. But right now there was something else about her. It was a little alien to see her looking determined and steely in bed. And at the same time she looked so vulnerable and with her soul laid bare as she sat there naked and straddling me, with eyes that were drilling into me in a mix between being one bad word away from tears, mixed with deadpan earnestness.
I nodded, "Mh mh'hm."
"Good boy."
Her middle finger reached a little lower, and my eyes widened in surprise and mild fear as her fingernail rasped over some other highly sensitive part of me an inch and a half lower than the base of my balls.
"But I want absofuckinglutely no goofing around of any kind. Do you understand me?"
"Mh mh'hm!" I confirmed, my eyes wide.
"Good."
She gave the sphincter clenched in fear what you could be described as a *boop* with her fingertip.
She began moving herself, shifting from side to side as she walked herself up my chest.
"Because when I remove this gag, I do not want a single word out of you."