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One thing that I know for sure: I am a pleaser. It's just a fact.
There is a significant percentage of people in society who are pleasers and I have often wondered why. There must be some sort of evolutionary reason to support this as a successful strategy for a member of the species to survive.
Has it been successful in my case? Well, I'll let you decide...
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Rosa arrived home later than normal and when she walked in the door, I could tell that she was a little tipsy.
That's okay with me. I'm not her wife.
We had been living together for over a year and we dated on and off for most of the ten years we've known each other before that. So, I'm used to her habits. I wasn't sitting around worrying about her or anything.
"Babe!" she said, as she hugged me. "Great news at work today! Mariana is leaving the company."
"Oh!" I said, confused. "She's one of your best friends there. That sucks, doesn't it?"
"She's fucking brilliant!" Rosa said, as she let me go and started to take off her coat. "That's the thing. She's prepared to start her own company and she wants me to be the head of the marketing department."
"That's awesome!" I said. "Are you... are you going to work for her?"
At this moment, I was battling the age-old worry about how a job change might affect our finances. Rosa worked as a manager in marketing at a large software company. She's really good at her job and makes a great salary and, well... I often make less than minimum wage, so... yeah. I'm kind of dependent on her.
We are both carnies. Or... we were. Unfortunately, our traveling show, 'El Circo de las Mujeres Curiosas' went belly up last year. It was a catastrophic thing for me. I was raised by the Mujeres Curiosas. My mother and I began traveling with the show when I was ten. One night when I was twelve, Luna and I had one of our sleepovers in the cat car. The next morning when I returned to mom and my berth, all her stuff was gone. The only thing left in the drawers were my sparkly performance leotards and the two sets of clothes that I owned.
She left a note which I had to get Aunty Jones to read to me. My mom said she had to go and find herself and that she would come back for me when she did. I didn't understand what any of that meant and accused Aunty of being too drunk to read the note correctly.
So, I was raised by the carnies. Aunty tried to teach me -- home school-style. But, academics was not really a thing for me. At the time, I thought I was just too dumb. I mean, I couldn't even read. Now, I know that I suffer from severe dyslexia. Well... still, you won't see me reading anything out loud in front of a bunch of people.
Rosa was seventeen when she joined the carnival as a barker. Even then, she was mature and beautiful. She has always had a way with words and her sense of joy is infectious. She could tease ten dollars for a ticket from the stingiest of hands.
We girls of the Mujeres Curiosas were thick as thieves and loyal to a fault. I loved every one of them and I always will. But, when the carnival shut down, our friend group was shattered. Rosa and I decided we would work together and survive.
Well... one year on, and Rosa works in an office and I work in a pastry shop, heating croissants in a microwave and delivering them to tables. I mean, I just deliver. I don't even take orders, so... tips aren't really a thing.
All this is to make the point that our contributions to household income were quite disparate.
But, I can't drag her down. We're still young. She should take risks and excel!
Rosa knows me and obviously detected my concerns. "Don't worry, Ana! She'll have seed money in no time. She'll be able to pay me. And tonight is a celebration of hope and success." Rosa threw her arms up in the air, smiling and spinning around a little off-kilter. "We're going to be rich, rich, rich!"
Rosa is so beautiful -- her long, dark hair, the shape of her smiling face, her beautiful eyes. It's hard not to get swept up in her enthusiasm. "Rosa!" I exclaimed. "You are brilliant! I love you so much!"
"And I love you, Raggedy!" Rosa smushed a sloppy kiss on my lips, then she said in a sing-song voice, "I got you a little present!"
"For me?" I squealed, rising up onto my tiptoes.
"Yes! But first I want you, naked in bed, and bring your Little Butt-y," Rosa said. "I'll meet you there after I pee!"
"Mmm! Mariana should quit her job more often!" I said, as I spun out of Rosa's arms and jogged off to the bedroom. My prior concerns were completely forgotten.
Perhaps, I am a little strange. Hey! I'm a carny. I'm supposed to be strange, right? Bohemian, at the least! So here's the thing. I love sex, of course. But, I love sex even more when I have a buttplug shoved up my backside. There's something about a little discomfort back there -- pressure placed at the exactly correct location -- it intensifies my orgasms to mind-shattering heights.
I've got a lovely little friend that Rosa and I named Little Butt-y. There's no better jumpstart to foreplay than when Rosa lubes up Little Butt-y and commands me to get on all fours with my derriere properly presented. The entire tone of our romp may be set by the care Rosa takes in installing Little Butt-y. Tonight, I'm hoping for hard and fast. I'm feeling really horny. My nipples are rock hard and aching. Maybe I should try for a spanking...
After getting Little Butt-y from her hiding place and arranging her opened display box enticingly on the pillow, I randomly 'threw' the clothes I had been wearing around the room. My panties somehow ended up hanging from the overhead light fixture. When Rosa arrived, I was sitting on the bed, naked, with my legs crossed and my hands folded daintily on my knee. I was grinning as though I were a perfectly proper, innocent girl.
"Something here seems amiss," Rosa said, in one of her terrible character voices. She walked up to the head of the bed. "Ah! Here is the guilty party!" She picked up Little Butt-y's box and quickly walked to the clothes hamper (I suppose, due to the lack of garbage can in the room), opened the lid and forcefully threw Little Butt-y in.
I gasped, speechless at first. "Wha... Noooo!!"
"Don't fret yourself, Puss. There's a new sheriff in town." Rosa produced a rectangular present wrapped in fancy silver lined paper.
"Huh? What is it? What is it?" I asked, shaking the package.