Part 1
Christine finally ended her engagement to Robert. In fact she broke off all contact with him. She didn't hate him. She appreciated him, and he was solicitous of her. But there had been little enough fire between them, and that had long since sputtered out. What troubled her most was that he hadn't seemed to notice. They'd still slept together; they'd still fucked. But she did it from a strange vantage point, floating off in her mind, as if she were watching strangers copulating. No voyeuristic thrill compensated for this desolation. She feared that if she tried to fix things, she would break instead. So she did her best to console him, to encourage him to find someone else, to not hurt him too badly.
And then it was done. The next few days turned to weeks, sliding by in a blur. She was quite lovely to look at--a long, lithe brunette. Body like a dancer's. So it was easy enough for her to date, and she accepted invitations from men she'd met through her work selling real estate, but her heart just wasn't in it. She didn't bed them. They were all Robert's understudies.
So after another bleak Saturday night at the neighborhood bar, having downed too many drinks (or perhaps not enough), she walked home, turned the key to the apartment door. Went in, and undressed. She lay in bed, waiting for sleep. A strange thought made its way into her hypnagogic state: She might find an answer in her dreams. She might find release. Then sleep took her, and she dreamed.
She found herself standing at the door of a fine old mansion. Lush, colorful landscaping surrounded the place. It seemed to be in a part of town she knew, given her occupation. Perhaps she'd driven by at some point in time. She rang the bell. The door opened. She was met by an absolutely stunning woman with skin like ivory, eyes of green, auburn hair. The woman wore a shockingly erotic outfit, perhaps like a French maid's, but starkly sexual. The woman's full breasts were exposed, as was her vulva. The costume (for costume it had to be-no one would otherwise wear something so frankly seductive) colored a deep purple, served only to draw one's eyes to her mouth, breasts, cunt.
The woman spoke. "My name is Pauline. I am here to guide you. This is only a dream, but there is truth in it. Come with me." Christine seemed to float through the red-carpeted rooms, following Pauline up the stairs to an opulent spa-like bath. Surrounding the sunken tub were erotic murals: women and men; women penetrated; women on their knees... Christine found herself somehow naked in the tub's scented water. The heat melted away her tension, her worries, her resistance. The tub then seemed to fade away, to be replaced by a luxurious Parlor. Somehow it seemed natural that she now was dressed exactly as Pauline was dressed. Her "maid's" costume fit her perfectly. But the scene that met her eyes took her breath away. She saw Pauline, kneeling before two men. The men were naked, their cocks throbbing. Pauline held one of the cocks in her hand, the other between her lips. Taking turns on one and then the other, her eyes were ablaze with both wild hunger and dark serenity, a strange mix of open defiance and deep submission. Their phalluses now dripping from Pauline's eager attention, the men began to rub themselves on her face, leaving glistening decoration on her perfect skin. She looked toward Christine, and beckoned her to approach. Christine, hungry to taste these men, drifted toward them, as Pauline withdrew. Gratefully falling to her knees, with a desperate, pleading look, she parted her lips to accept the first pulsating cock.
Then, to her astonishment and immeasurable grief, the scene faded, only to be replaced by the bizarre vision of a numeral, floating before her: The number "4". It was cruel to tear her from her aching need, only to find, instead, this grotesque enigma. Then she fell...
And she fell...and awoke in her own bed. A deep sob wracked her body, followed by a quiet litany of them. Her tears cleansed her soul. The sin of her betrayal of herself, the sin of believing that Robert might ever make her happy, had been washed from her. So, amidst her grief, she felt lighter, more herself than she had in years. There was some solace in that. She considered the meaning of the numeral "4," but found no explanation.
She showered. Still aroused from her dream, she touched herself as she bathed. She pictured herself truly taking Pauline's place, kneeling before the men, their cocks sliding back an forth in her hands; in and out of her mouth. She climaxed with her imaginary sex partners, finished her shower, and left for work.
She had an appointment to show a house, in an affluent area outside the city. She met with the clients, showed the house, but in a distracted fashion. She could not drive the images of the mysterious dream house and its erotically obsessed denizens from her mind. As she drove back towards the city, she had a curious sense of deja-vu, beyond her general familiarity with the neighborhood. It seemed that her House of Desire (as she came to think of it) must be just around the corner, as ridiculous as that had to be.
The rest of her day and evening came and went. It was neither interesting, nor troubling. It simply was. In her mind, the time had become merely a necessary prologue to her return to her bed, and to her dream. She ate at a restaurant, returned home, and prepared for sleep.
It came upon her quickly. And to her astonishment and gratitude, she found herself again standing before the door of the House. Again Pauline bade her enter. She bathed, and drifted into the Parlor, and found herself staring as Pauline pumped and fellated the men. Pauline withdrew, and Christine took her place. Her heart raced as she accepted the men into her mouth. Their cocks were large, stretching her lips, banging against the back of her throat. As she stroked these men toward ecstasy, her own desire burned. The skin at her collarbone flushed and darkened, her nipples grew hard and pointed, her clit throbbed, and her own juices ran down her legs. A moment later, she first sensed, and then saw, that there were others in the room, who moved out of the shadows to where she could make out their forms. There were at least ten men, aroused, staring at her performance. And there were women, stroking these men's cocks. At the realization that her own desperate erotic acts were on display, she went absolutely mad with desire. She saw, in a vision within the dream, these men endlessly using her, fucking her mouth, her cunt, her tits, anointing her with endless jets of cum. In that instant, the two men she was stroking and sucking erupted, their cocks pumping spurt after spurt of warm, translucent jizz all over her face. It ran in rivulets down her cheeks, and dripped from her lips onto her nipples. Though her clit hadn't been touched, her own orgasm tore through her.
Then she found herself drifting away from the house, floating between worlds. Another numeral appeared before her, this time, a "3". What could that possibly mean?
She awoke in her bed. It was nearly dawn. Her body was drenched in sweat, her thighs soaked from her cunt juices. She shook, violently, for a few seconds, and then the spasm subsided. She slipped back into (now dreamless) sleep.