The convention was insane, I had never seen anything like it. Pleasures Of Life wasn't your average convention with a few stalls with chocolates and free massages, or coaches telling you how to enjoy life.
Pleasures Of Life was out of proportions. There was over a hundred meeting rooms and auditoriums in the congress and exhibition center, and it was placed in the middle of Los Angeles, one of the most populated areas in the US. The place cramped with people.
I had only been walking around for a half hour and I was still in the first exhibition hall, which worked as an information center and map about the rest of the convention, making it easy to navigate the massive place. Also making it easy to avoid the rooms with exhibitions that you would find less pleasurable.
And you could find everything here. A large area was dedicated to food, the pleasures of tasting food. The sweet and the sour along with the salty, the hot and the cold. Delicacies from around the world filled the rooms with new scents, assaulting your every senses.
There was also the nasty corners. Or what I would consider nasty, and other people would consider delicious. But that was what the convention was about. Pleasures Of Life, even those that didn't made sense.
Liquid pleasures was in an adjoining room. Wine and champagne, beer and soda, cognac and brandy both expensive and cheep.
Then there was massages, of course. No convention without free massages. Deep tissue to soothe sore and stressed muscles. Hot stones and bamboo massages, along with the more hardcore stuff such as small women walking on your back with spiked shoes.
All of this seemed normal, but in the corners of the enormous center was were the more unusual stuff was exhibited. Everything from roleplay and crossdressing, to bizarre books and art, to sex toys and luxurious home decor.
It was my roommate Alexandra who had made sure I would get in for free and with a VIP pass. How she had gotten the passes for me and herself, I had no idea, she had abandoned me when we arrived and by now she had been gone for a few hours.
It took another hour before I saw her standing at one of the many staircases leading down to the basement and VIP area. She smiled and waved me over. I considered ignoring her, since she had abandoned me, but she wasn't the kind of person you ever said no too, or she would give you such a strict look that would give you a bad conscience immediately.
"There you are," she said and tugged my arm under hers. "I've been looking for you."
"Looking for me?" I gave her an irritated look. "You were the one who left."
She smiled at me, her brown eyes twinkling mischievously and started leading me down the stairs. "Well, you'll forgive me, since I have been preparing a surprise for you."
"I hate surprises," I said grumpily. "And you know that."
"Yes I do, but I don't care, 'cause I'm going to show you the real world of pleasure."
Down in the basement we stopped at a pair of double doors and showed our VIP passes to two bulky looking men, who was clearly there to make sure that trouble makers stayed out. It made me wonder about what was in the VIP area, since it wasn't described at the information center on the ground floor.
I didn't even get an answer to my wonders behind the doors. There was another staircase leading even further down, then another pair of doors and bulky men checking our passes another time.
The only thing that indicated that we were headed towards something, anything, was the sound of music. Not quite loud enough for it to be club music, but still loud enough to drown out laughter and talking.
"If there's another staircase I'm turning around," I said.
"Why? Worried that your in such a bad shape that you won't be able to make it up again?"
I rolled my eyes. "Very funny, but no. It just feels like we're getting closer and closer to hell."
Alexandra laughed out loud. "Not quite."
The doors in front of us opened, amplifying the music and gave us a full view of the VIP area, and it was even more crazy down here then it had been upstairs.
Burlesque and circus was the words I would use as a title for what I saw. This down here made the sex toy exhibition upstairs look like a single person flea market. The basement was like an entire convention on it's own, and it made me gasp and blush deep red.
Male and female strippers were dancing on podiums, acrobats were hanging from the ceiling in ropes and giant hoops doing all kinds of tricks. Fire breathers lit up the darkened exhibition hall, along with five big screens depicting erotic photos and movies.
"Oh my god," I said, unable to tear my eyes away from the scenery. "What the hell did you get me into."
Alexandra laughed at my shocked expression. "Relax, no one here is going to bite you. Unless you want them too of course."
My proper lady raised mind screamed at me to look away as Alexandra dragged me through the crowd, but I couldn't. I didn't know if it was shock or awe that made me stare at the different acts being played out.
A naked woman was artfully lying on a glass table with chocolate all over her, and people using fruit, crackers and marshmallows to wipe it of her, and then eating it. Her and everyone around clearly enjoying it.
Next to her a naked man cut like a Greek God was acting as a plate same as her, but with honey instead of chocolate. It seemed that everything that was eatable was being eaten off of naked people, while drinks also were being served by naked men and women.
In the middle of the enormous hall a big stage was set up and I stopped dead at the sight of the performers. Two men and three women was doing the dirty work, for all to see. One of the women was on all four and was being taken from behind by one of the men, while her face was buried in another woman's pussy who was lying on her back beneath her. The last woman was busy swallowing the other mans cock and playing with his balls. All of it was being filmed and showed on one of the big screens for everyone to see.
"Come on, Miss Horny," Alexandra's voice startled me. "Or you'll be late for your surprise."
I gaped at her. "You can't seriously mean that my surprise is in here, can you?"
My roommate smirked at me. "You'll see."
"You know, I think I might take a pass."
She lifted her eyebrow and gave me her sternest look. "Oh no you won't. I'm about to save you from your boring life, and I'm not going to let you ruin it. Besides, your going to love it, I swear."
I had always been the kind of person who wanted to please everyone, and as I'd said, you never said no to Alexandra. So I followed her with my heart pounding in my chest, wondering if I was about meet my certain death.
I tried to keep my eyes downcast as we continued through the crowd, but it was hard. Especially when you saw a man and a woman in two cages eight feet above the floor, with the woman stroking the mans cock through the bars. The two of them laughing at each other.
It seemed like it took an eternity before we reached the far end of the hall, and I breathed a sigh of relief. We had reached a roped of entrance to a new room, with a fifth bulky man guarding the door. A big sign next to him read "Main Event, 08.00 PM".
It wasn't an exhibition room we entered, but a theater, Roman Amphitheater style with rows of seats forming a half circle around the stage below us.
The theater was empty except for two handymen who was setting up several of metal trunks. They were supervised by two men and a woman who occasionally directed a trunk to be moved to a different place on the stage.
We walked down the many steps and the supervising men and woman turned towards us.
"So is this our lucky girl?" the woman asked. She had dark red hair and blue eyes, she was dressed in tight black pants and white dress shirt with several of buttons open, revealing the black corset she had on underneath.
"She sure is," Alexandra answered and looked at me. "Megan, I would like you to meet my coworkers. Why don't we all go out back and go through whats going to happen."
I couldn't help but feeling nervous under the look of Alexandra's coworkers, especially the men. One had dark hair and eyes, delicious mocha colored skin with amazing facial features. He was dressed in dark jeans and a long sleeved gray t-shirt. The other man had equally dark hair but light skin and piercing green eyes, his black suit made them stand out even more.
Backstage Alexandra gave me a bottle of water and sat me down on a small couch, while the others sat in armchairs around me. I felt small with their curious eyes looking me up and down.
"Okay Megan," Alexandra was almost business like as she started the conversation. "Let me start by saying that I haven't been completely honest with you."
It took me a couple of seconds before I registered the words. "What do you mean?" I asked hesitantly.
"I've told you that I work in an office, but I don't. Well, we do have offices, but sitting behind a desk isn't our main occupation," she explained herself slowly with her eyes on mine, making sure that I was following her. "We own a very popular establishment named "Lust & Pains". It's a dungeon."
A dungeon? "What, like Dungeons & Dragons?" I asked and the redheaded women and the mocha-licious man laughed.
"She's cute," the green eyed man said with a silky voice.
"Indeed she is," Alexandra smiled. "But no, it's not Dungeons & Dragons. It's BDSM."
My jaw dropped. I had lived together with her for three years, how could I not have known this? She was only twenty-eight and she ran her own business with three other people, why hadn't I gotten her recipe for success.
Then it dawned on me.
"Oh, your joking," relief surged through me and I laughed. "Oh god, thank you."
But no one else laughed. They all had the same steel and stern look on their faces. "Your not joking?" I continued.
"Far from," the green eyed man said. "And so far your in for a hell of a punishment."