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That was how the advertisement started:
"Services required.
We are looking for an obedient and quiet female servant-pet. You will be collared and perhaps more. You must be happy to suck clean the master's length once the lady of the house has finished riding it, and/or lick the master's seed out of the lady as required.
Diligence and fastidiousness are essential. Scheduling negotiable, but will mainly involve evenings and weekends.
Serious offers only. If interested, contact us at..."
No melodramatic capitalisation of 'master' and 'lady'. No crude 'cock', 'prick' or 'dick', yet as direct and explicit as necessary for all that. Seemingly nothing wasted. And as for the way that thinking of herself as a prospective 'servant-pet' made her feel... She read and re-read the ad a dozen times. Minutes past, eventually hours, and still she caught herself coming back to it again and again. Sitting alone in her room, the glow from her computer screen her only illumination, it became her obsession.
Answering the ad was a bold and unprecedented move for her, one she surprised (and shocked) herself with when she made it. She'd never actually tried to reply to an ad before! She only read them, only started visiting this salacious site in the first place, for the mix of scandalised fascination and vicarious thrill that came from imagining other people's sexual pecadillos through their steamy, often bizarre, and sometimes achingly desperate, anonymous notices.
Startling all over again was the speed of the response, left just long enough for her heartbeat to die down but just in time to nip in the bud any nascent despair or disappointment of rejection. The message itself made her breath catch in her throat; her pulse pounded around the edges of her consciousness. After all her time obsessing over the original ad, though, the composition was curiously unsurprising:
"We have considered your application with interest and would like you to visit us for an interview. This Friday at 8PM would be most convenient, however please let us know if you are unable to attend so that we may reschedule."
The affirmative reply seemed to fly automatically from her fingers. Two days to prepare. The doubts began to circle her mind immediately: what would she wear? What would they be like? How could she even go through with this, hadn't it all been a big mistake from the start? Paralysis threatened, but a tingling feeling she'd first felt on reading the advert had slowly come to dominate, and helped her shrug it down. Although they did not even know each other, had not yet progressed beyond scant messages sent impersonally across the digital void, still she felt committed already. Besides, as a small brave part of herself piped up, it wasn't as if she had any other plans for Friday night.
Although not quite sure of her own full control of herself, she went to work over the next couple of days on meeting the first of her self-imposed objections: what to wear. She had no idea what the appropriate dress for this situation might be, if it even existed. In truth, she'd never had to dress for anything near as outrageous as the meeting she was now contemplating, never so much as a clubnight hookup or furtive one-night stand. Even the sexlife she had was sensible, modest, safe. Just thinking of those adjectives made her heart sink with the leaden weight of the sad truth behind them. But then, the strange tingling returned.
She returned to the ad itself, the very source of her delirium: obedient and quiet, diligent and fastidious; no 'hot', no 'horny', not even an 'attractive'. That realisation released some pressure, while she wasn't ashamed of her own looks she could hardly think of herself as anything other than average: average height, or maybe a shade above it; average weight, maybe a little more curved in parts than she was entirely comfortable in admitting; medium-length hair of a medium-brown and eyes of a clear but hardly gem-like hazel. Privately, she felt that her lips were just a touch too big for the face surrounding them, worried she came across looking like a blow-up doll. It seemed that, for once, that little quirk of her features might actually be an asset.
So, 'servant-pet'. Not 'maid', or anything so provocative. Unconsciously her fingers rose to brush the hollow of her throat where the collar would presumably sit, her lips parting in response to the touch with a softly exhaled realisation not bold enough to be a gasp. Feeling chastened in some obscure way, belatedly she let her hand drop back to her lap. Guilt blossomed, and she found herself suddenly revelling in it. It made the tingle increase. Forcing herself to focus, she went back to planning her ensemble.
Nothing so slutty as clubwear, which she had none of anyhow and would presumably have had to order in a hurry; that went double for any kind of fetishy leather or latex, and any maid or servant 'uniform'; but then the kind of suits she'd worn to actual real interviews in the past would seem far too staid and formal. All that, of course, was before even a cursory consideration of the question of underwear, the only answer to which she could muster at the moment was... Yes? Probably?
Through the haze of anticipation, she kept up a steady exchange of messages with her new acquaintances. Past the neutral, businesslike tones of their initial correspondence, their conversations became warmer, more personal: she found out that they lived not far from her, had been married for more than fifteen years since around the time they were her own age, comfortable jobs and no children; in return, she confided that she was looking for more in life, nervous but eager to break out of the shell she'd shut herself up in since starting work after university, had no intimate friends but nevertheless longed for some greater form of intimacy. If she shared too much she didn't notice, all of it spilling out too swiftly and naturally for her to stem. Nonetheless, it helped soothe the still-prickly doubt in her mind and brought her a certain confidence enough to break the deadlock of her decision-making.
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Thus it was that she turned up on the unfamiliar doorstep, five minutes before eight that Friday. Beneath her long jacket she had settled on a cream-coloured silk blouse, one of the more expensive items in her wardrobe and one that had grown somewhat tighter over time. Indeed, if it weren't for the former attribute then the latter might well have seen it disposed of, she had never been bold enough before to go out in the now rather chest-hugging garment. The skirt she wore was a quietly lustrous deep navy blue and cut modestly to an inch or so above the ankle, although its snug hem hugged her hips and rear to an extent she was acutely conscious of. She knew she'd filled out a little around there, as well, at least since several years ago when she'd last bought herself some actual nice clothes.
Her fingers surprised her again by ringing the doorbell without expressed permission, the domestic jangle seemingly sudden and loud in the cool night air. More nerves, and the roar of blood rushing behind her eardrums building quickly until the door cracked open, swung inward...
"Hi there my dear!" the woman behind the door- the lady of the house- smiled warmly in welcome. In her late thirties or possibly early forties, a good few inches shorter, she had a slim figure and slightly sharp, severe features which were nevertheless belied by her cheerful expression, framed by a bob of hair the colour of dusty golden straw. The slinky black evening dress she wore, hanging straight down her slender frame, was slit up one leg to allow for a seamless, liquid freedom of movement as the lady stepped back to beckon her in. She seemed the image of a '20s flapper girl, wanting perhaps only for a circlet-band in her hair.
"Hello!" a quick, flashed smile as she started forward, almost a scurry; nervous anticipation building as she stepped across the threshhold, "It's nice to meet you. I'm-"