We rested for a while, just lying side by side, touching, soft kisses, light tickles. Mostly resting.
I brushed my fingertips across her cheek where there was a definite bruise forming and she was a little swollen. I could see her wince a little.
"I'm sorry," I said, leaning over and kissing her bruised cheek lightly, "I bruised your pretty face."
Her eyes got big and she rolled away from me before I could catch her. Damn the woman could be quick. She literally ran into the bathroom.
I followed, more slowly, and when I got into the bathroom she was looking in the mirror. No, she was more than that, she was leaning forward, her nose almost touching the mirror. She was studying herself in the mirror. Her fingertips were tracing the bruise and the slight swelling.
I moved closer, lightly touching her shoulder, and said very softly, "I'm sorry."
When she turned to face me she was smiling. Not the Grin but a real smile, taking ten years off of her face.
"Let's go out somewhere," she said, bouncing a little from foot to foot like a little girl with a big secret. "Let's go shopping where you can buy me all those things that will embarrass me and everyone can see how you marked me."
"Sammee," I said again, "I'm so sorry."
"No," she said, still smiling broadly, "no, don't you see? This is better than a brand. You marked me where everybody can see and I WANT them to see. I want EVERYBODY to know I am yours."
She stopped and took a deep breath.
"Please, David, please," and she was smiling, "take me somewhere public. Make me wear things that show how completely I am yours. Show the world."
When I didn't say anything for a few seconds she took my hand and placed it on her cheek.
"Are you ashamed?" she asked.
I nodded.
"Don't be honey," she said, "I'm not. I'm proud. I LOVE my new look."
I still said nothing and she flashed the Grin.
She caressed my hand and said, "slap me again then. Do it knowing it's what I want. Make my face swell up like this," and she blew out the cheek that already had a bruise on it.
"No," I said, "I won't do that."
"Then take me out and show the world you've claimed me," she said.
And I gave in. I realized that on some level this was even more, well, kinkier? weird? crazy? something anyway. I couldn't tell if I was now the one in charge or if I was being sucked into something from which I couldn't see the outcome.
The truly frightening thing was, my hand itched to feel the sting as I slapped her again.
She knew it too.
"Do it," she said, she dared, tilting her head, offering her cheek to me.
"Sammee, no," I said, but I could feel my resistance weakening.
"Fuckpig," she said.
"Okay," I said, "a compromise."
That stopped her.
"Compromise?" she said.
"Right now we clean up and go shopping. I'm going to put you in things you would never imagine wearing," I said. "And I'll start researching and I'll find us places that, well, share our interests. Together we'll find a place that suits your kinks. Fair enough?'
She smiled, a wide smile.
"Okay." She looked at me, doing the one eyebrow thing, and said, "MY kinks?"
I chuckled and said, "Okay, our kinks."
We showered together and then got dressed.
I liked watching her do her makeup. She giggled and said, "wanna help?"
"Maybe someday," I said, "but you need to show me how."
As I watched she did her face, a light base, some blush, just basic makeup.
It was her eyes that really made the difference in her look. Her brows were delicately arched and a bright blue shadow highlighted her lids. Then she put on heavy dark lashes. When she was done, oddly, the bruise on her face was even more obvious.
She was fucking gorgeous.
She brushed her hair quickly and then did a quick turn.
She was actually beaming.
"Approve?"
"You are absolutely stunning," I told her.
I got into her closet and rummaged through. It was funny. When I had met her at Roger's wedding she had on the sort of thing you would expect of a classic big beautiful woman comfortable in her size. The skirt had been black and a little above her knee but with a fringe bottom that took it below her knee. Her top had been a bright turquoise color with a scooped neck that showed plenty of cleavage. In her closet, though, almost everything I found was designed to hide her size. Shapeless dresses, brown was the predominant color, flared leg slacks, equally shapeless blouses, all quite opaque.
So I made a quick audible. I had been planning on dressing her in something interesting. Instead, I found the dowdiest dress I could, in brown, not a bright burnt sienna or anything, but a drab brown. Heavy pantyhose, granny panties that could have doubled for a parachute for a good-sized animal, one of her industrial-strength white bras with eight (by my actual count) hooks, and clunky, almost military-looking flat shoes.
"We'll start with this," I said, handing her the pile I had made, "now get dressed."
While she was dressing I opened my little Google Chromebook and started researching.
My first search was for "clothing stores for fat women in Denver." I started through the 17 million hits and figured I needed to refine things.
In the end, I had a list of a half dozen stores that seemed likely and another half dozen clubs to visit.
When I closed the Chromebook and looked up I was fascinated. Her face looked good but in her brown outfit, she could not have looked more like a frumpy librarian. She was smiling.
"The thing I find amazing," I said, "is that is just about typical of what you have in your closet."
"I told you," she said, giggling a little, "I'm usually not the wild and crazy girl you know."
"Well," I said, "let's go change that. But just so you know, we'll need YOUR credit card."
She smiled and said, "of course."