Author's note:
This is the end of this story, at least for now. In the elaborate outline I sketched out for this story (now over four years ago!) this section actually marks the halfway point, or the end of "Part I" overall. And of the two dozen story-segments on the rest of the outline, there are actually several in various states of completion. But life being what it is right now, I don't think they're going to make it onto the page any time soon. Someday, hopefully. And, probably, there will be other stories to come before those. In any case, thanks for reading... and even if it's been a while since I've posted a story, I do keep an eye out here and on my "special" email, so feel free to send along your thoughts, fantasies, lewd photos or requests for same. Cheers!
10.a: The end of privacy, part 1
I was naked, standing just inside the side-door to my apartment building. My clothes, wallet and phone were locked in the heavy camping cooler I was holding in front of me. They'd been locked there all weekend long while I was out on a road trip, serving as a sort of bondage slave to my friend James while he was attending a comic convention.
I had just found out, when James had dropped me off, that he never even had the key to the lock on the cooler! One of Sir's blue-shirted couriers had it, and was presumably about to give it back to me after letting me into the building.
Or it wouldn't be quite that simple.
"I'll meet you up by your door," he said, turning to walk away from me. "I'm taking the elevator."
And I guess I'm taking the stairs
.
Sneaking up and down high-rise stairwells was not something I thought I'd be getting used to, but it was something I'd done a bunch over the past three months since I'd found my keyholder. It felt a bit more dangerous to be doing it in my own building, though.
If I get caught, could I get evicted? Let's try not to find out
.
On top of that, I was not in a state where I was relishing climbing eight floors. I'd been in bondage for most of the weekend, and my buttocks were still stinging from an intense spanking James had given me at a pit stop on the way home. Plus, this damn cooler was getting heavier with each half-flight of stairs.
Or maybe I should be thankful for my grousing, as it kept me from worrying too much and in the end, I was soon peeking out down the eighth-floor hallway from the stairwell. Down near the far end I could see the dude in the blue shirt waiting by my door.
Well, hopefully no one else is going to be getting home just now
, I thought as I pulled the door open with my elbow and stepped out into the hallway. Luck was with me, though who knows, of course, if anyone was looking through their peepholes as I went by.
I was worried that we'd have to be standing in the hallway for a couple minutes now, as I assumed the dude would unlock the cooler, and then I'd have to dig around in my clothes to find my keys and get inside. But as I got to my door, I realized something wasn't right. The deadbolt lock was gone, and there was a numeric keypad in its place.
Wait, what?
"I have a single-use code for this," he said as he punched in five digits on the pad. "You'll be assigned your own code after."
Assigned a code... to get into my own apartment? What's going on?
The lock clicked and the guy opened the door for me. I stepped in to the little entrance hallway inside, and again, something was
off
.
Why is my chest of drawers out here?
The guy, of course, didn't know what my apartment was supposed to look like, so he wasn't fazed. As I set the cooler down and peered around, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a single key on a plain key ring and handed it to me. "Can you empty that out right away? I'm supposed to take it with me."
I grabbed the key and crouched to unlock the cooler. I started grabbing the folded clothes in there, and then looked over. Beside the chest of drawers was a new piece of furniture, a bench-like thing a couple feet wide with an extra lower shelf. Conveniently placed to put clothes on, but I didn't give that any more thought as I pulled all my stuff from the cooler, setting my phone on the chest of drawers as I finished.
After putting the padlock and key in his back pocket, the dude pulled out his phone. "Just gotta get a picture to show I've done the job," he said, snapping a picture of me. Then he gestured for me to turn my right hip toward him so he could get a shot of the QR code tattooed there.
"Great, that's all I need." Without any further comment, he closed the cooler lid, picked it up, turned and left. As the door closed behind him, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath before trying to assess what was going on here.
Okay
. So, for some reason, my chest of drawers had been moved from my bedroom and was now across from the closet in my entryway. And there was an envelope on top with my name on it which I snatched and tore open. There was a note inside. Unaddressed, but obviously from Sir.
"SOME ADJUSTMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO YOUR APARTMENT TO BETTER SUIT YOUR ROLE.
"YOUR CODE TO YOUR APARTMENT DOOR HAS BEEN TEXTED TO YOU.
"NEW RULE #1: YOU WILL BE NUDE AT ALL TIMES INSIDE THIS APARTMENT. NO EXCEPTIONS. WHEN ARRIVING FROM OUTSIDE, YOU WILL UNDRESS HERE. YOU WILL ONLY PUT ON CLOTHES IMMEDIATELY BEFORE LEAVING."
That took a minute to sink in. Sir was extending his jurisdiction, and it was no longer enough for me to be naked when I was presenting myself to him at his place. And beyond that, he had changed the locks on my door! (I wondered for a second how he had gotten my keys to get in here, but I quickly realized there were quite a few times that I had left my keys unattended when I was at his place, so it would have been quite easy.)
Sir had already basically taken over my phone, and I had gotten used to that. Now, he was in charge of my apartment, and he'd presumably know exactly when I got home thanks to that electronic lock on the door.
I stood there for a minute to let that sink in. It left a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach, and I realized it was a reaction similar to when I was being tied up and being fucked. It was that sense of recognition that I was being dominated. And as weird as all this was, I realized that I'd gotten off pretty much every other time I'd been dominated up to now.
The shock of all that had distracted me, but suddenly I remembered how sore and tired my body was. I wanted to stretch out on my couch, or maybe just go to bed. I grabbed my phone. Even if I hadn't been using it, it hadn't been charged since Friday, so it was only about five per cent charged.
First thing, gotta get that plugged in
.
I stepped around the corner into the living room. And then I stopped again to take stock as I tried to take in several things at once.
Because I was looking in that direction to get my charger, the first thing I saw was that my computer was gone. But there was a different computer tower in its place. But that got filed away for the moment.
The long wall opposite my picture window had been changed. My collectables were gone!
Yes, nerd that I am, I had put up several shelves to put my cool stuff on display. My hand-painted D&D figures from back in high school were there. I hadn't been on a campaign in years, but they were important to me. I also had some action figures and other Star Wars collectibles on display -- it had allowed me to sort my friends that were mocking me from my friends that were mocking me with love and respect. They were all gone.
In their place, the shelves were filled with my sex toys. The dildos, buttplugs and vibrators that were kept in the special chest in my bedroom closet were now on display. In fact, I noted there were some new ones there as well, including a couple particularly large dildos. There were some cuffs and bondage supplies I had never seen before, as well as a small heap of straps that I realized was a strap-on harness. (I'd find out a while later while looking in my bedroom that all my collectibles had been shifted to the chest that used to hold my sex toys, and it sunk in that I was being given a message as to what part of my life was quite literally out of the closet now.)
Most strikingly, my
Empire Strikes Back
poster was gone. It was my prized possession, an original theatrical poster that had been autographed by several of the cast members. One of the first things I did after getting my first "grown up" job was to get it properly framed, and I had it hung on the wall beside my shelves -- it was the thing that would draw your eye when you came into the room.
It was gone, but there was something in its place. A photographic art print, which was about the same size, and equally well-framed. It looked like something that could have come from a gallery. Well, a kinky gallery, as it was an explicit photo. In the foreground was a sub on his knees, bowed down and facing away from the camera, hands bound behind his back. (If you leaned in and looked closely between his legs, you could see the glint of a ring around the sub's balls, indicating he was probably in a chastity cage.) In front of him, and literally dominating the picture, was another nude man, hands on hips, looking down at the sub. His tremendous, thick cock was rigid and erect. Though not overly muscled, he radiated strength and confidence. You could tell from looking at the picture that he was in his right place, as was the sub, supplicating and ready to do his bidding.
I stared at the picture for a couple minutes. I had never seen anything, no piece of pornography that had turned me on so much. It was like someone had reached into my brain and illustrated this from my deepest fantasies. I knew that I should feel embarrassed that this was on open display in my living room, but I was in awe of it.
I lay down on my couch for a couple minutes and looked at the photograph. My balls ached, and the desire to jerk off, to stroke my cock, was stronger than I'd felt since I'd been locked up.
I almost dozed off there, but realized I needed to take a piss. As I got up, I was surprised that I wasn't cold, being undressed. (Another discovery I'd make later was that I had a new thermostat, which had been programmed to keep my apartment a few degrees warmer at all times than it had been before.)
I walked back past the entryway to go to the bathroom, and as I reached over to flick its light on, I could feel there was something wrong with the space here as well. I looked around, and it took a second for it to hit me: the door was gone! In the place where you expected the most privacy, I was now being told to accept none.