It was the Saturday before her birthday and her man was serving up drinks at the bar just across the way. Just the two of them, alone in the apartment, drinking gin, bullshitting, and listening to music. Birthday Girl got up and sang along with the music that was coming from the stereo. The other one just sat there, mesmerized, drink all but forgotten. It always happened this way when Birthday Girl started singing. Pulse got faster, heartbeat louder, mouth drier. There was a tension whenever the two got together, even if it was only one-sided. Birthday Girl started swaying in time with the beat and the other one got lost in a fantasy world. A world where she could dance with her and kiss the back of her neck, smell her hair, caress her. The things that lovers do.
"Remember when you said something about being a bootlicker?" asked Birthday Girl. The other couldn't speak, the world had shifted, the tides had changed and she knew it. It was everything that she could do just to breathe in a normal fashion.
"I want to take you up on that, after all, it is my birthday." The other still did not say a word. Intelligent speech had all but left her body as the whole universe came screaming down to just the two of them, this moment, this place, this girl.
"You have to play by my rules though. You get to lick my boot, but no touching. My birthday, my rules." she said with a throaty laugh as she turned and walked down the hall way. A moment later she returned, with THE boots and handcuffs. She sat down in a chair in front of the other and pulled her skirt up to her thighs. She reached for a boot, the right one, and slid her foot down into it. Never breaking eye contact with the other, and not saying a word, she laced up the calf high, black patent leather stiletto boot. As she grabbed the other boot she made a noise that could only be described as a sexy growl. The other took her first breath since she saw her with the boots in her hand.