Author's Note
A little introduction is necessary to explain Charlotte's song at the beginning of this story. She sings her praises for a dish called a Poké Bowl (pronounced POH-keh, with two syllables.) Poké Bowls can be found at many West Coast fusion restaurants. The tune she sings is Wrecking Ball, by Miley Cyrus.
Of course, the usual notes still apply...
As with all Mistress and Charlotte tales, this story contains elements of dominant-submissive role playing. It is safe, sane, and consensual, but if this type of thing offends you, please find something else to read.
The events and characters in this story are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
All characters are of the age of eighteen and you should be too if you're reading this.
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All text is copyright (c)2023 WaxPhilosophic
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Prologue
Dear Friends,
I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but I'll say it again: my dear Charlotte is an amazingly creative and talented woman. Her specialty is music. She can sit at the piano and play for hours. Sometimes it's Jazz standards, but many times she'll improv, making things up as she goes along.
It's a talent that I never get tired of. Though occasionally, when she's a little sleep deprived, the improvisations can get a little... shall we say, interesting.
Peace and Love,
Mistress Natasha
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Like a Poké Bowl
Natasha
Even from the kitchen, I could hear Charlotte coming down the stairs. It wasn't so much her footfalls as the tune she was humming that let me know she was up and around early this morning. Honestly, I was a little surprised.
Charlotte plays piano most weekends, at the little Italian restaurant in town. This means she gets in pretty late on Friday and Saturday nights, so I usually sneak out of bed as quietly as possible to avoid waking her. I also try to have a pot of coffee started and a little something for breakfast waiting.
Today it was waffles.
I strained to make out the tune Charlotte was humming as the batter I poured onto the Belgian waffle maker sizzled and steamed. The melody sounded familiar, like something I'd heard on the radio a while back, but I couldn't quite place it.
I decided I could tap into Charlotte's encyclopedic brain of musical knowledge if I didn't have it figured out by the time she entered the kitchen. But she never made it past the living room. I knew this, because she was now tinkling out the same tune on the piano, this time pounding out chords in accompaniment.
I was just about to stick my head around the corner and ask what it was when she started singing.
"I came, I smelled,
"The things you sell.
"Walked in,
"Never asking why."
Her singing and her piano accompaniment stopped before I had the name of the tune. It was nearly on the tip of my tongue, but the lyrics that Charlotte sang were distracting in that they had me chuckling. She was singing about my waffles.
I turned to make my way to join her when the waffle maker let out a series of three shrill beeps letting me know the current batch was done. Duty calls.
As I tended to the waffles, Charlotte started playing again from the top, and sang along more confidently this time.
"I came, I smelled,
"The things you sell.
"Walked in, never asking why."
"I looked past you,
"At your menu.
"My hunger, could not be denied."
"Don't you every say,
"I passed up your café.
"It smells so damned de-li-cious."
I didn't think Charlotte was singing about my waffles anymore, but I was still grinning like an idiot. She was definitely on a roll with the lyrics this morning. Then, no sooner had I transferred the waffles to a plate and poured the batter for the next batch, Charlotte began belting it out.
"You came in like a poké bowl.
"Never hit so hard at lunch.
"I'm losing all my self-control.
"I just want to...
"E-Eat you up.
"Yeah, I wanna...
"E-Eat you up."
"Should I take this as your suggestion we skip breakfast and move right into lunch?" I hollered.
The piano playing stopped again, but the singing continued. And I could hear Charlotte's footsteps as she approached. She was a little quieter with the lyrics this time.
"You came in like a poké bowl.
"Never hit so hard at lunch."
I looked up to see Charlotte framed in the doorway without so much as a stitch on her. She had one hand up over her head, leaning against the entranceway with her weight shifted to the opposite hip. She was also leering rather unabashedly.
"I'm losing all my self-control."
Charlotte's staring continued, along with her singing. Her gaze started at my bare feet, moving up my legs, all the way to to top of my messy morning hair, before finally settling on my chest. I wasn't wearing much more than she was, just a kitchen apron, so there was little blocking her view.
Her singing turned sultry.
"I just wanna...
"E-Eat you up."
Charlotte licked her lips as she approached. With her eyes still fixed on my chest, she touched the tip of her index finger to my shoulder and sashayed around to stand in front of me.
She lowered her gaze.
"Yeah, I just wanna...
"E-Eat you up."
I felt a little shiver in my shoulders starting under where Charlotte's finger had touched down. But when she dropped to her knees and clasped her hands behind her back in one smooth motion, the shiver ran the length of me.
"Charlotte," I whispered.