This story was originally published as "The Bound Slave".
The text has been copy-edited (with the help of HaltWhoGoesThere - who I am very grateful to for their time and input).
My intent is not to offend, but this is a d/s romance with strong themes of nonconsent and reluctance. If that's not your bag, I understand and hope you will find another story to enjoy.
As always I hope you will enjoy the story, and that if you do you will leave a comment.
XOSNS
The Bound Slave
It had been a difficult week for Annie.
Things had started well enough. Monday morning Michele had been a little distant, but not unfriendly. She had gotten back to the room late that night, but again, she'd been... cordial?
Annie had gone to sleep anxious, worried that she had crossed a line the night before. She had made Michele beg.
Tuesday had been more of the same. While the mood in the room that morning had been cool at best. Annie had run into Michele and Nancy at dinner and they had all sat together with a couple of boys from the Film Club - which was nice. Michele seemed to be in good spirits, which was also nice, but Annie couldn't help but feel she was talking to everyone else but her.
Towards the end of the meal, Michele had excused herself to go to the library, only coming back to the room after Annie had gone to bed and turned off the lights. Listening to her undress and settle into bed Annie heard the quiet sounds of her efforts and was struck by how often she sighed, huffed with impatience, and swore under her breath.
She'd sounded angry, or maybe frustrated.
But it was Wednesday when things had gone off the rails. Michele had set her alarm very early and was out the door before Annie was even out of bed. She had seen her once that day, but just from the other side of the quad. She couldn't tell if Michele had seen her or not. Either way, she hadn't acknowledged Annie.
Annie dropped her things off before dinner and could tell that Michele had been there before her. Her bag was there with her books, a pile of clothes on the floor, and her running shoes were gone. Annie found herself looking at the pile of clothes. Michele's jeans were collapsed on the floor, just where she'd stepped out of them. Nesting inside them was a pair of white panties.
She had lowered herself onto her haunches and looked on as her hand reached down for them; as her thumb and forefinger fondled the soiled gusset. Squatting over the open jeans she pictured Michele standing over her, the statuesque brunette with her feet spread and ass raised. She'd pictured her smooth tan skin, the bulge of her muscles - taught and flexing. Annie pinched hard at the dried stain, grinding her thumb into it, before raising it to her mouth.
Stopping at the Student Center for a coffee and a cheese croissant from the cafe, she'd skipped dinner, and any socializing it might require. Holing up in a secluded spot on the top floor of the library she'd studied until closing time.
Their room was dark and empty when she got back. Michele's clothes still heaped on the floor. Her panties back in the jeans, just where Annie had left them. Annie organized her papers and got herself sorted for bed, finally turning off the lights well past eleven; surprised Michele wasn't back.
It was past one when Annie woke up, hearing Michele's key fumbling at the lock. The light from the hall briefly flooded the room, blinding Annie, then darkness. There was a bang and a scrape as Michele barked her shin on the end of her bed and swore sharply.
Standing between their beds Michele kicked off her shoes and tugged at her socks. She was unsteady and caught herself on the edge of her bed before righting herself and shrugging off her windbreaker. Watching her with hooded eyes, Annie realized she must be drunk.
Michele seemed to be looking directly into Annie's eyes as she began to push down at her waistband.
She stepped out of the tangle of track pants, shorts, and panties at her feet, grabbed the hem of her tank top, and struggled to pull it and her sports bra over her head.
Freeing herself, she dropped the tops and stood for a moment above Annie, totally naked in the dark, swaying slightly. Annie had held very still, unsure of what to do. She had wanted to reach out, to touch her, but Michele had stepped away before she could overcome her own reluctance; her fear. She watched as the stronger girl sat down heavily on her bed, admiring her long calves. Michele was as tall, if not taller, than most of the boys on campus. Still staring at Annie she slowly lowered herself back, stretching out naked on her covers.
At first, Annie thought that maybe she'd passed out, but a jolt of pleasure shot through her when she saw that Michele's arm was moving; that she was masturbating. She watched jealously as Michele's strokes slowly built, becoming more insistent, listened as her breath grew raspy; waited for her orgasm. Michele began to shake and jerk, and Annie thought the moment had come, but the shaking continued, the jerking was rhythmic. With a start, Annie realized Michele was sobbing.
Sliding from beneath her covers, Annie crossed to the other bed, Michele was on her back, her hands still frantically working at her crotch. But rather than pleasure, her face was a rictus of grief, tears streaming from her eyes which were clenched closed.
Annie placed her knee on the mattress and stepped over Michele, so she was straddling her waist. She lowered herself onto her elbows placing her hands against Michele's feverish head. She placed her cheek against Michele's, feeling the hot tears. The stronger girl moaned loudly. Her breath smelling of whiskey. Annie marked how close the sounds of pleasure could be to frustration or anger. Michele sounded miserable, she sounded trapped.
"It's okay," Annie whispered into her ear.
"I don't need you," Michele shot back. Her voice sounded like a choked howl.
"I know." Annie soothed.
"I don't." She sounded plaintive.
"I know. It's okay." Annie promised, petting her. Her hand felt cold against Michele's burning furrowed brow. She kissed her cheek, tasting the tears. Even as her own eyes brimmed with sorrow she was lifting the tears off the stronger girl's cheeks with her lips.
Annie thought of a half-forgotten movie she'd watched with her mother when she was much younger. Japanese peasant women kneeling on the ground, weeping and picking up thousands of individual grains of raw rice out of the dirt with chopsticks after their village had been attacked and pillaged, their harvest stolen. She hadn't understood what was happening, why the women were doing that.
"It's because they are so poor," her mother had explained, "they're desperate."
As her tears mixed with Michele's, and she continued to eat both their sorrows with her kisses, she could feel Michele's arms still masturbating beneath her. Less frantic, but mechanical, nothing in her movements expressed pleasure.
"Let me do it," Annie begged.
"I can't."
"It's ok."
"I don't need-"
"I know," Annie whispered. "I'm nothing."
She was scared by the sound of her own voice, she could hear how true the words were, hear her own desperation. 'Because I am so poor?' she wondered.
She felt Michele's arms grow still beneath her. Raising herself up onto her knees she looked down on Michele. Her eyes still closed, she had turned her face away.
'Hiding' Annie thought.
She reached between her legs and took hold of Michele's wrists, lifting her arms up and over her head, letting them rest there. As Michele hid her eyes in the crook of her arm Annie lifted one knee over the other girl's upraised thigh, and then the other, taking her place between the stronger girl's long powerful thighs.
Standing on her knees she had studied Michele for a moment. Her torso looked sculpted in its perfection, but also its abject wretchedness; like one of Michelangelo's "Slaves", laid out before her in the dark. Annie's father had taken her to see The David on a visit to Florence. She had been very young and while she knew she'd seen the famous statue, didn't actually remember seeing it, but she very clearly remembered The Slaves. They were, she knew, "non-finito", or never completed, but as a small girl, the struggling half-buried figures had made a deep impression. She remembered having to be restrained from touching them, yelling at the stony bodies in her excitement, and being hushed by her father. She had dreamt about them for years.