Chapter the First
In which the principal players are introduced....
Tuesday was always a strange day for me; I don't know why, but I could always count on the bizarre, unusual, or unpleasant to make an appearance on that day of the week. This week was no exception. It began ordinarily enough, with me waiting at the corner for my bus and chatting with the few neighborhood friends I had. Tuesdays weren't the only thing strange about me; I had something of a reputation as a geek with my fondness for precise language and strong interest in math and science.
It was when I first hopped onto the bus and sat next to Heather that I felt the first twinge of weird, but I didn't know why, so I just chalked it up to paranoia and started a conversation with Heather, whose mode of dress today was somewhere between girl-next-door and Goth Princess. She was wearing a bright pink Hello Kitty baby tee and a black vinyl skirt with her favorite combat boots on. Her make-up was tasteful and subdued, except for this bright coral pink lip-gloss and the really dark eyeliner. She could get away with that; she had a heart-shaped face and cut her honey gold hair into a pageboy bob that framed her features nicely.
Lucky her, she could tan, too, and did so. Her only flaw, if you could call it that, was her nose; it was a largish Roman nose that I thought looked charming there. She wished she had a cute little button one like Stephanie, though.
I noticed she was talking slowly and carefully, and worked her jaw from side to side a few times every once in a while. I had planned on mentioning the pillow crease she had on her face when a sudden image flashed through my mind: Heather's mouth filled with a big red ball, and a network of straps around her head to hold it in place. The creases I noticed could have been made by such a "head harness" and that would also explain the trouble she was having with her jaw. Just to be sure, I checked her wrists. Sure enough, fading rope marks were visible on her wrists and elbows.
*Tuesday*, I thought, *You just topped yourself.* What I said, though, was: "So, Heather, care to tell me who you've been playing bondage games with?" I gave her a lazy smile to go with it, so she knew I wasn't being mean.
"Jesus, Rachel, announce it to the whole bus whydoncha?" She was blushing. "What gave it away?"
I held up her wrist. "These, for one, and the way you're talking and moving your jaw, like it's been stretched open for a while. You've also got a strap mark on your face."
"Shit!" She was in her purse and checking herself out with a small mirror. She looked at me for a minute. "You'd have to be pretty sharp to notice something like this, or have some experience with it. So which is it?"
"I'd lean toward sharp if I were you. Outside of fantasy, I've never been tied up or tied anyone up before. And Tuesday has a habit of being strange for me so I'm always on the lookout for the unusual. You never answered my question, though; who?"
The blush was back now. "Outside of fantasy, huh? And you better not tell a single person about this, but it was Mom."
I clapped a hand over my mouth to stop myself from blurting out. She'd definitely floored me with that one. *Tuesday, I hope you're through with me for a while....*
"She found those porn mags I'd swiped from Kevin and wanted to know why I was looking at naked girls. I tried explaining it to her, and I think she finally got it, and then she looked at me funny and asked about the bondage mag that was in the pile. She said she knew it was my favorite because it looked more worn than the others, even the older mags. She asked me if I was fantasizing about tying someone up or being tied up myself. I told her it was kind of both, and she just grinned and told me my fantasy was about to come true, if I wanted it. I said sure, then she tied me up for the night." She closed her eyes and shivered. Her nipples popped up and she smiled. "It was so cool!" She stopped and gave me one of *those* looks. Y'know, the kind a guy gives you when he's mentally undressing you and really likes what he sees? "Wanna try it?"
"Me?" I squeaked. "Uhm, I don't er," I was the one blushing now.
"C'mon, Rache," She said, with a lopsided smirk, "You might not be sure about it, but your nipples are as hard as mine. You don't have to answer right now. You've got till the end of the day to think about it."
And think I did. I was so distracted by thoughts of Heather, wanting to tie me up, and the look she gave me, that the day passed in a blur, except for lunchtime. I got into the bottleneck that passed for a lunch line and tried to ignore all the jostling around until I felt a hand on my butt, squeezing it gently, purposefully.
"Thought about it yet?" Heather asked, her breath warm on my neck and her lips nearly brushing my ear. She was taking advantage of the crowd to feel me up, and rub against me. *I'll get you for this, Tuesday,* I thought, *turning my best friend into a bondage lesbian is going too far!*
"I've thought of little else," I replied truthfully, "and the answer is, yes."
"Great! You're going to love it!" Her hands had moved from my hips to my breasts and she squeezed them while she nibbled my earlobe. My knees turned to jelly as my stomach did little flip-flops and the world dropped away for a few seconds.
"Holy shit! Rachel and Heather are lezzies!" That was Stephanie, the girls' soccer team captain. Heather was one of her teammates. "Do I need to tell everyone to watch it in the locker room with you?" She was smirking, but her tone wasn't mean.
"Nah, I got all the girl I'll ever want right here." Heather squeezed my breasts again.
"What about you Rache? Does the lacrosse team need protection from you?"
"No. I... Uhm..." I was embarrassed so badly that I couldn't speak. "Oh, god, Heather! We're stereotypes! Jock Dykes!"
Heather and Steph both cringed at that one.
"Jeez, Rache, there are some straight girls on the team." That was Lisa, my own team captain and fellow offense woman.
"Name two." Steph jumped in, still smirking.