"Hello-oo!"
I woke up halfway through a dream. What did I just hear? Where am I? What's going on?
I blinked a few times in the morning light and looked around at the unfamiliar room. I was at my friend's house. I remember. It was a very comfortable bed. What's the time? 09:04, according to my phone. He would be long gone by now. He had to get out for work early. On a Sunday! Poor guy.
What was I dreaming about? There was a voice. Was that in the dream?
"Hello?"
The muffled woman's voice came from another room. My friend's wife was still here. She had headed up early last night, leaving us to chat. Who was she calling to? Maybe she was on the phone.
I pulled myself out of the lovely bed and double-checked I was decent. Just pyjama bottoms should be fine for the moment. I desperately needed the toilet. I put my phone in my pyjama pocket and quickly crossed the landing to the bathroom. As I flushed and went back out, I heard her call again: "Hey! Come help me! I'm in here!"
She was definitely not on the phone, and since I was the only one in the house she could only be calling me. Her voice was coming from their bedroom. Why would she need my help?
I walked to their door and said "Hello? Are you OK?"
"At last! Come in! I need your help."
I opened the door, trying to keep my mind clean of any inappropriate thoughts about my friend's attractive wife. The door was in an alcove. As I walked out, any hopes of avoiding inappropriate thoughts were blasted away.
She was face-down on the bed. Her hands were tied together above her head. Her feet were also tied together. She was wearing white transparent lingerie and stockings. There was a pillow under her hips, pushing her bottom up. I stopped dead, staring at her for a moment. Her hair was loose around her face. She had a matching white blindfold over eyes. The side of her breast was visible through the sheer material. Her g-string had been pulled down to the tops of her stockings, underneath the suspender belt straps. A "Wow" escaped my lips.
"Um, hi." she said. "Let me explain."
I snapped back into reality. "Oh I'm so sorry!" I spun around, to stop myself from staring. "Did you just turn around?" she giggled. "It's a bit late for that."
I turned back, blushing, and she explained: "I woke up early and thought I'd give hubby a going-away surprise. We got a bit carried away and we - er - lost track of time. He had to rush out and leave me to untie myself. He's done it before - um - and it's been fine. It's just that today I pulled the bow the wrong way, I think. I can't get it undone."
"OK" I said, pulling out my phone. "I'll call him and let him know that you need-" "NO!" Please don't call him. He can't know you've seen me like this. He gets really jealous. It would get stuck in his mind forever."
"Right." I stood looking at her with my unlocked phone still in my hand. I glanced at the screen, my eyes stopped on 'Camera'.
Don't do it. I thought to myself. Don't be that guy. But this was a once in a lifetime opportunity! I paused, then made my decision. "So - um - how can I - um -" I opened the camera app. Framed her beautiful half naked body on the screen and "how can I -" Kaclick went the shutter noise. Shit shit shit. " - UM - HELP?" I asked a little too loudly, trying to cover the noise that had already happened.
There was a pause I thought I'd die in.
"Can you undo the knot around my wrists? I can do the rest."
THUD THUD THUD went my heart. Did I get away with it?
"Yeah, sure." I walked up to the bed, shoving my phone back in my pocket. There was just so much perfect soft skin within touching distance. Her arms. Her neck. Her back. Her bottom cheeks sitting proudly up, waiting to be squeezed.
I pulled my attention back to her wrists. This wasn't just a rope or similar. It was more like a ribbon. "White ribbon too! Everything matches." I said. Trying to joke to distract from the situation. She smiled. Soft lips. Flushed cheeks. So damn pretty. "It's all part of our wedding set." Her smile changed slightly as she said it. As if she'd said something she hadn't meant to.
I looked over her lingerie again. She was wearing this when we were at their wedding. I'd never look at those pictures the same way again.
I can't deny I had always been attracted to her. It was impossible not to be. Right now, that feeling was off the scale. What I would give for just one squeeze.
Focus focus. Ribbon. Knots. I leaned over the side of the bed. I could see where she'd tried to pull the bow. She had clearly been wrestling with it, as the bow was gone, leaving a double knot, pulled tiny and hard. I struggled with it for a few moments, trying to get any kind of purchase on it. It was right between her hands, which made getting the right angle on it difficult.
"It's really pulled tight!" I said. " I can't quite get at it."
She wriggled a bit and lifted her arm, so I could get at the knot from the other side. "Is this better?"
In lifting her arm she had lifted herself off the bed partly. The sheer material took the weight of her breast as it came into view. I could see her dark nipple harden and push against the fabric even as I watched. "Y-yes." I said, seeing that the knot was more accessible too.
I fumbled with the knot a little longer. Trying to get it to budge at all. I had competing emotions about this. On one hand, I was kneeling on a bed next to a beautiful, mostly naked, tied up woman, and untying the knot was the last thing I wanted to do. I wanted to kiss her lips. I wanted to squeeze her body close to me. I wanted her. On the other hand, I was feeling pretty guilty about the photo, and there was really no other option than helping her anyway.
In the end, it was out of my hands. "I'm sorry." I said at last. "I really can't undo it."