In the shower I washed quickly, afraid to make them wait. I scrubbed my face and then my hair and then my body.
When I did my armpits I felt the stubble there, coarse and scratchy. I looked longingly at my Lady Schick but then I remembered Lori's clear instruction and left it alone.
But I could not leave the handheld shower head with its vibrating massage feature alone. The ache in my belly was just too much to ignore. I felt like if I didn't get release after three days I might explode.
I ran the pulsating jet over my breasts, my nipples so hard they ached. And it took my breath away. When I gasped the splashing water went down the wrong pipe and I coughed. Then I giggled as I began running the jet over my body.
I ran it down my belly, feeling my knees go a little rubbery as it flushed my belly button and then crossed the pad of my
mons
. My eyes were closed and I was lost in anticipation. In my mind's eye, it would be David and then Lori handling the showerhead, teasing me.
I was starting to tremble, using my hand to lift my clitoral hood and then starting to run the jet of water down when the shower door jerked open suddenly.
"I FUCKING KNEW IT!!!!" she yelled and her fingers were in my hair, twisting, hurting, leaving me no choice but to reach up to ease the pressure, to make the pain ease.
I dropped the showerhead and water sprayed onto the floor.
The punch that followed hit my
solar plexus
, that big ganglia of nerves high on my belly, just below my breastbone, and left my knees rubbery, and my bladder control failing.
"David," she yelled, the fingers in my hair twisting, making me cry out, "get the fuck in here!"
I was struggling to keep the pressure off, hell, to keep my damn hair from being pulled out.
"What?!" David said, running into the bathroom.
"This cow was going to use the shower massage to get off," she said, twisting my hair with each word, making me moan.
He didn't say anything. I know him pretty well and it looked to me like he was trying to keep from laughing.
I could not, though, tell if Lori was really angry or if this was just an act.
And she WAS hurting me the way she was pulling my hair, that's for damn sure. My nerves seemed to be working again, and that odd weakness in my legs and the strange feeling in the pit of my stomach from the punch was gone as well.
Her grin turned, well, evil.
"What have you got by way of arthritis liniment?" she asked.
"What?" I asked.
"What?" David asked.
"Oh Jesus Christ," she said, making me yell when she gave a particularly nasty twist to my hair, "I used English. What do you have? BenGay? Icy Hot? Maybe some Tiger Balm?"
"Oh," David said, "We've got all of that stuff."
"Bring it here," she snapped at him.
On some level, I hated the way he jumped to do as she bid, but on another, well, I can't say I "liked" it, but it was exciting.
He brought back the little plastic basket in which I kept all of my arthritis stuff. And I had tried them all. Voltaren seemed to be working, so I had pretty much given up on the various liniments I had used before, but they were still there.
"Hold her while I decide what I want to do," she said and I saw David reach to replace her fingers in my hair as he handed the little basket to her.
"Oww," I yelled as he twisted even harder than she had.
"Goddam it," she said, "stuff something in her damn mouth, I don't want to listen to her bitching."
He dragged me along, like he was Oog the caveman dragging Oogla by her hair back to the cave, to the closet. He rummaged around in the hamper and came up with a pair of his boxers.
"Don't make me force you," he said, so I opened my mouth and he stuffed the dirty shorts into my mouth, stuffing until my cheeks bulged.
Lori smiled, the first real smile I had seen from her.
"Oh, honey," she said, brushing a fingertip across my bulging cheek, "now THAT is a good look on you."
I said nothing. I couldn't have if I wanted to.
"Lay her back on the bed," she said, "and hold her down. She ain't gonna like this."
Again, I was both troubled and excited at his unquestioning, and unhesitating, obedience.
I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised when he pulled me up onto the bed and straddled me so that when he leaned back my arms were captured between his thighs and calves, just behind his knees, and his ass was right there as he sat back, sitting on my face.
I couldn't move at all.
I felt her pushing my legs apart and then felt her strap something on my ankles. There was pressure as she anchored the cuffs to the legs of the bed, immobilizing me in that exposed position.
"Oh, no," I heard her say, and I could hear the smile in her voice, "she ain't gonna like this at all."
The smell of menthol and camphor was strong and I knew she was going to use the Tiger Balm on me. I tried to shake my head. I tried to scream, "NO." But David held me immobile.
I felt the first touch of cold in that little space between my anus and my vagina, that area the old joke calls a "taint" (as in, "t'aint ass and t'aint pussy").
I tried to shake my head but he had me locked down tight.
I tried to scream but all that came out was, "mmphffff."
I tried to pull away, but I couldn't move against the tension of the bindings.