(A brief disclaimer; if there is an actual "BDSMinnesota" group or forum online, I'm unaware of it. As far as I know, I made it up for this story. Any resemblance to any actual fetish interest group in the state of Minnesota is entirely coincidental.)
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Diane looked through the peephole at the young Asian woman outside whose head barely came up to the bottom of her field of vision.. Taking the chain off the door, she opened it and smiled. "Kiki?" she asked. She'd already seen pictures on line, but it never hurt to be polite.
The girl nodded. "Yeah. Um...hi. I'm not late, am I?"
Diane shook her head. "No, Greg and Debbie are here, but you made it before Mike and Maria. Oh, sorry, that's right. You still don't know anyone's RL name, do you?" Diane had first met 'Kiki' as a member of an Internet forum, 'BDSMinnesota'. Pretty much everyone on the group had instantly bonded with the young, energetic girl with what seemed like an omnivorous interest in submission. Something about her seemed to inspire everyone to want to protect the sweet young thing who was just a little more spicy than sweet. (And by 'protect', of course, Diane meant 'fuck the hell out of'.) Ostensibly, the party was for her benefit, a combination 23rd birthday party and 'get to know you' event, but it'd also be everyone's first time face to face with Mike and Maria, too. "Come to think of it, is 'Kiki' OK, or should I be calling you something else?"
Kiki smiled a bit nervously. Diane felt a bit of that, too; it hit her sometimes, meeting someone face-to-face for the first time. Even if they'd talked a lot online, personal space felt different, and it sometimes took a minute to warm up to it. "No," she said, "Kiki's fine. I go by it a lot. All my co-workers call me Kiki." She giggled a bit, her warm brown eyes relaxing. "They were all asking me what I was going to do for my birthday, and I was like, 'Oh, I'm just going to a little party.' And here I've been dreaming about this every night for three weeks."
Diane led her into the living room. "Well, I certainly hope we live up to expectations. I'm Diane--'OrionSlaveGirl' on the forum--and over there is my husband, Jack, who you probably recognize better as 'DJTrance'." She waved at a handsome man in his early thirties with sandy blond hair and dark brown eyes, who was deep in conversation with another couple.
"--and he says, 'You can trust me, I'm a psychopath!' and just lifts the guy right up..." Jack broke off. "Oh, hi! You must be 'Kiki'. Say hello to Greg, better known as 'sub-Zero', and Debbie, better known as 'Big Bad Fox'. We were just talking British TV."
Kiki stood stock still and goggled at everyone, and Diane stifled a chuckle at the young woman's obvious amazement. "You're 'Big Bad Fox'? But I, you..."
The short, plump woman with the long red hair grinned like a loon. "I get that a lot."
"I was expecting...I dunno, a seven-foot tall female bodybuilder! I mean, you're, um...you're a Domme?"
The slim young man sitting on the floor next to her nodded. "Take it from me," he said, "she definitely is."
Debbie reached down and stroked his dark hair. "First rule, dear. You are what you feel like, not what you look like. I might not be big and butch, but once you've got a man hogtied, it doesn't take a lot of black leather and muscles to make them feel helpless."
Diane crossed over to the sideboard. "And on that note, Happy Birthday, Kiki! Would you like a drink?"
"I'll have a glass of the red wine, please." She giggled as she flopped onto the sofa. "It doesn't seem that long since I was sneaking drinks off of guys in bars. Remember the college girl motto...'Boys need fake IDs, girls need real boobies.'"
Jack smiled at Diane as she topped up her own glass while filling Kiki's. "Remember when we were that young, dear?"
Diane smiled. "Oh, yes. Back when you would pick me up in your horseless carriage and take me to the talkies, or to the pep rallies on campus."
Kiki leaned forward. "That's right! You guys both went to the U of M, too. Did you meet in college?" Diane handed her her wine, and headed over to sit next to Jack.
Jack shook his head. "No, we were just two American kids living in the heartland. I wanted to be a football star, see, and Diane--"
Diane smacked him playfully on the arm. "Ignore him, Kiki. He's a total music nerd. That's actually how we met...he was doing a double major, communications and psychology, and I was studying architecture. I listened to the college radio station, he was a DJ, and I thought he had a sexy voice. So I called the station."
Greg and Debbie exchanged knowing glances. "And the next thing you knew, it was morning!" Greg said with a grin.
Diane had to laugh at Kiki's confused expression. "Don't mind those two--they've known us for a long time, and familiarity breeds contempt. We did spend a long time talking, though. He played quite a few 'long, uninterrupted sets' that night."
"And I played 'Jack and Diane' every night for two straight weeks after that. Finally quit after the fourth death threat, though." Jack smiled. "You never did like that song, did you, Diane?"
They all had a laugh at that, and then Kiki asked, "Speaking of music, when you sent me the invite, you put a song title at the end. 'Freeze-Frame'..."
*****
"Wake," Jack said. Diane blinked. Two new people were in the room now with the five of them--an African-American man, and a striking Hispanic woman. "Mike and Maria?" she asked.
They waved. "Hi," Maria said.
"Sorry. I, um...didn't notice you come in." Diane stretched a little. "How long have you been here?"
"About twenty minutes," Maria said. "Jack explained what he'd done to you, but he said not to worry about you, that it was all part of the evening's entertainment. I hope you didn't mind missing the introductions. You must be a little confused, huh?"
Diane shook her head. "We'd talked about having a little fun tonight," she said, "and about making triggers a part of the evening's entertainment. You and Mike had asked about hypnosis in BDSM, and since Jack and I use it a lot in our relationship, we figured that a little demonstration would work wonders."
Kiki's eyes were as big as saucers. "I can't believe that," she said. I just said 'Freeze-Frame'..."
*****
"Wake." She blinked. Kiki had her head face-down in her hands, and the others were laughing.
"Sorry," Kiki said. "I can't believe I did that!"