It's not that I want to stop.
I hear the sound of a key in the lock, and at first I wonder who else has a key to my apartment. But then I feel the tiniest swirl of pleasure at the back of my mind, a subtle but insistent reminder that it feels better not to think about some things. This is one of the things I don't need to think about, so it makes me happy to let the thought slide right out of my mind and focus my thoughts on something else as the door opens.
I don't want to stop. If anything, I want to push my limits a little. I want to do things I might have said 'no' to, back at the beginning, just to prove to myself that it's really working. That idea...it's so fucking hot.
"Hi!" I say as Paul walks into the room. I'm a little surprised to see him, because I thought our next date was on Tuesday, but i kind of remember mentioning to him that I would be staying home today without any plans for the afternoon. Except that weirdly enough, I remember it in his voice. Memory's a funny thing, isn't it? It's so easy to let it play tricks on you, and so silly to worry about it.
But I wonder sometimes...is that feeling really my feeling? Or is it one that Master put there? Am I exploring my boundaries, or is he slowly eroding them, bit by bit, with hypnosis and pleasure?
"Open wide," he says, and suddenly my body feels so warm and lazy that I just slump into a boneless heap on the couch. The book I was reading falls out of my hand to land on the floor, and I feel my body listing to one side like a sinking ship as the slump turns gently and easily into a collapse. My eyes close all on their own, stuck shut so impossibly tightly that all I can achieve when I try to open them is exhausting myself further.
I've already given up a lot of control to him. I don't think it's too much, but I think what worries me a little is that I don't always know exactly how much it is. And I think what worries me even more is that I don't know what 'too much' would look like. If I'm enjoying it, if it's making me happy, what line can I draw that has meaning?