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John scarcely knew what it meant to go to bed hungry. Now he understood it fully going through it now a second time inside of a single week. No longer having the quiet to hear his stomach's protest of being neglected, he turned his attention toward the noises of car doors opening and closing, voices, and ear transmissions whining in reverse. It meant breakfast was on the way once the last vehicle made it's way out of earshot.
Expecting Manuel, John was surprised when it was Valerie once again pushing the cart up to the kennels. Without acknowledging him she stopped at the first cage and began the process of feeding the mutt.
He just watched as Valerie rolled the cart to the next cage, her skin tight, black yoga pants leaving nothing much to ponder in the imagination. The birds in the trees sang and whistled as if giving their approval to her attire. John had already seen her completely naked body, probably one of the lucky few in this short life.
Now she stood before him posing with the feeding cart like a supermodel on a television game show. "Frisky, are you hungry?"
John nodded.
"Are you going to be a good boy for me?"
Again John nodded.
Valerie produced the key to the kennel cage to unlock the padlock. "You can be a bad dog all you want. But it will never end well for you."
Never. End. Well... John felt a sense of permanency in her voice. He vowed to himself that he would utter not a single word unless given permission. His stomach growled in approval of the decision.
It looked to be an odd mixture she was accumulating in his dog bowl. Two boxes of almost empty breakfast cereal. A half eaten Pop Tart. Rice and a scoop of dog food.
"Manuel is driving the kids to school this morning and I... I guess I'll just have to be late to yoga class." She sat the bowl down carefully on the ground. Then she took John's head in her hands and began unbuckling the gag harness. "I wanted to tell you yesterday before you were such a bad dog," Valerie paused everything to smack his nose with a long finger, "...Ashley made me promise to tell you that she called. So now you know."
So Ashley called, but why has she not come to take him home? John stretched his jaw muscles the moment the ball gag fell freely into Valerie's waiting palm.
"Wait until you are given permission to eat."
Of course.
Valerie hovered over him. Then a large grin followed by a shiver running up her body raising her shoulders level with her ears. "You're just bursting with questions!" she exclaimed with delight. "Aren't you?"
John disregarded her sudden, unexpected encounter with a power rush, instead looking at the food in the dog bowl. A pink sandaled foot dropped between him and his breakfast. The toes twitched.
"Kiss my foot."
Moving forward slowly John lowered his lips between the pink straps until they connected with her flesh. His stomach rumbled once again.
Removing her foot from under his lips she brought it right back down again on the back of John's neck lowering his face to the ground. He grunted from the unexpected force.
"Keeping your mouth shut," she said. "That's a good dog."
His neck strained from the awkwardness of his position. John adjusted his knees to accommodate the unnatural angle of his head. Valerie didn't seem to care keeping the pressure applied through her sandal.
"All it would take is a little snip-snip and I could have your vocal cords removed or their nerves severed. I could find some doctor down on his luck somewhere, just like I did the dentist."
More pressure on his head and neck forced a reserved grunt.