I wondered what she was saying to herself. I unclasp her lacy white bra and removed it, just as if she was my girlfriend and this was a typical late-night activity for us. The bra was the last item of her clothing that offered any escape from my gaze, hands, or mouth - and now that too was suddenly gone. Thanks to my quickly working hands and her inability to fight me off, her breasts were finally displayed, gently swinging into view and showing their curves and surprisingly proud nipples, and I loved the sight... It was pure sex.
Did she want to run away? Or were her occasional semi-wordless noises an invitation for me to continue on my chosen path? Never before had I seen or placed a woman in this position, and certainly never a near stranger... Her thoughts were a mystery to me.
I looked at her now, thinking about the genius of tying her wrists to the bedpost. She was now completely exposed – absolutely naked - except for her blouse which she still grasp with her hands and her high heels, which decorated the ends of her legs and added five inches of height to her frame. She was still several inches below my eye-level, and due to the blindfold she wore, I could stand next to her and look straight into her face and yet see only a fraction of the emotions she felt.
She stood there on display, just slightly bent at the waist. I took in the scene and committed it to memory, wondering if I could ever dare to recreate it again. Those ridiculously sexy shoes and the way they reoriented her body made me think about the next steps in our little skirmish... they gave an extra curve to her hips and butt, and advertised her total vulnerability. My examination of her, however, always seemed to revert to her face: the blindfold covered more than her eyes, and it made her as much an unknown as perhaps I was to her.
This, after all, was supposed to be merely a semi-innocent photo shoot. For her, it was just a lark with some random guy she happened to meet and liked enough to make a casual date with... But instead, step by step, I had turned it into this...
And what was 'this'? Yes, that was the real question.
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Earlier in the day we began to get to know each other in the most basic terms, and we sipped our coffee and traded friendly quips back and forth. At one moment with a laugh, a wink and an inviting smile, she offhandedly confessed – "Sure, I'd love to get a few pictures taken!"
Without missing a beat, I said – "Well hey, I have this new camera I've been dying to try out...!"
That was when it all changed.
I kept on waiting for her instincts to warn her away from me, and yet she matched my every move. She showed up at my house that evening. She donned her surprisingly enticing and revealing clothing as if it was Halloween and she was wearing a sexy secretary costume... I noticed the way she walked in her heels, and I coyly said – "Your shoes AREN'T made for walking..." She gave me back that same inviting smile.
Perhaps that was when 'this' became inevitable.
Eventually I took out the camera, and a few pictures later I was already pursuing some illicit goal. She followed my suggestion that she unbutton her blouse a few buttons at a time; she laughed when I told her to "show a little more leg," and she hiked her skirt up a few more degrees; she smiled as I suggested I tie her wrists to the bed post. "Just for something a little more adventurous," I offered. The bulge in pants must have been apparent for miles around. Surely, she couldn't have missed that.
Did she comprehend my little suggestion was likely the moment when the train went completely off the rails? Voices in her head should have been shouting at her: "Don't let him take advantage of you! Don't let your wrists get tied to the bedpost!" I told myself I wasn't always an animal, but with her it was so easy to play one...
I grabbed one of my old ugly ties that I had been given for Christmas by my aged-uncle, and laughed at the absurdity as I bound her wrists, tightly... – "Best use of this tie EVER," I joked. I snapped a few more pictures, and I said – "Open your mouth like you're in ecstasy..." and I snapped some more. I pretended it was all about the pictures, and I was some sort of expert in the field of soft-core pornography.
I said – "They look great; you look great... Hey, why don't you try and break free from the bedpost?"
The big heavy bed moved only a fraction of millimeter as she ooophed and twisted and tired to use her force – "Nope, I'm not going anywhere," she said. I snapped some more pictures.
I said, with a voice that stumbled with anticipation - "You know, I've got another horrible old tie around her somewhere, maybe we could use that on you as a blindfold?"
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Her clothing was still on, barely... I set the camera down and approached her, putting my hands on the inside of her thighs, positioning her just slightly differently... legs just a bit more open.
I said – "There, that's better." I felt her tense at my unexpected touch. For the first time I had broken a physical barrier and yet she didn't respond in protest.
Perhaps, I now wondered, if my touch on her legs was actually the moment it all went sideways.
I did know that was the particular time when it all started moving faster. The rational, analytic, side of me took notice from a distance: Basic urges in you are being awakened, it said. Your deepest recesses are playing with you. Beware: This is not who you actually are...
In the darkness of the closet, I rummaged around and found the tie I wanted to use. It was a great big fat 1970's looking tie, complete with awful brown and gold colors. I casually brought it into her view, as if blindfolding her was the most normal thing in the world. I took one last look into her face, studying it for a brief moment, and then fixed the tie around her head and covered her eyes.
I added an extra knot just to make sure it stayed on, and it changed everything yet again, even me...
I could walk around her now and not face an accusing stare or perhaps the opposite: a 'come hither' glance from a girl going down a certain road. Somehow a small measure of her personality drained away, and yet it was replaced by something more powerful.
Without the full measure of her face, she was almost anonymous. I studied her body, and understood it as a beautiful 'thing'. I judged her position in minor details. It seemed she both cowered away from me and enticed me further towards some point I never expected to even glimpse. If she wanted to resist me, how could she?
I said in my most normal voice – "You can't see anything now, can you?"
She whispered in response – "No." Her voice was unlike the previous carefree girl I had engaged earlier.
I undid her skirt and threw it to the side, and another layer of her was exposed for my eyes and camera. She said nothing, except for a barely perceptible murmur. Perhaps it was all becoming clear?
I snapped some more pictures. She moved around less now, aware of how she must have looked and how I was devouring her with my eyes. I undid the last buttons on her blouse and I pushed it up over her head, and then up her arms towards her bound wrists. Her hands were grasping the bedpost, and I gave her the blouse to hold on to as well, which was suddenly somehow the sexiest thing I had ever seen. I kept thinking one of my actions would be the final straw, and yet I kept on tumbling forward. I overtly cupped her breast through the flimsy material of her bra.
Was it a "No" I heard, or just an "Oh"...?