Every day, when you come home from work, I greet you. I put down whatever I'm doing, and welcome you. Throw my arms around your neck and place my ear to your heartbeat. You brush the nape of my neck with the back of your fingers, kiss me on the forehead, and then on the lips. I give a satisfied sigh, and I melt into you. You deserve that baby. Someone who's pleased to see you. Who has time to put you first.
Some days though, like today, I don't submit to our well worn ritual. I let you wander through the house, empty, quiet, and cold. It's not one of the days I have plans, you know I'm here. But for some reason, today I've left you hanging.
You stand in the doorway of my office, that irked expression on your face. Disappointed that I failed to observe our little ceremony. And then, you notice. I'm wearing my silver necklace. Our signal.
Your expression changes. I didn't forget today, what I was supposed to do. I chose to defy you. And now I'm wearing the necklace. The Hamsa hand pendant peeps out at you, nestled in the cleft of my throat. A raised hand can mean stop, but this one points down. It wards off evil, but it doesn't protect against danger. But then you can't go through life avoiding danger.
You put your hands on my shoulders. Spin me around in my chair to face you.
Our eyes lock. Normally, if I see that critical glare, I sink and cast my gaze down, avoiding yours. But today, I'm challenging you. Not boldly, because... that's not my style, is it? But a quiet, calculated defiance. I nervously run my tongue over my upper lip. Forcing you to make the first overture.
"Too busy to greet me today?" you ask, daring me to make a wrong answer.
Such a subtle play. We know each other so intimately, we don't need to reveal all our secrets in the first act.
Everyone appreciates a little dramatic tension though, *don't they*?
I chew my lip now. The air feels dense in my lungs, but I'm not going to break character.
"No Sir" I tell you, clearly. "Not really".
That's it. "Sir". Another flag dropped, so now all bets are off.
Your eyes narrow. Your jaw is set. I'm close enough to inhale the scent of you, a deep, predatory musk rises like steam from your exposed skin. One with better survival instincts might be repelled by such a warning. But it only draws me closer, makes me weaker.
My heart skips a beat when you move towards me, and seize my arm, above the elbow. Vice-like, you grasp me, and your touch seems to sear my skin. I can already feel those fingertip shaped bruises forming.
"What's your problem?" You ask me.
What is my problem? Who knows? But I want this. I like this.
I can tell this is turning you on. Your shallow breathing... It's OK, you know. It turns me on that you want this as much as I do. That you need to dominate me. I don't want you to do this for me, just because I like it. I need to know that you're doing it because you can. I want you to take what's yours. Because you own every inch of me. And I want to feel it.
"You seem to want to *act out*, Little Girl."
"Maybe I do want to act out" I whisper. Now everything else can go unsaid. We've rehearsed this enough. We both know the stage directions are hard wired into our brains. This set piece is part of our very souls.
So why this dance? This divertissement before the plot proceeds?
Because. You need it to feel safe. But we both want it...to feel... real.
I want to feel trepidation, when I see that hungry look in your eyes. I want to feel you lose control because of me, and ravage me, fuck me so hard that I forget my will exists. Because for me, fear and arousal are two sides of the same coin. And I can't help but toss that coin in the air sometimes, and see where it lands.
I swallow slowly and as I blink, a flash of our previous scene paints itself on the back of my eyelids. A fragment of the last time this show played, right here, with me laying on my back on my desk, legs in the air, while you gripped my shoulders and fucked me, hard enough to make me cry and scream.
Heads you win. Tails I lose.
I place my free hand on the slope between your shoulder and your neck. Try to push you away. But you just laugh, dangerously, unmoved by my effort. You pin me between you and the wall, no way out, and unzip my dress, one swift pull dropping it to the floor.