I was in the exercise room doing Bulgarian split squats when my girlfriend sauntered in. I had been at it for a while, but I could have kept going a lot longer. I was sweaty but energized.
"I've found a job opportunity for you," Anna interrupted cheerfully.
"Oh?"
I grabbed a towel, wiped the sweat away from my face, and gave her my undivided attention.
"Rudolph Acosta," she elaborated. "He owns a theater in Campo Rojo, and he wants to hire you as one of his performers."
Campo Rojo is on the east side of town. It's famous for having a thriving artistic community. The most famous dancers, painters, sculptors and musicians in Fairhaven all got their start there.
"What sort of performer?" I asked, a bit anxiously. "I'm not an actress. I took drama back in high school and it was a disaster."
"He's not going to ask you to act," Anna assured me. "He's looking for nude performers. He wants a naked damsel in distress."
"What?"
"His theater is unorthodox. A lot of his artists perform in the nude. And after you showed up naked at the Fairhaven mall, you became kinda famous. People have shared photos and videos of you. When Rudolph observed your extraordinary stage presence, he immediately wanted to hire you."
"There are naked videos of me on the internet?" I asked.
"You're missing the point, darling."
"How many people have seen these videos?"
Anna shrugged her shoulders and said, "The point is, he was impressed, and he wants to put you on stage. If you're going to be naked in front of an audience, you might as well get paid for it. Don't you agree?"
* * *
Things moved fast. My first live performance at Rudolph's theater took place the week after our discussion, and it was a memorable experience. Anna parked around back, and I was taken to one of the dressing rooms where I was introduced to Marlo and Izabel.
Both women were impressively tall, and athletic in appearance. When I arrived, they were getting dressed and they asked me to help zip them up into their wetsuits.
Those black, skin-tight suits looked great on them, especially the way they showcased their long legs, flat bellies and narrow waists. Marlo and Izabel both looked deliciously svelte and sexy. I could hardly wait to get onstage with them, in spite of my performance anxieties.
None of Rudolph Acosta's performance artists used their real names when performing in his theater. Marlo's stage name was Martine. Izabel's stage name was Sigrid. Anna had picked out my stage name for me. She decided that I should be named Cinderella.
"I can see why Rudolph hired you," Martine said. "You're adorable."
"It's not just the sex appeal," Sigrid added. "You look so innocent and wholesome. You'll have no problem playing the role of a damsel in distress."
Neither Anna nor Rudolph had bothered to tell me much about what I'd be doing once I got on the stage, so it fell to my fellow performance artists to explain it to me.
"You'll be taken onto the stage, naked and in handcuffs. You'll act the part of a naked slave girl. You won't say anything, and you don't need to do anything except what we tell you to, while Sigrid and I abuse you for the entertainment of the patrons.
"What sort of abuse?" I asked, starting to wonder if I'd made a big mistake.
"Nothing you can't handle," Sigrid assured me. "We've been told about the sorts of things you've endured in the past. We'll be doing some BDSM stuff to you, but it will be mild compared to some of the stuff that's happened to you in the last three years."
"You know about my time in Verborgen?" I asked.
"We know enough. Anna took plenty of photos and videos of your time there. She sent some of them to us as email attachments."
"I saw a video of you being whipped. Nothing we're doing to you tonight will be anywhere near as painful as that."
Then Martine told me to place my hands behind my back so I could be handcuffed.
"It's part of the whole damsel in distress image we're trying to project. Our audience always enjoys that sort of thing."
I placed my hands obediently behind my back and allowed Martine to make me her helpless prisoner. Of course, she didn't stop there.
"The next wicked surprise is this thing that goes inside you."
Martine held up an object that was smooth and glossy, like a large, polished stone of black onyx.
"It's an egg vibrator with ten different speeds," Sigrid explained. "I'll have the remote control, and I'll torment you with it while the people in the audience get to enjoy watching your reactions."
"Um...," I replied inarticulately.
Martine reached between my legs and played with my pussy, trying to get my pubic lips apart. I was already wet, and it didn't take a lot of effort on Martine's part to get my vagina to open up for her.
Ohhhhh!"
Her fingers probed deep into my throbbing sex and explored the interior of my vagina. It seemed unnecessary to me for her to spend so much time with her fingers inside of me, but once I was handcuffed, my submissive tendencies took over, and I humbly submitted to everything they did to me without complaining.
After several minutes of playing with my pussy, Martine pushed the egg inside. Even before she turned it on, I could feel the smooth surface of the egg brushing against sensitive nerve endings, and my vaginal muscles reflexively contracted.
My legs felt wobbly, and I squirmed as I felt a soft, wet pulse in my loins. Just having the egg inside me stimulated my libido. How was my body going to react when the thing was vibrating?
"Good, the egg is situated," Martine said. "And it's almost showtime. Let's get you out there, on stage."
Martine and Sigrid were both clothed. I was naked, my hands bound behind my back, and every step through the corridors made me more aware of the thing inside of my vagina. I was feeling more and more like a sex slave the closer I got to the stage.
The stage wasn't quite what I was expecting. The floor was concrete and the walls surrounding me looked like they were made of limestone. The whole atmosphere was less like that of a theater stage and more like that of a dungeon.
While I was on stage the glare of the spotlight obscured my view of the audience. I never got a clear look at the people out there, but I'm sure they got a good look at me.
"This delicious morsel is named Cinderella," Martine announced to the crowd. "She's new, but you're going to love her!"
Martine ordered me to do a slow turn, so the theater patrons could view my naked body from every angle. I was stopped in mid-turn and ordered to raise my bound wrists, so the audience could have an unobstructed view of my bare buttocks.
"Isn't she adorable, folks?" Martine called out.
There were sounds of approval from the crowd. Then Martine described what was in store for me.
"Cinderella has a vibrating sex toy shoved deep in her vagina. I could be nice and remove it. Or I could put Cinderella in suspension bondage and watch her go crazy with lust as Sigrid turns the sex toy up to its highest setting."
My heart pounded urgently in my chest at those words. Martine paused dramatically before adding, "Should we be merciful? Or should we watch Cinderella whimper and writhe as she's sexually abused?"
The audience had strong opinions on that subject. Everyone shouted at once. Male and female voices overlapped and assaulted my ears. It was impossible to make sense out of the cacophony of noise, but here and there I could make out a word or two. Words like 'bondage' and 'suffer' seemed to predominate. I even heard one female voice call out, "Make her scream!"
Martine turned to me and said, "Well, Cinderella, the crowd has spoken."
Sigrid and Martine unlocked my handcuffs and proceeded to bind me a different way. There was a trapeze bar above my head. Sigrid walked over to a control panel and pushed a button, and the bar descended low enough that my wrists could be bound to it. Martine and Sigrid buckled leather straps around my wrists, securing my wrists to the bar, then Sigried pressed the button again.
The trapeze bar rose, and my body stretched taut as I was raised up as well. Sigrid didn't stop the bar from climbing until my bare feet left the floor. I looked down at my dangling legs, then up at my bound wrists. I became overwhelmed with a feeling of utter helplessness.
Aaaahhhh!"
Sigrid tapped some buttons on the remote control, and the egg began to vibrate. Its vibrations were powerful, and I couldn't keep from squirming and making shameful noises as the electronic device pulsed away deep inside me.
The egg's vibrations intensified. One agonizing wave of desire after another passed through me. My pussy throbbed with hungry spasms. My whole body stiffened, my heart pounded in my ears, and before long I was thrashing around like mad.