Fair warning: this is the darker side of noncon.
TW: body shaming, dangerous play, impact play, sensory deprivation, gaslighting, manipulation, objectification, bugs
The sun beat down on the valley. Sweat melted down my forehead, smacking into my eyes with a sting that felt like I was crying. I felt like crying. I'd just been rejected from another role. Thirty five auditions so far this year and I still hadn't booked a job. Each rejection felt like a kick in the guts. I'd nearly broke into tears on the phone with my agent that morning.
"What am I doing wrong?!"
He'd sighed. "Well...I didn't wanna say but...casting did actually give me notes on this one."
"What'd they say??"
"They said it was your look."
"My hair? I can change it. I can go more innocent! Girl next door!"
"No," he said, "They said its your body. You're not hot enough."
My heart deflated. It echoed in my head. You're not hot enough. You're not hot enough.
"But look," my agent sighed, "I'll call Sasha and ask her to take you along on her hike today. You've seen her body right? Unreal. Go hiking with her. Channel your feelings into getting that ass perkier. Okay?"
So I hiked with Sasha. Her perky, perky ass bounced up the trail in front of me. Her pink exercise shorts flaired out, like they were meant to hold thighs twice the size of hers. Through the gaps, the bottom of her ass cheeks fell out when she took big steps. Above her shorts, her tiny waist curved in, impossibly narrow. The kind of waist that sparks romours of surgically removed ribs. Then her boobs flared out, full enough that I could see them from behind when she raised her arms to tighten her perfectly voluminous ponytail.
God. Sasha had already booked a series regular and a million commercials- all of them paying stupidly good. The idustry loved her. Or at least loved looking at her.
"Hurry uuuup!" Sasha called back.
Even her sweat looked dainty. Just the finest misting across the sunkissed tops of her shoulders.
She turned back. "Seriously, have you never hiked before?"
"It's hot as hell out!" I said.
"Isn't it great? You know, lots of A-listers hike around here. And some casting directors and execs, I think. Lots of them live in those mansions across the valley."
I straightened up. Please don't meet anyone important right now, I thought. I looked like shit.
"I actually met the guy that cast me on Strong Hold out here- way before I auditioned. When he called me in he said he remembered me. Hiking girl! With the rad bod! Isn't that crazy?"
She laughed. I huffed to catch my breath.
"When we get to the top," she said, "it's all gonna be worth it. Trust me."
"What's at the top?"
At the top was the best view of the city. The valley sprawled away, dripping to the flat plateau of the suburbs and the distant downtown building standing at attention against the pale blue sea.
"Wow," I whispered, wiping more sweat with my tshirt.
"You like it?"
"It's gorgeous. I love this city."
"It just doesn't love you."
"What?"
I looked over at her. She stared at the view, smiling pleasantly.
"I said its just a lovely view."
"Oh. Right."
"I'm glad you like it. You're gonna be looking at it for a while."
"Hmm?"
This time when I looked at her, she was staring straight at me. She wasn't smiling. The look in her eyes...it was pity? Or hatred?
Then hands grabbed my shoulders and wrenched them back. Another pair grabbed me by the hair, gripping my ponytail like a leash. They yanked my head back until all I could see was the cloudless desert sky. Then fabric plastered over my head and I couldn't see a thing.
"Oh that's right. My mistake. You won't be looking at it at all." Sasha's voice said. I could hear her sadistic glee.
The fabric pulled taut. It cynched around my neck. It was thick. Already, its insulation started to boil me. My sweat tried to escape but there was exactly no room between my skin and the thick, hot material. It wasn't a bag. Or a hood. It was a mask? Like bank robbers wear? Or skiers? But without any eye holes.
Hot breeze hit my lips. My mouth was still uncovered. I sucked in humid lungfuls of air, too out of breath to scream.
The hands on my body maneuvered me like a ragdoll. It was clearly men. Strong men. They lifted me off my feet, clamping my limbs together so I couldn't struggle. I flopped like weak fish.
Rough robe bit into my skin. It looped around my wrists, then elbows. Then each ankle. Then they hefted my shirt up and wraped it around my belly, at the waist. It cynched tight. My waist squeezed and my belly and hips strained against it. They pulled again. My waist must look tiny. Almost as tiny as Sasha's. Except Sasha's stomach doesn't bulge out on either side like a tied ham.
The hands on my legs lifted them, folding them up, up, until my knees were either side of my tits. Thank god for the yoga classes that my agent sent me to.
They pulled my arms through my legs and then back behind me again like i was giving my own tighs a strange contortionist hug. My back slouched to make it work. My lower back screamed in pain.
They yanked the rope around my arms. It tightened, securing my wrists together at the small of my back.
The rope around my feet, elbows, and waist suddenly pulled like there was weight on them. My weight. The arms holding me let go and I was hanging! All my weight sank onto just three points. My elbows cranked up, painfully lifting my arms up backwards.
I dangled, feet pointing straight up, arms trapped behind me, thighs pressed to my stomach, calves hooked behind my shoulders, ass hanging heavy below me.
"What an ugly bitch. But at least she didn't scream," a man's voice said.
I open my mouth to scream then.
Before I could, a heavy metal wire contraption jammed into my mouth. It slotted beside my teeth and the cranked open. Wider. Wider. My mouth forced open in an outrageous yawn. My jaw ached. It can't go any wider! Please, I thought. They cranked it one more setting. The sides of my lips strained. My tongue flailed. My heavy breath buzzed inside the hood.
How invasive! I felt a sudden shame that these men could see my twitching tongue and down into my throat. With the hood on my head, it was ALL they could see of my face. They'd reduced my face to just a gaping hole. My face that I was trying to make famous. My face that I dreamed of seeing on billboards and giant movie screens. In that moment it was just a hole stretched wide open.
The only noise I could make was a weak moan or cry. No matter what sound I tried to make, it came out sounding like porn audio.
"How flexible," Sasha's voice said. "Looks like she's been taking the classes you told her to, Heath."
Heath?? My agent? Was he here?
A hand trailed from my throat to my left breast inside my sports bra and "breathable" tshirt.
"Seems so." Oh my god! It WAS Heath! "I guess she really wants to make it. Do you really want to make it?"
His tone was patronising. Like I was a kid throwing a tantrum.
All I could do was nod.
"Oh she really wants to make it. She wants to be famous. She wants to have what you have, Sasha," Heath said.