Note: This is a work of fantasy, and contains themes of non-consent, humiliation, and sexual dominance. Please read responsibly.
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"Hey, wait up."
Cari looked back, leaning her sweaty hand on a broad cedar tree for support. Through the woods behind her, Jason emerged around the bend in the path, half-jogging over an exposed tree root. He wore a relaxed, joking smile that Cari disliked.
She mildly disliked everything about Jason, she decided. She disliked how unbearably casual he was--as if he just happened to be strolling through every moment of his life. She disliked his intentionally baggy clothes and shaggily cut hair that reminded her of highschool athletes who had never talked to her. She disliked that, Cari was pretty sure, Anisa and Mark had invited Jason along on this trip because they didn't want her to be a third wheel. And worse, she thought Jason knew it. She disliked that every time he looked at her today, it reminded her of the night before.
After dinner last night, while the two boys were drinking by the fire pit, Anisa had dragged Cari into her bedroom at the cabin. "I have something that's gonna be great for you," Anisa said, rummaging in her bags. Cari sighed inwardly, and put on a thin indulgent smile. Anisa was always finding her frilly things on sale at online stores with unspeakable names, and shoving them into her hands, as if making Cari wear them (which she never would) would make her act around men like Anisa did.
"This," said Anisa, "and this," with a confident flourish.
Cari looked down at the fabric in her hands, and by the dim light of the single lamp in the corner she could still see that the black fabric was translucent--mesh with embroidered patterns that barely concealed anything.
"Uhh, maybe when we get back home, I'll..."
"Nonono, please, just for me, just for me," Anisa gushed. "It's gonna look so good on you."
"Yeah, OK."
Anisa sat on the bed, flipped her long hair, and looked away dramatically, not out of modesty--they had once been college roomates too long for that--but so that she could take in the whole picture in one flourish.
Cari hunched awkwardly as she pulled on the lace-trimmed underwear, and then pulled off her comfortable sports bra and struggled to fit the strange contours of whatever Anisa had bought her around her breasts. Whatever way she adjusted, she spilled out in obscene ways.
"I don't think this is going to fit me," she said. "It doesn't even cover my..."
"It isn't supposed to!" Anisa crowed, spinning around and rushing to tuck and adjust straps and hooks around Cari's back. "Ugh, it looks so good on you. You look so fucking hot."
Cari felt awkward and pornographic, but she smiled and did a little spin for Anisa in the hopes that the ordeal would be over. It was not. There was a knock on the door. Cari froze in place, and hated herself for not saying go away before Anisa gaily said "Come in." Cari hated that Anisa refused to recognize any difference in intimacy between herself and her boyfriend. At least Cari knew Mark, and knew that he would roll and avert his eyes at Anisa's extravagance.
But it wasn't Mark, it was Jason. He slunk through the door with his unbearable cool, leaned on the door frame, and said, "Oh hey Cari," looking her straight in the eyes. He didn't acknowledge for a moment that she was standing in the bedroom of a bare wooden cabin far up some logging road under the gritty light of a single bulb, wearing a ridiculous bra that left her nipples sticking straight out from above a shelf of embroidered silk. He also didn't look away, but kept his eyes fixed on hers with a pleasant grin.
"The shooting stars are awesome tonight, you two should come look," Jason said.
Cari heard herself saying, "Yeah, sure." Jason didn't move. He just leaned in the doorway, refusing to let his eyes wander downwards in a way that made Cari absolutely sure he knew exactly what he was doing.
"We're just trying things on," Anisa giggled. "We'll be right out. Doesn't she look great, though?"
Jason looked down over Cari's breasts, belly, and downwards, as if he was just noticing her exposed body. If she were just naked, Cari thought, it would be fine. She wasn't so much of a prude; she had done her share of skinny dipping. But this was somehow much worse.
"Yeah, she looks great," Jason said nonchalantly, his grin broadening a little. Then, unhurriedly, he turned and left, the tingling awareness of his eyes still buzzing hotly around her thighs. As the door closed, Cari decided she would probably forgive Anisa eventually, but it would not be tonight.
The last thing Cari didn't like about Jason, she thought, was that the whole next day he had not in the slightest acknowledged that he had seen her nearly naked. He didn't crack a tension-breaking joke, he didn't flirt, he didn't leer, but she sometimes caught him just watching her. Every time she thought of him casually looking her over, as if appraising a work of art.
That's how she felt now, as she leaned against the tree, watching him smile at her. She had avoided any possible signs of flirtation today, wearing a modest-necked tank top, a practical skirt, and sneakers. She had also kept to herself, walking far ahead of Mark and Anisa along the trail by the lake, enjoying the solitude and the quiet rustle of the woods. But Jason had somehow caught up to her, and now she supposed she would have to talk to him as if she didn't feel humiliated.
"Hey," he said. "Your backpack."
"What?"
"Your backpack," Jason repeated, gesturing. "Mind if I get that for you."
Cari looked awkwardly over her shoulder, and saw that the back zipper of her black daybag was hanging open, and her water bottle hung out precariously.
"Oh shit, yeah, thanks," Cari said, somewhat automatically. As Jason strode towards her, she rested both her forearms on the cedar tree, maybe so that she didn't have to look awkwardly over her shoulder into his annoying face from a foot away. She felt the weight of her water bottle fall into place, and his hands zipping up her pack.
"There ya go," he said, from uncomfortably close behind her ear. Cari moved back to extricate herself, but immediately felt the firm weight of his body pressed against her backpack. She wasn't quite pinned to the tree, but neither could she lean back enough to get her footing, and she rocked back on her forearms against the rough bark, feeling suddenly how solid Jason's body felt compared to his soft posture.
Momentarily frozen, Cari struggled to find something to say to make Jason move backwards, but couldn't come up with words for the ridiculous situation. Instead, he spoke first.
"Hey, I have something for you."
This was incomprehensible to Cari, and so she said nothing. There was also a new tone in his voice, as if he was no longer a cat lounging on a sofa, but now gentling humouring its prey. Behind her, she felt Jason shift his weight as he reached into the pocket of his shorts and pulled something out, all the while leaning against her in a way that was both gentle and immoveable. She felt cold metal against her leg, and winced.
"Uhhh," she managed to get out of her mouth, but before she could wrestle words out, the smooth cold metal was against her lips. For a blurred moment, she saw a small oblong of glistening smooth steel in front of her eyes. It knocked on her teeth, just sharply enough that she opened her mouth in surprise, and then the metal was inside against her tongue. All she could feel was something smooth and cold and hard, and a metallic taste, and Jason's fingers curled gently around her mouth, and all she could do was open her teeth wide. A small part of her instinctively wanted to flail and fight and throw his hands off her, but the overwhelming feeling of his weight against her and a mouth full of metal, like a horse on a bit, generated an even stronger impulse to stay motionless. She felt a bit of saliva drip from the corner of her lips.