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.