Manon and Belle, Part 12
Author's note - the story of Manon's first meeting Belle at school is told in Chapter 2, so not repeated here. The series Manon and Belle's School Days tells more of that origin story, or will, when or if I send it for publication. All characters are 18 or over.
Manon found a nice sunny spot on the grass, and stretched out, enjoying the feel of the warmth as it dried her off. She sent Claire off to find some cushions and maybe a rug, while Belle helped Kitty spread her suit in the sun to dry.
Once Claire returned, Manon lay on the cloth she'd found, and propped herself on some cushions. Belle lay down alongside her, cuddling Kitty to her, the girl lying naked full length on Belle. Claire knelt by Manon but then cuddled up to her, resting her head on Manon's shoulder when she was told to.
So Manon told more of the story of how her life with Belle at school had begun, and what the first few weeks were like, as they all lazed the afternoon away. She answered Claire's questions when she could, as there were things about the school and her time there that were rather private, to say the least. Once Manon had to comfort her Belle who got all soppy and misty eyed when Manon skipped ahead and told them a little about why Belle had become her slave as well her lover.
Eventually as the sun was beginning to get low, and it was a little cool for lying about naked on the grass, Manon decided to go in and bathe, and get ready for dinner. "I'll tell you more later, or tomorrow maybe," Manon said.
No one bothered to dress, Claire and Kitty just bundled everyone's clothes up and carried them in, though Kitty made a point of putting her catsuit on top of her pile.
Manon wanted a soak with her Belle, so sent Claire and Kitty off to their own bath, Belle having first undone Claire's chains. "Miss, Kitty is still changing isn't she?" Belle said, as Manon lay back on her using her lovely boobs as a back rest.
"Oh? In what way?" Manon asked. "Well, she seems to drop into her cat persona more, when she isn't wearing the suit I mean, and seems less nervous than before when she isn't in the suit?" Belle said.
"Hmm, you make a good point Belle, I hadn't thought of it. So it's her playing at being a cat which is making her happier now, and the suit isn't as important. I mean she still loves it?"
"For sure miss, she does, but not quite the same way as at first, it's fun to watch her change though," Belle said.
Belle and Manon got dressed after their bath and went and fetched Claire and Kitty. Manon decided to leave them like they were, naked but with collar and cuffs replaced, but didn't put the chains back on them.
At dinner they sat between her and Belle, on their heels, while they were hand fed again. Claire seemed very relaxed, happily licking Manon's or Belle's fingers clean or sucking them if they were offered. With more than a hint of a smile.
Kitty was quite naughty with it, though cute as well. She batted hands at Manon and Belle when they tried to feed her, or rolled on her back and scrabbled at them with her hands and feet, before very carefully biting little pieces off whatever we offered her. When Manon told her off, she went and hid under the table cloth.
Once there she launched surprise attacks on everyone, including the three maids, lunging out from under the table cloth and swiping at legs and feet with her 'paws'. The maids were particularly vulnerable, as they were only wearing thin shifts. Apparently Persil was punishing them for getting their clothes wet and muddy earlier, though the fact that all three were smiling suggested it wasn't exactly harsh punishment.
Eventually Kitty pounced on Sage as she was heading back to the kitchen, and in her eagerness to get away Sage wriggled clean out of her shift, and ran off naked, laughing and pursued by the naked cat girl.
A few minutes later a somewhat chastened looking Kitty followed a more than somewhat cross looking Persil out, clearly coming to see Manon.
"My lady please? This is most disruptive and I have a house to run," Persil said. The maids had followed her out and were kneeling behind Persil now, as Sage pulled her shift back on.
"I can see your difficulty. Persil, in effect most of your heavy work is done in the morning, or at least before lunch? Later on cooking and clearing up and so on is the main workload?" I asked.
"That's true my lady," she said warily.
"Well, I have an idea. How about once the maids start work, they come and get both Claire and Kitty to work with them? To be put to work with your girls in whatever way you wish? Then once Belle and I have eaten lunch and everything has been cleared away to your satisfaction, you send Claire back to me."
"Kitty and one of the maids, or however many you release, can go and play or whatever they want for the afternoon. Say until dinner time, I would want her back by then and the maids back to setting out dinner."
"Well I'd have five of them working for more than half a day, that would be better than I have now," Persil said, smiling slightly.
"Well then, if that's acceptable?" I asked.
"Very my lady, and thank you."
"Now two things more, first Persil do we have more of these lovely white shifts that your girls are wearing? Enough for Claire and Kitty as well?"
"We do my lady, they are the female house slaves' standard undergarment," Persil said.
"Good. Romarin, Thym, Sage come here and kneel in front of me. You too Claire and Kitty."
"When you are working girls, from now on the only clothes you will wear will be one of those shifts, unless madame Persil tells you otherwise, for example if you need an apron in the kitchen. You three look really pretty this evening in them, so I want to see all five of you like that all the time."
Manon nodded at madame Persil who was smiling happily. She clapped her hands loudly, "off you three go now, you heard your mistress. Leave anything else in the kitchen, it can be cleared up in the morning." The got up and ran off quickly.
