A gentle touch upon my shoulder violently startled me awake, but almost instantly, my eyes started to close again. Even though I recognized my big brother's hand upon me, it took several heartbeats for me to realize that I sat at the table, my arms folded atop a thick textbook.
"Come to bed, baby sister," I heard softly as the familiar hand gently caressed my shoulder. "You won't do yourself any good at all by studying all night, especially if you're this tired just after midnight. Come to bed, please."
I shook my head, partially in response to him, partially to try to clear my head. "I've got to keep going," I replied. "I'll be done in about two hours, I promise."
Through simply my big brother's touch upon me shoulder, I could feel his hesitation; I could tell that he did not truly believe me. "Two hours," he warned, his tone clearly harsher than usual.
A few heartbeats later, a gently touch upon my shoulder once again violently startled me awake. Once again, almost instantly, my eyes started to close again.
"Come to bed," I heard, this time not nearly as gently.
Slowly, I turned my eyes toward the clock on the VCR, and saw that it was only 12:30AM.
He must have sensed that I was checking the time. "You're too damn tired, baby sister. Come to bed, now."
The exam was so important to me, however, that I slowly shook my head in the negative.
Reaching underneath my arm, my big brother roughly seized a breast, and, despite my fatigue, a soft sound immediately flowed past my lips.
Then, however, I winced and grunted with pain as his hand clamped ferociously upon my breast. "You're coming to bed, now!" he insisted.
"No! I can't!"
"Stand up, slave!"
That set the tone. Never before had my big brother "pulled rank" on me like that, suddenly engaging our master/slave hierarchy without first consulting me. Never had he attempted to dominate me in anger, for which I had been quite grateful, but I thought that I was really, really in deep trouble, that he would punish me in anger.
As quickly as my exhausted mind could form the commands for my body to execute, I stood before my big brother, my master.
"Strip!"
He was clearly not happy with me. I did not bother trying to take my time or trying to make my disrobing particularly sexy for him. Instead, I stripped as quickly as I possibly could, for once taking no pleasure in the act, ultimately standing fully nude before him yet unable to feel any pride in displaying my sisterly body for his viewing pleasure.
"I will meet you in my bedroom in five minutes," he informed me, the edge still quite evident in his voice as he glanced at his watch. "If you are even one second late, the punishment will be even more severe."