All of the participants of this are of legal age. This is a story from a particular segment of the BDSM community depicting a DD/bg relationship. This is NOT a tale of incest!
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Cassie followed carefully behind Max to the boat launch on the lake. Although they were planning on telling Zander about their relationship, Cassie couldn't help but be excited. Last night could have been considered a kinkster's "night in," but this would be her first date with Max—in public. Out in the open.
She looked down at her demure pink-and-white gingham bikini with Max's white button-down shirt, unbuttoned, as a cover-up. Her sunglasses dipped low on her nose, and she pushed them up with a single finger. The pigtails were in attendance again, albeit lower down on either side of her head.
Parking her car behind Zander's light truck, she checked her reflection in the mirror. They had agreed, while snuggling in the early morning hours, to arrive separately, to ease Zander into the idea that his sister and best friend were "dating."
Was that what it should be called? Cassie supposed, to the 'nilla world, "dating" would be the tamest euphemism to describe what Max and she shared yesterday and this morning.
Slipping her feet onto the ground and swinging out of the car, she almost missed a scantily-clad red blur jump Max. Cassie seethed, seeing red.
Lucinda Graham. Debutante and socialite. And Max's confident girlfriend. By contrast, Cassie felt frumpy and unsophisticated.
"And he called me earlier and said I had to come, that he missed me terribly," Lucinda was drawling, cloyingly gripping Max's arm.
"And I said, 'Daddy Max, I will be there, just as you like me,'" she continued, her drawl perverted into a falsely light coo.
Cassie reared up as if she had been unexpectedly struck by her crop. Her eyes looked up at Max, silently pleading for him to refute it, but he turned toward Zander, saying nothing.
Zander had brought with him Cami, one of Cassie's best friends. Cassie made a beeline to her.
Cami noted her friend's sudden pallor. Cassie was usually pale, but now her face was ashen, her complexion chalky. "I'm fine," she reassured Cami before Cami could ask. Then, she raised her voice so that everyone could hear. "My date from last night got cold feet," she added, summoning up a gamine grin.
"The coward," Zander scoffed.
"Yes," she agreed with her brother, all the while looking Max square in the eye, "he's a coward."
Something seemed to flare in Max's eyes, and for a few poignant moments he seemed about to say something, to acknowledge their relationship. Then, his eyes shuttered, and the moment was lost before it was found.
"Too bad about your date not showing," Lucinda said, rubbing it in a bit more. "But, hey, at least Max and I are back together. Can you believe it? Some little nonentity caught his attention briefly in a chat room we both go to. She was so boring; her name was even 'Innocent Submissive,'" Lucinda's words ended on a brittle laugh.
Cassie looked at the four people, two couples. And Cassie to make the very awkward fifth wheel. "Oops, I almost forgot!" she announced, putting on the best performance of her life. "I have to make treats for the annual bake sale at school! What a dunce, huh?" She even slapped her forehead to further show evidence of her forgetfulness.
Zander started to say something, and Cassie rambled on, words that sounded jumbled in her mind but thankfully made sense when spoken. "And, besides," she pressed on, overstating the obvious, "with the four of you, it's like a double date. I'm just the fifth wheel, the interloper."
Cami appeared on the verge of adding things up, and so Cassie scuttled away as fast as her Crocs could carry her. Not surprisingly, she arrived at her car crying so hard that she could barely see to unlock the car. As she closed the car door, cocooning away the pain of the outside world, the torrential storm that had threatened within her for the last several minutes came crashing down, destroying everything in its path.
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Max looked in the rearview mirror. Cassie was behind him. He could see his shirt wrapped around her, and its image caused a surge of possessiveness to flash through him. She was his.
His phone rang. Looking down, he noticed Lucinda's number. With a groan, he answered it.
"Hello?" The word was tersely spoken.
A shrill giggle. "I just saw online that you and Zander are going to the lake today. I'll be there, too, so we can talk about getting back together."
"Lucinda." Then, "You know what? We do need to talk, but not as a couple."
"Of course we need to talk about getting back together. Silly." A clicking sound let him know that she had disengaged the call.
He slammed his hands down on the steering wheel, hoping—but not holding out much hope—that Luce wouldn't cause trouble.
Carrying the drinks he had brought (including juice boxes for Cass), snacks (with goldfish crackers and animal crackers for Cass), and sunscreen that he hoped to slick and smooth over Cassie's delicate and soft skin, he exited his truck. Just as he pulled back from stowing the stuff in the boat, Lucinda slammed into him. He happened to look over at Cassie when it happened, and he noted the numb expression followed by a look of betrayal, followed by numbness again.
Max felt trapped. A gentleman could never refute what Luce was explaining now without appearing a boor and a liar. Each word out of her mouth made things worse. It shredded his guts to turn away from Cassie's mute appeal and act as if everything were normal.
It was almost a relief when Cassie made her excuses to leave.
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Through her sobs, Cassie heard the whir of a boat motor. The unbroken remainder of her heart—the part that had held on to a brief bit of hope—crumbled into sand and scattered. Eyes suddenly dry, she slid the car into reverse and sped away.
On autopilot, she drove home with the intent to bake through her angst. Heart hardened against the memories of her "training" (as Max had called it), Cassie reduced her kitchen, bedroom, living room, and bathroom to just that—rooms in which she lived. Silly her for equating training with a relationship.
Stripping off Max's shirt, she covered her bikini with a bright pink frilly apron. For a moment, her natural whimsy supplied the title "Bikini Baker," and she nearly chuckled before she remembered.
Over the next several hours, Cassie baked: twelve dozen cookies, rice krispie treats, four pans of brownies, four dozen cupcakes, and two sheet cakes. While waiting, she logged on to the chat room.
At one point, SaucySub messaged her. "Guess where I am?" Even through text, Cassie could hear her vicious malice.
Numbly, Cassie took the bait. "Where?"
"On a pleasure cruise with him. You blew it. He said he'd never been so turned off by a submissive as he was by you. He can't keep his hands off of me. So, for that, I should thank you. You brought us back together. Laughing at how ridiculous you are did it."
If her heart weren't already destroyed, that would have killed her utterly. "I'm glad I could be of some help, then," she typed woodenly.
"He and I are going out to a club tonight. He is such an amazing dancer, almost as amazing as he is in bed."
An idea formed in Cassie's mind. The new BDSM club had opened, and she had been dying to go. But, as with many things in her life, she had chickened out. And, with that thought, she decided she was no longer going to let life pass her by.