The Mirror wrote down "Bearhug" on the dry erase board, then drew two circles next to the word. He checked one with the flick of his marker. The other, he left blank. I did not know what these meant, nor did I inquire. Meaning was far from my mind.
The Mirror moved behind me and kissed my neck--as much as he could, at least, while wearing a mask. His little zipper smile nibbled up and down my skin, and while it scratched a bit, I gathered that was the point. He mixing pain and pleasure, and after the rough grip of his leather gloves as they kneaded from my stomach up to my aching, needy nipples, I was learning the value of both.
"The next hold," he growled through his mask-zipper, "is the 'Abdominal Stretch.'"
I was too buzzed by his hot breath on my neck to understand the words, but I was more than eager to be molded by them.
I followed his motions in the mirrors around the room. His muscled, ebony leg stepped over to cover my own. The size difference between his quad--a barrel of power--and my own were stark. Leg planted firm, he squatted slightly, and forced my knee to bend. He then snaked his torso to my side, his coiled strength trailing up my flank. His left arm slipped under my right and slowly drew leather fingers up my waist, and ribs, then finally, he hooked my arm under his. His other arm sneaked across my face, and those leather hands clasped tight. I heard the crinkle of the leather, but I didn't need a visual to know how my body was bent in his grasp--I could feel it in my core. My oblique was exposed, curved into a bend I had not normally known.
My voice broke and cracked unwillingly.
"You will find," he said, as he brushed a gloved thumb at my quivering lip, "that in this position, your spine, your sides, and your abs will burn. And it will burn you up, too."
His left hand moved away, satisfied that I would not try to break out of the hold. A gloved thumb found my lips and danced its way into my willing mouth. It slid deep. I sucked. Thick leather dominated tongue. He murmured something, but I could understand little beyond the waxy flavor and hot pain. My flank tightened. I wanted to surrender to his touch, him. But I knew the rules, and, with the suction of my mouth and the crumbling infrastructure of my torso, I obeyed them.
As my eyes fluttered shut between the boundary of agony and ecstasy, The Mirror spoke to me.
"This is where it gets serious," he said. With the aid of my suction, he pulled his hand free from the leather glove. I kept it in my mouth, a makeshift gag. And I sucked, as I believed he wanted me to without any explicit instruction to do so.
"Let's see what my sweet sissy jobber has learned."
The threshold of pain and pleasure were slurred at this point in my mind and memory. What I do distinctly remember is that his gloveless hand stroked down my front and played with my nipples through the soft pink crop top he had dressed me in. He tweaked them between his digits, the friction of cotton combined with his pinch changed the pitch of my groans.
"You look like you're enjoying it," he ran his gloved hands down my hips and kneaded. He tugged at the side of my flower-patterned thong. The pressure and heat of his body bending made my skin feel raw, like every inch of myself was open, exposed to audience unseen. He reached down into my twitching thong-briefs and pressed his palm along the shiny tent, pushing, pulling, letting it go, gripping it again.
I wasn't sure how much more I could take. In my mind, in my sides, in my loins I burned.
He began to stroke it. The cool, smooth spandex rubbed and coaxed my member with pleasure that battled against the torrent of suffering in my bent body. I groaned pathetically into the leather I eagerly kept in my mouth.
"Time has passed," he said. With those words, my pain felt victorious. His strokes were more deliberate now. More thorough. The fuzz of my vision could make out that the tip of my flower-thong, distorted by my tent, was stained with pre-cum. Though I was fading, there was a certain profound clarity to the moment; once granted the chance to leave the hold, I also removed myself from potential release. This training session was not just about taking wrestling holds, but was an attempt to program me, mold me into something that received the bend and beating of grappling with the same desire as the desperate need I had now to explode in his grip. Submission prevented my climax. Find the pleasure in pain, and I'd find release.
And I tried. And I panted. And I held, and held, and held. My balls ached. My hips rolled as much as they could in their forced lock. I sweat. I squinted.
But, new student that I was, it became too much. The fire of the stretch was stronger than the flame of the friction in my thong. I dropped the glove from my mouth.
"I'M A JOBBER FAG!" I choked out in defeat.
He let me go. He treated the release of the stretch with gentleness I was too drained to appreciate. Without his arms, I am certain I would've wilted to the floor. He let me down slowly to my knees, and cradled me in his lap. He stroked the tips of my glittery wrestling mask as I leaned on his chest. He murmured praise for my taste in pain.
"That's right," he said. The zipper kissed my vinyl mask. "You are. And you did so good, little thing. You held out for much longer than I anticipated."
This praise shot through me an electric charge. I didn't just feel pride in my defeat, I felt powerful in it. I realized all at once I had passed two different holds now, and in my first training session!
I looked up into the reflective mask of The Mirror, and felt that the zipper grin was a reward for my tolerance. "I want to do another one."
The Mirror chuckled, and I felt the bass of his voice vibrate through his chest. "And you will, little flower. Stay on the floor for a moment."
He lifted me out of his lap and sat me on the mat. I watched his dark, massive body slink across the room. He went to the whiteboard and wrote "Abdominal Stretch" underneath "Bearhug." It had the same circles and the same checkmark in only one column. If my assumptions were correct, the columns without the checkmarks were my orgasms, and checks marked my successful survival past the time limit.
"Your next hold will be more difficult," he said as he put the cap back onto the pen.
