Dear Reader,
Nothing too out of the ordinary in this one, although it is a little dark, I suppose. And, no, Becca doesn't escape or any nonsense like that. I'll let you know if I ever write a story like that.
Regards,
Adam Lily
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"Ronny, baby, please. Please don't make me do this."
It was a little before midnight. Ronny had driven me to the stockyard district. We were parked outside the crappiest bar I'd ever seen: corrugated tin roof, half of a working beer sign, one window boarded up, the other crisscrossed with duct tape that kept it from shattering. An unconscious man slumped against the wall. Orange sodium lights made the tableau look even sicker.
"You're doing it," said Ronny. Smiling, he launched the slaver app on his smartphone.
"Baby, no, please, no." My best wheedling, desperate tone. Sometimes it swayed him. "I'm sorry the chicken was dry, please let me make it up to you-- "
"This
is
how you're making it up to me," he said. He fiddled with the app, thereby fiddling with me.
I started, "Baby let's talk about this--." But then Ronny tapped his phone, and that tingle skittered around my skull. My body sat up straight, sucked in a lung-busting volume of air, and held it. And held it. And held it. I couldn't stop holding it.
"We're not talking," he said. "You're doing. End of story."
I couldn't will myself to breathe, but I was still in charge of much of the rest of me. My eyebrows knotted, and my eyes pleaded, and my throat made creaky
nnnnn-nnnnnnnnhhhh
noises. And I thought:
You fucking asshole. Don't you fucking do this to me, you horrible evil shit.
And before I could control them came the next thoughts:
I will kill you, you shit. I will get that fucking phone away from you and--
My stomach lurched up into my throat. Nausea. I banged open the car door and stumbled into the parking lot. I tried to stand, but vertigo hit, so I dropped to all fours, banging my knees, grinding pebbles and glass into my hands. And then I puked. Everything came right up.
And I still couldn't breathe. Ronny hadn't released me, yet. My lungs burned and my raced on and my brain screamed. The world turned red, then white. My forehead banged on the ground, and I beat my fists on the cement.
Maybe this was it. Maybe I'd die. I didn't want to be free in this way, but after nearly a year in Ronny's harem, I'd take it.
But then I gulped in a chestful of parking-lot air. Then exhaled, coughing and spitting. I sucked in another chestful, then released it, less violently. My vision returned, and my heart slowed, and my brain said me
thank you, thank you
. I was going to live.
Ronny was standing beside me. "Had a bad idea, Becca? A naughty notion?"
I nodded. "Yes, sir, I'm sorry sir-- "
He dropped to his haunches. "Sssshhhh," he said, stroking my hair. "No harm done. Not to me, anyway." He picked grit from my forehead, then studied my hands. "Tch. Let's get you cleaned up. And, whew" --he made a face--"some water and then some gum. I bet even the boys in the bar wouldn't want you like this."
I tried begging one last time. "Please take me home."
Ronny shook his head. "No, Becca. We drove almost an hour to get here. You're doing it. Now be quiet. Or more puking, and maybe worse. And then you walk home."
My resistance evaporated. Not because of anything he did with the slaver app. Ronny didn't like using the app on me that way. "I've got enough brainless blow-up dolls," he'd say. And it was true. At home, he had Fifi and Babette and The Bloat. And he also had Suzi, who . . . well, "brainless" didn't even describe it. Suzi, his beta test.
I was Ronny's fifth acquisition. And in me, Ronny wanted something different than a sex-addled bimbo. Ronny wanted me to keep my brain, my sense of myself, because he liked making me give up, liked controlling me through my body. At first he used pain, pleasure, and fear to change and control me. But I'd gotten better at resisting those, so he turned to nausea. I can resist a lot, but nausea? Puking and worse? No, just, no. Do what he wants, get it over with.
"Okay. Okay. I'll do it."
"Atta girl," he said, rubbing my head. "Let's get you ready."
Five minutes later, my mouth minty, my flesh plucked of gravel, I heaved open the heavy dark door into the bar. I couldn't leave the bar until I'd finished the mission he'd tasked me with.
I scoped out the bar, and the bar of maybe a dozen guys scoped me back. What they saw: A short, fit, brunette twentysomething girl in a figure-masking black sweatshirt, moderately tight blue jeans, and black calf-high boots. What I saw: Cigarette haze, crap fluorescent lighting, cheap flat beer, lame 80s jukebox rock, a threadbare pool table, bad skin, failed marriages, drunken despair, methhead abyss. Probably more than a few STDs. And--improbably, for an urban bar like this--a deer's head mounted on the wall by the bar.
I wasn't exactly a hottie, but it didn't matter. Any woman in a bar like this was meat. I could hear their stale cocks stirring.
I was queasy from having thrown up, but I smiled broadly, brightly. That was part of my task, to make everyone think I was super-happy to be here. I walked slowly toward the bar, a dozen pairs of eyes tugging up my sweatshirt and peeling down my jeans. My own eyes roved at the bar's edges. I wanted an out-of-the-way spot: a bathroom, a beer closet, a back door to the alley--hell, even a booth in a dark corner. Anywhere I could complete the job with some privacy and dignity. Ronny hadn't said my humiliation had to be public. Not until the end.
Just before lifting myself up onto a barstool, I found it. A single bathroom, with a knob suggesting it could be locked from the inside. The door bore the stick-figures for male and female, although the bar patrons had gussied up the signs with a fat wang for the guy and basketball tits on the girl. Both figures had speech bubbles, but I couldn't make out the words.
I was sure the bathroom was disgusting, but all I wanted was privacy.
The bartender, a big pale pear of a guy, stared at me. "Whatchoo need."
"Um," I said. I munched a stale pretzel. "Tequila?"
"No girl drinks."
"A shot. No, a double-shot." Tender stomach be damned. This whole thing would be easier if I were drunk.
The bartender pursed his lips. "Pay."
I put a ten on the table. He took it, poured my cheap tequila, and walked off.
I munched on a few more pretzels, girding my stomach for the booze. Behind the bar was a mirror with which I studied the room. Some men sat by themselves; a few spoke to each other; all of them were looking at me.
Find the most pathetic guy
, Ronny had said.
The guy who skeeves you out the most. That's the one.
I found my guy, back in a corner. I tossed back the tequila, which burned like a candle on the way to my belly. I got another and munched more pretzels. I noticed that the eye sockets of the deer's head were empty, two dry holes. Creepy.
I pushed myself off the barstool, wandered to the corner with my glass of numbness, and plopped down by my soon-to-be-lucky fella.
Here was my guy: pale, meth-scrawny and pale, maybe late 20s. Baggy black jeans, dirty white leather tennis shoes, a black polo with the logo of some shitty Mexican restaurant on it. Brown, stringy hair hung long in the back, but his hairline was in full retreat. And he had an uncertain black mustache and chin pubes.
I felt a juicy tickle in my folds. It wasn't because of the guy, who I found genuinely gross. It was knowing that Ronny would be pleased. It was just something my body did now, my pussy salivating to the idea-bell of Ronny being pleased. Pure Pavlov.
"Hey," I said, grinning. A little tipsy, now. "What's your name?"
"Uh," he said, his voice high. "Max. I'm Max." He didn't ask my name. He didn't say anything else. I guessed that Max and women didn't have much to do with each other. I placed my hand on his thigh. He twitched but didn't jump away.
"Well, Max. Maxie. Can I call you Maxie? I'm Becca. And I got a problem. A biiig problem. I'm hoping you can help me."
"Oh-okay. Becca. What's your problem?"
"W-e-l-l-l--it's kind of embarrassing. And private." I walked my fingers up his thigh to the joint of his pelvis. "I don't want to say it out here. But I can tell you if we're alone. And then maybe you can help me with it."
"Um . . . sure. Okay. Where?"
I bit my lower lip, swirled my drink, and stared from under my bangs. "I'm thinking the bathroom, Maxie."
Max frowned. "Together? But they'll see us."
"Does that worry you?" Max nodded. Ugh. What a pussy. "Okay. I'll go in first. You count to 100, then come in. Nobody'll remember I went in first." That was surely bullshit. Every man in this bar was stalking me. But it didn't matter. I wanted to get in and out as fast as I could.
"You can't tell me out here?"
"Naw, it's a super-private problem. And it's a
big
problem." And I squeezed his cock. Already hard--no surprise there. But not that big, not big at all.
Max cleared his throat. "I'll count to 100."
"Yay, Maxie!" I grinned, giving his cock a couple more happy squeezes, and then tossed back my tequila. Four shots in less than five minutes. Maybe I should have a dozen more. Maybe I wouldn't remember doing what I had to do next.
I stood, kissed Max on his forehead—uck, greasy—and walked 12 steps to the bathroom. I could read the speech bubbles, now, stick-figure guy saying, "Suck it you stupid cunt," stick-figure girl saying, "Fuck me 'til I bleed." I turned on the light, shut the door, and sat on the toilet.
It was a tiny bathroom: commode, sink, mirror. On the walls were drawn outlandish penises and breasts and vaginas, a Lascaux of angry male fantasy. Ancient and newer telephone numbers. Even a couple of e-mail addresses. And words. Lots of words. Words about women, words about what men do with women and want to do to women. Men being men. Women being things, and less than things.
But I wasn't a thing. I was still a person. Far more of a person than Ronny's other women, anyway. My mind was still intact, despite Ronny's control of my body weathering and cracking it.
The door cracked open, and Max peered in. I smiled and beckoned him in with a come-hither finger. As he closed the door, the bar erupted in hoots and hollers and clapping.
Max blanched, and he might have bolted, so I gripped his belt and yanked him to me. "Maxie, I'm so glad you're with me. I
really
need your help."
"Okay," said Max. He was tense, scared of this girl, ready to fight. "So, what is it, then."
"I'm