skittish_butterfly
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- Oct 26, 2012
Erin felt her every muscle tense against Dominic as she sat pressed up against him. It was like her body was preparing to absorb a blow, maybe Dominic's horrified reaction. But as anxious as even her partial confession left her, the fraying of Erin's nerves was really more about the things she hadn't said yet.
As far as Erin could tell, though, Dominic on the other hand looked totally relaxed. Well, why shouldn't he, Erin thought to herself. While she was naked and wearing a leather collar around her neck, making her feel as much like his pet as his girlfriend, Dominic still had his pants on, and a guy's shirt being off wasn't the same as a girl's. And despite his prior heartfelt honesty with her, she was the one making all the embarrassing revelations this time. He was smiling and looking right at her. She tried to relax, so he wouldn't feel her tension against his chest and realize more truth was hiding behind it. She loved him. She knew that love should buy him the whole truth, but she wanted him to still love her back, and she wasn't sure the deepest, realest her was worthy of his love. He loved this version of her, and she was terrified of losing that now that she finally knew what it felt like.
He spoke. His reaction hurt as much as she'd feared, and this only from the story of Chuck and the belt. She hadn't even gone into what had come before it, and why she'd been so afraid of him to begin with.
Disgusting, that's what Dominic had called what she'd shared of her dark secrets, or called her, she wasn't sure. Erin flinched at the word, but just nodded like she accepted his verdict, knowing it was true while wishing it wasn't. She hadn't chosen to be who she was, to be raised the way she was, to be a broken girl inside. But she was, and she knew it. And now he knew it too, which made her face hot for like the millionth time around him.
All that going through her head was what made his sudden grin seem so from out of nowhere to her. He grinned like it was just a joke, or maybe like he didn't care even if she really was disgusting, because he loved her anyway. She didn't know and didn't care once he kissed her. It was the briefest possible kiss, more a light brush against her soft lips, but it got her attention, focused her on him, like it made everything ok. Her eyes were flitted down to his lips and back to his eyes, her spirits lifting slowly as his presence began to reassure her.
Her face was up to his, listening as he clarified he was disgusted with Chuck, not her. She wanted to kiss him so hard, but Dominic held back, his eyes looking at her with a gentle smile. Erin was intensely aware of his eyes, roaming freely down her body, everywhere his eyes touched feeling warm and good, like having him look at her and want her was the antidote to the way Chuck and a lot of her mom's other "boyfriends" in recent years had looked at her. When his eyes returned to hers, Erin smiled, feeling like tears would fill her eyes if she wasn't careful. She tilted her head and sought his lips but couldn't quite reach him for the kiss she wanted to give him. She thought about Dominic's eyes on her, how different it felt. "I know... he shouldn't have... nobody is entitled... except you." Even her words sounded like she was smiling.
Dominic talked about the dirty secret she'd revealed to him. He called it a fantasy, which wasn't exactly how she wanted to think of it. A fantasy made it sound like something she loved and wanted. She didn't like it. Even the way she just thought about it so much felt wrong to her, but she just couldn't stop herself. Was there even a word for that? Erin didn't know so she accepted 'fantasy' for now, but a little nervous about what it said about Dominic's reaction to her story, that he thought of it as a fantasy.
He even said it was unusual for her age, which didn't make her feel any better either. She always thought of herself as the outsider, the outcast, the misfit. It was hard not to living in a trailer with the kind of mother and male visitors and disturbing night noises she grew up with. Even if he clarified it wasn't so unusual for older people to have... "fantasies" like hers, that didn't exactly make her feel any more normal just yet. But at least he didn't seem to mind.
The only thing that really helped was his kiss, his lips finding her again. Erin was broken, didn't fit in with the other kids really, not even in her own head, but Dominic loved her anyway, she felt it in the touch of their lips. She focused all her thoughts on him and his kiss and it helped. After a long breathless time joined to his mouth, breathing his breath, she lost the touch of his lips as he pulled back and reminded her he shared her darker aspects. Erin knew he was trying hard to encourage her, so she wouldn't feel bad. But he didn't really know what it felt like to be her, didn't know how bad it got inside her head sometimes. How could he? But she loved him so much for trying, and for understanding at least this much. Maybe a belt he could understand, getting her to wear a collar. What would he think if she opened up completely though?
His hand reached for her bare leg and she felt the squeeze, his touch electric on her skin, like the collar grounded her for the current in his fingertips to flow through her. Her body was responding to him so strongly he had her full and undivided attention. His voice went low as he stroked her body and spoke to her mind. He believed she wanted this, all but confessed to wanting them to, which made her hold back her desire to deny it, not wanting to separate herself from him. He told her if she asked her to he would get a belt and make her dark "dream" come true. She was sure he misunderstood, but she also knew that from his point of view he was being as loving as he could, trying to offer her what he thought she wanted.
Erin's mind spun for a moment, trying to figure out the right response to her boyfriend's loving offer to beat her with a belt. Finally she settled for a slightly lame and stammered, "thanks, but, uh, not just yet." His body was so close and she wanted him so badly, wanted his touch, wanted to touch him, to be closer than physically possible. The thought of denying him, of telling him she didn't actually want the belt the same way he did, it was almost painful to think of, to think maybe it might jeopardize this closeness.
He left her lame response hanging between them and she wished she could think of something better to say, something clever like he was, something that would make him want her more, enough to lay her back on the couch and take her right now. Even if he didn't use a condom, maybe she wouldn't say anything about that either. They were in love. If she got pregnant, maybe it wouldn't have to be the realization of every horrible fear her mom had instilled in her. Dominic loved her, and if she were pregnant, he would never let her end up like her mom did, her life ruined raising a kid on her own in utter squalor.
Before she could come up with any words more enticing than the simple press of her body against his, he finally broke the heavy silence. He spoke more about full truths and not holding back, that he wouldn't be shocked or judge her or run away, or at least so he believed. She ached to believe him. But the way he told her that not fully answering when he asked her a question was something he couldn't abide set a shudder rippling up and down her spine. It was so hard to resist him and those deep penetrating eyes. He was so close, and he was her protector, had proven it over and over already. Listening to him, hearing his voice say it over and over in so many different ways, it felt utterly wrong what she was doing.
"Dominic, I... there was more..." Her voice caught in her throat as her mind thought about some of the things she was on the verge of opening up. "Before the belt story... why I was so afraid of him." Dominic was her protector, the only one she could count on to keep her safe. How could she not tell him?
But the answer bubbled up, wrapped in a ancient terrors that had kept her awake at night for years, certain she was doomed to the worst of everything forever just because that was how it had always gone before. He was her protector, and that was why it was so hard to tell him, to risk losing that. What could she say, though, that would distract him from this need to know every dark little corner? Erin blinked uncertainly at him a few times, her lips open, all but silently framing the words already.
What actually came out once she slowed her breath and found her voice was a shock, but as she thought about it she realized where it came from, and why she said it. The alternative seemed so much worse. "But first, Dominic, would you... would you get the belt?" Better the belt she'd dreaded for so many years, than risk shocking and losing the one man who finally loved her the way she'd been too afraid to dream of her whole life.
As far as Erin could tell, though, Dominic on the other hand looked totally relaxed. Well, why shouldn't he, Erin thought to herself. While she was naked and wearing a leather collar around her neck, making her feel as much like his pet as his girlfriend, Dominic still had his pants on, and a guy's shirt being off wasn't the same as a girl's. And despite his prior heartfelt honesty with her, she was the one making all the embarrassing revelations this time. He was smiling and looking right at her. She tried to relax, so he wouldn't feel her tension against his chest and realize more truth was hiding behind it. She loved him. She knew that love should buy him the whole truth, but she wanted him to still love her back, and she wasn't sure the deepest, realest her was worthy of his love. He loved this version of her, and she was terrified of losing that now that she finally knew what it felt like.
He spoke. His reaction hurt as much as she'd feared, and this only from the story of Chuck and the belt. She hadn't even gone into what had come before it, and why she'd been so afraid of him to begin with.
Disgusting, that's what Dominic had called what she'd shared of her dark secrets, or called her, she wasn't sure. Erin flinched at the word, but just nodded like she accepted his verdict, knowing it was true while wishing it wasn't. She hadn't chosen to be who she was, to be raised the way she was, to be a broken girl inside. But she was, and she knew it. And now he knew it too, which made her face hot for like the millionth time around him.
All that going through her head was what made his sudden grin seem so from out of nowhere to her. He grinned like it was just a joke, or maybe like he didn't care even if she really was disgusting, because he loved her anyway. She didn't know and didn't care once he kissed her. It was the briefest possible kiss, more a light brush against her soft lips, but it got her attention, focused her on him, like it made everything ok. Her eyes were flitted down to his lips and back to his eyes, her spirits lifting slowly as his presence began to reassure her.
Her face was up to his, listening as he clarified he was disgusted with Chuck, not her. She wanted to kiss him so hard, but Dominic held back, his eyes looking at her with a gentle smile. Erin was intensely aware of his eyes, roaming freely down her body, everywhere his eyes touched feeling warm and good, like having him look at her and want her was the antidote to the way Chuck and a lot of her mom's other "boyfriends" in recent years had looked at her. When his eyes returned to hers, Erin smiled, feeling like tears would fill her eyes if she wasn't careful. She tilted her head and sought his lips but couldn't quite reach him for the kiss she wanted to give him. She thought about Dominic's eyes on her, how different it felt. "I know... he shouldn't have... nobody is entitled... except you." Even her words sounded like she was smiling.
Dominic talked about the dirty secret she'd revealed to him. He called it a fantasy, which wasn't exactly how she wanted to think of it. A fantasy made it sound like something she loved and wanted. She didn't like it. Even the way she just thought about it so much felt wrong to her, but she just couldn't stop herself. Was there even a word for that? Erin didn't know so she accepted 'fantasy' for now, but a little nervous about what it said about Dominic's reaction to her story, that he thought of it as a fantasy.
He even said it was unusual for her age, which didn't make her feel any better either. She always thought of herself as the outsider, the outcast, the misfit. It was hard not to living in a trailer with the kind of mother and male visitors and disturbing night noises she grew up with. Even if he clarified it wasn't so unusual for older people to have... "fantasies" like hers, that didn't exactly make her feel any more normal just yet. But at least he didn't seem to mind.
The only thing that really helped was his kiss, his lips finding her again. Erin was broken, didn't fit in with the other kids really, not even in her own head, but Dominic loved her anyway, she felt it in the touch of their lips. She focused all her thoughts on him and his kiss and it helped. After a long breathless time joined to his mouth, breathing his breath, she lost the touch of his lips as he pulled back and reminded her he shared her darker aspects. Erin knew he was trying hard to encourage her, so she wouldn't feel bad. But he didn't really know what it felt like to be her, didn't know how bad it got inside her head sometimes. How could he? But she loved him so much for trying, and for understanding at least this much. Maybe a belt he could understand, getting her to wear a collar. What would he think if she opened up completely though?
His hand reached for her bare leg and she felt the squeeze, his touch electric on her skin, like the collar grounded her for the current in his fingertips to flow through her. Her body was responding to him so strongly he had her full and undivided attention. His voice went low as he stroked her body and spoke to her mind. He believed she wanted this, all but confessed to wanting them to, which made her hold back her desire to deny it, not wanting to separate herself from him. He told her if she asked her to he would get a belt and make her dark "dream" come true. She was sure he misunderstood, but she also knew that from his point of view he was being as loving as he could, trying to offer her what he thought she wanted.
Erin's mind spun for a moment, trying to figure out the right response to her boyfriend's loving offer to beat her with a belt. Finally she settled for a slightly lame and stammered, "thanks, but, uh, not just yet." His body was so close and she wanted him so badly, wanted his touch, wanted to touch him, to be closer than physically possible. The thought of denying him, of telling him she didn't actually want the belt the same way he did, it was almost painful to think of, to think maybe it might jeopardize this closeness.
He left her lame response hanging between them and she wished she could think of something better to say, something clever like he was, something that would make him want her more, enough to lay her back on the couch and take her right now. Even if he didn't use a condom, maybe she wouldn't say anything about that either. They were in love. If she got pregnant, maybe it wouldn't have to be the realization of every horrible fear her mom had instilled in her. Dominic loved her, and if she were pregnant, he would never let her end up like her mom did, her life ruined raising a kid on her own in utter squalor.
Before she could come up with any words more enticing than the simple press of her body against his, he finally broke the heavy silence. He spoke more about full truths and not holding back, that he wouldn't be shocked or judge her or run away, or at least so he believed. She ached to believe him. But the way he told her that not fully answering when he asked her a question was something he couldn't abide set a shudder rippling up and down her spine. It was so hard to resist him and those deep penetrating eyes. He was so close, and he was her protector, had proven it over and over already. Listening to him, hearing his voice say it over and over in so many different ways, it felt utterly wrong what she was doing.
"Dominic, I... there was more..." Her voice caught in her throat as her mind thought about some of the things she was on the verge of opening up. "Before the belt story... why I was so afraid of him." Dominic was her protector, the only one she could count on to keep her safe. How could she not tell him?
But the answer bubbled up, wrapped in a ancient terrors that had kept her awake at night for years, certain she was doomed to the worst of everything forever just because that was how it had always gone before. He was her protector, and that was why it was so hard to tell him, to risk losing that. What could she say, though, that would distract him from this need to know every dark little corner? Erin blinked uncertainly at him a few times, her lips open, all but silently framing the words already.
What actually came out once she slowed her breath and found her voice was a shock, but as she thought about it she realized where it came from, and why she said it. The alternative seemed so much worse. "But first, Dominic, would you... would you get the belt?" Better the belt she'd dreaded for so many years, than risk shocking and losing the one man who finally loved her the way she'd been too afraid to dream of her whole life.