Week 2 / Tuesday

The next morning, they checked out at 7am. When she handed their keys back, the woman at reception gave her a smile and said, “I heard some interesting stories about last night!”

Larissa grinned. “Bet you did.”

In the ute, she was back in the back with Tui again. She’d gotten used to it now, and this was their last long trip. If things went well, they’d be in Queenstown just after lunch. Once they were settled, Tui said, “OK, I’m dying to know, how did you go last night after you ran Julian into your room?”

Larissa smiled at her. “We agreed last night that you’d have to ask Julian.”

“Julian!”

Julian turned in his seat, and innocently said, “What? Can I help you Tui?”

“What happened once you got in your room last night?”

Julian looked at her blankly. “Well, I worked, and Larissa did her daily report. What did you do?”

Tui gave him an intense stare. “Ha Ha. Before that. When you were tied up. She told me what she was going to do.”

“Yep. She did all that. She tied me to the bed, and she teased and tortured me and kept me on the edge for what seemed like hours, but was precisely eighteen minutes. And then she finally agreed that I could come, and, Tui, it was the most intense thing of my life.”

Tui’s mouth was open, a round circle of surprise. “Wow, what did she do to you?”

“What did she do? She used her hands and her mouth, and I even got a prostate massage. And she played with my head the whole time, telling me I was her captive, and I’d get to come when I told her the secret she had to pry out of me.”

“Did she?”

“Did she what?”

“Get it out of you?”

“Well, yeah, I told her in the end. I told her she wouldn’t break me, but I quail in front of her fierceness. My awesome warrior!”

Larissa could see, Tui wanted to ask what the secret was, but she stopped herself. Instead she said, “Did she actually record it?”

“Yep! She did. We watched a little make sure it recorded OK, and then I encrypted it and sent myself an email a year in the future with the password, to make sure I’m not tempted to binge watch the sexiest video anyone has ever made.”

“Awesome,” Tui said, and gave Larissa a smile. “What’s a prostate massage?”

It was all Larissa could do not to laugh, but that wouldn’t be nice to Tui. “I think that’s something you should see.” She looked up one of the porn-ish demonstration videos, and gave it to Tui, who watched it, her eyes bulging. When it finished she said, “Weird. People do that?”

Now Larissa could laugh. “I did that.”

“Why?” That did not compute for Tui at all.

“Ask Julian.”

Tui did, and Julian said, “I didn’t know it was coming. It was an unbelievable feeling, so ... powerful. Like nothing I’ve ever experienced before, and also, it helped me understand Larissa, having her inside my body like that – it’s so personal, so intimate.”

“But isn’t it yuck?”

“Oh,” Larissa said, “I put a glove on and then threw it away, so no mess. Anyway, Marty, what happened to you last night while I was doing all that to Julian?”

Marty laughed. “Tui said one of you would ask me.”

“I’m starting to figure you guys out,” Tui said proudly.

“So...”

“Well, she didn’t tie my arms up like you, but she held my hands behind my back and frog-marched me to our room and then to the shower, and said, ‘strip!’ And once I had, I had to undress her and start the shower. Then she pushed me into the shower and said, ‘I really want my man, get down on your knees.’ And then she got in my face and I got to make her come.”

“And what did you think? Did that do it for you?”

“Yeah, it did. Tui’s awesome. I told her while I was down there that that I bet either of you would like to do that too. And it was interesting, I was thinking about what you said about it going both ways, if I think I like her doing that for me – and I did – then I should like that she likes me doing that.”

“Very much that’s what we think, yes,” Larissa said. “But lots of guys are bothered by the submission thing.”

“Yeah,” Marty said, “and I know why, but I was thinking about something Julian said, if we’re going to build a life together, we have to submit to each other, so why wouldn’t I take my turn during sex? So while I was down there I decided to keep doing it, and I washed her in the shower, and dried her, and pampered her. I would’ve done a massage, but I’ve got no experience doing that. And she got really turned on and ... Tui, how many times did you come?

Tui laughed. “Who’s counting?”

“Well, as long as it’s more than me.”

Wow, just the tone of this, these guys really got it on last night and they’re feeling it now, Larissa thought. “Let me know if you want to switch with me anytime, Marty. We’ll promise not to watch whatever you get up to back here. Not too much anyway.”

Both Marty and Tui laughed at that.

The roads were straight and level, so Larissa studied her textbooks, and talked with Tui a bit, and watched the farmland go by. They turned inland, starting the long road up into the mountains. And these were real mountains, steep and snow-capped, though there was plenty of cloud about. They ran into serious roadworks, a couple of times, and that used up their spare time, and more – no time for lunch now. They stopped for a break and a quick walk beside Lake Tekapo, and there was a chill in the air compared to before, though it still wasn’t as cold as the two days before that. Lake Tekapo had a different colour, one that Marty said was due to it being fed by a glacier.

Then they stopped by Lake Pukaki, and Tui pointed out to her where Aoraki was, the tallest mountain in New Zealand – much taller than anything in Australia, but all they could see was grey clouds. Typical.

From there, they made their way through the Lindis pass – truly in the mountains now, and cold, and then down the Clutha river valley. Once they were in the valley properly, Marty pulled over, and said, “I think that I’m going to sit in the back with Tui for a while. Just in the interests of fairness, of course.”

Of course. Larissa and Julian tossed for driving, and Julian won, so Larissa drove. He wanted to watch Marty and Tui. “Be subtle,” she told him, and he grinned at her. She settled in the seat, checked the map, and drove on. Sweet, she really didn’t expect to get to drive here in New Zealand. Driving the ute wasn’t much different to her work van, so that was fine, and she enjoyed driving alongside the Clutha river, though really, it looked like a lake at this point.

The driving was easy, which was good because Tui and Marty really weren’t being subtle, for all that she’d told Julian he had to be. They spent a good quarter of an hour making out. Then they loosened each other’s clothing, and Marty brought Tui off with his fingers. Tui wasn’t noisy, but she was wedged in the back there, and Larissa could feel her orgasm through the back of her seat, which was an interesting experience.

Then Tui fished Marty out of his pants and said, “Hey, Larissa, how long have we got?”

Larissa looked at the map and said, “It says you have thirty-five minutes but I think it’s more like twenty to where Marty said he wanted to fill up.”

Tui laughed. “OK, my goal here is to run out of time before Marty gets to come.” And down she went. Marty was very quickly breathing deeply, and not long after, he came. Tui sat up and wiped her face and grinned at Larissa in the read vision mirror.

“What happened to the twenty minutes?” Larissa asked.

“Oh, I found out that doing that isn’t good for motion sickness, so I decided I didn’t want to push it, and hurried him along.”

“That was awesome!” Marty said. “Do you guys need to swap?”

“You know,” Larissa said, “I’ve had so much sex recently that I’m going say I’d rather keep driving.”

“Oh, babe, what? What do you mean, ‘too much sex’? how can that even be a sentence?” Julian exclaimed.

“Well, you make a good point,” Larissa said, “but on the other hand, there’s not enough time. You’ve got three minutes to drop us off.”

Julian growled, and all of them laughed at him.

But once they got into Queenstown, it took more than three minutes. Larissa pulled up at the corner of Queenstown downtown shops. Julian and Marty were off to see a couple of billionaires houses, and Tui and Larissa were going shopping. They hopped out of the ute and Larissa grabbed her backpack, and tipped most of the stuff in it out. Ready to go. Then she checked the plan with Julian: shopping, and then dinner. For dinner ... well, Suzy had booked a swish AirBnB in downtown Queenstown, all the comforts; they were back to luxury, and they were holding a Patreon meetup there, and feeding everyone BBQ. Marty and Julian would pick them up here at five ... they had three and half hours to have lunch and go shopping. Great, everyone was nodding, all good. And how many people for dinner?

Julian looked at his notes from Suzy. They’d invited Patreons on a +1 basis, RSVP so that they didn’t get too many. Last time Larissa had looked, there’d been eight coming, so she’d stopped worrying about it. Julian frowned. “That can’t be right?” He looked again, and then shrugged. “Apparently we have thirty-five coming.”

What? Larissa sighed. On the one hand, it’d be a fun party, but that was also a lot of work. Maybe some of the Patreons would help? But any feelings Larissa had immediately disappeared, because Tui wailed, “Thirty-five? What? Fuck, that’s going to be a disaster. Marty, we can’t do this!”

Marty hugged her and said, “Tui, Honey, what are you concerned about?”

Now she was just angry. “I know how it’s going to go. Everyone will want to talk to Julian and Larissa, because they’re just amazing, and you because you’re helping Layna, and I’ll have to do all the work and everyone will ignore me.”

Larissa glanced at Julian – that could easily happen, actually. They’d have to be careful about that.

“Right,” Marty said. “That could totally happen and it’s a perfectly reasonable concern, and I’m really glad you told us about it, because we’re definitely going to make sure it doesn’t. Tell me, you know Larissa now. What kind of explosion would happen if she saw you missing out?” Tui nodded. “Right, something crazy would go down. And me, would I let that happen to you? No way.”

“You did before!”

Marty nodded seriously. “I did. That was when I wasn’t listening to the right things. But I’m listening now, and I promise, I will never let that happen to you. I know how big a problem that would be for you.”

Larissa could see Tui relax. Well done Marty. They were going to be fine.

Then Julian said, “But it is going to be challenge. We probably will have just one BBQ thing, 4 forks, etc at the AirBnB. Can you two sort that this afternoon?”

Larissa looked at Tui, and grinned. “Shopping? I reckon we can.” Tui grinned back. A bit shaky, but she was going to be right. She kicked the guys back to the car, and sent a message to Chez wanting to know what their budget was. “OK, Tui. Let’s go find a fancy place for lunch. We’re on project business now, and the project is paying.”

Downtown Queenstown felt just like downtown Melbourne. Food, Coffee, fancy shops, bars, whatever. They found a very nice café and sat there chilling, and planning the rest of their day. Larissa got a budget from Chez, and she thought that would work, and they planned the dinner. They had no idea what was in the AirBnB, so they assumed nothing. Wait ... how soon could they get in? Larissa asked Suzy. Then they realised that the likely problem would be getting everyone out on time, so that they didn’t have them all evening. Larissa put that on her list of things to solve. Then Suzy gave them the AirBnB details, and they could get in mid-afternoon. Sweet.

Lunch done, they started shopping, walking towards their AirBnB place. No hurry, so they walked into just about every shop. This was fun, something Larissa rarely got to do. They found a book shop, and Larissa bought a beautiful touristy book of Queensland photos, for the project smoko table. They walked into a lingerie boutique, and Larissa immediately knew this was where she was getting something for Tui. Had Tui ever had a fitting? Tui looked at her, was Larissa insane? In response, Larissa walked straight over to the counter – what were her chances? Pretty good, actually, they could do that right now. The woman looked at Larissa and started thinking. Oh no, Larissa said, you’re dealing with the Amazon here, and pointed her at Tui.

“Wow,” the woman said to Tui, “you’re beautiful. Come through the back. Do you want your ‘friend’ to come too?” Larissa laughed, she was a friend not a ‘friend’ but she didn’t bother correcting her. Tui stripped down to her simple ordinary underwear, and the woman measured her up, and went off to find some things to try on. First, she worked on Tui’s bust. Sure, you wear sports bras all the time – totally appropriate choice for a physical person, she said, but you need some other kind of bras too. One they’d figured out the right size, Tui tried on a few different styles. One she loved, one that you’d show off, and Larissa loved it too, so she made two colours of that one the start of her collection.

Then the woman went to work on styling. She produced some high cut high waisted briefs that just clicked with Tui, so suggestive and sexy while being practical, so Larissa added a couple of them too. Then she produced something totally unexpected, a sheer black silky nightdress with a slit up to the hip. It fitted Tui like a glove, and Larissa’s eyes popped out of her head. Tui suddenly looked like a total sex siren in that. Tui had never imagined something quite like that, and she just about fell over when she looked in the mirror. “Yes,” the woman told her with a grin, “your ‘friend’ just about fell over when she saw that too.” Larissa added that to her collection.

Then she produced a corset and fitted it to Tui, and then changed it for another that she was happy with, one that thrust out her chest for display, and just covered her nipples. This, and a tight little black thong and stay up black stockings and simple black high heels ... Larissa had trouble breathing; this woman had unleashed the sex goddess both she and Julian had seen, and now Tui could see it too. She turned and looked at Larissa, who returned it with an intense stare. Wow fucking wow. Larissa added all that to the collection without thought, though she was now way over the budget she’d agreed with Julian for this.

“Dear,” the woman said to Larissa, “where did you find your girl? She’s got an absolutely amazing body.”

Larissa grinned. “She has, hasn’t she.”

Tui got dressed back in what she was wearing, and looked at the pile. “It’s a shame, really. I felt awesome in that stuff. If only I could buy it.”

“Oh, no, you’re not buying it. I am.”

“What?” Tui looked at her aghast. “You already bought that warrior outfit. You can’t afford to buy all this! That’s thousands of dollars!” Right. Good lingerie was expensive, especially here in Queenstown, but that woman was a magician and totally earnt every cent of it.

“Tui, I can. The biggest challenge for me coming here was you, and you’ve been a wonderful friend and partner, and Julian and I want to celebrate that by giving you this, and then you’ll remember me, and how hot you felt when you looked in the mirror, whenever you drive Marty mad with this stuff. Let me do this for you. Because I know that you would never spend a cent on this stuff.”

Tui let her buy it, still looking at it in disbelief and holding the bags tight. At the entrance to the store, she stopped and hugged Larissa fiercely. “I don’t know how you do what you do, but you saw something in me that I never did.”

“Julian did too, you know.” Tui looked at her in surprise. “While I was teasing him last night, I said I’d send him into your room to do what Marty did in the shower. He nearly came, he’d love to do that.” Tui looked at her in amazement. “I mean, we wouldn’t, but believe me, he feels your power.”

Down the road, they ran into the Lord of the Rings shop. Awesome, she was planning to spend serious money in this shop, for Julian. But no, actually, she was disappointed. Just standard tourist shtick. The swords were kind of cool, but not Julian’s thing. She bought a little statue of a dragon for Julian. Tui tried to convince her to buy a bigger one, which was more expensive, but she figured it would take up more space. What she said to Tui, though, was that she didn’t have enough money after the lingerie, so Tui could make it up to Julian by letting him see her wearing some of it.

Now they could get into the AirBnB so they walked over to it, and checked it out. Three big bedrooms, a lovely deck with a BBQ, a comfortable big and modern lounge with a huge screen for a projector, and each bedroom had an ensuite with a huge shower. The kitchen was reasonably stocked for an AirBnB but totally inadequate to cater for a party of forty people, of course, so everything was going to be disposable. They ditched their shopping in the rooms they chose and sat and wrote their shopping list.

When they were done with that, Larissa said, “You know, your dad said that Maoris love to dance. You?” Hell yes, Tui said. “So we haven’t done that. But you know what I noticed on the way here? There’s a dancing place round the corner, I saw that it’s open tonight, dancing from 9pm. If we did that, that’d solve the problem of getting everyone out of here, right?”

Tui nodded, enthusiastically. “But what would I wear?”

“You know what I’m going to say to that! I’m done budget-wise, but can you afford some cheap once off party clothes? And no one knows you here, you can cut loose, right?”

“Yes, I could do that. What about you? Have you got something to wear?”

“Yep, I reckon I do.”

Tui noticed her grin, and said, “Sounds like it’s wild.”

Larissa nodded. It really was. But they’d said ‘table-top dancing’ in their poster, so she reckoned she’d get away with it.

Out they went again, and hit the clothes shops. Nothing doing ... and Larissa was getting concerned. Tui’s thrill at the idea was long gone, and then they walked into a second-hand clothing shop. Pay dirt! In fact, pay dirt twice over.

Firstly, party clothes for Tui, Tui found a short skirt that was genuinely short on her, and flared when she turned, and a tight shirt that would be an almost full shirt on anyone else but left an acre of bare midriff on Tui. Then Larissa found something even crazier, a lace top that fitted Tui like a glove, showed everything she had, and she sure had the goods to show. Tui just fell in love with that, though she’d never wear anything like that around home. Finally, Larissa found a stretchy skirt that on anyone else would be a near knee length pencil skirt, but on Tui it was some kind of skin-tight mini skirt that was just crazy hot. Tui tried them all on, showing Larissa and striking poses that left a couple of other girls in the shop short of breath. And all that for virtually nothing – great deal. Obviously there were a lot of girls doing what they were doing in Queenstown. And Larissa found herself a nice skimpy halter top that fitted well enough, so she held on to that.

As they were approaching the counter to buy everything, Larissa saw something else that stopped her dead: a mannequin wearing Wesley’s farm boy outfit from Princess Bride. Not just close, it was exactly that outfit. Even the boots were perfect. She’d been wondering all week, what could Julian wear that matched her warrior outfit? And here was a perfect answer. She went up to it, dumbstruck. How could this be? She looked at the clothing, the seams, and tested the material. This was no cheap knock-off, this was a dress-maker’s special. The only question was whether it was the right size for Julian. Or able to be changed to the right size. Height mattered more, she figured, so she asked Tui to stand next to the mannequin on tippy-toes. Yeah, it looked like it worked, and the mannequin felt like Julian’s size ... should she? This was something Julian would be comfortable wearing, she knew that instinctively.

“You can’t seriously be thinking of buying this for me?” Tui said to her.

“Oh no, not you. It’s perfect for Julian, if it fits. Do you think it would?”

Tui wasn’t sure either. It was tall enough, but did it have space for Julian’s pretty amazing chest? She just couldn’t be sure. She searched around and found the price, and looked at it. Ahh, right. She’d hoped the shop didn’t know what they had here, but they clearly did – it was nearly as much as her own outfit. Way too much to buy without Julian trying it on. But she really, really wanted this one.

A passing shop employee said, “Isn’t that a great outfit?”

Larissa nodded. “I really want to buy this, but at this price, I can’t without my guy trying it on first, and he’s not around.”

“Can you come back with him? It’ll probably still be here – it’s been here a few weeks.”

Larissa screwed her face up. She really had no choice but to take the risk. Could Julian fit in a visit here? Well, if it was meant to happen, it would. Tui bought their clothes, including Larissa’s top, and they went and found a shoe shop and bought some simple black flats for dancing.

Back at their place again, they had half an hour or so before Julian and Marty turned up, and nothing to do but talk. They sat out on the deck and chilled in the sunshine.

“Hey,” Tui asked her. “Julian said you have more money than you need, and you’ve spent quite a few thousand on special purpose clothes without blinking. Can I ask about that? How does that work for you?”

Larissa explained: poor students living on the smell of an oily rag until late the year before, then Julian living on minimum wage, followed by her job and her corporate speaking, building up a nest egg for going back to uni. “So I spent some of that on you today. I’ll have to work more than I wanted to through the year. But don’t worry, I knew that, and decided I wanted to.”