Chapter 15

Going down the stairs and towards the living room, I kept rubbing my hands over my body. I couldn’t ignore it; my skin felt silky smooth, just like Nicole’s skin felt this morning. If this was for reel and it would feel like this for the rest of my life, I would be a happy camper.

Before I walked into the living room, I stopped touching myself. I didn’t want the others to get the wrong idea.

Claudia and Linda were sitting at the dinner table; they seemed to be playing a card game.

“Can I join?” I asked.

Both turned their heads at me and then they started laughing.

“What?” I responded, annoyed.

“Took a shower, did you?”

“Yeah! You know that.”

“We can see it as well. You forgot something.”

I had no clue what she meant for a few seconds, and then I could feel it; I still was wearing the shower cap. I started smiling and removed it from my head.

“Hey, that cap doesn’t seem wet?” Linda observed correctly.

“I needed it to protect my hair, that’s all.”

“To protect your hair. What did you two do up there?”

“Just stuff,” I said.

“I hope naughty stuff!” Claudia said, smiling.

“For me to know and you to find out,” I teased her. Not sure what to do with the cap, I threw it on the sofa and asked, “So, need another player?”

“Sure, come sit with us.”

I sat with them at the table, Linda next to me and Claudia at the other side. “What are we playing.”

“Oh, nothing special. Just War. We can also play it with three players. It was just for passing the time until we go out for dinner.”

“Okay, fine with me,” I said.

And so we started a game.

“Um ... Where are the boys?” I asked them.

“They are in the cellar, working on your ‘sex’-video,” Claudia said, trying to sound naughty.

“I hope they don’t pull a muscle doing that,” Linda giggled. Claudia and I laughed along with her.

“So, what are you guys playing,” Nicole wanted to know.

“Just War, nothing special.”

“Can I join?” she asked.

“Sure,” Claudia answered.

We stopped our game and reshuffled the deck. We started playing with the four of us.

For your information, our War ended with Nicole and I facing off against each other; she had many more cards than I had, so I was obviously going to lose. And while Nicole ultimately won, the game lasted much longer than I had anticipated. Finally, we needed a five-card draw to speed it up, and Nicole won.

Claudia and Linda had already moved to the sofa because our game had lasted this long. Nicole stood up and said, “Girls, we need to get ready; we have a reservation for half past seven. However, before we go upstairs to get dressed, I must ask Anita something first.”

I looked at her and waited for her question.

“Am I right if I say you were disappointed when you knew you had done your ‘courage test’ in the agreed time?”

“No, no. I’m happy that I did it on time,” I honestly was happy about that.

“But?” Nicole elongated her question.

“But ... What?” I asked.

“When I told you that you go with us dressed, weren’t you a little disappointed?”

I hesitated but eventually answered, “Yes, a little.”

“I thought so. Had you been fantasizing about it?”

“Yes. Going to a fancy restaurant, in my ‘special’-outfit, intrigued me.”

“Well, I’ll leave it up to you. You tell me what you want, and we will do it. But don’t forget, I also planned to go to a sober club afterward.”

“And dinner, will it still be at the fancy restaurant if I wear my ‘special’-suit.”

“I already made the reservation, so yes.”

“Um ... and the club, who will be there?”

“The sober club in the evening is open for everyone sixteen or older.”

“I don’t know, I would like to do it, but the club scares me a little. I know how busy it can get there. What do you guys think?” I looked at Claudia and Linda.

“We can’t tell you. If we say this or that, you likely will just do what we say, even if you want something else.”

I scratched my head and thought about it. On the one hand, I wanted to do it, but on the other hand, I wondered if I wanted to go to a club like that.

“Look, we don’t have time for you to think about this too long. What if we let a toss of a coin decide.”

I smiled at her and said, “That would work for me.”

“Okay, let’s see if I have one.”

She checked the pockets of her pants but didn’t find one; she then walked up to a cabinet and opened a drawer. There she found some pocket money and took one of the coins.

“What are we saying, ‘heads for dress’ and ‘tails for cuffs and chains’?”

“Okay,” I said.

She made the coin spinning through the air, caught it when it came back down, and slapped it on the back of her other hand.

“Tails!” she said.

“Special outfit it is,” I said happily.

She pocketed the coin and said, “Let’s go get dressed. Anita, go warn the boys and join me in my bedroom.”

“Okay,” I said, running towards the kitchen and the cellar door.”

At the bottom of the stairs, I saw the guys sitting in a group behind Nicole’s desk, looking at a computer screen.

“Guys!” they looked at me. “We need to get ready to go to the city.”

“Okay,” Patrick said. “We will be right there.”

I left them behind and ran upstairs to Nicole’s bedroom.

She was pulling down her dress over her body when I came in. She was wearing a black dress. It came down to just above her knees. It was a dress with spaghetti straps and with a pointy neckline. She looked lovely in it.

“Like?” she asked.

“Yes, you look beautiful,” I said.

“Changed your mind yet?”

“No,” I said, smiling.

“Okay. You can find your stuff in the bag on the bed,” Nicole said.

I saw a bag with the store logo from Ero-Shop on it. It was short for Erotica-Shop. The same store where I had ordered my bondage stuff online.

“When? How?” I asked.

“I placed an urgent order when you were gone. The store delivered it about two hours after I had ordered it.”

“That’s expensive,” I said. “They ask $20 extra for a service like that.”

“It was worth it,” she said with a smile.

I went to the bed and opened the bag. It had a box in it. Picking it out, I noticed a thin red bondage rope in the bottom of the bag. I also got this out of the bag.

“Rope?” I asked Nicole.

“Chains would make too much noise and probably scrape a chair if you sit on it.”

She’s probably right. But I wondered how they would use the rope.

In the box, I found the same brand of collar and cuffs I had bought, but the more expensive version. These also weren’t black, but red. The cuffs and collar had soft fabric attached to the inside to make it gentler for the skin. I also saw a red leather leash in the box.

“Well, put them on,” she told me. “I want to see how they look on you.”

I quickly put them all on. They were more comfortable than mine, and checking myself in the mirror in Nicole’s room, I discovered they looked sexier than the black version.

“Thank you,” I said. “But does this mean that you were expecting me to fail?”

“No, I just noticed how you reacted when I said that you had to go in your gear to a fast food restaurant. At that moment, I decided we would be going to the fancy restaurant either way, and I had a feeling that you would want it to do like this.”

I smiled at her, and she did the same.

“Let’s go downstairs and fix the rest,” she said.

When we got downstairs, the others were already waiting for us.

“You weren’t kidding,” Patrick said to Claudia.

“Told you,” Claudia responded.

“So, we aren’t going to the fancy restaurant?” Tim asked. “If I had known that, I wouldn’t have worn a shirt.”