Maria and John
by Leonard
Chapter two: Rules
It was not until Maria was sitting in Adam's Saab 9-3 on their way from her and
Judy's home that she was told that they would have a fourth passenger in the
car. Maria sat behind the driver's seat, Judy having of course taken the seat
next to Adam. Maria had already been told that she would have to sleep in the
guest cabin, since Judy and Adam wanted the house for themselves. She had
readily accepted that, thinking that it would give her more peace and quiet.
Contrary to Judy's beliefs, Maria had never had any intention of imposing
herself on her sister and Adam. She was actually a bit embarrassed that their
parents had decided that she would join Judy and Adam on their vacation.
However, since Maria did not have any real friends, due to the fact that she was
almost always staying at home reading or studying, she did not have anybody else
with whom to make plans herself for the summer.
Maria was even to shy to speak to her sister about this, all the more so because
she knew Judy did not really like her and really disliked the idea of Maria
coming along. Judy was often sarcastic or angry with Maria, who was therefore
often afraid of Judy, obeying her or avoiding her. In Judy's eyes, Maria could
never obey her enough.
Judy just told Maria they would get another passenger. Maria acknowledged that
she had heard this, but when Judy did not say anything more about the fourth
passenger, Maria went back to the book she was reading. She could not
concentrate on the text, though, wondering who the fourth person might be.
"Who's this other guy?" Maria asked. She realised that they were taking the way
through downtown, probably to pick the fourth person up.
"It's my cousin John", Adam said, gently squeezing Judy's knee with his right
hand. Judy had on a pair of tight white trousers and an equally tight T-shirt in
the same blue colour as her eyes. The T-shirt, which some people would say was
to small for Judy, was so short it could never stop anybody from seeing her
navel ring.
"You've met him", Judy said, turning around towards Maria. "You know, when you
were at Adam's place."
Maria nodded. She remembered the tall, fairly handsome guy with dark blond hair
who had almost looked as out of place as she did.
"He thinks you're cute", Judy said, smiling and turning back to face forward
when she saw her sister blush and adjusting her glasses. The latter was
something which Maria always did when feeling uncomfortable.
"Will he stay with us?" Maria asked, without knowing why. She just had a hunch
that maybe John would only travel part of the way to the summer house with them.
"Where would he sleep?"
"He'll be with us the whole vacation", Adam said, "in the guest cabin. By the
way, here he is!" Adam stopped at the pavement, and the door on the far side of
the back seat from Maria opened almost instantly.
Maria recognised John, and they said hello to one another. Shyly, Maria turned
her face to her book again. She did not think he would consider her cute today,
with her long black hair just hanging around her face, her plain old black
trousers and her baggy black T-shirt.
Maria did not dare asking where she would sleep, if John would sleep in the
guest cabin. It consisted of one small room with a single electric light in the
ceiling, a door in one end and a small window in the other, and a bed attached
to each of the other two walls. For the rest of the journey, she tried to read
her book, while Adam and John had a discussion on whether to vote in the
upcoming presidential election or not. Adam tried to convince John to vote for
George W Bush, but John said he wouldn't vote for anybody except John McCain.
They had dinner in a small town close to the summer house. It was dark when they
arrived to the summer house, especially since the house was situated in the
woods. There were not many stars to be seen between the branches of all the
trees. Maria was just standing in the yard looking up in the sky while the
others were unpacking the car. She still did not have the nerve to ask where she
was supposed to sleep. There were two bedrooms in the house, theoretically, she
could sleep in one of them, now that John would sleep in the guest cabin.
However, Judy had told her numerous times that she and Adam wanted the house for
themselves at night. Maria just could not believe her own suspicion that she was
also supposed to sleep in the guest cabin.The summer night was warm, otherwise
she might have shuddered from nervousness.
Maria was brought back to reality when a small bag was put in her arms. It was
one of her bags, and John put it there. He held two torches, giving one to her.
The car was locked, no light in it, and there was a small light in the master
bedroom in the house. Judy and Adam must have gone inside already. "Now go and
use the bathroom, then go to bed", John said. There was only one bathroom, it
was in the house.
"I'm not sure where to sleep", Maria said, tears suddenly forming in her eyes.
"Haven't Judy told you? You'll sleep in the guest cabin." His voice sounded hard
and unforgiving.
"Wh-where will you sleep?"
"I'll sleep there too. Now go on, I'll use the bathroom after you. If you hurry,
you may be undressed and in bed before I get back to the cabin."
That was a possibility, Maria thought. She hurried away. When she got to the
cabin, she realised that none of the beds were made and that the key to the lock
on the door was not to be seen. She hesitated for just a moment, then quickly
draped a sheet over the mattress of one bed, laid a pillow case over a pillow,
took another sheet to go with the blanket and put them on the bed. Then she
heard someone walking towards the cabin, whistling a non-descript tune. With a
speed hampered only by her nervousness, she took her shoes of, then lied down
still wearing the rest of her clothes. She wrapped the top sheet and blanket
tightly around herself all the way up to her neck, holding it there with both
hands.
John got inside and stopped whistling. "Hi! Don't you take your glasses of
before you go to bed?" he asked in a friendly tone.
She just told him she had forgotten about them, and that this forgetfulness was
something which occasionally happened. Then she took them of, stretching her arm
up to lay them safely on a small book shelf mounted on the wall by the bed.
"It's going to be a warm night", he said, "what do you wear to bed except for
that T-shirt?"
"Oh, just..." She hesitated. It was a bit embarassing to admit that she had not
undressed at all.
"It does not matter", John said, to Maria's relief, but the he continued by
saying: "If I would decide, you would not wear anything at all."
Maria just stared at the young man. He was friendly enough in his voice, but the
words stunned her.
"Of course, this can wait until we have made your bed properly." He emphasised
his words by pulling lightly on the bottom sheet. This made Maria clutch to the
top sheet and blanket even harder.
Slowly, John backed off, sitting down on the other bed. Equally slowly, he began
to talk: "We have to straighten some things out. First, we will live in this
small cabin close together for at least a fortnight. This means that we have to
have some rules, and that we need to be friends. The second thing is, you are a
very attractive young woman and I am a man living together with you. This means
that I want to take advantage of you..."
"You can't do that!" Maria exclaimed.
"Yes, I could as a matter of fact, I could do it. That is why I want to set up
some rules. Will you agree to this?"
"Well, yes, some rules may be a good idea."
"First, I think we can promise each other one thing", John said. "We will always
be friendly to each other, trying to settle any disagreements by discussing
them."
Maria liked that rule, she promised John to adhere to it.
"Now, this is my idea on further rules", John said. "I promise to follow three
rules of yours, then you promise to follow three of mine. I promise to follow
your rules, whichever they may be, if you will promise the same for me. You may
state your rules first, and my rules can't be in conflict to yours."
Maria was not certain she had gotten this right. "You mean that you promise to
follow my rules, even before I have stated what rules they are?"
"Exactly as long as you promise to follow my rules before I say what they
are."
"...and I get to chose rules first?"
"Yes."
Maria smiled and agreed to this, eagerly sitting up, but with the blanket still
clutched to her body. After giving the matter some thought, she stated the
following rules, which John wrote down:
1. Neither Maria nor John will be naked or just wearing underwear if being
together in the cabin.
2. John will not even try to have sex with Maria.
3. John will never be angry with Maria, whatever she does.
John accepted these rules right away. He had, in fact, anticipated a rule like
number two, as well as number one. The main thing was, that Maria's rules would
actually not interfere with his own rules in a crucial way. The third rule was
really good, John thought, because of the rules he had planned to make, he would
never need to be angry with Maria if she would tease him or be angry with him.
These were John's rules, which Maria had to put on paper:
4. Maria will subject herself to being bound and sometimes gagged, and stay that
way, whenever John likes it.
5. Maria will subject herself to bare bottom spanking whenever John likes it.
6. Maria will always have her pubic hair completely shaved off.
John had expected Maria to complain about his rules, and she did. However, she
did not complain much after being reminded of her promise. She shrugged, lied
down, and said: "can we go to sleep now? I'm, tired."
"No, not right away", John said. "You have to be bound for the night first. You
are going to be tied up all through every night here."
"No! You don't mean that!" Maria sat up again.
"Yes I do, and you have promissed me I can tie you up."
Yes, Maria realised she had. More or less unconsciously, however, she actually
had not believed that she would have to subject herself to John's rules. His
rules did not seem serious enough, she thought.
One part of Maria was about to accept being tied up right away, but she realised
she could not make herself say it. She felt very nervous, her whole body was
shaking.
"There is one thing I have to ask you first", John said. "Your pubic hair is
not shaved, is it?"
"No", Maria said.
"So do you want to shave it off yourself, or do you want me to do it? If you do
it yourself, you must, of course, show me you've done it."
Maria just stared at John. He had tricked her to promise him to give her a
nightmare. She knew some women did shave their pubic hair, but she had never
considered doing it herself, and now she did not want to do such a discusting
thing. It would not feel right, it would feel like an obscene thing to do. Apart
from that, he also wanted to tie her up and to spank her. She had never been
spanked in her whole life, and she had no wish to find out what it was like
being spanked.
Seeing John smiling at her, Maria considered she might at least delay the
humiliating shaving. "Can I wait until tomorrow to shave, please, John? Then I
can do it in the bathroom, I have my razor there, and I guess it is more
comfortable."
"Well, I have a razor, I can shave you tonight", John said, but Maria would
never allow John to shave her. She told him so, too. The idea of using his razor
to shave disgusted her.
"Your promise was to be shaved all the time", John said. "This means you have to
shave right away."
"What if I promise something else instead, just for tonight?"
"Would you promise to be naked?"
"No!"
"Then, what do you propose to promise me?"
Maria hesitated.
"OK", John said, "what if you promise me never to complain about having to
follow your promises any more? In that case, I'll let you wait until tomorrow
morning to shave."
"Yes, I'll agree to that. I promise", Maria said.
"Good, now let's tie you up!"
John opened up his bag and pulled a long white rope from it.
(The story "Maria and John" will continue in Chapter three: Maria's first night
in bondage.)
