Only You and Me

by Janice Collins

  Aria immediately sat up and looked down at him in disappointment. She pulled her hand back and a resonating slap landed on his cheek. He stared up at her, completely dumbfounded. He hadn’t been expecting that at all. She grabbed his face roughly and pulled it up, bringing her lips close to his with a threatening look in her eyes.

  “I didn’t tell you that was allowed, did I? You know what I think? I think you did it on purpose.”

  “I didn’t,” he protested, “I just couldn’t resist.”

  No sooner had the words left his mouth than he felt two more slaps delivered to him in quick succession. His cheek was a bright red and he felt the sting linger and spread. He gulped and stared up at her, pressing his lips together tightly. He should have known better than to protest what she said. She swung her leg over to get off the bed and stand. She walked into her closet and walked out with the same leather belt she had used on him last time.

  He gulped and then he realized he was laying on his back and bound to the bedposts. She couldn’t possibly do what she had last time unless she untied him. She stood at the side of the bed and looked down at him, running the smooth leather between her fingers, smirk prominent on her pretty and usually innocent face.

  She ran the belt up and down his thighs, looking at his legs as if debating whether or not this was suitable for her punishment.

  “Hm,” she said before taking a step back. She swung her arm back and Billy clenched his eyes shut as soon as he saw it move forward, feeling the belt lick his thighs almost immediately after. He cried out at the pain knowing his skin must have turned fire engine red with just the one hit. He wanted to open his eyes and see if she was swinging her arm back to deliver a second blow, but couldn’t muster up the courage to do it.

  He heard the air catch as she swung it back and then brought it down again, this time a little lower than the first place she hit but with more force. His body jumped and he cried out again, shocked at how hard she was able to hit him and how much it actually hurt. She walked over to the other side and, without warning, delivered two blows on his other thigh in quick succession.

  Billy was whimpering, pressing his face into his arm and trying to ignore the searing pain that seemed to be spreading across his skin. He felt her warm hand press gently on the areas she had struck, giving him a tender massage. Thinking it was over, the pain felt much worse when he was shocked by another hit. The belt licked right in the softness of his inner thigh, sending a new jolt of pain through him.

  He had to keep his lips tightly pressed to avoid crying out. He suspected she would see whimpers of pain as insolence and deliver another round of punishment. She ran her hand up his inner thigh, lingering over the part she had just hit, before he felt her hand wrapping around the shaft of his hard cock. She gave it a squeeze before letting go and tapping his stomach.

  “Are you finally starting to learn?” She waited for his answer, but when he took too long to deliver it, he felt another lick of the belt on his legs.

  “Yes, I am.” He said as he hissed through his teeth in pain.

  Aria bent over and surprised him by licking along his hipbone.

  “Mmm,” she said softly, delighted as if she had just had some refreshing lemonade. She moved down and bit his thigh right over one of the spots the belt had collided, sending another jolt of pain through him. She smirked and licked up his inner thigh, stopping right before she reached his cock. It took everything in him not to make a noise of frustration because he knew that would earn him more punishment, possibly more severe than the one he had just gotten for being a repeat offender.

  She crawled up onto the bed and straddled his leg, placing her hands flat against his stomach. She bent her body back and reached over to grab the pinwheel from the edge of the bed where she had placed it.

  Billy’s eyes lit up when he saw it in her hand. She held it up, admiring the way the light glinted off it. She lowered it and placed it right in the middle of his torso, just barely having one of the spikes touch his skin. His breath stilled as she started to roll it slowly up to his chest, increasing the pressure little by little.

  Every time he felt a new prick his skin would come alive and send out the sensation to every inch around it. Aria began rolling it back down while increasing the pressure until she saw the spikes leave little marks in its wake. He gritted his teeth and breathed out, enjoying the mix of a tickling and slightly painful sensation.

  The more pressure she added as she rolled the pinwheel over his skin, the more pain he felt, but it was never too much. It was an enjoyable sort of pain in a completely different way than being slapped or hit with a belt. He never knew there could be so much variance within the same type of sensation and it exhilarated him. Aria scooted down and ran it up his leg and inner thigh, making him wince when it ran over the part of his skin she had hit with the belt. She rolled it out and over his hips, dipping her head down to flick the tip of his cock.

  “Fuck,” he said before he could help it.

  She stopped rolling the pinwheel and looked up at him immediately. She reached over for the belt and before he knew it, he was feeling its angry licks around his arms. He winced and whimpered as more blows followed, leaving his arms a bright red. She threw the belt across the room with anger. It smacked the wall with a resounding crack. Harshly, she pinched his legs where she had hit them earlier, making him to wince again.

  “Are you going to continue asking for more punishment?”

  “I’m sorry.” He said, franticly shaking his head.

  Suddenly, she hopped on top and straddled him and he moaned at the contact of his hard cock against her wet slit. She leaned down and grabbed his shoulders with both hands, pressing her lips roughly against his. She kissed him passionately as she lifted her hips and ran her hand down his torso to grab the shaft of his cock and position it at her opening before lowering down onto him.

  In one swift movement, his cock penetrated her. He groaned into her mouth at the warmth finally around his pulsing member. It was incredibly difficult to keep from thrusting up to meet her movement as her hips rolled up and down on him. She continued to move faster and faster, her moans growing louder, until he felt her nails digging into his shoulders and her pelvic muscles clamping down around his cock.

  He took the opportunity of her being far gone in her orgasm to jerk his hips upward a few times until he felt his own orgasm shoot into her. He relaxed his body and let out a deep sigh of relief, feeling the sweat on his skin for the first time as he struggled to calm his breathing.

  She rolled onto her side and rested her head against his arm, eyes closed as she caught her breath. When her breathing and heart rate had finally returned to normal, she draped her arm over his stomach and rubbed it softly with the palm of her hand. She opened her eyes and looked at him, glad to see the look of content on his face. Like the first time, she saw his eyes have a dazed look as if he were a bit out of it, but in a peaceful and enjoyable way.

  She laid soft kisses on his cheeks and ran her hand up and down his side. He looked into her eyes and smiled, leaning in for a kiss. She stroked his hair and gazed into his eyes for a long time. When he finally seemed like he was coming down, he asked if he could be untied to go shower.

  “It totally slipped my mind. Sorry about that.” She laughed. Aria promptly untied his wrists, giving each one a soft kiss. When he sat up, she pulled him into a warm embrace for a moment.

  Billy stood up and went for a quick shower as Aria cleaned up their clothes and put her belt and the pinwheel away. When he was out of the shower, she followed suit. She felt every muscle in her body relax as the warm water ran down her back. She stood under the water for a while just enjoying it, letting the events that had just taken place soak in. She was still just as amazed as before at how well suited she and Billy were to each other even in this aspect.

  It had come as a total shock to both of them to find out they had this same, secret interest. And how well it all worked out that their desires comple
mented each other. She finished rinsing herself off and she turned off the shower, standing there for a couple minutes before wringing out her hair and reaching for a towel.

  When she stepped back into the room she saw Billy sitting at the edge of the bed staring down at his phone. He looked upset. Aria wondered what had happened while she was showering. She started asking herself if maybe he was still upset over the phone call from Tina he had received earlier and he was just now slipping back into those thoughts.

  “What’s going on?” She sunk down on the bed next to him, but made it a point not to look down at his phone. She stared straight ahead at the wall while toying with the towel she had her hair wrapped up in.

  He handed her the phone and stood up to start pacing back and forth in front of the bed. She looked down at it and saw a text message from a number she didn’t recognize.

  - Hey Billy, it’s Tina again. I’m not trying to bother you. I just want to chat for a bit. Call me when you can please. J -

  Annoyance built up inside Aria, but she tried to push it down in favor of tending to Billy. She couldn’t ignore the pricking irritation she felt at seeing Tina address him as Billy—as if they were still close. It seemed shameless for Tina to call him twice in a row and then text him later that same night. But these were all the thoughts and feelings she needed to push away for now in order to talk to him and help him through whatever he was feeling. She imagined this couldn’t be easy for him and she was starting to think it might not be such a good idea for them to go to the party tomorrow night.

  “She’s insistent,” Aria said without any bad intentions. It was merely an observation, but after she said it she realized it was a completely pointless statement to make. That was until Billy started ranting; it was halfway through his rant she realized her statement had prompted him to let out everything and get all his frustrations off his chest.

  “She’s a fucking bother. Where does she get off texting me like that? The fact she would just take my number or get it out of someone and blatantly contact me like that is just so…annoying. What is she playing at? Why does she think it’s so important for us to talk? She didn’t give a damn about talking or niceties back when she disappeared. She just has to make nice now that she’s here. I can deal and be civil, but if she keeps acting like this it just won’t work out. It’s barely the first day, I haven’t even seen her, and I’m already fed up with her crap.”

  He dropped back down onto the bed beside Aria and buried his face in hands. He groaned out in frustration and tugged at his hair before rubbing his hands over his face. He took the phone from Aria’s hand and pulled up Tina’s text message. He tapped on the text box and hesitated as if he weren’t quite sure what he wanted to say to her.

  Aria sat there, eventually turning away from the phone in case her looking down at it added to his pressure. After a couple minutes of debate, Billy started flipping his phone over in his hands.

  “I want to tell her to leave me alone, but not in a way that will make it awkward for our friends to have us both over.” She saw him stop turning the phone over in his hands and she looked at him. He began texting out an answer but Aria didn’t try to peek at what it was. “I just told her we don’t have anything to talk about.”

  He laid back on the bed and left his phone lying on his chest, his hands reaching up to ruffle his head before he draped his arm over his forehead. Aria leaned back and swung her legs back and forth.

  “We don’t have to go to the party tomorrow night,” she told him. He sighed and pushed himself up to rest on his elbows. She looked over at him and saw he had a mix of emotions from the many thoughts running through his mind.

  “Let’s go,” he said.

  Chapter 10

  The following night, Aria received a text from Kay confirming they would still be going to the party. At the moment she received the message she had just finished getting ready and they were about to head out the door.

  Billy and Aria took a taxi to John’s so they wouldn’t have to worry about who would be the designated driver. Luckily he didn’t live too far away. Aria had a feeling both of them would end up needing plenty to drink that night. It would be a blatant lie if she said she wasn’t nervous about seeing Tina, especially nervous about seeing Tina around Billy.

  Back when she had met Tina she wasn’t with Billy yet so this would be a totally new experience. Aria placed her hand over his and gave it a reassuring squeeze, knowing he must have been feeling some level of apprehension at the thought of having to see and interact with the person who had caused him so much pain.

  “But it’s in the past,” he had mentioned off hand to Aria as they got ready. Of course she knew it was in the past and he had overcome that part of his life, but that didn’t mean there wouldn’t be some kind of hurt feelings involved. The cab pulled up in front of John’s apartment building and Aria could already hear the music coming from his place.

  Billy paid the driver and they both stepped out of the car and held hands before walking into the building. The elevator ride up somehow seemed short and extremely long at the same time. As they neared John’s apartment door, Aria automatically stepped in front of Billy and started to walk a little faster. She pushed the door open and was greeted with music, loud chatter, and the scent of alcohol.

  Before she was able to walk two feet in and start looking for John, she saw Tina standing right in front of her talking to someone she had never seen before. She looked just as stunning as Aria had remembered her, if not more.

  Aria immediately turned to look at Billy who had his gaze fixed on the floor. From the look on his face Aria was sure he had already seen her standing there. Aria tugged on his hand, hoping to find John or Kay but Tina had already walked right up to them with a smile fixed on her face. She had her eyes fixed on Billy. She didn’t even notice Aria until she almost bumped into her.

  “Oh,” Tina said stopping just before she ran into Aria. Her eyes looked from Aria, to Billy, and finally to their linked hands. “Oh,” she said quietly and Aria noticed she sounded something much too similar to disappointed for her taste.

  “Hey,” Billy said without making eye contact.

  “Hi,” Tina replied, sounding much less enthusiastic than she had looked when she first saw Billy walk in to the apartment.

  She then looked at Aria and asked, “We’ve met before, haven’t we?”

  “A few years back, yeah.”

  “Right,” Tina said and she forced the smile back on to her face. “Well, just wanted to say hello. Anyway…have fun you two.”

  With that Tina turned on her heel and walked away and out onto the balcony. Aria saw Tina pull the same person she had been talking to when they arrived toward her and whisper something in his ear. He tried to be subtle when he turned to look at Aria and Billy, still standing in the same spot, but failed.

  Aria’s blood boiled from the whole interaction and it certainly didn’t help that she was already on edge with this whole ordeal. She wasn’t sure how much longer she would be able to hold back for the sake of Billy. She pulled him along and scanned the room until she found John off in some corner talking to none other than Kay. Aria made a beeline for them and as soon as she and Billy were spotted, the two cheered and excitedly greeted them.

  Kay pulled Aria over to the kitchen with the pretense of getting drinks, something both she and Billy certainly needed.

  “Did you see her already?” Kay reached into the freezer and put some ice into a couple cups before handing one over to Aria. She nodded as she looked at the selection of alcohols and mixers. She settled on cranberry juice and vodka.

  “Did she talk to you?” Kay grabbed for the whiskey and poured a copious amount into the cup before reaching for the cola.

  “She saw Billy and went right for him. She only noticed me because she was about to run into me,” Aria said with annoyance. She took a sizeable gulp of her drink before continuing, “And then she stared at us. She saw we were holding hands and her expression
just completely changed.” She took another big gulp and looked at Kay who had just set the soda back.

  “Are you serious?”

  “Would I want to make something like this up?”

  Kay chuckled somewhat nervously. “Of course you wouldn’t. I wonder what’s up with her.”

  “Well,” Aria said as she took another swallow and nearly finished her drink, “There is something else you don’t know. She called him twice yesterday. He picked up because he didn’t recognize her number, but then he said he couldn’t talk and hung up. So she ended up sending him a text later on.” Aria knocked back the rest of her drink and started to make another one right away.

  “You’ve gotta be kidding me,” Kay said. She looked over at the balcony where Tina was still talking to her friend and a couple other people. “What the hell is up with that?”