Beth Likes It
– Ch. 10
In which Beth discovers the shame of being marked…
There was a feeling inside me that was growing as we left the bar. It was like wafts of warm air carrying me along behind Ben and Jarvis, as if I were floating two feet above the ground. My skin was stretched taught like a balloon, and I was light as a feather inside, warm and full of joy and very free. My clothes were gone but Jarvis had fitted me with a pink dog collar and a leash made of red leather, and Ben held the end of my leash like a child holding the string of a balloon, as if to keep me from floating into the starry night sky.
“Do you have to go to the bathroom?” Asked Ben, and I realized that I did indeed have to go. So as Ben and Jarvis watched I squatted down in front of Tito’s Bar and peed in the grass. Ben looked down impassively as Jarvis chuckled.
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