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It's
                           been a busy day! When I read Mr C's email
                           warning this morning I felt a terrible
                           sinking feeling; a sudden realization I
                           might be deeply disappointed. He warned if
                           I neglected to perform any of the daring
                           challenges he'd set for me simply to
                           hasten the ultimate humiliation I knew
                           would come eventually, he'd withdraw from
                           the blackmail game I'd spent close to two
                           years painstakingly plotting for myself.
                           Even though I'd only known Mr C for less
                           than a week, I already knew instinctively
                           he was just the man to make my long-held
                           fantasy a reality - to have my boss at
                           work serendipitously discover my secret
                           desire to surrender myself to him in any
                           way he wanted. It had become an obsession
                           and so the thought of having everything
                           fizzle because of my own stupidity
                           preoccupied my thoughts throughout the
                           rest of the morning.
 
                           
                           
Much of
                           the morning was spent doing nothing much
                           at all besides lounging around reading the
                           weekend papers with my husband. While
                           reading the papers an idea suddenly struck
                           me as I was browsing one of the Arts
                           sections. A small advertisement soliciting
                           students for life drawing classes due to
                           begin next month reminded me of a
                           proposition put to me earlier in the year
                           - a proposition I'd all but forgotten
                           until this morning. I should probably
                           quickly explain something about the
                           library where I work. 
 
                           
                           
Whenever
                           I tell most people I'm a librarian they
                           invariably think immediately: librarian -
                           public library. Most times I don't even
                           bother denying this assumption because
                           doing so forces me to admit I actually
                           work in a library which is infinitely MORE
                           dull for the average person than a regular
                           library. It's a research library
                           specializing in art history and
                           conservation and attached to an art
                           college which means most of our people I
                           deal with every day are academics and
                           occasionally students who have a deeper
                           interest in art history than is offered by
                           the college (which actually has Modern Art
                           as its main focus - Californian
                           Philistinism at its highest level!) Oh,
                           and every now and then we'll get visits
                           from art dealers or auction house agents
                           looking for inside information on an
                           infantile abstract pastel piece which some
                           shyster is trying to unload on them. But I
                           digress. 
 
                           
                           
Earlier
                           this year a tutor from the college came
                           into the library searching for information
                           on somethingorother and during the course
                           of our conversation he asked me if I might
                           be interested in modeling for one of his
                           life drawing classes. The question came
                           right out of the blue and if I hadn't
                           known he worked for the college I would
                           have considered the question to be a
                           laughable pick-up line. Thinking back, it
                           probably was partly a pick up line. It's
                           not like he looked attractive to me or
                           anything although I'd always thought he
                           was quite an affable guy; an air of
                           ex-hippy/beatnik about him and a kind of
                           sparkle in his eye which made it easy to
                           overlook his graying baldness and
                           underestimate his fifty or so years by
                           half. Anyway, I was so surprised by the
                           unexpected proposition that I laughed him
                           off and never gave it another thought. It
                           was only out of politeness I took his card
                           and while it was a challenge three months
                           later to find it in the 'black hole' which
                           is my handbag, I found it and bravely
                           decided to try and get in touch with him.
                           
 
                           
                           
I had to
                           wait until after lunch to be alone in my
                           apartment (my husband had tickets for the
                           Dodgers game this afternoon and it was
                           after lunch before he went to have a few
                           drinks with friends and later to the game
                           with them.) Eventually I plucked up the
                           courage to dial the cell phone number on
                           the card given to me by the art tutor,
                           Jeremy. My chest constricted and my
                           stomach knotted nervously with each
                           ringing tone so that when he finally
                           answered I felt like I could hardly
                           breathe. It's almost a sickness with me
                           but I can easily remember every person
                           I've ever met. Jeremy clearly wasn't
                           anything like me in this regard and I felt
                           like I was making an idiot of myself until
                           he finally twigged to who I was and why I
                           was calling. 
 
                           
                           
Anyway,
                           we ended up talking for quite a while and,
                           he had to make a call or two and get back
                           to me, but he managed to put off the
                           regular model for his classes tomorrow
                           morning and another Tuesday afternoon. In
                           case it's not already clear, Jeremy tutors
                           'life drawing' classes and I will have to
                           pose nude in front of a group of college
                           art students for each hour and a half long
                           class. It was difficult to contain my
                           enthusiasm, unlike Jeremy who sounded
                           quite blase about the whole idea of women
                           posing nude for his classes. In fact he
                           even warned me most models actually found
                           nude modeling to be the dullest and most
                           tedious of all the modeling assignments
                           and that I should bring a book to read so
                           as not to die of boredom. If only he had
                           an inkling of all the wild thoughts that
                           were racing through my mind! Which book do
                           you think I might take along? Well,
                           thinking back to what Mr C had said about
                           me fulfilling my obligations with regards
                           to the little challenges he'd set to see
                           me embarrass or humiliate myself, I've
                           decided to take Pauline Reage's 'Story Of
                           O' to pass the time while everybody is
                           staring at my nude body! I feel so
                           exhilarated with the excitement of it all
                           that I can barely type at the moment.
                           There's still a slight logistical problem
                           for me in that Monday's class begins at
                           11am and Tuesday's at 4pm which means I'm
                           going to have to rearrange my lunch times.
                           Tuesday is the least of the problem. I can
                           cut work early if I start earlier in the
                           morning that day. Monday is slightly more
                           tricky in that I only get an hour for
                           lunch, the class is an hour and a half and
                           it will take me probably fifteen minutes
                           to get across to the college to be there
                           on time to begin the class. Thankfully my
                           boss is not too demanding with regards to
                           when I take my breaks and it shouldn't be
                           a problem taking two hours in the middle
                           of the day as long as I begin work earlier
                           in the morning and stay back a bit later
                           in the afternoon. 
 
                           
                           
So,
                           after getting all worked up about what
                           lies ahead for me tomorrow I decided to
                           refresh my memory of the challenges Mr C
                           had set. However, there was still one
                           other thing which had been occupying my
                           thoughts for the past 48 hours - the
                           challenge that Mr C had made clear I had
                           to do as punishment for forfeiting an
                           earlier, relatively more simple challenge.
                           To strip completely naked, lock myself
                           outside my apartment and then go and ask
                           the landlord to let me back in. Being as
                           excited as I was I knew I could have
                           quickly brought myself off right there and
                           then but I reminded myself of one of the
                           other challenges which made it clear I
                           wasn't allowed to do that. Besides, I also
                           knew my enthusiasm for the task I was
                           about to do, not to mention the total lack
                           of rational thinking ability I have when I
                           get this excited, would quickly vanish
                           once I orgasmed. 
 
                           
                           
I dashed
                           into the bathroom and undressed as quickly
                           as I could. My whole body felt electrified
                           as I stood naked in front of the bathroom
                           mirror. I brushed my hair and pulled it
                           back into a tight ponytail before applying
                           make-up to my face; a light dusting of
                           rouge for my cheeks; a little mascara to
                           accentuate my eyes, and some bright red
                           lip gloss that seemed totally
                           inappropriate for wearing Sunday morning.
                           I sprayed my neck, breasts and stomach and
                           even the insides of my thighs with a mist
                           of my favorite perfume 'White Linen' and
                           as a final touch, carefully brushed my
                           swollen nipples with some rouge to
                           highlight the manifest state of their
                           arousal. 
 
                           
                           
My knees
                           threatened to buckle under my trembling
                           weight when I opened the door to my
                           apartment and cautiously stepped outside
                           onto the deserted hallway. My apartment is
                           on the third floor of an old four story
                           building - one apartment per floor; two
                           small shops (now offices) on the ground
                           floor and the landlord who also owns the
                           building living in the top floor
                           apartment, which has access to a rooftop
                           garden with views back across the valley.
                           I didn't even stop to think as I gently
                           closed my apartment door; it was like
                           being possessed by some uncontrollable
                           outside force which forced my arm to pull
                           the handle. The sound of the latch
                           clicking into place, locking me outside,
                           seemed louder than usual. Maybe I was just
                           more aware of it? Whatever the case, I
                           felt a rush of instant excitement knowing
                           I now had no choice but to journey
                           upstairs and face the landlord. 
                            
                           
                           
The old
                           wooden stairs squeaked quietly under the
                           threadbare carpet as I made my way up to
                           the landlord's apartment on the floor
                           above. I'd never really thought much about
                           him before. I rarely ever saw him and in
                           all of the three years my husband and I
                           had lived in the block, I'd never had a
                           reason to go higher than the third floor.
                           Now, not only was I going up to this
                           seemingly forbidden floor above, I was
                           completely naked! 
 
                           
                           
I don't
                           know what I expected to see. The fourth
                           floor was every bit as nondescript as the
                           floors below except the carpet on this
                           level was noticeably less worn than the
                           floors below. The door to the landlord's
                           apartment didn't look much different from
                           my own; small tarnished brass door knocker
                           below a spy hole; modern silver keyholes
                           to deadlocks above and below an old
                           fashioned door knob; an italicized beaten
                           brass number four on the door. There was
                           no sign of life; the whole building seemed
                           so silent as to be deserted. 
 
                           
                           
The
                           landlord, as far as I could remember from
                           what my husband told me about him, was an
                           old widowed guy, supposedly loaded with
                           money but living alone and never
                           entertaining visitors or anybody for that
                           matter. On the few occasions I'd seen him
                           in the building he'd reminded me of an
                           older version of the actor Roddy
                           MacDowell. He just seemed to have one of
                           those 'eyes too close together, stunned
                           expressions' on his face whenever I saw
                           him or nodded any kind of acknowledgement
                           on the rare occasions we passed on the
                           stairs. 
 
                           
                           
I stood
                           at the landlord's door doing nothing for a
                           long moment before nervously rapping my
                           knuckles a couple of times. Then I held my
                           breath and listened. Nothing. Again I
                           knocked, a couple of times each time a bit
                           louder. Still nothing. I began to feel a
                           mild panic coming over me. It hadn't
                           occurred to me he might not be home! I
                           hugged my bare breasts and hips, feeling
                           the warmth generated by my excitement
                           slowly draining from my naked body. I had
                           avoided the brass door knocker because I
                           was afraid of being heard by anybody on
                           the lower floors but now I was forced to
                           use it. The tack-like rat-a-tat-tat of
                           metal against metal resounded loudly
                           through the entire apartment block even
                           though I barely touched the thing.
                           Finally! The sound of movement inside.
                           
 
                           
                           
I waited
                           for the moment I was both dreading and
                           anxiously eager to come. Nothing. I
                           pressed my head against the door and
                           quietly called "hello?" through the door.
                           Nothing. Perhaps I'd imagined the sound
                           inside. I grabbed the door knocker again
                           and, steeling myself for the noise,
                           knocked four or five times in a short,
                           loud burst of nervous impatience. 
                            
                           
                           
"Who is
                           it?" a voice came from inside. 
                            
                           
                           
My
                           moment had come and I felt immediately
                           light headed, breathless and dizzy. I
                           tried to speak in a normal volume and told
                           him I was the neighbor from down stairs
                           and then stood back from the door,
                           assuming he would try and check through
                           the spy hole before opening the door. This
                           became the hardest moment. I sheepishly
                           covered my nakedness with my hands but
                           there would have been no chance of him not
                           realizing I was nude unless he was totally
                           blind. I could sense him looking at me but
                           again he asked "who is it?" I could feel
                           my face now burning with embarrassment.
                           
 
                           
                           
"I'm
                           from downstairs - I've locked myself out
                           of my apartment," I called back. I heard
                           the snib of the deadlocks turning and
                           watched as his door creep open an inch or
                           two; a length of chain stopping it from
                           opening wider. Try and imagine Roddy
                           MacDowell's pointy nose, close set eyes
                           and "that expression" gazing back at you
                           like a strange and distorted Jack
                           Nicholson's face in the poster for The
                           Shining and you're some of the way to
                           imagining what I saw! I had to repeat
                           myself yet again before he finally closed
                           the door briefly, unhitched the chain and
                           then opened the door more fully. 
                            
                           
                           
He
                           seemed to think he was on Candid Camera or
                           something because he kept looking past me
                           towards the stairs behind. I smiled a
                           crooked, embarrassed smile and explained
                           I'd locked myself out of my apartment. His
                           only reply was "like that?" There wasn't
                           any real surprise in his expression and
                           this was unnerving for me. "Yes" I said,
                           blushing more deeply. He didn't ask
                           anything else. He just stood there for a
                           long moment silently summing up the
                           situation; his small, beady eyes darting
                           up and down me and then past me to the
                           stairs. It was difficult to read what he
                           might have been thinking. He appeared to
                           be taking the whole thing seriously or at
                           least with an indifference that suggested
                           he was neither amused or serious. When it
                           seemed like we'd reached some kind of
                           impasse, I had to ask if he had a spare
                           key to let me back in to my apartment.
                           "Yes" he said, still staring at me for a
                           second or two before suddenly shuffling
                           back into his apartment, closing the door
                           until he re-emerged a minute or two later.
                           
 
                           
                           
It
                           wasn't until the landlord suggested I
                           'lead the way' that I felt a proper tingle
                           of excitement. I kept my hands clamped
                           modestly over my breasts and pussy as I
                           walked ahead of him back down the stairs
                           to my apartment. I wondered what he must
                           have been thinking as he followed; whether
                           he was watching my bottom jiggle with each
                           step I took; whether the sight of me
                           completely naked like that might actually
                           be arousing him. Once I got to my door I
                           looked back at him and glanced down at the
                           front of his baggy trousers. There was
                           clearly a bulge there; not very large, but
                           the vague signs of an erection. I quickly
                           looked away, not wanting to be caught
                           staring but at the same time hoping he'd
                           notice me staring and see that I was
                           highly aroused by the embarrassment of
                           being caught naked by him. 
 
                           
                           
The
                           landlord stepped up to my door and
                           searched through the small bundle of keys
                           in his hand. He unlocked my door, saying
                           nothing as he let me back in to my
                           apartment. Then, without looking back,
                           disappeared back up the stairs to his his
                           own apartment. I can't believe it - I DID
                           it! The perverse satisfaction I'm feeling
                           right now is impossible to describe. The
                           whole embarrassing experience didn't last
                           more than five minutes in total but I
                           expect to be high on the sexual euphoria
                           it created for hours!
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