I was outside working on my yard when I saw the pest control truck pull up at my neighbor Amber’s home. A few minutes later Amber came outside carrying two suitcases and set them at the curb. Amber was a good ten years older than me and I hardly ever spoke with her but I waved when she looked over and yelled, “Termites?”
She stopped, stared at me for a moment and then walked over. I was on my knees tying a rope to hold up a newly planted tree so I stood up. She just stared at me and didn’t answer my question. I felt very uncomfortable with the silence so I tried again and said, “Having some termite issues?”
I met her eyes and they seemed distant and far away as if she wasn’t really seeing me or hearing me. She mumbled back, “Termites, oh yes, they’re here for the termites.” She continued to look at me and as I started into her eyes I felt a very calming peaceful feeling come over me. She smiled at me and I couldn’t help but smile back.
Amber reached out with her right hand, ran her fingers along my left cheek and said, “Be a dear and drive me to the hotel down the street. I will need a place to stay for a few days while my house is being fumigated.”
As she pulled her hand away from my face she brought her hand to her own face and if I wasn’t mistaken she was had her pointer and middle finger pointed at her own eyes. I followed her fingers and found myself staring back into her eyes again. I thought to myself, “Is she trying to seduce me? Does she want me to offer to let her stay in my house?”
As I looked into her eyes I found that my thoughts flowed freely but I felt disconnected from them. Her eyes seemed to grow in size and power and although I knew it was all in my head the feeling was very real. I finally replied, “Sure Amber, I would be glad to drive you to hotel.”
I absent mindedly fumbled for my keys all the while staring into her eyes and feeling more and more disoriented. I pulled my keys out and was about to ask her if she was ready when she said, “Be a dear and get my bags for me. Put them in the car and I’ll wait for you at your car.”
I felt completely at ease with her and without a second thought I said, “Yes Amber” and made my way over to her house to gather up her bags from her curb.
I opened my trunk, placed the bags inside and went around to open her door for her. When I opened the passenger door for her she motioned at me to get in and said, “Let me drive your car Dave.”
I never let anyone drive my car. Someone once asked me if I could have any car in the whole world what would I drive. I pointed to my Lexus and said, “I’m already driving it.”
I said, “I’m sorry Amber but I never let anyone drive my car.”
She kept locking my gaze with her eyes and it was really unnerving me so I looked away. She put her fingernail under my chin and with a little bit of pain guided my head back so that I was looking into her eyes again. Then she said, “Silly boy, I promise I’ll be careful. Now be a dear and give me your keys.”
My head swam in confusion. I wanted to protest. I wanted to tell her she was crazy and that there was no way I was going to let her drive my car. I wanted to do so many different things that some exhibited that I was in control but I did not do any of them. Instead I stared into her eyes and without ever looking away I pulled my keys out, held them up and stood there.
Amber put her palm out under my keys and said, “You can let go now Dave.”
The keys fell into her hand and she said, “Good boy. Now climb into the passenger seat and relax while I drive to the hotel.”
I thought I was dreaming and that I would wake up at any moment in a cold sweat. The idea of someone else driving my car made me shiver. I wouldn’t even use the valet to avoid others driving my car. Amber drove safely and cautiously but I still did not feel at ease.
As we drove the short mile to two-mile trip to the hotel I started to regain my senses. I wanted to hit myself for having given her the keys to my car and wondered what the hell I had been thinking. Just as I was becoming fully aware of the way she had seized control and convinced me to let her drive I found her pulling into the parking lot at the hotel. She handed me my keys and said, “It drives like a charm. No wonder you won’t let anyone else except the two of us drive it.”
I was going to set her straight but decided I would just hand her the bags from the trunk and make a mental note to avoid her when she moved back home. I obviously did not have the backbone to stand up to her and she knew it.
I popped the trunk, set the bags down and said, “I guess its nice to get away even if you’re only a few minutes away from home.”
Ignoring my comment Amber said, “You didn’t think I was going to let you off the hook that easily did you Dave?”
I purposely avoided eye contact but this time she was much more direct and clearly let me know that her control so far had been intentional and that she intended to keep doing it. She said, “Oh silly boy, stop fooling around and look into my eyes so I can convince you to help me with my bags.”
For some stupid reason I did just as she asked. I think, in retrospect, I knew she was vying for control of my mind and I wanted to test it. I wanted to see if I was strong enough to resist and if I wasn’t, if I would at all enjoy the feeling of losing control to her. I looked up, found her eyes and that wonderful daydream feeling returned to my brain. I smiled and then she smiled.
My head was spinning and I was vaguely aware of traffic on the freeway, cars in the parking lot, etc. but for the most part my entire consciousness was wrapped up in Amber’s soft warm brown eyes. Then she said, “That’s better. Now be a dear and carry my bags for me.”
I said, “Yes Amber” and picked the bags up. She reached into my pocket and hit the lock button on my car for me. I had never forgotten to lock my car and was amazed at how foggy my head felt. I followed her to the front desk and stood next to her as she checked in.
As the woman behind the counter checked all the information on the computer, took an imprint of Amber’s credit card and all the other usual check in stuff occurred Amber simply stood sideways to the front desk and started into my eyes. I stared back and I felt as my whole world had become her eyes. I heard the front desk lady say, “One key or two ma’am?”
Amber replied, “Just one please. He will not be going anywhere without me will you dear?”
I smiled and dreamily replied, “No Amber. Of course not.”
The woman at the counter handed her the key and Amber said, “Follow me to my room dear.”
I felt almost robot like at this point. I realized that the entire time she had been checking in I had stood holding her bags instead of setting them down. I methodically followed behind her. We got to her room and after she unlocked it she turned to me and said, “Now be a good boy and go inside. Sit down on the bed and I will come in and finish you off.”
My feet touched the floor but I did not feel the floor. My hands had been holding her heavy bags for over ten minutes and yet I did not feel my hands. I sat down on the bed and still awkwardly held onto her bags. I started at the blank television that wasn’t even on and waited for her to come into the room.
Amber stepped in front of me and said, “I am so silly. I forgot to tell you to drop the bags but I didn’t realize you were that far along already. Drop the bags Dave and look deeply into my eyes.”
The bags made a thud when they hit the ground but I was scarcely aware of them. I knew this time when I looked into her eyes that there would be no turning back. As I look back now I am fairly confident that “finishing me off” was a mere formality. It was more a stamp of ownership as I was clearly past the point of thinking for myself. Regardless of where I was mentally I looked up, found her eyes and waited for her to speak.
Amber reached out, ran her fingers through my hair and said, “So trusting, so innocent, so completely helpless, so ready to serve me. Hmm. Why did I wait so long to do this? As you look deeply into my eyes I want you to focus on your breathing. Each inhale will draw in fresh air that makes you feel sleepy and obedient. Each exhale pushes out your will to think for yourself. In with the obedient air and out with the bad resistant air. Breathe for me and lose yourself in complete obedience to me. Sleep for me Dave and obey.”
Each breath in and out took me deeper under her control and as much as I was enjoying the floating blissful feeling her eyes gave me I just couldn’t hold my own eyes open anymore. I felt them flutter a few times and then there was nothing but darkness. My breaths continued to draw me down deeper and deeper and I am not sure how long I stayed that way. I am sure I was out for a fair amount of time because when I started to wake up my shirt was wet with drool and my neck hurt from having my chin buried in my chest.
I heard Amber counting and with each number I became more aware of my body and her voice. Finally she reached the number 10 and said, “Fully awake.”
I woke up, reached back, tried to rub my neck and said, “My neck hurts. How long was I out?”
Amber kissed me on my forehead and said, “Long enough to make you my slave. Let me demonstrate just how much control I have over you.”
She reached out, touched my neck and said, “Pain be gone.”
The effect was instantaneous. She had no sooner spoken the words than the pain vanished. I was about to thank her when she placed her finger to my lips and said, “Don’t speak. Kiss me. Kiss me and show me how happy you are to be my slave.”
We kissed until I had completely melted into her. By this point my desire for her was overwhelming and I could think of nothing else except making love to her. We broke our kiss and Amber said, “Tell me what your only true desire and passion in life is.”
Without hesitation I responded, “To serve you and to give you pleasure. Why do you ask?”
She smiled and said, “Just checking. Now lets give you a chance to do both before we go home.”
Amber removed her clothes and I was surprised at how well built she was for an older woman. She lied back on the bed, put her legs into the air and said, “Be a good boy and pleasure me. You will not stop until instructed to do so. Is that clear slave?”
I fell to my knees and as I buried my face between her legs I replied, “Yes Mistress.”
We did not stay in the hotel that night. Amber and I checked out around 2 AM so she could stay in my house. When I woke up in the morning she said, “Follow me to the kitchen. I want to show you the proper way to poach an egg. After today you will poach my eggs and awaken me to the smell of breakfast cooking.”
After breakfast she threw me the phonebook and said, “Look up the realtor down on State Street and ask for Denise. She is a friend of mine. We will have her look at both homes when I am done fumigating my place. We will then decide which one will be easier to sell. We will sell that house and live in the one we keep. After you get off the phone we will go pick out wedding invitations and an engagement ring.”
As I dialed the phone all I could say was, “Yes Mistress, anything for you.”
Amber ran her fingers across my face and said, “Somehow I knew you would feel that way.”