Panty Collection

By Orestes

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1.

   My intuition warned me as soon as I walked into the room, 
and my heart dropped through the floor. Everyone in the 
meeting room seemed amused, and I got the feeling that they 
had been talking about me before I came in. This wasn't 
going to be my promotion. Not even close.

   I tried to control the heated feeling that was coming to 
my cheeks. I didn't want these guys to think that I came in 
expected a promotion, even though I deserved it. No. I just 
wanted to come through the meeting with my dignity intact. 
That was suddenly very important.

   " Does everyone know Michelle ? " Rick looked around the 
table to his core group of district managers. 

   Most everyone nodded. There were a couple of new guys who 
I hadn't met, but had already surpassed my status in the 
company. Hell, they probably hadn't been with the company 
half the time that I had put in. It just wasn't fair.

   I tried to push those thoughts from my head. It was like 
this every time. I felt like crying, but I knew that I would 
be the butt of private jokes for a month if I indulged that 
instinct. No wonder they wouldn't promote me, I swore 
silently at myself. I wasn't even able to control my 
emotions.

   Rick had been promising me an opportunity to become a 
district manager for years now. Each time I was passed over, 
I felt like a fool for staying. I was being such a wimp. 

   " If you've been reading your sales reports carefully, " 
Rick shot a glance around the room, " you'll know that 
Michelle has been putting up some great numbers in women's 
apparel and cosmetics. I think you'll agree that this makes 
her the perfect choice for our new concept. "

   New concept ? I hadn't heard anything about this. 
Campbell Enterprises had over 400 mall stores. You know the 
type. They were all small, single concept stores; shoe 
stores, hand bags, sporting goods, and little boutique 
fashion stores, with highly overpriced clothing. In all the 
time I worked for Campbell, I couldn't say I'd ever seen an 
original idea. If we closed one store, we just repackaged 
the same concept, and opened under another name.

   Seeing my confusion, he elaborated. " We've been 
targeting our lingerie sales at mature women, but if you've 
spent any time in one of our Lace & Lavender stores, you'll 
see that there's some crossover into a younger market. "

   Of course there was. We didn't check ID at the front 
door. If some older teens shopped at our stores, there was 
nothing we could do about it.

   " We think this is an opportunity. We're going to open an 
exotic lingerie store targeted towards younger teens. "

   I was stunned. I shook my head slowly as the guys watched 
my reaction.

   " You mean, " I stammered out. " we're going to try to 
sell sexy underwear to little girls ?"

   " I'm sure we could put it more delicately than that, but 
that's the essential concept. We know that young teen girls 
are sexually active anyhow, so why should we pretend 
otherwise in our marketing strategies ? We'll carry 
perfumes, body lotions..."

   "...lubricants, " one of the other DM's broke in, drawing 
laughter from his colleagues. 

   " I don't think this is..."

   " Speak up, " Rick told me. I hadn't realized how small 
my voice had become. God, I was normally so assertive with 
my employees. Here, I felt about six inches tall.

   " I don't think I can support this. What will parents 
think ? I mean, I have a teen daughter myself. I wouldn't 
want her shopping in a store like that. We'd be promoting 
teen sex. It just wouldn't be right. "

   There. I'd said it. My relief was short lived. Rick was 
in an argumentative mood. He had this playful tone in his 
voice, that told all the guys he was just indulging me by 
arguing. He didn't need my approval.

   " We're not promoting anything. We only sell what people 
will buy. "

   " But the perception will be negative. Parents will be 
upset by the perception that we're marketing sex to teens. I 
myself would agree with them. There would be other issues 
too. We would have to be careful in advertising, because it 
could really backfire. Hiring for this kind of store would 
be difficult; there wouldn't be too many women I know of who 
would work in a place like that. Not to mention all the 
problems with loss prevention... "

   Then he turned it all around on me.

   " So you see, Michelle, that we've chosen the right 
person to head this effort. You understand the issues 
involved better than anyone else in this room. You have an 
excellent management track record. You're exactly the right 
person to open this store for us. "

   " I wouldn't have time, " I tried to cop out. " I'm 
already loaded down with my other stores. "

   " That's taken care of. Our newest district manager, 
Josh, can pick up your other stores. If this goes well, 
you'll be able to open a half dozen in the next couple of 
years. Who knows ? Maybe you'll even be a DM when this is 
done. "

   So that ended it. I couldn't argue any more. I was too 
exasperated. Not only had Rick dragged me into taking over 
his sick little teen lingerie concept, but he had stripped 
me of my other stores, and put me on hold for another two 
years on my ambitions to become a DM.

   I sat in my car after the meeting, my whole body burning 
with the shame of defeat. Why did I let him do this to me ? 
I should have quit long ago, when other managers advanced 
ahead of me, and everyone I trusted told me to quit. 
Instead, I allowed it all to happen. The more I let Rick 
walk all over me, the more he expected it.

   This same twisted pattern repeated itself through every 
part of my life. My husband Vance, hadn't been home in three 
months. He too was used to the way I let him get away with 
things. I bore my wounds silently. I knew he was cheating on 
me. He had been from early on. 

   I couldn't even blame him for doing it anymore. I let him 
get away with too much. Once I let it go, how could I expect 
to lay down the law ? He left me to raise Lucy, and pay the 
mortgage, and only visited on holidays for the sake of 
appearances. 

   It wasn't much of a marriage.

   It wasn't him who had to go to church on Sundays every 
week, and explain how pressing business kept him away. It 
wasn't him who had to tolerate the whisperings of our 
neighbours. I just kept everything inside. As long as I 
didn't let it get out, I told myself, everything would be 
fine.

   I was holding everything together with tiny little 
strings. Every part of my life was always threatening to 
pull away from me. It took all of my effort, but I usually 
did a pretty good job of keeping control.

   Recently, though, I could feel things slipping.

   Little indignities. I let them happen all the time. This 
meeting with Rick was one of them. I wanted to fight back 
sometimes, but there was something disturbing just below the 
surface of my imagination. This is going to sound horrible, 
but on some level, I guess I must feel like I deserve it 
all. Letting go of my dignity by little bits and pieces gave 
me a queer thrill...

   ... like watching some beautiful old house face the 
wrecking ball. It all just seemed inevitable. 

   It's awful, I know. I don't know what's wrong with me. 
Whenever something like this happens, I'm charged up by it 
for days. I get so mad at myself, and in the rush of anger, 
there's an exciting taste of humiliation. 

   At night, in bed alone, I review everything in my head. I 
think of the way that Vance has left me to the ridicule of 
our community, and it starts my heart pumping. I think of 
the way Rick is always taking advantage of me at work, and I 
can't help but get aroused. It's a shameful arousal, and the 
more I chastise myself for it, the more exciting it becomes. 
Finally, I rub myself frustratingly close to orgasm, before 
I stop myself.

   That's the way I punish myself, and that's the way I keep 
control.

   Whenever I do orgasm, too out of control to stop myself, 
I feel such guilt about it afterwards. How could I be so 
excited by these shameful submissions of mine ? If I let 
myself take this kind of pleasure from it, it only becomes 
worse.

   I couldn't explain it. I could only try to hold my life 
together, and hope that my awful little appetites didn't 
take apart everything I cared about.

   I unbuttoned  the suit jacket I had worn to the meeting, 
and started my car. I wanted nothing more than to go home to 
a warm bath, and try to forget this day ever happened. 
Nonetheless, I could feel my body reacting to the 
humiliation I had felt standing in front of all those guys. 
Some of them had been employees of mine, before they passed 
me in the ranks of the company.

   Now they had watched me become a living joke. I was the 
new manager of the teen lingerie store Rick had decided to 
call "Little Brats". My nipples hardened through the thin 
silk of my blouse. The fact that I had chosen to wear no 
bra, and a pair of sexy panties to the meeting only 
compounded my the buzz of my arousal. 

   What kind of respect did I deserve when I played these 
dirty little games ?

   None of the guys would have known, of course. It was just 
a naughty little dare I had given myself in the morning when 
I chose my outfit, and I was regretting it right now. 

   As I pulled out from my parking space, one of my hands 
dropped down beneath the wheel. This was another bad game, 
and it progressed as I drove. I would sometimes do this in 
the mornings, while listening to some crude morning radio 
show. I would get it all out of my system before going to 
work, then I would pull myself together, and be the 
efficient manager that always got me into those sales 
reports Rick bragged about. I was always surprised that no 
one in the other cars noticed as I jerked back and forth in 
my seat As I squirmed, my skirt rode up on my thighs.

   I sort of put myself on auto-pilot as my fingers danced 
beneath the crotch of my panties. The soothing female voice 
on the radio didn't make any sense to me now. She was 
talking relationships. I toned it out. I toned everything 
out as I drove, and reviewed in my head the frustrations of 
my day. 

   The way they all stared at me...

   ... my knees weak...

   ... the way my face went a deeper shade of red when I 
finally surrendered...

   ... the laughter I was sure I heard when the door closed 
behind me...

   " Can I take your order, " the voice of the menu board 
assailed me. Shit. In my daze, I had driven to the fast food 
restaurant I often stopped by before going home. 

   " Um, a coffee please. "

   My head was already running forward to the take-out 
window. If I drove up the way I was, the girl behind the 
window would be able to see everything. She would see my 
legs spread, and the way I was playing with myself. She 
would see the way I was bouncing my hips with every stroke, 
desperate to cum.

   And I toyed with the idea. The shame of it would be so 
very delicious. I tried so hard to keep this part of my 
personality a secret, but I sometimes ached to let it out. 

   The car inched forward, and I still hadn't made up my 
mind. I knew that if I allowed myself, I would orgasm right 
there, beneath the take-out window, with some teen girl 
gawking down at me. God, it would be intense.

   Seconds before reaching the window, I panicked. What the 
hell was I thinking ? My daughter Lucy has friends who work 
at this restaurant. I come here nearly every day. I could 
never show my face again if I went through with this.

   I pulled my hand free, and sat back in my seat. 

   I don't know if the girl behind the window noticed the 
way my skirt had ridden up to reveal my panties. I don't 
know if she could hear how ragged my breath was from 
arousal, or see the burn of shame in my cheeks. For me, the 
close call had sent me into sexual overdrive, and I couldn't 
wait to pull away, and finish myself on the way home. 

2.

   " Jesus, Mom, it's only one night. "

   I didn't want to tell Lucy that I didn't trust her. I 
didn't want to tell her that I knew she was lying.

   " I'm just not sure I'm comfortable with it. Are you sure 
it's okay with Marcy's parents ?"

   " Yeah, it's fine. "

   " And they're going to be there all night ?"

   " Well, except for the stretch around midnight where they 
go out to axe-murder young girls. "

   Lucy got more sarcastic every day. I could have called 
her bluff, but I knew what would happen. Marcy's parents 
wouldn't be home. I'd leave a message, and Marcy would erase 
it before they got a chance to hear it. Then I'd have to 
fight with Lucy about this all over again, while she would 
accuse me of not trusting her.

   Which is true. I knew that Lucy was using this excuse to 
go see Brent. 

   And I didn't want to have *that* fight again. Eventually, 
she would back me into a corner. I tried to be as firm as I 
could with her, but I was starting to lose control.

   It was only a matter of time before Lucy was walking all 
over me, just like everyone else. So I tried to play 
ignorant. Avoid confrontation. At least that way, I could 
still pretend that I was the authority figure. Or so goes 
the theory.

   " Okay, honey. Just... be careful, okay ?"

   She shot me a look that told me she thought I was the 
stupidest thing to ever walk the planet. 

   " Uh huh, " she grunted, and then went up to her room to 
pack.

   Despite all the stupid little games of humiliation I 
played with myself, and the way I always ended up on the 
losing end, I couldn't get used to the idea of losing Lucy. 
She was everything to me. Brent was a pig. He had her 
wrapped around his little finger in the way only a college 
guy can do to a teenage girl. She was hanging out with his 
older crowd when she thought I wasn't looking, and her 
personality was changing from day to day.

   She used to be smart and independent. She used to have 
ambitions beyond being a plaything for Brent and his college 
buddies. Now she dressed like a...

   ... well, I wouldn't say the word. Not about Lucy. Let's 
just say that the kind of clothing I was beginning to stock 
for the grand opening of "Little Brats" would have fit right 
in with the stuff in her closet these days.

   No, she didn't wear them in front of me. I don't even 
know where she got the money for them. Maybe from her 
father.

   So how did I know about them ? The same way I knew all 
about Brent. 

   God, it gives me butterflies just thinking about it. You 
see, Lucy thinks that the lock to her door keeps me safely 
out of her life. But when she's gone, I use a nail file to 
click the door open, and I guiltily go through her things. 

   I know all about Brent from her diary. That's the other 
reason I can't confront her about it. Where am I going to 
say I got the information ? She would hate me.

   The details... I couldn't believe she wrote such details 
about the *things* they did. There were things that even 
made me blush a little. And to think of that pig doing these 
things to my little girl...

   Of course, I felt guilty about it afterwards. It was such 
an invasion of her privacy. 

   Nonetheless, I was already in excited anticipation about 
going into Lucy's room tonight after she left. I knew that I 
would look through her closet for her new purchases, and 
peak through her drawers for condoms, or the vibrator I 
found last month. And I would settle onto her bed, and open 
up her diary, and... 

...you know...

   ...maybe even with her vibrator. 

3.

   A mall job will suck the life out of you. I know. It 
stole my career away from me. 

   One day, you're working at a little trinket store at 
minimum wage, and then, suddenly, someone quits, and you're 
an assistant manager. And you're lost.

   I quit college because the money seemed good, and I 
bought into the bullshit story that I could really go places 
with the company. By the time I realized that I was doing 
more work for less money than I had ever imagined, I had 
invested five years into the lie, and I had mortgage 
payments to take care of, thanks to my absentee husband who 
absolutely loved the expensive neighbourhood we had bought 
our home in.

   The hard part was propagating the lie. Every time I 
interview a teenage girl to work in one of our crappy little 
stores, I give her the same bullshit story about the way our 
company takes care of its employees. I tell her the myth 
about the sales clerk who rose to become regional vice-
president within five years. 

   Some of them buy it.

   Janice didn't. Maybe that's why I liked her. 

   " I have to level with you, Mrs. Woods..."

   " Please, call me Michelle. "

   She smiled.

   " ... I don't see myself having much of a future with 
your company. My grades are good in high school, but my 
parents don't have the money to send me to college.  I need 
to start saving up. Don't get me wrong, I'll work as hard as 
I can while I'm here, but I'm not in for the long haul. "

   God, I liked this girl. She was confident and assertive 
in a way that it had taken me fifteen years to pretend to 
be. She had these dark, beautiful, attentive eyes that made 
her really easy to talk to. I hired her on the spot.

   I don't mind telling you, it was the best decision I ever 
made.

   She was there when the store was just a concrete floor, 
and ceiling tile. The mall that Rick had chosen was a half 
hour away from where I lived. In a way, I was relieved by 
that. I didn't really want Lucy or her friends shopping 
there anyhow. It was embarrassing enough as it was.

   It was so embarrassing, in fact, that I always felt a 
little erotic buzz of humiliation going through me. I knew 
that Janice noticed it sometimes, but she was really polite 
about it. If it had been anyone else, I'm sure I would have 
lost control sooner. 

   For so long, I'd successfully kept my private urges out 
of my day-to-day work. But ever since the last meeting with 
Rick, I'd been having trouble keeping my feelings under 
control. It was just the constant humiliation of my new 
position. I heard through the grapevine that the other store 
manager's were laughing about me...

   ...about the way I'd been reduced to selling sexy panties 
to teenage girls.

   So all the effort I'd given to separating my career from 
my twisted inner life was coming apart.

   I even saw it in the attitudes of the other managers in 
this new mall. I'd never worked here before, and each mall 
works a little different. In this mall, there were already 
six Campbell stores in operation. Usually, in a case like 
this, I would be the senior manager, based on my experience. 

   Unfortunately, in this mall, there was already a senior 
manager in place. Lois was her name. She ran the SportsTime 
store across the hall from us.

   I guess it shouldn't have bothered me. I should have been 
focused on the grand opening of Little Brats. But there are 
always political games, and I would soon find out that Lois 
loved playing them. I guess she was probably a little 
threatened by me.

   Again, what it came down to were just little indignities, 
but with the way all of my barriers were coming down, I had 
a hard time keeping myself under control. Early on, she 
showed me who was boss.

   You see, in most little mall stores, there's no washroom 
in the unit. In our case, that meant that we had to either 
share the washroom in the back of the SportsTime store, or 
we had to walk all the way down to the food court and wait 
in line for the public washroom.

   For Janice, it wasn't a problem. She went over to the 
SportsTime store, and got along with the employees just 
fine. She never had a problem. But when I went over, I was 
always given a hassle.

   " Oh, I'm sorry, " Lois told me, flicking a curly strand 
of red hair out of her face, " One of our employees is using 
the washroom right now. She should just be a minute. "

   So I waited. With each passing minute, I got more 
flustered. There was just something about standing there, 
with Lois knowing how badly I needed to use the washroom, 
that was just terribly humiliating. I may as well have been 
doing a pee-pee dance. 

   Fifteen minutes passed, and still nothing. By this time, 
I really needed to go. I considered going down to the food 
court, but it was a long walk, and Lois kept on assuring me 
that her employee would be done soon.

   " It couldn't be much longer now, " she told me, with a 
little amusement in her voice, as she saw me squirming with 
a need to relieve myself.

   Finally, I began to leave. Only then did Lois actually 
check the washroom. 

   " Oh, I'm sorry, " she told me, gesturing for me to come 
back, " I was wrong. There's no one in there. You can go 
ahead now. "

   It was shameful, the way I scurried back with her 
invitation, but I really needed to go.

   I closed the door behind me, but I knew that Lois was 
standing right outside the door. That really bothered me. 
Nonetheless, I was desperate to sit down. I hiked up my 
skirt, and pulled my panties down to my knees, and then 
tried to relieve myself.

   Nothing. Damn, what a time to have a shy bladder. I was 
so tense, with Lois standing right outside the door, that I 
couldn't go right away.

   I tried to force it. Despite myself, I let out a couple 
of little grunts and whimpers in trying to pee. Just as I 
was about to go, I heard the doorknob rattle, and I tensed 
up again as I prepared to cover myself.

   " Sorry, Michelle, " she called from outside. " I just 
bumped into it. "

   " It's okay, " I told her, but it felt like my bladder 
was going to burst. 

   Twice more, she rattled the doorknob, and kept me from 
relief. Finally, in desperation, I squealed out loud as I 
forced myself to begin peeing. I could hear Lois chuckling 
outside the door as the sounds of my urine flowing began. 

   By the time I left the washroom, my face was a bright 
red, and Lois was gloating in her own subtle way.

   If she had any idea of how it affected me, she didn't let 
on. I was so horny for the rest of the day, that it almost 
physically hurt. I don't know what upset me more; what Lois 
had done to me, or my own inappropriate reaction. I'm sure 
that Janice later heard the story from other mall employees, 
but she never said anything. She just kept up the same 
respectful manner she always did.

   For my part, I promised myself to never use the washroom 
in SportsTime again. Of course, as soon as I made the 
promise, my perverse imagination was cooking up scenarios 
under which I might be forced to go over again. You know. 
Just in an emergency.

4.

   As if it weren't bad enough that I had been pushed into 
the Little Brats project, Rick called twice a day to check 
on my progress. Of course, we hadn't yet opened the doors, 
but we were getting close. Rick was pushing for me to order 
some of the more provocative designs from the suppliers he 
had set up.

   It was sick.

   And I know what I'm talking about when it comes to sick 
stuff. 

   The early arriving inventory had my stomach sitting 
uneasily. Even more than our adult lingerie stores, this 
stuff was aimed at sex appeal. I had to find some models for 
grand opening print advertising, but every time I thought 
about selecting some fourteen or fifteen year old to wear 
these sexy little lace and silk panties, I thought about how 
tasteless it all was. What if it were my Lucy who was 
modelling them ? I'd be a basket case.

   Every time I thought of Lucy, though, I tried to direct 
my thoughts elsewhere.

   At home, things were only getting worse. With all of the 
time I was spending at the store, I couldn't keep an eye on 
her the way I would've liked to. Not that I could tell her 
what to do anyhow.

   Like I wrote before, it felt like I was trying to hold my 
whole life together with tiny little strands of thread. One 
by one, the strands were breaking. I was ashamed of the what 
I was allowing Rick to bully me into. I was ashamed of the 
way I was letting Vance off the hook. I was desperately 
afraid of the way I was sinking into a submissive role with 
Lois, and the way she would spread rumours of my humiliation 
amongst the other store managers.

   Most of all, though, I was ashamed that I was losing 
control of Lucy.

   Every feeling of shame and inadequacy hit me squarely in 
the gut. Or, I should say, in a region somewhat below the 
gut. It just compounded, and I found myself working through 
a haze of arousal most of the time. Any time it fell away, I 
just had to think of another of my failures, and it was all 
back again.

   So I tried to ignore what was happening with Lucy, at 
least to her face. We pretended that things were still okay, 
and that I was still in control, but as soon as I was out of 
the house, she was with Brent. She was busy dumping away 
every good friend in her life, and filling the void with her 
growing devotion to her college boyfriend.

   I knew the whole story, of course. I was still sneaking 
into her bedroom to read her diary when she wasn't home.

   The only person I felt comfortable talking to was Janice. 
It was weird. Teenagers are supposed to be all mixed up. By 
my age, you're supposed to have it together. Between us, the 
positions were reversed.

   I could feel everything I worked for falling away from 
me, and my urges were just becoming worse. Janice was 
completely solid. She didn't seem to have any of the 
emotional hang-ups that I did. For instance, I learned early 
on that she's a lesbian. 

   Now, if I were a lesbian, I would find a way to make that 
into a shameful secret. I would wrap it up into my 
humiliating little games, until I felt so guilty about it 
that I couldn't take it anymore. Janice, on the other hand, 
was completely comfortable with her sexuality. It was just a 
fact of life for her. 

   " I don't go around advertising it, " she told me, when 
we got on the topic. " People still have weird reactions to 
that sort of thing. It's not dinner table type conversation. 
"

   " No, I completely understand. "

   And I did. I could only wish that my own sexuality were 
so straightforward, and not bound up in feelings of guilt, 
anxiety and anger. 

   I talked about a lot of things to Janice. Despite our age 
differences, I was beginning to think of her like a best 
friend. I talked to her about Lucy, and my absentee husband, 
and my frustrations with my job. She listened carefully, 
rarely making comment of her own. She knew that I just 
needed someone to listen right now. 

   God, she's a special girl.

   " I always want to take control of my life, Janice, I 
really do. It's just that..."

   " What ?" she asked gently.

   I was so close to telling her.

   " Michelle... ?" she urged me on.

   But I couldn't. I couldn't tell her about the kind of 
pushover I had always been. I couldn't tell her about the 
secret feelings that always pushed me towards greater forms 
submission. 

   I think she might have known anyhow. I just got that 
feeling.

5.

   My collection began quite unintentionally. It had been a 
hell of a day. We had been open for three weeks, and sales 
were beginning to really take off. Sales weren't the 
problem.

   The problem was that I could feel the disapproval of most 
everyone who walked by the store. Sometimes shoppers would 
wander in to browse, and it would hit them gradually. All 
the sexy stuff in our windows wasn't for them. It was for 
their daughters. Today, it had been a couple of middle-aged 
women, and when the realization came in a series of whispers 
between them, my cheeks had been on fire.

   Later that day, I had to use the washroom.

   I shouldn't even have to write something like that. It 
should be a non-event. However, Lois kept the game alive. 
Because I had no one to cover my break, I had to close up 
the store for a few minutes to go over and use the toilet. 
It was silly to even consider going all the way down to the 
food court. I considered it anyhow. Then, just like I did 
every day, I lowered my eyes to the floor, and walked over 
to the SportsTime store. My body reacted in advance to the 
humiliation to come.

   I think even Lois was perplexed. After all the stuff she 
put me through, why did I keep coming back ? So she pushed 
the encounters further. She would pretend to lose the key to 
the door, and rummage around in her drawers while I squirmed 
in my familiar little dance.

   She would wait until I was begging with frustration until 
she finally "found" the key, right on her key chain where it 
belonged. Other days, she would hide all of the toilet 
paper, or accidentally barge in while I was peeing. 

   This day, I went over to find the door unlocked. Lois was 
still standing by the door, with a smug little smile almost 
hidden behind her glasses, but she made no move to stop me. 
Once inside, I double checked the lock on the door. I didn't 
want her barging in on me today, because I wasn't just 
peeing this time.

   That's so embarrassing to do while she's standing outside 
the door. I was sure she would laugh with each splash of the 
water as I emptied my bowels. God forbid I should pass gas 
while doing it. She really had me on pins an needles.

   There was toilet paper this time too. I wondered briefly 
if Lois had given up tormenting me. I wasn't sure how I felt 
about that. I mean, it had become a bit of a morning ritual 
over the last few weeks, and the humiliation usually teased 
me the whole day afterwards.

   Of course, when I tried to flush the toilet, I knew that 
she hadn't stopped. She had just changed tactics again. The 
toilet did nothing. I tried to flush again, but still 
nothing.

   " Everything okay in there, " Lois called cheerfully.

   I tried to pull the lid of the toilet off, but it was 
held in place with a nut. Fuck. I looked down into the bowl. 
I was going to have to leave my waste there for everyone to 
see. That was Lois' way of getting to me.

   " I think your toilet is broken, " I answered.

   " Don't tell me you broke it ! What did you do in there ? 
"

   I didn't answer. I knew where this was going, and I 
skipped the intermediate conversation. I reached over and 
unlocked the door.

   " Gosh, you really went, didn't you ? " She knew how to 
rub in the humiliation.

   " Eileen, " she called, to one of her employees. " It 
looks like Michelle really clogged up the toilet. Let 
everyone know that it's out of order, and call a plumber to 
get it fixed. "

   She was going to tell everyone. I couldn't stand the fact 
that the mall employees would all hear about the way I had 
clogged up the toilet, and that my waste was left floating 
there as silent witness to her little cruelties. 

   " I hope you know that I'll be charging the repair costs 
to your store, " Lois told me as I left. I just nodded, and 
tried to keep from looking her in the eyes. 

   So I was already feeling off balance later in the day 
when Amanda Lui came in and began my sordid little 
collection.

   " I'd like to return these, " said the girl, holding up a 
little gift bag. She had come with a couple of friends, and 
they browsed the store as I looked in the bag. Inside was a 
matching bra and panty set.

   There were a lot of little indignities in performing this 
job. The nature of the products we sold made it difficult, 
to say the least. I spent all day measuring young girls for 
bra sizes, and helping them to choose an outfit that their 
boyfriends would like. One indignity I had never expected to 
face was of product returns.

   I just thought that everyone would understand the reason 
why we couldn't accept returns on panties and other personal 
items. Nonetheless, Amanda Lui just watched me confidently 
as I stuttered through the policy.

   " I'm sorry, " I tried to explain, " f-for sanitary 
reason, we can't, I'm mean, we really can't take back 
undergarments. "

   " But they don't fit. "

   Cocky little bitch. I wouldn't have jumped to a 
conclusion like that, except that Janice goes to school with 
a lot of these girls. She told me about how Amanda, despite 
presenting a very respectable demeanour  to her teachers, 
was the real social bully of the tenth grade.

   " We're happy to help with fitting before you purchase, 
but after you take them home..."

   " Wait a sec..." she was getting her back up now, sensing 
that I might really refuse to give her money back, "you 
don't really expect me to go into that change room with you, 
and let you undress me, do you? I mean, I should be able to 
take it home and see if it fits in private. "

   " But once you take it home, I have no way of telling 
whether you've worn them or not. "

   I tried my best to sound sympathetic. Well, at least I 
got the pathetic part right.

   " Are you calling me a liar ? I already told you that 
they just don't fit. "

   God damn. I'd had enough today. Amanda's friends had 
stopped browsing, and were now watching the argument unfold. 

   On any other day I would have hung tough. That's what I 
should have done, but my body was still getting little 
thrills from my humiliation at Lois' hands, and I could feel 
my temperature rising again as I stood and argued with a 
sixteen year old girl about her panties. I could feel 
everyone's eyes burning into me.

   Another couple of minutes, and I think I actually would 
have begun to cry.

   So I let her get the best of me. I saw her smug 
confidence return about half way through my stumbling 
backwards on my argument. " Okay, um, I guess we can make an 
exception for you. "

   I rang through a 'no sale' and counted off her refund. 
The logical part of me was screaming that this was a 
mistake. Returns were completely against policy. If Rick or 
Lois saw it on the sales reports, I'd be dead meat.

   So I did the only thing I could think of to save face 
with the other managers. I bought the panties with my own 
money, and reimbursed the register. That was the first of my 
collection.

6.

   Lucy was home that night. She was watching a movie 
downstairs with her friends, and she made it really clear 
that I wasn't welcome. That was okay. I wanted to go to bed 
early anyhow.

   Once I was in my room, I opened my briefcase. 

   My gut emotions hit me again. Shame. Anger. 
Worthlessness. Arousal. 

   There was always the arousal. I knew that's why I let 
myself do these things. 

   Tucked in one corner of the briefcase was my newest 
purchase. I couldn't believe I had allowed myself to spend 
$39.00 on something I could never possibly use. I pulled 
them out. 

   God, I'm such a fool. The more I looked at them, I could 
tell that she had worn them. I even detected the fragrance 
of a perfume on the bra.

   Yes, I held them to my nose, and took a whiff. Amanda had 
definitely worn the bra, and I was the fool who paid for it.

   In a weird way, I knew I deserved this. It was just the 
right punishment for being such a wimp all the time. I 
deserved to be standing in front of my dresser mirror, 
holding a young girl's bra in one hand, and her panties in 
the other. 

   I even deserved to be holding that bra to my nose, and 
smelling the cheap perfume that Amanda had left on it. I 
looked down at my other hand, to the pair of panties I was 
just certain that Amanda had used before returning. My urges 
were growing, and I desperately wanted to do the same to the 
panties as I was with the bra. It set off all sorts 
submissive feelings to even think of bringing the teen 
girl's panties to my nose.

   A panty sniffer. That's what I would be. 

   A wave of disgust sizzled through me, only fuelling my 
desires further. I looked at myself in the mirror again. I 
was so careful with my appearance all the time. I kept my 
body in pretty good shape. Maybe my thighs were a little 
thicker than I would have liked, but overall, I still seemed 
an attractive woman. I was dressed professionally. My hair 
and make-up were flawless.

   No one would guess, just by looking at me. No one would 
guess my secret life, revelling in my failures, and 
masturbating to my daughter's diary. No one could see 
through my disguise.

   Until now, that is. Lois had seen right through me, and 
was getting worse each day. No matter how I pretended 
otherwise, Lucy was walking all over me. And now, some 
pretty little teen air-head had gotten the best of me, and I 
was standing in my bedroom, my pussy throbbing with the 
thought of sniffing her panties.

   If I was going to put an end to it, it would be now. I 
had to get control of myself, and stop my life from flying 
out of control.

   I looked myself in the eye through the mirror's surface. 
I tried to hold myself there, but my eyes betrayed me, and I 
found myself looking at Amanda Lui's panties again.

   This was it. My body screamed for release. Slowly, I 
brought the panties to my face and began to drink in their 
fragrance. I could tell right away that it wasn't just 
perfume. The panties smelled of sex. The little slut had 
borrowed the panties for fooling around with her boyfriend, 
and I was foolish enough to buy them back.

   I could imagine her in them. Amanda was a tall, thin 
oriental girl with straight hair half-way down her back. Her 
features were delicate, and it was no wonder she was a 
social queen of her school. I imagined her naked except for 
the panties, and then took a deep breath from the crotch of 
the lacy things.

   With my eyes closed now, it was like she was pushing her 
pussy right into my face. I don't know quite how I managed 
it without stumbling, but I dropped to my knees right there 
in front of my dresser as I buried my nose further into the 
crotch of her panties.

   The sexual rush was unbelievable. I had never dared to 
allow myself such a demeaning position, even in my 
imagination. I belonged on my knees. I was a sick little 
panty sniffer, and it felt so very good. I spread my knees 
apart and began to rub myself towards an orgasm I didn't 
deserve. Just as the first sensations of climax touched my 
pussy, I my tongue darted out, and I began to lap 
desperately at the fabric of her panties. 

   I wanted to taste her so very badly.

   Then, as if hit by an electric shock, I stopped myself. 

   " Oh, god, please, " I begged myself, as my body demanded 
release.

   No. I'm not good enough. I'm just a pathetic little wimp 
who doesn't deserve to cum. 

   But I wasn't even strong enough to take this stand. My 
body jerked with desperation, and I couldn't control myself. 
I buried my fingers down the front of my panties again, and 
then collapsed into my orgasm, grunting and swearing at 
myself as the pleasure took me. 

   It was so good. I decided right then to add more panties 
to my collection.

7.

   The next day at work, I could barely look Janice in the 
eye. If she only knew what a pervert she was working with, I 
was sure she would quit. 

   It was a Saturday, which made it extra busy in the store. 
Janice handled the cash register while I took care of 
customer service. With each new customer, I was proving to 
myself what a sad, pathetic loser I was becoming. I would 
bring the young girls back into the change room, and 
politely help them to find the right sizes and styles of 
lingerie.

   All the while, my mind was dancing with images of myself, 
on my knees, fully dressed in my business suit, with these 
little girls' panties pushed against my face. It was so 
awful of me. These girls suspected nothing. I came across so 
professional, but my hands were shaking ever so slightly as 
I measured their trim little bodies.

   God, it wasn't like I was a pedophile or anything. Or 
even a lesbian. I mean, I didn't really fantasize about 
having sex with any of these girls. It was just the 
electrically charged feeling of *knowing* that I was placing 
myself lower than them. That I deserved to be worshipping 
their little panties. And being so close to their naked 
bodies, it just brought the fantasy so much closer to life.

   When I saw Amanda Lui and her friends come back in to the 
store, my heart jumped. 

   One of them had a bag in her hands. Was it another return 
?

   " Janice, why don't you go on your break now ?"

   I didn't want to screw this up. Janice would refuse to 
take the return. That's the way I had trained her.

   " But it's still busy in here. "

   " Go. I'll take care of it. "

   A bewildered look, but she went.

   With Janice out of the way, I turned my attention to 
Amanda and her friends. The girl with the bag came up to the 
counter. She was probably a year younger than the tall 
oriental girl, but carried the same cocky attitude. That 
kind of superior attitude was like a drug for me. I remember 
she wore braces on her smug smile, insuring that she would 
end up with perfect teeth, like a little princess.

   There was still a small part of me that wanted to resist, 
but I knew that it wouldn't win.

   " Of course we'll take those back, " I found myself 
telling the girl, hoping that none of my over-eagerness 
showed through. I peaked inside the bag. Pink satin. I could 
hardly wait.

   " Can I show you anything else, perhaps for an exchange 
?" 

   " Mmm. Maybe. I'll have a look around. "

   She strolled through my store, taking her cues from 
Amanda. I drank in the sight of her teenage body. I tried to 
memorize every curve, for the fantasies I would play in my 
head as I worshipped her panties later. I loved the way her 
tight jeans rode up her little butt. I could just make out 
the line of her bra strap through her blouse.

   A middle-aged woman wandered through the mall door, 
setting off the little entrance chime. I looked guiltily in 
her direction, and hoped that she hadn't noticed the way I 
was gawking at the teen's body. She didn't stay long. Women 
her age rarely did.

   Amanda and her friends took their time. Finally, when the 
young blonde girl returned to my register, she bought a 
bottle of erotic massage oil. I wondered if her boyfriend 
was impressed with all the extra sexual attentions he was 
getting out of this deal.

   By the time Janice returned from her break, I had already 
tucked away the pink panties into my purse, and was looking 
forward to my night alone with them.

   The phone rang.

   " It's for you, " Janice told me.

   " Michelle speaking, how can I help you ?" It never hurt 
to be a little formal. Hell, it might have been Rick, 
checking up on us again.

   " Hi Michelle, it's Dawn Booth, from down the block. "

   And from church. That made me a bit nervous. I didn't 
like to think about the kinds of rumours that were floating 
around the church about my marriage. Nonetheless, Dawn had 
always been nice to me.

   " Oh, hi Dawn. It's really nice to hear from you. "

   " I know this is sort of out of the blue, but I was 
hoping that you might be able to baby sit for us tonight. 
Our regular girl has cancelled, and we just can't get out of 
this fundraiser. It'd be a real favour. "

   " Maybe I should call home and see if Lucy could do it, " 
I offered.

   Silence for a moment. When Dawn spoke again, I could tell 
she was trying to be diplomatic. What kinds of rumours had 
she heard about Lucy, I wondered to myself. Not that I had 
any doubts that the rumours were true. 

   " We'd actually just prefer that it be you. Nothing 
against Lucy, mind you. To tell the truth, we're just a 
little nervous about leaving Kevin with anyone, and we'd be 
more comfortable with someone mature. "

   " No problem. What time did you need me over ?"

   Wimp.

8.

   So there I was, fresh back from the mall, doing a 2 
dollar per hour job for the Booths, when the only place I 
really wanted to be was back in my own bedroom, with Amanda 
and her friend's panties laid out in front of me, and my 
fingers teasing my clit until I couldn't stand it anymore.

   I called Lucy to let her know I'd be late. She didn't do 
much to hide her glee. 

   She was probably inviting Brent over for a quickie as 
soon she was off the phone with me. My protective maternal 
instincts lobbied for me to intervene, but I knew it 
wouldn't do any good. Teens can be a little hard to say "no" 
to, as I was learning each day at the store. Even if I had 
the strength, it would just drive her away.

   The babysitting itself was a no-brain job. Kevin was a 
little over a year old, and was already in bed when I 
arrived. I sat in the living room, with the baby monitor 
nearby, and tried to keep myself from thinking about the 
cute little pair of pink panties I had stashed in my purse, 
out in the trunk of my car.

   They were going to be gone for hours. Tim had rented a 
tuxedo, for goodness sake. It looked like Dawn bought a sexy 
little cocktail dress for the occasion. I was going to be 
stuck here for a long time, and my body was begging me to 
provide some relief of sexual tension.

   It was silly.

   I felt like a naughty little babysitter, going through 
Dawn and Tim's video collection for something a little 
erotic to satisfy my needs. It was actually a bit of a 
thrill, in the same sort of way that it was exciting for me 
to snoop through Lucy's room. Dawn seemed like such a 
respectable woman. She was just a couple of years younger 
than me. Somehow, it would be a real turn-on to find a dirty 
movie, and to know that Dawn and Tim had enjoyed watching it 
together.

   Or to imagine the kinds of things they would do together 
afterwards.

   But nothing was to be found in their videos.

   That shouldn't have surprised me. They were both 
prominent in the church, and probably wouldn't keep anything 
questionable in their main collection. They wouldn't want 
any guests to stumble across something embarrassing. 

   Of course, there was always the possibility that Dawn was 
just too upstanding to allow dirty movies into her house. 
That would figure. Not only did she have a better husband, 
an nicer house, and a more attractive figure than mine, but 
she was also a more moral person.

   Damn, I wanted to find a flaw of some sort. I just wanted 
to find something to prove to myself that she wasn't as 
perfect as she seemed.

   So, for the most selfish of reasons, and with an my pussy 
damp from anticipation, I quietly climbed the steps towards 
Dawn and Tim's bedroom. I wasn't sure what I was hoping to 
find. Something little maybe. Like a magazine, or a dirty 
video.

   I almost turned back when I reached the door. It was 
closed. 

   It was the same feeling I got when I used the nail file 
to open Lucy's room. I knew that I was doing something 
wrong, but I wanted to do it anyhow. I wasn't really afraid 
of being caught, but my heart was pounding anyhow, and I 
could feel the adrenaline pounding through my veins. I felt 
like a thief. 

   Once I opened the door, I was lost.  
   
   It's hard to describe the smell of someone else's 
bedroom. It was nothing strong, mind you. Just a hint of her 
perfume, or the different fabric softener that Dawn used on 
her laundry, or the soap they washed themselves with. I 
don't know. It was just the subtly unfamiliar cocktail of 
odours that gave my body a thrill. It told me that I didn't 
belong here. 

   The two of them had left in a hurry, and the room was a 
bit of a mess. Tim's clothing had been shed in the corner of 
the room, and was left in a pile with the hangers and bag 
for his tuxedo. Dawn had probably been doing some finishing 
touches on her make-up and jewellery. The counter in front 
of her mirror was still lit by a little lamp, and three 
shades of lipstick were laying open.

   A voyeuristic thrill was my reward for going through the 
rest of her make-up drawer, and testing her colours on my 
own flesh. Dawn had such delicate features, I doubted she 
needed to wear much make-up, but what she had was expensive.

   I went through her clothing too. She wore sizes too small 
for my figure, in designer labels too expensive for my 
budget. Of course I envied it all, but truth be told, I was 
glad that a nice girl like Dawn had nice things for herself. 

   Finally, I turned my attention to the drawers on her 
bedside stand. I held my breath as I nudged the first drawer 
open. I don't know if I can tell you what a rush of 
excitement it is to find something truly personal that you 
were never intended to see. Dawn would just die if she knew 
what I had found.

   It was her drawer of sexy things. I paused there, with 
the drawer open, looking down on the treasures; condoms, 
couple of erotic books, a slender dildo that I couldn't help 
but imagine sweet respectable Dawn sliding into herself. 
There were candles and massage oil. I reached gingerly into 
their sex life, and nudged the books aside. I thought there 
was something underneath.

   God, you can't imagine the way I felt. Beneath those 
books was the video I had come to find, but it was more 
exciting than I had hoped. It was amazing. It looked like 
the video was home made.

XXX.  10-12-98

   That was the label, and I knew there was no way I could 
resist. I took it from the drawer, and headed for the door. 
Then I paused again. I wanted one more thing, just to make 
everything perfect. It was what I had wanted all day. 

   I opened the laundry hamper in the closet, and dug 
through it to find a pair of Dawn's panties. Once I had them 
in my greedy little hands, I headed downstairs for the VCR.

   I could feel my body trembling as I sat back on the sofa, 
and waited in tense anticipation as the TV warmed up. The 
sounds came before the picture. They were the sounds of 
water. 

   Then the picture faded in, and I began creaming my 
panties as I realized that this was exactly what I was 
hoping for. The scene was of Dawn in a bubble-bath, and Tim 
walked back and forth in the bathroom, getting wonderfully 
tempting views of her barely concealed body.

   She teased him with a seductive smile that gave me 
chills. 

   As I watched the video progress, I brought Dawns panties 
up towards my face. 

   My shame burned intensely. Of all the women at church, 
Dawn was the only one who always treated me like an equal. 
She spoke to me with respect, and even trusted me with her 
home and child. Now I was just proving how unworthy I was of 
her respect.

   I rubbed myself through my clothing as I worshipped her 
body on screen, and took my first sniff of her panties. Her 
aroma was delicate, like everything else in her life. God, I 
wished I could be more like her.

   On the video screen, my friend rose from the bubbles to 
tease her husband with her trim body. The video must have 
been taken before Dawn's pregnancy. Everything about her was 
tight and sexy. I groaned with lustful envy.

   Tim set down the camera on the counter, and came into the 
picture. He touched her body the way I wished I could at 
that moment, caressing and worshipping every curve. He 
rinsed away the bubbles on her rear end, and Dawn responded 
by allowing his soapy hand to explore her ass.

   I wanted to worship that ass too, but I knew I didn't 
deserve that kind of pleasure. I didn't even deserve to have 
a friend as nice as Dawn.

   " You're just a pathetic, fat, ugly tramp... what makes 
you think you're good enough to worship my ass? " I imagined 
Dawn saying to me, with a cruelty I had never known in her 
voice. The imaginary insult got me more worked up than ever, 
and I found myself mouthing the words aloud as I watched the 
video and held her panties to my face.

   " Just look at yourself... you're a failure at 
everything. You're not sexy enough to keep a man. You're too 
stupid to quit your dead-end job. Your daughter is turning 
into a whore, and you're too weak to do anything about it. "

   The words stung, but my arousal kept me going. I watched 
as the scene on the video switched to the bedroom. Tim made 
love to Dawn gently, enjoying the warmth of her body just 
moments from the bath. I was getting close to cumming, and 
continued Dawn's make-believe verbal assault on myself.

   " You don't deserve to even be sniffing at the crotch of 
my dirty panties. What makes you think that you have the 
right to watch my naked body ? Everyone knows what a 
pathetic little wimp you are. Look at how pathetic you've 
become. You creep into my room like some horny little 
teenage boy, just to get a sniff of my pretty panties... 
you're a perverted bitch... aren't you..."

   I couldn't talk any more. Tears were beginning to escape 
from the corners of my eyes. Using Dawn's voice, I was 
talking to myself with the disrespect I deserved from her. 
As my body toppled into orgasm, my eyes locked onto the 
screen image of my friend, and I inhaled deeply from her 
panties.

   It was all I could do to keep from passing out. This was 
further than I had ever allowed my perversions to take me, 
and I had a feeling that I could never go back to repressing 
my urges.

   I returned the video, but...

   ...well, when they returned from the fund raiser, Dawn 
gave me a big hug for taking care of Kevin on such short 
notice. She was a little tipsy from drinking, and pushed 
against me as she whispered a thank you in my ear. It gave 
me such an awful thrill to know that I still had her panties 
in my coat pocket.

   I couldn't let them go. Together with the pair I had 
brought from the store, I now had three pairs in my 
collection, and I knew I would get a lot of use out of them. 
I just hoped she wouldn't notice them missing from her 
laundry.

9.

   " It sounds like you're beating yourself up over nothing, 
" Janice told me. I wished I could share in her generosity 
about my actions. " It sounds like Lucy isn't going to back 
down for anything. You might call yourself a wimp, but I 
don't think there's anything wrong with trying to preserve 
your relationship with her."

   Letting go is harder than it sounds, even for someone as 
naturally submissive as myself. No matter how much I 
reassured myself, I couldn't help but feel like I was 
failing my daughter. 

   In between her wilful outbursts, I would sometimes get a 
little taste of the way things used to be, when Lucy 
respected me.

   " The other day, she had a fight with Brent, " I confided 
to Janice. " She crawled into bed with me and cried in my 
arms after getting off the phone with him. I never thought 
that I could stand seeing Lucy unhappy, but I have to 
admit... I was more content than I've been in months. We 
just held each other, and for a few hours, I felt like I had 
my relationship back with her. Or at least that we had a 
chance. "

   " But... ?" Janice could already see the punch line 
coming. 

   " It didn't last. She was with Brent again the next 
morning. She's a little better with me now, but I know it 
will fade again. "

   " Don't worry. She'll come back. Guys like Brent may come 
through her life, but Lucy's only got one mom. She can 
always trust you to be there for her, and I think she'll 
come to appreciate that. "

   I almost felt sick accepting Janice's reassurances. I 
didn't deserve any of her kind words.

   If either Lucy or Janice knew about my growing collection 
of panties, I was sure that neither one of them would trust 
me again.

   For half the night, I would stay awake on a sexual buzz, 
gingerly sorting through the panties in my collection. In 
the past couple of days, two more girls from Amanda's school 
had brought back their panties to me. The rumour about our 
lax return policy was staring to get around.

   Despite the fact that buying the lingerie from these 
girls had cost me another $50, I was in heaven. They were 
both pretty young girls. One was a tall black girl. The 
other was a sweet little brunette. Both had worn their 
panties out on dates before returning them, leaving the 
odours of sex strong on the undergarments.

   God, what a sick little fetish. 

   I treasured them all. Amanda Lui's panties had started it 
all. I wondered what the cocky oriental girl would think 
about the way I worshipped her panties. 

   The second pair had come from Amanda's friend. They were 
a pretty pink, and spent several night resting on my pillow 
case as I slept. My favourite pair, however, had come from 
the laundry hamper in Dawn's bedroom. I felt so guilty about 
stealing them, that it intensified my pleasure.

   Now, of course, I had the other two pairs from the store, 
and they took their place in the stash beneath my bed. 

   But that's not the worst of it. My sick little fantasies 
took me places I never would have dreamed.

   The next time I crept into Lucy's room, my body was 
already on fire. I needed one more pair of panties to bring 
my collection to six, and I knew just where to find them. As 
if it weren't low enough to privately sniff the panties of 
my teen customers, my obsession led me into my own 
daughter's room.

   She washed her own clothes now, I guess to keep me from 
knowing about the revealing outfits she was wearing. Slowly, 
I sorted through the pile on the floor of her room.

   It wasn't long before I found what I wanted. After the 
fight she had with Brent the previous evening, she had gone 
out with him in the morning. It didn't take much guess work 
to know how they had made up from their argument.

   Lucy had shed her clothes before going out with friends, 
so when I stole into her room a half hour later, her panties 
were only off her body for a short time. A shameful shudder 
went through me as I unfolded them in my hands. There, in 
the crotch of her panties, was the evidence of her morning 
sexual encounter with Brent. The panties were still slick 
with their mixed juices.

   I fell to my knees with a little whimper, and tried to 
hold myself back.

   This was profoundly wrong. I hated everything about 
Brent, and the way he was corrupting my little girl, but 
here I was, giving in to my sexual appetites. I should never 
even have allowed these awful thoughts to fill my head, but 
I knew that these panties would soon be a part of my 
collection.

   I just needed a little sexual release first.

   Kneeling at the base of my daughter's bed, I brought her 
panties to my lips and inhaled the smell of sex. It bothered 
me to see the way my little girl had drooled her boyfriend's 
cum into the crotch of her panties. It was just so nasty.

   Then, with my hands shaking in anticipation, I extended 
my tongue, and began to scoop up the bitter deposit. Soon, 
my face was buried in Lucy's underwear, and I was licking 
and sucking desperately, my cravings unquenchable.

   And that's the scene I was thinking about as I talked to 
Janice about my family problems. 

   " Beneath it all, Lucy still loves you, " the girl with 
the dark eyes told me. 

   I knew it was the truth, but I was sure I wasn't worthy 
of that love.

10.

   Weekday mornings I was usually alone. Janice could work 
evenings and weekends, but I had trouble finding anyone I 
could trust to work daytimes. Sales really didn't pick up 
until after school was done anyhow, so I would just come in 
early with a coffee, and read a magazine or something.

   I tried not to think about my growing obsession with my 
panty collection. I would spend my nights worshipping the 
pretty things, but during the day, I felt like this 
unhealthy obsession could swallow me whole. Anywhere I 
looked around the store would add fuel to the fire.

   I also tried to keep my mind off of my inevitable visit 
to Sports Time to use the washroom. The urge would hit me 
early, but in my anxiety, I would delay my visit until I was 
absolutely bursting. Not smart. By the time I locked up the 
store for a washroom break, walking down to the food court 
was impossible. I could only hope that Lois was in a kind 
mood. 

   Lois had used the previous plumbing problems as an excuse 
to escalate her humiliating control of my bodily functions. 
It was all pretty ludicrous, and she knew it, but I think 
she was curious now about how far I would let her push it.

   " Are you only peeing today ? " she asked me. " I don't 
want to have to call the plumber again. "

   I glanced over to one of the sales girls, who was just 
outside of hearing range.

   " Yes, " I told her, my face going red from being treated 
like a child this way.

   " Maybe you'd better leave the door open a bit, so that I 
can make sure you don't make a mess. "

   How had I allowed this power shift to happen ? I nodded 
shyly, and left the door open partially when I went in.

   I don't mind admitting that I was distracted when I was 
relieving myself. I was more than a little mad at myself for 
letting Lois tie me up in knots like this. I wanted to rebel 
against her, and I rehearsed some venomous lines in my head 
that I knew I'd never have the guts to say in reality.

   So I didn't notice at first when my urine began to leak 
down the sides of the toilet. Only when the warm liquid 
touched the back of my calves did I jump a little, and try 
to figure out what was happening.

   It was another prank. I should have guessed. This time, 
Lois had stretched clear plastic wrap beneath the toilet 
seat, covering the opening to the water below. My urine 
puddled there, and overflowed from the sides onto the floor 
and my legs.

   " Jesus, Michelle, what are you doing ?"

   By virtue of me agreeing to keep the door ajar, Lois had 
a perfect view of my latest mishap. I looked up at her 
sheepishly as she stepped into the little room.

   " It looks like you peed yourself a little bit, and made 
an awful mess on the floor. I don't think that Eileen is 
going to be too pleased about cleaning it up..."

   " No, please... I'll clean up..."

   " Don't be silly, Michelle. We're managers. We have 
employees to do that sort of thing. "

   I dropped my eyes to the floor in shame.

   " Come on now, stand for me and I'll help you clean up. "

   I can't believe I let her do it. She wiped down my legs 
with some paper towel, and then, to my horror, pulled off 
some toilet paper, and reached down between my legs. She 
took her time doing it too, letting me feel her fingers 
probing me through the thin tissue paper. I just stood there 
like a four year old. She even patted me on the bum when she 
was finished.

   " It looks like you're going to need some help with this 
from now on. When you come over, I'll come in to make sure 
you don't have any problems, and help you clean up 
afterwards. "

   My mind flashed on how awfully degrading it would be to 
have Lois watch me make a bowel movement, much less the 
horror of letting her wipe my bum afterwards. I couldn't 
imagine anything worse, but if I knew Lois at all, she was 
already working on a way to make it even more humiliating. 

   I couldn't wait. 

11.

   I watched the little light on my answering machine 
blinking slowly. There was still one message on the machine 
that I hadn't erased. I don't know why. I didn't ever want 
to hear it again. Just thinking about it made me feel sick.

   From the time I heard his voice, " Hi, this is Tim 
Booth...", from that very instant, I knew something was 
wrong.

   " Don't call me at home... my cell number is..."

   I tried to rationalize it. Maybe he was calling because 
he was planning a surprise party for Dawn, I told myself. I 
knew it wasn't true, though. I wasn't in the same social 
league as the Booths. Dawn was nice to me, but she wouldn't 
include me with her friends.

   No, this was something else, and I think I already knew 
that it had something to do with the panties I had stolen 
from their room. That was my instinct.

   When I called him from work the next day, I could barely 
speak.

   " Um, hi. It's Michelle calling... you know, from down 
the street... and..."

   " Yeah. I'm glad you called back. "

   Then the jabs to my gut began.

   " It's funny. We didn't even want to turn on the nanny 
cam when you were over the other night..."

   Nanny cam. Oh my god.

   " ... but I thought that we should test out the system, 
just so that we'd know it works. We were so convinced that 
we could trust you, that I didn't even watch the video until 
yesterday. "

   Than he stopped talking. He sounded a little nervous on 
the phone, but the pause was controlled. He was letting me 
sweat.

   " Did... uh... did Dawn, um..." I wanted to hang up, but 
I just stammered stupidly into the phone.

   " No, Dawn didn't watch it with me. But I have to tell 
you, it would make some amusing viewing for later this 
evening. Trust me, you really made a spectacle out of 
yourself. "

   " God, I'm so sorry, " I began to beg. "Please don't show 
it to her. I don't want to lose her as a friend..."

   " Not to mention all the rumours it could start, " Tim 
twisted the knife in a little further.

   He was right. As much as I cared about Dawn, I was really 
worried about the way this could pull apart my life. Most of 
my perversions were still kept secret from everyone. I could 
punish myself for them in private. The washroom sessions 
with Lois were anxiety enough... I just couldn't let anyone 
hear about my panty sniffing. Or my collection. 

   I would do anything, and Tim knew it. Otherwise, he 
wouldn't have even called.

   " You can come over tonight, just after six. Don't be 
late. We'll work something out. "

   Every moment of that day was torture. I wondered what Tim 
would want from me. If it was money, he would be 
disappointed. Between the household expenses, and the way I 
was spending money on adding panties to my collection, I 
didn't have much to give.

   The way he sounded, I thought it might be sex. I could 
imagine the way he had watched the nanny cam video, seeing 
me stroke myself with his wife's panties at my nose. I could 
imagine his reaction as he saw me watching the video of him 
and Dawn making love, and calling myself dirty names as I 
came to orgasm. I mean, of course he would think I was a 
whore.

   Tim wouldn't make love to me gently, the way I had 
watched him treat Dawn. He would fuck me. Maybe he would 
want to cum on my face, or to fuck me in the ass. Maybe he 
would want me to squeeze my tits together, and fuck my 
chest. Maybe he would want to fuck me roughly from behind 
while I squealed like a pig.

   None of this would be new territory for me. Every time 
Vance came back to town, he used me that way. I would do 
what he wanted, all the while, begging him to stay with us. 
By the time my husband would leave town again, I always felt 
like a well-used whore, and I could barely look Lucy in the 
eyes, knowing the sounds she must have heard from our 
bedroom.

   The thought of doing any of those things with Dawn's 
husband, though... well, he just seemed like such a decent 
man. He was polite and respectful when Dawn was around. 
Maybe this was just giving him an excuse to explore his 
hidden fantasies, and I would be his willing plaything.

   My body was on fire with fear, anticipation, and arousal.

   The tension built through every part of the day. I'm sure 
that Lois could tell how aroused I was when she helped me 
with my washroom visit. I practically melted in her hands. 
When Janice arrived for the evening shift, I could barely 
breathe, I was so nervous. I left without more than two 
words.

   I parked at home and walked over, trying to pretend to 
myself that this was an ordinary day in the neighbourhood. 
Yes... just normal suburban sounds. A lawnmower was running 
somewhere behind Mr. Lewis' tall hedges. A dog barked from 
somewhere behind me.

   Everything was normal except me, and my sick little 
fetishes. I walked up the driveway of the one man in the 
world who actually knew that I was a panty sniffer. Tim 
Booth knew exactly how much a pathetic loser I was. I 
lowered my eyes and knocked gently on the door.

   " Come in, " he told me nervously. 

   I stepped inside, and began to take off my shoes.

   " No, " he warned me, " I don't want Dawn to know you're 
here. "

   The blood drained from my cheeks. " She's home ?"

   " Not yet. She's at the gym, but she'll be home in a few 
minutes. I need to get you hidden before she gets here. "

   In all my imaginings of the day, nothing prepared me for 
the weird scene Tim had dreamed up. He led me upstairs, back 
to the room I had stolen into the previous week. The same 
delicately unfamiliar smell of their bedroom greeted me 
again. He opened the door to the closet, and gestured me in.

   I paused.

   I had been prepared to do anything to keep this secret 
safe. I would have served Tim any way I could, one on one. 
But I didn't want to risk being caught by Dawn. I would 
never be able to stand the hurt in her eyes.

   Tim prodded me on. " She'll be home any time now. As long 
as you're quiet, I'll make sure we don't get caught. "

   He was nervous and aroused too. As I ducked into the 
closet, he lowered his voice conspiratorially, "Dawn's 
always horny when she gets back from the gym... I thought 
that I'd let you watch the real thing this time. "

   As the closet doors closed, I could see cracks of light 
through the wooden slats. My heart pumped furiously as I 
leaned forward on my knees, and brought my eyes to one of 
the openings. God, it was amazing. I was only a few feet 
away from their bed, nestled in amongst Dawn's favourite 
outfits. Beside me was the laundry hamper from which I had 
stolen my first taste of Dawn. While Tim went downstairs to 
greet his wife, I couldn't help myself from digging through 
the hamper again, and finding another pair of panties to 
sniff while I waited.

   Tim was a puzzle to me. He could have forced me to do 
anything, but instead, he chose to put together a scene that 
would come straight from my own perversions. I suppose it 
could give him some great thrill to make love to his wife, 
knowing that another woman was masturbating in his closet 
while watching.

   Whatever his reasons, I was shaking with excitement. 

   I heard the front door open and close. It wouldn't be 
long now. I held Dawn's panties against my nose and breathed 
in deeply, knowing that I would soon see the real thing.

   They came in the bedroom door together, in a rough, 
passionate embrace that brought them straight onto the bed. 
Dawn's body looked spectacular in athletic wear that came 
right out of a work-out commercial. I couldn't believe how 
good shape she was in, barely a year after giving birth. 
Despite the sweat that was evident on her clothes, she 
didn't even look tired from her work out. She wrapped her 
legs tightly around Tim's waist as he positioned her on the 
bed.

   This sex was definitely going to be rougher than what I 
had seen on the tape. Tim took control early on, holding her 
by the hair as he pulled away her clothing. She squealed and 
whimpered with mock surprise, but I could tell she was 
enjoying the scene. I envied that. They could play healthy 
little games like this in the context of a healthy 
relationship. Whatever Vance did to me was just plain nasty.

   My one hand was already fingering my pussy, while with 
the other I held Dawn's undies to my nose. I licked them 
gingerly as I watched the scene, hoping to taste the salt of 
her body on the warm fabric.

   Tim held Dawn down on her belly, and used her work out 
towel to tie her hands behind her head. He didn't spend a 
lot of time on the knots. She would keep her hands there 
voluntarily now. He produced another towel from the bedside, 
and used this one to blindfold his wife. She was totally 
under his control.

   " Who's the boss now, little girl ?" Tim teased her, as 
he rolled her onto her back again.

   " You are, " she admitted, and spread her legs for him.

   The position that Tim had placed her in gave me a perfect 
view of her body. Her pubic hair was trimmed neatly, and the 
beautiful little folds of her pussy were displayed 
wonderfully. I almost groaned with my own painful arousal.

   Tim took off his clothes now. I could see his cock 
drooling pre-cum as it dangled between his legs. He pulled 
his wife forward to the edge of the bed, and teased her 
pussy with the head of his prick.

   " Did you do a good work-out for me today, girl ?"

   " Oh, yes. I keep my body nice and trim for you. "

   " Because you like to get fucked ?"

   " Please, yes. Please fuck me. "

   Please. I wanted it too. She looked so ready for him.

   He pushed into her gently. This part of their game 
wouldn't be rough. He leaned forward, and I could hear them 
kissing as he eased his length into her. I had to slow 
myself down to keep my orgasm from coming. I wanted to save 
it until Dawn reached her climax.

   As their bodies pushed against eachother, I could feel my 
own shame burning. Here I was, on my knees in their closet. 
It was almost too much. This is what I had let myself 
become. I was a voyeur, and a panty sniffer, and I belonged 
on my knees for violating Dawn's trust. I didn't deserve the 
intense, guilty pleasure this was giving me.

   Poor Dawn. She didn't know about this betrayal. She 
moaned with lust as her husband shared all their secrets 
with me. 

   His rhythm became irregular, and he cried out with 
pleasure. The intensity of the scene must have really worked 
him up, because his orgasm lasted an incredible amount of 
time. He pumped into her again and again, grunting and 
moaning as he finished.

   " Let me do something for you now, " he told his wife, 
knowing that she hadn't yet reached orgasm.

   Tim stepped from the bed, and then reached his hand out 
to the closet door. I pulled back in horror.

   Quietly, he slid open the closet door, and smiled down at 
me. His limp, moist cock bobbed in front of me. He reached 
down now, and took me by the back of the neck. I didn't have 
a choice, or so I told myself. He led me forward, on my 
knees, to the edge of the bed, and positioned me between his 
wife's legs. Then he stepped back to watch the scene.

   I had never been so close to another woman's pussy in my 
life. I stared at it dumbly, contemplating this final 
betrayal of Dawn's trust. 

   The aroma of sex was strong here. I had tasted this 
before, on the crotches of little girls panties, but this 
smelled different. It smelled of reality. It occurred to me 
that in all of my sick little games, nothing much had been 
real. This was real. This was my friend's pussy, with her 
husband's semen leaking from within.

   It was intoxicating. I could have knelt there all day, 
worshipping the beauty of it, but Dawn was growing 
impatient. She raised her hips slightly, bringing her pussy 
level with my nose. She wanted satisfaction, and I wasn't 
sure I could provide it to another woman.

   I extended my tongue gently, trying to imagine myself in 
the same position. What would feel good ? What would I enjoy 
? I could see Tim stroking himself hard again in the corner 
of my eye.

   It didn't take much to get Dawn back into it. As soon as 
I began to explore her pussy, she bit her lower lip, and 
groaned with pleasure. I lapped up her husband's cum with 
the same unquenchable lust I had given to the cum I had 
tasted from my daughter's panties not long before. This was 
warmer and more plentiful, and I enjoyed every taste.

   My confidence grew as I continued. I wondered if Dawn 
could feel the difference between her husband and I. I 
wondered if she would even care at this point. She was so 
damned sexy.

   A stray thought hit me. Was it possible that Dawn was in 
on the planning of this ? Had they watched the nanny cam 
video together, and then worked out a way to have me 
pleasure Dawn, and still keep her dignity intact ? Were they 
taping me right now, for later viewing ? God, that was an 
exciting thought, but it was probably all in my imagination. 
Besides, I could never know for certain.

   Dawn whimpered uncontrollably, and her pussy began to 
contract. I concentrated my efforts now on making this an 
intense orgasm for her. She deserved it, and I deserved to 
be at her feet like this, serving her needs.

   " Oh, lick it good, Mi..." her words trailed off as her 
pussy rose and fell against my lips.

   Only a hand on the back of my neck kept me from 
continuing my worship after her orgasm subsided. Tim led me 
back into the closet and then came back to untie his wife. 
My own body was screaming for release, and I continued to 
watch and stroke myself as Dawn got ready for an evening 
class at the college. Thank god her clothes were already 
laid out.

   Tim came back up for a blow job after he sent Dawn off, I 
did it for him from my knees in the closet, still dressed in 
my business suit. I even let him cum in my throat. All the 
while, I was still thinking about the second pair of panties 
I was stealing away from Dawn tonight. They were already 
tucked under my blouse.

   " I liked that a lot, " he told me, his softening cock 
still rolling around over my tongue, " I'll call you next 
week if I decide to do it again. "

12.

   You might think it's a little late for me to admit that 
things were getting out of control. My obsession with the 
panty collection was putting everything at risk. Most every 
shift now, I was accepting returns from girls as young as 
thirteen years old, and then paying the store for the 
pleasure of taking them home to add to my other treasures. I 
remembered each one. 

   There were over thirty now.

   I was running out of cash rapidly, and was even 
considering taking out a loan. But what were my other 
options ? I couldn't go to Rick about it. He would fire me 
in a second. On the other hand, I knew that I wouldn't be 
able to stand up to these girls. Now that the rumours had 
gotten around about how easy I was, they could see right 
through me.

   It made me sick to think of everything I was risking with 
my pathetic appetites.

   With Lois, I was risking my professional reputation. She 
could ruin me at any time. I was at her mercy.

   With Tim Booth, I was risking my community. Even if I 
quit my job, I would still be worried about the things he 
could tell my neighbours and everyone at the church.

   At the store, I was risking everything. Technically, what 
I was doing was fraud. I could be fired. I could be 
prosecuted. More worrisome still, I think some of the 
teenage girls were beginning to notice the way I looked at 
them... the way I memorized the curves of their body for 
later worship. I was sure they would soon see right through 
the way I blushed as I accepted their dirty underwear back.

   What then ? Even though they lived across town, my 
daughter knew some of these girls. 

   I couldn't bear the thought of Lucy finding out. Not 
while her panties are in my collection too.

   Janice knew about the returns. How long did I expect to 
keep it from her ? It was only a matter of time before one 
of the school girls tried to return her panties on Janice's 
shift. She did exactly what I should have done the first 
time Amanda Lui challenged me. Janice referred to the store 
policy, and refused the return.

   The next evening, when we were alone together, she told 
me about it.

   " I know that you're taking the underwear back, Michelle, 
" she levelled with me. Count on Janice to be 
straightforward, even in awkward circumstances. " All the 
girls at school talk about it. This is the first time any of 
them have tried it with me though. "

   I couldn't meet her gaze. She paused before saying 
anything else.

   " I can tell you're in trouble, and it's not getting 
better. You can tell me what's going on. "
 
   I could feel tears coming to my eyes. 

   " I don't want you to think I'm an awful person, " I told 
her.

   " I could never think that. "

   My body melted into the familiar mixture of self-loathing 
and arousal as I considered revealing every sick detail of 
my fantasy life to this sixteen year old girl. 

   " I have a collection..." is how I began it.

13.

   " So I hear you fired Janice."

   I nodded meekly. Lois stood over me as I waited for her 
permission to pee. 

   " That's an odd choice. She seemed like a really 
competent sales clerk. "

   I could hardly believe it myself. Ever since I'd done it, 
my stomach had been tied in knots. I guess I just got 
scared. The previous night, I told her everything. She knew 
about these daily washroom visits with Lois, and the 
increasingly intimate direction they were taking. She knew 
about my panty collection, and my twisted nightly worship 
routines. I even told her about the way I had submitted to 
weekly visits in my friend Dawn's closet.

   Janice had listened with more understanding than I could 
have hoped to expect from anyone, her dark eyes not 
betraying even a hint of the revulsion I knew she must have 
been feeling.

   Then, in an act of cowardice that I knew I would torture 
myself over for weeks to come, I fired my only friend. I 
told her I didn't need her. I told her I wanted her out of 
my life. Those were lies, of course, but what did it matter 
? All that mattered was that I had thrown the last bit of 
stability out of my life.

   " I heard rumours about you before you came over to this 
mall, " Lois told me. I concentrated on holding my bladder 
while she talked. " I heard that you were a real tough 
manager, and that you fired people for the slightest reason. 
When I saw you, with your perfectly co-ordinated outfits, 
and precisely applied make-up, I thought I was in for a real 
fight over control of the mall stores. "

   I whimpered in desperation. She really liked when I did 
that.

   " Of course, you and I know differently. It think you 
actually enjoyed being broken by me. I was just playing 
these little washroom games to pick a fight with the new 
bitch across the hall, and I stumbled across your submissive 
streak quite by accident. "

   My body gave two tiny shudders with the words 'bitch' and 
'submissive'. Lois had been practising my hot buttons 
lately.

   " That's right... you like being my submissive little 
toilet girl, don't you ? "

   I nodded pathetically.

   " Okay then, you can pee now. " She continued talking 
while I piddled for her amusement. " Now where was I ? Oh 
yes, your reputation. I was a little puzzled on how you got 
such a mean reputation, being such an easy cunt to control. 
"

   My face was on fire. There was a time when I would have 
taken pride in that reputation, and fought for the respect I 
deserved from Lois. Now, I was barely worth her effort.

   " But now I see it. You were always a weak bitch. You 
just hid it really well. Anytime people challenged you, you 
fired them as a gut reflex. Is that what happened with 
Janice ? Hmm ? You hired a good employee, and the minute she 
started to figure you out, you fired her. "

   With a final squirt, I was finished relieving myself, but 
I knew that Lois wasn't done with me yet. She extended these 
humiliating little sessions a little each day.

   " Stand up, girl, " she ordered me, as she retrieved a 
couple squares of toilet paper. I stood facing her, and kept 
my eyes on hers, just the way she liked it. She liked to see 
the shame in my face as her hand explored my privates. She 
could feel everything.

   She dropped the tissue into the toilet, but continued her 
attentions with her bare fingers afterwards. I bit my lower 
lip as she played along my sensitive clit. She would 
continue to do this until my legs almost buckled. She loved 
being in control of me this way.

   " All right, it's time for me to see your bum. I need to 
make sure you're clean. "

   This was a new addition. I had been avoiding using her 
toilet for bowel movements, but I guess she decided to go to 
the next step anyhow. 

   " Turn around and bend forward, " she commanded. " That's 
right. Now hold your bum apart. That's good. I want to see 
right inside. "

   I thought of the shameful picture I must be, dressed in 
my business suit, hunched forward over a toilet, spreading 
my ass cheeks for Lois to inspect. Every sane instinct told 
me to resist this treatment, but I knew that she would get 
the best of me. What was the point in complaining ?

   " You know, " she continued, as she left me in position, 
" Janice was far too good an employee for you to keep to 
yourself anyhow. It was just a matter of time before I took 
her from you. "

   Not Janice, I argued silently. She was too loyal.

   " Now that you've fired her, it just makes it easier. 
I'll call her tomorrow. I can't wait to hear what other 
juicy gossip she can tell me about you. "

   This was too much. No, I didn't want Janice working for 
this bitch, but there was nothing I could do to stop it. I 
just held my humiliating position, and tried to convince 
myself that Janice would remain loyal to me, and not tell my 
secrets to Lois. That would kill me.

  " Well, it looks like your bum is good and clean. Now that 
I think about it, though, I wonder if mine is as clean as 
I'd like. Turn around and drop to your knees, Michelle. "

   I knew what was coming next, but nothing prepared me for 
the erotic thrill that sizzled through me when she turned 
away from me and began to unbuckle her belt. I'll bet that 
Lois was in her glory. Hell, she had always known that 
someday I'd be kissing her ass. I'll just bet she didn't 
think it would be this literal.
   
14.

   It was all inevitable now. I hadn't left myself any room 
to escape.

   Over the next week, I just waited for someone to expose 
me. I deserved it. On Tuesday, I spent another evening on my 
knees in Dawn's bedroom. Tim showed no signs of letting me 
off the hook. Lois had hired Janice, and I had a sick 
feeling that all of my secrets would soon be revealed.

   At home, I shut myself away from Lucy. I knew it was only 
a matter of time before she learned about me, and it hurt me 
too badly to think of losing her. 

   Then, on Friday, I came to work to find Janice had 
already opened the store. I held my coffee and keys dumbly 
in front of me as I wandered in from the mall.

   " What are you doing here ?"

   " Oh, " she responded with a smile, " It's a short week 
at school. They gave us the Friday off. "

   " No, I mean, why are you *here* ? You work for Lois. "

   " That's okay. She gave me permission to transfer back 
over here. You need me more than she does. "

   She was pretending that this was somehow okay. I was 
getting more flustered by the moment.

   " But I fired you. You don't work for me. "

   " That's a matter of opinion. Jesus, Michelle, you know 
you need me. Why do you have to put up such a fuss about it 
?"

   " Listen, Janice, this is my store. I don't want you 
here. "

   " If you'll excuse me saying, this is a fucked up time 
for you to try to assert yourself. In the end, we both know 
that you'll do exactly what I say, so why don't we skip the 
middle steps ?"

   This was the first time Janice ever took a forceful tone 
with me, and I think I loved her for it. Yes, I needed her 
around. She was my best friend. 

   And she was full of surprises.

   " I've given this a lot of thought, " she explained. " 
You're a really special person, Michelle, and I don't want 
to see you get hurt. But the truth is, you're always looking 
for other people to take control, and you're finding these 
people in the worst possible places. "

   Vance. Rick. Amanda. Lois. Tim. Yeah, I guess I could 
have done better.

   " So now, like it or not, you're taking your orders from 
me, and I'm going to set the rules. "

   A little flush of shame came over me as I realized how 
easily even a young girl like Janice could take control of 
me, but somehow, with her, it didn't seem so bad. I felt 
something I hadn't allowed myself for a long time; trust.

   Two things changed immediately. The first came when I 
needed to go to the washroom that morning. Janice gave me 
permission to go over to SportsTime. Once I was there, 
though, Lois avoided me. The door was unlocked, and I was 
able to use the washroom without any problem.

   It was almost a let down in a way. I was relieved, of 
course, but I sort of craved the wicked interactions that 
Lois had staged.

   Janice read my thoughts. " Don't worry. We'll find you a 
new dominant female to play with. This is just too close to 
your professional life. We wouldn't want any rumours to get 
around. "

   " But how..."

   " It just took a little threat to remind her how much 
trouble she would be in if Rick found out about her games. 
At first, she was a little defiant, but once I added a 
threat that I would charge her with sexual harassment, she 
caved right in. It wouldn't look good for her to be hitting 
on a sixteen year old girl. "

   So that was that. Janice had stepped in and declared a 
truce between Lois and I. 

   The second big change of the day was that there were no 
returns at all. Janice explained that one too.

   " I just let out the rumour around school that we would 
need an parent's signature on the return forms from now on. 
There was quite a little pause in the locker room 
conversation when I let that one slip, as each of the girls 
thought about asking their mothers to come along. I'm afraid 
that there won't be too many more additions to your 
collection from now on. "

   She was right. In the next few days, no one brought in 
any returns. In two quick measures, this extraordinary girl 
had pulled my career from the edge of ruin. Within the next 
week, she was working on my personal life too.

   God, she was strict. She had me on a daily routine that 
dictated my clothing, food, exercise, and social activities. 
She cut back my work hours, and had me hire another part-
timer for the store.

   " No secrets, " she warned me. " These rules are for your 
own good. If I let you do things on your own, you'll be 
tempted to take care of your own sexual needs, in an 
unhealthy way. We'll find a ways to satisfy your sex life. 
In the meantime, you do everything I say. "

   She even built it into the schedule. I was allowed to 
visit my panty collection once every night, but only under 
her supervision.

   That must sound weird. I mean, I never wanted to reveal 
my sick fantasies to anyone. Every night, though, she came 
over, and locked us into my room. She would watch me from 
beginning to end. I would bring out my panties, and sniff 
and lick the little crotches. I would even tell her which 
girls they belonged to, and what I fantasized about doing to 
their bodies.

   Janice went to school with most of these girls. Being a 
lesbian herself, I'm sure she must have been attracted to 
some of them, but she never let on. She just watched with 
mild curiosity, and told me when I was allowed to orgasm.

   Jesus, those were intense. I couldn't believe I was 
letting her watch me do it. It was such a thrill.

   So we settled into a bit of a comfortable routine. Janice 
spent a lot of time in the evenings over at our house. Some 
nights, she would hang out with Lucy too. That surprised me. 
The two girls were so much opposites, I would have thought 
they'd dislike each other, but they really clicked.

   " Do you think that Janice would like it if I set her up 
with one of Brent's friends ?" Lucy asked me one night. Our 
relationship had improved, now that I was spending a little 
more time at home. She was talking to me again, and that was 
a good start.

   " I have a feeling it wouldn't work out, " I told her, 
but avoided telling her why.

    Another feeling I had was that Janice was working on 
other things behind the scenes. I hadn't heard from Tim 
Booth in a couple of weeks, and I got a call from Rick that 
he wanted to meet with me the following Monday. Janice 
didn't tell me anything, but seemed pleased with herself.

   That weekend, she sent me out to the liquor store to buy 
a couple of bottles of wine. " I think we should celebrate 
our new arrangement, " she told me.

   She let her parents know that she was staying over. We 
rented a couple of movies, and ordered chinese food for a 
lazy evening at home. It's weird how quickly I've grown 
comfortable with Janice. She really is my very best friend.

   As we were settling in for the evening, I was surprised 
to hear Lucy coming in through the front door.

   " I thought you were out with Brent and his friends 
tonight. "

   " I was, but he took me to another lame frat party. "

   " So what are your plans now ?"

   Lucy grinned when she saw the chinese food. " You guys 
wouldn't mind if I hung around here, would you?"

   I can't tell you what a nice moment that was for me. We 
hung out most of the night. I had a little too much wine, 
and so the girls had to bring me upstairs to bed. I woke up 
an hour later to use the washroom. That's when I got my 
second pleasant surprise of the evening.

   As I passed by Lucy's room, I could hear that both girls 
were in there, and what they were doing was unmistakable. A 
slight pinch of jealousy, or motherly concern, or something, 
touched me as I heard them pleasure each other in the dark 
of my daughter's room. It passed quickly.

   Actually, Lucy could do a lot worse. Janice was exactly 
the kind of lover she needed.

   Later in the night, as I lay awake in bed, that dark-eyed 
girl visited me in my bed.

   " Mmmm, " she whispered to me contentedly, " I think I'm 
in love. "

   " I'm so glad for you, " I told her.

   " And I'm glad for you. I think I've got everything under 
control now. I'll still keep you on a strict schedule, but 
I'm sure things will get a lot better. You'll still go to 
visit Tim and Dawn once a week, but there's no more 
blackmail. Dawn knows everything. We'll find you more lovers 
later..."

   " How many more ?"

   " As many as it takes, " she smiled. " Oh, one more 
thing. "

   I nodded.

   " Here's one last contribution for your collection. "

   Janice pressed her panties into my hand, and then went 
back to Lucy's room to sleep. Her bare bum looked delightful 
in the half-light of the hallway. I would sleep soon too, 
but not before enjoying my newest treasure.
   
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