Day 27: Shopping & spanking

Audrey stepped through the open door of a clothing store, Eldwyn close behind.

"And...? Then what happened?"

"We fell asleep," Eldwyn answered.

A saleswoman approached them, but Audrey waved her away, and she bowed before taking her station behind the counter once more. Audrey turned back to Eldwyn as she led her deeper into the store. "So... did you like it?"

Eldwyn's cheeks warmed. "Yes, um... I guess."

"You guess? Either you did or you didn't. Come on, give me the juicy details!"

"I did, I did like it... I was scared, and it hurt at first, but Lucas was very gentle."

"Wait, was that your first time? I thought you were just shy!"

Eldwyn blushed.

"Ah, don't be embarrassed. We were all virgins once, you know. You're lucky, though, my first time was awful. I thought he was the coolest guy in the bar when we met, but he didn't have a clue what he was doing. He barely even got it in before he finished."

Eldwyn stifled a laugh.

"See? Nothing to be embarrassed about. Come on, let's find something for you to try on!"

They spent the next bell picking out clothes, which is to say, Audrey picked out clothes and Eldwyn's input was largely ignored, like she wasn't so much a person of flesh and blood but a mannequin to be displayed.

Audrey seemed to have something particular in mind, but nothing she removed from the racks seemed to be quite it.

Meanwhile, she kept grilling Eldwyn about her relationship with Lucas. Eldwyn tried to keep the embarrassing details to herself, but Audrey seemed to know exactly how to draw everything out.

Before long, she'd told Audrey about all of her adventures with Lucas: about how she got so aroused that she came right there in the middle of the street, and a few days later again in a bar; about clothes shopping with Lucas, and giving him a hand job in the changing room; about acting as Lucas' maid, and his dominating attitude towards her. As much as she resolve to keep things private, it all ended up coming out and she was powerless to stop it.

Her story was interrupted when finally, Audrey seemed to have found what she had been searching for.

"This is it!" She said proudly, holding up a tiny black dress.

Eldwyn gulped as she took it. "Isn't this a little... revealing?"

"Of course, that's the point!"

"I-I don't know."

"At least try it on. Come on, that's the best part about shopping, trying on things you'd normally never wear."

"Well..." Eldwyn hesitated. It did look elegant, and the thought of wearing it, even if just for a little bit, brought a warmth in the pit of her stomach. "All right then, I'll try it."

Audrey clapped her hands in excitement. "There's a changing room over there. I'll see if I can find some shoes to go with it."

Eldwyn pulled the curtain to the changing room carefully shut behind her. The last thing she wanted to do was accidentally expose herself through a gap she'd missed. Stripping out of her own clothes was easy enough, but she had a couple of false starts as she tried to shimmy into the new dress. Her heart jumped in her chest when the curtain was suddenly pulled parted, but it was only Audrey's hand, holding out a pair of black pumps.

"Hurry up, girl, I want to see how it looks on you!" came her voice from the other side.

Eldwyn slipped into them and took a couple of tentative steps in the cramped stall. She'd always known there were a million things to learn about being a woman, and a million more tiny little behaviors to keep in mind, but it was heels that were the hardest, and these were much higher than the strappy sandals she'd worn before. She took a deep breath and stepped out of the changing room.

"Oh! You look gorgeous." Audrey said, clasping her hands in front of her chest.

Eldwyn turned to look in the mirror.

The dress did look pretty good. It fit even more snugly to her body than she expected, stopping halfway down her thigh in a strip of partially see-through lace. It had a round neck, high enough to hide her lack of cleavage, but low enough to highlight her collar bones. The sleeves were long and made of the same lace. The black pumps that Audrey had given her matched the dress itself, with slight hints of gold in their glittering straps.

"Do you really think so?" Eldwyn asked, looking back at herself. It felt like she was someone else entirely. "I'm so... flat..."

"Don't worry about it, you look adorable!" Audrey reassured her, coming up behind her to look in the mirror. "And in any case, I think Lucas is an ass-man anyway."

Eldwyn couldn't help but smile. Her cheeks felt warm and she knew that they were turning pink. "Th-thank you."

She wondered how Lucas would react, but her mood soured when she remembered the fight they'd had. Why had he rebuffed her like that? It was her sister, her life!

"Eldwyn, are you all right?" Audrey asked, interrupting her thoughts.

Eldwyn met her eyes in the mirror and tried to give her a tight smile. "Um, yeah, sorry."

Audrey looked unconvinced, but nodded anyway. "Well, change back so we can pay for it. Afterwards, you can tell me what happened."

"But you said—"

"Chop, chop, girl, we don't have all day!"

Eldwyn withdrew back into the changing room, clenching her jaw. So much for "trying out things you'd normally never wear". Well, she didn't have to wear it, she figured.

She considered Audrey's last words to her. She felt awkward talking about her family problems. Then again... She chuckled grimly under her breath. With all she had already told—and shown—Audrey, was this the thing that made her hesitate? Maybe it'd feel good to get it off her chest. She needed someone to talk to now that Lucas didn't want to see her.

When she exited the changing room, Audrey escorted her to the counter, where she paid for both the dress and shoes, dismissing Eldwyn's attempt at objecting.

After paying, the pair of them left the shop and continued strolling down the street. Audrey was conspicuously quiet, plainly happy to let Eldwyn make up her mind.

Eldwyn sighed. "I was the first to wake the next morning. At first I didn't know where I was, but then I felt Lucas' arm around me and I remembered what we'd done the night before..."