First Check-in and Establishing Rules

I looked at the time on my phone. It was only 6:00, so I needed to wait for 45 minutes to figure out what was going on. Ok, another honesty moment, we both know that there is no way I can just sit here for 45 minutes and not try to figure out what is going on. Nope, patience is not my thing. So, I decided to see if Christopher knew anything about this. I sent him 3 different messages, but he never responded to any of them.

I started thinking through what could be going on. This could all be something simple. Maybe Megan just wanted to take me out on some sort of date. It had started to feel like more of a romantic relationship lately, even though she knew I had no intention of leaving Christopher, but maybe she was hoping something would change? She gave me a little black dress to wear, so a date didn't seem out of the realm of possibilities. But why was everyone else acting weird? No, everyone seemed to be involved somehow, so this probably wasn't just a date with Megan. Did something happen? I honestly couldn’t think of anything. Well, what if she found out something more serious had happened between Kayla and Christopher? What if she found out he was leaving me for Kayla, and Megan wanted to warn me? That would explain why he was being distant and why even Kayla was avoiding me today (she hadn't been shy about flaunting her relationship with Christopher in front of me at all so far), but it just didn’t feel right. Damnit. And somehow only 5 minutes has passed! Ugh.

I decided to get dressed and to go wait in the living room. That had to be better than just sitting in here spiraling out of control in my own thoughts. I threw the dress on, and discovered it was a simple black dress maybe a couple inches shorter than I would normally wear. Oh well, I’m just going to the living room and everyone in this place has seen me fully naked so what’s the harm in showing some thigh? I mean, there is a chance we end up leaving the condo, but I could always change. Well, assuming Megan doesn't **** me to wear this or something even more revealing.

I walked down the hallway to discover nobody was here, or at least nobody was out of their room. I walked towards the kitchen to get a glass of water, listening. I could hear the ladies moving around in the house, but they were all hiding from me still for some reason. I sat down on the couch to wait. It was only 6:15, so still another 30 minutes to wait. I tried to distract myself by watching TV, but I couldn’t focus. I tried my phone, but nobody was answering texts and tiktok wasn’t helping. Nothing was making time go any faster.

Finally, F I N A L L Y, I heard a door open. I looked towards the hallway, waiting for someone to come out, but then I heard another door open and close. Damnit. Whoever it was just went into the bathroom. This is driving me crazy!

It was almost 6:30 when someone made an appearance. Megan came around the corner in a cute little black dress of her own. Hers was not quite as simple as mine, but it was still something nice enough for a date but not to a 5-star restaurant or anything. It was definitely cute with the white polka dots and loose fabric. It looked thin and light and was also a little short, showing off her long creamy legs. She was dressed up like she was going out, so maybe I was right that she was asking me out to dinner?

She smiled at me and walked into the kitchen. “I knew you wouldn’t be able to wait in your room. I’m sure you’re super confused and probably worried, but I promise everything is ok. Just be patient.”

That was at least a little comforting, or at least it should have been but I was still nervous. But maybe it wasn’t something bad with Kayla and Christopher. I watched her in the kitchen for a bit. Wait, did I used to stare at Megan like this? Or did I just start doing that? I don’t think I looked at her like this before everything that has happened the past two weeks. Damn, something inside me was changing with all of this, and it’s only been two weeks! Who knows what other changes might happen if we keep this up for longer.

Britney was the next to come out. She was wearing a beautiful full length black dress with two slits that went way up almost to her hips. Fuck, her long terra-cotta legs were beautiful!

She smiled and sat in the living room with me, sitting in the chair next to the couch. She continued to watch me the whole time, it was definitely a power move and it was absolutely working on me. We waited for about 2 minutes, me avoiding making eye contact with Britney the whole time and watching Megan move around, when the door opened. Christopher walked in, looking nice too. What the fuck, were we going out or something?

“Hey babe!” He at least seemed happy to see me. He came over and sat with me on the couch, kissing me as soon as he was seated. I expected him to go say hi to Kayla, cause that’s the rule, right?

“Hey! Uh, are you going to go say hi to Kayla too?” I whispered the question, still relatively embarrassed to say everything out loud.

“Haha! No, not yet. Don’t worry about it.”

“Ok, what the fuck is going on, everyone?! This is driving me crazy…”

“Ok, ok, ok. Lemme get Kayla so we can talk.” Megan then left towards Kayla’s room.

They came back a minute later. Kayla looked as beautiful as ever, but she wasn’t wearing a black dress like the rest of us. No, she was wearing a beautiful and sexy midnight blue drop-shoulder mini dress.

Megan then took charge.

“Ok, sorry for the secrecy, Maddy, but we wanted to wait to do this when we were all together. Christopher talked to each of us this past couple days and made us aware of some concerns he had for your sake. Well, we all have talked and need to catch you up. We have all loved these past couple weeks, but we also recognize how far we’ve pushed you, and quickly too. I know we got your permission early on, but we love you too much to take advantage of you when things spiral like that. So, we all agreed to give you a day off and not influence you today.”

They all smiled at me when she said this, as if I should be extremely thankful. I guess I was? I’m not sure, and I didn’t have much time to think about it before she continued.

“I don’t think any of us anticipated any of this happening when we agreed to move in, and we don’t want to ruin any of our friendships. Christopher also made sure we understood how new this was for you and how you were struggling to keep up or feel like you could say no or stop anything if it went too far. So, we decided on an overall rule for all of us: we will establish routine group check-ins to make sure everyone is ok. At these check-ins, we can make sure everyone is still on board, and talk about any issues or changes we want to make in our arrangements. These meetings will happen on whatever frequency we want. But the other rule is: unless a safe word is spoken then consent is implied between our check-ins. We think the classic ‘yellow’ and ‘red’ safety words are easy enough to use, and there is absolutely no judgement if they ever get used. This will help us play without having to stop to make sure everyone is ok constantly. If you are ever too uncomfortable, ‘yellow’ means ‘hey, this is getting to be a bit much so can we change course before going too far’ and ‘red’ is used if somebody goes too far. We will all stop immediately if ‘red’ is ever used and have another check-in to make sure everyone is ok and whatever lines got crossed are made clear to everyone.”

They all stared at me pretty intensely at that part. Ok, so it sounded like if I agree to this system, then I’m kinda committing to living this game until I use a safety word. I mean, I guess that’s ok. Up until now I hadn’t felt really trapped in it yet, so this should be good, right? Christopher spoke up next.

“I also wanted to make sure you could take a break if you needed without having to say ‘red’. We thought ‘pineapple’ would be a fun word for ‘I’m not in the mood to play right now, but maybe later’. That way you can get a break whenever you need one.”

The girls nodded as he explained, and then Megan picked up where he finished.

“We can also talk through in smaller groups or pairs if any private convos need to be had at these times. So, Maddy the rest of us are already agreed on this, but now I have to ask you: are you on board with this? We wanted to give this new system a week to see how we all feel with it this first time. So, if you’re on board, that would mean for the next 7 days, until next Friday evening, we would all be committed to our role-playing. We can work out what that means specifically with individuals if you like, but you would be some form of cuckquean and/or pet or whatever else for the next 7 days.”

I looked around, they were all looking at me, even Christopher. Fuck me. I don’t think they’re going to give me too much time to think about it. But isn’t the decision easy? I mean, I’ve been fully committed (though sometimes hesitatingly) for the last two weeks already, and this actually made it easier for me to control at least part of the game.

Was I really about to commit to another full week of this?