Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Center of her own attention

One half hour to kill...can a fantasy be brewed? I accept a challenge. Sparing us dialogue between characters (to save time for the time challenged writer) we'll set the scene. I see a woman in a lonely marriage. Lonely and desperate to get her husband's attention. She decides to set a scene in her home where she fakes that they have been robbed and that she was terrorized and left cuffed and gagged on the living room floor.

She gags herself with duct tape and cuffs herself. Her husband to be home from his overnight shift in an hour or so. Someone walks into the house. Her husband's friend. She is completely embarrassed. She had forgotten that her husband's friend had been given keys to fix some plumbing when he had the chance.

He ungags her and she sobs. Confessing how the scene is all staged. How her husband and her are drifting apart. He asks where the cuff keys are. They are near in lieu of her having to release herself. He uncuffs her ankles. He figures if he will keep her secret that she could keep his. He tells her that if he had a girl like her that she would not have to beg for his attention. His hand carresses her thigh. Her wrists still cuffed, she squirms and says it isn't right. He jokes that she has put herself in a possition where she can hardly object. His hands are under her shirt....waiting for some kind of approval. She pulls at her wrists and says that if he was going to do this right then he would have to make sure she does not scream. He is sweating and now mumbling what a tease she is and that if he puts that tape back over her lips that he just might take her.
She kind of laughs...and he asks her if she thinks he is uncapable of taking a defenseless woman. He says, "what makes you think I wouldn't"? She calmly looks at him and asks, "what makes you think I staged this for my husband"? "I'm counting on you to."