Harem House - Selene Pt. 23

"I'll pay to have your car cleaned." Katelyn assured her.

Kat agreed as they approached her car and walked out of earshot. "Yeah, you will."

"Are you two riding with us?" Kelly asked.

Selene shook her head. "We'll Uber." She assured Kelly and Arthur. "We'll let you two get back to your date." She said, looking meaningfully at the two of them for Rani's sake. "And we'll see you in the morning."

Rani agreed with a shrug. "Yeah... We'll see you in the morning."

Kelly looked at Arthur to gauge his approval of their plan and nodded after he did. "Okay. If you're sure?"

"We're sure." Selene said for both of them. "I already ordered the Uber. Thank you for riding to our rescue, Master." Selene said as she went up onto her tip-toes and gave him a kiss. "And thank you for driving to our rescue, Mistress." To everyone's surprise, Selene did the same thing to Kelly, kissing her.

Kelly looked at Arthur, who shrugged. She kissed Selene back until Selene pulled away.

"Same." Rani said and kissed Arthur. "And ditto." She kissed Kelly. "Mmm..." She smacked her lips together. "I like your chapstick."

"Thanks." Kelly laughed. "We'll see you two in the morning."

Selene and Rani waved goodbye, and Arthur and Kelly returned to her car. They waited until the Uber showed up for Selene and Rani before they left. The drive back was quiet.

"You okay?" Arthur asked.

"Yeah." Kelly exhaled. "I was worried about Katelyn. But she's..." Kelly tried to find the words. "Well, emotionally, she's a real mess right now. Worse than I thought." She admitted. "I'm glad Kat is with her. She could use a good friend right now."

"I think you've been a good friend to her." Arthur pointed out.

"So have the other girls." Kelly nodded. Then, she changed the topic to something more prominent in her mind. "That kiss from Selene was weird, right?"

Arthur chuckled at the non sequitur. "That might have been my fault." He said. "I've been winding them up a bit."

He explained about the vibrators and how he set them up on a cycle.

"Were you... playing with them while we were on our date?" Kelly asked.

"No." Arthur answered. "I set the app up, and then the cycle would have just kept going. I checked on them when you were in the bathroom but didn't have to activate them every time."

"Oh, okay." Kelly nodded. "Good."

"Good?" Arthur asked.

"I would have been pissed off if I found out the entire time I thought I had your full attention, you were splitting it between me and the others." Kelly admitted. "Tonight was supposed to be just us. Our time. My time."

Arthur nodded. "That makes sense." He understood. The sentiment was possessive, but it wasn't a cause for concern. Kelly sounded reasonable. His girlfriends expected and deserved his full attention when he was with them. From now on, he'd have to be careful about being on his phone and making sure he gave them his full attention. He decided not to push his luck but to give Kelly his full attention for the rest of the night.

~~~

"I really am sorry." Katelyn said as Kat's car pulled into Katelyn's apartment building's parking lot.

"I know." Katerine reminded her. "You've apologized a lot. You've promised to pay for the mess back there-" She thumbed her fist over her shoulder to indicate the stinking back seat. "It's okay. I'm not mad at you."

"Kelly was pretty mad at me." Katelyn frowned.

"Did she warn you against drinking too much?" Kat asked.

"I mean... a little." Katelyn tilted her head back and forth.

"And did you drink too much, anyway?" Kat asked.

Katelyn deflated. "... Yes."

Kat scoffed. "Sounds like you earned it then. Come on. Let's get you upstairs." She pulled into an empty parking spot a few rows from the door.

"You want to come up?" Katelyn asked. "Maybe we can salvage the night?"

"What do you mean?" Kat raised an eyebrow.

"We can watch a movie, camp out on the sofa, and have a sleepover?" Katelyn asked. "Please?" She asked. "We haven't done that in forever!"

Kat laughed. It had been a while since they'd hung out that way, but they weren't in the dorms anymore, and she was living with her sister instead of her friends. A poor decision, really. She loved her sister, but Selene wasn't the best roommate. At least sharing an apartment was better than sharing a bedroom.

"Alright. Why not? I'm free tonight." Kat said as she stepped out of the car and assisted Katelyn.

"And it's Saturday tomorrow!" Katelyn said. "We can sleep in!" Their wardrobe and the chilly night air made them hustle through the lobby doors.

"Well, I'm meeting up with the harem for homecoming tomorrow. They want to do the festival stuff." Kat shrugged. She was okay to stay the night but couldn't sleep the morning away. She'd need to return to her apartment, shower, change, and meet the others before they drove to campus after breakfast.

"Oh... well... can I come with you?" She asked. "I should apologize to the others again."

"Well..." Kat hesitated. She didn't want to hurt Katelyn's feelings.

"What? They don't want to hang with me anymore?" Katelyn asked, surprised.

"It's not that." Kat shook her head and held the front door open for Katelyn as they headed into the building and started walking through the lobby to the elevator. "It's supposed to be a group date."

"Perhaps I'll call Terry after all." Katelyn shrugged but with only one shoulder.

Kat tried to explain. "No, I mean... Our group. The harem."

Katelyn looked at her in shock. Then, the realization dawned on her. "Oh, right. Your sex cult." She said as the elevator arrived.

Kat rolled her eyes and plodded into the elevator behind Katelyn. "The harem is not a sex cult. It's what we call ourselves, the group of Arthur's girlfriends, because the Sisterhood of Excalibur is too much of a mouthful." She couldn't help but smile at how true that was. Excalibur was too much of a mouthful.

"The Sisterhood of-" Katelyn deadpanned and looked at Kat. "Because his name is Arthur?"

Kat snorted. The two laughed until the elevator dinged and the doors opened again. The hallway to Katelyn's apartment wasn't a long walk.

It was Katelyn's turn to scoff. "You really call yourselves the harem? Did Arthur come up with that?"

"I think Selene did. It's a whole thing in the animes she's into. We're kind of re-appropriating it." Kat shrugged as she waited for Katelyn to unlock her door.

"Uh huh..." Katelyn murmured, half to herself. She opened the door, and she and Kat pushed inside one after the other, with Katelyn turning the lights on as they entered.

The apartment wasn't large, but the L-shaped couch was comfy and pointed right at the television. Beyond it, the dining room table became the resting place for their purses, and Katelyn was already stripping out of her vomit-stained clothes as she headed to her bedroom. Kat followed behind her.

"You want to get comfy?" Katelyn asked. "I don't have PJs for you, but I have a robe. Or I'm sure Kelly wouldn't mind lending you some PJ pants."

Kat contemplated her sizes compared to Kelly's. Kelly was larger than skinny, willowy Katelyn, but she was also buff and in a perfect hourglass shape, unlike Kat's more average-shaped body. Kat was short and in decent shape but not gym-fit. She suspected her definition of 'medium' and Kelly's definition differed significantly.

"A robe sounds fine." Kat said. "Do you mind if I get out of these shorts, though? Most of my clothes stink like vomit from the car."

"Give them to me." Katelyn said. "I'll throw them in the wash, and you can wear them home tomorrow."

"Uh..." Katerine hesitated, pausing after she reached for the button on her shorts.

Katelyn lifted an eyebrow. "You don't have to be shy. Kelly's not here, and I'm not going to perv on you or anything."

"No, I--" Kat raised an eyebrow. "Kelly's seen me naked. I'm not nervous around Kelly."

"When did that happen?" Katelyn asked, surprised. "Are you two locker room pals now?"

"Oh, uh... Wednesday night." Kat said. She sounded hesitant, but Katelyn couldn't think why.

Katelyn raised an eyebrow. "When she stayed over at Arthur's?"

"When we... all stayed over at Arthur's." Kat corrected.

Katelyn shook her head. "Okay. Let's have some girl talk, but after I'm finished showering. I'm tired of smelling this stuff on my shirt."

She didn't need to explain herself to Kat, who was also weary of the stench. Katelyn finished stripping down and headed toward the shower, tossing a fluffy pink robe at Kat before she entered the bathroom. Kat wasn't one to check out her friends, but she couldn't help thinking that Rani or Mindy would appreciate Katelyn's body. She was like Selene in some ways but taller, skinnier, and the physical opposite of Kat in even more ways than her sister. They might have similar personalities and tastes in color schemes, but their bodies couldn't be more different.

Kat ensured she could hear Katelyn in the shower before she slid her shorts toward the floor. Bet or no bet, they needed to come off. She couldn't lounge around in front of Katelyn in her underwear and a robe with a plug in her ass and a vibrator in her pussy. She checked her phone and messaged Selene and Rani.

Brat: I'm taking mine out now. I hope one of you two already has, but I'm crashing at Katelyn's and don't want to get caught.

Queenie: You lose, bitch!

Rani followed her exclamation up with a devil emoji.

Slut: Don't listen to her. She's lying. She took hers out at the clinic.

Queenie: Traitor! I thought we agreed!

Selene returned her exclamation with a devil emoji, and Kat laughed aloud, half in amusement and half in relief.

Kat's shorts, top, and bra joined the laundry pile. She threw on the robe and waited for Katelyn to exit the bathroom. Then she went in with her purse and removed the vibe. She turned off the app and removed her plug, finding it more difficult than inserting it. Unlocking her collar was tricky, but she spun the collar around, unlocked the padlock, unbuckled the straps, and added the assembly to her purse. She cleaned up, and after cleaning both items and putting her toys away in her purse, she put her panties back on and joined Katelyn in the living room.

Katelyn had nail polish bottles on the coffee table and had started the Hocus Pocus DVD. She brewed popcorn in the kitchen and poured two enormous bowls. Katelyn wore a robe similar to Kat's, but older and more faded, making the cloth a lighter pink to cover her pink boy-short panties. She impressed Kat by doing it all with her arm back in a sling.

Kat sighed as she relaxed on the sofa. "I needed this."

Katelyn agreed. "I think I did too. This is nicer than getting wasted. Next time one of us needs a girls' night out, can we spend the night in instead?"

Kat nodded emphatically. "Definitely."

~~~

Back at Arthur's place, Kelly took a deep breath. They were tired, but neither wanted to admit their excursion ruined the date night mood. Kelly did her part to fix the mood by unzipping her dress as soon as they were inside and letting the fabric fall to the floor. This left her in the white fishnet stockings, the black lace teddy, her tall black heels, and her black velvet choker with the white lace bow.

She moved around the coffee table and knelt. The table still bore the toys and tools from Arthur's briefcase and traveling trunk. They were clean and dry by now, and they both remembered Arthur's promise to punish her with them. Still, Arthur looked tired, even as watching the now scantily clad Kelly got his heart beating faster.

"I pushed a car out of a ditch tonight." Arthur said. He leaned against the door behind him.

"I'm sorry I missed that." Kelly admitted from her knees. "It sounds hot to watch."

"Mmm." Arthur grunted a laugh. "I'm going to bring up the laundry. Then we'll see how tired we are."

"Yes, Sir." Kelly nodded. "Do you want me to bring it up instead?"

"No. You stay there." Arthur shook his head as she stood. "That's an order, Megan." His use of the name for her maid character was intentional. "I'll be right back."

Kelly watched him go. She had an idea as she watched his backside and stood as soon as the back door closed.

Arthur hauled the hamper upstairs and set the basket inside the living room. He locked the back door. The lights were off. Kelly had locked the front door. She'd turned everything off. The apartment was ready for Arthur to go to bed.

A single candle illuminated the room and filled it with lavender and vanilla. Arthur blew it out. The rest of the coffee table was bare, with everything put away. The trunk and the briefcase were also gone, and he saw no Megan or Kelly.

Now, the only light came from his bedroom. He cracked his bedroom door to see Kelly lying face-down on his bed. She laid on the bed spread-eagled, her wrists and ankles pointed toward the corners. She was naked now, her clothes discarded next to the bed.

She wore leather restraints on one wrist and both ankles. Each restraint connected to straps at the corners of the bed. The color matched the black velvet choker he could see with her red hair swept aside. Above the collar he noticed the black leather strap of a bright red rubber ball gag over her neck, though not yet in her mouth, which she pressed closed.

She turned her head, and he could see she was wearing a blindfold. The trunk was at the foot of the bed with the briefcase atop it. A black leather flogger lay beside her on the bed, on the side closest to the door. Arthur stepped inside and closed the door behind him, leaving them both bathed in the soft glow of the bedside lamp on his nightstand.

"Master?" Kelly asked, having heard the door shut.

"It's me." Arthur assured her. "What's this?"

"I disappointed you earlier, Master." Kelly, or Megan, reminded him. "I've earned my punishment. More than that, Katelyn has earned even more punishment from you, but I don't want you to be angry with her. Please, flog and spank me until you're satisfied."

"And what's the gag for?" Arthur asked.

"To keep me from summoning the neighbors when you go hard enough to make me regret my mistakes." Kelly answered.

Arthur was hard as steel as he leaned over the bed and picked up the flogger. He dragged the tips of the leather strands across her back, from the base of her neck, down her spine, over the curves of her ass. She shuddered beneath the caress and turned her face into the mattress. He could see her breathing slow and steady, her lower lips parted in eager anticipation.

"You remember your safe word?" Arthur asked.

Kelly hesitated.

"It's red light." Arthur reminded her. "And if the gag is in your mouth, it's three quick grunts or taps. The SOS signal."

"Yes, Master." Kelly said.

"So tell me your safewords." Arthur commanded as he dragged the flogger's tips on a return trip from between Kelly's thighs all the way to the base of her skull.

"Red light to stop. Yellow light to slow and check in. SOS grunts or taps to stop if I can't speak." Kelly repeated. She clenched her eyes shut beneath the blindfold and clenched her ass as the flogger swept over it, expecting a strike but not receiving one yet.

"Good girl." Arthur stroked her hair. He reached past her, took a pillow, and set it beside her. He gripped her hips with his hand and pulled her up, then slid the pillow under her. When she settled, she realized this raised her ass into the air enough to give him a prominent target.

"And never, ever, bind yourself when I'm not here." Arthur said more sternly than Kelly expected.

"Yes, Master." She said at once. "I'm sorry. I wanted to surprise you."

"I understand." Arthur rubbed her back with his flogger-free hand. "And I appreciate the intention. But this can be dangerous." He let his hand wander up her back, over her shoulder, and up her arm to her wrist. He checked her restraints by attempting to slide his fingers between the cuff and her skin. He -tsked- her and shook his head.

"Is something wrong?" Kelly asked, concerned.

"You've buckled these too tightly." Arthur said. He set the flogger down, draping the straps across her lower back.

"I don't mind how tight they are." Kelly assured him.

"If it's too tight, your hands and feet will go numb, especially when you pull against them and cut off your circulation." Arthur explained as he undid her wrist restraint and re-fastened the cuffs one notch looser. "You'll be in this position for a while if it's until I'm satisfied."

That statement was enough to flush her face for her ignorance. She should have known better than to restrain herself to the bed. Still, she was proud of herself for figuring out how to do it before Arthur returned.

He moved to her ankle and made his way around the bed, checking and adjusting her restraints until he was satisfied. The most significant change was he'd restrained all four limbs, binding her to the bed and removing any agency she might have kept for herself.

"More comfortable?" He asked.

"Yes, Master." Kelly admitted.

Arthur took up the flogger. "Good. Now, I'm going to tease, spank, flog, beat, and fuck you until I'm too tired to continue." His voice had a low heat that sent shivers up her spine. She was starting to understand why the others liked this.

To her surprise, he didn't start with the flogger. The gentle press of the Wartenberg wheel prickled the back of her thigh. She shivered as he rolled the spokes against her hamstring, over her cheek, across her waist, and down her other leg. The metal warmed as it pressed into her hot flesh.

Kelly shivered and trembled beneath his firm, teasing touch as he played with her, rolling the wheel along her body until he found her sensitive spots and her ticklish spots. She jolted to the side at one point when he rolled the wheel beneath her ribs, following the lines of her lats.

"Do your best not to move." Arthur instructed in his deep baritone voice that warmed her core.

"Yes, Master. I'm sorry, Master. I'll learn."

"Yes, you will." Arthur finished teasing her. He rubbed her back in a gentle massage, and she melted into his hand as he soothed over the prickling spots from the wheel.

"With each spanking, I want you to say, 'I'm sorry, Master, I will learn.' Understand?"

"I'm sorry, Master, I will learn." Kelly repeated. "Yes, Master."

Arthur held the flogger in his left hand, but he wound up his right and slapped her ass with a firm smack into both cheeks.

Kelly answered his spank with the promise. "I'm sorry, Master, I will learn."

Arthur repeated the strike for a second, third, fourth, and fifth time, getting stronger with each blow until he drove Kelly's hips into the pillow.

"I'm sorry, Master, I will learn." Kelly repeated after every blow. She couldn't tell when the strikes were coming. Nor did she know whether they would be his hand, the flogger, or another instrument. Her ass was red and warm. Her face heated, too, but she breathed through it. Kelly had experienced the impact of a spanking before, but the immobility provided by the restraints increased the sensation when she pulled against them, and they held firm. She wanted to curl but couldn't, so she clenched and rubbed the pillow under her hips.

Arthur gave her ten spankings with his hand before he took a longer pause and moved around the bed. Kelly heard the trunk open, even as the blindfold prevented her from seeing him.

"Master?" She asked.

Arthur spoke to soothe her fears. "I'm still here. You're doing very well."

She smiled at his praise.

"How are you feeling? Red light? Yellow light? Green light?"

"Green light. Definitely." Kelly nodded. "I'm just getting warmed up."

Arthur chuckled. "Just like a workout. It's always good to warm up first. Now we're going to move into actual exercises." He assured her. "Are you ready?"