Menage a Trois by anon1940 Senior Year: Lily, Carol, and Bob have an interesting modus vivendi: Lily and Carol share an apartment, and Carol and Bob share Lily. Carol had met Lily at college, where they had been roommates during their senior year. By all appearances, Lily was a typical American co-ed of Asian extraction. With her bright smile and demure bearing, she won many friends among her female peers, and her svelte figure attracted lots of attention from her male classmates. By contrast, Carol was somewhat taciturn and, when she did speak, tended to do so in an acerbic manner. As a consequence, Carol had few friends and more than one enemy. In spite of their differences and to the consternation of people who knew them both, Lily and Carol had become fast friends. Indeed, on most evenings, they would disappear into their room after dinner and only emerge when one or the other visited the bathroom. Once inside their room, requests by others to join them were either ignored or refused. Depending on the predisposition of the speculator, speculations about what transpired behind their closed door ranged from the mundane to the obscene. Both Lily and Carol were earnest students, and so it was reasonable to suppose that they were simply hard at work on their courses. On the other hand, several of their classmates, particularly among those who disliked Carol, suspected that the truth was less innocent. Their suspicions were fueled by some of Lily and Carol's behavior outside their room. Specifically, whenever they were together, it was apparent that Lily deferred to Carol and readily complied to her bidding, and Carol's enemies interpreted such behavior as evidence that Lily and Carol were having a lesbian affair in which Carol played the role of dyke. As it turns out, both groups were right, although the latter group was anticipating a reality which was still evolving but had not yet matured. The fact is that Lily and Carol did spend most of the time poring over their homework. Nonetheless, when their work was done, their attention turned to each other, and, over time, their conversation and activity centered on their maturing sexuality. At first they had contented themselves with abstract discussions of their sexual desires and the extent to which those desires were being satisfied. Lily always had a stable of boys who were more than willing to oblige, often more willing than she was willing to have them oblige. Carol's concerns were of a entirely different nature. Her stocky frame and brusque manner dampened boy's enthusiasm, enthusiasm that she probably would not shared anyhow. Instead, what became increasingly clear to her was that she enjoyed imagining what boys, given the opportunity, would do with Lily's seductive body. For this reason, Carol frequently asked Lily for detailed descriptions of her experiences with boys. Understandably, Lily was initially embarrassed by Carol's increasingly prying questions about her sex life. However, as she overcame her inhibitions, she discovered that she was actually enjoying her revelations as much as Carol enjoyed hearing them. Further, she learned which aspects of her accounts were of greatest interest to Carol, and so she found herself frequently elaborating on the absolute truth in order to satiate Carol's prurient interests. As she came to realize, what Carol liked most were her descriptions of the ways in which boys would assert their control over her body. The descriptions which Carol liked most were those involving Lily's boyfriend Bob. Lily started seeing Bob during the spring term, and, after several dates, Bob, who was a gymnast, persuaded Lily to exercise with him. In spite of her splendid physical condition, Lily found the regimen through which he put her extremely demanding. She would meet him at the gym in the late afternoon, when, more often than not, they would be the only ones present. There he would guide her through a routine designed to strengthen and limber her body. At the beginning he was very solicitous and took care not to push her beyond her endurance, but his demands on her rapidly increased. For instance, each session he would require that she do ten more repetitions of each exercise than she had the last time, and, when she had completed her exercises, he would make her assume and hold more and more contorted positions. In addition, he soon took greater liberties with her body, running his hands over her working muscles while she exercised and afterward stretching her limbs while she endeavored to maintain some awkward pose in which he had arranged her. Shocked as she was by Bob's demands and her own acquiescence to them, Lily realized that she was enjoying not only the workouts themselves but the opportunity which they afforded to have her body displayed to a man who was obviously appreciating what he saw. She had no illusions about the extent to which she was revealing herself to him. Indeed, by the time she had completed her exercises, she was bathed in sweat and her scant leotard was plastered to her skin while he stretched and manipulated her body. Thus, she was somewhat prepared, when, after a month, Bob asked that she come to the ensuing sessions wearing nothing under her leotard. As much as Lily enjoyed her visits to the gym, she enjoyed just as much relating them to Carol, who would sit with rapt attention listening to every detail. Carol would often inquire about Lily's emotional state when her body was being forced to do some extremely stressful exercise or take some particularly compromising position. In fact, she would sometimes ask Lily to assume one of those positions so that she could see for herself the view to which Bob had been treated. On the evening when Lily announced that, from now on, Bob wanted her to turn up naked under her leotard, Carol did nothing to disguise her excitement at the idea. Instead, she immediately asked Lily to give her a preview. Intimate as her revelations to Carol had been, this was a request for which Lily was not prepared. Telling another woman about her sexual exploits with men was one thing, but involving another woman more deeply in those exploits was quite another. Lily was proud of her body and its ability to attract the opposite sex. She was also aware of and took pride in the jealousy that that attraction provoked in other women. However, she was not at all certain that she wanted to be sexually attractive to other women, and Carol's request was an explicit invitation to find out if she was. Thus, for the first time in their relationship, Lily balked and refused to comply. Without expressing shock or anger, Lily explained to Carol that she would prefer not to give her a private showing, adding that she was also having second thoughts about putting her body so completely at Bob's disposal. Disappointed but sympathetic, Carol accepted Lily's decision. She was willing to wait, certain that Lily would accede to Bob's wishes and that, after she did, Lily would give her a blow by blow account of her experiences, and Carol was right about both these predictions. For the remainder of their senior year, Lily, wearing only a revealing leotard, continued her twice weekly workouts with Bob, and, in the evening after each workout, Carol would be treated to a complete report, which inevitably included an inventory of those parts of Lily's barely concealed anatomy on which Bob had chosen to concentrate. A crucial point which intrigued, and secretly pleased, Carol about Lily's relationships to the men in her life was that they seemed to never involve intercourse. They were replete with steamy sex, but, so far as Carol knew, consummation was not included. Indeed, Carol had every reason to think that Lily was still a virgin, albeit one who given hope to a string of men only to leave them thoroughly frustrated. This conjecture was supported both by the absence contraceptive pills or devices from her toiletries and the frequency with which, after a couple of dates, boys would stop calling Lily. In fact, Bob was the only one of Lily's boyfriends who had not quickly dropped her, a fact which did not escape Carol's notice. Sensing that it was off bounds, Carol knew better than to pry into the state of Lily's virginity, but that did not prevent her from spending a good deal of time ruminating about it and wondering what it was about Lily's relationship to Bob that kept him from dropping her the way the others had. In spite of her curiosity, Carol resisted the temptation to broach the topic with Lily and bided her time, knowing that time was on her side and that her patience would be eventually rewarded. After Graduation: Like many alumni, Lily, Carol, and Bob all chose to stay in their college town. Bob found a job at a fitness center and as a part-time coach at the college. Carol, who had majored in English, worked as a copy-editor at the local newspaper, and Lily became a programmer for a software firm. Their accommodations were a natural continuation of the arrangement which had existed before they graduated: Carol and Lily lived together and Bob fended for himself. To some extent, their relationship did not change either. Lily continued to have Bob train her body, and Carol continued to have a insatiable appetite for every detail of Lily's training sessions. However, there were important differences which occurred once they had left the confines of their college dorm room. Proceeding with caution but consummate skill, Carol slowly broke down Lily's resistance to having their communication become more than purely verbal. She began her campaign by convincing Lily that she be allowed to massage her during her debriefings. Having her aching muscles massaged while she was describing the travail which had made them ache soon had the effect on Lily which Carol wanted. As she had hoped, Lily became less and less inhibited about presenting her body to Carol and was more and more casual about her state of undress during her massage. In fact, after a couple of weeks, she wore only a thin shirt and panties, and, in due course, Lily dispensed with even these flimsy vestiges of her modesty. Further, she began encouraging Carol to play a more active role. Conscious and proud of the improvements in her figure wrought by her training, Lily would ask Carol to palpate the firm, smoothly rounded contours of her lower belly, buttock, and thighs while she was describing the arduous exercises which were responsible for their newly sculpted shape. Also, after explaining to Carol how Bob had forced her body into some particularly strained position, Lily would have Carol play Bob's role: first manipulating her body back into that position and then making Lily maintain the pose while Carol tested for herself just how flexible and malleable Lily's body had become. As time passed, Lily gave Carol greater and more frequent access to her body. No longer were her post training debriefings the only times when she would submit herself to Carol's increasingly dominant control. Several times a week, upon returning from work in the evening, she would remove all her clothes and, after assuming a pose which she hoped Carol would especially appreciate, await Carol's arrival prominently displayed in their living room. When Carol found Lily displayed in this way, she would express her appreciation by caressing Lily's tautly stretched muscles and limbs. Sometimes these caresses were gentle, as she played Lily's body as if it were a musical instrument. Other times, they would become more manipulative, often purposefully causing Lily significant discomfort by forcing her to endure deep penetration of her already strained muscles. Carol Visits the Gym: At the same time as Lily granted Carol readier access to her body, she was letting Bob expand her training repertoire to include exercises which were designed to display her body as much as to tone it. Carol had never asked to meet Bob, but when Lily invited her to join her at the gym one afternoon she accepted without hesitation. On entering the otherwise vacant gym, she found Bob standing next to Lily, who was literally suspended from a bar to which her ankles were attached by a pair of specially constructed clamps. With Herculean effort, Lily was performing sit-ups without the benefit of any support. More precisely, dangling from the bar, she had to raise her torso from a vertical position in which her head grazed the mat beneath to a position in which her back was horizontal to the mat. Once up, she had grasp her legs with her hands while Bob pressed down on her tummy, molding her body so that it resembled a water drop about to fall before allowing her to return to vertical and start all over again. Only after she had overcome her shock at the sight of Lily's situation did Carol register the fact that Lily's leotard was bunched around her waist, leaving her totally bare from the waist up. Familiar as she was with Lily's body, Carol would have never guessed that the musculature of her torso could be made visible in such stark relief. Even when she had put Lily through her paces, Lily's body had retained a feminine softness. Now, the only evidence of that softness was in the feminine padding of her rounded hips and the prominence of her nipples. Had it not been for these symptoms of her true gender, Lily could have been mistaken for a pubescent boy. To her amazement, when Carol asked Bob how many repetitions Lily had done and how many more would she be made to do, she was told that Lily had just completed her fifth repetition and would remain suspended until she had done a total of eight. When Carol asked how Lily could possibly meet that requirement, Bob moved aside so that she could feel Lily's abdominal muscles as they raised her during the next repetition. Placing her hands in the vicinity of Lily's navel, Carol could monitor every transformation in Lily's tummy. When Lily began raising her head, the hallow in which her belly button resides deepened, and by the time that her torso was parallel to the floor, all the muscles in her lower belly were bunched into a tight knot which appeared to originate in her groin. When Lily grasped her legs, Carol mimicked what she had seen Bob do, pressing down on the knot until Lily's belly acquired the pleasing shape which he had produced. Unable to resist temptation, while Lily hung like a pregnant drop, Carol slid her hands along the sweat coated contour she had created until they covered Lily's breasts. Seemingly oblivious to the stress which the rest of her body was experiencing, Lily's breasts had assumed something approaching their normal shape, and Carol was fascinated by the stark contrast between their satiny succulence and the extreme tension in the muscles supporting them. After Lily released her grip and returned to her starting position, Carol reluctantly relinquished her place to Bob, who took charge of Lily during her remaining two repetitions, and, when she had finished, hoisted her exhausted body off the bar before depositing her on the mat beneath. So ended Carol's first visit to Lily's training sessions. What she had witnessed both excited her and confirmed the theory she had been developing about Lily's sexual predilections. Lily's psychological makeup combined a strong component of exhibitionism with a masochistic need to have her body subjected to someone elses dictates. No other explanation could account for Lily's willing participation in the sort of scene which she had seen at the gym or the sort of games which the two of them played at home. Her appetite having been whetted by her first visit, during the ensuing weeks Carol went back to the gym several more times. On one occasion, when again they were the only ones present, she found Lily stark naked with one leg tied to a rope above her head at a height which left her other leg just close enough to the floor that she could stabilize herself with her toes. She maintained her balance by holding the calf of the suspended leg so that her upper body formed a graceful arc which complemented the rigidly straight line running from the tied ankle of the raised leg to the pointed toes of the other. Bob stood by her side, consoling her with words of encouragement while running his hands up and down her frame. Mesmerized, Carol could only gaze at the image before her and try to imagine the perverse pleasure Lily must be deriving from knowing what a pleasing image she made. On another of her visits, the scene confronting Carol was dramatically different. For one thing, she was still clad in her leotard, and, for another, Lily and Bob were not alone. Instead, two of Bob's colleagues were there, and they were playing an active role in the proceedings. Lily was on the mat, lying on her back with her legs splayed. Kneeling at her sides and grasping her legs were Bob's colleagues, each of whom bore down mercilessly on the leg he had been assigned. When Carol arrived, they had already spread Lily's legs so wide that only inches separated her feet from the mat and the tendons in her groin were stretched to their limit. Bob himself was placed so that he would have ready access to this thoroughly exposed portion of Lily's anatomy. There he was kneading her tendons, squeezing them in his hands until she let out a anguished cry before he would relent. Filled with pity for her friend, Carol sank to knees beside Lily's head, which she cradled in her arms even though she did nothing to interrupt the travail being suffered by the body to which that head was attached. Assured by Lily that she was undergoing this treatment voluntarily, Carol moved to satisfy her curiosity about the state of Lily groin. What particularly attracted her interest were the deep hallows which had formed next to her protruding tendons. In spite of the stress on her tendons, these hallows appeared inexplicably relaxed and inviting, as if Lily's femininity were asserting its presence in defiance of the challenge confronting it. Fun and Games with Carol: Carol's visits to Lily's training sessions broadened her horizons. If Lily desired that kind of treatment from Bob at the gym, why shouldn't she provide her the same at home. With this thought in mind, she bought several pieces of equipment, some designed for exercise and others more suited for restraint. Before introducing Lily to her new acquisitions, Carol thought it best to check that Lily would be willing to play the games which she planned. Speaking with complete frankness, Carol reviewed with Lily her observations about Lily's behavior, followed by an equally frank explanation of the theories to which her observations had led her. Having received neither denials nor objections from Lily, Carol proceeded to outline how she intended to make Lily's sexual peculiarities a source of their mutual pleasure. Lily enjoyed having her body displayed so that it was the center of attention, and Carol enjoyed being its audience. Thus, they should both enjoy having Lily occasionally adorn their otherwise mundane apartment like a prized piece of art. Again Carol encountered no resistance to her ideas, and so she suggested that they make a few preparations immediately. Leading Lily into the bathroom, Carol filled the bathtub, added some scented soap chips, and told Lily to immerse herself in the warm water. When Lily's normally tawny skin was suffused with a rosy hue, Carol asked Lily whether she would object to having all her body hair removed, leaving only the sparse hair on those portions of her body, like her belly and upper legs, where its presence enhanced her feminine charm. At this point Lily did raise an objection, saying that she was disturbed by the prospect of having her pubic hair removed. However, Carol was able to assuage her concerns by appealing to her vanity, telling her that the complete exposure of her labia would reveal an asset of which she should be proud, not ashamed. Further, Carol promised to let Lily grow back her pubic hair if she was not pleased with the effect that its removal produced. Still not entirely certain that the asset to which Carol referred was one which she wanted revealed, Lily nonetheless gave Carol permission to proceed. Because Carol insisted on doing a thorough job, the process lasted a long time, a lot of which was spent maneuvering Lily's body so that Carol would have unrestricted access to those portions from which she wanted to remove hair. Except for her fully developed breasts and generously proportioned hips, when she at last rose from her bath Lily looked a freshly scrubbed child. A healthy pink glow radiated from her flesh as she stood to be toweled dry by Carol. After drying her, Carol had Lily lean forward over the sink and spread in her legs so that she could she rub a soothing lotion into the tender skin of her freshly shaved vulva, at the same time giving herself the opportunity to examine, and covertly fondle, the delicate flesh which she had just depilated. Never before had Carol seen this portion of the female anatomy in such intimate detail, and she was struck by its resemblance to the folded petals of some exotic flower about to burst forth into bloom. After Lily's labia had absorbed the lotion, Carol moved on, spreading lotion over the rest of her body until it shone like a wooden sculpture which had been lovingly polished by its creator. It was clear to Carol that Lily was pleased by the image she saw of herself reflected in the bathroom mirror, an observation which made her think that this might be a good moment to introduce Lily to some the equipment which she had bought. Not wanting to push her luck too far, she decided to start with a one of the milder forms of restraint which she had planned for Lily. Namely, after leading Lily into the living room, she brought out a large, inflated ball of the sort which is often found at fitness centers. However, this ball was larger than usual. In addition, attached to it were strategically placed straps: a pair for the wrists, a pair for the ankles, and, halfway between these, a pair to which was connected a wide belt. Assuming that it was what was expected of her, Lily placed her tummy on the top of the ball. However, this was not Carol's intent. Grabbing her at the waist, Carol rolled Lily over so that she was draped backwards over the ball. After attaching Lily's wrists and arms, Carol circled the belt around her waist. Employing the mechanical advantage afforded by a small winch embedded in the buckle, she tugged on the belt until Lily, gasping for breath, had a wasp waist with her normally flat belly bulging below and her pubis tipped forward so that her denuded vulva peeked out between her tractioned thighs. As Lily was to learn, when it came to her body, there were a significant differences between the effects which Bob and Carol wanted to achieve. Being an athlete himself, Bob wanted to develop the athletic potential of her body with an emphasis on what athletic feats she, with her female anatomy, could perform as opposed to those for which his masculine anatomy was better adapted. Thus, his goal was to strengthen and limber her body so that it could withstand the demands he put upon it. Although Carol also appreciated its strength and flexibility, her primary interest in Lily's body was its aesthetic more than its athletic potential. Rather than the sweaty, physically active routines through which Bob put her, Carol was more inclined to make her body achieve a goal which entailed having her body remain static even though it was under duress. Carol's inclinations were typified by her response to the sight of Lily's body espaliered against the ball. Standing by Lily's side, she brushed her hand back and forth over the bulging surface of Lily's abdomen, applying just enough pressure to ruffle the silky hairs which she had purposefully left there. Normally her touch would have been too light to register on Lily's consciousness. However, in its distended state, Lily's belly was hypersensitive, and so Carol's touch was more than sufficient stimulus to make her belly quiver with each insidiously tantalizing stroke. Knowing that each quiver meant that Lily's abdominal muscles were contracting against the belt binding them, when Carol saw that Lily's response to her brushing began to diminish, she let her hand drift lower until she was applying the same stimulation to Lily's vulnerable vulva. Her change of target produced the desired effect, causing Lily to renew her efforts and flex her entire belly in a vain attempt to win greater satisfaction from Carol's ephemeral touch. For the first time in their relations, what Carol was doing to Lily's body was completely unambiguous in its implications: she was intentionally arousing Lily sexually. Previously it had been possible for Lily to assign other interpretations to Carol's manipulation of her body, but now it was not. However Lily was in no state to devote a lot of thought to the implications, as opposed to the reality, of Carol's caresses. All that she knew was that nobody, neither male nor female, had ever produced in her the sensations which Carol was eliciting. Immobilized as she was, her body was left with only two ways to respond. One was for her tummy to continue fighting its constraints, and the other was for her labia to spread so that her clitoris could receive the attention it ardently craved. Carol was well aware of Lily's predicament and had every intention of allowing her the sexual release which would bring it to an end. On the other hand, she had no intention of doing so before she had extracted for herself all the pleasure she could get from Lily's torment. She loved watching the undulations of Lily's lower belly, and she was captivated by the blooming of the flower whose closed petals she had admired earlier. Thus, with diabolical cunning, she carefully controlled Lily's progress toward orgasm, forcing her to earn every step along the way and only at the moment of climax providing Lily's fully exposed clitoris the attention for which it had been begging ever since it emerged from its hiding place. Carol left Lily attached to the ball until the final orgasmic spasm had wracked her body and she lay exhausted in her bonds. Fearing that Lily would catch a cold, she first fetched a towel to wipe away the pools of sweat which had accumulated and only then released Lily from the bed on which her torment had been transformed into ecstasy. Having witnessed Lily's response to her time on the ball, Carol needed no further proof that she correctly understood what Lily's sexual requirements and knew how to satisfy them. During the weeks which followed, Carol devised various methods of controlling Lily's body in ways which would give them mutual pleasure. Some of these were quiet subtle and simply required Lily to hold a pose in which one or another portion of her body was brought into appealing relief. Carol particularly favored poses which drew attention to Lily's breasts. Lily's breasts were attractive in essentially any position, but Carol was disappointed that, unless they were provided constant stimulation, her nipples refused to remain erect. With the hope that she could correct this flaw, Carol initiated a training program of her own, one which was aimed at altering Lily's body in a way which Bob had not considered. Each night Carol made Lily spend half an hour having her nipples elongated by nipples pumps which she had bought for that purpose. In addition, Carol prohibited Lily from wearing a bra, and each morning before Lily left for work, Carol would raise her blouse and tease her nipples until they stood out like miniature soldiers. When she had them at rigid attention, Carol would capture them in a pair of nipple rings which prevented them from receding until she released them in that evening. Although progress was slower than Carol wished, Lily's nipples did respond to this regimen and, much to Carol's satisfaction, would stay erect for longer and longer periods of time. Conclusion: Throughout this period, Lily regularly met with Bob at the gym twice a week. Understandably reluctant to have him see her shaved pubis, Lily resisted Bob's attempts to have her exercise in the nude. Having never made her do anything without first obtaining her consent, Bob did not insist. On the other hand, he could not help being curious about Lily's new found modesty, and one day decided to inquire her about its origin. Because answering it would necessitate revealing to him the intimacy of her and Carol's relations, Lily was embarrassed and befuddled by his question. However, in the end, she saw no alternative to telling him, at least in a slightly expurgated form, about the games she and Carol had been playing. Perhaps because he had already seen Carol's fascination with Lily's body and with the paces through which he put it, nothing Lily told him came as too much of a shock. He had not given it a lot of thought, but he had long suspected that the two of them engaged in some sort of sexual activity together, and to have this suspicion confirmed did not bother him. His own interest in Lily's body did not include giving it sexual satisfaction, and so he was glad, even relieved, to learn that it was getting that satisfaction from another source. When Lily told Carol that she had divulged their secret to Bob, Carol was far less disturbed than Lily had feared. Indeed, much to Lily's surprise and chagrin, Carol's response was to suggest that they invite Bob to participate in one of their games. Even though she had put her body at Bob's disposal so often that he was well acquainted with all its secrets, Lily hesitated to have the two halves of her sex life brought together in this way. What bothered her particularly was the idea of Bob watching her brought to orgasm. Lily did not mind, and even enjoyed, having him watch her suffer, but, in a strange sense she could not have articulated, her suffering at his hands had always been an expression of her own mastery over her body. Having him see her loosing control and on the verge of orgasm was an entirely different matter, one which she was loath to confront. Carol could sympathize with Lily's reluctance to confuse what had been distinct aspects of her sexual life. On the other hand, she liked the idea too much to not push it and, by mobilizing all her considerable persuasive powers, eventually got Lily's permission to invite Bob. On the evening of Bob's visit, Carol subjected Lily's body to a scrupulous cleansing, which included the re-removal any body hair which offended her sensibilities. She then brought Lily into the bedroom, where she spent more than an hour preparing her body for exhibition. When Bob arrived, Carol ushered him into the living room. Except for a large cushion at its center, the living room was dimly lit. The cushion, which was dramatically lit by a spotlight of the sort used on a stage set, was clearly intended to be the center of attention, a fact which was emphasized by the position of two armchairs, which had been carefully arranged so that their occupants would have an unobstructed view of whatever was placed on the cushion. After having Bob sit in one of the chairs and providing him with a drink, Carol excused herself and disappeared into the bedroom. When Carol reappeared, she was accompanied by Lily, who was wearing a diaphanous robe which afforded a deliciously tempting hint of what it pretended to conceal. After leading her into the spotlight, Carol retreated behind Lily. Gripping her by the hips, Carol turned Lily back and forth, much the way a sculptress might when displaying her latest sculpture. Once Bob had had ample opportunity to appreciate her creation clothed, Carol brought her hands up to the neckline of Lily's robe, untied the string which had been holding it closed, and let the robe slither to the floor. Although he had frequently seen Lily's naked body, Bob had never seen its natural attributes presented as they were now. Not only did her body glow wherever the light struck it, but each smooth contour was enhanced by the play of the shadows where the light did not reach. In addition, Carol had painted Lily's areolae with a ruby red pigment which made them appear much larger than normal and highlighted her nipples, which she had painted a robin's egg blue. Shortly after she revealed Lily's nakedness, Carol placed her hands on Lily's shoulders and used them to guide her to a kneeling position at the center of the cushion. Moving to face Lily, Carol ordered Lily to spread her thighs until her buttock was resting on the cushion and her legs curled out on either side. Carol always enjoyed Lily in this pose. Not only did it bring her crotch into prominence, Carol liked knowing that it put a constant strain on Lily's groin, a strain made visible by a pleasing twitching of the muscles and tendons on the inner sides of her upper thighs. As a final touch before taking her seat next to Bob, Carol made Lily raise her arms to her sides, with her upper arms horizontal and her lower arms vertical to the floor, one pointing up and the other down. The pose which Carol chose for her seemed to tap into an innate understanding which Lily had inherited from her Asian ancestors. Had she been on display in a museum, surrounded by South Asian statuary, she would not have looked in the least out of place. With her strong torso tapering to her slim waist from which her firm belly swelled in a pleasingly disciplined curve which melded into her generous hips, she was a match for any idealized representations of Asian femininity which had ever been sculpted. Perfectly complementing the beauty of her body was the expression on her face, on which had appeared an enigmatic smile, giving it an aura of sublime composure. Somewhat incongruous with the tranquility above it was Lily's shaved vulva, which, being thrust forward by the way she was seated on her haunches, appeared to be demanding attention. Had it not been for the absence of pubic hair, its presence would have seemed obscene and thereby detracted from the rest of the image. However, devoid of pubic hair, there was something marvelously innocent about this intricately formed pouch of flesh, which an observer might think had been added as a flourish by the artist, not knowing how else to bring her creation to a state of perfection. Seated in their armchairs, both Carol and Bob feasted their eyes on the image before them. Accustomed to seeing Lily's body in the throes of intense exercise, Bob was surprised to realize just how enticing it could be in a passive pose. Acting like an art connoisseur anxious to display a cherished acquisition to an appreciative audience, Carol rose and knelt down behind Lily. Reaching under Lily's raised arms, she cupped Lily's breasts in her hands, lifting them toward Bob as she demonstrated their buoyancy and extolled the luxurious smoothness of their complexion. Inviting him to come forward, she called his attention to Lily's nipples, which, at least in part due to their training, stood out proudly from her breasts. To emphasize her point, she invited Bob to come forward so that he could sample their rigidity for himself. Heretofore, Bob had never handled Lily's body in such a manner. He had bent it into all sorts of contorted shapes, prodding it, stretching it, but not caressing it. Thus, when he took her nipples between his fingers and gently rolled them back and forth, his face reflected the sort delight and wonder which a child has when presented with a new toy. Seeing his pleasure, Carol replaced her own hands with Bob's on Lily's breasts, giving him a tactile demonstration of the attributes about which she had been telling him. All this time Lily knew that she was expected to remain passive and maintain her pose, a requirement which was becoming increasingly difficult for her to satisfy. For one thing, her arms were beginning to tire and had started to tremble. Secondly, but just as important, Carol and Bob's fondling of her breasts fueled the sexual excitement which had been growing ever since Carol began preparing her for Bob's visit. Her face and demeanor may have appeared composed, but they belied the turmoil which she felt. Aware of Lily's problems and wanting this to be an experience which Lily would remember with pleasure and want to repeat, Carol told Lily to lower her arms and cross them behind her back so each hand was grasping the elbow of the opposite arm. Carol next moved from her kneeling position to a sitting position further behind Lily. Once she had made herself comfortable, Carol placed her hands on Lily's shoulder and tipped her backward until Lily's head came to rest in her lap. Because Lily's legs were still folded, her body was drawn into the shape of a tightly strung bow. Her stomach arched over her hips, which had spread so that her pubis had become completely revealed and exquisitely vulnerable. Presented with Lily's gaping vulva, Bob allowed his instincts to guide him as reached forward and ran his fingers up and down the silken surface of Lily's spreading labia. When she felt Bob's fingers breach the entrance to her vagina, Lily responded by raising her buttock and twisting her lower body back and forth in what Bob interpreted as an attempt to escape his invasion. Seeing Bob's concern, Carol assured him that what he correctly interpreted as torment was a torment which Lily craved and wanted to have him continue inflicting on her. Emboldened by Carol's words, Bob renewed and increased his probing, stoking the fire which Lily was more than willing to have consume her. When Lily's inevitable orgasm arrived, Carol grasped Lily's breasts and used them to prevent Lily from interrupting the stimulation which Bob was providing, forcing her to remain open and available until the final wave of ecstasy had passed. Thus ended the first of many evenings which Carol, Lily, and Bob were to spend in each others company.