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Maria couldn’t help it, she burst out laughing. The epithet was just so unexpected and yet so completely true it surprised some humor out of her. She could hear the others giggling too.
“Seriously? Nincompoop?” she heard Angel say. “Come on Hil, you can do better than that.”
“I kind of like nincompoop,” Maria said, ruefully, getting up off the toilet seat and unlocking the door. That little bout of humor had washed away the last of her fear, along with the obvious support she was getting from the three other women. It didn’t sound like they were going to try to push Rick on her or chastise her for her reaction.
Three smiles greeted her as the door opened, showcasing various degrees of sympathy, encouragement and relief.
“Come on,” Hilary said, reaching out and taking Maria’s hand, her voice full of sympathy. “Let’s go sit down and talk.”
“Yeah, we’ll do what Rick should have done and actually tell you about the club, and then you can ask us any questions you want,” Angel said, turning and heading back toward the locker room area and the benches there. Her curls bounced as she shook her head angrily. “What the hell was he thinking? Stupid idiot.”
“Shhh,” Jessica hissed at her, looking around the locker room quickly. Fortunately, it had been deserted, as if the previous occupants knew Maria would need both support and privacy. That or the other two just hadn’t wanted to get mixed up in whatever was going on. “Look around before you say things like that. You know the Dommes will tell on you to Adam if they hear you disrespecting a Dom.”
Maria tensed, and Hilary squeezed her hand encouragingly, as if reassuring her Angel wouldn’t be in any real trouble.
“They’d also agree with me.”
“That won’t save you from getting spanked,” Jessica scolded as she sat down on one of the benches.
Turning back around, Angel caught the look on Maria’s face and her almond shaped eyes went wide. Even with the explanations Rick had given and the casual way Jessica and Angel were talking about it, Maria couldn’t help the reaction she had after what she’d seen downstairs. “Oops, sorry. I didn’t think about how all of that would sound... trust me, I don’t mind getting spanked. Well. Most of the time. Shit...” She looked at Jessica and Hilary. “How do we explain this?”
“Let’s start with this,” Jessica said, as Hilary and Maria sat down on the opposite bench, facing them. “Maria, how much do you know about BDSM and kink?”
“Um... well Rick explained what BDSM stands for once we got here. And upstairs he explained Lloyd had a safe word and he could have stopped the spanking if he wanted to. But... the woman downstairs... she was begging that guy to stop.” Hearing the tremor in her voice, Maria felt her anxiety welling up again. Especially since neither Jessica nor Angel looked shocked, they just kind of shrugged at each other as it if it was completely normal for a woman to beg for mercy and not have it granted.“Christina and Paul are a bad place to start,” Hilary said. “They’re kind of extreme. But trust me, Christina has a safe word and ‘no’ or ‘please don’t’ aren’t it. Red is the club safe word, which everyone will recognize, but she probably has her own personal one too.”
