The Cost of Freedom Is High

Prepping For The Test

The time was approaching 11 at night, and currently I was laying on the futon in the lounge room basically spooning with Michael.

His right arm was draped around my body and he had a snug grip on my waist.

"How are you doing?" He whispered.

"I think the rope burned me a little bit." I replied, in discomfort.

"Let me see." Michael stated, sitting up behind me.

I managed to sit up as well, and showed him my wrists, which proved to have a little bit of rope burn on them.

"Can you do something?" I asked.

"Yeah, go and head up into the bathroom and I'll be right there." Michael told me.

"Okay, thanks." I whispered.

I got up and made my way up to the bathroom.

Today had been my second full day of training, and while it was not as painful as yesterday it's effects lingered for longer.

Michael focused everything today around ropes and bondage. Nothing way too crazy luckily, but there was still a little patch of time where I had been suspended. I gotta say, I'm not too big of a fan of that.

They seemed to have endless amounts of rope, and even though I felt it wasn't that tight, there was still some rope burn scattered around my body.

"Go ahead and hop into the tub." Michael instructed me.

I was already in just a bra and underwear, so I went and laid down in the tub.

"Please tell me there's no hydrogen peroxide." I pleaded with him.

"No, don't worry about that. So where else is it burned?" Michael wondered.

"It's on my wrists, under my bra wire, and on the inside of my upper thighs." I told him.

"Maybe if someone wouldn't have fought so hard, this wouldn't have happened." Michael stated.

"Sorry, I panicked." I admitted.

"It's okay, they're not deep at all so it'll be an easy fix." Michael replied.

"Thank you." I smiled.

"I'm just going to wash them out with water, okay?" Michael asked.

"Go for it." I replied.

He turned on the water to a middle temperature and let it run down and across my body.

It felt nice, but it stung a bit as Michael gently washed the burns out, rubbing the tiny bits and pieces of robe out of them.

In silence he rubbed the burns with lotion, and finished up by wrapping them up with a thin layer of clear gauze.

"You okay?" Michael wondered.

"I'm fine. Thanks for fixing me up." I thanked him.

"No problem." He responded, handing me a towel to dry myself off a little bit.

"Is it okay if I just meet you upstairs?" I asked him.

"I can wait for you." Michael replied.

I groaned, but hushed up pretty fast realizing the couple of days I had left would actually go by fast so if I shut up and went with it.

"I'm ready." I stated.

I threw the towel in the wash, and walked up to Michael's bedroom with him.

"I feel like you just flipped a switch." Michael told me.

"I just want this nightmare to be done." I whispered, getting into bed.

"Night." He said.

"Night."

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24 Hours Later -

Today had sucked, just as all of the other days with Michael and DJ.

But now though, lying in the bed in the combined master bedroom all by myself, I was incredibly excited.

All throughout the day Michael and DJ 'reviewed' all of my 'lessons' with me, and made sure that to some point I had it under control.

They had started off though telling me that to improve my chances of making tomorrow easier I should listen VERY carefully and make sure I addressed whoever came tomorrow as sir.

That was one thing that I hadn't missed at all.

About an hour ago I had heard the door close, and I knew that it signified Michael and DJ leaving.

Now I was just waiting to hear it open again.

I knew I wouldn't know who it was until tomorrow, and I was fine with that.

All I had to do tomorrow was go through what I'd been through every day for the past week.

Easy, and then I'd finally be able to get out of this hell.

I couldn't wait to get back to the others, and that was something I never thought I'd hear again.

I lied back in bed, and instantly after that I heard the door open.

A smirk popped onto my face.

Soon enough I'd be out of here.

Soon enough.