The Cost of Freedom Is High

Teasing Is An Absolute No

The phone rang for what seemed to be like the 10th time, and I finally couldn't stand that fucking irritating ring.

Hopping out of bed, next to a sleeping Tyler I quickly ran down the stairs, and picked up the landline phone without even bothering to look at the name.

"Hello?" I answered, holding the phone up to my ear.

"Well it's about time someone answered." James chuckled.

"I think everyone else is sleeping, and I wasn't to sure I wanted to answer at first." I replied.

"That's fine I understand." James said.

"So did you need to talk to someone?" I wondered.

"I wanted to talk to one of the guys, but since they're still sleeping it's fine." James stated.

"Okay, I'll see you sometime in the future." I chuckled, not knowing how long I'd have to be here.

"Love you, see you later." James ended the call.

I hung up the phone, and I made my way over towards the family room.

Looking at the clock it was only 5:30 in the morning.

That was a little strange to have not one call, but 10 this early in the morning.

I didn't put much thought into it, until my eyes noticed car lights suddenly shining into the room.

That jump started my heart.

"Chris!" I screamed, running back up the stairs as fast as possible.

"What?" He gasped, as I ran into his room and jumped on his bed.

"Someone's coming in a car, and they were pulling up to the front of the house." I panted, still a little out of breath from running.

"It's fine, it's just the guys that actually own this house. Chad, Robby, and Charlee, they're a part of Farewell, My Love." Chris groaned, turning back over in his bed, away from me.

"Oh, that band sucks." I chuckled.

"Tough shit, now go and welcome them downstairs." Chris demanded.

I did not want to go downstairs, I was willing to do anything else.

Deciding within a split second, I lifted my right leg up and over Chris' waist so that I was straddling him.

"Are you really sure you want me to go?" I whispered in his ear.

He glared at me, and when nothing was done I started to slowly grind my body against his.

The low guttural noise coming from his throat proved to me that he was actually more okay with this than I originally thought.

As I quickly got myself situated in one position over his body, I remembered one certain thing that I had read in one of the contracts.

Maybe those helped me more than I thought.

His arms snaked up my waist, and he dug his fingertips into my flesh as he followed my waist as it made circles right over the growing bulge in his pants.

As minutes past I picked up my speed, and it was hard not to see that Chris was coming dangerously close to letting go.

It was fun to see him for once, not as in control of his body as he thought he was.

Just as he threw his head back and I could feel him right on edge, I pulled off of him, got off the bed, and watched his face fall into a not so euphoric look.

"What the fuck?" Chris finally growled, getting up.

"They're probably close to coming in, and after all I should welcome them back." I replied.

I smiled at him and started to leave the room.

"Get back here Bella, and finish what you started." Chris snarled.

"I will.... eventually." I smirked, and ran back down the stairs.

That'd be an interesting conversation for later.

Just as my feet hit the bottom step, the front door opened and I continued to make my way there, until I saw the 3 men entering the house.

I faintly recognized them from one of their music videos, but as I told Chris I was not a fan.

'I'll take it that you're Bella." The taller, black and white haired guy said.

"That's me." I smiled sweetly.

"You're even more beautiful in person." The tallest guy complimented me.

"Thanks." I said.

The last guy locked everything up, and the other two ended up walking over to the counter, I followed them back keeping back a few feet.

"So do you know who we are?" The first person who talked said.

"Farewell my love, but that's about as far as my knowledge goes." I admitted.

"I'm Robby, this is Chad, and Charlee." Robby introduced me.

"Nice to meet you." I said.

"You say that now." Charlee chuckled to himself.

My attention was diverted as soon as I noticed some people walking up behind me and into the kitchen.

It was actually everyone but Chris.

I couldn't help but wonder what he was up to at the moment.

"So what brings you guys back here so early?" Ryan wondered.

"Our singer got sick, so I ended up filling in on vocals for a couple of shows, but we realized after about 3 we shouldn't keep going so our singer and you know who went back to help him heal." Chad explained.

You know who, really?

Must the secrets continue?

I kind of already 'surrendered' if you will last night so I thought that would be the end of all the secrecy.

Whatever.

"Is Chris here?" Charlee wondered.

"He's in his room." I responded.

Everyone turned their heads to look straight at me.

"What?" I questioned them.

"How do you know?" Michael asked me.

"Because I talked to him this morning." I answered.

"How'd that go?" Ricky chuckled.

"It went." I replied.

I was going to elaborate, but I heard one last pair of footsteps walking towards the kitchen, and they belonged to the one and only Mr. Cerulli.

"Morning." Chris announced, walking into the room.

"You too, I'm glad it worked out to meet up with you guys before Warped." Robby replied.

"Exactly." Chris said.

"So I assume you finished reading everything last night." Tyler stated.

"Every last exciting detail." I answered.

"Great, now go downstairs and wait for us." Chris instructed.

"Okay."

I exited the kitchen and with no words made my way down to the basement.

Ah, it was a punishment room.

How lovely.

However, somehow I knew I wasn't in trouble. Well at least like that, Chris seemed pissed but he didn't have that angry look in his eyes like he normally gets before I get in trouble.

This time he had more of an evil smirk, I was going to go through something but he was a lot more excited about this than any other time.

Something was up.

Before I knew it I heard the rumbling footsteps coming down the staircase.

Everyone came down the stairs, Charlee ahead of the group, walked past me and to the back of the room.

From there he opened up a door that was actually hidden in the wall, and waved me through.

"Come on princess." He said.

After a few seconds of taking in the awesomeness of the secret room I walked past Charlee and found myself in this magnificent, loungey room with a few couches and chairs in an almost circle, almost square shape, not quite fully being either.

I sat down only when someone else first did, and I ended up in between Robby and DJ, and across from Chris and Charlee.

Finally when everyone was settled down, Chris pulled out a decent sized stack of papers that were all neatly together, and each one looked very official.

"This is your contract my dear, it outlines what you will be expected to do, and or act like as well as what you can expect out of us. Read it, learn it, love it, I think you get the idea." Chris stated, tossing the document over to me.

With the tips of my fingers I grasped the papers and pulled it onto my lap, looking at the cursive , bolded, and italicized words.

Submissive & Dominant Contract

Submissive/ Slave ~ Bella Noel

Dominants ~ Listed on Back

End Date of Contract ~ Indefinite

Each word I read got my heart racing a bit. Each curve on every single letter almost wrapped itself around one of my heartstrings, as I accepted this as my life.

I barely recognized that everyone else had started to converse with each other, but this contract simply held my attention more than anything else.

Flipping the page I was met with Obligations for the dominant(s).

There were a few that stuck out to me.