The Holiday. Part 11

Ellen and Diane were the first to arrive in the lounge for pre-dinner drinks. Ellen chose an orange juice whilst Diane tried one of the malt whiskeys. A fire had been started in the grate and it lit the  room with a relaxing subdued light. They settled in one of the couches and were soon joined by Sandy and Cheryl. Whilst Sandy got them both a drink, Cheryl made herself comfortable in the couch opposite the other couple.

‘I can’t believe we are all here together.’ said Cheryl ‘Usually at this time in the evening I’d be logging on to the forum to chat to you guys. I bet it will be really quiet on there this week!’

Diane took a sip of her malt and made a contented sigh. ‘Yes. It really is a bit of a dream come true for Sarah and Charlotte and a fantastic holiday venue for us all. We come to the Lakes a lot and often stay in lesbian run guest houses but we’ve never come across anywhere we could truly be ourselves. And to meet you all face to face is fantastic!’

Sandy handed Cheryl her glass of white wine and seated herself next to her. ‘Yes it’s a bit hard to believe after all of this time. We didn’t even know each others real names and yet we confided so much and shared so much of our lives. You all felt more real to me than people I saw everyday.’

‘At least you all knew you were going to meet each other. Cindy didn’t tell me! She let me think I’d be getting a week free of discipline in a vanilla hotel. She hates anyone hearing her beat my bum!’ Louise said as she entered the room.

Cindy followed closely behind her and landed a hard swat on her jean clad bottom ‘Yeah and here I really don’t care who hears so watch your step madam.’ Louise threw her an innocent glance ‘I always do it’s just that your standards are unreasonably high’

The others laughed at their antics. ‘Come sit here out of trouble.’ Ellen motioned to Louise. She agreed and flopped down next to Ellen, squeezing her knee in greeting and smiling at her. ‘Hey hands off my woman, gorgeous’ Diane frowned at her and then smiled.

Cindy brought drinks over and sat on the arm of the sofa next to Louise. They sat in a companionable silence looking at the crackling fire and sipping their drinks.

They were soon joined by Megan and Sophie. Like the others, they were casually dressed in jeans and shirts. ‘Evening ladies’ Sophie said as she smiled cheekily around the room. ‘Can I get anything for anyone?’

Megan rolled her eyes at her lover’s deliberate flirtation. She was well used to Sophie’s inability not to flirt as soon as she was around other women. It would have been a problem if they hadn’t been together for so long . Megan knew it was just her way, Sophie would freak if someone she flirted with really came on to her.

‘White wine and for you to behave yourself would be good.’ Meg responded. With barely a blush Sophie blew her a kiss and said ‘Yes ma’am’.

‘I get the sense that one or two of the Bottoms round here are feeling a bit mischievous tonight?’ Diane enquired.

‘It would be easier to say when Sophie wasn’t feeling mischievous!’ Meg complained only half seriously. She loved her partner’s playful nature. It was one of the things that first drew her to her and it was something that got them through tough times. When it got too much Megan was very able to deal with her and Sophie knew where the line was even though she sometimes chose to cross it and get herself into trouble.

‘Yes I could say that about Lou’ too.’ said Cindy ‘Except when she is at work of course. Then she has the reputation of being the tyrant from hell.’

‘That’s what keeps them on their toes’ replied Louise ‘God, if they knew how I was under your thumb at home they’d love it!’

‘Well I’m sure they’d pay to see you get your ass whipped then’ chimed in Ellen.

They were all laughing as Sarah and Charlotte came into the room. ‘How are you guys all doing? Ready to eat?’ Sarah asked.

Looking around the room, Charlie enquired ‘Where are Cassie and Julia?’

‘Erm, I think they have been a bit busy.’ Cindy said.

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‘Er just a little, sorry, we weren’t deliberately listening’

‘No I know. I was making kind of a lot of noise.’ Cassie said ‘Sorry about that. It probably won’t be the last time this week if I know Jules.’

Julia put her arm around her and kissed her cheek ‘Aw poor baby.’

‘Don’t worry Cass. You won’t be on your own. I’m sure there will be more than one of us ends up getting spanked this week. Not that these Tops will be trying to out do one another or anything!’ Sandy called out.

‘You might be the next in line if you keep up those comments cheeky’ Cheryl warned her lover.

Sarah interceded in the banter and pointed out that dinner was ready. The group all stood up and followed each other into the dining room.

There were comments of appreciation as they saw the effort that had been put into making the room special. Candles, flowers, crisp white table linen, crystal glasses and shining silver. The tables had been put together to make one long dinning area. The group all gathered round and debated about where to sit. It was decided that the couples would split up and everyone would mingle and get a chance to chat and get better acquainted in this new ‘real life’ situation.

Sarah and Charlotte served their guests filling wine glasses and taking food orders. There was a buzz of conversation that lasted throughout the whole meal. The food was excellent and several bottles of wine were consumed.

‘OK everyone I hope you enjoyed your meal. If you are all up for it, we thought we could go through to the lounge for coffee or a brandy and we can have a chat through some of the activities we thought you might like to take part in this week.’ Charlotte announced. There were nods of the head all round ‘But before that we thought we should introduce you to your chef.’ Indicating the woman stood to her left she introduced Denise. Still dressed in her chef’s whites, her salt and pepper short hair ruffled from the heat of the kitchen. Her slightly stocky 5’6’’ and huge smile.

Everyone applauded ‘Nice one Denise’ ‘Great food’ ‘Thanks’ Denise acknowledged the compliments with a smile and a wave of her hand.

‘Denise will join us as she will be helping out in other ways through the week as well.’ Charlotte continued.

Settling into the lounge, everyone with a drink in hand. Charlotte, Sarah and Denise took seats together at the front of the room so they could all see the group.

‘Well first off I’d like to propose a toast. To a great group of friends who are finally together at last’ said Sarah raising her glass.

‘And to Charlotte and Sarah and their wonderful home and to its success!’ shouted Megan.

The group cheered and everyone raised their glasses.

When the noise died down, Charlotte began to explain how they envisaged the week running.

‘We didn’t want to be prescriptive and have so many activities you felt like you were on some sort of camp! But we wanted to provide you with enough to do so that this felt like a unique experience and gave us all the opportunity to get to know more about one another and maybe explore issues that we would like to know more about.’

Gentle nods and ‘yes’ encouraged Charlotte to continue. ‘So we thought that each morning would be free time after breakfast and then after lunch we would provide some sort of activity that you could choose to join in if you want to. Some of them will be for everyone and some will be group specific for Tops or Bottoms. As well as that you will have access to a holistic therapist who will be available mornings and evenings, there’s a list of treatments available in your rooms. We also have guest passes that you can use to the local pool and gym. We have got loads of information about the local area, walks’ boat trips etc. If there is something specific that you would like to do that we haven’t mentioned, just ask and if we can arrange it for you, we will.’

‘That sounds great Cheryl. I’m intrigued to know more about these activities you have planned?’ said Ellen.

Charlotte looked to Sarah to take over. ‘Well we really put a lot of thought into this. Some of you had already given us ideas when you knew we were setting up the guest house but we also went over old posts on the forum to look for themes and issues that we could tackle as a group. We want you to have fun but we also know that we we can go through tough times practicing DD and this seems an ideal opportunity to give each other some support in a group setting. So we’ve tried our best to make it a mix of stuff.’

‘We will be having 2 support groups, one for Bottoms and one for Tops. Sarah and I will volunteer to facilitate them unless we have anyone else who’d like to do that. It is also up to you if you just want the groups to be a one off or if you would like to find an hour or so each day to get together.’

There were nods around the room and a little chatter amongst the women. ‘I’m not huge on encounter groups’ said Cheryl ‘But even I think that’s a good idea, there are a few things I would like to share with my fellow Tops!’

‘Oh Yes? What things would they be?’ Sandy prodded.

‘Well if I wanted you to know I’d tell you. Now stop being nosey and interrupting.’

Sandy pouted and turned her attention back to Charlotte.

‘Then as we all have different experience levels in DD we thought that maybe some of the more experienced of us could share ideas and techniques. There are some Tops who use certain implements and others who don’t so the merits and techniques etc that are associated with them could be shared. We also thought that discussions about how DD is administered, how it works in our homes, problems we have encountered and practical solutions.’

‘That sounds interesting. Are any of our Bottoms going to volunteer to be demonstrated on then?’ Diane asked with an evil grin.

There was nervous laughter from the Bottoms. ‘Well actually my wife has volunteered and I thought I could share some of my experience with you.’ said Denise. ‘We have been practicing DD for 20 years and so have a lot of tales to tell if you are interested?’

‘Wow. 20 years and she is STILL getting spanked?’ groaned Cassie ‘Oh man is there no hope that I will ever be off the hook?’ She threw her head dramatically back against the sofa and closed her eyes moaning.

‘Oh you love it admit it’ said Louise ‘There’s nothing sexier that your wife telling you to drop em and bend over’ she continued throwing a cushion over at Cassie.

Julia laughed ‘She’ll probably agree tomorrow when the fire in her ass has cooled a little.’

The banter continued for another hour or so before Megan announced that she was beat and needed to go to bed. There were nods of agreement from some and the room began to empty.