Hola, we’re back from Madrid, which is very
sneaky of D because he completely denied it was going to be Madrid when
I guessed it. He had to ‘fess up at the airport, though, otherwise I
might have broken away from his grip and raced across the runway,
forcing my way onto a random flight, such was my over-excitement.
I
think D probably sold one of his kidneys to pay for the hotel, which
was a 5* former palace. Our room had 12 foot ceilings, a chandelier and
a marble fireplace surmounted by an enormous gilt mirror. In the
bathroom. The bedroom itself was even grander than that. We were
especially taken with the massage shower, an enormous marble cubicle
with adjustable nozzles pointing in all directions but we didn’t bother
adjusting them. No, it’s no good, I can’t type that with a straight
face. We dedicated an unsurprising amount of time to adjusting them in
exactly the right position to, say, drum warm water gently against D’s
balls while I knelt at his feet sucking his cock with another nozzle
spraying water at my pussy.
We went to the Prado and chose the pictures we would steal if the fire alarm went off. I chose Las Meninas by Velazquez and D chose El 3 de Mayo
by Goya, both of which are about 9 metres square. “From a practical
point of view” wondered D “have we made the wisest choices?”
“Yes,
don’t worry, we just need to find some other British people to help us.
The British are good in a disaster, you only need to read newspaper
accounts of rail accidents. ‘British survivors laughed and joked with
their rescuers as they stumbled up the embankment’. And there was that
Greek cruise liner that sank and everyone was rescued by the British
entertainments officers. I’m sure we’ll find someone from Surrey who’s
prepared to help us with a bit of international art theft on their way
out.”
We had lunch at a café in the Plaza Mayor which, according the guide book, was a popular location for autos-da-fe,
or ritual condemnations of heretics followed by their burning at the
stake. “Don’t you think” I said, reaching down my cleavage to retrieve
bits of pepper filled with cream cheese and sucking my fingers “that I
would have made a very good heretic? I mean I could be dragged,
struggling and screaming across the square, jostled by the mob who
would throw rotten vegetables at me, then clapped in chains before a
judgement panel of cardinals who would condemn me in fierce, ringing
tones for being a heretic whore while I sobbed and pleaded. Then rough
and lustful soldiers would rope me to the stake and build up a pile of
wooden bundles around my feet while I screamed and begged for mercy.”
D thought about this for a while. “Would you be naked during any of this?”
“Yes, I think the mob could be allowed to rip my clothes off right at the start. I ought to be naked before I’m put in chains.”
“And
when you’re dragged across the square, could it be by butch lesbian
nuns who’ve had you locked up in the cellar of their convent for weeks
on end practicing unspeakable cruelties upon you?”
“Yes, you can have lesbian nuns.”
“What about the soldiers? Will they rape you in front of the assembled townsfolk before lashing you to the stake?”
“No, that would be bad for military discipline.”
“So what time did you say this was happening?”
“I
notice you’ve made no mention of sweeping in and single-handedly
fighting off a dozen soldiers to rescue me from the smoldering flames
as they lick round my toes.”
“No, you’re a heretic whore, I’m going to sit here in the café and watch you burn.”
In the afternoon we went to the Museo de Reina Sofia to see Guernica,
which we decided against stealing as our new flat won’t have any walls
big enough to hang it. I’ve always been a bit puzzled about Picasso’s
sex life. He was such a little frog of a man but women tumbled into his
bed at the flick of his paint brush. “That’s the point though, isn’t
it” said D “they’re not sleeping with the man, they’re sleeping with
the myth of the artist. I mean, you’ve done life modeling, don’t you
find it just a little bit lubricious?”
“Sitting on a wooden
platform in the town hall covered in goose pimples being stared at by
twenty pensioners? Funnily enough, no that’s not in the least bit
erotic.”
“Ah, but if you were alone with the artist in his
atelier in Montmartre, lounging naked on a threadbare chaise longue,
your pale skin flushed pink from the glow of a single oil heater, his
gaze penetrating your soul…”
“I think I might go off him a bit when I saw he’d painted me with the contorted and terrifying features of an African mask.”
The
Spanish eat late so we had a few hours back at the hotel in which we’d
booked a sauna and massage. Squeaky clean and slightly limp, we dozed
on our enormous bed, rousing ourselves enough for a quickie before
venturing out. We ate in a bar, unchanged since the 1920s, at a table
tucked away in the back and dimly lit by candles. The waiters brought
us sherry and mussels and then left us alone to kiss and hold hands.
On
Sunday, the sun shone all day and we went to El Rastro which is a flea
market. The guide book says that ‘rastro’ means ‘stain’ and refers back
to the market’s origin as a 17th Century meat market when the stain was
the trail of blood left by animals as they were dragged down the hill.
Today it’s full of bric-a-brac and tat but we wandered happily,
people-watching and buying the ingredients of lunch, which we ate in
the Parque del Buen Retiro. This is a landscaped park with an
artificial lake and marble monuments. We sat on the edge of an Egyptian
fountain, watched over by sphinxes.
A long, aimless walk,
sometimes following the route in the guide book and stopping to read
about historic buildings, sometimes just diving down
interesting-looking alleys, slowly took us back to the hotel. We had
proper English tea in the dining room, which was formerly a library and
is still impressively book-lined. Then, foot-sore, we soaked in our
huge tub of a bath. Gazing at the ceiling, D suddenly said, “How much
do you think those chandeliers weigh?”
“What? Why?”
“They
must be very heavy. Look at the chain they hang from and the way it’s
bolted into the ceiling. It’s designed to take a lot of weight.”
“Yes, if you say so.”
He
sat up straight, slopping water over the edge of the bath. “You’re
humouring me now, aren’t you? That’s very cheeky. Birthday treat or
not, I don’t think I can let cheekiness like that pass unchecked.”
And
that’s how I ended up, on tip toes in the bedroom, my arms stretched
above my head, my wrists tied with one end of the belt of a
complimentary hotel robe, the other end looped around the chain from
which the chandelier was suspended, its crystals trembling and
tinkling. D sat on the floor at my feet, slowly lapping at my cunt
while I whimpered and squirmed until I teetered on the brink of
cumming. Abruptly he stopped and standing, pulled the belt from the
loops of my discarded jeans and wrapped its buckle end around his fist.
He brushed my hair over my shoulder, out of the way and kissed
my neck, looking up to see our reflection in the mirror as he reached
round to cup and squeeze my tits.
“Birthday girl gets a stroke for every year.”
They
were hard, steady strokes, drawing his arm right back and slicing
across first one buttock then the other, making me gasp and arch and
squeak, my head thrown back, looking anxiously up into the rattling
chandelier, gritting my teeth as it went on and on, dancing from one
tip toe to the other, my arms and shoulders aching, my boobs and bum
jiggling as I writhed. D counted quietly with each stroke. On
“Eighteen!” there was a tiny shower of plaster dust from above and we
froze, staring at the chandelier’s bolt. D laughed and drew his arm
back quickly. “Nineteen! Twenty!”
He undid me and I slumped
stiffly to the floor, rubbing my sore arms. He knelt down and cupped my
face in his hands, brushing my hair away. “What do you say?”
“Thank you.”
“And what do you want for your birthday?”
I blinked up at him. “I want to suck your cock.”
D
sat with his back to the end of the bed and I sprawled on the floor, my
wrists still tied together, sucking his cock into my mouth, my lips
pressed firmly around it, rubbing its head against the inside of my
cheek and letting it pop from between my lips, then spitting on it and
sliding the saliva down his shaft with my tongue, flickering my tongue
stud around the rim of his cock and across its tip, gulping his spunk
down greedily and licking my lips.
We ate in a Castillian
restaurant that served great hunks of roast pork that we tore apart and
ate with our fingers. Then we emerged into the cold night quite drunk
and stood in the middle of the street, D’s hand on my arse, kissing
urgently.
That night I woke at about 4 a.m. with a dry mouth.
D was snoring gently beside me, dead to the world. What I really wanted
was a cup of tea but we had used all the milk so I went padding down to
the lobby to mime ‘milk’. A helpful night porter got me not only milk
but also the keys to the pool. Alone in the pool, the only light the
greenish, flickering of the underwater lighting, I swam for nearly an
hour until the porter came in to lock up before the shift changed and
anyone discovered he’d let me in. He brought me a towel and for a
moment we sat together on the edge of the pool, me in my bikini, drying
my hair, him with his bunch of keys and cup of coffee, talking in
broken English and hand gestures.
I’m a bit sad to be home
again now. The flat’s full of boxes and we’re half-packed to move. We
have to finish most of it this week because we’re going to be away
again at Easter and then we’re moving the week after. There were some
birthday cards waiting for me on the mat. One, from my friend Howard,
had a home-made badge which reads ‘No longer a teenage temptress’.