The plastic rips on the packet and he holds the capped pin in his fingertips. I scramble to the bottom of the bed and I duck there watching him.
"Come back".
Im spitting out nervous giggles and I'm looking at him and I'm thinking you know you know this pain, don't be silly. Be a good girl.
"Come back".
I straighten up, slide on to the bed, roll onto my back and look at him. He smiles at me, he's pleased. He kisses my chest, strokes my ribs and my collar, pinches and rolls a nipple between his finger tips and he slides a needle through the areola.
He copies on the other side of the rise. He looks at me.
My brain swarms empty, air fills my lungs as I inhale endorphins and pleasure.
He pushes a needle through the centre of my nipple, deep and tapping the nerves. I gasp and make noise in discomfort and pain. He runs his finger along the plastic bases of the needles like he's playing an instrument. I go from mute to moaning song. He mirrors this delivery upon my other breast. It hurts so much more the second time. It always does, because you know, exactly what, that pain is going to feel like.
He smiles at me, he talks to me, whispers threats and fantasies, creeps his fingers between my lips and wets them and eats me and promises he will push pins into my labial flesh. I take them cap from him and rest it between my teeth and bite and he pushes in the metal. The pain is encompassing. It sits under me, like I can almost ride on it. Twice. He flicks his tongue and makes the pins wiggle. My head swarms. It goes on.
He is dabbing feverish words into my ears, about being in a powerful place.
When he pulls the pins from me they mark against my lips and the darkest blood oozes from my breasts. He laps at it, he mixes it with spit and kisses me. Droplets for into a steady trickle until it clots.