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  Ben didn’t speak for a moment. Chloe could hear the chirp of crickets, and far away the sound of a car driving. She thought she would take a quick look then return to the kitchen table, but standing there, she found that she wasn’t that worried about being seen. It really did seem silent outside, as if they were the only ones in the neighborhood.

  “Do you want to go for a walk?” Ben asked.

  Chloe felt a panicky rush pass through her body, her thighs tightening involuntarily. She already knew what his answer would be, but she asked the question anyway: “Like this?”

  “Yeah.”

  The little rabbit in her heart was bouncing around again. “Everyone’s sleep,” she murmured.

  “Right. Everyone’s asleep.”

  Chloe looked up at Ben. He stood barely two feet away from her. If he wanted to, he could easily reach out and touch her. He could run his fingers over her breasts, down her body, between her legs. He could feel how turned on she already was.

  “Okay,” she said, and felt the panicky rush again. She could barely breathe.

  Ben was silent for a moment, gazing at her. “I’ll be right back,” he said, and walked back towards the kitchen.

  Chloe stood in the middle of the doorway, facing out, her hands at her sides, her legs slightly parted. The breeze from outside traced her skin, and she felt goosebumps on her arms. Her nipples were hard pebbles, but she wasn’t sure if that was from the cold or from anticipation.

  Ben returned, holding something black in his hand. Chloe couldn’t tell what it was until Ben started to fasten it around her neck. She let out an involuntary moan. Petey’s old collar and leash. They had been hanging on a peg in the kitchen. Now Ben was putting the collar around her neck, and he had the end of the leash in his hand.

  So not only would she be walking with Ben naked, but he would also be leading her around on a leash. Chloe felt her body trembling with nervous energy. She couldn’t believe how turned on she was.

  “Let’s go,” he said, and he stepped out the door onto the front porch. Chloe’s eyes darted from one side of the empty street to the other. She didn’t move until Ben gently tugged on the leash, and then she took a step out the door, another step to stand beside him on the porch. Ben closed the door.

  “It’s a beautiful night for a walk,” he said.

  “Yes…”

  “Don’t be nervous,” Ben said. “I’ll just walk you down the block and back, okay?”

  “Okay.” Her voice came out as a whisper.

  “You look amazing, you know. You’re very beautiful.”

  “Thanks.”

  “Shall we?” Ben started down the front steps. Chloe followed him as they walked down the path to the front gate and stepped out onto the sidewalk.

  They paused, and Chloe looked up and down the street. The house was on a cul-de-sac, with the street light on the corner to their left. At the end of the cul-de-sac to their right, the three houses arranged in a semi-circle were only illuminated by the three lights above their front doors. Parked cars made shadowy shapes on the curb, like dormant shells. Crickets chirped from every direction, and a breeze stirred the upper branches of the trees, but otherwise everything was silent.

  “Which way?” Chloe asked. She crossed one foot in front of the other, pressing her thighs together, feeling how wet she was.

  “This way.” Ben tugged on the leash, pulling her towards the street light. Chloe peeked down at her body as she walked, watching her breasts become more illuminated with every step closer to the glowing orange light. She reached up and touched her nipple, wondering if the tip had ever felt so rigid and sensitive before.

  “It’s so different around here at night…” she murmured. “So quiet…”

  “Have you ever walked around this late before?”

  “Yeah… I did it just a few days ago actually. Me and my friend Marianne. We smoked some pot watching movies and then we got restless and we walked around the neighborhood. Not that far… just a circle around a few blocks…”

  “Did you see anybody else?”

  “No…”

  “What day was it? The weekend?”

  “Yeah… Sunday night… I guess that’s still the weekend?”

  “Did any cars drive by?”

  “Um… I don’t remember… I can’t remember any…”

  Ben nodded. “I know this kind of neighborhood. Big houses, big yards, all set apart from each other. Everyone works during the day, and this time of night they’re all asleep. If you go outside, it’s like you have the whole neighborhood to yourself.” They reached the corner and paused under the street light.

  Now Chloe had a cross street to look up and down, and she peered out into the darkness, her night vision hindered by the glow of the street light. She couldn’t see anyone, but that didn’t mean that no one was out there, maybe lurking somewhere in the shadows. Whoever it was, they definitely had a clear view of her, her naked body bathed in the glow of the street light. Did they know her? Did they recognize her?

  Ben started walking down the cross street, tugging on the leash, and Chloe silently followed as he led her further and further away from her home. As they moved away from the street light, Chloe’s eyes adjusted to the darkness again, and she could see the sidewalk stretching into the distance, on both sides of the street. Her breath caught in her throat for a moment as she noticed someone tall standing in front of a house two blocks away, looking right at them. But a few steps later, she realized it was just a trick of the light, a mailbox with a small tree behind it. Just her imagination.

  “How far should we walk?” she asked.

  “Just a little further. Are you feeling nervous?”

  “Yes.”

  “It’s all right. No one’s going to… oops!”

  Two blocks away, they could see a change in the light, a beam from the left illuminating the trees. A moment later, they saw the headlights of a car pull up to the intersection.

  “Better get down,” Ben said.

  Chloe, her heart pounding, scrambled towards a parked truck, even as the headlights turned towards them. She crouched down on the grassy rectangle next to the truck, squeezing herself into a tight ball, her arms tightly clasped over her chest. She didn’t dare look directly at the car, but she could hear the approaching rumble of its motor, and could see the area around her flooded by its bright headlights. Ben remained on the sidewalk, holding the leash.

  The car passed without slowing. Chloe looked over her shoulder, watching the red taillights drive into the distance, then turn onto a side street. Her body buzzed with adrenalin.

  Ben’s voice was calm. “That’s the advantage of the leash,” he told her. “If someone sees me just standing here alone on the sidewalk in the middle of the night, I look like a suspicious stranger who’s up to something. But put a leash in my hand and everyone figures I’m just out walking my dog and I’m waiting for it to pee.” He chuckled, looking down at her.

  “That was too close…” Chloe crouched in her hiding place, watching to see if the car would reappear.

  “Nah, we were fine,” Ben reassured her. He grinned. “If you need to pee, go ahead. I can wait a little longer.

  Chloe looked up, shocked, wondering if he was serious or joking. She couldn’t tell by his face, his eyes watching her patiently, his mouth turned up in that cute little grin he had. She straightened her back, uncrossing her arms from in front of her breasts, instead resting her hands on her knees.

  Slowly she opened her legs wide, knowing that she was giving him a clear view of her pussy. She could see his eyes lower, gazed intently between her legs. A second later, a thin jet of pee arced out of her and splashed into the gutter. The flow didn’t last for very long, but Ben watched every drop as she made a tiny puddle that started to trickle towards the truck’s front tire.

  After she was done, Chloe brought her legs back together and rose to her feet. Ben had an odd expression on his face when he looked at her, and Chloe suddenly felt cert
ain that he’d only been teasing her when he suggested she pee. He had made a joke, and then she shocked him by opening her legs and peeing right there in front of him.

  How could she have done something like that? Chloe tugged at her long hair, feeling flustered, but more than that, feeling extremely turned on. Her pussy ached with need and she desperately wanted to press her hand between her legs, to stroke her clit and try to release some of the tension she felt.

  “Ready?” Ben asked.

  Chloe nodded. He started to walk and Chloe fell into step beside him.

  She said, “You peed in front of me, too.”

  “I did?”

  “Earlier. When I was in the shower. You came into the bathroom and peed.”

  “Oh. Right. I didn’t think you were watching when I did that.”

  “I was right there!”

  “Yeah… but I didn’t think you would look. I thought you were busy with your shower.”

  Chloe remembered the way Ben had pulled out his penis in front of her, the way it had looked in his hand. “When you shared that co-ed bathroom… did you ever have to pee in front of the girls?”

  “All the time. The bathroom had urinals in it. It used to be a men’s room.” They passed a large ranch-style house with a half-circle driveway. A line of trees separated the front yard from the adjacent house. The ranch-style was as dark and quiet as every other house they’d passed.

  Chloe looked at the dark windows, wondering which of them hid her sleeping neighbors. “Why am I totally naked right now and you still have all your clothes on?” she asked.

  “You were already naked before we left,” Ben reminded her.

  “Yeah, but… if everyone’s asleep and no one’s going to see…”

  “You know why, Chloe,” he interrupted her.

  “I do?”

  “Of course you do.” Ben stopped suddenly. He looked furtively up and down the street, then took hold of Chloe’s hand. He pulled her over to the line of trees, into the dark shelter under the lower branches. Chloe opened her mouth to ask why they had left the sidewalk, but before she could speak, Ben undid the front of his pants and extracted his erect cock. Chloe stared at the thing as it jutted out towards her, a long branch with the head round and swollen like an apple. She’d thought it was large when she watched him pee, but erect it looked twice as big.

  “I’ve been hard since before we left the house.” Ben took a small step forward, just enough so that the head of his cock nudged the outside of her pussy. Chloe let out a small moan. Her body trembled, feeling his penis head at her opening, knowing that he could easily push into her if he wanted to, knowing she wouldn’t resist if he did. He leaned in close to her. “I can’t just walk around outside with an erection, right? What would people say if they saw me?”

  He moved his hips slowly forward, and the head of his cock rubbed against her labia, teasing her. Chloe waited to see if he would take the plunge and push into her. Maybe she hoped for it. Instead, he took a step back, breaking the contact between them. He pushed his cock back into his pants, leaving a noticeable bulge.

  “Come on.” He tugged on the leash, and Chloe stepped back out onto the sidewalk. They resumed walking in the same direction, passing two more houses and reaching the next corner. Chloe leaned her back against the light pole while Ben stepped out into the street. He moved in a small circle, checking each direction.

  “Hey, red light that way,” he observed, pointing at their left turn. Three blocks away, the intersection had two red lights glowing, although no cars were crossing.

  “That’s Addison Drive.”

  “What’s on Addison Drive? More houses?”

  “No. Businesses. Restaurants.”

  “They’re probably all closed. Let’s go take a look.” He started walking in that direction, crossing the street.

  “Do you think we should?” Chloe asked as she reluctantly followed him.

  “Sure, why not?”

  “It’s a busy street. Cars will drive by.”

  Ben stopped in the middle of the street and watched the red light. It didn’t change. “It doesn’t seem that busy,” he observed. “We haven’t seen a single car since we’ve been standing here.”

  “It’s a busier street than this one.”

  Ben chuckled. “Well, it could hardly be less busy. We’ve only seen a single car since we’ve been out here.” He tugged on the leash. “Come on. It’s the middle of the night, everything is closed. We’ll walk to the stoplight and take a look. If it seems busy, we’ll just turn right around and come back.”

  Chloe tugged on her hair nervously, but followed him across the street. She watched the glowing red eyes of the traffic signals as step by step they came closer and closer to Addison Drive. The light never turned green for their direction. It worked off a sensor and if no cars waited for the light, then the light never changed.

  Suddenly, a car whooshed through the intersection, traveling too fast from left to right. Chloe tensed, glancing at Ben, but he didn’t show any reaction, and his pace didn’t slow. She could hear the sound of the car fading in the distance somewhere off to the right. Ben had pulled ahead and the leash was almost taut between them, so Chloe walked faster to catch up. They walked for another twenty paces and then another car whooshed by, traveling in the same direction as the first. Chloe found herself falling behind again.

  “Two cars,” Chloe said as she caught up to Ben again. “I told you it’s busier.”

  Ben chuckled. “I guess so. But neither of the them turned this way.”

  “The next one might.”

  “Maybe. If there even is a next one.” Ben didn’t seem concerned.

  They were only half a block from Addison Drive when a third car drove by, this time going in the opposite direction. It drove fast through the intersection, close enough that Chloe could see the man’s head through the car window. He had his eyes pointed straight ahead and didn’t look in their direction. A good thing, because if he’d looked slightly to the left, he would have had a clear view of Chloe standing naked on the sidewalk.

  This time, Chloe slowed so much that the leash pulled tight between her and Ben. He stopped and turned around. “Getting nervous again?”

  “Yeah…”

  “We’ll just take a quick look. Then we’ll head back. Okay?”

  “Okay.”

  “We’ll see any car’s headlights long before they see us. We’ll hear them, too. Plenty of warning.”

  “Uh huh.”

  “Touch your pussy with your finger.”

  Chloe’s eyes widened, surprised at the unexpected and frank request. But she obeyed, sliding her hand down her front until her index finger slipped into the slick cleft between her legs.

  “How does it feel?”

  “Wet,” she admitted.

  “Like you’re turned on?”

  “Yeah…”

  He pulled on the leash. “Let’s go, then.” He turned away from her, and when he started walking, she followed.

  Addison Drive unfolded in front of them. Chloe could see the glowing McDonald’s sign on a tall metal pole that marked the fast food restaurant on the opposite side of the street, and at first she thought that the restaurant must still be open, because the sign was on. However, when the restaurant itself came into view, it was clearly closed, the interior dark and the parking lot empty. She supposed they must leave the sign on all night.

  Addison Drive wasn’t dense with buildings. Businesses were scattered along either side of the street, separated by empty lots filled with patchy green grass. Chloe looked left and right, but didn’t see any businesses that appeared to be open. She saw an auto parts store, a dry cleaner, a dress shop, all of them completely dark.

  She crept up to the corner, feeling very exposed as she stepped out to the edge of the sidewalk and looked up and down the street. She could see a series of green lights stretching into the distance, disappearing over a hill in one direction, around a curve in the other. Four lane
s, two going in each direction. The street was empty of cars both ways, at least for the moment.

  “Do you want to see what you look like?” Ben asked. He came up next to her, and she realized he held his phone in his hand. He put his arm around her waist and pulled her close to him, the phone held out in front of him. A light flashed on the phone.

  He turned the phone around and showed her the picture he’d just taken. It showed the two of them next to each other, the street behind them. Her body was visible down to just below her belly button and the flash caused her pale skin to stand out against the dark background, her protruding nipples casting tiny shadows like sundials. The black dog collar stood out on her neck, and the line of the leash could be seen as it crossed over her right arm. The McDonalds sign was visible just above her left shoulder.

  “Oh my god…” she breathed, bending over to peer at the picture.

  “Do you like it?”

  “It’s crazy… I’m crazy!”

  “It’s a great picture,” Ben said. He turned off his phone and put it in his back pocket. “No cars so far. I guess this street is pretty quiet, too.” He stepped out into the street and looked to the right, then to the left. “Hey, I think that place over there is open.” He pointed.

  “What place?” Chloe stepped out into the street and looked in the direction he was looking. “Oh! The Food Mart! It’s open twenty-four hours.” She could see the small convenience store on the corner of the next block, with its dirty window advertising the lottery jackpots, the glowing red sign reading “24 hrs”. She recalled returning from a concert with Marianne, stopping there at three in the morning to get Gatorades and potato chips. A stocky Arabic man had taken their money without a word.

  “Let’s make a stop. I’ll buy you something to drink for the walk back.” He started to walk in that direction before she even answered.

  “I can’t!” she protested, even as she reluctantly followed him.

  “You can’t what?”

  “I can’t go in there! Not like this.”

  “Why not?”

  “Because I’m naked!”

  He laughed. “Are you? I hadn’t noticed.” He waved at her dismissively. “I’m sure the guy working the overnight shift is used to weirdos at this time of night. He won’t even look twice at us.”