No Greater Price

"Put this on, pretty," Maya whispered to her with a smile as she passed Lizzie a long silk robe.

Everyone else in the room seemed to be preoccupied with getting ready themselves -- obviously going from the VIP room to the Underground Room meant some kind of big deal. Max switched to a more expensive looking jacket when Toby brought it to him, and added a few things to his pockets, while the women traded their clubbing gear for fancier outfits with richer looking fabric. The other men changed too, some of them to almost pajama-like outfits, though all the clothes were made out of shiny, soft-looking material.

Maya helped her fasten the belt of the robe for Lizzy, and then reached underneath to pull off Lizzy's mini skirt. Lizzy made a small high pitched noise when Maya paused just for a second to run a finger along the folds of her pussy, but Maya just laughed and stepped back to survey her.

"Gorgeous," Maya pronounced, and Lizzy swallowed as she looked down at herself. The robe seemed like it was Asian; its symbols and swirls fit in with that idea. But on the other hand, Lizzy was pretty sure she was in no shape to judge anything clearly right now. The way everyone had acted, the way Maya had touched her, all of it left her feeling oversensitive and overwhelmed. Even if she just looked at the material of the robe, it seemed to shimmer and sparkle in any beam of light that caught the depths of its colors.

Of course, the drinks she'd had probably weren't helping any either.

"You never said," Lizzy remarked, and then lost her train of thought.

"What's that?" Maya asked. She was helping Lizzy take off her strappy sandals, and getting her to step into some kind of...sort of like flip flops, but with wooden soles, and platforms to make them seem like heels.

"What was in the drinks," Lizzy whispered. Somehow it seemed important that Max didn't hear her ask the question, and he was nearby, running his fingers through the hair of a boy who was nuzzling his neck.

"Toby, Lizzy needs another drink," Maya called out instead, and moments later Toby was handing Lizzy a glass.

"Here you go, sweetie," Toby said. He arched an eyebrow at Maya. "You're so getting bonus after bonus."

"I'll make sure I am," Maya told him with a wink.

Lizzy's lips parted, but the words she had been going to say, about how she didn't think she wanted another of those drinks, or even how she would like some water instead so she could clear her head and start to sober up, didn't come out. Instead she started sipping, and was soon gulping the liquid with greedy slurps, licking her lips and even the rim of the glass when she finished.

"Aww, sweet girl," Maya laughed and then reached out to run her hands along Lizzy's body over the robe's fabric. "Too bad I didn't have some more fun with you before I brought you here. Then again, that dining room really does need a makeover, and I've got a lot of things I have my eye on."

"What?" Lizzy asked. She pouted when she realized the glass was completely empty. But then Max and Toby and some of the other people in the room were moving her along, and she didn't have time to think about any of that any more.

Again, they went through the small corridor, then down a different hallway, through a long gallery-type room, then up a slope...

Soon enough Lizzy stopped keeping track. It was like they were in a labyrinth or something. It didn't matter anyway, because Maya and Max obviously knew where they were going.

But then they were getting into an elevator that was taking them all down. One of the men Lizzy hadn't met yet pressed against her as they crowded in, and she couldn't help but press back against his thigh, sighing as she started a slow shimmy against him while he grinned and put his hands on her hips. Everyone else just laughed, as though that was a silly or even charming thing to do.

Then they were moving forward, into a room that seemed immense. Lizzie blinked in the hazy light -- candles, candles were the only thing lighting the enormous space, a space big enough to be the underground part to all of the warehouses in the area.

"Now, just have to -- agree to everything," Max was saying to Maya.

"She already --" Maya said before the murmurs of some of the people nearby swallowed her words.

"She'll -- has to sign it, or I won't -- if it's that much you want, three years --" Max answered, and Lizzy touched the temple of her head when a dizzy feeling swept through her.

"She'll -- huge pay off for you -- now, or else -- you'll thank me -- quite the show, and you know how much that's worth--" All Maya's words were broken up now by the noises around them.

"What's going on?" Lizzy asked Toby.

"Oh, never mind that; let's check out the scene," he urged her.

People in the room were speaking to each other in excited whispers when Toby started to parade Lizzy around, away from the discussion Maya and Max were having. Some of the men and women in the reached out to touch Lizzy as she passed.

"Now, you can touch a little, but don't get out of hand," Toby scolded them playfully, and most of them laughed as they reached out to cup Lizzy's breasts, stroke her backside through the silk robe, or even rub fingerstips agsint where the robe clung to Lizzy's groin. "She's not ready yet."

By the time she made it further through the crowd, Lizzy was swaying from side to side. She almost told Toby to wait, to let one of the groups of people keep on touching her, or even do whatever it was they wanted to her. Her skin tingled, and her whole body felt like it was on the edge of of a precipice. What was going on, she wasn't sure, but she knew that she needed something very badly, and that she wasn't sure how to ask for it or get it.

"Where's Maya?" she asked finally.

"Awww, that's totally cute, you've been crushing on her forever, huh?" Toby said as he reached up to brush a strand of Maya's hair out of her eyes. "She's like one of those lights that draws in the bugs or something." His smile was rueful as he sighed. "Too bad you picked her, or--"

Lizzy squinted at him, then looked around for Maya.

Then Max and Maya were at her elbow, one of them producing a pen, the other a piece of paper, and out of nowhere one of the people in the room supplied a small table so they could lean the document on it.

"What is it?" Lizzy asked.

"Just one of those disclaimers," Maya said in a low, tantilizing voice. "So much fun stuff happens down here, but Max doesn't want to get in trouble if anyone slips or falls or...you know, things like that. And before this night's over, and every night after, you're going to have so, so much fun, Lizzy, so it's especially important that you sign."

"I don't know," Lizzy mumbled as she leaned down to get a better look. The letters swam in front of her eyes.

"Come on, do it for me," Maya said. She sidled up to Lizzy and for the first time, put Lizzy's hand on her body. Lizzy gasped as she felt Maya's breasts. They were full and round, and suddenly she wanted nothing more than to stroke at them and lap at them for as long as Maya would let her.

"Remember how I got you in for free and everything?" Maya continued. Everyone around them was still whispering and talking, but the other sounds melted away as Lizzy leaned forward and nuzzled Maya's breasts. "And we've been having so much fun, haven't we, Lizzy? All of this is just about having more fun, and you totally want that, don't you? You were made for this kind of fun, I swear."

Lizzy hesitated, pen in hand.

"I could tell you were way more adventurous than any of the other girls at school," Maya confided with a toss of her hair. She let her head tip back, and moaned as she moved Lizzy's fingers against her nipples. "More of the fun, right?"

Lizzy swallowed as Maya stepped back, waiting. Then she leaned over the little table, and signed the papers.