Chapter 3

AJ walked into Amanda's room the next morning. He saw her on the bed wrapped tightly in her blanket.

"Amanda" He said waking her up.

She opened her eyes and yawned.

"Come on, I'm gonna give you a bath"

"I can take my own bath" She said softly, her voice hoarse from all the screaming she had done the day before. She looked at his face, "or you could do it"

"Good thinking" he said. He led her to him room where he had already set up a bubble bath. "Get in"

"Ok" she said taking off her clothes.

Aj bit his lip as he saw the work he had done on her back. He helped her in.

"Are we doing anything today Master?" She asked softly as he washed her back.

"There's a party tonight. For our record company"

"Are we going?"

"Yea" AJ said, "We'll go get you an outfit and a bathing suit"

"But Master...I can't wear a suit"

"Well, you don't have to go swimming" he said

"Who is gonna be at this party?"

"All types of artist who are on the label."

"Like Britney? And Nsync?" She asked looking at him

"Yep" He said. He washed her hair and then had her get out of the tub., "There's an outfit for you on my bed, put it on"

"Ok" she said walking into his room. 

"Oh wait" AJ said as she began drying off, "Let me put this on you"

"What is it?"

"Healing ointment" he said putting it on her wounds.

"I'm in college"

"I know" AJ said.

"Well I was wondering if I could finish out the year. It's my last year and I just wanna get my bachelors"

"Where do you go again?" He said as he finished.

"FSU, Orlando. It's only one more semester"

"How am I supposed to watch you if you're there?"

"Master, I've worked really hard, please just let me finish"

"Do you go back next month?"

"Yea" she nodded putting on the outfit AJ had picked out.

"Well, I'll take you there and pick you up. When I get there, you better be there waiting. If you're not, and I have to find you, you know what will happen. If you thought last night was bad, see what will happen if I have to look for you"

"ok" she said adjusting her shirt.

"You ready?" AJ asked

"Yea" she nodded. She followed him out to one of his cars. She got in and looked at the scenery as AJ drove them to the mall.

"Don't try anything funny"

"Do you want me to call you Master in front of people"

"Just call me AJ"

"Ok, also, I was just wondering if I could get some stuff from my apartment"

"We'll see" AJ said

"Umm, it's only paid for until the end of this month"

"What did I say?"

"I heard you but I mean all of my stuff-"

"I said we'll see!" He yelled at her.

"Ok, geez" She said.

AJ drove for about twenty more minutes then pulled up to the mall. She and AJ walked into the mall. Aj took her hand as they walked into a store.

"Pick out a couple of outfits" he said.

"Like how many?"

"I dunno, just look for stuff and I'll see what I like"

"Ok" she said walking around the store. She looked around and began to pick out little outfits. About thirty minutes later, she walked over to AJ who was sitting in a chair talking on his cell phone.

"I'll call you back" AJ said hanging up, "What'd you get?"

She showed him all of the outfits she picked out, "Do you like them?"

"Yea" he nodded getting up. He walked with her over to the cash register.

"Are you AJ Mclean?" The girl behind the counter asked

"Yea" he smiled

"Oh wow, can I have an autograph?"

"Yea" he said signing her peice of paper. She rung them up and AJ paid.

"Let's go get some shoes" AJ said wrapping his arm around her waist. She actually felt comfortable with him for the first time. They bought numerous pairs of shoes.

"Oooh, can we get Ice Cream?" Amanda asked as they walked past the ice cream parlor.

"Yea" AJ chuckled. They got ice cream and sat down at a table.

"Thanks for all the stuff you bought me" She said before taking a spoonful of ice-cream.

"My pleasure" He said, "I'll always treat you to the finest things. It's just a perk you get by being mine"

Amanda didn't say anything as she looked at the table next to her. She saw a couple sitting there with their baby. They were cuddled and giggling as their child made little noises.

"I always wanted kids" AJ said, "We can start on that in a couple of months"

Amanda looked at him wide-eyed, "are you serious?"

"We'll talk about it when the time comes." he said looking at his watch, "it's already 2:30. The party starts at five, we better go"

Amanda stood up and followed AJ to the entrance of the mall. 

~*~5:15~*~

AJ had a limo pick up him and Amanda. The limo pulled up to a house that was about three times the size of AJ's. The house was in a secluded area, and the best of cars were parked outside.

Amanda was wearing a short black skirt with a one strap shirt that was high enough it covered her welts. She had on a pair of black knee high boots.

AJ took her hand and walked with her inside.

Amanda was met with blaring music. AJ grinned as they walked past different celebrities. They searched around until they found Kevin and his slave, Christina. 

"Hey" AJ said going over there, "Mmm,  don't you look classy, Chris"

"Hi Master" She said to him

AJ smacked her butt, "You always were sexy"

She giggled.

Amanda felt a sting of jealousy go through her.

"Amanda" Kevin said

She turned to look at him.

"How's the hand?"

"Fine" she said looking around the party.

Nick and Summer came over.

"Hey" Amanda smiled at her.

"Hi, have you been around to meet everybody yet?"

"No, AJ hasn't taken me yet"

"Master, can I take Amanda around to meet everybody?" Summer asked Nick

"Yea" He said before going back to his convo with Brian, who had now joined the group. 

"You better ask AJ" Summer said.

"He's too busy being on Christina to even notice" she said as the two girls walked away.

They talked to the different people there.

"Ohh, there's Britney and Justin, let's go talk" Amanda said.

She and Summer walked up to them.

"Hi" Summer said.

"Oh, hey girl" Britney said, "Where's Nick?"

"He's around here  somewhere" Summer said, "This is AJ's girlfriend Amanda."

"Hi" Britney smiled.

A man walked by carrying Champaign. They all took one and talked for a while.

"Well we better get going" Summer said, "See ya'll"

Summer and Amanda finished walking around the party. Amanda saw that it was already 8:30. Summer led them back to where the guys were.

"Where were you?" AJ growled pulling Amanda on his lap.

"Summer and I went to go talk to people, Nick said it was ok"

"Nick said it was ok for Summer, not you" he said, "You know good and well that you need permission"

"Sorry" she said rolling her eyes.

"You'll pay for that" he said, "why are you drinking?" He asked pointing to the glass that she was still sipping on.

"I'm not allowed to drink either?"

"Not without my permission" he said grabbing her thigh tightly.

Lance Bass walked over to the group.

"Hey" Howie said.

"How ya'll doin?" Lance said

Everyone started talking to him. Nick was whispering something in Summer's ear making her giggle.

Amanda made eye contact with Lance. They both smiled at each other.

~*~2 A.M~*~

The girls had all migrated up to a guest room while the guys still partied on.

"Chris!" Kevin yelled coming in making all of the girls jump, "get up!"

She quickly got up and followed him out of the room.

AJ came in a second later and called for Amanda.

She opened her eyes and then slowly got up. She walked with him outside and climbed in the limo.

"You're lucky I'm cooled off. What do you have to say for yourself?"

"Ummmm....sorry?"

"You better ask my permission for anything you do. I don't care if you want to go swimming, I better know"

"Why can't you be nice to me?" Amanda said looking at him, "I know you want control, but this shit is getting out of hand."

AJ rolled down the divider, "Driver, can you take the long way home please?"

"Sure thing Mr. McLean" he said.

AJ rolled it back up. He took off his belt and pulled her skirt so it was resting above her hips.

"Oh no" she said as AJ raised the belt up. He brought it down and hit her thigh. Amanda started to scream but AJ slapped his hand over her mouth.

"Don't you dare scream!" He hit her again, this time pulling her on the floor of the limo. He banged her head into the seat, making her gasp for air.

"AJ please!" She cried trying to pry his hands off of her.

"I told you not to call me that!" he said slapping her.

"Master" She begged.

"Shut the fuck up!"

"What did I do?"

"I told you! Again and again and fuckin again. Quit fucking with me bitch!"

"I didn't do anything"

AJ looked out of the window and saw they were getting closer to his neighborhood, "You just wait till we get inside" He sat back in the seat and pulled her up by her hair.

Amanda ran her hand over her face and tried to stop crying. A couple of minutes later, they pulled up to AJ's house.

The driver opened the door.

"Thank you" AJ said tipping him while grabbing Amanda's hand. He led her inside.

"Mas-" She started before getting cut off with another slap.

"Go to my room"

"But-"

AJ raised his hand again as she ran upstairs.

She went into his room and took off her clothes before climbing under the covers. She waited for AJ to come up and finish his job. She drifted off to sleep and awoke an hour later when she felt AJ climb in the bed.

"Master AJ"

"What?" He muttered.

"I'm sorry"

"Good" he said, "now go to sleep"