Part 10

“Wow, thanks for the faith you have in me sharing this story,” I said: “And how does this previous braces experience influence the braces that you have now?”

“Well, honestly getting braces again is more related to another characteristic of me. As long as I can remember, I am looking for challenges. Those challenges can be anything. Some are on a sporty base. I have run several marathons and now I’m training for the cycle tour coast and castles of 200 miles. Challenges can also be learning something new, like a language or so. During the last years I’ve learnt the basics of French, Italian and now I’m trying to get into Japanese, but that’s really hard. Challenges can also be to “disable” a part of my body, so I have to find ways to compensate the loss of functionality. I once cuffed my wrists in front of me for a weekend, so I had to do everything with two hands. I never expected the impact of that handicap. You even can’t put on a normal shirt.”

“Okay, I think I understand the challenges you’re looking for, but when is it a success, or what happens if you fail?”

“Well, if I don’t succeed, I don’t care. It is also in my character that I won’t give up after the first failure, but there won’t be a punishment or so when I fail.”

“So there is no chance for me to find some punishments for you?” I asked while I winked. “And how did you came up with a challenge with these braces and what exactly is your challenge?” I continued.

“Well, in fact it started in the period that I wore braces myself. I once had a sleepover at a friend, Julie. When it was time for bed, Julie became very nervous, but I got no clue why. I thought she got nervous because we decided to sleep together in one king size bed, but in the end that wasn’t the case. When we were brushing our teeth, I discovered what was going on. Via the mirror I saw a little silver reflection in her mouth. On itself nothing special for a girl our age, but she never told anybody anything about braces. When I questioned her about it, she was very embarrassed and didn’t wanna talk about it. Finally she admitted she had to wear braces as well, but that she was very ashamed of them. She said they weren’t as neat as my braces. I asked her to show me her braces and I’m honest that I didn’t expect to see what she came up with. Still ashamed and not looking into my eyes, she showed me a facemask, the one with a single bar in front of your face running from your forehead to your chin. She hold the facemask in front of her face to show me the monstrosity of it. The more she showed the facemask, the more she got embarrassed, while I just got exited and interested. As I didn’t made any jokes on her and showed some real interest about how it looked and worked and so on, she got a little bit less stressed. Her main argument was that she had to wear it and not me. Then I asked her if I could try it, causing Julie to be surprised, but she let me.

I took her facemask and put it in front of my face and looked at Julie. We both started laughing and I think that broke the ice. Seeing Julie get less upset about her braces, I thought about a way to fix the facemask to my braces.

I put the facemask down and grabbed some elastics. Earlier I had seen that Julie had some hooks on the sides of her jaws just behind her canines, so I looped the elastics around the brackets on my canines, behind the wire, so they were bound around the brackets.

Next I took her facemask and pulled the elastics to the bar in front of my mouth. And wow…. That was a complete new experience. Remember that headgear was never part of my treatment, so having something passing your lips and a metal bar in front of your face that makes you squint, was rather… let say…. Weird.

Julie couldn’t believe what I had done and she completely lost her shyness. Later I learnt that it was the first time Julie saw someone else with a facemask. We left the bathroom and lay down on the bed and we couldn’t stop talking. I enjoyed the feeling of the elastics on my lips and the movement of the facemask on my forehead when talking. I think Julie never realized how much I liked her facemask. Of course I understood the impact of wearing a facemask in real life but for the moment I was in heaven. Because of the challenges I’m always looking for, I tried to eat and drink, what in fact went amazingly well. As Julie never tried before herself, she was as surprised as I was about how little impact the facemask had on eating and drinking, although the movement of the big pad on your forehead during chewing was annoying. My next challenge was about kissing in headgear and believe me, we tried and there was absolutely no way to reach each other’s lips.

I guess it was after a few hours that we finally fell to sleep, while I was still wearing the facemask. When we woke up next morning I had to take of the facemask. The elastics had gotten so tight around the brackets that Julie had to cut them loose. After this night Julie was more at ease with her facemask when I was around, but it never became her best friend so to say. I never got a chance to experience her facemask again.

When I was thinking about another challenge a few weeks ago, I saw a teenager wearing braces having a discussion with his parents about headgear. My memories drove back to my own braces period and to the interesting experience with Julie’s facemask. I quickly realized that an adult with braces is quite normal nowadays, but an adult wearing a facemask is a no-go. I realized that a headgear is also very uncommon, but you can find some you-tube uploads with women wearing headgear. Then I decided that it would be a nice challenge to wear headgear full time to find out how people react and until what point I’m confident enough to keep wearing it. And although a facebow will be hard enough to wear because of other’s reactions, it won’t challenge my functionality. That’s why I chose to go for the tongue crib as well, because that would force me to search for new solutions regarding talking and eating, so my functionality. And now is the first time since I have my braces put on, that I was full of them. First the headgear because of the guy who was taking pictures and now my tongue crib, because I desperately want to give you a proper kiss.

Someone else that has a real love for showering with someone of the opposite sex!  The steam, the water, the slippery soap suds, all the things to play with...

Chapter 12

After a while we returned to the balcony, where it has became dark in the meantime. We sat down on the bench “a little tired but satisfied” and got back to our drinks that were still waiting for us.

“Sso, did you like to showew with me?” Jess said with a wink.

“I think I can get used to taking showers with you,” I replied. “May be we can experiment a little with showering, like taking a shower in the kitchen, or on the couch, or, may on the beach or in a tent while camping. May be we can even experiment with the positions we take when showering/ I heard other positions can be interesting as well”

Jess clearly didn’t expect that answer and laughed loudly, making her braces very visible. The dim moonlight reflecting on some parts of her braces, made the view very weird, but very lovely at the same time.

From that point things worked out very well between Jess and me and we became closer and closer. We spent more and more time together and we both got to know each other’s friends.

One Friday evening we planned to go out and meet some of Jess’s friends in the pub. Before we left, Jess became very serious.
“Won, I have to tell you ssomething. You awe going to meet ssome of my fwiendss and one of them iss Chwiss. Chwiss iss weally a tall guy. With hiss immensse ovewweight, he iss, let’ss ssay, impwessssive. Mowe impowtant iss that he dwinkss a lot and when he getss dwunk, he will become vewy fwiendly and nice, ow he becomess angwy and aggwessssive. It can go both wayss. Why I tell you thiss, iss becausse Chwiss thinkss he ownss me and that I’m hiss giwlfwiend. I have nevew been hiss giwlfwiend and nothing hass happened between uss, although he sspweadss the wowd that we awe a couple. I am alsso vewy ssuwe that I will nevew be hiss giwlfwiend. I don’t like hiss lookss, I don’t like hiss attitude, I weally don’t like him at all.
I don’t know what’ss going to happen tonight, but at leasst you awe a little pwepawed. All the othewss awe very nice by the way.”

I took Jess’s words  and didn’t think too much of it. Quickly after, we left and not too much later we were at a nice pub. Jess’s led me through the public to a group of people in the far back. As soon as I saw them, I recognized the guy that has to be Chris. He was about a head taller and twice as heavy as I was.

Jess introduced me to all her friends, who welcomed me very warmly. They were interested where and how Jess and I met but they were also interested in me. I heard some words from the conversations Jess was having, not only about me and about us, but also about her braces, as a lot of them hadn’t seen Jess since she got her braces.
Somewhat later on the evening I saw
 Chris coming my way and I saw a a look in his eyes that didn’t look good. With Jess’s warning  about Chris in mind, I decided to be calm and relaxed and try not to upset him.

When he was right in front of me, I could smell his alcohol breath and without any small talk, he started:
“So, you’re the guy that thinks he can get involved with my girlfriend. Huh?” and before I could answer, he continued: “Didn’t Jess told you that she is MY girlfriend. Jess is mine and will be mine, so get lost.”

Jess heard this one way conversation and dropped in: “Chwiss, let’ss make it cleaw. I don’t know in what wowld you’we living, but I nevew have been youw giwlfwiend and fow ssuwe I won’t be youw giwlfwiend. I ssuggesst you sstawt cweting a life fow youwsself without bothewing me.”

Chris turned his head from me towards Jess and took another good look after he saw her headgear.

Then he turned back to me saying:
“What the @@@@ is wrong with you? What in your mind that you talked Jess into getting braces. Look at the hardwarestore she is wearing. If you are a man, you should have protected her, but now, look at her. How could you let someone make her wear that, especially in public.
So again: get lost, leave Jess alone and never show up again”

Before I could say something Jess said:
“Chwiss, you bettew lissten to me. Won didn’t do anything regawding my bwassess. It wass me and only me, I wanted bwassess. In fact I got bwassess befowe Won and I got involved. I wepeat Won and I awe involved now. Sso, you have to sstep down and not Won. Of couwse you can sstay in the pub and be a pawt of our gwoup, but you then bettew behave.”

Chris calmed down a little and stepped down. One could see he was mad (at me) and absolutely didn’t like what Jess just told him. The good thing was that apparently Chris respected Jess, as he indeed did what Jess told him to do.

 The rest of the evening was very nice and I really liked Jess’s friends, even Chris. When the last round was called, Jess and I left the pub and headed for her home. When we were alone, Jess said: “I think they weally liked you and what happened with Chwiss… don’t think anything of it. Jusst let it go. Shall we go home and take a sshowew? I think I can use that aftew tonight…”

I looked at Jess and saw her twinkling eyes filled with lust. It looks like it’s going to be a long night.

Chapter 14

The next morning I silently stepped out of the bed, while Jess was still asleep, While I walked to the bathroom, I saw Jess’s corset on the floor. When I picked it up, I felt the smooth fabric as a counterpart of the stiff busks. I couldn’t resist to stretching the corset around my middle and of course I couldn’t fasten it, the feeling was nice. I put the corset on the desk in the room and took a long and hot shower.

I had almost finished when I saw a very sleepy Jess stepping into the bathroom. She took out her headgear and put it on the sink before joining me under the shower and embracing me. The shower had a good effect on Jess waking up and after about ten minutes I turned off the shower and started drying off Jess, making sure I didn’t miss a spot of her body.

While I started dressing Jess was drying her hair. When Jess finally left the bathroom she took her corset and stepped in front of me, turning her back to me: “Can you lacce me up pleasse?” Jess asked, while she wrapped the corset around her body. “You have to sstawt at the bottom wowking upwawdss.”

I was pleased in multiple ways. First of all was the presence of Jess, but also the fact that she volunteered in wearing a corset and last but not least for letting me lace her up. I slowly tightened the laces and doing so, I heart Jess taking a deep breath. “A little tightew pleasse,” she said when I thought it couldn’t be any tighter.

I tightened the laces a bit more and made a knot, before I turned Jess around and gave her a big hug. I felt the contrast of soft and flexible skin and the rather rough corset. After a long kiss Jess handed me two small padlocks:
“Hewe I have two padlockss. I want uss to lock the fiwsst padlock on the Pont dess Awtss, alsso known ass the love lock bwidge. I think it would be nicce to vissit that bwidge today.”

“Okay,” I said: “and the second one?”

“I want you to put the ssecond lock thwough the open wivets at the top of my cowsset,” Jess said while she looked me straight in the eyes.

“You want me to do what?” I said, clearly surprised by Jess’s request.

“I want you to usse the ssecond padlock to lock the cowsset onto me, sso I’m not able to take off the cowsset by mysself,” Jess repeated with a timid voice.

Still amazed, but not wanting to spoil the moment by raising more questions, I turned Jess around and tested the laces again.
“Okay,” I said: “but before I’ll put the padlock on, I have to tighten the laces again, because the rivets aren’t close enough.”

Silently Jess turned around so I could untie the knot and started to pull the laces even tighter from the bottom upwards. It took some effort and Jess body was struggling, but she didn’t complain. Seeing the way her body reacted, I think she just liked it.

After tying up the laces, I took the padlock and with a firm click, the lock closed. I took the key and put it in my pocket.
“I have to be careful that I throw the correct keys into the water on the love lock bridge,” I joked.

Jess started to dress, so we could have some breakfast. It took Jess a little longer than normal to dress, mainly because she was struggling with her balance because of tightness of the corset that was even more than yesterday, giving her even a bigger challenge. I walked behind Jess into the breakfast room and it surprised me that the lock was showing clearly through her shirt. It made me kinda proud.

During our breakfast I couldn’t hold my curiosity any longer and asked Jess: “What is it like to wear a corset? It doesn’t look that comfortable to me, so why did you decide to wear one the whole weekend and why did you want me to lock it onto you?”

“Well, to be honest, I was intwigued by cowsets fow a long time and I know nowmally men awe tuwned on by women in cowssetss, although I don’t know why. When you ssuwpwissed me with thiss twip to Pawiss, I thought it wass a nice moment fow my next challenge and sstawted to look fow a cowsset. You know it wassn’t that eassy to decide what kind of cowsset I wanted, thewe awe sso many diffewent typess. I decided to go to a lingewie sstowe that wass alsso advewtissing with cowssetss and having a chat ovew thewe, I quite quickly came to the conclussion that I would pwobably like a cowsset that iss not cweating a wassp taille, but one that iss dessigned to keep youw body sstwaight. Aftew ssome fitting, I decided to go fow a sso called ovewbusst cowsset.

The fiwsst time I wowe it, wass a little sscawy actually, becausse ass sshe might have sseen, the cowsset changess the way you awe able to move youw body, sso it affectss youw balance. I wass alsso wowwied that the lacing would sshow and that people would weact.

I wass ssuwpwissed to find out that weawing a cowsset givess me the ssame feelingss of weawing bwacess. My cowsset doess sshow if ssomeone lookss closse enough. The padlock hass mowe ow lessss the ssame effect ass headgeaw. It iss a cuwiossity, but people awe too asshamed to quesstion you about it.

Bessidess the lookss the cowsset iss wowking the ssame ass my bwacess. It issn’t weally uncomfowtable, but ssometimess annoying and it affectss my daily activitiess. Actually the fact that they awe glued in ow locked iss a bit of a tuwn on. I think it iss the feeling of being ssubmissssive and give ssomeone elsse the powew ovew you to decide what you can ow cannot do.”

“Well, to be honest, I was intrigued by corsets for a long time and I know normally men are turned on by women in corsets, although I don’t know why. When you surprised me with this trip to Paris, I thought it was a nice moment for my next challenge and started to look for a corset. You know it wasn’t that easy to decide what kind of corset I wanted, there are so many different types. I decided to go to a lingerie store that was also advertising with corsets and having a chat over there, I quite quickly came to the conclusion that I would probably like a corset that is not creating a wasp taille, but one that is designed to keep your body straight. After some fitting, I decided to go for a so called overbust corset.
The first time I wore it, was a little scary actually, because as she might have seen, the corset changes the way you are able to move your body, so it affects your balance. I was also worried that the lacing would show and that people would react.
I was surprised to find out that wearing a corset gives me the same feelings of wearing braces. My corset does show if someone looks close enough. The padlock has more or less the same effect as headgear. It is a curiosity, but people are too ashamed to question you about it.
Besides the looks the corset is working the same as my braces. It isn’t really uncomfortable, but sometimes annoying and it affects my daily activities. Actually the fact that they are glued in or locked is a bit of a turn on. I think it is the feeling of being submissive and give someone else the power over you to decide what you can or cannot do.”

“Okay, I think I understand,” I said, while drinking my coffee. “Not that I am up to now that I know how to, but how would you react if I lock your headgear, so you’re not able to take it of the moment you want to?”

Again Jess’s reaction surprised me: “I have thought about locking my headgeaw ass well. I have found a few wayss to mowe ow lessss lock them in place, but didn’t have the newvess to talk about it up to now. I sseawched the intewnet and found out that it iss vewy wawe to have a fixed headgeaw. I found a few cassess whewe the headgeaw wass actually wiwed in.

Mosst of the sstowiess on intewnet whewe people claim to have headgeaw wiwed in awe fake. Thewe awe a few wayss to do sso. Fiwsst iss that the facebow can be welded onto the molaw bandss. Fow the ssituation you awe looking fow, that issn’t a possssibility, becausse then you have to wemove the molaw bandss and glue them back on.

Anothew way iss to usse metal wiwe and wiwe it awound the facebow and the tubess on the molawbandss. It sseemss twicky to wiwe it in ssuch a way that the wiwe sstayss fiwmly on the facebow and doessn’t sslide of. It sseemss doable if you have bwacess on youw uppew jaw, becausse then you can loop the wiwe behind the awchwiwe. Unfowtunately I have no bwacess on my uppew jaw, sso too bad….

Next you can bent the endss of the facebow behind the molaw bandss. Alsso not a ssuitable ssolution fow now, becausse the bending iss hawd to undo. Thiss iss mowe a long-tewm ssolution.

Ass none of thesse ssolutionss sseem to fit the goal you’we looking fow, I have thought about anothew way. It iss not completely tampew-pwoof, but it might wowk.

I ssupposse you awe familiaw with the ssmall tie-wwapss. You can loop a ssmall tie-wwap thwough the metal twiangle of the necksstwap awound the facebow. If you pull it tight, the tie-wwap cannot passss the colowed cap at the end of the facebow, sso the necksstwap iss fiwmly attached to the facebow and thewefow cannot be wemoved. Dissadvantage iss that the tie-wwapss can be cut quit ssimple, sso I can wemove it. You cannot pwevent that, but if you usse a bwight colow fow the tie-wwap, you can ssee fwom a disstance that they awe sstill in place. Anothew dissadvantage iss that you cannot take a sshowew ow sso, because you cannot wemove the necksstwap.

If you want to twy to lock my headgeaw in place, you’we welcome. Actually I have bwought ssome tie-wwaps in my ssuitcasse.”

“I have thought about locking my headgear as well. I have found a few ways to more or less lock them in place, but didn’t have the nerves to talk about it up to now. I searched the internet and found out that it is very rare to have a fixed headgear. I found a few cases where the headgear was actually wired in. Most of the stories on internet where people claim to have headgear wired in are fake.

There are a few ways to do so. First is that the facebow can be welded onto the molar bands. For the situation you are looking for, that isn’t a possibility, because then you have to remove the molar bands and glue them back on.

Another way is to use metal wire and wire it around the facebow and the tubes on the molarbands. It seems tricky to wire it in such a way that the wire stays firmly on the facebow and doesn’t slide of. It seems doable if you have braces on your upper jaw, because then you can loop the wire behind the archwire. Unfortunately I have no braces on my upper jaw, so too bad….

Next you can bent the ends of the facebow behind the molar bands. Also not a suitable solution for now, because the bending is hard to undo. This is more a long-term solution.

As none of these solutions seem to fit the goal you’re looking for, I have thought about another way. It is not completely tamper-proof, but it might work.
 
I suppose you are familiar with the small tie-wraps. You can loop a small tie-wrap through the metal triangle of the neckstrap around the facebow. If you pull it tight, the tie-wrap cannot pass the colored cap at the end of the facebow, so the neckstrap is firmly attached to the facebow and therefor cannot be removed. Disadvantage is that the tie-wraps can be cut quit simple, so I can remove it. You cannot prevent that, but if you use a bright color for the tie-wrap, you can see from a distance that they are still in place. Another disadvantage is that you cannot take a shower or so, because you cannot remove the neckstrap.

If you want to try to lock my headgear in place, you’re welcome. Actually I have brought some tie-wraps in my suitcase.”


I was completely overwhelmed by Jess’s story. First of all I wouldn’t have expected Jess to allow me to wire in her headgear and secondly I was impressed by the study Jess had done.   

Nice job!

Chapter 16 - Love lock bridge

We had a great day walking through Paris. Of course we went to the love lock bridge and we locked our padlock onto the bridge and threw the key into the Seine. It was a rather normal citytrip-day, which we both enjoyed.

As we ended our day in a small and cozy bar-restaurant, we were shown a table quit close to what seemed another young couple. As soon as Jess took off her coat, she got the interest of the young couple, probably because her headgear was now clearly visible, where it was hidden under her collar before. I saw them looking at Jess, but didn’t pay attention to it at that moment. We were mainly involved with each other, but I noticed the young couple kept peaking at Jess and I heart them whisper about braces. It wasn’t before long that I noticed the girl had braces herself.  We didn’t pay attention to them, besides that we both thought they were a really fresh couple and that the girl was embarressed about her braces towards the guy. We also noticed that the guy had a more than normal interest in Jess. He seemed to be intrigued by Jess’s braces and especially her headgear, that Jess, of course, couldn’t take off.

After dinner Jess said she needed the bathroom to clean her braces, and when she got up, she turned her back to me and put up her hair: “Can you pleasse unlock my headgeaw?”

I told Jess to kneel, so I could reach the padlock. It took me a little time to turn the dials to the correct code to open the padlock. Meanwhile I saw the astonishment on the faces of the couple.

After I opened the padlock, Jess took off her headgear and left for the bathroom. I heart a soft “Excusse me” next to me and I saw the girl getting up. She quickly grabbed her purse and left for the bathroom as well.

“Need a cleaning too?” I joked to my neighbor, what he answered with a little nod. It looked like he was a little too embarrassed to talk about braces.

It took a little longer than normal before Jess returned and when she did, she said: “Let’ss get anothew dwink befowe we go. It might get intewessting”, while she motioned her head towards the table of the young couple.

“Okay,” I said, curious what to expect. Within no time I ordered two glasses of wine.
“I’m surprised you were able to fasten the headgear by yourself,” I said to Jess: “It was harder than I imagined, when I tried this morning.”

“I didn’t do it by mysself,” Jess said: “I had a little help of Wosse.”

“Rose?” I said: “Who is Rose?”

“Wosse is the giwl of the table next to uss and let’ss ssay that we had an intewessting talk back in the bathwoom.
Ass we expected, they jusst had a few datess in the lasst few weekss, sso they awe explowing each othew. Wosse got hew bwacess jusst befowe theiw ssecond date and sshe iss sstill quiet embawwassed by them, howevew sshe expewienced that Ssimon sshowed a mowe than avewage intewesst towawdss hew mouth and bwacess. Pwobably that’ss why he kept looking at me duwing dinew.

Wosse fuwthew told me that sshe alsso had to weaw headgeaw, but that sshe wass too embawwassed to weaw it in public. Sshe even kept hew headgeaw ssecwet to Ssimon.

When I left fow the bathwoom, sshe took the oppowtunity to chat with me in pwivate. Let’ss ssay that sshe was intwigued by the fact that my headgeaw wass locked and sshe twussted me that desspite of the embawwassment hew headgeaw gave hew alsso ssome “wawm” feeling insside. In fact sshe was in doubt between thesse feelingss and up to now sshe alwayss had chossen fow the sasfety and didn’t sshow hew headgeaw to anyone. In fact I was the fiwsst pewsosn to ssee hew in headgeaw.”

“Rose is the girl of the table next to us and let’s say that we had an interesting talk back in the bathroom.
As we expected, they just had a few dates in the last few weeks, so they are exploring each other. Rose got her braces just before their second date and she is still quiet embarrassed by them, however she experienced that Simon showed a more than average interest towards her mouth and braces. Probably that’s why he kept looking at me during diner.

Rose further told me that she also had to wear headgear, but that she was too embarrassed to wear it in public. She even kept her headgear secret to Simon.

When I left for the bathroom, she took the opportunity to chat with me in private. Let’s say that she was intrigued by the fact that my headgear was locked and she trusted me that despite of the embarrassment her headgear gave her also some “warm” feeling inside. In fact she was in doubt between these feelings and up to now she always had chosen for the safety and didn’t show her headgear to anyone. In fact I was the first person to see her in headgear.”

Just at that moment Rose returned from the bathroom showing a cervical headgear. I saw Rose scanning the restaurant for reactions, but the only reaction was from Simon, whose mouth fell open.

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