A Midsummer's Daydream, Part 2 By David daphnesecretgarden@yahoo.com copyright 2002 by David, all rights reserved * * * * * This story is intended for ADULTS ONLY. It contains explicit depictions of sexual activity involving minors. If you are not of a legal age in your locality to view such material or if such material does not appeal to you, do not read further, and do not save this story. * * * * * Chapter Six The Nightmare Returns I spent the next few days keeping a low profile around the house. After all I'd been through, I just didn't have the courage to face anyone, especially my cousins. I mean, I was extremely upset and worried about all the things that had happened at the waterfall, and in my mind, there was a chance that they might try to do it all again. I'd decided that there was no way I was going to let myself go through all that pain and humiliation again, and if my cousins wanted to try it, well, they could just go and jump in a lake. The way I looked at it, why should I make things any worse on myself by playing their stupid little games? Besides, I had more important things to worry about, such as explaining why I was missing a complete set of clothes, a pair of tennis shoes and a backpack. Adding to my worries was the fact that I was sore all over. Remember all that pinching and slapping and spanking that had gone on that awful day? Well, part of me kept thinking "Forget it, stupid, it was only a bad dream" ... but let me tell you, it was for real, all right! Sporting a gallery of red marks and bruises, my body was paying for every bit of the abuse I'd received at the hands of my tormentors. I remember standing in front of the bathroom mirror the next morning and seeing the faded welts on my bare bottom and the bruised pinch marks on my hips, shoulders and chest. I could hardly bear to sit down in certain positions and though I wouldn't admit it for a hundred dollars even my nipples were sensitive from being tweaked and pinched. And, yes, as unpleasant as it may sound, my poor little penis was extremely sensitive and aching from all that ... well, you know what from; it was a painful and yet memorable reminder of the shameful experience I'd undergone. And then there was the memory of Chris ... Even after a couple of days of trying to forget what had happened, I couldn't deny any of it. Everywhere I looked I saw his freckled face, his deep, sad eyes. I could still smell his breath on mine and taste the taste of ripe, fresh strawberries ... and all those kisses .... Oooo-weee! I was certainly an emotional mess, that was for sure! To keep from having to face my cousins and avoid explaining myself to the adults, I spent the next few days hiding in my grandmother's barn or just wandering through her garden. Except for sleeping in my room, I didn't dare stay around the house. I couldn't look my cousins in the eye, not after what had happened that awful day knowing what they'd made me do. It was too much for my young mind, not to mention my boyish ego. I'd always prided myself on being all-boy all the time, but after being coerced into acting well, literally like a fairy! I just couldn't stand the idea of having to face my relatives and all the grief they were likely to give me. And then there was the problem of my Aunt Margaret. She'd seen me in my birthday suit, too, which I was sure raised all sorts of questions in her mind. There was no doubt in my twelve year old brain that she told my grandmother all about seeing me come in that frightful night, my bare bottom hanging out, looking like a scared rabbit scampering up the stairs. How was I going to explain that? What on earth could I say to my aunt, to my grandmother, to make things right? The answer eluded me the truth was far too humiliating and no lie I could conjure up would hold up under scrutiny. It seemed that there was nothing for me to say. Nothing at all. And so I spent the daylight hours hiding alone with my worries and the nights locked in my room reliving in nightmares my humiliation at the hidden waterfall. I'm a pretty fairy, oh, so sweet! See my pixie smile and my bare feet? Hiding in the forest all night and day, I play fairy games so happy and gay. * * * My troubles resurfaced on the third morning following the incident at the waterfall. For the past couple of days I'd been getting up around dawn, grabbing a quick bite to eat, and then getting out of the house before my cousins and my aunt got up. On this particular morning I was sitting on the toilet, relaxed and content, minding my own business, when the bathroom door suddenly swung wide open. To my shock and dismay, Pam and Sheila walked in, strutting right over to me as though they owned the place, smiling like a couple of cats that had just entered a canary cage. With my pajama bottom down around my ankles and my top hanging far out of reach on a hook on the wall, I was as naked and helpless as I was when I was caught skinny dipping a few days before. "No-o-o-o-o ..." I whined pitifully. "Hey, ugly boy!" Pam said with a grin. I blushed like crazy. Even at her worst, my sixteen year old cousin was scarily beautiful. "Whatcha doin? Havin' a nice poop?" "Do you smell something?" Sheila said, her nose wrinkled and sniffing. "It stinks in here!" "Get out of here!" I cried desperately. "You can't do this! Get out or I'll tell Nana on both of you!" My indignation amused my cousins, causing them to laugh in a way that scared me. Well, you couldn't blame them; I mean, there I was, sitting on the toilet, trying to keep my cool and cover my nudity all at the same time, an impossible task, to say the very least. Pam rapped me sharply on top of the head with her knuckles, the pain bringing a flood of tears to my eyes. "Don't you tell us what we can do! Nana isn't here to save your little butt. Mom took her into town for the day. You know what that means don't you?" I didn't dare say a word. Whatever that meant, I figured I wasn't going to like it. "That means you belong to us!" Sheila taunted. "All day long, fairy boy! All day long!" A cold, cruel chill spread down my spine. I didn't like the sound of that at all. "You just wait 'til Nana gets back," I braved through swelling tears. "If she finds out what you're doing she'll get you! You can't treat me like this!" Both girls laughed and Pam reached down and pinched my nose ... hard! I couldn't help sobbing in pain. "We're in charge, so don't even worry 'bout that right now," she said with a giggle. "Besides, she wouldn't care anyway if she knew what kind of little fairy you really are!" "Yeah, li'l fairy," Sheila chimed in. "Go ahead and tell. See what we care!" Things weren't looking good. Not at all. "I'm not fairy, I'm a boy!" I said as I did my best to cover myself. I then just sat there and pouted and wished my cousins would go away. That, unfortunately, wasn't about to happen. Sheila proved herself just as mean as her sister, giving the soft flesh on my bare arm a cruel pinch. A tall seventeen year old, she was considerably more powerful than I was at the time and had no trouble at all putting me in a painful wristlock "Well, we don't like boys. Especially stinky little crybaby boys. We much prefer pretty little fairies!" Sheila then bent down and grabbed my pajama bottom and jerked them off my feet, nearly pulling me off the toilet in the process. All that without losing her grip on my wrist. "O-o-o-o-h," her sister said, taking the garment and dangling it just out of reach. "Now what are you going to do, li'l fairy?!" I couldn't help but squeal out in horror. I kicked my legs and grabbed at my pajamas, but there wasn't much I could do without getting off the toilet and exposing my bare bottom. And so I sat there, completely at my cousins' mercy as they did what they did best: make my life miserable. "Today you're all OURS," Sheila said as she pulled my robe and pajama top from the hook on the door and rolled them up with the bottoms she'd pulled off me. "We've got a big day planned, so you better get off the pot!" "Yep, a BIG day," her sister said with a giggle. "Please, give me back my 'jamas," I begged in vain. "You're not supposed to see me like this." Pam gave me one of those patented I-know-something-you-don't- know-smiles and I knew right then there was no chance in heck that I'd ever see them again, but I had to at least try. "Oh, you won't be needing these anymore. Not today at least. Fairies don't wear pajamas, dummy! After all you went through the other day, don't you know that by now? They never wear anything!" Dejected and miserable, I sat there like an idiot for what seemed like forever, bearing the brunt of my cousins' cruel sense of humor. I started crying again, which seemed to annoy my cousin Sheila. "Oh, would you just stop it already? I don't know why in the world you keep doing that. You ought to be used to being 'nekkid' by now." Pam agreed. "Yeah, you need to shut up and get off the potty now. We've got things to do, places to go and people to see. Hop to it, fairy boy, before I get Nana's belt." I tell you, I was never so mortified as when I finally and very shyly stood up and wiped myself in front of my cousins. Talk about shame! It was like I was a little baby, having someone standing over me, telling how to do something so very basic, so intimate. Before we did anything else, the girls insisted that I take a bath, which, of course, they supervised with excruciating thoroughness. From shampoo to rinse, they made sure I did everything just right, as though I was a little baby washing himself for the very first time. My heart beat like crazy when at one point I had to stand in the middle of the tub and soap up myself "Do I have to?" I asked shyly. It was bad enough that I was naked in front of my cousins. Touching myself there while they watched was humiliating. "Yes, you do," ordered Sheila. "You stink, and we don't like little boys who stink." "Wash your little weiner really good or we'll wash it for you," Pam warned. Needless to say, I got a huge erection - well, huge for me - as I ran my soapy hands over myself like that, which was the point of the exercise. My cousins just loved that, of course. They made me wash my bottom just as thoroughly and, to my horror, had me bend over so they could inspect my crack. Talk about embarrassing! "Good job," Sheila said. "All sparkling clean and shiny. Now that's a pretty bottom!" "Almost as pretty as a girl's!" Pam added. "Maybe even prettier!" I felt curious fingers tracing around my butthole. For some reason my erection twitched. By the time I was out of the tub I was awash with conflicting feelings and sensations. The girls pinched and poked at my freshly bathed body as thought I was a little doll, and my ears rang from the constant barrage of teasing that continued to assault me. I was never so embarrassed, or mad, in my life. Then again, the day was young, wasn't it? Oddly enough, the experience wasn't without its pleasantries; standing naked before my captors was just awful ... but then again, part of me kind of enjoyed it as they dabbed at me with a powder puff and a spritzer of perfume, leaving my pale form soft and touchable and smelling like a bouquet of flowers. Even as they brushed my hair, I found myself torn between embarrassment and joy, ruefully savoring the attention I was getting; it was like I was in a dream, nothing was real except the constant touching and whispering that kept my spirits afloat. "Such a pretty boy," Sheila kept saying, shaking her head as she held my hands up high and smacked at my belly and under my arms with the big fluffy powder puff. "You're really too pretty to be a boy. It's too bad you're not a girl. Think of all the fun we could have." Pam laughed as she ran her eyes up and down my naked body. "Oh, I don't know. I think this is pretty fun, too." Sheila blinked, glanced down for a second and laughed. "I see what you mean. Yep, it sure looks like everybody's having fun." At first I didn't know what they were talking about. Then I looked down. There it was, my erection, pale with a fine layer of talcum, straining under my cousins' gaze. After all that time it was still bouncing around and showing off like a playful pet of some sort. "Oh, no ... not this!!!" I thought desperately Sheila's smile was as bright as the sun. "Well, little cousin can't complain too much. His fun meter is giving him away." She grabbed one of my hands and Pam grabbed the other, preventing me from hiding my shame. "Come on, fairy boy, let's put you to work. We've got the perfect chore for you to do ...." Chapter Seven The Garden of Shame The world was like a dream to me as I was led downstairs and to the front door. A really, really bad dream. I'd lost complete control of the entire situation, as though I was in a horrible nightmare or even hypnotized. I watched in terror as Sheila winked at me and then opened the front door. "They're not serious!" I thought. "They're not really going to ...." Reality hit me along with a full dose of morning sunlight. I remember being panicked as I was shoved out on the porch and down the front steps. "No! No-no-no-no-no -no-no," I screamed over and over. "No- no-no-no-no! You can't do this to m-...." SLAPP!!! My head spun under the force of my cousin's hand. "Don't tell us what we can't do," Sheila said in a sweetly menacing voice. "You forget who you are, pretty boy. You're our little fairy slave today and we can do anything we want with you." My cousin Pam grinned. "Yep, just about anything we want." "This isn't fair! It's cold out! I ... I might get sick or something." "Oh, I doubt that. It's not that cold. You won't get sick. You might get sunburn on your butt ...." "Or a whppin' ...." Sheila giggled. "But you won't get sick." "You're mean!" I whined. Like that was going to do a lot of good. OWW! Pam pinched the skin on my bare belly so hard I thought it was going to draw blood. "What are you going to do, cry about it? Oh, look, Sis, you were right. He's just a little crybaby." "I am not!" I sniffed. "Oh yes you are! You're the biggest crybaby I've ever seen." It was going to be a miserable day, I could tell already. From the instant my bare feet touched the sidewalk, and then the dew-drenched grass, I thought about breaking free and running away, but my knees were so weak I couldn't bring myself to do it. Call me a coward if you like, but that was all my poor pre-pubescent brain could come up with at the time. "This isn't happening," I kept telling myself over and over again. I blinked in the bright sunlight. "This can't really be happening ... not to me!!! Not again!!!" After a little more teasing the girls actually put me to work. My "perfect chore" consisted of watering my grandmother's rather enormous flower garden, which covered both the front and back yard. It was probably only about a quarter of an acre, but to me it looked like a hundred. I wasn't allowed to do it the easy way, of course. Instead of letting me use the hose, my cousins insisted that I use the old-fashioned hand pump that sat atop an ancient well all the way at the rear of the back yard, along with a large, rusty watering can. Looking at what lay before me, I couldn't believe my cousins were serious. Nana had flower beds everywhere, in the front yard, along the sides and up and down the back. Beginning with the front yard, it was my job to fill up the can, which held about a gallon or so, and carry it back and forth by hand to do the watering. Weighing more than ten pounds when it was full, the bulky can with its huge spout was a clumsy thing to lug about, and I have no doubt that I looked quite foolish as I struggled to do as I was ordered. "That ought to keep you busy for most of the day," my cousin Pam said. Her voice reminded me of my grandmother just before punishing me for some wrongdoing. After the first trip I set the heavy can down and started to cry. "Do I have to do this? It's too hard. And it's going to take forever." Pam gave me a not-so-gentle rap of the knuckles on the top of my head and a stern warning. "Get to work, little fairy. The sooner you get your chores done, the better. And I better not see any pouting, either. The Fairy Rules are in effect, so I want to see nothing but smiles, okay? You got that?" "I get it, I get it," I said, rubbing the top of my aching head. The irony of the situation was that there was a little statue in the middle of the front yard, surrounded by a bed of pink flowers, a rendition of a slender cherub-like creature doing pretty much the same thing I was doing. Almost as tall as me at the time, with butterfly wings sprouting from its back and in its hand a miniature version of watering can I was fighting with, the graceful figure balanced mysteriously on a stone slab in a solemn, sad pose. No wonder it was sad; from the first time I saw it, it looked to me more like a naked boy than anything supernatural; in fact, that's how Nana always referred to it, her "pretty boy." And, yes, in case you were wondering, it was anatomically correct, okay? There wasn't much there, just enough that you could tell it was most definitely a boy and not a girl. Not that I spent all that much time looking at it or anything, you understand. Whatever. What was important was I remembered that life- sized statue being there ever since I was little, stealing glances at it whenever I came to visit, fascinated by it for some unknown reason. I suppose that was because it had always looked so alive to me, as though it might come to life and actually speak. I'd often felt sorry for the alabaster boy, wings or no wings, frozen in his nakedness. Before all this craziness happened I'd occasionally imagined myself in his position, but promptly dropped the matter as being too unbelievable. Now, trapped in my birthday suit in bright daylight, feuding with a heavy water can, I felt an obvious kinship with the silent stone child. Odd, how I couldn't help looking at him and thinking of Christopher and that awful day at the waterfall .... Meanwhile, back in reality, my cousins sat on the front steps and watched over me for a little while, nagging and teasing me as I performed my tedious chores. I couldn't do anything right, of course, and they made sure I knew it. Back and forth across the front yard I went, banging my shins on the heavy metal can and getting whacked on my bare bottom with a switch for no good reason. I was a pretty miserable fellow, let me tell you. After a while the girls played another mean trick on me. "Hey, come here, fairy boy!" Pam called out. She was concealing something behind her back and the look on her face was evil. "I bet you'd like something to wear." I tried to restrain my desperation, but that was impossible. "Please," I said a little too eagerly. "Here, close your eyes for a second." For an instant I had high hopes that I might get to put on at least a little something, but I quickly squelched them. With my luck it would be a pair of socks or something equally useless. No use getting too excited, I figured. Oh, gosh ... what if it's something girly??!!! I thought in a panic. "I said close your eyes." I winced as Pam poked me in the belly with a sharp fingernail. Reluctantly and fearfully, I did as I was told, praying silently for a miracle. An odd tickle on my chest and around my neck sent a thrill through my body. A second later I looked down to see a silver chain, fine as a spider web, draped below my chin. A delicate, flowerlike object about the size of my thumb hung from it. A close examination showed it to be a pink porcelain figurine - a fairy, of course. Looking down at it, I realized this was something no real boy would ever be seen wearing. My stomach churned with despair. While I lamented my gift, Sheila cracked up with laughter. "You should see the look on your face! You look like you're gonna cry, crybaby." I started to say something, at least tell her to go to hell, but she was right. I was on the verge of breaking out in tears and bawling like a baby. And I would have, too, if I'd opened up my big mouth. "You better be careful with that necklace," Sheila warned. "You break it or lose it, and you'll get such a whipping!" My cousins insisted on decorating my hair while they had their hands on me. Right there in the front yard of my grandmother's house! Good thing we were up a ways from the main road! I would have died if anybody else saw me looking so stupid. Anyway, instead of giving me a tiara of purple and white flowers like the other day, this time the girls braided a ring of tiny pink and white rose buds to go atop my head. Sheila finished it off with a mix of red and white roses stuck on top, kinda like a crown. Pam, meanwhile, fashioned a pair of bracelets out of some of the same thin vines she's used to make my headdress. With my new pendant and my flowery adornments, all I needed was a pair of wings and I'd look like a real live fairy! You can imagine the panic I felt when Pam produced her little camera. "Here, I wanna get a picture. Stand next to the statue. Closer. Like even closer. Put your arm around it like you're the best of friends. That's it! Now smile!" Yeah, I know ... I felt like a complete and total idiot, but I didn't care. The more angry I became, the more fun the girls had at my expense. I thought about it while they were decorating me and I came to a revelation. My new job, I decided, was to try and not show my misery. Why let my cousins know how unhappy they were making me? Why not pretend to enjoy myself? In fact, I thought, I'll act like I'm having a ton of fun, no matter what they do to me. That ought to really piss them off! "I wonder what I look like," I said with forced pleasantness. "Is this right? Do I look okay? Do you wanna take some more?" It took all I had, but I somehow managed to act like I was enjoying myself. A grinning Pam loaned me a small makeup mirror to see how I looked. I forced a wan smile as I touched the flowers intertwined in my longish hair. Yep, just like I figured. A total idiot. In fact, I looked just like a girl. To do that was just about the worst thing you could do to me. Now I wished I'd gotten all of my hair cut off. "I do look kinda pretty, don't I?" I asked in a sing-song voice. Wow, this was actually kinda working. No harm in trying to go along with my cousins' little game. Maybe they'd get tired of it. I prayed for a miracle. "Pretty? You look adorable!" Sheila gushed. "Oh, so sweet!" Pam added. "Just like a fairy princess!" My face suddenly got hot. I nodded. "Thanks," I said with a forced grin. Sheila looked me dead in the eye. "The important question is, what do you think of how you look?" I cleared my throat. "I, um, I guess I look okay." "Oh, really? Just okay? A minute ago you said you looked pretty." "I guess I do," I nodded. "Look, you know, pretty, I mean." My cousin grinned. "Come on, tell the truth, David. You're really getting into all this, aren't you? Being our little fairy boy and all? You can tell us. Don't lie." I swallowed. How far was I going to go with all this? Did Sheila know I was just going along to keep her off my back? Or did she think I actually liked looking like and acting like a fruit? Either way, she wasn't going to make this easy for me. "Oh, I like it, okay. It's, uh, nice. Honest!" Pam laughed. "Oh, come on, fairy boy. You can't fool us. Like it? You love it, don't you? You love running around in your birthday suit and having a couple of pretty girls primp and pamper you. Tell me this isn't the best thing that's ever happened to you!" "Noooo," I whined. "I mean, I don't know. Maybe." "Liar!" her sister interjected. "Come on, David, 'fess up. After the way you acted the other day when Linda and Anita dressed you up and then how you were kissing on your little boyfriend? You love acting like a little fairy! Tell the truth. What difference does it make? We know how you really feel, so you might as well admit it." In spite of standing around all morning stark naked, I felt myself blushing from head to toe at the prospect of having to say something so stupid, so ridiculous ... something so queer. I wasn't even sure if I could say it if I wanted to. On the other hand, with my cousins sitting there staring at me like that, well, it was difficult to deny. They'd seen me do some pretty crazy stuff that summer. As far as they were concerned they already knew the truth. And so what if I said I liked this stupid game , who would know? It was just between the three of us, so what would it hurt? "Yeah, well, it ... it is kinda fun," I stammered. "I guess. Sorta." Sheila gave me a pinch on the butt. "Which is more fun, dressing up and playing fairy games, or kissing boys?" I froze. What a question!!! Either way I was screwed. I coughed and thought for a second. "Dressing up and, you know, the fairy game thing, I guess." The girls burst out laughing. "Oh, yeah, as if you didn't like kissing Christopher! You big fibber! If you liked playing 'fairies,' you loved kissing on your little boyfriend! Don't lie to us! We got the pictures to prove it!" I felt my face flush with shame. Darn it! Darn Pam and that stupid camera! Nodding slightly, I mumbled a quiet, "I guess so" and wiped my eyes. Was I crying? My cousins grinned like crazy as I stood there and tearfully confessed my guilty secrets. Yes, I liked running around bare bottomed. Yes, I liked dressing up and acting like a fairy. And yes, I liked kissing and hugging on Christopher! Geez ... I'd have said anything at that point to get them to stop badgering me! At last, after I poured my heart out, Sheila pulled me close, hugged me, and then gave me a light kiss on the lips. "Our little fairy! Now see, was that so hard? I figured you were liking this more than you let on. How else are you gonna keep having fun?" I felt myself spinning about and was pleasantly surprised to find myself getting another hug and a kiss from Pam. I also got a pat on the bare butt, which was kinda nice, too. It was even nicer that she left her hand there as she held me in her arms. "This is so cool," Pam enthused. "I knew you enjoyed playing 'fairies.' It was obvious from the start. Doesn't it feel great to tell the truth?" "I guess ...." You don't know how hard it was for me to go along with all that. Without being too spastic, I mean. I was still hoping they would soon tire of their little joke, but it wasn't looking good. I was beginning to realize I should have kept my mouth shut. My cousins grinned like a pair of Cheshire cats as they took turns hugging on me and tickling me and patting me all over. "Well, I'm glad to hear you admit how much you're enjoying yourself, little fairy," Sheila said. Her eyes pierced deep into mine. "There's a lot more fairy fun yet to come." I wanted to ask what she meant by that, but Sheila gave me a playful SMACK!!! on the butt and shoved me toward the flower garden. "Just wait, you'll see. Now get back to work!" I kept my fake smile, but a cold chill ran down my spine as I did as I was told. Chapter Eight Unwelcome Guests By the time I finished watering the front garden the telephone rang, so the girls disappeared, along with some of my grief. I was still naked, still adorned in my fairy trappings, but at least I didn't have somebody around tormenting me. "Maybe they'll go away for good," I thought desperately to myself. As I started work in the back yard I finally figured out that if you didn't fill the watering can up all the way it was a lot easier to carry. Of course, you had to make more trips, but I also was a lot closer to the well. At least I wasn't going to get blisters on my hands. This went on for, oh, I guess about an hour. Long enough for me to almost forget my nudity. I watered all of the back yard flowerbeds and then took a break, sitting on the concrete slab next to the old well and drinking several handfuls of water. It had been a little chilly that morning, but the rising sun warmed things up and I kind of, well, got comfortable running around au naturel. "This isn't so bad," I thought to myself. "If they just leave me alone, I could stay like this the rest of the summer." I grinned at the thought, just for an instant ... and then I remembered how stupid I felt a little while before. I mean, I was a twelve year old boy, almost a teenager. I should have been out riding horses and fishing and playing baseball! Not running around bareass with flowers in my hair and acting like some simpering sissy! "I better be careful what I wish for. Knowing those girls, if they had their way I'd be running around like this all summer long!" I thought sadly. Remembering my cousin's instructions, I got to work watering the flower pots that lined the back porch and patio. My grandmother and aunt fancied themselves experts on herbs and such things, so there were dozens of potted plants, small and large and every size in between. Filling the heavy water can about halfway for each trip from the well, I figured it would take forever before I got this chore done, too. "Oh, well, it could be worse," I thought to myself. "At least there ain't nobody around to give me a hard time." I got so caught up in my work that I didn't hear them until it was too late. First it was a car door slamming, then excited voices, and finally the sound of somebody - make that lots of somebodies! - coming around the side of the house. I just about jumped out of my skin when I realized what was going on, and I looked around for a place to run and hide. But it was too late. I was doomed. Again. It could have been worse, I suppose, but I don't know how. One minute I was alone, fairly content in my nakedness and making an honest effort to get my chores done. An instant later I was face-to-face with a handful of bright-eyed, jabbering, giggling girls! "Where did they come from? Oh, Jesus, not again!!! Why me???" There were three of them in all, their ages ranging somewhere between eleven and fourteen. I knew all three, unfortunately, mostly from the Sunday school my aunt made me attend when I visited each summer. One girl, Becky, was the eleven year old sister of Linda, one of the teenagers who'd kidnapped me at the waterfall. I looked around and sure enough, tall blond Linda was on the back porch with my cousins, waving at me with an extremely satisfied grin on her face. "Hi, sweetie!" my old nemesis called down cheerfully. "I brought you some girly-girlfriends to keep you company. Have fun!" Standing there stark naked and facing all those smiling faces, I felt severely sick, all the way to the pit of my stomach. "Oh, god ...." Among the other girls Linda brought along to "keep me company" were twelve year old Samantha, a pretty redhead I'd harbored a crush on for the past couple of summers, and Teresa, a tall, mean looking black fourteen year old I'd met at my cousins' Sunday school. Dressed in a variety of shorts and jeans, tank tops and t- shirts, my new admirers crowded around me, all wide-eyed and shining smiles and laughter. It was that dream again. You know, the waking up in school naked one? Or the walking naked through the department store one? I mean, this was just as bad ... nah, it was worse, much, MUCH worse than what happened at the waterfall. I wish I could say it was fun - it sounds like fun, doesn't it, a twelve year old boy running naked among a bunch of girls? - but it wasn't. It was, well, just plain terrifying! I mean, I was so humiliated, so scared I would have peed my pants ... if I'd had any. Aside from the obvious, I was in a really, really bad spot. I mean, this was much more than just a bunch of girls; these were people who knew me, people I'd have to eventually face in public places ... people who could - and would! - make me miserable for the rest of my life. For instance, as long as I'd been coming to my grandmother's farm Becky had always been pretty much a thorn in my side. I mean, she was nice and all, I guess, but she was also the fattest girl in Sunday school, not to mention the ugliest - glasses and braces, ugh! - and the goofiest. All that, and she was always making goo-goo eyes at me and trying to kiss me, which I just couldn't stand! Samantha, on the other hand, never gave me the time of day, but that never stopped me from acting like an idiot around her. Hit hard with a bad case of puppy love, I thought everything Samantha did was cute as heck. The way she'd bat her eyes, the spatter of freckles across her face, even the way she laughed. Now, well, hearing her laughing - at me! - was the most shameful thing I could think of! Teresa Jackson's hold over me was as silly as it was stupid. Believe it or not, I was already scared of her long before any of this craziness happened, partly because she was bigger than me, partly because she was so scary, and partly because she was black. You have to understand that it was a different world back in those days and at that age I was pretty much scared of all black people, having been brought up in a predominantly whitebread neighborhood. Anyway, Teresa knew I was terrified of her and she'd never hesitated to tease me about it. And now, in my current state of nudity, I was fair game. "Eek!!! Look quick, guys!" Becky squealed at the top of her lungs. "Pammy's cousin David is all nakey! Ew, gross!" "What's wrong with this picture?" another girl announced with a titter. "Flowers in his hair, bare butt, jewelry ... Looks like somebody's having too much fun if you ask me." "Isn't that queer," someone else said. A smattering of giggles and whispers of disbelief filled the air, punctuated by much squealing and laughing. Becky had every right to be mean, I guess; Sheila and Pam were always saying I should ask her to be my girlfriend, just to be nice, of course. My reaction - being a typical twelve year old boy - was instead to ignore or make fun of her, anything to get her off my back. I knew it hurt her feelings, but I didn't care, as long as she kept away from me. Now, thanks to my darling cousins, it was payback time. "Geez, David, what's wrong with you?" Becky said with a huge grin. "Running around all naked, with all those girly flowers in your hair, that's just plain queer!" Dammit! I'd forgotten about those stupid flowers. I turned away only to see Samantha looking up and down my body and giggling like crazy. She locked her big blue eyes in on mine; they were so bright with laughter I found it difficult to return her gaze. My stomach ached and my head hurt, but there wasn't much I could do except stand there and bite my lip. Talk about being shamed! "He's got little rose bud bracelets, too!" She sniffed the air. "What's that? You even smell like a girl! What is that perfume, 'White Shoulders'? Geez, I would have never thought you would be such a little priss. You do sissy stuff like this often, or just on special occasions?" I couldn't help but grit my teeth, partly out of grief, partly out of frustration. Before I could think of anything to say, chubby Becky, of all people, jumped to my defense. "Don't be so mean, Sammy! I think David is pretty like this. Just like one of my dolls. I like him this way." I couldn't help but cringe as a pudgy arm slipped around my naked waist and gave me a big hug; my eyes almost popped out of my head as I felt a curious hand fondle my bare butt! Samantha looked at Becky and then back at me. She then broke out laughing and I couldn't help rolling my eyes. This was the absolutely worst day of my entire life! "Leave me alone," I fumed. "This isn't funny!" I tried to get away, but Teresa grabbed my wrist and held me tight. "I just want to know what's that you're hiding, pretty boy?" she said with a cruel laugh. "You're not playing with your little self, are you?" To my horror the muscular black girl pulled my hands away so everybody could see my privates, which they did, judging from all the laughter. I was amazed to see how her dark, almost coal black skin contrasted with my own pale complexion. She was as strong as any boy and I felt completely powerless in her grasp. "You're almost as bad as my little brother, playing with your weiner like that," she spat. "Boys!" "Look at his weiner, everybody!" giggled Becky. "Cute!!" "Eew, gross," moaned Samantha. "It's bald! Like a little baby's!" "Be nice! I think it's cute," fumed Becky. "Especially because it's bald." I almost screamed as Teresa reached down and gave my frightened penis a flick with her finger. "Pretty sad, huh? Don't worry, it's too little to do much of anything." She then grabbed hold of the tip and gave me a little squeeze. I couldn't believe a girl actually touched me like that. I tried to get away again, but Teresa held on. "What's the matter, honey? 'Fraid I might pull it off?" She tugged on me pretty hard, and I bumped into Samantha trying to get away. Samantha then pushed me into Becky, and for a minute there I thought I was going to end up in a fight. "Please, don't touch me," I cried. "Leave me alone!" My voice was choked as somebody grabbed my arm and held tight. I struggled to get away, but I couldn't. There wasn't much else I could do except hope for the best. "Do you want a whippin'?" a familiar voice whispered in my ear. "Be nice, or else!" Talk about a shock! I glanced over to see my cousin Sheila standing right behind me, holding my arm firm and strong. A hard pinch on my bare bottom caused me to gasp in pain. She smiled at me in an especially frightening manner. "Be extra nice, especially to Becky, okay? Remember what happened down at the creek?" This last remark was punctuated with a jab in the ribs with a sharp fingernail. Wincing in pain, I nodded. "Remember the fairy rules? No tears or complaining. I want you to keep a happy face and have lots of happy fun. Okay, fairy boy?" Before I could say anything else Sheila disarmed me of my watering can, leaving me completely exposed before the three younger girls. Assaulted by questions and teasing from all sides, the only thing that kept me from running away was the stern look on my cousin's face. Instead, I forced a fake smile on my face ... and wished I was dead. Trapped in the middle of my little girlfriends, I glanced around to see the older girls sipping lemonade and watching the entire debacle as though it was some sort of theatrical play we were putting on for them. My cousins raised their glasses and nodded in my direction. At least someone was having some fun. I later found out that Sheila and Pam had called Linda to brag about what all they were doing to me, and it was her idea for the younger girls to pay me a visit. "I was hanging out with my little sister and her buddies when you all called," the older teen said with a cheery smile. "Hope you don't mind me bringing them along." One of my cousins, Sheila, I think, responded with mocking enthusiasm. "Oh, no, that's great. Mom and Nana went shopping in town. The girls can help keep our little twinkle toes here company all day long." "Twinkle toes!" Samantha squealed. "What a great name for such a fruity boy!" She jabbed me in the ribs, right in a ticklish place and giggled. "Hey, Twinkle Toes! You know, I always thought you were a twinkle toes, Twinkle Toes!" That really hurt. Especially coming from Samantha. All summer long I was crazy about her, drenched in the kind of clumsy, obsessive romantic feelings that only a twelve year old boy come up with. In the midst of all those giggling, teasing girls, my unrequited puppy love caused more hurt feelings, if such a thing was possible. "Twinkle Toes! Twinkle Toes!" the girls shouted with glee. "David is a Twinkle Toes!" "Twinkle Toes!" shouted Pam from her perch above us. "Sammy's right. That's the perfect name for a little fairy!" "Fairy?" Becky echoed. I closed my eyes and prayed for about the hundredth time that day. Sheila nodded. "Oh, yeah. Old Twinkle Toes here is a real live fairy. Just like in the story books." Becky turned to me and grinned that stupid lovestruck grin of hers. "Neat. I didn't know you liked playing fairies. I just love anything to do with fairies!" Teresa laughed. "Honey, don't be so gullible. I don't think she's talking about that kind of fairy." Samantha was the next one to chirp in. "Really! I never thought David was like that." She turned to me and grinned. "Not after seeing how you acted at Sunday school, I mean. After all the times you used to flirt with me, tried to sit next to me, and you're ... a fag?" Becky raised her hand, just like we were in school or something. "I thought he was a fairy, not a fag. What ... what's a fag?" Samantha made the awfullest face. "You never heard of faggots? Queers? Fairies?" Becky blinked. "You mean ... kissing and making out with other boys? That's weird. Now see, I always wondered why he never let me kiss him." She turned and looked at me with a whole new set of eyes. "I never thought about boys kissing each other. I'd kinda like to see that." Samantha made a gagging sound. "Oh, yuck! Boys kissing ... each other ... that's sick!" "Oh, I don't know," Teresa said. The look in her eyes chilled me to the bone. "I'd like to see it, too." Everybody laughed, especially when Linda made a limp-wristed gesture and said, "Oh, darlings, you haven't seen anything yet. You should have been with us the other day when little Twinkle Toes here was slobbering all over old what's-his-name ...." "Linda, no, please!" I yelled. I couldn't believe what I was hearing! She was about to tell on me and Chris! I couldn't have that! No way in heck! "Please, don't say anything ...." "Don't say anything about what?" Samantha demanded. "Is there something we should know?" "Tell us more!," Becky shouted. "Please, oh, please tell us more!" "Tell us! Tell us!" the younger girls sang in unison, loud and clear. Linda looked right at me and stuck her tongue out. "The majority rules, fairy boy. Sorry 'bout your luck." I felt ill as she turned to her audience and went on. "Like I said, we were out hikin' in the woods when we saw sweet little David here was locking lips ... well, with another little fairy we all know and love." "Ewww!" the younger girls cried in unison. "LINDA!!! Hush, please!" I begged. "Please, Sheila ... Pam ... Make her stop ...." My cousins weren't much help. Sheila jumped right in, delighted to embarrass me in front of the girls. "What? You don't want us to say anything about you and your little pixie friend? Like how we caught the two of you skinnydipping and playing kissy face? Or how you held hands and hugged and kissed on each other all day long?" A second collective "Ewww!" from the younger girls was followed by a round of laughter. "Skinnydipping ..." Teresa teased. "... and hugging and kissing ..." Samantha fumed. "... with another boy!" Becky giggled. "Wish I'd been there to see that! "We got pictures to prove it!" Sheila shouted. I felt sick again. "Sheila, please ... don't ...." I turned to Pam. "Can't you make her stop?" "I don't know what your problem is. You didn't mind showing off for the camera the other day. Why should you complain now?" "Yeah," chimed in Sheila. " What's the matter, don't you want your girly friends to know what kind of little fairy you really are?" "You guys are serious, aren't you?" Samantha asked quietly. "I ... I thought you were teasing. But," she looked me up and down and made an ugly face, "David ... he ... didn't really ... kiss ... a boy ... did he?" The shame was so thick I thought I was going to smother. Another chorus of "ewww!" rose from the gang of girls facing me and the looks I got ranged from utter disgust to gleeful fascination. At one end of the spectrum Samantha looked as though she smelled something bad; at the other Becky was so thrilled she was jumping up and down, grinning from ear to ear. In the middle was Teresa, quietly giving me a smarty pants look and a mischievous wink. And there I just stood, like a fool, wishing for an end to my misery once and for all. The interrogations continued as I tried unsuccessfully to break away and finish my chores. Still naked and surrounded by my inquisitors, I had little choice but endure their barbs and quips. Thank goodness, my cousins hadn't gotten their film developed yet. I at least had that to be thankful for. That still didn't solve my current problem. Aglow with mischief, my cousins shot me a volley of evil smiles and watched as I tried to explain my way out of the mess they'd put me in. I was determined to keep from crying, which would only make things worse. Better if I'd just played along and pretended the whole thing was just some sort of stupid joke. "So you're saying it was just a game?" Samantha asked. "You and some other ... boy ... are completely innocent, and you're not queer? I don't believe you!" "I want to know who the other boy is!" fussed Becky. "I wanna see those photos! Why were you kissing on him, anyway? What's he got that I haven't got?" I licked my lips. My mouth was as dry as cotton. Ignoring Becky's question, I made another lame attempt to explain myself. "It's all just some big story. I mean, we were just playing around, that's all. It was really hot and we went swimming. After that, your sister and my cousins made us go through this ceremony, see, and ...." Samantha's face was dark and skeptical. "A ceremony. I see. And kissing a boy in the nude is part of this ... ceremony?" I blinked. "Well, kind of .... But not really...." I felt a shock of excruciating pain where someone pinched the soft flesh under my arm. I looked around to see my cousin Pam shaking her head in disapproval. "Don't lie," she warned. "Okay, okay, I'm sorry ... That hurt!" Samantha shot me another dark look. "So you did it? You admit you kissed a boy? While you were naked?" I shrugged, then nodded. "It's not like you think ...." "You either did or you didn't. Which is it?" I looked up at Pam, and then Sheila and Linda. I got nothing but grins and giggles. I turned to the younger girls and kinda shrugged. "I guess so," I whispered weakly. Becky looked at me like I was from Mars. "So you did it? You actually did kiss another boy?" "Say it!" ordered Pam. "Say it out loud." I nodded for about the millionth time. "Yes, I kissed another boy," I sighed. Hearing myself say that made me feel even more naked than I already was. "Just a little," I quickly added. I shot a glance at my cousins, both of whom were nodding and smiling broadly. Pam even made an "okay" sign with her fingers. Like I would be pleased. "Just a little?" Samantha spat with disgust. "You kissed a boy a little, so that's all right? I don't think so. You kissed a boy, so that really does make you a fairy. Wings or no wings, that's what we call boys who kiss each other." The former love of my life gave me one final look and shook her head. "Hope you two are very happy together, fairy boy!" "But, Sammy ...." I weakly whined. "I didn't mean to ...." Okay, okay. As you can see, I wasn't handling it very well. I mean, I gave it my best shot. What was I supposed to do? Run away? To where, exactly?" "Tell them who it was," Sheila ordered. "Tell your little girlfriends here who your boyfriend is!" "Sheila, no! Please ...." Samantha snorted. "I bet it was that Chris kid, the little fruit that lives down the road here. He looks like a nice girly-boy. Just like our little fairy here. Maybe that's why they're always hanging out together, 'cause they're a couple of girly-boys." I didn't dare say a word for fear of giving away the truth. "Girly-boys?" Becky asked innocently. "Do both of them play the girl? I thought it would be just one." "I think that's pretty obvious," Teresa said. She shot me a mean look. "David was the girl. Look at all them flowers in his hair and that pretty face." "Don't forget 'kissable lips'!" added my cousin Sheila. "Boys love lips like our little fairy's got." Teresa nodded. "Maybe we can get our pretty fairy here a date with my little brother. That oughta be fun!" I blinked. The big black girl didn't even crack a smile as she stared at me. I couldn't tell if she was serious or not My cousin Sheila giggled. "Now see what happens? You kiss the first good looking boy that comes along, and now everybody thinks you're a slut." "It wasn't like that!" I fussed. "It ... it was ... it was an accident!" Pam poked me in the butt with a sharp fingernail. "Oh, sure. Like that's the truth? A little while ago you told Sheila and me how much fun you were having playing 'fairies' and kissing boys. Now you tell us that's a lie?" "He did actually say that, did he?" Pam nodded. "He sure did. Tell us, fairy boy, how do you 'accidentally' kiss somebody? Much less 'accidentally' lose your clothes? All in the same day?" This, of course, opened the floodgates to a whole new wave of taunting and teasing. I started crying like a baby, which just brought on more jeers. "Crybaby!" "Sissy-boy!" "Fairy!" "Girly-boy!" "Faggot!" I finally broke away and resumed my chores, anything to get away from all that teasing. Things were about as bad as they could be, I figured. Best to stay away, as far away as possible. The girls must have gotten tired of teasing me 'cause they left me alone for a little while, thank goodness. I spent the rest of the morning watering the garden while they all gathered around the concrete picnic table and chattered on about fairies, real and imagined. All that whispering and giggling was so distressing. I tried to ignore them, but every now and then I would feel the urge to glance in their direction; inevitably I'd see all of them watching me like a litter of kittens eyes a baby bird. While I worked I caught snippets of conversation, especially when Linda or Sheila were talking. At one point I thought somebody mentioned Christopher's name again, but I couldn't be sure. Most of what they said was either hidden in whispers or marred with laughter. "And that's how we caught our little fairy here," Linda explained nonchalantly as I passed by with my water bucket. "They were frolicking in the water, having a wonderful time, when we showed up and trapped them." Teresa shook her ugly head and smiled the meanest smile. "Frolicking? No shit?" "Frolicking," Sheila nodded. "Just like you imagine." "I have a pretty vivid imagination," the black girl said, casting me an evil grin. "I can imagine quite a lot of things." "Me, too," Samantha said with a shiver. "I wonder if they did anything besides kiss," Becky innocently remarked. Everybody busted out with laughter and six pairs of eyes looked right at me. I had that sick feeling in my stomach again. Life as I knew it was over. Chapter Nine Bottoms Up! It was near lunchtime when I finished up with my chores, just in time to help serve snacks to everybody. Sheila and Pam called me into the house and led me into the kitchen where they handed me all sorts of stuff to take outside. It was dej vu all over again as I paraded about in my naked fairy costume, fetching plates of cookies and chips and cups of ice and soft drinks. Then I had to set everything up on the picnic table, just like I was their maid or something. The younger girls loved having a naked boy waiting on them even more than the older girls, and they wore me out with orders. Becky insisted on supervising me closely, using a switch that her sister gave her to lead me around like her little pet. The way she kept poking and whacking at me with the darned thing, it was as though she was afraid I might try and run off. Except for the fact that I was still "butt naked" and I had no place to go, I might have done exactly that. I just bit my lip and held my head up and tried not to cry. Once everybody got situated and was eating their lunch, I was invited to sit down and join them. I was a little reluctant at first, but I hadn't eaten since the night before and I was thirsty as heck. There we sat, the younger girls and myself crowding together on one bench, facing Linda and my cousins on the other. It seemed that I was pretty popular, what with being squeezed in with Teresa on one side and Becky and Samantha on the other. It felt funny sitting there with my bare bottom pressing down on the cold concrete seat, my hips rubbing against denim and rayon on either side. For a little while people seemed to ignore me being naked. There was a lot of conversation going on in every which direction. Becky kept pushing up against me, giggling, and trying to get me to talk. Linda and my cousins encouraged this, so I was as pleasant as possible in hopes of avoiding their wrath. At the same time, however, I wasn't too interested in saying anything to draw undue attention to myself. I just pretty much sat there and munched chips and laughed every time Becky said something she thought was funny or cute. The older girls looked on approvingly. "Having a good time, are we?" Sheila asked me at one point. I nodded silently, praying that was the right answer. She raised an eyebrow and smiled an evil smile. "Good girl," was all she said in return. I started to protect being called a girl, but thought it better not to. I had enough to worry about without getting into a fight over something so trivial. Toward the end of lunch things started getting out of control. Every now and then someone would reach under the table or around behind me and give me a playful pinch on the butt or a poke in the ribs. Teresa started it by tickling me under my arms and forcing laughs when I was more in the mood for tears. "See, he acts like he's not having fun, but listen to this." The dark-skinned Amazon did it again, pinching the soft flesh just above my waist in the process. I'm shamed to admit I squealed and giggled like a little girl as I tried to get away. "Please, Teresa," I begged, "Stop it!" Becky thought that was great. "My turn," she said, slipping her hand over and pinching me just below my nipple. "OW!!!" I tried ignoring all this, but it was extremely difficult, especially since I was starting to get another erection. Up until then I was so scared that wasn't a problem. Now I was in the midst of feminine smells and sounds and touch, and being on the edge of adolescence I guess my penis just decided to come out of hiding and pop up like a happy puppy. Samantha was the first to notice and she made sure everybody at the table knew all about it. "Oh, gross! His tallywacker is standing up. That's nasty! Make it go away! Make it go away!" Becky started laughing again. "His 'tallywacker' ... That's funny!" The whole table erupted with laughter and chatter, with me right in the middle of it. "How sweet," Teresa said with typical coolness. "I knew Twinkle Toes here was having himself a nice time. You can always count on his little friend to give him away. Hi, little fella! Look, he's smiling at me!" Becky almost spit out her coke, she was laughing so hard. I tried to cover myself up, but Sheila reached across the table and whacked me upside the head with a flyswatter. "What did we tell you before? No touching yourself! Nasty boy! What's wrong with you?" "Ow, sorry! Geez!" I rubbed my ear and fought the tears. Funny, instead of going away, my erection only grew harder. That wasn't good. To make matters worse Pam jumped in and insisted that I stand up so everybody could see my erection. I dreaded it terribly, but after a few stern threats, I reluctantly rose up from the table and stood before the group with my hands behind my back, just like I'd been trained. I couldn't help but glance down; sure enough, the little traitor was standing at full attention, waving cheerily at his admirers. A round of mocking applause and laughter was my reward for such a proud display. "How can they live with those things sticking up like that?" someone asked. "Don't they just get in the way?" "Sure they do," Linda said. "Every time they see a pretty girl." "Or boy," Pam added, her voice as evil as her smile. A round of "E-e-ews" sounded from the group. "That's gross!" somebody said. My cousin giggled. "Hey, don't blame me. Fairies love everybody. It's what they do best. Ain't that right, Twinkle Toes?" I just stood there and stewed in my anger. I couldn't believe she said that. Not in front of everybody, not like this! Samantha had to have her say, too, of course. "Even when it's stiff it's small. What's the deal with that? I mean, why even bother?" "Oh, that's mean," laughed Becky. "I think it's kinda cute in a ugly sort of way. Can I touch it?" Sheila had been waiting for someone to say that all day. "Sure, why not. Just be careful it doesn't spit on you. Anybody else want to touch it?" To my horror, everyone wanted a turn at me, not just Becky. What happened next was one of the most awful things that could ever happen to a twelve year old boy. At the threat of a whipping I had to go to each girl and, with my hands behind my head, I had to remain perfectly still as I was poked at, pulled on, prodded and petted until I was crying like a baby. Each girl did something different: Becky thoughtfully cupped her hand under my sack for the longest time, and then stroked and rubbed the mushroom-shaped tip until it turned red and hard. "Boys feel so funny down there," she said in a sweet voice. "There's so much to play with." Linda giggled. "Well, that certainly explains why boys are always playing with themselves!" Not daring to look down at what she was doing to me, I remember watching Becky's face the entire time and praying for her to stop. Under other circumstances I would have laughed to see how hard she was concentrating with the tip of her tongue sticking out the side of her mouth and the comically intense look in her eyes. The only problem was that these were not other circumstances. I was naked and in pain and embarrassed as heck! Unlike Becky, Samantha returned my gaze when it was her turn. She grinned like a cruel cat playing with a canary as she let her fingers wander all over my smooth skin, plucking and pinching at my bare belly and bare butt like she was trying to cause me as much pain as possible. Instead of gently cupping my testicles in her hand like Becky did, for instance, she squeezed each ball between her fingertips like a grape. I tried not to cry, but that was useless. She actually seemed to enjoy seeing me in tears. At last she turned her attention to my poor penis, scratching and clawing at it with her fingernails. At one point she had a hold on the tip and was pulling on my erection like a dog tugging on a piece of rawhide. I tried to get away but Sheila stopped me with a SLAPPP!!! across the face. "Ow! Ow! Ow! Please, Sheila, it hurts! Please make her stop! She's going to pull it off!" My cousin grabbed me by the hair atop my head and shook me like I was a puppet on a string. "She's not going to pull it off, trust me. Stop being such a crybaby, Crybaby! You think that hurts?" SLAPPP!!! "Which do you like best, Sammy playing with your tallywhacker or my little love pats?" Before I had time to think she hit me again. For a couple of seconds I saw nothing but stars. "Well? Which is it? Speak up, quick!" "S-s-sammy," I sobbed. "I ... I like ... Sammy ... playing with ... me. Please, Sheila, no more hitting. Please?" Biting my tongue, I stood as still as I could while Samantha resumed her cruel examination of my private parts. Teresa was a bit more gentle, but no less invasive. First she ran her fingers all over my body, paying particular attention to sensitive or ticklish places like my nipples or my belly button or my buttcrack. I felt just awful as she flicked her fingernails against my nipples and made them hard as marbles. And I'm sure you can understand my concern when she poked and prodded between my buttcheeks; it was almost like she was trying to sneak a peek at my hole, triggering sensations that were really confusing! After examining my body pretty thoroughly, Teresa then turned her attention to my erect penis. At first she tugged and pulled on it like everybody else had done. Then, to my horror, she spread the slit at the end and inserted her long, thick fingernail. It was like she was dissecting a small animal. Talk about being in a panic!!! I struggled to retain my composure and at one point tried to pull away, but Sheila had such a grip on me that I couldn't budge an inch. "Stand still, fairy boy! You want another slap across the face?" she threatened. "But she hurt me," I complained. "Sticking her finger in me like that!" SMACK!!! This time I got it across the nose, causing it to bleed. "How's it feel now, tough guy? Does that hurt any less? " All I could do was lick the blood off my upper lip and cry. Not knowing what to do, I just stood there and let Teresa do whatever she wanted to me. I remember looking down through my tears and seeing her fingertip firmly dug into my pee-hole. A strange, uncontrollable itch inside my penis caused me to squirm like crazy, but there was nothing I could do to stop it. The look on Teresa's face as I wiggled around was one of complete power and confidence, her brown eyes daring me to defy her. She had me in her power and she wasn't about to let me go. For an instant I wondered how far she would go to humiliate and hurt me. It was at that point that I felt a huge shiver seize my body, and to my shame some clear gooey stuff poured out of my poor aching penis. "Oh, look!" the black girl laughed. "I must have hit the right button. He's leaking all over the place." "I'm sorry," I whimpered. I clenched my muscles and tried to hold back, but all that did was cause more stuff to squirt out. "I can't help it." I really was sorry. Besides feeling like an idiot, I just knew I was going to get beaten for making a mess. I braced myself for the worst. It was Linda who came to my rescue. Sort of. She took Teresa's hand, which was filled with all that clear, sticky stuff, and smeared it all over my face and shoulders. I tried pressing my lips together to keep from getting in my mouth, but I was too slow. No matter, it wasn't exactly the first time I'd tasted that kind of thing. A chorus of "ewws" was followed by giggles. "I don't know why you're being such a crybaby about all this, fairy boy, seeing how you're sticking out and dripping all over everything. I know what boys like. You're just having too much fun." "It's not fun, it hurts!" I quietly whimpered. "You're all mean! I want my mom! I want to go home!" Oops, that was a mistake. Linda jumped on that one in a heartbeat. "Listen to the little crybaby, everybody! 'I want to go home! I want my mommy!' What a little sissy!" "Cry, little sissy," a couple of the girls said cruelly. "Cry for your mama." After some more jeers and tears my cousin Pam stepped in and took charge. "Okay, pretty boy, now that you've shown off for your little girlfriends," she told me, "get that ... thing under control, or else." She rubbed her hands together briskly and smiled. In all the confusion I'd forgotten all about my erection. I looked down. There it was, still up and at it, pointing at the sky, bobbing around as happy as could be. After all I'd been through, you'd have thought it would have been scared away. "She didn't say tomorrow!" I looked down. Sheila was now rubbing her hands together. "Come on, get to it now, jack off boy!" A titter of laughter rose up to meet me. I felt my face flush again. I thought about what my cousin said and I closed my eyes. I've died and gone to hell!!! "We're waiting," an impatient voice intoned. "Either you do it or ... one of us will!" In my mind's eye I could see a pair of cruel feminine hands tugging on my penis. "Please, don't make me," I begged. "I ... I really don't wanna!" "Do I have to use my switch?" That was Sheila this time, for sure. I opened my eyes to see her starting toward me. The look on her face was terrible! "Please ...." I whined. "I just want to be left alone ...." What happened next was too horrible to even think about. I was just about to take matters in hand when my cousin reached up, grabbed me by the ear and drug me off balance. I ended up falling flat on my face and scuffing up my knees and elbows. I thought somebody would at least help me to my feet, but Sheila tore into me with her switch while I was still trapped on my hands and knees, not even giving me enough time to even catch my breath. I still remember how the backs of my legs and my bare bottom burned like fire as she wailed away at them with her switch. It was far worse than I remembered. By the time she was through I was a quivering mass of regret. My face was wet with tears and snot and I was crying so hard I was coughing. It was so bad I swore I'd never let it happen again. "Look, Sheila scared it away!" one of the younger girls said after I finally got back on my feet. "Yay, Sheila!" I wiped away my tears and looked down. Sure enough, my erection went away. Instead of sticking out proudly, my poor boyhood withered down to a tiny vestige of its former self. The tip was just about all that could be seen at the smooth pink juncture between my thighs. "Oh, don't worry, it'll be back." Sheila swiped her switch across the back of my legs one more time. "I hate you! I hate you all!" I spat at my tormentors. I wiped my tears as best I could and tried to act at least a little dignified - a pretty good trick considering my current state of nudity. "You're all mean bitches! I hate all of you!" I had every reason in the world to be mad, but shooting my mouth off like that, well, it was not exactly the smartest thing I ever did. Sheila, of course, took up the challenge. "Mean bitches, huh? Is that what you think we are? Well, I think someone needs another spanking. What do you guys think?" "Spank him!" everyone shouted happily. Even Becky joined in. "Spank him! Spank him!" "Pam, please," I looked to my other cousin and begged for mercy. "Don't let her hit me any more! Please, oh, please!" Pam shrugged her shoulders. "I can't stop her. You oughta know that. She's a mean bitch, remember?" The grin on my cousin's face triggered a wave of goosebumps all over my naked body. "Spank him hard, Sheila," Pam shouted as she shoved me back toward her sister. "Make him sorry he's such a little brat!" What happened next was pretty much a blur. Sheila grabbed my hand and yanked me over her lap and wailed away on my butt with her bare hand. WHACK!!! WHACK!!! WHACK!!! WHACK!!! WHACK!!! I hadn't been spanked like that since I was little. I bit my lip for a minute or two, thinking I could hold out. Then the tears started flowing. "Ow, please, no! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts!" "Look at him cry, just like a little baby," someone jeered. Getting spanked on the bare butt hurt, but getting teased about it was even worse. Even as I laid across my cousin's lap I knew I was never going to live this down. I did feel like a big ol' baby bent over with my bare butt in the air, right there for all those girls to see. And I was pretty sure everybody thought I looked like one, too, considering all the crying I was doing. Despite the shame of it all, in some ways I didn't want to ever get up, not if it meant having to face an audience of girls. I almost got my wish. For the longest, most miserable length of time the world was upside down from my point of view. Sheila had a firm grip on me, twisting my arm behind my back and applying plenty of pain to keep me from trying to get up. "No, please, Sheila! No!" I cried desperately. "Oh, stop being such a crybaby, you crybaby!" she fussed, giving my butt a pinch so hard it set me off on fresh round of sobbing, just like a little kid. "The more you cry, the more you're gonna get it." Imagine my horror as I then heard my cousin invite everyone to take a whack at my bare bottom. A lot of giggling and laughing ensued and in a matter of seconds I was being passed around, from girl to girl, like an ice cream cone they were sharing. I tried to resist, I really did, but it didn't do much good. I was so scared, so ashamed, each time I bent over someone's knee. It was humiliating beyond belief. The older girls all jumped into this with fiery enthusiasm, of course, jerking me over their laps like a rag doll and sending a flurry of smacks and whaps on my poor bottom until I was sobbing in agony. The younger girls were more timid for the most part. Becky's and Samantha's spankings were more like a series love pats than a beating, thank goodness. It was as if they were actually afraid to hurt me. Teresa had no such fear, however. She lit into me the instant I bent over her thick, brown legs "C'mon, you guys. You can't hurt him, it's just his butt! Smack it hard! See it jiggle? What's the worst thing he's going to do, cry? Trust me, if you had a little brother like mine you'd do this in a second." A burst of girlish giggles was followed by a second wave of slaps on my bare skin like you wouldn't believe! WHAP! SLAP! SMACK! Over and over again, countless hands spanked my tender butt, mercilessly, relentlessly. The pain was so bad I had to grit my teeth to keep from screaming. After a few minutes things calmed down a bit. The spanking stopped completely, as a matter of fact. I waited for Teresa to let me up, but she kept me bent over her lap like I was her puppy dog or something. "Hold on, little fella, you're not going anywhere," she said when I begged to get up. "So quit your whinin'! Geez, what a crybaby!" I couldn't tell you how long I stayed upside-down like that. Long enough to get sick at my stomach, I guess. I do remember a touch of nausea mixed with the occasional caress of a gentle palm or a curious fingertip across my bare bottom, calming my fears and exciting my passion. I also remember - to my horror! - someone spreading my cheeks, followed by a ripple of laughter as the cool air hit the one place on my body that scared me the most. "Here, I bet you've never seen one of these before." "Eww, gross," said a familiar voice. "It's his hole! His butthole! Yuck!" "Look how pink it is," teased someone else. I struggled to clench my buttcheeks together. I got a really awful SLAP! and then a cruel, awful pinch for my trouble. "Open up," Teresa ordered. "Do it, unless you want another pinch." I took a deep breath and did as I was told. Almost immediately I felt something touch me ... there. "No-o-o-o-o ...," I whimpered. "Oh, that's nasty!" one of the younger girls - Samantha, I think - said with disgust. "Don't touch him there. That's not right!" Leave in to Pam to encourage my degradation. "Don't worry, he's had a bath so it should be fairly clean," she said. Teresa didn't care one way or the other. "It's not any different than changing a baby's diaper. Trust me, I've done that hundreds of time. The only difference is this is more fun." "Please, stop! Please, oh, please!" I gasped. "I'll do anything you want, just don't touch me there!" My begging, of course, brought a fresh burst of jeers and laughter from my audience. I got a hard poke right in the bullseye for my trouble. Teresa snorted as she fingered me. "He's just putting on a show. Don't let those tears fool you. He really likes having girly hands all over his bare bottom. What boy doesn't? C'mere and I'll show you how I can tell." As soon as I was pushed off her lap I knew I was in for it. I couldn't believe it! Despite - or, in retrospect, perhaps as a result of - the spankings and all that shameful touching, I had another erection! This prompted even more giggling and confusion, of course. The girls all said it proved I liked having someone play with my butt; I tried denying it, but it was kind of hard to do with my penis sticking out for everybody to see like that. To make matters worse, all that time upside down made me dizzy, and with my insides burning like crazy, I was vulnerable as heck. My cousin Pam took advantage of the situation to humiliate me even further. "Okay, fairy boy. You wanted to jack off in front of everybody. Let's see you finish what you started." My eyes burned from crying so much. "P-p-please, P-P-Pam ...," I got another SLAPPP! across the face for my trouble. Feeling pitiful, I glanced at my expectant audience. "Please don't make me do it! Please?" I turned to Sheila. "Do I really have to? Don't let her make me, please!" My other cousin made an ugly face. "Would you rather I go get your little boyfriend to jack you off instead?" she said sternly. "Now do as you're told. I want to finish up this roll of film." My knees went weak as I realized what she was saying. For a chilling instant I tried to imagine me kissing Christopher - and jacking off! - with all those girls watching us. The very thought was heart-stopping! I figured it was futile, but there was nothing I wouldn't do to stop that from happening! I felt drunk as I did as I was told. As I stepped back up on the concrete column I remember sniffing my runny, bloody nose. I then very, very reluctantly wrapped my hands around my stiff penis and started, well, you know .... "He's doing it," somebody said. I think it was Becky. "He's actually doing it." It didn't take long. It seemed like forever, but it probably only took a few minutes. Or seconds. I was too upset to remember. I managed to keep my eyes shut throughout the entire debacle, but all around me I could hear whispers and giggling as I masturbated. I just knew everybody watching would think I was either queer or perverted. Or both. "I can't believe I'm seeing this!" Becky said in wonder. "He's really doing it!" "Ew, what a perv," somebody else fussed. That had to be Samantha. "This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen!" When "it" happened I kept my eyes shut, I was so shamed. All that touching in my bottom, oddly enough, made in extremely easy to reach orgasm. It felt so good it almost hurt, and I actually remember making a little "oh" sound as I spurted. "Look, he's smiling!" a girl's voice whispered. "I told he liked it!" I was exhausted! And no wonder, considering everything that had happened to me. The only thing that could have been worse was if I'd peed in front of everybody. My hands were all sticky and I felt weak and dirty. I didn't feel like dealing with any of it. I was afraid to look at anybody, much less a bunch of stupid girls! All I wanted was to be left alone. Unfortunately, there came a time when I finally had to open my eyes. When I did I could see that in addition to sticky hands, there were also several globs of white pearly stuff on my legs and feet. Oh, god, I wanted to die! I'd ejaculated all over myself, right there in front of my little audience. The heat emanating from my neck and face was unbearable, as were the looks on the faces before me. The older girls were predictably amused while the younger ones were torn between fascination and disgust. "Have fun, sweetie?" Pam asked nonchalantly. When I shook my head she shook hers. "Liar," she said with a pat on her trusty camera. "You loved it and I can prove it!" "What a mess!" Teresa said. "I knew guys liked jacking off, but Jesus! I didn't think he'd ever stop spurting that white stuff." "No kiddin'," someone else said. I blinked. It was Samantha, a huge look of disgust plastered across her face. "My god, what a fag! Maybe we ought to start calling him 'Jack Off' instead of 'Twinkle Toes'." Pam shot me a mean look. "That can be arranged." "Well," Becky giggled, "I thought it was neat. Can he do it again? I could watch that all day long." Becky's expression made me feel so helpless. I could feel my face and neck burning bright red. I couldn't believe I'd done such an awful thing, right in front of all those girls. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," I kept saying over and over. "I'm really ... really sorry." It took a few minutes for everyone to get over their laughter. But they finally did and then it was time for the next step in my humiliation. Chapter Ten Taking Matters in Hand It took me a while to drag the old washtub from the barn up to the house. It was a hard, dirty job made even more difficult by the fact that I didn't have a stitch of clothes on, not to mention no shoes or work gloves. After stubbing my toe, banging my shin and getting a splinter in my hand, I still had to drag that galvanized steel monster more than a hundred yards in the hot sun. After a few tears and a lot more teasing I was sent to the house to get ready for my bath. Sheila and Teresa followed along to make sure I did my duty and came back without any unauthorized stops. I was hoping to go upstairs for at least a little while and maybe even slip away and escape for good, but I didn't get further than the kitchen. The girls sat at the kitchen table and sipped on soft drinks - that I had to fix! - while I filled a plastic pail with hot sudsy water. Then it was back outside to dump the water into the metal washtub. This was a tedious task, repeated I don't know how many times until the tub was full. Despite my protests I soon found myself walking up to the washtub, stepping first one foot, then another into the hot soapy water. I felt pretty much like a complete fool as my audience watched me slowly ease my naked body into the suds. From my seated position in the tub I had to look practically straight up, much like a small child, as everyone crowded around to gawk and tease. It's difficult how strange it was to be taking a bath outside like that, and in front of a bunch of girls, yet! The first thing that happened was Sheila bopped me on top of the head with her knuckles. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. "Take off your bracelets, faggot, before you ruin them! Pam worked hard on those, and there you are, about to put them in the water! And your necklace, too! What's the matter with you? Don't you know anything?" I sniffed back a tear as I slid the little rosebud manacles over my hands. "I'm sorry. Geez, you didn't have to hit me so hard." My cousin grinned at me and shrugged. "I know, but you look so cute when you cry." There wasn't much I could say to that. "Lookit the wittle baby," Linda taunted. She nudged her sister, who leered at me with delight. "It must be time for his wittle baff." As I said, I looked and felt like a total fool, but the good part about all this was nobody could look at my bare butt (and my privates!). Well, for a little while, at least. The teasing and nitpicking went on as I was told to wash myself everywhere with everybody and her sister looking on. I fumbled around under the suds, giving my body a quick going over, scrubbing tears from my face and little globs of semen off my skin. But that wasn't good enough. "Here, fairy boy, get up on all fours," directed my cousin Sheila. "I want to check something. That's it, just like a puppy dog." In retrospective I guess it wasn't too awful bad. I mean, I guess it could have been worse. Maybe. Up on my hands and knees, my bare butt sticking out of the water like that, it really didn't hurt anything. I mean, it wasn't like I was getting beat on or anything, right? Wrong! After giving my body a quick inspection my cousin SLAPPED!!! my bare butt so hard I had to grit my teeth to keep from crying out. "Anybody want to help wash the puppy?" she asked. "Hold still, puppy. You're not going anywhere 'til you're sparkling clean!" I gasped out loud as hands assaulted me from all sides, tickling my back, under my arms, my feet, and my bare bottom. I had to struggle to keep from falling face first into the sudsy water. More than a few hands roamed between my legs and cupped my aching balls. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. The thing I really hated was how many felt up the crack of my butt, and I found myself suddenly gasping in surprise as more than once a soapy finger wormed its way past my clenched anal muscles and deep inside me. "Wow, he feels more like a girl than a boy," someone said. I couldn't tell if it was Sheila or Linda. "You better watch your butt, little fairy. Guys just love pretty little bottoms like yours." "No kidding," another voice laughed. "Now up on your knees, dummy," fussed my cousin Pam. "So we can make sure we've done a good job." A sharp rap on the top of the head and I did as I was told. After all I'd been through I couldn't help worrying about how stupid I looked wearing little more than some suds and a glossy layer of soapy water. "Look!" squealed Becky. "He's sticking out again! It's almost pointing straight up! That's funny!" Samantha shot me a cruel scowl. "Geez, David, you are such a pervert! Can't you control yourself? Geez!" "It's like Teresa said," Sheila laughed. "It's 'cause we played with his bottom. Our little faggot likes that kinda stuff. That's what makes a fairy a fairy." Pam flicked at my bare bottom with her switch. "Is that true, Twinkle Toes? Do you like it when somebody plays with your butt? Are you really a little queer after all?" "No-o-o-o ...." Pam grabbed my wrists and jerked my arms high up over my head. "You can't prove it by me, fairy boy. You're way too pretty to be anything else but a little queer." That set off another wave of giggles among my audience. I struggled against my cousin's grip a little bit, but the only thing I accomplished was to make my erect penis wag around like a puppy dog tail, adding to the entertainment value of my pitiful plight. I squeezed my eyes shut as hard as I could, but I just couldn't block out the sound of all that laughing and teasing. To my horror Becky and Linda both insisted I jerk off again. I begged to be let go, but a vote was quickly taken and, needless to say, I lost. Big time. I started to step out of the tub and make a mad dash for the house; Sheila put a stop to that by grabbing me by the ear and whispering a simple threat into it. "Do it. Do it now! If you don't, I'm getting your little boyfriend to help you!" It took me a minute to get started, and once I did I couldn't stop. I closed my eyes and tried to pretend I was all alone. Which was nearly impossible, considering the company I kept "Don't just stand there, doofus! Put some elbow grease to it!" While I continued masturbating the girls continued on with their chit-chat. Some things I didn't even want to hear. "Too bad I didn't bring my little brother along," Teresa said at one point. "I'd love to see that little punk running around bareass like this. That would be so cool!" Sheila laughed. "We can still do that! How old is he? Do you think he'd make a good little fairy?" I was horrified to hear Samantha join in the conversation. "Oh, he'd be a great fairy. He's twelve, about the same size as David. And he's just as cute. A pain in the butt, but a real pretty boy. He woulda had a great ol' time with our little fairy right here." "Let's do it!" Pam enthused. "We can make them take baths and play 'kissy-face' and all sorts of stuff! It'll be the funniest thing you'll ever see!" "Now that I'd like to see!" Linda enthused. "The sooner the better. How about you, Sis?" Pausing to catch my breath, I cast a quick glance at Becky. That was a mistake. She was looking directly at me, her expression one of unbridled enthusiasm. There was no sympathy, no pity, no mercy. She wanted to see me doing some horrible thing, no matter how disgusting or shameful. I suddenly felt sick to my stomach. To my despair, my cousin Sheila gave me that look, too! "How does that sound to you, Twinkle Toes? You'd like kissing on Teresa's little brother, wouldn't you, honey? Maybe jackin' him off, too? Wouldn't that be fun?" Too ashamed to argue, I thought about having to kiss some strange black boy and winced. Suddenly, I found myself shuddering in an overwhelming orgasm. Right on cue, the girls all laughed like a bunch of wicked witches as I spurted white stuff as thick as cream. Sheila made me step out of the tub as soon as I was done cleaning up. I still felt slick all over from all the soap suds, and a sudden breeze sent a chill over my naked body. I felt like a little kid, standing defenseless in front of everyone like that. Sheila slid my rosebud bracelets back over my wrists and hooked my fairy pendant around my neck. She then gave me a quick inspection. "Well, that's better, fairy boy. At least you don't stink so much. Plus you got all those crybaby tear stains off your face. You just need a little work on your hair and maybe a little smell good." I winced a she produced a tiny perfume bottle and sprinkled me all over with it. I felt myself blush as the feminine fragrance hit my nose. They weren't done with me, yet. Sheila and Pam complained that my hair and flowers were a mess, so Becky volunteered to fix it up while the other girls sat together on the back porch and chatted. "I never did a boy's hair before," Becky said happily. Sitting next to me at the picnic table, she was clearly having the time of her life primping and pampering me like her own personal Barbie doll. "Funny, how it's just as pretty as a girl's." "Don't say that!" I muttered under my breath. "I'm not a damned girl!" "I know that, dummy," Becky said with a grin. She hit me with her hairbrush, whacking me right on the tip of my penis. I tried covering myself, but got my knuckles rapped for my trouble. "Ow, that hurt!" I complained. "You hurt me down there!" "Oh, stop it. That couldn't have hurt. I'm just playing." She gave me another poke, this time in the ribs. "You might act tough sometimes, but it's funny, how you're still just as pretty as a girl. All you need is a little lipstick and a nice dress, then you'd be all set!" The bright look in her eyes hurt almost as much as being hit by that stupid brush. That single remark sparked an awful image in my mind, and for some reason my penis twitched. When I looked down I was stunned to see it sticking up, all proud and pink, belying all the pain and humiliation that I'd endured that day. I closed my eyes and tried my best not to think about what Becky had said, but the harder I tried the harder my erection got. After working on my hair a bit longer, Becky pulled out a little mirror and showed me her handiwork. I couldn't believe it! I looked like such a sissy! Somehow, with her hairbrush, a couple of bobby pins and a few more flowers, she'd turned my boyish mop into something, well, something not quite boyish. She'd redone everything, making me look even goofier - make that sissier, if there is such a word - than when my cousins had earlier in the morning. My blond locks were now all poofy curly and fluffed up, with little braided loops decorated with tiny rose buds and huge blossoms. Becky was right; all I needed was a dress and a purse and I'd be a perfect girl. I didn't have to look down to know my erection was standing up straight at attention. "Wow, great job, Becky!" my cousin Sheila hollered from the porch. "That looks fantastic! A perfect little fairy hairdo for a perfect little fairy!" "I'm getting a picture!" Pam shouted as she ran down the back steps. "I want one, too!" the chubby girl said with a sweet smile. "David says he doesn't like it, but I think he's fibbing to me. See?" She pointed at my erect penis with her finger, just brushing along the top and the very tip. I gritted my teeth as a powerful shiver took over my body. "See? It's like a lie detector!" "Careful," Linda warned. "That thing might go off. Again." "Yikes! Didn't think of that," Becky giggled. Pam took some pictures of me with my new hairdo and then went back up on the porch to chitchat some more. It felt funny, sitting there in the nude, next to a girl like that. In a way, it felt like a dream, like I was drunk. Stripped naked and scared of my own shadow, I wasn't anything like the rowdy boy that used to do anything he wanted. I felt shy and vulnerable and helpless, and Becky knew it. Knew it, heck, she thrived on it! I couldn't hide anything from her, I couldn't get away from her, and I pretty much had to do everything she said. After chasing me around all summer, she had me right where she wanted me. "Do it again," she whispered. "I wanna see you ... do that ... you know ... again." I blinked. "Do ... what?" "You know. That." She made a jacking off gesture with her hands and giggled. It took me a second, but I got it. And how! I remember sitting there and feeling completely numb all over. If I'd been hit by a baseball bat I couldn't have been more stunned. Sweet, innocent Becky, with her chubby cheeks, silver braces and harlequin glasses, wasn't so innocent after all. "Don't ... make me ...." I choked on my words. "I can't. It hurts." "Poor baby." Becky's eyes lit up with cruel mischief. "Do it anyway. If you don't I'll get you in trouble with your cousins again." She flicked her eyes toward the house. "Nobody's looking. Go ahead." It took me a minute, but I did it. I slowly took hold of my pink erection with trembling hands. I felt just awful as I began stroking it "Don't close your eyes. Look at me instead." I opened my eyes. To my surprise Becky had taken off her glasses. I felt my stomach flutter as I looked into her eyes. She had the same look from before, when she'd enjoyed the little spanking I'd gotten earlier. "You look so cute when you do that." She gave me a little kiss on the nose. "Isn't this more fun than kissing some old boy?" I paused in what I was doing and shrugged my shoulders. "I guess so." "You guess?" Becky made a funny face and thought for a moment. "Really? Here, then. You like kissing boys so much, pretend I'm one. See if that helps." Becky caught me off guard and planted a big sloppy kiss right on the mouth. I tried to back away, but short of falling off the bench there was no place to go. "It's okay ... I'm a boy, remember?" she whispered breathlessly as she planted another kiss on me. I tried not to focus on what she said, but still the memory of Chris and all the things we'd been through flooded my mind. All the kissing and hugging and petting ... it was too much for me. I didn't even have to touch myself and I shot off so hard I hurt myself. "I ... I'm sorry," I said weakly. I felt so strange, like I was going to pass out. I grabbed some napkins off the picnic table. "I ... didn't mean to." Becky grinned as I wiped up my mess. She really seemed to enjoy my embarrassment. "Oh, David, I love the look on your face whenever you do that. It is so sweet. I wonder if your cousins would let me keep you for the summer? You know, like a pet? I'd let you do that all the time. Wouldn't that be fun?" I was so miserable, I didn't care what happened. That was a big mistake. It wasn't long before Becky and I were called up to the house. I felt like a zombie as she drug me across the lawn in my birthday suit. Tired, sore, humiliated beyond care, I couldn't even muster the strength to complain about being led around like somebody's puppy dog. "Well, fairy boy," Linda said, an evil look on her face, "now that you're done flirting with my little sister, you can spend some time with the rest of us." Pam called out, "Hey, Twinkle Toes, how about singing your little fairy song? You know the one. Come on, just for fun?" Not believing my ears, I shook my head. "Hu-what?" My cousin grinned. "You heard right. Sing your little fairy song for your little girlfriends. And don't forget the little dance while you're at it." My whole being froze. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. After all they'd put me through, they wanted me to sing? Now we were getting into some truly weird stuff. Sheila gave me that look. "Come on, the girls haven't heard it. It's really cute. Just once?" "Yeah," Linda prodded. "For the girls. Do it, fairy boy!" "Here," Pam led me to a stone pedestal nearby and smacked it with her switch. "Get up here and do it. On stage, just like the other day with your fairy boyfriend." She poked me in the ribs. "Now!" "But I'm too tired ...." "Not too tired for another butt-whippin', I bet." I did as I was told. Stepping up on the hard white rock, I cleared my throat and looked down. Balanced at least three feet above ground, I felt like I was standing onstage in front of a hostile audience. The older girls grinned like hungry wolves while the younger ones were fighting to control their laughter. "This isn't happening to me! This can't be happening! " I prayed. A WHACK!!! on my bare butt woke me from my reverie. "I don't hear any singing," a fierce voice intoned. Fighting back tears of shame, I cleared my throat again and began: I'm a pretty fairy, oh, so sweet .... WHACK!!! "Louder!" my cousin Pam ordered. "Oh, I can see this is going to be good already," Teresa said with a sinister laugh. I paused. I couldn't believe the looks everyone was giving me. Worse yet, I couldn't believe I was doing any of this. "Do I have to?" I sniffed. Sheila swatted at me with her switch. "Do you want that whippin'?" I shook my head. Someone said, "Say yes!" "Whip his butt good!" whispered somebody else. There was a wave of laughter as I licked my lips and began again: I'm a pretty fairy, oh, so sweet! See my pixie smile and my bare feet? Hiding in the forest all night and day, I play fairy games so happy and gay. Remember, I had to do that stupid little dance, too, which was just as humiliating as that stupid song. By the time I was done there wasn't a dry eye in the crowd. Everyone was hysterical! Even the older girls were holding their sides, laughing like crazy. A couple of the younger ones were literally on the ground, laughing like hyenas. Pam stopped laughing just long enough to order me to do it again ... and again ... and again. "This is so stupid," Samantha said at point. Gasping for air, she fought a rain of gleeful tears. "And so funny! I thought I'd seen everything ... this takes the cake!" "So funny!!!" agreed Becky. The poor girl was red with joy, and breathing hard where she'd been laughing so violently. I just stood there in my birthday suit, silent and ashamed. Now, I knew, nothing would ever be the same for me. Nothing. I couldn't believe it. Just twelve years old and already my life was over. The next few minutes were kinda chaotic. After I was done humiliating myself everyone suddenly broke up to take a bathroom break and I overheard talk about "getting ready to go." For a precious few minutes I allowed myself to think the nightmare was over and I was finally going to be allowed to escape all this insanity. Of course, I was wrong. Chapter Eleven A Cruel Joke The next thing I knew Sheila and Linda grabbed me and started dragging me around to the front yard. "Come on, Twinkle Toes. Have we got a surprise for you. Hurry up!" Oh, another surprise. Great .... After all that had happened I hoped the older girls would get bored with our little game and Linda would finally take the younger girls home. No such luck. Instead, my cousin offered to take us all out for ice cream. You can imagine the terror I felt when I realized they meant for me to come along, too. Just as I was. It took a little doing, but I finally did get into the car wearing nothing more than my fairy costume, which consisted of my borrowed jewelry, the flowers in my hair and a horrified look on my face. I was literally drug into the station wagon while Teresa and Pam watched from the front porch. "We'll meet you all back here in a little while. Have fun, Twinkle Toes," they shouted as we headed for the main road. What followed was the two longest hours of my life. I mean, come on, a twelve year old boy, bare naked and crammed into a Vista Cruiser with four gawking, giggling girls? For some guys it might have been a dream come true, but for me it was absolute torture! It was bad enough that my bare butt and legs got scorched on the hot vinyl upholstery; having to endure all those goofy stares and snide remarks made it pure agony. "Here, pretty boy, let's get cozy," Samantha said brightly. She pulled my arm over her shoulder and behind her back. She sniffed in my direction and smiled. "Mmm, you smell nice. Is that perfume you're wearing, my pretty?" "It's 'White Shoulders'," Sheila quickly said. My cousin was turned around in her seat where she could see everything that was happening to me. Just like she was watching a movie. "It smell awful girly," Samantha observed. "It should," my cousin agreed. "That's why it's a fairy favorite." Needless to say, I was pretty put out. I'd often dreamed of sitting in the backseat of a car with my arm around a pretty girl like Samantha, but not like this! Not naked and helpless and putting on a show for my cousin and her screwy friends. I was about to tell Sheila to go to hell, but before I could say anything Becky butted in. "Hey, what about me!" she fussed. She suddenly grabbed my free arm and did exactly the same thing Samantha did, pulling it over her shoulder and pressing her body up close to mine. By the time I realized what they'd done, it was too late. I was trapped! From head to toe, there was no way on earth for me to cover myself. It wouldn't have been any worse if my arms had been tied behind my back. "Hey, let go! That's not fair!" "That's quite a spot you've got yourself in," laughed my cousin. "Let go, you're hurting me! Let me go!" I tried to pull loose, but all the girls had to do was lean back and I couldn't move an inch. Samantha seemed to really enjoy her new power. "Oh, don't be a party pooper! What's the matter? You're not getting shy on us, are you?" Unable to defend myself, I cried out as she reached out and gave one of my nipples a light tweak. She reached over to do the same to the other, prompting me to laugh nervously out loud before she even touched me. "I think he likes this," the grinning girl said. "Quick, see if he's ticklish, Becky!" someone yelled. I looked up to see a pair of mischievous eyes watching me through the rearview mirror. Even from the front seat, Linda continued to orchestrate my humiliation. Her little sister took her cue, poking me in the ribs and belly button, absolutely paralyzing me with helpless laughter. Samantha joined in, of course, instantly doubling my agony. I hollered for help and squirmed to get away, but that just made matters worse. "Stop! Please, stop it! Stop, stop, stop!" "Go for it!" encouraged Sheila. From her box seat in the front of the car she had a great view and was loving it. "Fairy boy loves being tickled. See how he's smiling?" "No, I don't!" I laughed. It was nearly impossible to speak with the two girls tickling my bare belly "I hate it! Please stop it!" "What about this?" My cousin reached down and grabbed my foot, pulled it up over the seat back and began tickling the sole, right in the instep where it was the most sensitive. "Please, stop it," I laughed involuntarily. "Please, please stop it!" This went on forever, me caught between the three girls, helpless to do anything to cover my body as they teased and tickled me at their leisure. "Please, I'll do anything, just stop it! Please!!!!!!!" "Keep it up," Sheila encouraged. "He's getting weaker." All three attacked me with new vigor, nearly driving me to hysteria. I hated what they were doing to me, but the worst part was looking down and seeing my erect penis, so happy, so vulnerable, bobbing around like an eager pet animal vying for attention. The girls noticed, too, and they became even more bold in their efforts. Occasionally a stray hand would brush the tip, or else curious fingers would caress or pinch the shaft, sending an involuntary shiver though my entire body. All the struggling in the world couldn't break me free to protect myself. I ended up laughing and crying until I was nearly sick with exhaustion. "Watch out," laughed Linda. "I was going to say he might pee in his pants if you're not careful ...." "But he doesn't have any! " yelled Sheila. She looked me right in the eye, and then down at my erection. "You still better watch out, though ... that thing could still go off!" "If it does he gets a whipping!" Linda shot me a stern look. "You better not make a mess in this car!" "It's not my fault!" I yelled, somewhere between a giggle and a sob. Before Linda took us to get ice cream she drove us all over the place, including down through the middle of town, to a gas station to get a fill-up, and even past a ballfield where a game was going on. The girls shouted and waved to everybody they saw, and I was encouraged to do likewise. In the face of another round of tickle-torture, I did as I was told. Looking back, I was pretty safe in the car, scrunched down in my seat and surrounded by the girls and all. But at the time as far as I was concerned everybody in the world could tell I was bare-bottomed naked. Like I said, it was the worse day of my life. At one point Linda pulled the station wagon into the parking lot of the largest shopping center in the county. My nerves were shot. Imagine my reaction, however, when I was told that we were all getting out to run into the ice cream shop. "I can't go like this!" I cried desperately. Everyone was getting out of the car and the doors were wide open. "People will see me!" Sheila and the girls made a big show of making me get out, some pushing, some pulling. Terrified, I slid down onto the floorboard and scrunched into a ball, hugging my knees against my chest in hopes of hiding my nudity. "Leave me alone! Go away! Please!" I screamed. At some point I started punching and kicking at the girls, which wasn't such a good idea. I remember Sheila grabbing me by the hair of my head and pulling me out of the car. The next thing I knew my butt was stinging something awful and I was dancing and crying like a little girl. "Don't you remember the fairy rules? Fairies ... don't ... hit!" With every word the tall beauty slashed at my legs with a switch she'd apparently brought along from the house. "Fairies ... play ... nice!!!" Somehow I managed to break free and scramble back into the car, wounded and helpless. "You sure you won't come with us, Twinkle Toes?" the girls teased as they walked away. "We might be a while." It was all I could do to shake my head and pray for divine intervention. I can't remember how long they were gone. It seemed like an hour or longer. It might have only been a few minutes. All I knew was it was hot and I was miserable and in tears. Why is this happening to me?!!! Between having my hair all poofy and in flowers and being naked, I was desperate to keep out of sight. Every time someone walked by I'd slide down in the seat and hope they couldn't see anything they shouldn't. I can't tell you how many little old ladies and their granddaughters I saw that day; it was like there was a convention going on and I was the main attraction. I actually got a few smiles and a wave here and there; I wondered later if people thought I was a girl with my sissy hairdo. I don't think anybody ever saw my bare butt, thank goodness, but it sure felt like it! When the girls finally came back everybody had a huge ice cream cone in their hand and a smile on their face. I looked desperately for mine, but Linda told me I was out of luck. "Sorry, sweetie, but you didn't come with us, so we didn't get you anything," she said, licking a double scoop of strawberry. I turned to my cousin. "Sheila ...." "Hey, don't drag me into this. You had your chance, fairy boy." Sheila dug into her jeans pocket. "Here, here's five dollars. You can keep the change if you go inside and get a cone." I was incredulous, not to mention furious. And hurt. "I can't go in there without any clothes on! You know that! It's not fair!" My pretty cousin smacked her lips and said, "So what. What do I care? You had your chance. What are you going to do, cry about it?" I suddenly felt extremely vulnerable, and not just because I was sitting between a bunch of girls in the back of the car. "You're just being mean!" I said with pout. I tried not to cry, but the tears just flowed. Linda nodded as she pulled the car out of the parking lot. "You oughta know. You're the expert on being mean," she said. I could see her shoot an ugly look right at me. She then glanced back toward her little sister. So that was it! Because I'd teased some girl a little, I was being picked on - no, make that tortured! - in return. Well, needless to say, I didn't like that at all! "It's not fair!" I sobbed. Samantha made a big showing out of eating her ice cream cone. "Yeah, probably not. But it's a ton of fun making you cry, crybaby!!!" Cheated and upset, I didn't want to talk to anybody, but what I wanted didn't matter to a hill of beans. Everybody heard the argument, and they all had something to say. It was mostly teasing and goading designed to make me cry. I was a little wiser by then, though, and I did a pretty good job of not letting them get to me. "Here, you can have the rest of my ice cream," Becky finally said. She held out her cone. I looked at her and thought for a minute that I was being set up. But the smile on her face was too sincere. Maybe the meanness was over. I sure hoped so. I took a deep breath and reached out. I was just about to take it when Samantha beat me to it, knocking it out of Becky's hand and laughing like an idiot. I about screamed when the cold ice cream landed upside down on my chest and slid down my bare belly and right into my lap. "You did that on purpose!" I yelled. "Yeah, I know," the former love of my life said with a giggle. "Is it cold down there? I hope .. your little friend ... likes chocolate." I didn't need to say anything. The mushy ice cream smeared all over me, my chest and belly and my privates as well as my legs. I was literally a chocolate mess! I remember looking down and seeing my stupid penis sticking up with all that ice cream surrounding it like some sort of weird sundae. The car filled with laughter while I cried like a baby. Well, everyone was laughing but Linda. The next thing I knew she pulled the car to the side of the road and stopped. "Get out, quick!" she yelled. "Hurry, you little faggot, before you get ice cream all over the seats. My dad will kill me if I bring his car back all messed up and sticky." Of course, I didn't want to get out, but with four sets of hands pushing and pulling at me I didn't have much choice. "You heard the woman," Sheila taunted. "Get out of her car!" "Don't touch me!" I yelled. "Leave me alone! I hate you! I hate you all!" A lot of good that did me. Despite all my complaining and fighting I ended up standing on the side of the road in the buff. "You're safe," Sheila called out. "There ain't nothing on the seat but Twinkle Toes' sweaty old butt-prints." She looked me up and down and grinned. "Yuck! You are so nasty!" That made me mad. "It's not my fault! It was Becky ... and her," I pointed toward Samantha, "They did this to me. I didn't do anything to any of them!" Samantha gave me a punch in the arm. It was hard enough to hurt. "Yeah, nothing except be mean!" She reached over and gave Becky a hug. "You're just mad now 'cause you're getting a taste of your own medicine, Twinkle Toes." My eyes welled up with tears. "Stop calling me that!" I screamed. "I didn't do anything to her ... or you!!! I ... I ... oh, you're just being a bitch!" "I don't have to listen to this," Samantha said. She got into the car. "Come on, Becky. You don't have to listen to it, either!" Becky gave me a not-so-sympathetic smile and did as her friend said. The next thing I knew, everyone was getting back into the car, leaving me standing like an idiot on the edge of the pavement. Linda and Sheila were cracking up as they loaded up, both of them making kissy faces at me. "Bye, nasty boy!" Sheila taunted. "Have fun walking home all by yourself." At first I thought they were just kidding, but Linda put the car into gear and started pulling away. "WAIT!!!" I screamed. "You can't leave me here like this!" "Sure I can." Linda looked me up and down and shook her head. "You're not riding in my car, fairy boy. You made a nasty mess! See you later." "Bye, Twinkle Toes," the other girls called out. I watched in disbelief as the car pulled away. Four sets of eyes looked out the back and hands came out the windows on either side and waved. "Bye-bye ....." I stood there and cried for a long time before I got my act together. Or as together as I could get it, considering my situation. It was now officially a real life nightmare, being stranded on the side of the road, naked as a jaybird, covered in bruises and tears and chocolate ice cream, who knew how far from home. Why me???? Thank goodness, it turned that we were on the country road out near my grandmother's house. In retrospect it wasn't that long a walk - couple of miles or so - but in my current predicament it seemed like a lifetime. The hard part was walking on the hot pavement in my bare feet. Except for the portions shaded by the occasional tree, the road was blistering and my poor feet were in such pain that I cried with each step. It didn't help that I was still sticky from the neck down with Becky's ice cream. All over my belly and my hands, under my arms and even down between my legs ... I couldn't even scratch my nose without spreading that stupid chocolate mess. I never was so miserable in my entire life! The only thing worst was having to hide every five minutes. Whenever I'd hear a car I'd have to run from the side of the road and hide either in the bushes or a ditch, praying that I wouldn't be seen. I'm pretty sure nobody saw me, but it was enough to put the fear of god into me. For some reason I was convinced that if anybody saw a twelve year old boy wandering around the countryside stark naked - and covered in chocolate ice cream! - he'd either be put in jail or kidnapped. I had enough problems as it was; if there was anything I knew, it was that I didn't need any help in being miserable. During one of these little escapes I hid under a small rustic bridge while a convoy of cars and trucks rolled by. Thank goodness there was a small fresh water creek beneath, and I did manage to wash myself off and cool down a bit. After getting most of the ice cream off in the stream I spent the longest time just sitting in the shade under the bridge, my bare butt on a flat rock, my aching feet soaking in the cool water. It was very peaceful, very quiet, and despite being stripped naked and looking like a goof, I was actually kinda happy. I thought about my buddy Christopher a bit and I got a little teary eyed when I realized I still had a long walk home. When I finally arrived at the house I was disappointed to see Linda's car in the driveway along with the one my cousins drove. I'd prayed to God that nobody would be there so I could maybe get a little peace and quiet, but it seemed that my luck was running pretty consistent. I could hear voices coming from the back yard, a lot of laughing and giggling and chitchatting, exactly the sort of thing I'd expect from my cousins and their goofy friends. I started to sneak in the front door, but it was locked, darn it! A fresh wave of tears swept over me as I plopped down on the front step and pondered my fate. I'd hoped to slip upstairs unnoticed, clean myself up and hide in the bathroom until Nana and Aunt Margaret got home. My only other choices were to hide somewhere outside or simply go to the back yard and face the music. While I fudged around and sat with my bare butt on the cold concrete steps and tried to figure out what to do, my decision was made for me. "It's about time you got back!" I about jumped out of my skin as Pam appeared out of nowhere. She was standing at the opened front door, a cold drink in her hand and a huge smile on her face Looking me up and down, my cousin clucked her tongue and shook her head. "You are a mess, Fairy Boy. And a nasty one at that. Did you have a nice little walk? Did you make any friends along the way?" Well, believe it or not, I actually lit into my cousin, if only for a minute or two. Tears running down my face, I complained and I fussed and I cussed like there was no tomorrow. I told her how mean she was, and how mean everybody else was, and how I was going to tell on them all. I was so distraught, so upset and so tired that I didn't care about the consequences; I was going to get back at them all if it was the last thing I ever did. "I'll show you!" I threatened. "I'm tell Nana and Aunt Margaret and everybody what all you did to me. I'll tell everything, I don't care. Yeah, I'll tell it all!" Instead of being upset with me, or slapping my face or giving me a whipping or even fussing back, Pam grinned a great big grin and grabbed me by the wrist. "Yeah, sure, whatever." She sniffed the air. "Geez, you still smell like chocolate. I wonder if you need a bath ... nah, not enough time. Come on, little fairy, we're running late. We've had a surprise waiting for you all afternoon long! Let's hurry up before it's ruined." I suddenly found myself pulled through the front door, past the living room, the hallway and toward the kitchen out back. To my chagrin I was drug right by the main stairway which led up to my lonely bedroom where my pants waited for me in vain. As we approached the back door through the kitchen my cousin put her finger to her lips. "Sh-h-h-h ... we're going out on the porch. If you keep quiet, you'll get to see something really neat." Oh, boy, that didn't sound good. Whenever one of my cousins said something like that I almost always ended up miserable and in tears. "Like what?" I asked suspiciously. I felt so helpless, standing in my grandmother's kitchen in my birthday suit like that. "You're not going to do anything mean to me again, are you?" Pam looked at me for a moment and then blinked. "No, it's not mean, honey, it's a surprise. You like surprises, don't you, sweetie? Especially nice ones, right?" I shook my head. "Not lately." "Well, you're going to just love this one, I guarantee it." She winked at me sweetly and I could feel my insides flutter with emotion. Following my cousin's lead, I padded along behind her, naked and obedient, like a helpless little child. Carefully and quietly, she led me by the hand to the edge of the porch. Below us on the patio the sound of girlish laughter floated upward, triggering a shiver of fear through my body. My cousin pointed to the sight before us and grinned. "See? Pretty cute, huh?" I felt my stomach churn for an instant. The younger girls, Becky and Samantha and Teresa, were all standing around the old metal washtub, laughing and giggling like a bunch of fools. Sheila and Linda were sitting at the picnic table sipping soft drinks and watching from the sidelines. Something - or somebody! - was splashing around in the tub, like it was taking a bath or something. "What ... what are they ... doing?" I asked carefully. Yeah, I know, the question came out of my mouth, but I wasn't sure I wanted to know the answer to that it. My cousin squeezed my hand. "Can't you see him? Isn't he cute?" At first I thought Becky and the other girls were giving a dog or a puppy a bath. After a few minutes I heard the crying and the cussing and the fussing, and then I saw it was a person. A boy, judging from the sound of the voice. And a very unhappy boy, at that. "Is it Chris?" I wondered to myself. If it was, I really felt sorry for him. I wanted to shout out a warning to him. "He knows what they'll do to him ... why doesn't he run away???" The girls moved around some and I finally got a good look at who they were teasing. My stomach sunk so low I almost got sick. It was a boy that was sitting in the tub all right. A black boy, soaking wet and crying like a big baby. Just like I'd been only a few hours before. "Oh, Jesus! Oh, God, not him! Not him!!" Pam nudged me and giggled. "It's Teresa's little brother, Brandon. You know him, don't you?" I nodded my head. Oh, I knew Brandon Jackson all right. He was about my age, a spoiled brat and a real pain in the butt. More than once over the past few summers he and I'd crossed paths, and each time we'd almost come to blows. "Not him," I said to myself. I suddenly felt very sick. "Anybody but him." See, I never was much of a fighter and I hated kids like Brandon, big mouthed and pushy like that. The fact that he was as big as me made things even more awkward because I was afraid if I did confront him I'd get beat up. Him being black didn't help since I was afraid that all his black friends would track me down and beat me up as well. What made things worse was how Brandon sensed my reluctance and always took advantage of it to treat me like dirt. And now, well, I was terrified that he was going to see me naked, with flowers in my hair, looking like a real fruitcake in front of all those girls! You can't imagine how scared I was. Next to riding bare bottomed through town, it would be one of the worse things that ever happened to me! I winced in pain as my cousin pinched my bare bottom hard enough to leave a mark. "I asked you a question, stupid! Do you know him?" "Yeah, I know him," I conceded with a sniff. "He's a brat. I hate him!" Pam looked at me. "Oh, really? You don't care for Teresa's little brother? I think he's kinda cute." "He's a pain. I hope you all are as mean to him as you are to me." "Oh, we're not mean. You just think we're mean. We're nice to you, and you're going to be nice to Brandon." My cousin smiled at me and winked. "Really, really nice." I thought about what had happened to me during the ride to town and the long walk home, and I shuddered to think what my cousin considered "mean." I also wondered about what she meant about me being nice to that little punk brat. "Did you all make Brandon ride over here in his birthday suit?" I asked, half hopeful, half in fear. "No, we didn't make him ride over here in his birthday suit! Why do you ask? Would you think it funny if we did?" I wasn't sure what the right answer was to that, so I kept my mouth shut and just shrugged. "Don't be coy with me, little fairy. I know what you're thinking. You'd like that, wouldn't you?" My cousin shot me a thoughtful look. "Well, for your information, while the girls took you for that fun ride downtown, Teresa and I ran over to her house and invited Brandon over for a swim. He was pretty happy 'til he got here and saw our fancy swimming pool." She nodded at the tub and grinned. "You'll be thrilled to know, no doubt, there was some yellin' and that's when Teresa took away his bathing trunks and made him run around bareass for a while. I'm sure you would have loved that," she said with a grin. "Anyway, we tried to get him to get to go 'swimming' in the tub, but he wouldn't hear of it. Then, when Linda and the girls got back, it didn't take a couple of seconds to get him in there. He's so afraid of the younger girls seeing his weiner we can't get him out. Pretty funny, huh?" I nodded. I didn't know what to say, I was so confused. Part of me was fascinated by what I saw, part of me was absolutely struck dumb with fear. Between the girls all laughing and yakking and having a ball, the young black boy was clearly distraught, hysterical, even, at his predicament. Between the sobbing and the fussing I could make out his pleas for help and his cries for his mother. "Get away from me! I'm telling, Teresa! I'm tell on you big time! You all are in big trouble! You just wait 'til I tell Momma on you! Then you'll get it! Momma!!!" I watched with horror as the huge Teresa reached down and slapped her younger brother right across the face. I winced; having been on the receiving end of that kinda thing, I didn't think it was funny at all. Not even when it happened to somebody I didn't like. Sure enough, it shut him up, for a few minutes at least, but that still didn't make it right. "I don't think you'll be telling anybody anything," the black girl said with confidence. "Not after we get through with you. You won't be telling anybody a thing, li'l sister!" "I ain't your sister and I ain't no girl!" the young boy sobbed. "Stop callin' me that!" I felt ill as Teresa lit into him again, grabbing him by his bushy head of hair and pulling on it until he cried. I wondered if I looked anything like that when I cried. Surely not. "I'll call you whatever I choose too, you little faggot. If I say you're a girl, then you're a girl! Understand me, li'l miss?" Pam poked me in my bare belly with her damned fingernail. "Sounds like you two were just made for each other, li'l fairy. I can't wait to get the two of you together. That's going to be so much fun!" It took me a second to figure out what my cousin was talking about. Watching Brandon suffering at the hands of his sister, I had a sudden flashback to what I overheard what was said earlier about getting the two of us together. A chill went down my spine as I played it back in my mind. "We can make them take baths and play 'kissy-face' and all sorts of stuff! It'll be the funniest thing you'll ever see!" I licked my lips. I know this sounds stupid, but I felt a shameful, though familiar tingling between my legs. I couldn't help it as I suddenly caught myself wondering what it would be like to kiss a boy who happened to be black. A boy that, by the way, I hated. This was turning out to be a very weird day! My cousin giggled. "Poor little faggot. I bet you can hardly wait. The two of you are going to have a ton of fun! I can tell that right now!" I looked at her dumbly. What the heck was she talking about? Pam looked at me and giggled again. She then pointed down below my waist. I about died when I saw my erection. Yep, there it was, sticking straight up like an eager pet, ready to please, ready to be pleased. No wonder my cousin thought I was looking forward to making friends with Teresa's little brother. Well, who could blame her? With a hardon like that, she probably thought I was the biggest queer in the world! Of course, the question really should have been: What the heck was going through my mind??? I was awakened from my reverie when I felt myself being pushed down the back porch steps and onto the cool grass. "No, wait a second! Pam, please, I can't go down there like this ...." "Shush, little fairy. You don't know what you want." My cousin gripped my hand so tight tears came to my eyes. "Hey, everybody! Look what the cat drug in!!!" And so it began .... Chapter Twelve Misery Loves Company After an embarrassing amount of cheering in celebration of my return, it didn't take any time to get introduced to my new little friend. Not the way Sheila and Pam did it, that is. Pam led me right up to where Brandon was sitting and motioned for me to wait a moment. "Stand up, sugar. I've got someone for you to meet." Brandon gave me a sour look. "He ain't got any clothes on," the pouting boy said. He eyed my flowery crown and fairy necklace. "He looks like some kinda fruit. Keep that queer away from me." Teresa popped her little brother upside the head with the back of her hand. "Who're you calling queer? You don't got any clothes on, either, dummy, so stand on up. You don't got nothing to hide either!" The young black boy remained sitting there, staring at me like I'd flown in from Mars. From the look on his face, I just knew he wasn't going to stand up on his own. Not in front of me, not in front of all those girls. It was about to get ugly. "Ain't doin' it," he said somberly. I watched as he drew his knees up to his chin and hugged himself tightly. "Ain't doin' nothin'." It didn't take but a couple of minutes to change his mind. Teresa said something about "Li'l faggot better do as he's told" and grabbed him by the arm. Sheila jumped in, grabbed him by the other arm, and together the two girls pulled Brandon to his feet, splashing water, flailing legs and all. There was some cryin' and some yellin' and probably some slappin', but I tried not to pay any attention to any of that; I'd heard enough over the past few days and all I wanted was for everybody to get along. Besides, the conclusion was foregone. While he didn't know it, Brandon was doomed to doing whatever his sister and my cousins wanted. Just as I was doomed to the same. I knew from experience there was no use in fighting it. And so, instead of adding to the panic and terror of the moment, I focused on who I was about to deal with and how I could make life easier for us both. Funny, the thoughts that went through my mind in those first few seconds. I remember thinking how, other than skin color, Teresa's little brother didn't look all that much different than either Chris or me. About my size, he was a pretty skinny little guy, all arms and legs, with a bit of baby fat and not a hair on his body. Also, his belly stuck out a bit, not so much because he was fat so much as that his back was more arched than either Chris or me. Between that and a chubby little butt (which was almost as big as mine!) his body had almost as many curves as a girl. Kinda like me, according to my cousins. Add the panicked look and the tears on his face and he fit right in as another victim of "fairy abuse." "Lemme go! Please, please, oh, please, lemme go! I won't tell, I promise! Just let me go home and I won't say a word!!!! Please ...." On the other hand, the differences between the two of us were pretty obvious. If Brandon looked taller than me, that was because of his curly black hair all poofed out in an Afro style; when we faced each other we actually stood eye to eye, so he really wasn't much taller than me. Then there was the obvious matter of our skin. Not quite as dark as his sister's, Brandon's complexion made mine look as pale as skimmed milk; from head to toe his deep brown skin glistened with water droplets, which gave him a mysterious, almost alien look. Well, to my twelve year old eyes, I guess. I actually envied his dark shape, thinking how it made him seem natural and confident in his nudity. Almost like he was dressed. Glancing down at my own pitiful nakedness, I found myself feeling even more vulnerable, more ridiculous than before. "Okay, okay, Sis, I'll do it! I'll do it!" Brandon sobbed. He sound so pathetic, I felt bad for him. "Please, just don't hit me anymore. OWW!!! Hey, I said I promised! I'll be good, all right?" I stood quietly as a quivering Brandon took his place facing me, standing so close I could smell candy on his breath. Now that things had calmed down a bit, I couldn't help looking my new friend's body up and down. Particularly down there. Like me, he was smooth and hairless, like a chocolate-dipped version of my aunt's fairy statue out in front of the house. Or even a chocolate-dipped version of me! For some unknown reason I found myself staring at Brandon's penis, which, despite being relaxed and hanging down, was as long as mine was erect. I knew I shouldn't have been looking at it, but I couldn't help it. I was oddly fascinated, pure and simple. "I wonder if it gets any bigger than that?" I remember thinking to myself. Pam broke my train of thought by taking my hand and putting it in Brandon's. Apparently it was time for us to make friends. I just stood there like an idiot while she fired a couple of frames of us with her camera. "What a pair of cutie pies," one of the older girls said. "They are just adorable together!" "Oh, so sweet! A pair of sweet little fairies," one of the younger girls - Samantha, I think - replied with a demonic giggle. Becky nodded. "I like seeing boys hold hands. Especially NAKED boys! They're just so cute like that!" I have to say it certainly felt weird standing there stark naked in front of all those girls, with my bare butt exposed and my stupid erection bouncing happily about, holding hands with another boy ... who just happened to be naked. For some reason my penis was tingling like crazy, and for an instant I felt kinda faint. My cousin Pam winked at me. "Well, I did my part, little cousin. Now get to it!" She put the camera to her eye and played with the focus. "I've still got a few pictures left on this roll." "Get to ... what?" I stammered. Sheila nudged me. "You know. Make friends with little Brandy here. You know what to do. I understand you two don't get along. Well, that's going to stop today. We want you to become the best of friends. And so you can start by kissing and making up. Now!" "Kiss and make up ...?" My cousin grinned. "That's what I said, kiss and make up." "Hey, I ain't kissing and making up with no guy!" Brandon declared. The black boy made an ugly face and pulled his hand out of mine. "And my name's Brandon, not Brandy!" WHAPP!!! Teresa smacked her little brother upside the head again so hard I wanted to cry. "Shut up, li'l sis. We'll call you a lot worse before the day is done. Now, be nice and hold hands with your little sweetie. And do as you're told, understand? Unless you want another whippin', that is!" Brandon took my hand, just as he was told. I thought about how ridiculous we must have looked, two naked boys standing in my grandmother's flower garden, holding hands like a couple of dumb sissies. Imagine my horror when I felt a disturbing twitch in the tip of my penis! Glancing down, I was shocked to see the little traitor bobbing around like a pet begging for attention! The familiar tingling put me into a panic. "Oh, God, I'm going to spurt!" I immediately closed my eyes and prayed, "Please, don't let me embarrass myself ... please, oh, please, oh, please ...." When I opened my eyes I saw Pam staring at my erection. She then looked up at me, swung her hair back and smiled. "You're really loving all this, aren't you, sweetie?" I mumbled something dumb and just stood there, marveling at my bad luck. It was like she could read my stupid little mind! I shuddered to think about how much she enjoyed watching me suffer. "Well, it's time. Hop to it, li'l fairy!" My cousin reached out and shoved Brandon and me toward each other until we bumped noses. An alarming thrill shot through my tingly erection. "Pam said for you to get to it, Fairy Boy." Sheila stared directly at me. "Don't just stand there. Do your thing!" I cleared my throat. "Like what?" I remember my voice was raspy and hoarse. "What thing?" She smiled and made a kissy face. "Remember the fairy rules?" "Yeah," Pam said. "Remember all the stuff you're supposed to do when you're with another fairy? Remember rule number five? Or do you need a refresher course?" "Ain't no fairy!" Brandon fumed. "Stop calling me that!" Oh, I remembered the fairy rules, all right. And, yes, I remembered rule five. Not that I wanted to. I wasn't stupid. I knew they wanted me kiss Brandon, which would have been just about the most sickening thing they could have asked me to do. And I knew it was inevitable that I did, that it would take a miracle to keep me from doing it. I just didn't want to make it look too easy. "C'mon, little fairies, pucker up!" I felt that awful twitch again, and then a familiar shiver. If I wasn't real careful, like it or not, something down below was about to go SPURT!!! Brandon's voice suddenly got really whiny. "I ain't no fairy, and I don't like this fairy stuff. And besides, I already got friends. Plenty of friends. I don't wanna be friends with him." He glanced down at my erect penis and gave me a sour look. "And I don't like him touching me, either. He's weird." Linda laughed. "I think the word you're looking for is queer, honey. Fairies are queer, not weird." The black child shot me another ugly look. "Whatever. I don't wanna be around him any which way." I looked around. I wondered if it would do any good to stage a final protest. Probably not. "Come on, fairy boy! Unless you want another whippin', let's get on with it!" Sheila encouraged. "Yeah! Do it! Do it now!" One of the younger girls chipped in. The crowd was getting impatient. I knew what it was they wanted me to do. I was just too scared to initiate it. I mean, think about what they were making me do: not only was I about to kiss a boy, but I was about to kiss a naked black boy, in back of my grandmother's house, for pity's sake, and in front of all those girls! After a bit more goading - not to mention a couple of nasty pinches on my bare butt - I did it. Or tried to. I turned toward Brandon, gripped his hand tight and kinda leaned in toward him. Licking my lips, I guided my face in close to his. I must have hesitated a little too long 'cause he jerked away and gave me a fearful, disgusted look. "What're you doin', you fag! Get away from me, fairy boy! You wanna fight? I'll fight you, if that's what you want." "I don't wanna fight. I just wanna ...." I couldn't think of what to say. I mean, heck, what could I say? The whole situation was absolutely ridiculous! "I don't know you!" the black boy yelled. He pulled his hand free and pushed me away. "And you don't know me! All I know is that you're some kinda queer or something. Don't ever try to touch me! Don't even talk to me!" WHAPP!!! Right on cue, Teresa smacked her little brother again, right across the back of his bushy head. "I'd listen to your new little buddy if I were you," she warned. "Now, take his hand and stand still. If you don't want me to hit you again, that is." "I'm listenin', I'm listenin'," Brandon whined, slipping his hand in mine and limply holding on. I was surprised to see a fresh tear run down his cheek. Teresa nodded. "All we want you two to do is" - she stifled a giggle - "kiss and make up. Does that sound so bad?" My cousin Pam jumped in at that point with, "Yeah, but you gotta KISS and make up, not just make up. You guys can't have one without the other, all right?" "Kiss and make up!" the younger girls screamed. You'd have thought they were hollering for the ice cream truck, the way they were acting. Brandon shot our audience a nasty look. "No way in heck I'm going to let some queer kiss me ... Ow!" He rubbed his ear from where his sister gave it a pain- inducing SMACK!!! "You WILL do what we say!" Whap!!! "You don't, and I'm tellin' Momma about those fireworks you hid out in the shed!" Right there in front of everybody, Teresa hit her little brother so bad he started crying. I actually felt sorry for the poor kid. "Ow! Okay, okay!" he sobbed. "I get it. Just don't hit me anymore." My chocolate-covered twin shot his sister a hateful look. Then he looked me up and down suspiciously for a moment. I was surprised - and relieved! - when he reluctantly nodded at me. He wasn't going to fight it any longer. I guess he finally figured that I might be the only way to get us both out of this stupid situation without getting whacked on the head any more. I just hoped he was right! (to be continued ....)