A Midsummer's Daydream, Part 4B 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 Twenty-Seven The Fairy Maid's Debut "Naked Davy's going to be our little fairy maid!" Pam sang at the top of her voice. "Fairy maid! Fairy maid! Naked Davy's going to be our little fairy maid! All the live long day!!!" Boy, was I ever mad! I hated it when the girls talked to me like that. I also hated when they came up with new ideas to torture me. Wasn't it bad enough I was forced to run around in front of my girl cousins without any clothes? "Nana! Make her stop teasing me!" My grandmother sat down at the table where she pulled me close and gave me a big hug and a sloppy wet kiss on the cheek. "Oh, David, honey, please stop being such a crybaby. I would have thought you'd be used to all this attention by now. After all, you're the one who started it. You have to be careful what you ask for." "Yeah, you started it, so get used to it, crybaby!" echoed the girls. "Oh, he's not a crybaby, see?" Nana said with a laugh. Holding my wrists together in a firm grip, my grandmother ran her fingers over a couple of ticklish spots, forcing me to laugh when I actually wanted to cry. "See, he's having a great time! Aren't you, sweetie?" "Nana, stop it!" I squealed loudly. I about jumped as Nana snatched the tip of my penis and playfully shook it. I couldn't believe she did that, not in front of the girls! "Na-a-ana-a-a-a!!!" I didn't start any of this, I thought to myself. It was those dumb ol' girls who started it! Just 'cause they caught Christopher and me skinnydipping, they thought they could embarrass us to death. We weren't hurting anybody! When is this going to end? I lamented silently. It was about that time that Aunt Margaret returned with a huge bundle of brightly colored, frilly material. At first I couldn't tell what it was, but I knew it wasn't going to be any good for me. I watched nervously as my grandmother helped sort through the pile of girlish garments, nodding and smiling with the utmost approval. "Oh, this is just perfect, darling. It's perfect. I would have never thought of this, but I'm certainly glad you did. It will go perfectly with his new wings." The second phase of my humiliation turned out to include a frilly red dress with a white lace apron attached to it. My aunt held the poofy outfit up against my naked body. "I found this in the sewing room," she explained. "It's a Valentine dress the girls wore back in elementary school. More importantly, see the little apron? Isn't it cute? It's sewn into the dress, but don't worry, a pair of scissors will take care of that." I blushed to see the upper portion of the tiny apron was heart-shaped, the skirt was drastically flared and the whole thing dripped with lace. Red-faced and teary-eyed, I shook my head in defiance. "I ain't wearing some dumb ol' dress." "Nobody said you were going to wear a dress, David. But you ARE going to wear this apron." My aunt raised an eyebrow. "But, you know, since you mentioned it, I think you'd look kinda cute in a dress. This one might be a little small, but I'm sure we can squeeze you into it if you want to try it on." "I ain't wearin' that dress!" I said tearfully. "Don't worry about it, Mother," Sheila said, her voice full of acid. "David doesn't deserve to wear a dress. He may look and act like a little fairy, but he's still just a nasty little brat! He doesn't deserve to wear a dress!" I watched helplessly as my Aunt Margaret took a pair of shears and cut the threads that held that tiny lace apron to the frilly frock. I then stood silently fuming as she draped the flimsy apron over my head and around my naked waist. I felt pretty foolish as she tied the back up. Those stupid apron strings tickled my bare butt, but I didn't say anything. The next thing I knew I was being twirled around and inspected by four sets of smiling eyes. My aunt was the first to speak. "The material is a little thin. You can see right through it." I remember shuddering as she poked through the gauzy fabric and touched my tender penis. "Good thing you don't have much to hide, honey." "Aunt Margaret, please don't!" I whimpered. My stomach went sour as I caught a glimpse of my reflection in a nearby mirror. Turning from side to side, I couldn't believe my reflection. That stupid apron looked so ... well, so tiny on me. Not much bigger than a lady's hanky, all it did was (barely) cover my lap and my belly, the lace trimmed heart not even reaching my nipples. The entire garment was so teeny, you could see I was still naked underneath. "Oh, my god! It's perfect!" Sheila said. "It actually looks good on him! I mean, with those goofy wings ... I hate to say it, David, but you're adorable! What a little cutie!" Pam clapped her hands and laughed. "Mom, this is so great! He looks like a real live fairy maid now! Look how the apron's skirt is all poofy and stands out like a teeny little tutu! It goes perfect with his butterfly wings! Ooooh, and look at that cute heart-shaped top! See how it shows off his necklace? And how it makes him look like he's got boobies! How neat!" Pam was right: with my hair brushed out and fluffed up, I did almost look like one of those little fairies in her picture books. A blushing, pouty-faced fairy with her chubby breasts and bare bottom exposed to the world. I felt a warm confusing glow as I noticed how the little fairy pendant looked right at home hovering above all the ribbons and lace. "Oh, I changed my mind, Mother!" Sheila said, clapping her hands like a grade school girl. Despite my embarrassed state, I actually thought at that moment she was kinda cute. "Make him wear the dress, too! Please, oh, please, let's make him look like a girl!" As much as I hated to admit it, Sheila was right, too. I didn't look anything like the twelve year old boy who came to visit earlier in the summer. With that stupid sissy apron and those ridiculous fairy wings, I was the youngest drag queen in the world! "I don't want to dress like a girl," I whispered to myself. "I already feel stupid enough." "Well, the apron is a little small, but I like it," Aunt Margaret said. I forced myself to stand stone still as she pulled and tugged and adjusted the fit. "It gives you some curves and really helps you show off your butt. With your poofy hair, you look so sweet! Too bad you're not really a girl. I'd put you in that dress in a second! What do you think, Nana?" To my surprise my grandmother disagreed completely. That didn't mean my day was going to get any better, unfortunately. "I think we have enough girls in this family. My new little fairy maid looks perfect the way he is." Pam giggled. "Oh, please, Nana, make him wear the dress! I want to see if we can make him look like a girl. Please?" Sheila picked up that awful dress and waved it in front of me like a toreador teasing a bull. "You'd like to wear this pretty dress, wouldn't you, li'l cousin? Wouldn't that be nicer than showing off your bare butt all day long?" What a question! I sure didn't want to dress up like a girl, but I sure didn't want to go butt naked all day, either. What a thing to ask a guy! "I guess ... I guess so ...." I whined. Sheila nodded toward my grandmother. "Then you better let her know. If you don't, you'll end up play naked fairy games the rest of the day!" I took a deep breath and went to my grandmother. "Please, Nana, can I wear that dress? Please?" Nana raised an eyebrow. "Oh, really? You want to wear one of your cousins' dresses?" I felt like an idiot, but I nodded my head. "Um, yes, ma'am." My face burned as my cousins giggled wildly in the background. "Please, Nana?" I begged. I couldn't believe I was doing this! "Oh, puh-leeeeeeezzzz!!!!" "No, absolutely not! You are going bare butt naked until I say otherwise. If I remember correctly, you wanted to play 'fairies,' not 'dressup,' remember? No dresses or panties or any other such thing. Nothing but your birthday suit ... well, that and your fairy maid costume. But nothing else! That's final!" "But, Nana, people will see my bare bottom," I fussed. My grandmother looked at me. "What part of 'no' do you not understand? Absolutely not! That's my final word on the matter! Do not ask me again!" "But, Nana ...." WHACK!!! I got a slap across the face for my trouble. "What did I say? Did I say for you to argue with me?" SLAPPP!!! "Did I ask your opinion about any of this? No, I did not!" WHAPPP!!! "See what you did? You made me lose my temper! Just for that, my little fairy, you'll go another week in your birthday suit. It's your own fault! Don't say I didn't warn you!" I wiped tears and snot from my nose. "Two ... two weeks? Please, Nana, no! I ... I can't stand that! Two weeks is too much! I can't do it! I WON'T do it!" I regretted my words the instant they came out of my mouth. The problem was, I was too late! I couldn't believe I said that to my grandmother, not then, not ever! I braced myself for another hit. It never came. Instead Nana just looked at me. Like she was thinking really, really hard about something important. "You won't do two weeks, eh? Okay. Then make it a whole month. Yes, you heard me, pretty boy. A whole month in your birthday suit. No matter what we do, no matter where we go, you'll do it in your bare skin ... FOR ONE STRAIGHT MONTH!!! And if I hear one more smart remark, it's the rest of the summer. Is that what you want? If it is, just say so and I'll make it so!" "No, ma'am," I said quietly. "Then shut your mouth before you make me do something really ugly. If you cannot say something nice, then don't say anything!" My cousins grinned at me. They knew I was miserable and they were loving every minute of it. Hey, you'd be pretty miserable, too, if you were faced with a month of running around dressed like a little fag! How in the world was I going to survive that? Afraid to do anything that might upset my grandmother, I just stood there and wiped my tears. Aunt Margaret nodded. She looked me dead in the eye and smiled. "Don't worry, sweetheart. You'll make a great fairy maid for the next few weeks. We won't let you get bored. You can clean house and help Nana with her little get togethers and you can help me do my hair ... all sorts of fun things! And I'm sure the girls can come up with some good ideas, too, can't you, girls?" "I've already got a list, Mom!" shouted Sheila. Pam jumped in with, "David is going to have lots of fun! We promise!" Aunt Margaret looked me dead in the eye and smirked. "Not exactly what you had in mind when you got here last week, is it?" I blinked. Several times, in fact. "No, ma'am," I replied quietly. "I didn't think so. Still, isn't this a lot more fun than hanging around a bunch of nasty, ugly boys? Isn't this more fun than playing some dumb old baseball game, or running hooks through nasty ol' worms and trying to catch a poor little fish?" Not know exactly what to say, I forced myself to smile and nod. "Yes, ma'am." Aunt Margaret looked at me carefully. "Tell me, sweetheart, are you having a good time? Isn't this fun? Don't you just love playing fairy games with your old grandmother and your aunt and your girly-girl cousins? Isn't this just the perfect summer vacation? Nana cleared her throat. "Do you want to go the rest of the summer with your bare bottom exposed?" I shook my head. "Then tell Margaret what she wants to hear." I started crying. "Nana, please don't make me .... I ... I forgot the question," I whispered tearfully. My aunt laughed. "Poor darling. He's so cute when he gets all confused." She smiled her Hollywood smile and touched me on the cheek. "Sweetie pie, I asked if you were having a wonderful time. Playing fairy games is more fun than anything in the world, don't you agree?" Blushing red-hot, I shrugged my shoulders. "I ... I guess it is." "You better do better than that," Nana warned hotly. A chill swept through my body. I found it hard to swallow. "It ... my ... playing fairy games is pretty fun. I, um, I like it ... a lot." "That was pretty lame," Sheila said. "Ask him about his fairy costume. Does he hate it or does he like it?" "Do you like it," teased Pam, "or do you LOVE it?" I thought for a second and shrugged my shoulders. "I guess I love it." "Then say so," ordered Nana. "And act like it when you say it!" I forced myself to smile the biggest smile I smiled that morning and I took a deep breath. "I really love my new fairy costume!" I hated myself for sounding so enthusiastic. "Thanks for putting it together for me, Nana!" Everybody laughed. "That's better," Nana said with a mischievous grin. "That's exactly how I want you to act when our guests arrive this afternoon." Aunt Margaret nodded and smiled her movie star smile one more time. "You know, there's still something missing," my aunt said thoughtfully. "There ought to be something else to make your outfit complete ...." "I know what it is!" Sheila shouted. The seventeen year old dashed from the table and out of the room. " Shoes! The little fairy can wear shoes and still show his bare butt, right? I'll be right back!" Everybody laughed at Sheila's enthusiasm, except me, of course. I was busy watching Pam. She'd picked up the little red Valentine's dress and was looking through it. "There used to be a little lace hat with this costume," my cousin said. "I remember wearing it to a costume party when I was little. It's really silly looking. I mostly remember it kept falling off my head." I watched with despair as my cousin dug around and finally discovered something in a pocket. It turned out to be the hat, if you can call it that. It was basically a simple hairband with a length of eyelet and lace material sewn to it. There were also a pair of lace wristbands, the really puffy kind that look like a cuff from a fancy party dress. I didn't realize what they were until Pam slipped them over my wrists. They looked so stupid on me ... and yet so right. "Here, put this on, too." My cousin straightened out the little lace hat and was eager to stick it on my head. "I can't wait to see how it looks on you!" Despite my reluctance to wear that stupid hat, Pam clipped it atop my head, stepped back ... and laughed. "Oh, David, wait 'til you see yourself in the mirror! You are just too cute for words!" "Hold out your hands," said my Aunt Margaret. I did as I was told, inadvertently showing off my lacy accoutrements. I felt like a total geek. "Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful! What do you think, Nana?" "They're perfect!" my grandmother looked at me with the most awful shine in her eyes. "It's all so ... well, it's all just perfect. That's all I can say. David, sweetie, if this doesn't make you look like a little fairy maid, I don't know what will." "Nana ...." I whined. My grandmother slapped my bare butt and warned me to keep quiet. "I don't want to hear a word from you. You got yourself in this mess, you're just going to have to deal with it!" Nana spun me around and adjusted my newest accessories. "Besides, Pam is right. You're cute as can be, sweetie. Please, don't ruin everything by acting like a spoiled brat." I stood unsteadily in the middle of the room as my family continued to make a fuss over me. My cousin Sheila got back about that time and she had a huge fit of the giggles when she saw my latest additions. "This is just too sweet!" she said, touching the little lace hat and wrist bands laughing. "All that's missing is the little black dress and he'd be a perfect French maid." "I like him naked better," Pam said. "With his little wings he's just like the fairies in our books. Even with that little apron, he looks just like them. Here, I'll show you!" My cousin was back in a flash with a huge picture book of fairies. Sure enough, she showed us more than one artistic drawing of fairy folk that looked an awful lot like I did, from the transparent wings down to the tousled hair and lacy garments. This generated a lot of enthusiasm, which was exactly the kind of attention I was trying to avoid! Nana laughed out loud on that one. "Of course, you can't call him 'Naked Davy' any more, Pammy. Not while he's wearing his little fairy maid costume! We'll have to come up with some sort of fairy boy name for him. Anyway, here, let's see how Sheila's shoes fit him." Sheila's contribution to my humiliation was an armful of shoes for me to try on. Of course, I had to try on each pair and model them several times for my advisors. "Walk across the dining room and back, sweetheart," instructed my Aunt Margaret. "We need to see how you look in your new shoes when you walk." A couple of pair were some god-awful huge high heels from my aunt's closet. Those were way too big for my feet, thank goodness! Nana didn't make me keep them, 'cause I'd have fallen and broken my neck if I had to wear'em for any length of time. A couple of others were -- in Pam's words, "All right" -- but either they didn't go with my outfit or just nobody liked them. "There's gotta be something here," Sheila fussed. "This is too good a chance to pass up!" "I can just go barefoot, okay?" I pleaded. "Please, don't make me wear any of these! Please?" "No way!" my cousin insisted. "Looking like that, you've just got to have a pair of high heels." More shoes were produced and more than once I almost fell on my face. Aunt Margaret offered some advice, but no escape. "Take smaller steps, David. You're not in a race, you're wearing high heels, silly boy. And while you're at it, pretend you're on a tight rope. That will help keep your feet in line and help you keep your balance." "And don't shuffle your feet," offered my grandmother. "If there's one thing I can't stand it's a child who shuffles their feet!" "A boy in high heels," gushed Pam. "This is just great!" There was a lot of arguing, but the shoes everybody finally did agree on were a pair of tiny white strappy heels with huge white lace bows just above the open toes. The heels weren't so high that I couldn't walk in them, but they were definitely high enough and narrow enough to make me feel like I was walking on my tiptoes. There was a strap around the ankle with a particularly difficult buckle, so once they were on I couldn't get them off. And worst of all, the big white bows at the toes, well, they looked like something that should have been on a pair of clown shoes. "Perfect!" Sheila said proudly. "A pair of sissy shoes for one sissy cousin! Just per-r-r-rfect!" "Oh, my gosh," I said as I stared down at my feet. "This isn't right ...." To this very day I still get chills thinking about my poor feet, all bound up in white patent leather, brass buckles and huge satin bows; just perfect for a prissy, pretty little fairy! I normally wore Red Ball Jets, the most popular boys' shoes at the time, but those disappeared down at the waterfall. And now, well, my feet sure didn't look like they belonged to any twelve year old boy I knew! Not with those shoes, they didn't! "I can't believe it ... you actually look quite sweet like that," Pam said quietly. "I gotta go get my camera!" "No, Pam, don't!" I pleaded, teetering precariously on my borrowed high heels. "No pictures, please!" I felt like such a prim and proper little ... I don't know ... fairy princess, I guess, as I minced around in my new wings, apron and heels. I hated them! I also hated getting my picture taken dressed like that but Nana told me to act 'normal.' That was kinda difficult what with my stupid cousin up in my face shooting her flashgun and making rude remarks every time she fired off a frame. "I can't wait to show these to some boys I know," Pam teased. "I don't know what it is about chubby butts and high heels, but guys seem to love stuff like this." "Pamela! You're awful!" My aunt tried to be serious, but she was doing a lousy job of it. She smirked as she patted me on the head, just like I was a French poodle or something. "Don't say things like that in front of poor little David. You'll scare the dear child to death!" Sheila shot back with, "Oh, Mom, can't you see? He's loving it! If he didn't, would he be standing here posing and primping like a little fairy? A real boy wouldn't let us get near him with a pair of high heels." My aunt nodded in agreement. "You're most likely right," she said with a knowing smile. Nana spun me around and primped and poked at me from head to toe ... laughing and giggling the entire time! "Well, either way, you're staying like this the rest of the day. We've got work to do and I need my fairy maid to help out!" "No, Nana!" My grandmother touched her fingertips to her lips, signaling me to hush up. "And why not? Those sweet little shoes keep you from clomping around the house like a herd of horses and that adorable apron covers up your weenie, so I don't have to look at that ugly thing anymore. Best of all, there's plenty of bare bottom for me to whip on when I need to." "But, Nana ...." I whined. "Don't 'But, Nana' me, David. You've been wanting something to wear ever since we caught you playing your silly little game, so now you've got it. From now on whenever you have chores to do, you put this on. Hat, apron, shoes, everything! Understand me? We'll hang it all here in the kitchen where you can find it with no fuss ...." "No, Nana!" I cried. "Please!" "... and every time we give you some sort of housework you can slip your new things on and do your business like a good little fairy maid. Any questions?" My grandmother stood over me, hands on her hips, daring me to challenge her. Ashamed and helpless, I hung my head and sobbed. "No, ma'am." Well, sure, I had about a million questions, but I knew better than to ask any of them. I mostly wanted to know if my grandmother and my aunt has lost their minds! Making me run around naked all day, and then putting me in a pair of high heels and a stupid maid's apron, with my bare butt showing ... what the heck was wrong with these people??? True to her word, Nana made me do the rest of my chores in that stupid outfit. That stupid hat kept falling off my head and I was constantly tugging at the apron to cover myself and I couldn't move too fast in my new shoes for fear of falling down. Nana and Aunt Margaret would smile and grin at me, and say things like "You silly, clumsy boy! All that running and jumping you do, and you can't even walk around the house in a pair of high heels? What is wrong with you?" The girls were much worse, naturally. They fed on the idea that their twelve year old boy cousin was dressed up like some sort of prissy faggot. I mean, they really loved it! Their teasing was relentless and sadistic, driving me to tears for most of the morning, and yet the adults never said anything to discourage their cruelty. "I wonder what the guys at school would say if they could see our little fairy maid?" Sheila teased. "Do you think they'd like our little cousin in his prissy little girlie costume?" Pam bounced back with, "I guess we'll find out this afternoon. I think about half the football team is supposed to show up Nana's little party. I bet they won't be able to keep their hands off him!" I froze in my steps! Boys? Football team? At Nana's party? Hands!!!??? Oh, gosh, no!!! "Nana! You ... you didn't ... invite any guys to this thing, did you? Please, don't tell me you did!" My grandmother looked at me with amusement. "Okay, I won't tell you," she said with that evil grin of hers. Seeing how upset I was, she just threw more fuel on the fire. "Maybe I didn't ... and maybe I did." "Nana! No!" "So what if I might invite some boys over for the afternoon? It would just be for fun. Maybe I thought you might enjoy showing off your little outfit. Don't be a party pooper. Maybe I'm just trying to help you have a little fun!" I felt my face screw up like I was going to cry. I remember at the time I was holding a can of lemon-scented furniture polish and a rag in one hand and a broom in the other. I must have been quite a sight. "This isn't fun! I hate looking like this!" "Oh, David, stop acting that way! You're having the time of your life and you know it," Aunt Margaret teased. "I am NOT!!!" I said hoarsely. I looked at her like she was crazy. "How can you say that?" "We're not stupid, honey. We know what you like. Between what the girls told us and what you've admitted yourself, it's all pretty obvious. Trust me, sweetie, you can play 'fairies' all you want and we won't care. How's that silly fairy song go? 'Playing in the garden, I got no toys' ...?" There was a long pause. What the heck was she talking about? "Come on, finish it for me. 'Playing in the garden I got no toys' ...." my aunt repeated, this time singing the words. The look on her face was scary, but hearing that horrid song in an adult woman's voice was even scarier. "'Playing in the garden I got no toys' ...?" I suddenly knew what she wanted me to say, but I didn't want to do it. I bit my lip and prayed for a miracle. All I got was my grandmother fussing at me. And smacking me on the butt. "I guess I'm going to have to whip on somebody's little behind." "Ow! I-I ... I'll say it," I whispered hoarsely. The last thing I wanted was another spanking, believe me! It took me a second, but I finally got around to it. "P-P-Playing in the garden, I got no toys." I took a deep breath. "I ... I get all my ... my ... my f-f-fun from ... k- k-kissing ... b-b-boys." A soft wave of giggles fluttered about the room. My cousin Pam smiled a very satisfied smile and said, "Say that last part again, li'l fairy." I hesitated about half a second too long. WHAPP!!! I about jumped as a burning pain hit my bare bottom. "I just love smacking that cute little butt," mused Nana. She raised an eyebrow and pointed at me with a switch the girls cut from a tree the day before. "Do as your cousin said. Say it. Say that last part again. Sing it loud and strong!" Staring at the offending weapon in my grandmother's hands, I tried to swallow, but my mouth was too dry. "I ... I get all my fun from ... kissing boys," I sang softly. My cousin Sheila had to get into the act, of course. "Once more!" she insisted. "And say it like you mean it! Use your fairy voice!" I gave a deep sigh and did as I was told. "I get all my fun from kissing boys," I sang in a soft, pretty tone, just like when I sang for the girls a few days before. Aunt Margaret smiled. "See, now that's more like it! You get all your fun from kissing boys, do you? See, sweetie, was that so hard to admit? We just want to make sure you're having a fun summer. That's all. I don't know why you're upset that a bunch of rough and tumble, mean ol' boys might show up here in a little while. We'll let you play with them all you want. Who knows, you might get to kiss one. Now, won't that be fun?" "No-o-o ...," I whined. Sheila flipped up the front of my apron. "Don't listen to him, Nana!" she teased. "See how his wiener is sticking out? It only does that when he's having fun! Liar, liar, panties on fire!" Doggone it!!! I'd been good all morning, and all of a sudden I realized my stupid penis was tingling on me. I didn't have to look down to see I had a raging hardon under my fairy maid apron. Darn it, I should have been outside playing baseball or fishing, not primping and posing like some fag and talking about kissing boys! WHAPPP!!! I yelped as Nana laid another stripe across my butt. I looked over my shoulder to see a horrid look on her face. "You best get THAT under control, young man, or else I'll take care of it for you. You know how I feel about such nastiness!" Unfortunately for me, the excitement was overwhelming. Even as she made that childish scissors gesture -- "snip-snip- snip!" -- I could feel a painful load squirt through my poor, tender penis. After all that happened to it the last day or so you'd think it would take a rest. But oh, no, it had to wake up and cause me all sorts of problems! I fought to stop it, but I failed miserably; my efforts only made me squirt harder and I ended up staining my new apron and making a silvery-white mess all over the kitchen floor. "Oh, David, not again," my aunt said with a sigh and a shake of her head. What happened next was a blur. All I really remember is Nana grabbing by the hair of my head and dragging me around the kitchen as she wore my butt out with that darned switch. Oh, sure, there was a lot of yelling and screaming, but that was mostly me begging for mercy. I tried telling her I couldn't help myself, but all that fell on deaf ears. "I'm sorry, Nana!" I screamed over and over again. "I'm sorry, I'm sorryI'msorryI'msorryI'msorry ...." Somehow I was able to keep on my feet, this despite teetering precariously on my borrowed high heels. Between whacks I heard my grandmother say something along the lines of "Stand up here, don't you dare sit down!" "You think that's funny?" and "Nasty boys and their nasty habits!" SLASH!!! SWISH!!! WHACK!!! "I'm going to fix this little problem if it's the last thing I do!" "I'm sorryI'msorryI'msorryI'msorry ...." After it was all over I had to apologize to my cousins and my aunt individually and promise to "never do something so despicable like that again." I was so humiliated by all this I wanted to stare at my feet -- stupid high heels! -- as I made my apologies, but Nana made me look everyone in the eye so they could see my shame. As I stammered out the words to first Pam, and then Anita and then my Aunt Margaret, I knew that this was a promise I'd never be able to keep. From the looks I got in return I figured I'd be in trouble again before the day was done! WHY ME??? According to my cousins I only got about twenty stripes across my bottom for my little indiscretion, but it sure seemed like a lot more. They thought the whole thing was funny, of course, and still to this day when we get together they laugh about how "little David danced and sang the day his Nana beat his butt in the kitchen." Oh, sure, I laugh now, too, but that's because this all took place a long time ago and I now know how it all ends. At the time, however, I was one miserable twelve year old boy! Anyway, next to dressing up like a drag queen and getting my butt beat because of my alleged "obsession" with kissing other boys, the worse thing I did that morning was scrub the kitchen floor on my hands and knees. The girls, of course, loved seeing me humiliated this way. "Look at the mess David made, Nana!" Pam said proudly. "He's not a little fairy, he's still just a nasty, ugly boy! Bad David! Bad!" My grandmother shook her head. "I cannot believe you did that, sweetie. Get it cleaned up before Nana gets mad again." "But, Nana, I didn't mean to do it! I really didn't! I promise!" My grandmother handed me a dishrag and pointed to the mess on the floor. "I don't care. You made the mess and you're the fairy maid, right? So it's your job! Get down there now and clean that up!" I took the rag and gingerly got down on my hands and knees. That was NOT easy in those stupid high heels, believe me! "Stupid me! I didn't mean to do it! I'm never doing THAT again!" WHACK!!! Down on all fours like that, it's impossible to protect your butt. A second, and then a third hard SLASH!!! let me know that everything that went wrong that day was going to be my fault. "That's what you get for being a nasty boy," Nana said. "I warned you over and over again, but you wouldn't listen. Like I said, you made the mess, so you're going to clean it up. Until you're told otherwise, you're my little maid and you're in charge of cleaning up messes!" One more WHACK!!! on my bare butt punctuated her orders. "That little apron is working out pretty good," Aunt Margaret said as I nursed my sore bottom. "It keeps you looking neat and pretty in front, but shows off plenty of your cute little bottom in case you need a whipping. How convenient." "It's just too bad you had to stain the front of it like that," Nana fussed. "I should beat your butt for that, too!" "I ... I can wash it out, Nana," I stammered. I looked down and grimaced to see the offensive stain. It was nasty looking. "I mean, I'm doing everybody else's laundry, I can do this at the same time." Well, that was a mistake. The girls acted like that was the most disgusting thing they'd ever heard. "Ew! Nana, we don't want his messy old spunky stained clothes mixed in with ours!" Pam cried. Sheila made an ugly face. "Yeah, that's ugly!" I glanced over at my cousins, both of whom had big grins on their faces. My grandmother nodded. "Well, sweetheart, you heard the girls. And I have to agree. That IS an ugly thought. You really need to wash it all out by hand. The problem is there's not enough time. I've got a whole list of chores for you to do before our guests arrive. I guess you're just going to have to wear it like that for now." I looked down at the wet stain and felt my face burn red hot. "But, Nana, it's all wet and sticky!" I whined. "Ew! I don't like it." My grandmother smiled. "Good! Maybe wearing it like that will teach you to control your nasty urges. Now get to work!" I just sighed, wiped my tears and went along with my chores. "This can't last much longer," I fumed as I scrubbed little clumps of semen from between the floor tiles. "They surely can't keep me like this the whole summer!" At least I hoped not! Once I had the washing machine going and the kitchen cleaned, I foolishly thought I was going to get a break. Instead, Nana made me take all the lingerie I'd handwashed to the back porch and hang it up to dry. It felt so funny handling all those panties and bras and things while wearing hardly a stitch myself. I'm sure I made a dignified sight standing there in my little fairy maid's outfit with all those girlish undies hanging overhead! Nana came out on the back porch to check on me when I was done. "Good job, sweetie. See, I told you it wouldn't take too long. Oh, my ... look at that rain! I hope that doesn't ruin my little party this afternoon." At that point I started to ask if I could put on some clothes, but I stopped myself. It was a good thing, too. The way things were going I probably would have gotten my clothes taken away for the rest of the summer! Besides, Nana had another task for me .... Chapter Twenty-Eight When It Rains It Pours The sky was gray as I stepped out onto the back porch. I was in total disbelief of what was happening to me. I mean, so far it was the worse day of my young life!!! So you can imagine my bewilderment as the back door slammed shut and I padded barefoot down the steps and toward my grandmother's garden. Yep, I was outside again, bare butt and all! This time Nana sent me out to collect some roses from her prized plants to display at her party. To do this I had a huge basket, a pair of garden shears and specific instructions on what to cut. Oh, and my new fairy wings, of course. Other than that I was in my bare skin. "Be sure and hurry home if it starts raining again," I was warned. "Don't you dare let your new fairy wings get wet!" "Yes, Nana." I shook my head. A week before such a conversation would have been out of the question. Want to hear something funny? Despite all the earlier fuss, I actually missed my new apron and those goofy high heeled shoes. No, seriously! Remember how stupid I thought they made me look? How fruity they made me feel? Well, despite all that, no matter how ridiculous I felt wearing that silly piece of sissy lace and those skimpy, girlie high heels, I was reminded of how much I hated being completely naked! When Nana insisted I take off my apron and heels and put them away for safekeeping, believe it or not, I really didn't want to give'm up! She even took away the frilly little lace cuff things I wore on my wrists. They weren't worth much, but at least the apron covered part of my front and the shoes, well, shoes are shoes! My grandmother, of course, noticed my reluctance and she reassured me everything would be waiting for me when I got back. "Oh, David, don't be such a fuddy-duddy. It won't hurt you to go naked for a little while. Think of how nice it will feel." "But, Nana, I ... what if somebody messes with my new clothes while I'm gone? What if they're not here when I get back?" "Oh, you said 'my new clothes'! That's so cute," Nana purred. "Did you hear that, Margaret? Wasn't that sweet? David likes his pretties." My aunt nodded. "I knew he did. Getting him to admit it is the hard part." "Don't you worry, sweetheart," Nana gushed. "Your pretty things will be here, I promise. You can be my little fairy maid once you're done in the garden." "I can't believe you said that," teased Sheila. "You actually admitted you liked being a fairy maid! You're more of a sissy than I thought!" "David will make a great garden fairy, Nana" chided my cousin Pam. "You just have to be careful. He's got a special fairy fertilizer!" "Oh, my gosh! I forgot about that!" Sheila said with a giggle. "We'll have to check your roses when he get through, just in case! We don't want them all sticky!" "You're nasty!" I whimpered. "Both of you!!!" "Hey, I'm not the one who jacked off on his apron," Pam replied. I felt my face turn red. I couldn't believe she said that! Especially in front of my grandmother! "I ... I didn't jack off on it. I ... I had an accident. I didn't mean to do it..." I don't know why I even bothered. I mean, some arguments just can't be won. Well, anyway, I'm sure I made a pretty picture as I padded barefoot and bare-bottomed along the path toward the garden, picking flowers and dreading what might happen next. My misery was compounded by those stupid fairy wings Nana gave me to wear. With the morning breeze those big ol' floppy things fluttered and flapped as those they were trying to take off. Absolutely NOT the kind of thing a twelve year old boy would be caught wearing, especially in the nude! I knew I looked stupid with them on, but except for it and my fairy pendant, well, I would have been completely naked! Oh, geez, I lamented. What if my mom showed up at the house and saw me like this? Or my dad? I'd die if THAT ever happened!!! As miserable as I was, I have a confession to make. Once I was away from the house and my bullying relatives ... and after spending some time alone and not getting teased, well, it actually was kind of fun running around with nothing on. No, really, it was! First of all, I didn't have to worry about getting my clothes wet or muddy from where it had rained, and like I said before, the morning air felt kinda good against my skin. Plus, the strangeness of the situation made me feel rather brave, like I was on some exotic adventure in one of my make-believe stories. And best of all, I was on my own with nobody to boss me around or make fun of me! "This isn't so bad," I muttered to myself as I splashed and squished my way about the muddy flower bed. I carefully plucked a single bud from each of the plants Nana directed and laid them neatly in the basket. "At least there ain't nobody poking me with a stick and telling me what to do!" When I got back to the house Nana exchanged the basket of flowers I brought for two more empty baskets. I was kind of hoping to be let back inside -- knowing full well the dangers I'd face at the hands of my screwy family, of course -- but instead I was to go back into the gray morning and pick some fruit for the luncheon my grandmother was planning. "Fill one basket up with strawberries," she instructed. "The other is for plums and blackberries. We'll serve some to our guests this afternoon and the rest we'll save for tomorrow to make some jams and jellies. Won't that be fun?" "Yes, ma'am, I guess so," I said nervously. "Um, where's Aunt Margaret? And the girls?" "Oh, they left for church a long time ago. Why do you ask?" They were gone to church already? That was great news! Struggling to conceal my excitement, I shifted my weight from bare foot to the other. "Just curious. Uh, what time is it?" Nana put her hands on her hips and faced me. "What do you care? You're asking an awful lot of questions. You just do your chores and let me worry about the time." "But, Nana ... what if somebody comes home from church early and sees me? You're not really going to make me be naked in front of people, are you? Please don't!" I took a deep breath and sighed anxiously. "Please?" My grandmother sighed. "Darlin', I'm not making you do nothin'. If memory serves me correctly, you're the one who chose to go without his clothes." With a grin she reached out and tugged on my wings. "I don't know what you're complaining about. You're not completely naked, you know." "But Nana!" I fussed. "And don't 'But Nana' me! The only 'butt' I want to see around here is your chubby little bare butt. You're the one who started all this, remember? I said, remember? Answer me when I talk to you!" Feeling betrayed, I nodded. "Yes, ma'am." Nana smiled. "That's right. And on top of that, it's your own fault you got to go the rest of the summer with no clothes on! If you'd learn to keep your mouth shut and do like you're told, you wouldn't be in this mess!" The whole summer? My stomach ached with fear when I heard those words. Something was terribly, terribly wrong. "The whole summer? No, Nana, you said just one month, not the whole summer! Remember? Just one month!" My grandmother raised an eyebrow. "Only a month? Are you sure that's all? I could have sworn you were supposed to be like this all summer. Didn't we discuss this already?" A sudden gust of wind caused my wings to suddenly rustle. I felt my stomach drop. "No, Nana. Remember, we agreed to make it for one month. One single month, remember? Just a month!" "One month, eh? That's only four weeks or so. I thought for sure it was more than that." I had to restrain myself from getting mad or upset. That would have just caused more problems. Instead, I forced myself to calm down and to speak slowly and clearly. "One month, Nana. I promise! It was for just one month!" "Well, if that's what you want. I guess a month is okay. Of course, we can make it longer if you want. How about two months?" I dug a bare toe in the porch floorboards. "Um, one is okay." "So, is that what you want? To go naked for a month? Speak up, I can't hear you shrug!" I squirmed a bit. How was I supposed to answer that? "That's not exactly what I WANT ...." "Well then, we'll just make it all summer instead. I don't mind. Whatever. It's up to you." My face went flush with heat. "Please, Nana, let's just make it a month. Please?" My grandmother smiled at me. "So, you do WANT to naked for a whole month, then. Right?" I nodded. "I ... I guess ... that's what ... I want." "Then say it. Say, 'I want to go naked for a whole month, Nana.' Say it." I struggled to get the words out. I just couldn't do it. "Please ... Nana-a-a ... do I have to?" "Would you rather make it the rest of the summer?" "No-o-o-o-o ...." "Then say it! Say it, or I'll make it all summer and add a second paddling everyday!!!" Standing there on the porch, I was suddenly seized by the urge to pee, I was so scared. "I ... Um, I want to ... g-go na- ... naked ..." "A whole month. Say it. Say you want to do it 'a whole month.' Say it!" I tried to swallow, but my mouth was so dry it hurt. "I want to go naked ... for a whole month." "And be Nana's good little fairy." "Nana! No, please!" "Say it ... OR ELSE!!!" Well, of course I said I'd be her good little fairy. Heck, I said every stupid, childish, humiliating thing she demanded. What choice did I have? I mean, there I was, standing on the porch in my bare skin with my stupid fairy wings, holding a stupid basket in each hand ... and I couldn't do anything about it. I was completely at my grandmother's mercy and she was loving every second of it. "I ... I want to go naked for a whole month ... and be Nana's good little fairy," I repeated for the umpteenth time. "Okay?" "That's a good little fairy. Now that we've settled that, I don't want to hear any more complaining. We're doing what YOU WANT, so don't you dare go back on your word. You do and you'll be sorry." "Yes, Nana." * * * I couldn't even begin to tell you how long I was outside picking fruit. Long enough to realize I was being punished, I guess. For exactly what I didn't know. I remember squatting next to my grandmother's strawberry plants, plucking berry after berry, and then looking at that huge basket and realizing it was a lot bigger than it looked. "Crap!" I said to myself. "I'm gonna be here all day!" It didn't take quite the whole morning, but I picked berries long enough to become one miserable fairy. I was at it so long, in fact, that my fingers were stained from touching so much fruit! I was working on filling up the second basket when I heard the sound of a vehicle pulling into the driveway and car doors slamming. A chill went up my spine. I could have sworn I heard children's voices echoing in the distance. "Who the heck is that?" I worried frantically. In spite of the warm sun I felt my body shiver. "This better not be another one of Sheila's stupid tricks!" Even though I didn't have my wristwatch I was pretty sure it was too early for Aunt Margaret and the girls to be back from church. I mean, I THOUGHT it was too early. The truth was, I wasn't sure. I tried not to think about it too much. The sun finally came out as I picked my last berry. I thought that was a pretty good thing until I heard a screen door slam, followed by the musical sound of children's laughter. I was pretty worried about it, but it seemed to come from way up by Nana's house and I was far enough away to be safe. I just squatted in the garden and listened to the laughter and felt sorry for myself. "Stupid girls! Stupid Nana!" I thought to myself. I looked down at my skinny naked body. "Stupid me!" A chill generated by panic suddenly shot through my body. I could hear the sound of young feet running up the path. Stupid me, indeed! While I'd been feeling sorry for myself the girlish voices were quickly getting louder and louder ... and a lot closer! Jumping up from my resting place, I looked around and took off, fairy wings a-fluttering, for a small field of corn adjacent to the berry patch. With cornstalks taller than an adult man, it was about the only place I could reach in time where I could hide. In my haste I left behind the two baskets of berries and plums I'd collected. Darn it! Oh, well ... I had more important things to worry about at the time, right? As the voices got closer I worked feverishly to find a hiding spot. I ended up in the far corner of the cornfield, as far away from the approaching voices as I could get without exposing myself to view. It was a pretty good hiding place, and in my mind an unlikely location for a bunch of wimpy girls to look. Straining to figure out how many pursuers were after me, I about had a heart attack when I counted between five and six either voices or names, most of which I did not recognize. Two of the voices, however, sounded frighteningly familiar. "Oh, geez!" I whispered in disbelief. "It's Becky and Samantha! What the heck are they doing here?" I was absolutely terrified! After all the agony those two caused me the day before, I certainly wasn't looking forward to seeing either girl any time soon! I remembered those idiotic fairy wings on my back and cursed. If the girls saw me looking like this, well, I'd NEVER live that down. Scared to death, I knelt between some cornstalks, clasped my hands together and prayed for the next few minutes to pass quickly and painlessly. "Oh, Naked Da-a-a-a-a-vid!!!" one of the girls hollered. "Come out, come out, wherever you are!!! We want to play with you-u-u-u-u-u!!!" I winced to hear myself referred to as "Naked Davy." I mean, how humiliating is that? Like that was going to get me to give myself up. Yeah, right! I could hear the scuffing of footsteps and giggling whispers as somebody approached the cornfield. My heart beat so hard I was sure it could be heard a hundred feet away. Scrunching down as far as I could in my hiding place, I repeated my prayer not to be found. "Nana said he was picking berries, but I don't see him," Becky fussed. "All that's here are a couple of dumb baskets." Becky's voice was too close for comfort and worse yet, it was clearly angry. For some reason an angry Becky scared me a lot more than an angry Samantha. At the time that didn't make any sense to me. "David!!!" she screamed. "You better come on out! You're gonna get it if we have to come lookin' for you!!!" My ears perked up to hear a little girl's voice reply with, "Do you think he's near? Are you going to try and catch him?" "Oh, we'll get him all right. He's just a dumb old boy," Becky said haughtily. "We'll get him good!" Samantha giggled. "See these foot prints? See how they're from bare feet? Those are fairy footprints. I bet our little fairy boy is hiding in the corn somewhere. I hope he gets bug bites on his wiener!" "Bug bites on his wiener!" said a fourth girl. "That's funny!" I winced when I didn't recognize that voice, either. A wave of giggles swept through the cornfield. Who all the heck did my grandmother invite out here anyway? The whole Sunday school class?? "Oh, it's funny, all right," Becky said with a cruel laugh. "Mean, but funny! Oh, Naked Da-a-a-a-vid! Come out before you get bug bites on your wie-e-e-e-ner! "Oh, Naked Da-a-a-a-vid! Come out before you get bug bites on your wie-e-e-e-ner!" the younger voices echoed. The laughter that followed was both amused and mean-spirited. I didn't know if I was supposed to laugh or cry. My situation was so stupid, so comical, yet so terrifying. Completely naked -- well, okay, except for my grandmother's stupid fairy wings! -- and in tears, I felt like some poor little mouse being pursued by a herd of cruel, mischievous cats on one of my Saturday morning cartoon shows. In this case Samantha and Becky were leading the pack ... and they were rapidly closing in for the kill. Chapter Twenty-Nine Fairy Found and Bound Just like everything else that happened to me that day, the way I got caught was kinda stupid and extremely embarrassing. I mean, what with my outdoor skills and all (translation: "being a boy!") I surely didn't expect to be tripped up by a handful of elementary school girls. As it turned out, it didn't take a genius to catch me. The girls merely surrounded the small cornfield where I was hiding and then tightened their circle until I was forced to move from my improvised nest. Naked -- and most importantly, barefoot -- I couldn't run far without either being seen or hurting myself. True to form, I didn't get five feet before stepping on a sharp stick, which stopped me in my tracks. The instant I was spotted a cry went out and my pursuers were on me like ants on honey. Samantha was the first girl to actually touch me, grabbing me by the wrist and twisting it so hard I squealed like you'd expect one of her little girlfriends. In retrospect it was pretty sad, how easy it was for her to catch me. I knew I was pathetic, but I was so worn out, feeling so helpless, I just gave up. "Look what I caught everybody! I got him, I got the little naked fairy!" Samantha hollered. "Wings and all!" Getting behind me, she applied a firm lock on my arm and pushed me out where everybody could see me. "Nice wings, fairy boy!" she said with a cruel laugh. "These were your idea, I suppose. You're a bigger faggot than even I thought!" "It's not my fault," I mumbled. "My grandmother made me wear them. Please let me go! Please?" The twelve year old beauty flashed a fabulous smile at me and laughed. "No way, Twinkle Toes! Your fan club is just dying to see you. Becky and I told them all about you. We can't let them down." I felt my eyes go wide with panic. "Who all ... how many are there?" "Oh, only a couple of dozen or so." My insides melted as I imagined myself facing an army of giggling girls. Samantha tugged on one of my wings and shouted. "You guys better hurry up. I've got one scared little fairy here. He's about to fly away!" I started crying as a chorus of girlish voices got closer. "Sammy caught the naked fairy!" Becky called out. "Don't let him go! I want to play with him!' "We want to see the naked fairy, too!" yelled one of the other girls. "Don't let him go! Don't let him go!" "You better hurry," my captor yelled. "He's flapping his wings!" "Don't do this to me," I sobbed. "Please let me go. Oh, please, please let me go!" Normally I could have wrestled away, but fear and shame drained my strength so that a kindergartner probably could have kicked my butt. Samantha grinned like it was her birthday or something. "You crybaby! Wait 'til the other girls see what a sissy you are. They just love little sissy boys!" The red-headed beauty winked a wink that would have warmed my heart only a few days before. Now, well, just being near her scared the heck out of me! "Come on, fag boy, let's take your fairy wings and go meet your fan club." Samantha twisted my arm a little harder, increasing the pain enough to push me away from the cornfield and out in plain view of the entire hunting party. Embarrassed and hurting, I was finally allowed to drop to my knees and sit on my heels. I quickly tucked my penis in between my thighs. If I couldn't escape, I had to at least try and protect my private parts from being seen. It didn't take but a few seconds before I was completely surrounded by at least seven little girls, maybe more, all grinning, all giggling, all wide-eyed and eager to see the naked boy trapped before them. In retrospect I'm grateful it wasn't more, but at that moment I thought the world had come to an end. The worst thing was their age: none of them could have been a day older than ten years old! And there I was, taller and stronger than any of them, nearly a teenager, in fact ... and I was cowering on all fours like a poodle at a dog fight. Dressed in a variety of colorful shorts, skirts and sundresses, my new audience pointed at me and laughed as though they were watching the opening act at the circus. "Sammy caught the naked fairy boy!" one of the little girls yelled. "Look! Sammy wasn't kidding! You really can see his naked butt! Yay!!!" "And he's got wings!" someone else shouted. "Real live fairy wings!" "Maybe he really is a fairy!" "Omigosh!" Becky exclaimed. "You were right, Sammy! He really is wearing wings! I can't believe it. I thought you were teasing." A collective gasp erupted from the remainder of the girls. "He DOES have wings!" someone said. "Just like a real live fairy!" "They're not real wings, stupid," a know-it-all voice declared. I recognized her from Sunday school as Julie Something-Or-Other, a ribbons and bows nine year old. "I got some like those on my ballerina costume." Another girl wasn't impressed. "Yeah, but do you let your naked brother wear them?" "Maybe I will," Miss Know-It-All said thoughtfully. A ripple of giggles ignited, and another round of teasing was set off. Through my tears I started putting names to faces. To my horror I realized each child was the daughter or niece to a friend of either my grandmother or my aunt. "So, is he a fairy or just a big ol' sissy?" Bobbie Sue Thompson asked. Her mom was one of my Sunday school teachers. I shivered at the thought of having to face Mrs. Thompson after all this was over. "I vote fairy," somebody shouted. That was Karen McCarty. Her brother was a friend of mine. I closed my eyes as I tried to imagine having to explain all this to Mikey and his buddies. "He might be angel," a quiet voice intoned. "Angels have wings, too, you know." Becky grinned. "Oh, he ain't no angel, that's for sure! He's too mean to be an angel." I winced as Samantha gave me a sharp rap on the head, exactly like my cousins did. "That's for sure! Besides, angels don't have wings like that. Those are fairy wings. Frilly, girlie fairy wings, just perfect for a little girlie sissy!" "It's not my fault!" I cried. "My grandmother made me dress like this! You weren't supposed to see me! It was supposed to be a secret!" My red-headed mistress gave me a little jab in my side. Right in my tender spot. "But we DO see you, twinkle toes," she said with unsettling satisfaction. "And don't give us any of that stupid 'my granny made me' stuff! That's all lies and you know it. You dressed up like a fairy 'cuz you love it." "Undressed is more like it," Becky said with great authority. The girls all giggled again. "It's not my fault!" I sniffed. "Look at the fairy boy cry!" shouted one of the new girls. I can't remember who. It was either Kathy Wade or Sarah Honeywell, both daughters of friends of my Aunt Margaret. "How funny! He's just a big crybaby!" "He's not so tough, now," another voice else said quietly. That was either eleven year old Emma Mitchell or her little sister, Janie. For some reason I used to pick on both of them. Nothing malicious, just typical twelve year old boy stuff. Those days were over, no doubt. "I want to make him cry, too. Can I? Let me, please!" "Me, too!" said the other sister. "I want to make him cry, too!" "David's a crybaby!!! David's a crybaby!!!" the girls all chanted in chorus. I looked up at Samantha, who still had fierce grip on my wrist. Smiling like the proverbial Cheshire cat, she shrugged her shoulders. "Looks like your secrets are coming out," she said. "Too bad we don't have a boy for you to kiss. Then they'd know what kind of little fairy you really are!" I glanced around and blushed like crazy as my audience giggled and pointed. I closed my eyes. Oh, geez, wasn't it bad enough that I was stark naked in front of all those girls? Did she really have to say that? "Ooooh, boys kissing boys ... I want to see!" Julie said with a typical "Miss Priss" giggle. "I've never seen boys kiss each other before." "Me, too ..." whispered a couple of others. "I ... I want to go home," I sobbed. "Please let me go!" Becky looked down at me and smiled. "But you can't go home, li'l fairy. Your Nana sent us down here to keep you company. Everybody wants to play with you, so you have to stay and play with us. Remember the fairy rules: you're our fairy slave and you have to do everything we say!" Before anybody could play with me it took several of them a few minutes to get me to my feet. I felt so weak, my knees were like jelly I could hardly stand. On top of that, I had a growing urge to pee. Someone, I think it was Becky, of all people, cut several switches from a nearby tree and passed them out to the younger girls. I remember thinking that the pocket knife she used looked just like the one I'd lost that first day down at the waterfall. Anyway, the next thing I knew my legs and butt were burning like a swarm of bees had gotten to me. I jumped up and danced around in pain, crying out, "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!" over and over again. The only thing keeping me from taking off was Samantha and Becky holding me by the wrists. Well, that and the fact that my wings weren't real. "If you'd stood up the first time like we wanted, we wouldn't have to whip you," Becky said in a very mature voice. "Stand up straight, hands behind your back," Samantha instructed. "Now, stay still. We promised the girls a special lesson on fairies. And since you're our prisoner we can do whatever we want." "Please let me go," I begged. "Let's go over in the shade," Becky suggested. "Just in case the grownups come looking for us." Nodding agreeably, I allowed myself to be led from the garden and under the shade of my grandmother's apple and pear trees. Gingerly picking my way barefoot along the path, I bit my lip and wished I was a million miles away. "How about here?" Samantha asked. She was standing under a lattice archway entangled with a colorful array of rose vines, honey suckle and a couple of other flowers I didn't recognize. "Perfect!" declared Becky. "We can play all we want and the adults won't see." I felt my stomach drop about ten feet. "To bad we don't have some rope," my eleven year old tormentor said wistfully. She looked at the archway and licked her lips thoughtfully. I winced as one of the younger girls -- I think it was Emma's little sister, Janie -- yelled out, "I got something that we can use, Becky!" It was like one of my stupid dreams, watching this little girl -- shoot, she couldn't have been nine! -- produce a long piece of ribbon which Becky and Samantha used to bind my hands together behind me. Standing there with absolutely no clothes on in the midst of all those girls, I watched in horror as the ribbon was then tossed over the top of the arch and pulled snug. I couldn't believe it as my hands were tugged upward behind my back until they were almost touching my shoulder blades. Surprisingly strong, the ribbon held tight as I was lifted up on my tiptoes. "Please don't let them touch me," I thought to myself. "Please don't let them touch me!" "Where's his wiener?" a young voice queried. "He ain't got a wiener!!!" You see, in an act of desperation I had wriggled around at the last second and trapped my penis between my thighs. It was actually a pretty good hiding place. A quick glance revealed little more than a triangle of smooth, shiny pale skin. It was a silly attempt to hide my most precious possession, but it worked ... if only for a little while. "Sarah's right, it's not a boy, it's a girl!" one of the little children -- I think it was that prissy Julie -- shouted. "Sammy, that's not nice! I thought we caught a boy fairy, not a girl fairy." "Ew!" Kathy giggled. "I thought he was a boy, too! He can't be a boy, not without his thingie!" "Oh, silly, he IS a boy," Becky said with a tone of authority. "He's just such a pretty fairy, it's easy to mistake him for a girl. Let's see if I can get him to show us his weenie." I watched in horror as my chubby tormentor reached down and gave me a fierce pinch below my belly button, right in the middle of that delta of tender flesh. "Ow! Becky, no! Please, stop it! Ow! No! It hurts!" "Go ahead, Becky," cheered Samantha. "Give it to him good!" "Oh, I'll give it to him, all right. I know where all his ticklish spots are. I've been paying attention," my young mistress proudly declared. Funny, at the beginning of the summer I wouldn't have given Becky a second look. Or a third or even a fourth look. At that stage in my life tubby little sixth graders with ugly eye glasses and braces on their teeth were worse than cooties. Like I said before, if I had eyes for any girl it was Samantha, slender and pretty with curly red hair and a magical smile. But the once-shy Becky had finally taken center stage. Now, after a couple of chance encounters and a little coaching from her older sister, this nerdy eleven year girl had total and complete control over me. Physically, emotionally and intellectually, she was the most important person in my life at that moment. Desperate to hide my erection, I kept my legs pressed together for as long as I could. But it was no good. Between Becky tickling and pinching me and Samantha poking me in the butt with a switch, I couldn't do it. Stupid me, I let my legs part just enough to lose my grip, and the next thing I knew my little treacherous friend popped up from his hiding place for everyone to see. "Yay!!!" shouted the younger girls. "You did it!" "There it is! Just like I said," Becky said with the air of an expert in such matters. I closed my eyes as she grabbed the mushroom-shaped tip and tugged on it. I felt a frightening tingling sensation shoot through my body. "Careful! You might pull it off," a girlish voice warned. I remember squirming my hips back and forth in a futile effort to free myself from Becky's tenacious grip. My reward was an abrupt SLAPPP!!! across the face. I couldn't believe it at first, but a second blow shook me into reality. "Stand still, li'l fairy," Becky ordered. "Don't you dare try to get away!" SLAPPP!!! She did it again. I couldn't believe it! It was only a couple of days before that I was teasing this plain, plump child without a worry of retribution. Now, well, she had me bound and naked and was slapping the heck out of me. "You ... you ... didn't have to hit me!" I sobbed. "N-n-not so hard. You ... you ... you hurt me." My young mistress seemed rather pleased with herself. She looked me right in the eye. "My sister said I can do anything I want to you, any time I want." I thought about Linda and shivered. Before I could say anything Becky hit me a fourth time. SLAPPP!!! Right across the face! I tried holding back, but I ended up crying like a baby. "There's a lot more where that came from," Becky said with frightening confidence. "From Sammy and the other girls, too, if you don't mind us." I didn't even try to respond. All I could do was sniff my runny nose and nod. "We're allowed to hit him? Really?" one of the younger girls whispered softly. "This is going to be fun!" My plight felt hopeless -- and familiar. I realized it was similar to the kind of situation I'd read about in my adventure books or see in movies or on television. Most of the time it was some silly, helpless half-dressed girl who would be taken prisoner by brigands or pirates or whatever, threatened with humiliation, death, mutilation ... or worse. In this case Samantha and Becky were the ringleaders of a band of girly kidnappers. And, needless to say, I feared the worst. "Samantha, Becky, let me down. Please?" I whispered carefully. "I wanna go home!" My captors didn't respond, preferring instead to let me suffer shamefully. My arms ached behind my back, I struggled on my tiptoes, my entire body tingling with goosebumps, my nipples hard as pebbles and my penis in a raging erection. I never felt so vulnerable, or so scared. "Can I touch it?" one of the little girls asked. "Please?" Small hands grasped my penis and clumsily stroked it. The thought of my private parts being touched and examined by a bunch of little girls was too much to bear. My arms screamed with pain as I tried to free myself. I made a sort of whimpering sound as someone laid a couple of quick slashes across my bare butt with a switch. I would have yelled if I hadn't been so worn out. Samantha looked at me and grinned. It was her turn to torture and humiliate me, and she was enjoying it! "Stand still, fairy boy! Unless you actually LIKE getting your butt whipped," she said with the air of a schoolteacher holding class. "Okay, girls, everybody gets a chance to touch IT. But you have to wait your turn. Get in line, in alphabetical order, and no talking!" With my naked body exposed to the world, I licked my lips and blinked the tears from my eyes. The girl I once had crush on, I once loved and dreamed of kissing, was taking the greatest pleasure in my agony. Boy, who knew being twelve years old could be so complicated!!! For the next little while I suffered exquisitely as each girl took turns touching and examining my private parts. What with everybody poking and pulling away to their heart's content, my poor penis and balls were treated as though they were something that had been found in my grandmother's garden. I never knew some many hands could go so many places so fast. Some tickled, some squeezed, some pinched. All in all, seven little girls had their way with me until I was both giggling and crying uncontrollably. "Janie, watch this!" Emma called out. I winced as she pulled on the tip of my penis really hard, stretching it out a lot further than I would have dared. My pain -- and embarrassment -- triggered a blast of laughter and excitement. I begged for help, but Becky and Samantha merely stood by and watched with big ol' grins on their faces. Neither was impressed by my tears. "I've never seen such a crybaby," Samantha complained. "Stop it! Fairies aren't s'posed to cry. You're s'posed to be smiling and laughing, not crying. If you're going to cry, then I'm going to give you something to cry about." "Oh, let me do it!" one of the younger girls begged. I was stunned to see it was little Julie. A glint of cruel pleasure belied the thoughtful smile on her face. "May I make him cry? I like it when boys cry!" I watched helplessly as Samantha handed over the switch. She looked me dead in the eye, daring me to stop her. I, of course, wasn't in a position to fight off a butterfly. "Go for it, Julie! Give it to him good!" SLASH!!! WHACK!!! The first couple of strikes were clumsy and shy, but those that followed burned fiery stripes across my tender bottom, prompting me to squeal out with pain. And deep, deep, shame. The idea of a twelve year old boy getting whipped on his bare butt by a nine year old girl, well, let's face it ... that isn't exactly something for a guy to brag about. Julie took her time, singing along with each blow as though she was skipping rope with her friends: "Naughty little fairy naked as can be! Smack his little butt, he's a cry-bay-bee! Pull his pretty hair or pinch his little cheeks! It doesn't take much to make him weep! One! (WHACK!) Two! (WHACK!) Three! (WHACK!) Four! (WHACK!) Do it again (WHACK!) He asked for more! (WHACK!) Naughty little fairy naked as can be! Smack his little butt, he's a crybay-bee!" Oh, geez, that was awful! What was it with those stupid rhymes!!?? Unfortunately for me, the other girls all thought spanking my bare butt looked like more fun than playing with my penis. A line quickly formed for anyone and everyone who wanted to whip the naked boy's bottom. To my horror and shame the older girls turned this impromptu spanking session into what amounted to a game. Each of the younger girls was given three whacks at my bare bottom and whichever one evoked the best -- or worst, depending on you point of view -- reaction won the grand prize: to have me as her fairy slave for an entire day! I was pretty sure they were just kidding, but the way things were going I wasn't going to make a bet on it. What happened next turned a long and painful ordeal into an excruciating nightmare. As the contest progressed the pain from each hit enhanced the next, until I was a withering mass of exposed nerves. Knowing what was at stake I bit my lip and suffered with quiet sobs through the first two rounds of blows, struggling in defiance as stripe after stripe was laid across my bare butt. WHACK! THWIPP! SLASH! It was during the third rotation, at about the thirteenth or fourteenth lash, I think, that I finally lost my composure. I cried out like a baby as each of the littler girls laid into me with their best efforts. I begged for mercy toward the end but my pleas only seemed to fuel my tormentors' enthusiasm. The winner of the contest turned out to be little Janie Mitchell, of all people! I don't know how she did it, but that little wisp of a girl unleashed three of the meanest hits I experienced that summer. Maybe she knew exactly where to strike, maybe she just got lucky. Maybe all that teasing came back to haunt me. I don't know what happened. All I knew was that I sobbed and cried openly at the hands of that dainty, elf-like little monster. I was truly scared of her. "Good job!" Becky said with genuine appreciation of Janie's prowess with her switch. "You really made that mean ol' boy cry!" "I've been paying attention, too," the eight year old child said with a serious look on her face. Samantha nodded. "We'll have to get you with Sheila and Pammy and tell them what happened. They'll make sure you get your fairy slave for the day. Maybe you can get him to come over and clean your room for you tomorrow. I hear he's really good at housework." "And my room, too!" added Janie's older sister, Emma. "But of course!" Becky replied. "Heck, he can clean your whole house, if you want. Can't you, David?" I felt myself melt to hear all these girls talk about me in such terms. I was a boy, not some simpering faggot! My dad was in the army, for pity's sake. I wanted to do what he did, not be somebody's fairy maid, doggone it! Guys weren't supposed to do stuff like that!!! "Oh, David, I don't know why you're crying," Becky said with mock sympathy. "It's obvious your wiener having fun. Look at how stiff it is! It's like a little animal begging for attention! My sister says whenever boys get like that, you can make them do anything! Is that true?" As she said this she grasped my penis very lightly and gently stroked it. Her touch caused me to shiver all over. She then got in my face so close we were touching noses and she gave me a little kiss on the lips. "I know you'd rather be kissing a boy, so you can pretend I'm one if you like." She kissed me again, rubbing the tip of my poor penis at the same time. WHAPP!!! I was more startled than hurt when somebody laid a switch across my butt. "Yuck, the naked fairy's kissing Becky!" Janie yelled. "Leave my Becky alone, nasty fairy!" That stupid little brat hit me again, right in that tender spot in the back of my thighs, right in the crease under my bare butt. If you've ever gotten a whipping by somebody who knew how to swing a switch you know what I'm talking about. "Please, Becky ... OW!!! Janie, stop it!" I cried out as another stripe was laid across my poor butt. "I'll do ... whatever ... OW!!! ... whatever you want. Just -- OUCH, that really HURT!!! -- Just make them stop ... OW!!! Please!" This was pretty intense stuff for a twelve year old boy. Between Becky's kisses and pinches and the cruel lashing I received from little Janie, my mind was like jelly. The link between pain and pleasure was fast taking hold in my young mind, surpassed only by the weird thrill I seemed to, um, well ... kinda enjoy from being humiliated. I guess any attention I got from girls was better than no attention at all. "You hit him enough, Janie, now it's my turn!" one of younger children fussed. "But I only gave him four whacks," the little girl complained. "A while ago Julie spanked him at least six times!" "Girls, girls," Samantha's sarcastic voice cut in. "Be patient. There's plenty of time. You'll all get plenty of more turns to spank the naked fairy." "Naughty little fairy naked as can be! Smack his little butt, he's a crybay-bee! Pull his pretty hair or pinch his little cheeks! It doesn't take much to make him weep!" One! (WHACK!) Two! (WHACK!) Three! (WHACK!) Four! (WHACK!) Do it again (WHACK!) He asked for more! (WHACK!) Naughty little fairy naked as can be! Smack his little butt, he's a crybay-bee!" And so it went on, for who knew how long. A moist kiss, a tender touch, a fiery lash across my aching flesh, all that combined with the constant teasing and giggling that comes only from a group of elementary school girls ... that was my little hell on earth. Ironically, all this agony actually ignited a little fire inside me and I soon felt myself approaching orgasm. Becky's touch was firm and intimate, and not at all cruel, not like the other girls. It seemed that this goofy eleven year old girl had indeed been paying attention watching us boys jack off each other. As much as I hated the idea of an ugly ol' fatty like Becky having her way with me, I was secretly grateful that it wasn't Samantha jerking me off. As pretty as she was, the last time she'd touched me down there she'd scratched and clawed at my boy parts like she was trying to tear them off! "Say you love me and I'll be extra nice to you," my young mistress whispered in my ear. I wasn't sure what "extra nice" meant. I just kinda shook my head and waited for something bad to happen. Instead, my captor just smiled and gave me a quiet kiss on the tip of my nose. "That's okay, David. You'll do it, if not this time, then maybe the next. You're going to love me, I just know it," she said with a frightening confidence. "I'm going to MAKE you love me. And I can, too, 'cause I can do anything to you that I want!" I remember gasping for air as she then did something just awful to my penis. Stepping back a bit, she nodded for me to look down. I watched anxiously as she spread the slit at the end of my swollen dick wide open with her forefinger and thumb and then -- to my horror! -- she traced the edge of my pee- hole with a pink lacquered fingernail, all in a playful, childlike manner. "Say it," my torturer said. "Tell me you love me. Make me your girlfriend." I hesitated too long. Becky flicked the tiny lips of my slit a couple of times, then inserted the tip of her forefinger as deep as she could. This looked as bad as it felt, giving me a devastating panic attack. I mean, my knees went weak and I literally felt my heart stop beating in my chest. "Ow-ow-ow-ow!" I cried. "Please, Becky' be careful ... please ...? Oh, g-g-gosh, that hurts!" I didn't know where she learned that little trick, but it sure scared the jeepers out of me, causing me to shiver all over, even to this day. This was no doubt the worst feeling in the world ... the very worst! "Please, don't hurt me," I whimpered. My agony tickled Becky. She actually giggled as she wriggled her fingertip deeper inside my pee-hole. I thought I was going to die! "What's the matter, li'l fairy? I thought boys liked girls playing with their tallywackers. You liked this yesterday when Teresa did it. I paid attention." "No ... I didn't," I gasped. "P-p-please ... stop ...." Becky smiled. "Oh, that's right. I forgot you like boys playing with yours. I saw how much you liked Brandon playing with it. You loved that, didn't you?" "No-o-o-o ...." A sharp jab caused me to yelp, just like a puppy dog. "You liked Brandon playing with your wiener, didn't you? Say it and I'll be nice." I took a deep breath and let it out. "Yes, yes, I liked it," I sobbed. "At least he didn't hurt me!" Just as I nodded I felt a shocking WHAPP!!! against my backside. "Forget about his stupid tallywhacker, Becky," Samantha said with a giddy laugh. I glanced over my shoulder. She was breathless and red-faced. "Those things are nasty! Let's beat his bottom instead! Samantha licked her lips and shot a sly smile right at me. "Good thing you're not my fairy slave. I love whipping your naked butt. It's the most fun thing in the world! I could do this all day long!" Becky pulled back and shook her head. I was relieved to feel her hands release their hold on my poor, aching penis. "Sammy's right. You're just a big ol' sissy-boy. You'd rather let a boy jack you off than let a girl. Oh, no you'd rather kiss a boy's wiener than kiss a girl on the mouth. But that's okay. Be a sissy-boy. I hope you become the sissiest boy in the whole wide word, 'cause I just love sissy-boys!" Samantha clapped her hands and laughed. "Oh, he's a sissy- boy, all right. And sissy-boy needs is his butt whipped!" The grinning girl then laid into me with a long, slow series of lashes across my bare bottom. And as before, I cried like a baby. I've no doubt I would have cried until bedtime, but thank goodness it started raining! Chapter Thirty The Calm Before The Storm Well, the good news was those dumb ol' girls finally left me alone. The bad news was, well, they left me alone. The instant the rain started my tormentors took off squealing like the prissy little girls they were, leaving me bound and helpless like the foolish fairy I'd become. "Don't leave me like this!" I yelled. "Please? Somebody come back and untie me! PLEASE??!!!" I hollered and I screamed and I yelled some more, but nobody came. I did hear some adult voices up near the house, along with the haunting echo of girlish giggles. But nobody ever came. "Please, don't leave me ...." I was pretty miserable. One minute I'm the center of a circus of horrors, and the next I'm like the last kid on earth. I mean, just imagine being twelve years old, tied up with no pants on and abandoned in a rainstorm for who knew how long. Oh, and don't forget raging hardon! You'd think with as much pain and misery I'd endured that stupid erection would go away. Instead it only got harder. No bigger, just more excited. Lucky me. There was a flash of lightning, followed a few seconds later by a ferocious rumble and BOOM!!! of thunder. Then rain came down in torrents so heavy I could hardly see the barn in front of me. Thank goodness the little archway I was trapped in sheltered me from most of the rain, or else all the hard work my grandmother put into my silly fairy wings would have been in vain. Still, it was a pitiful predicament, and I cried more at that moment than I had all summer long. I cried so hard, in fact, that I didn't even notice I'd come loose from my bonds. Don't ask me what happened. All I know is one second I'm strung up like a turkey in a butcher shop, practically twisting in the wind and sobbing my little heart out. The next thing I knew my arms and hands were free. I guess all that tugging and pulling finally paid off. Whatever the case, it didn't take but another moment to unravel myself from the tangle of ribbon that once held me helpless. "Good thing those stupid girls can't tie knots," I muttered to no one in particular. Shivering in the cool, rainy mist, I hugged myself and wondered what I should do next. There was no sense in trying to go anywhere. The rain was so coming down so hard, I knew if I ran for the house my fairy wings would be ruined and then I'd really catch hell. While I waited for the rain to subside I carefully examined and nursed my wounds, the worst being my bare butt and legs. Little scratches and red, inflamed lines of abrasion covered everything from my waist to the backs of my knees. I couldn't see it all, of course, but there was enough to cause me some worry. I ran my fingertips over my bare butt and sighed. "How am I supposed to explain that?" I thought aloud. Something else I was going to have trouble explaining was bouncing up and down in front of my eyes. "Stupid wiener!" I muttered to myself. "How can something so small and helpless looking cause me so much pain?" Sore and aching, my erect, pink penis craved a gentle touch, and believe me, it felt so good when I was finally able to rub it without fear of retribution or punishment. "Poor little guy," I whispered to myself. I thought about all it had been through and I shook my head. "Stupid girls!" Well, you probably know what I did next. I didn't really want to, but it was almost like I was in a trance ... I cupped my slender member between both hands and I began rolling it left to right and back again. I couldn't help myself. Heck, you would have done the same, right? I mean, it felt so good, it almost made all my suffering worthwhile. Really, it was that wonderful! As I masturbated I thought about how my life had changed in the past few days. Before coming to stay with my grandmother I'd never been naked in front of a girl. Nor had I been kissed or touched by a girl. And now, well, all that had come true and much, much more! Oh, sure, things weren't exactly what I'd expected, but for better or for worse, life was definitely exciting! A shiver swept over me as I thought about the first time the girls made me whack off in front of them. Then there was the first time Christopher and I kissed. And then the next kiss and the one after that and the next! And then I remembered his touch on my penis, and how I had to touch him, and then how we kissed and touched each other throughout the remainder of that fateful day. As embarrassing as those situations were, there was an obvious element of pleasure embedded in each of them. Even when the younger girls showed up and I was forced to make out with Brandon ... and suck him off, oh, geez, that was just awful!!! Everyone, even my dark-skinned playmate, laughed at me and made fun of me. I hated it then -- oh, I despised it! -- but now, well, the memory of it ... excited me. I then imagined for an instant what it would have been like if Brandon had been forced to suck my penis. I thought about how humiliated he would have been, especially with his sister there making his life miserable. And then ... well, then my thoughts drifted to how I would have felt, sitting there, stark naked in the middle of all those meddlesome, giggling girls and with Brandon's lips around my wiener. For an instant I could feel a dozen sets of eyes locked in on me and a powerful shiver swept over my body. "Oh, gosh!" I gasped at the unexpected spasm of joy that hit suddenly me. I wanted to spurt so bad it actually hurt! I continued to jerk off at a frantic rate. My poor penis, it felt so wonderful to be able to rub it as much as I wanted. Funny thing ... you know what scared me the most about all this? What really disturbed me? Aside from the pain, I mean? Even now I blush to admit it ... but, well, I was thinking about Christopher and Brandon and the intimate things we'd done together ... and I smiled. I actually smiled! I mean, let's face it, they were the only ones who'd ever really kissed me on the mouth, or touched me between the legs with any kind of tenderness. Everybody else handled me with contempt or with the intent of making me miserable. The way I saw it, a week before I would have done anything to have gotten naked with Samantha and kiss her and let her touch me in my private places. But after seeing how mean she could be, well, I thought about how nice it felt to be in Christopher's arms. He would have understood. Experience had taught me that only a boy knew how to treat another boy in an affectionate manner. "Oh, gosh!" I thought shamefully. I stopped masturbating and I stared down at my pink penis as it bobbed stupidly in the morning air. "Does this mean I really do like boys more than girls??? Have I turned into a faggot???" I didn't get my answer that afternoon, nor did I finish jerking off. There I was, on the verge of an earthshattering orgasm, one so powerful I expected it to hurt ... and my grandmother's voice shut everything down. "David! You're not out in this rain, are you? Come on back, sweetie! It's time to get ready for the party." Needless to say, I about had a heart attack! I thought for a second Nana had come down from the house and seen me jerking off! My poor heart was racing with fright, I was so scared! Thank goodness, it turned out she was up at the house, calling to me from the back porch. Thanks to Becky and Samantha's quick thinking I was out of sight or I'd have really been in trouble! "I'll be there in a second, Nana," I yelled back. I looked down at my stupid erection. There was no way I could go back with that thing staring me in the face. My grandmother would have a fit! "Give me a minute!" "I said come to me right now, boy! Don't be contradicting me unless you want another taste of my hairbrush." There it was again ... the distinct, and equally deplorable sound of girlish laughter. I remember wrinkling my nose as though something smelled bad. "Yes, ma'am. Be right there." I sighed a sigh of resignation. My penis was sticking up like an eager puppy waiting to be pet on. My only hope was it would go to sleep by the time I got back to the house. I looked around for the fruit baskets I was supposed to collect. Where did I leave them? "Come on, fairy boy!" Nana called down again. "It's time to get in out of the rain!" "Oh, great ...." I said as I finally located my baskets. "When is this day ever going to end?" Thank goodness the rain lightened up and little more than a mist accompanied me back to the house. Still, I took my time walking back. This was pretty much a necessity because of the two heavy baskets of fruit I had to lug along. I was also dreading the reception I was sure to get. Besides my folks, there was a handful of girls eager to ambush the silly fairy returning from the garden. I glanced down at my feeble nakedness. I'm sure anyone watching thought I was quite a sight, a bare bottomed fairy boy wandering around in the rain like a fool. Having that stupid erection didn't help matters, either. I was more than a little worried when I found the screen door to the back porch locked. It was bad enough I had to carry those stupid baskets all the way from the garden by myself, but now for some reason I was expected to bring everything around to the front of the house. I gave a shiver when I tried to imagine why. As I padded barefoot around the side yard it became obvious what was happening. There were half a dozen cars in the driveway, more than I previously thought. Doggone it! Nana was going to make me march in the front door where everybody could see me! "Oh, geez," I said softly. "She wasn't kidding! She's going to make me go naked in front of all her friends! Oh, geez, oh, geez ...." Through the soft rain I could hear several voices chattering away inside the house. Desperate for information, I stopped by a window to eavesdrop. Nana's voice rose above the rest, of course, and I kinda wish I hadn't heard what she had to say: "... so cute! Just wait 'til you see him, with that adorable little bottom and that pouty little smile, he doesn't look anything like the dirty little roughneck that arrived at the beginning of the summer." There were several other voices, all definitely female. I strained to hear, but all I could hear was my Aunt Margaret talking about "other boys" and "skinnydipping" and "teach him a lesson" or something to that effect. The part I hated to hear was "Oh, he puts up a little fuss, but it's really been a lot of fun. We're not letting him near a pair of pants. By the end of the summer he won't remember what it's like to wear any at all!" I blushed to hear my family talk about me like that. It sounded at though they actually enjoyed making my life miserable! Funny, now that I'm looking back at all this, I think the real question is, why was I so surprised? Wasn't that pretty obvious, considering all I'd been through? Remember, I never claimed to be a genius. That's for sure. Anyway, I stood in the rain for a little while, trying to think. Despite being soaking wet from head to toe, I was terrified to go inside. What, me face all those stupid girls in my birthday suit? And go with no pants for the rest of the summer?!!! Holy cow! Talk about a nightmare come true! Studying the cars parked in the driveway, I felt my stomach flutter wildly as I realized my grandmother was deadly serious about showing me off to her friends. There was no telling who all would be there to see my bare butt and laugh at me. Then again I couldn't very well just stay outside. Nana was expecting me and the rain was only getting worse. I was climbing up the steps to the front porch when another car drove into the driveway. Man, talk about being put in a panic! I drug those two baskets up the steps as fast as I could and hurried to the front door. If I was lucky I'd get inside and hide before anybody saw me. Wouldn't you know it? That darned door was locked, too! Terrified at who might show up on the porch behind me, I rang the doorbell and waited, impatient and scared to death. I braced myself as the sound of car doors slamming and feminine voices hit my ears. Darn it, they were coming! How many people were invited to this shindig, anyway? As the voices got closer I had to turn around and see who it was. I didn't want to do it, but I couldn't help myself. I regretted it the instant I did it, of course, but I did it anyhow. Oh, geezus! It was Clara Johnston, the youth director at my grandmother's church. With her were her daughters, two little girls and young woman. Young woman, heck, it was a teenager! And not just any teenager! Oh, geez, of all people, it was Anita! I'd forgotten all about Anita. You remember her, don't you? The sixteen year old beauty from down at the waterfall? Anita was the one who teamed up that day with Becky's sister, Linda, to decorate me in flowers and together they started calling me a "flower nymph." Anita, in fact, was the first girl outside my family to touch my penis. I'll never forget that ... ever! In comparison to the younger girls, Anita was actually kind of nice to me. I remember at one point she offered to take me home and let me live in her mother's flower garden. It never occurred to me that her mother might be one of my grandmother's best friends. Or that she'd show up today with her daughters! "Hey, cutie pie!!" Anita said with a big smile. She looked very different that day, very grownup in her Sunday dress, makeup and high heels. "I see you're still playing fairies. You even grown wings! How sweet!" "Well, hello, David!" Mrs. Johnston said brightly. "I was wondering why you weren't at Sunday school today. I guess I now know why." Tall, her silver hair in a bun and with exquisite facial features, Mrs. Johnston was beautiful enough to be a fashion model. Standing there in her Sunday dress, shaking out her umbrella with the grace of a ballerina, she looked me up and down with a critical eye, as though she were appraising a purchase. "And I agree with Anita, by the way. I really like your wings," she said with a smile. I winced as she pulled on my grandmother's creation, reminding me of just how silly I looked. "But should you really be out playing in the rain? Poor baby, you look like a drowned rat! Does your Nana know about this?" The girls all giggled at hearing that little insult. I felt goosebumps forming all over my body, a poor defense for curious eyes. "I, uh, was b-busy ... N-N-Nana had some ... some chores for me to do," I stammered. "It started raining ...." My newest tormentor did that one-eyebrow-raised thing that always made me feel like an idiot. Feeling desperately exposed, I held one basket behind me and the other in front, as though that was going to hide the fact that I was as naked as a jaybird. Mrs. Johnston laughed and shook her head. "I think it's a little late to try and hide anything, silly boy. But I appreciate the effort. You remember the twins, Lindsey and Whitney? Anita has told us so much about you. I'm glad to see it's mostly true." I shook my head. That wasn't good news at all. What with Anita's big mouth, every ugly detail of what happened to me that awful day with Christopher was at risk. This was the very same Anita, remember, who'd taught me the words to the dreadful "Fairy Song." That memory in itself was enough to put the fear of God in me, as much misery as that stupid little ditty caused me the past few days. "Oh, I know David quite well, Mother," Anita said, her eyes locked on my nude form. "He's my little flower fairy. Aren't you, cutie pie?" As if I wasn't already blushing my face turned red at hearing the "F-word" -- "F" for "fairy," not that other word, you goof! -- in front of all those people, Anita went on, determined to embarrass the crap out of me. "I told my sisters all about you playing 'fairies' with Christopher the other day. They just love fairies and they've been bugging me about seeing you ever since. Say hello to a real live fairy, girls!" After all I'd been through, I hated having to face those two little girls. Wide-eyed and bearing huge grins, they couldn't have been older than nine or ten at the time. And here I was, a twelve year old boy, naked as a newborn baby, standing helplessly before them. I should have been in my baseball uniform or wearing my dad's old army jacket. It's tough impressing girls when all you're wearing is your birthday suit and an embarrassed smile. This just wasn't right! Funny, how neither of the twins made eye contact with me while we talked; they were both too busy staring at my penis and my bare butt, of course! I continued to try and hide myself behind the basket of strawberries, but it was as useless as it was ridiculous. "Hi, little fairy," the twins said with grins and giggles. One of them, I couldn't tell which, pointed at me and said in a loud voice, "Your thingie is sticking out. That looks funny!" I dared a glance toward Mrs. Johnston. She just smiled at me, raising one eyebrow as though she expected me to explain myself. It was her sixteen year old daughter, unfortunately, who spoke up. "That's probably 'cause he's been out kissing boys. It always sticks out when he's kissing boys. Tell Lindsey and Whitney about kissing boys," ordered Anita, her eyes locked on mine. "I can't wait for you guys to see David kiss a boy! It is so cute!" I about had a heart attack! I shot another guilty glance up at Mrs. Johnston, who still had that raised eyebrow look on her face. "Don't look at me, honey. I don't know any more about it than what Anita told me. Though I have to admit that I'm kind of curious about this boy-kissing-boy-stuff myself." I tried to swallow, but a huge lump in my throat almost caused me to strangle. "I, um ... that's not exactly how it ... I mean, I don't think ...." "To heck with kissing boys," Lindsey -- or was it Whitney? -- said whimsically. Staring right at my wiener, she licked her lips and smiled. "I want to know if you are going to stay like this for the party? If so, you're going to attract an awful lot of attention if any more girls show up." It was at that moment that Nana opened the front door, thank goodness! Her appearance was both a blessing and a curse. "Greetings everybody! Welcome to our little party!" My grandmother looked at me and grinned. "Oh, there you are, David. You can show off to your little girlfriends later. You've got visitors to attend to, but you really have to clean yourself up first!" I wanted to run into the house and go hide somewhere, but Nana insisted I let our guests go in ahead of me. No matter that my arms were aching from carrying those two baskets of fruit for who-knows-how-long. After handing them off to my grandmother, I was instructed to wash myself off at the old well. Good thing, too, as I had mud all over my legs and feet. It must have taken me ten minutes to get the grime cleared out from between my toes. When I got back on the porch I was handed a small towel. "Here, hurry up and dry yourself off, slowpoke," Nana instructed. "I don't want you dripping all over my good floor. You didn't ruin my wings, did you?" I shrugged. "I, um, don't think so, Nana." "You better not have. And don't take so long. I've got a surprise for you!" "I don't want any more surprises," I said bitterly. "I already met Mrs. Johnston and all those stupid girls." Glancing out the window at the cars in the driveway, I wondered if any boys showed up. "Who else is here? You didn't let any of the guys come, did you?" A sharp RAP!!! on top of my head caught my attention. "It's none of your business who else is here, nosy boy! You mind your own business and everything else will take care of itself. Now, hurry up ... people are already here and we're running late!" "Can I go to my room?" I asked as I entered the front foyer. I looked about to make sure there was nobody to see me and tease me. "Please, Nana? I don't feel so good." RAP!!! Oh, wow, now my head REALLY hurt! "What did I just tell you? No, you cannot go to your room. It's locked up, remember? Now come with me ... we've got work to do instead. Like I said, I've got a special surprise for you." Chapter Thirty-One A New Set of Rules Nana pulled me toward the main stairway. I could hear feminine voices coming from the living room, but I knew better than to ask what was going on; my head still ached from getting rapped. Instead, I obediently followed my grandmother upstairs to the master bathroom, wondering when this craziness was ever going to end. First things first, of course. Nana undid my fairy wings, leaving me completely and totally naked for the first time since breakfast. She then pushed me toward the tub and told me to take a bath and clean up my grimy face and hair. All this was done in an old claw-footed tub as old as my grandmother, probably even older. "I'm going to go dry off your fairy wings before they're completely ruined," Nana explained. "I'll be back in a few minutes. Meanwhile, soap up and wash yourself good. You don't want me to have to do it for you." "Yes, ma'am." She pointed between my legs. "And if you don't do something about THAT, I'm going to cut it off! Do you understand me???" Rats! I'd forgotten all about my erection. I tried to swallow, but it hurt. "Yes, ma'am." Stupid penis! I did exactly as I was told, making sure to wash myself thoroughly everywhere I could reach. I did it twice, in fact, to ensure I wasn't punished for being careless. The only thing I didn't do was get rid of that goofy erection. I was terrified of what Nana might do if I didn't, but the only way I knew to get rid of it was, well, masturbate. Of course, I also knew if she caught me playing with myself I'd get the beating of my life. I didn't really think she'd cut it off, of course, but still, I didn't want her mad at me. Also, just in case she was serious about making me go naked in front of her friends, I sure didn't want to do so with my dick sticking up in the air! "Oh, heck," I said to myself. "Darned if you do, darned if you don't ...." I was just about to start jerking off beneath the soapy bath water when Nana came back with a handful of shampoo and conditioner bottles. "Wake up, lazy boy! We have to get going. Our guests are getting restless and we're not even close to being ready. I put the girls in charge of setting up the snacks, but you'll have to serve once we get downstairs. Here, stand up so I can wash you hair real quick." I watched anxiously as she rummaged through the cabinet where Aunt Margaret stowed her douche bag. Glancing guiltily at the rubber contraption hanging within, I stammered out a question. "We ... you're ... not g-g-going to use ... THAT ... on me, are you Nana?" My grandmother shot me a quizzical look. She then looked at the bag and laughed. "Well, it all depends, sweetie. Do you need me to? Do you feel dirty in your bottom? Do you need to go poop?" I quickly shook my head. "No, ma'am!" Nana smiled. "Then I guess we'll go without ... this time." I sighed a sigh of relief like you would NOT believe!!! My heartbeat suddenly quickened as I heard the doorbell ring and a fresh wave of girlish laughter come from the front of the house. This wasn't sounding good at all! I was shaking like a little frightened bunny rabbit as I scooted around the tub and stood up. "I thought I told you to get rid of your stiffie," Nana said acidly. "Can't you do anything right?" "I ... I can't help it," I said breathlessly. "It ... it just does it on it's own, Nana. Honest! I ... can't help it." My grandmother shot me a skeptical look. "Fine," she spat. "You can't control yourself, then just leave it be, then. Don't you dare touch it, or else I'll wear your butt out! You hear me? At least your apron will cover it up. Hopefully you won't disgrace yourself by playing with it in front of my friends and making another mess all over everything. Maybe I ought to clean your bottom with that douche bag after all!" With my blond locks reaching well past my neck and nearly touching my shoulders, there was a lot of hair for my grandmother to scrub, rinse and repeat. Just like a woman, she did this at least three times. I wasn't too crazy about the flowery smells that came with the process, but I was smart enough to keep my mouth shut. My goal was to somehow get through the remainder of the day without getting my butt beat or my face slapped. There was also the matter of getting my clothes back ... sometime. It was a challenge that I would fail miserably. Once I was out of the tub things started getting weird again. Nana dried me off with a towel, then poured a huge glop of lotion in her hand and literally coated my entire body with the stuff. I felt like a little baby getting its diaper changed as she slicked up every square inch of my naked body, poking in every crease and crevice with an annoying enthusiasm. "Nana, you're tickling me," I said with a nervous laugh. "Here, maybe your little man will like this," my grandmother said sarcastically. I gasped in pain as she ran a greasy, lotion-covered hand over my ballsack and squeezed. She then slid her fingers up and down my erection a few times, punctuating her ministrations with a cruel PINCH at the tip. "Nana, don't do that," I whined as she then rubbed a huge glop of lotion on my bottom. I squirmed like crazy as she rubbed and massaged in between my buttcheeks for the longest time. I felt my eyes pop wide open as a forceful finger slid up inside me. "Nana! Oh, gosh, please, stop!!!" A glaring look stopped me from complaining. "You whine an awful lot for someone who's almost a teenager. You didn't whine this much when you were a baby and I was changing your diapers." She wriggled her finger around inside my bottom. "Instead of crying, you used to giggle and coo and smile so cute when I did this." I didn't know which was more discomforting, having my grandmother finger my bottom or knowing that she used to do that to me when I was little ... and that I supposedly liked it! Geez, Aunt Margaret said the same thing about me. What the heck was all that about ...? "Stop squirming, David! Please! This is to keep that nasty boy stink from coming back," she said in a stern voice. "Plus it just makes you feel good all over, don't you think?" Once I was completely lotioned up and smelling like the prissy little fairy I'd become, my grandmother had me stand before her while she brushed and combed my hair. For some reason I wasn't surprised when she produced a curling iron and plugged it in to heat. Now, don't misunderstand ...I wasn't very happy about it, either. "Please, Nana ... don't. I hate it whenever my hair looks like a girl's." "But that's the surprise I was telling you about. You're going to look so adorable when I'm done. With your little fairy maid costume you'll be prettier than any of the girls downstairs! Trust me. This will be so much fun!" Fun? What fun? I kept hearing the word "fun" for the past two days, and all I was getting out of the deal was a lot of tears. I shivered at the thought of parading around in front of a room full of people wearing little more than wings, a girlie apron and a head full of curls. "Please, don't. I hate curls in my hair. Everybody already teases me about how long it is. I don't want to be pretty! I wish I could cut it all off! I hate it!" Nana looked at me kinda funny, almost like I'd said something dirty. There was an odd twitching in her jaw and for a second I thought she was going to reach over and give me a good slap across the face. "Okay, Mr. Smart Mouth, how about this. You don't want to look to look like a girl? Fine, I can fix that right now. I'll fix it so there's no doubt you're a boy, no matter how you're dressed!" I watched anxiously as my grandmother stormed out of the room. There was some fussin' and cussin' down the hall, followed by a clatter and a bang. A few minutes later she returned with something shiny in her hand. "Here you go, big boy," Nana snorted. I watched her plug a cord in the wall. Almost immediately a horrendous buzzing sound filled the room. "What's that? What are you going to do to me?" "Look, you wanted your hair cut off, right? Right? So, that's what I'm doing. I'm sorry, I'm not a barber, so I don't have any clippers. I do have these sheep sheers though." I winced as she switched the clippers to a higher speed. The buzzing sounded even worse than before. "I'm tired of arguing with you, so I'm going to give you a buzz cut and get on with things. You'll never have to worry about being mistaken for a girl by the time I get through with you. A bald little sissy boy, but not a girl." I was suddenly struck by the thought of what Sheila and Pam would say if they saw me with all my hair cut off. Or worse yet, Becky and Samantha! They'd already seen me humiliated beyond belief and had thoroughly enjoyed themselves. I couldn't begin to imagine how they'd react if I showed up naked AND bald. As bad as I thought things were now, that would be the worst! Well, after the little fit I threw about getting my hair cut off, now I had to beg my grandmother NOT to cut my hair. I pleaded, I cried, I begged ... I even got down on my knees at one point. Naked and tearful, I apologized over and over again and I promised that I would never, EVER question anything she wanted to do with me ... NEVER!!! "I promise, Nana, I promise ... please, don't do it ... Please ...." "So we have an understanding?" Nana said, her voice breathy and strained. She still had a grip on my hair with one hand and the clippers were buzzing away in the other. "No more fussing, no more whining and complaining? You do as you're told and everybody lives happily ever after?" I nodded, desperate to bring the whole mess to a quiet, peaceful resolution. At that point I would have let her paint me pink and parade me down the middle of town if that would have made her happy. Anything to keep peace in the family. And to keep from being shaved bald! "I promise, Nana. Anything you want, I'll do it. I promise." "Anything I want?" I forced myself to swallow. "Anything you want." Nana's expression softened and a huge, loving smile replaced the surly grimace she'd brandished earlier. I felt a huge load lift from my shoulders. "Good. That's good, sweetie. You won't regret this, I promise. You do as I tell you and you'll have so much fun, this will be a summer you'll never forget. I guarantee you that!" What I didn't realize was that I'd played right into my grandmother's hands. By giving her license to do anything she wanted with me, I'd given up all -- and I do mean ALL! -- of my options. I mean, I couldn't even roll my eyes if I didn't like what she did to me. With this agreement, whatever happened next was my own fault. I had become, in effect, an accomplice to my own humiliation. Once Nana had my complete cooperation it didn't take that long to get ready. I mean, let's face it, it's not like I had a lot to put on and I was too weary to argue. Besides, I'd given my consent for her to do as she pleased and I was not about to back out of my promise. I think that pleased my grandmother above all else. She happily hummed and sang to herself as she curled this and primped that. She was more like a little girl playing with her dolly than a mature woman with a farm and a family to take care of. Just before taking me downstairs to meet our guests she pushed me before the triple-paned dressing mirror in her sewing room and gloated over what she'd done to me. I know I've said this before, but right then and there, I tell you I could have died of shame! "Well, what do you think? Tell the truth now. Aren't you just the cutest thing?" I stared at the monstrosity reflected before me and I felt my pulse racing. I was completely and utterly humiliated beyond mere words ... and there was nothing, not a single thing I could do about it. "It ... um ... I look nice, Nana," the creature in the mirror whispered softly. "I guess ...." The truth was, I looked so silly, so ridiculous, so unlike what I thought I looked like, I have to laugh about it now. At the time, of course, I was miserable, but in retrospect I remember looking about as silly as a boy could look. Take my hair, for instance. It was so girlish I couldn't stand it! Nana had curled every available lock with that stinky curling iron, and then froze them in place with half a can of hairspray. Rolls of stiff blond curls draped down over my ears and irritated the back of my neck. The sides of my face were framed in tube curls and, worse yet, a huge, single golden curl -- as big as a half-dollar! -- was plastered in the middle of my forehead, branding me as a prisoner at the hands of some very, very demented women. "O-o-o-h ... my-y-y ... gosh-sh-sh ...." was all I could say. And then there was that silly maid's apron. It was so frilly, so small and useless, it only served as a shameful reminder of my lowly place in the world. My grandmother had doilies on her couch bigger than this thing. It was bad enough my bare hips and butt were showing, but my stupid erection kept poking out from underneath the fragile lace. "Don't worry about it, David. As long as you take small steps you won't fall down, and nobody will see your precious weenie. Trust me. You look perfect." I looked perfect? Not hardly. Studying my reflection, I felt sick. In the middle of the lower part of the apron was a stain. Not a large stain, but a stain nonetheless, dark, almost yellow in color. I felt my ears turn red. Darn it, that was where I'd accidentally made that stupid mess ... uh, you know, when I got a little too excited and I, um ... oh, hell, you know what I'm trying to say. Okay! It was a cum stain, all right!!??? I admit it! I got excited, embarrassed, aroused, whatever, and I made nasty mess! There! Are you happy now? Fine! Great! Hope you're pleased with yourself .... Sorry. I still get frustrated thinking about all this stuff. Anyway, there I stood, twelve years old and looking more like a lingerie model than a boy. I shook my head and looked once more at my skimpy apron. The thin, gauzy material made that dried spot of semen look so obvious, so disgusting. What made things even worse was the scratching sensation I felt as the tender tip of my penis repeatedly rubbed against that crusty stain. Holy cow .... And I wasn't getting any help from the home front, either. I begged my grandmother to let me wear something else. "No, I'm not giving you another apron to ruin," Nana said with a sniff. "You made your little mess, you didn't bother cleaning up, so you can either wear it or go without." I imagined myself standing stark naked in front of a bunch of total strangers. The impulse to run and hide was overwhelming. "Nana?" "Yes, sweetheart?" I took a deep breath. I didn't want to make anybody mad, but I had to say something. Despite my promise to do as I was told, I really didn't want to go through with any of this. "Nana, even with my apron ... I-I-I'm still naked" I quietly complained. "People can still see my bare bottom. I ... I mean, they can see everything. I look stupid." SLAPPP!!! I actually saw stars, my grandmother hit me so hard. "You think this is naked? How about I show you naked? Would you rather go without the apron? I can arrange that, you know. And a whippin', too. I'm sure our guests will enjoy seeing you bare naked, with your weenie sticking out and a big, fat, red bottom. You'd be so pretty that way, I can't imagine anyone with a complaint. How does that sound to you?" "Not good." I hung my head and sniffed back my tears. Nana lifted my face up to meet hers. "Look at me!'. I did as I was told. Beneath the confidant smile lurked a threat and a promise that scared the begeezus out of me. "I'm serious," she said with a voice somewhere between dangerous and delight. "I ... I-I know, Nana," I nodded. "I'll wear the apron. And I promise. I'll be good." "I know you will, sweetheart." I resumed walking around the room so Nana could appraise my appearance. Conscious of my modesty, I took tiny steps, which wasn't much of a problem, not with the shoes I had to wear. Those stupid high heels my cousin Sheila dug up for me to wear were the hardest things to put on. I finally just had to give up all my dignity, bend over and show my bare butt and strap them on one at a time. Besides looking silly as heck, they added to my clumsiness -- a twelve year old boy in high heels??? -- but Nana seemed rather pleased with the way I managed myself. "You're doing fine, don't worry about it," she said when I complained about being afraid of falling. "You'll get used to it. By the end of the evening you won't even notice you're wearing them." Completing my "fairy maid" costume, of course, were my new wings. Like before Nana knotted them so I couldn't remove anything without her help. Besides making me look like an idiot, the wings were a constant nuisance 'cause whenever I moved forward they would flutter and tickle my bare back and my shoulders. I knew better than to say anything, of course. It wouldn't have done any good anyway, right? Before heading for the stairs and our guests Nana insisted on slipping those silly lace wrist bands over my hands and then topping off my blond curls with that goofy maid's hat. "Oh, Nana," I whispered as she worked. "Do you have to?" "Of course! I knew you'd look cute in some sweet girlie curls," my grandmother said with a twinkle in her eye. "This little bit of lace will really show off your bouncy hairdo." Adding insult to injury, I had to hold a handful of bobby pins while she fixed that goofy hat to my hair. I looked down at my hands. Geez! Those stupid lace cuff things on my wrists ... they were so unnerving! No matter where I moved my hands, I had to look at them, a constant reminder of how silly, of how sissy looking I was. "Maybe later we'll get you a perm. Still, you turned out to be a perfect little fairy, if I do say so myself." "Yes, ma'am," I said softly. A perfect fairy? Oh, boy, I knew that! I knew I looked completely and utterly ridiculous, which I later realized was the whole point of the exercise. For some reason Nana was determined to humiliate me in front of her friends and there wasn't anything I could do about it. All I could do was play along and hope this madness would soon end. We were about to leave the sewing room when my grandmother spun me around, took a firm grip on my naked shoulders, and gave me the following speech: "Okay, now listen closely, David. Here's how this is going to work. We are going to go into the living room in a minute and we are going to have a wonderful time." "Nana, no! Please, don't make me go naked in front of people ...." "Did I tell you to say anything? Do you want me to slap your face again? Then hush up!" Confused and frightened, I meekly tugged the bottom of my apron tight against my bare legs and nodded. "Now, my little fairy maid, unlike the pouty little face you have right now, you will smile and you will be polite and you will speak when spoken to. Several of my friends will be here and several of your friends will be here, and I will not tolerate impolite behavior toward any of them! You will serve coffee and tea and treats to our guests and do whatever else you are told, and you'll do so cheerfully and willingly. No questions, no hesitation, no balking. Do you understand me?" "Yes, ma'am," I sniffed sadly. "And above all else, no more of this sad, pitiful 'poor little ol' me' stuff. You will be a smiling, happy fairy and you will exhibit nothing less than a bright, cheerful manner. From this point on I want nothing but pretty smiles, a pleasant attitude, and lots of happy talk. Act happy and you'll be happy. And I know you want to be happy, am I right?" I nodded. If I said anything I probably would have started crying. I mean, I was a twelve year old boy, for crying out loud! I looked down at my nearly nude body. How did I get in this mess anyway??? "I can't hear you nod, sweetie. What did I say about speaking when spoken to?" I cleared my throat. "Um, I'll ... I'll be good, Nana," I whispered hoarsely. "And ....?" I thought for a second, then it hit me. I straightened up my posture a bit, broke out a weak smile and cleared my throat. "I'm a happy fairy, Nana. I'll do a good job. I promise." My grandmother ran her eyes over my body and smiled. Something she saw obviously pleased her. "Excellent, sweetie. And just in case you change your mind, let me tell you what will happen if you make a mistake. First off, you will get a paddling like you will not believe, right there in front of our guests. I'll spank you so hard your butt will blister. Then I'll drag out the clippers and shave you bald, right there in front of your little girlfriends." My heart skipped a beat. "Nana, no ...." "...That, plus you will go the rest of the summer bare butt naked. You already owe me a month, I have no qualms about making it the rest of the summer. All summer, day and night, no matter where we go, no matter what we do, no matter who we see. You won't see another stitch of clothes until you go home to your mother. And maybe not even then. Do you understand that?" For an instant I thought about what it'd be like riding nearly 500 miles across the state in the front seat of my mom's car dressed only in my birthday suit. Talk about a nightmare! Not only would I have to worry about people outside the car seeing me, I'd have to put up with my mom's doting and teasing for the entire way. The way things were going lately, she'd probably get a kick out of me running around naked. That, and the mere thought of showing up in my neighborhood in my bare skin was enough to make me ill. It was bad enough all these girls and women were seeing my bare butt ... I don't think I could have handled it if any of my old buddies saw me this way! I quickly nodded, eager to please and even more eager to get this horror show over with. "I don't see any smiles." I nodded one final time. I had a lump in my throat so large I thought I would strangle. I looked at my reflection and sighed. It was me, all right, golden curls, frilly apron and fairy wings, bare butt and all ... no doubt about it. I stared at the fairy pendant dangling at the base of my throat. Stupid fairy! I was doomed and there wasn't a thing I could do about it. Oh, well .... Forcing the biggest, brightest smile I could muster, I fought back the tears and resigned myself to my new role as my grandmother's little "fairy maid." Nana smiled. I shivered as she gave me a warm, wet kiss on the cheek and a light pat of the hand on my bare butt. "That's my boy ... such a lovely smile. Now, let's practice your introduction ...." (continued in part 4C)