A Scout Story or, HOW MY BEST FRIEND TIED ME UP TORTURED ME NEARLY TO DEATH WHEN I WAS ONLY TWELVE-YEARS-OLD By Harlan Stewart There must be something almost genetically compulsive about boys "starting stuff" with each other thru tickle games, back rubs, and don't-you-dare-move (we called it "Statue") ploys. Like so many others, my first sexual contact with another person was in a two-man puptent. The difference, maybe, was that when I came that first, gloriously terrifying, time my dick and my friend's hands were covered in suntan lotion and my hands were tied behind my back. That night (it was at a two-night camporee) we had played Capture-the-Flag with the other troop we had camped. I don't know about your scout days, but we would play a "variation" of C-the-F when we could get away with it. When a prisoner would be taken during the game, instead of taking them to a prison-base and leaving them there (as the rules state you're supposed to do), we would try to ...uh...persuade them to tell us where their team's flag was hidden. This was great fun and nobody ever got hurt, nor snitched to the adult leaders about what was going on. I think it was a conspiracy between us as a result of boys' universal fascination with the rituals of dominance and submission and the necessity to prove that you are "tough." Anyway, after lights out, my friend and I were messing around in our tent, just as untold millions of other boys have in the course of time. As I remember we were arguing about the klutzes on our team who had captured a prisoner from the other team but failed to get him to tell where the flag was and then let him get away. "I coulda made him talk, I bet!" my friend whispered. "Yeah?" I taunted, "How would you've done that, Mr. Expert?" "Easy, I'da tortured him, that's how!" He gave a particularly ominous empasis to the word torture. "Yeah, well, they tried that and it didn't work!" "Well, they don't know the really good tortures that *I* know!" he said. (We were under the lights-out rule of quiet, so we had to keep our voices down to strangled whispers.) "Baloney!" I scoffed. "You wanna BET?" he said, in the time-honored huff that boys will assume when their honor is impugned. "Bet what?" I sniffed. "I bet I can make *you* give up!" he taunted. "No way!" "Bet!" "No way!" "Bet! Chicken! Cluck-cluck-cluck!" "OK, Whatta we bet?" "Just that I can make you give up!" "OK, but for how long. Ten minutes, OK?" "Naw, fifteen at least. OK? Gotta be at least fifteen minutes." "All right. But if you *don't* make me give up then I get to do it to *you*! OK? "OK, I guess. But you're gonna LOSE, sucka!" he chortled. "We'll see," I said. "Now what?". He was rummaging around in the near dark of the tent, searching through his knapsack. Finally he came out with a length of cotton rope, like we used for our knot-tying practise. "Turn over" he ordered. "What for?" "I gotta tie you up, of course!" he said, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "No way!" I protested. "C'mon, everybody knows you gotta tie prisoners up when you're gonna torture 'em!" he whined. "Well, OK. But not too tight. Promise?" I had, after all, agreed to the bet and I was also starting to get the slightest bit interested in just what he was going to do to me. I wasn't afraid, just curious. I rolled over on my sleeping bag and he hopped over and straddled my butt. It was a hot night and we were already in nothing but our underwear briefs. I felt him take my wrists and lift them up onto my back, cross them, and start to tie me with his rope. Almost against my will I realized that it felt pleasurable, in a kind of weird way, to have him sitting on me and tying me up there in the near darkness of the tent. It only took him a couple of minutes to have me securely tied. The atmosphere in the tent had changed somehow; there seemed to be something else there with us, some new thing that had just been born. After he had me securely bound I felt his hands start to explore my back and shoulders. Light, teasing, flicks of his fingers were all over me. They didn't tickle exactly, but they seemed to be sensitizing my skin, making it almost tingle from his light and feathery touches. I could feel little tremors of my own muscles sometimes when he would touch a sensitive spot. "Give up?" he asked, while he continued brushing his fingers over my back above my tied hands. "Are you crazy?" I asked. "This is *nothing*! You've lost this best, buddy!" I said. He didn't say anything, but scrambled off my butt and squatted next to me on the sleeping bag, his bare knees against my right side. Now he began the same light, back and forth brushing strokes on my legs, working from my ankles up to my upper thighs. He spent more time on my thighs and the strokes were begining to tickle just the slightest bit. He paused after a minute or two. "Now you gonna give up?" he asked. "Don't be silly!" I said, and he started on me again. This time he worked his fingers up around my butt, back and forth just at the edge of my briefs. Every few seconds he would run his fingers down onto my inner thighs and it did seem to me that I was more sensitive there. But then he stopped. "Spread your legs," he ordered. Somehow the command made me uneasy, wary. "Why?" "Don't ask questions! Just do it!" Wonder of wonder I complied and spread my legs. "Wider!" he ordered, and I spread them wider. I could feel the canvas on both sides of the little tent with my bare toes. "That's better," he said, and resumed his slow tickling strokes. But this time he was confining his fingertips to my inner thighs, going down as far as he could reach and then back up and across the backs of my legs just below where my briefs covered me. After a minute or so I felt him reach up and fold the elastic band of my briefs down two or three times, baring more of my lower back. "What are you doing?" I asked him. "Shut up!" he said, and, strangely, I did. He worked on my lower back for quite a while. My skin would tremble reflexively slightly when he hit certain spots. After a while he asked me again. "You ready to give up?" "No way! I like this!" I teased him. "Maybe this will change you mind!" he said. I felt his fingers trace down over both my buns and then across the backs of my thighs and down across the sensitive skin of my inner thighs and then before I knew what was happening he was lightly raking two fingers back and forth acorss that sensitive spot between balls and anus! "Hey, cut it out!" I protested. "Shut up!" he repeated. "Ready to give up?" "N-n-noo! But don't do that! Stop it, OK?" The tingling was growing stronger down there. "Give up then!" he taunted. "No! I won't, but you shouldn't be doing...that!" "Who says? You're my prisoner and I can do anything I want!" He swirled his fingers faster. "Feels weird, don't it?" I had to nod my head, but didn't say anything. The feelings his fluttering fingers gave me were becoming very...interesting. He stopped talking and seemed to be concentrating on what he was doing to me. He swapped hands and used the other hand to do what its fellow had just been doing. Then he took a break and went back out to my inner thighs, followed by some quick strokes all along both thighs from butt to back of knee. Then a pause and after a few seconds I felt fingers on me there behind my nuts again. I think I made a little gasp or moan this time and I felt him lean down across my back, bringing his mouth close to my ear. "Give?" For some reason my throat felt tight and I didn't answer, didn't think I could, but just shook my head from side to side. My eyes were closed. Weird phrases were running through my mind. 'Cary's torturing me' I heard my brain saying to itself. 'I'm tied up and Cary's torturing me!' Sometime around this time I realized that I was hard and that I was hunching myself ever so slightly against the jumble of sleeping bags under me. Ohmygod! What if Cary had seen it? What if he knew what I was doing? And then it seemed so clear to me that, considering what he was doing to me with his fingers, there was no way he could NOT know what I had been doing. I felt like I was blushing now, but I also felt like I didn't care. Cary's fingers had stopped their fiendish work and I opened my eyes to look up at him over my shoulder from where I lay with my left cheek flat against the sleeping bag. He was looking down at me, I was sure that if I could have seen it clearly his face would have been full of disgust and derision. He would tell the rest of the troop what I had been doing and my life would be over! "Turn over," he said, very quietly, barely a whisper. No! I couldn't do that. I just *couldn't*! But I did, I put my legs together and rolled over onto my back, lying on my bound hands. "Spread your legs!" he ordered. I did it, feeling the canvas against my feet again. A tiny sprig of moonight spiked into the tent from the buttoned-up front flap and I could raise my head and see the wet sheen of my sweaty chest and belly. I could also barely make out the bulge of my jockeys. I dropped my head back on the sleeping bag just as Cary's fingers started to slide and seem to almost vibrate across the moist cotton of my briefs over my rigid penis. He knew! He knew, and he was...touching it through the cloth! The first feel of his fingers on me was a sudden deep, tingle inducing, shock. A blast of pure, filthy-dirty sensation. He lightly pinched that spot just in front of the glans between his thumb and forefinger and then twisted them slowly back and forth. "Unnnh!" "Good, huh?" he whispered. He was at my waistband then, fingers under it on each side and pulling down. Shamelessly, I raised my butt and let him pull my briefs down, even putting my legs together to help him get them off. Then he was nuzzling his knees between mine and I spread my legs again, raising them and pointing the toes in an extremity of obscene muscular tension as he settled down in a squat between my wide spread legs, his knees against my inner thighs. From behind him, on the floor of the tent, he produced something, a tube it looked like, popped the cap, squeezed something that went *splut* into his palm and the tent seemed to fill with the aroma of coconut, sweet and heavy. Sun-tan oil! Then both hands were on me there: sudden, warm, slick, tight, rubbing, squeezing! It was the most wonderful feeling I had ever felt in my whole young life up to that point. I didn't care who knew, what they thought, what they did! This was...wonderful! "Good?" Cary repeated, as he worked. "Unnnnnh!" I answered, too loud. "Shhh!" It didn't take long. While his left hand worked gently on my slick, tightly-tucked up balls, his right steadily took me there with strong, long strokes while I held my breath. I didn't have much to give up, but what I had I squirted up along my chest and onto my chin in one or two strong mini-geysers that subsided quickly into weak dribbles. "ANNNNNNNH!" "SHHHH!!!" I felt his greasy left hand clamp over my mouth while he continued to work his right up and down on my spasming dick. Oh, god! I was going to die! It was too strong! I. Was. Going. To. Die! But finally it was over. He released my mouth. And then after some slow, gentle strokes he released my prick, too. There was silence in the tent now, save for my gasps of pent up breath. And then Cary leaned down and whispered to me. "Give up?" he said. And we both started to giggle. ========= OK, there is my little memoir. It would be great to hear from you, if you enjoyed it or, even better, if it kindled memories of your own. I have a few other such memory tales, and if there is any demand for them I would try to write themup and post them. Please write me at harlanstewart@REMOVEmail15.com. You know what to do with the REMOVE.