Message-ID: <54585asstr$1159186202@assm.asstr.org> X-Original-To: story-submit@asstr.org Delivered-To: story-submit@asstr.org X-Original-Message-ID: <1159143804.30711.271713611@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: sm4iuxIqt2ZfSC8HeHysmRy84f5Ta5DrDshRip6wOvwq 1159143804 From: "Samantha" <samanthak@fastmail.fm> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:23:24 -0400 Subject: {ASSM} Sam - Part 17 (FF, MF, tort, exhib, size, viol) Lines: 3390 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:10:02 -0400 Path: assm.asstr.org!not-for-mail Approved: <assm@asstr.org> Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: <URL:http://assm.asstr.org/Year2006/54585> X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation <story-admin@asstr.org> X-Story-Submission: <story-submit@asstr.org> X-Moderator-ID: dennyw, RuiJorge -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. <1st attachment, "Sam - Part17.doc" begin> Sam - Part 17 by Samantha K (FF, MF, tort, exhib, size, viol) [comments welcome: SamanthaK(at)fastmail.fm] In the morning, I was so hungry that I didn't even bother to brush my hair or pull on a robe over my gauzy nightgown before hauling my butt downstairs to breakfast. I should have eaten something before I went to bed the night before, but I had been way too tired. Now, I was running a deep energy deficit for all the quick healing I had done and I craved anything with sugar and fat in it. Mom eyed the big puddle of syrup around my stack of pancakes, but said nothing. She just went back into the kitchen and started a pan of sausages. I heard the sizzle when they hit the pan and it made my mouth water. Jim and Bud straggled in and dropped into their chairs. They both looked at me and then at each other. Both shook their heads and Bud shrugged. I think I knew what that was about. I was getting better at reading them and their version of fraternal non-vocal communication. I would have said something apologetic, but my mouth was busy. Bud beat me to it. "Rough night last night?" he asked. "Umfph," I mumbled around a mouthful. I took a sip of juice before continuing. "Yeah. Rough." I shoveled in another forkful. "Thought so. I heard you and Jim come in late, but I was already in bed. Were you in that business at the Montgomery farm?" "Maybe she doesn't want to talk about it," Jim suggested. It was more tact than he usually showed. Most of the time he would have just aimed a slap at his brother for saying something dumb. "No," I said, swallowing. I put my fork down for a moment and dabbed with a paper napkin at a drop of syrup that had fallen into the crevasse between my boobs. I was still hungry, but I decided that I had better pace myself. Besides, the sausages were starting to smell very good and I definitely wanted some. "It's OK, Jim. Last night I just didn't want you to ask anything in front of Steve that I might not have wanted to answer. You two are family. You already know the kinds of stuff I get into." Jim smiled at the 'family' reference. They both sat up a little straighter, as if I had said something to make them self-conscious. "There are some things that some people are better off not hearing all the nasty details about," I said in a low voice, tilting my head and pointing my fork toward the closed kitchen door. "Steve included." "You know," Jim said, "He's going to like you anyway. I think you're worrying over nothing." "Maybe. But let's break him in slow, hunh? I don't want anyone worrying about me unnecessarily." "Ha! I think he already knows that when you slip away someplace, it's not you that anyone should be worried about. It's the poor fools who piss you off." I smiled. I would have said something, but somehow more food had managed to jump into my mouth when I wasn't looking. I chewed while Jim talked. "I know Neeka was covering for you last night. I can't read her mind like you can, but I know her well enough to tell that she wasn't giving us the whole deal on what you were up to in that barn. I knew that wasn't for my benefit. You really are ah fond of Steve?" "Really." "Good. Steve's a good guy. Don't hurt him." I opened my mouth to say something, and food almost fell out. I closed it again and thought about Jim's comment. It was kind of abrupt to say it like that, but he and I were on the same page. The problem was; what was the best thing to do? Would it be doing Steve a kindness to keep him in the dark about my adventures or would he be more hurt to find out that I had kept things from him? I needed a simple set of rules to help me keep it all straight, one that didn't involve remembering a bunch of complicated lies. I went over this again and again in my head and came back to the same decision I had made before. Neeka would know everything. I couldn't keep anything from her anyway, and it was comforting to have someone from whom I had no secrets at all. Everyone else would have to be on a need-to-know arrangement. Need, or accident, or emergency, or something; but I made a resolution to keep my mouth shut about things that happened to me that didn't make it on TV. The hard and unpleasant fact was that what my family and friends didn't know couldn't hurt them or me; while things they did know might, regardless of intentions, good or otherwise. I hated this, but it seemed to be something else that went with the job. Besides, I had already started writing all this down for posterity and to have a private place to vent my frustrations and fears about what was happening without having to edit out the 'good parts'. I tried hard not to admit to myself that it was really a way to record everything in case one day I screwed up and didn't make it home again. Not for the first time, I wondered if the price I was paying to play superheroine was worth the hassle and the risk. The memory that came back to me was of the terrified faces of those kids in the supermarket where I had made my first public appearance. That still haunted me. It steeled my resolve to go on with this like nothing else ever could. Whatever else happened, whoever I might save even if only in theory by cutting down on the criminal population I had done good in that situation. If I had reason to doubt, I could always look back on that and feel that it had all been worthwhile. So I was right back to where I started. I had to keep secrets from people I trusted. It was a bitter pill that I was extremely unhappy about having to swallow, but I couldn't find a way to argue my way out of it. The look on my face while I thought this over must have said a lot about what I was thinking. When I looked back at Jim, he was looking me right in the eyes. "You know," he said, hesitantly, "I think that look is even scarier than your dragon-face." Bud chimed in, "No shit!" I shifted my gaze to the younger brother without changing my expression. Bud swallowed and shifted his butt to the edge of his chair as though he were thinking of bolting out the door. "No offense!" Bud said, quickly, apologetically, and apparently sincerely. "It's OK. It's just that this goes way further than anyone's feelings. I will try my best not to hurt anyone, but the deeper I get into this, the more I realize that there are worse things than being out of the loop. I'm going to be making enemies. Some of them will be very unpleasant people. Remember Bubba and Leon? What if they came around while we were at school? Not that they would, even if they got the chance. My understanding is that if they were dropped off in front of this house, they would run away as fast as they could." "Yeah, probably peeing their pants all the way. The people you ran into last night won't be a problem, either," Jim said. It occurred to me that he was testing to see if I wanted to talk about what happened. He'd been close enough to know it would be an interesting story. He was right, though. I did need to talk, but this wasn't the time. "Yeah, well we can talk about that after I've seen the news. There are some things I need to know first. But my point is that I need as much separation from home and my job as I can get, OK? This way it's better for everyone. So if I don't tell you stuff, don't be mad. And if I want you to help me keep secrets from Steve, I hope you understand that it's for his benefit, too." "This is really a job to you?" Bud asked. "I think of it that way. A job. A career. Whatever. It's what I'm going to be doing with my life. Like I told Sue, the pay sucks, but there is a lot of satisfaction in it." "You're taking this very seriously," Jim commented. "You betcha, sport. As serious as a heart-attack. The more I do it, the more I see that it needs doing." Mom brought in a plate of sausages then. Jim and Bud reached out to spear some with their forks, but I was there and gone in a flash. They only got one apiece. I grinned at them with a link between my teeth and hot grease dripping from my chin. If they wanted to duel me for food when I was running an energy deficit, they were going to be up against some stiff competition. Mom smiled and went back in the kitchen to see what else she could find in the fridge. I guessed that having food you just cooked snatched off the platter as soon as it hit the table must be one of the more gratifying things about being domestic. "What tipped you off in the restaurant?" Bud asked. "You shot out of there before we knew something was up." "I heard two goons trying to extort Connie's uncle. His office wall was just behind me and I could hear them talking through it. He was holding out, too...until they threatened to do something to Connie." "What? Those bastards!" "My sentiments exactly. I went out to the parking lot to reason with them. Things took off from there." "Damn!" Jim said. "I wish I had known that. I'd have gone out there with you." "Me too!" Bud said. Their eagerness explained a lot about the conversation. I tried to think of a way to defuse this before it went any further. "So, you guys think you might want to go out with me and Neeka and do some crimefighting sometime?" "Shoot, yes!" You bet!" "OK, you can come along. There's just one condition. You have to spar with me and either beat me or draw me. I promise not to break more than a couple of bones and I'll stop if you bleed too much. Deal?" "Ah, well...." "Gee, uh..." "Unhunh. Look, guys. Last night I got out of that place just barely in time to avoid being blown to bits or burnt to a crisp. I still got singed pretty good, but everyone who was in there with me got dead. If you had been in there, you'd be dead, too. This is not a game. People get hurt. People get killed. I get hurt. But I can recover. Even if I do have to eat like a pig to do it. "Jim, you ask Neeka about this. I don't have to look over my shoulder to know where she is and what she's doing. I'd have to do that with anyone else and it would distract me. The two times we went out yesterday, she mostly stayed on the sidelines because we knew it was just too dangerous for her to mix in." I almost told them about Roxy spearing me with that dagger. I thought better of it just as I opened my mouth. That would have been too grisly. I was starting to think I had really come too close to the edge that time. Another fraction of an inch and I wouldn't have been here to tell this. "And you like being hurt." Jim wasn't being mean. He sounded more disappointed than anything. He was implying that he didn't think he could stand in the fire like I had been doing. And he was stating something that he knew for a fact. "Let's say I have learned to appreciate certain sensations that others might find...unpleasant. I think of it as a professional hazard. I'm not invulnerable. This is how I make up for that deficiency." They thought that over. From their expressions, they realized that going out on a job with me needed to remain something that they only fantasized about. "I still need your help," I said. "I need you to cover for me. I need you to help keep my head on straight through all this. Mostly I need something like a normal life to come home to." "'Normal', she says," Jim chuckled. The way he smiled, I knew he wasn't laughing at me but at the situation. "Yeah, well...more normal than escaping by the skin of my teeth from exploding buildings, or going toe to toe with lunatics driving tanks, or tearing apart wrecked minivans. That stuff can stress you out, you know. I need to be able to unwind." "Right. Unwinding is fun, too. What do you say, Bud?" "Oh yeah! Unwinding is fun. Which reminds me, are you planning anything this weekend?" "Like another party? No, after the last couple of weeks, I think I need to cut back on the partying. I plan to go visit a friend on Saturday. Other than that, I think I need to hit the books some and just kick back." That, and a workout or two, and some Kung Fu practice. Now that I thought about it, I would have a full weekend just trying to catch up with things I had missed during all the week's excitement. Mom had come in with a plate of French toast while we were talking. The smell was heavenly, but I held myself to only one piece. When the subject of weekend plans came up, she looked both relieved and disappointed that there wouldn't be a gaggle of girls romping through the house again and staying up until all hours of the night. "Maybe you'd all like to go to the beach one afternoon?" she suggested. We could drive over on Sunday if the weather is nice. That sounded like a nice, family-type thing to do. It seemed a little early in the year for beach trips to me, but I hadn't seen much sand growing up, so I wouldn't really know. Even though it was only about an hour's drive to the Gulf, my parents had never taken me and the few times Yvette had let me go on organized outings, the chaperones acted like concentration camp guards. "Zer vill be no fun herr today! Nicht!" It seemed funny to me now and I smiled at the memory. It was one of the first times I had been able to look back and find something funny, instead of horrible. Mom misunderstood my expression. "Sam seems to like the idea. How about it? Just the four of us? Fiona told me that Carl will be back in town on Saturday. The Morgans are due for some quality family time and I thought we might do the same." Jim smiled slyly and got a mischievous look in his eye. "OK, just the four of us. But on one condition...." "What?" Mom sounded surprised at Jim's presumption that he could dictate terms. She looked curious as well. "Just that you go as 'Bambi', not 'Mom'." She blushed. She looked pleased, but she had to ask the logical question. "All right. But why?" "Because I know the two of you are going to try to outdo each other by wearing the sexiest swimsuits you can without getting arrested. I don't think I could stand it if I had to keep reminding myself to think of you as 'Mom'." Bud nodded his agreement. He and Jim hadn't exchanged any significant looks, so I guessed this was purely Jim's idea. It was the first time he had gone further than just agreeing to the new family roles. "Well, I think I'll take that as a challenge," Bambi declared. "So, you'd like to see me in a sexy swimsuit, hmmm?" Dressing provocatively was the very thing she lived for. I could almost see her mentally searching her wardrobe for the right thing to wear. Jim looked right at her for a beat before answering. He leaned back slightly in his chair, his posture indicating that he wasn't uncomfortable having this slightly flirtatious conversation. He said, "Oh, yeah! And so would every other guy on the beach. I'm sure I speak for all males between the ages of 12 and 120 on this. Think of it as a public service as well as a private favor." "Well, since you put it that way...how can I refuse?" "This is going to be fun!" I said. I had meant to be supportive, but I found that I was really getting into the spirit of the thing. I had also thought of something that Bambi hadn't. I concentrated for the necessary couple of seconds and said, "I can wear my new suit!" I opened my nightgown and revealed the faux version of the blue bikini that was upstairs in a drawer. Bambi laughed, then suddenly looked serious, as she realized that I could top her at will when it came to wearing sexy swimwear. I could mimic anything she wore, and make mine even smaller and, of necessity, skin tight. Her serious look melted quickly, though. She smiled and nodded at me, accepting the challenge. "Yes, lots of fun," Jim said, seeing the looks Bambi and I were giving each other. Surely he hadn't thought so far ahead that he had anticipated the competition that his suggestion had started. Or was I underestimating Jim again? Maybe it was just his hormones talking. Either way, it would be a win-win situation for the boys to get the girls into a contest to see who could be the biggest exhibitionist. I decided that I would be nice and not try to top Bambi, but she didn't need to know that. Let her think that she had to go as far as she dared. The result might be very interesting indeed. For my school clothes that day, I put on a faded old denim skirt that I had hacked the lower third off of with a pair of shears and then never had the guts to try to get past Yvette with it on. I had even tried to fix it by popping the side seams at the waist, so I could wear it low on my hips, but that made it worse, rather than better, so I had hidden it away in the back of my old closet. Now that some of the sting of the old days was starting to fade, I got it out and put it on with a scoop-neck tank-top that Bambi had bought for me. As school clothes went, the outfit was almost demure, showing little cleavage but a good bit of skin below my navel. The split seams were the sexiest thing about it, showing enough skin on each side to make it questionable if I were wearing panties. Which I wasn't, of course. I added a macram belt to the skirt, just to make sure that if the seams let go even more, it wouldn't fall off at an inconvenient time. I then took a few minutes to deal with something that I had noticed happening, but hadn't understood until lately. Even though I had been getting fucked fairly regularly, and by some of the biggest cocks imaginable, whenever I had to trance-out and force my body to heal there was always a side-effect. The healing refused to be confined entirely to the site of the injury. Instead, it spread all over and insisted on trying to 'fix' all of me, in effect, changing my whole body to an earlier physical state. In my case, the most obvious result was to reverse the wear and tear on my sex organs and change me back into a virgin. As wonderfully kinky as it sounds, this isn't really a good thing. It actually felt like my pussy was growing shut. Believe me, having your cherry busted once is enough. Doing it again and again takes a lot of the pleasure out of fucking, even for a pain-slut like me. See, the order of events is all wrong. The pain should come later, after I'm totally turned on, not right when the guy is first trying to get his cock into me. So my original worry about getting too loose was totally wrong. The reality was that if I was going to do the healing trick regularly, then I needed to do something to keep from getting too small, especially with Bud, Jim, and Steve ready to pound me mercilessly at the drop of a hankie. The steel balls had actually helped, but I was bored with them. I decided that I needed to find something else that would keep my pussy from going back to the diameter of a soda straw, so I got down on the floor and looked through the toy-drawer to see if anything looked interesting. A lot of the stuff was just different color, size and shape dildos, but some of it was intriguing. I pulled out a giant pacifier that had clearly been intended as a gag-gift by the manufacturer. Someone had removed the ring-shaped handle, leaving a device about five or six inches long a big rubber bulb tapering to a curved plastic retainer with a small knob in the center of the other side where the handle used to be. I turned it over in my hand, fascinated that someone presumably Ben Reynolds had seen the possibilities of the thing as a sex-toy. It seemed too cute to pass up and it was perfect for what I needed something to keep me stretched open and for my hungry twat to suck on to keep it busy while I concentrated on schoolwork. I sat on the floor, hiked up my skirt, spread my legs and fed my pussy the outsized pacifier. The bulb was fairly large and it didn't want to go in at first, but I squeezed and pushed and it popped inside and snugged the out-sized plastic mouth-guard up against a pair of the other kind of lips. I stood up, smoothed down my skirt and walked a few steps to make sure it was going to work. It was surprisingly comfortable. The plastic retainer fit perfectly. And the big, soft rubber bulb inside me felt really great when I flexed my vaginal muscles. I decided to wear it all day if I could. It was the ideal way to keep from shrinking too small, exercise a set of very important muscles, and keep a sexual edge without having it make me crazy with lust. Being the first to finish breakfast meant I was running early and I had plenty of time to walk to school. The morning sun was warm and the breeze was neither warm nor cool, but simply refreshing. The weather report was for higher temperatures and no rain for the next several days, so our beach trip was looking like an excellent plan. I understood Mom wanting to have some family time with us. I was very happy to be a member of this family and some quiet time lying on the beach certainly sounded attractive after the last few hectic days. It struck me that it all seemed so unreal, like I might wake up any minute and find it was all a dream. I had gone from a terrible home situation to what looked at first like an even worse one, only to find that things were not at all what they seemed. Now, I had a new family and it was like I was living someone else's life someone whose life should have been written in the pages of a comic book full of neatly plotted adventures with gaudily drawn characters that existed only for the purpose of the story. Instead, I had to deal with real problems instead of contrived ones, real people instead of two-dimensional characters, and real situations that had never seen the printed page. And if there was a plot here, I hadn't figured out what it was yet. I was just going from day to day, coping as best I could and trying to do the best I could with what I had to work with. I felt like I had been shoved onstage in the middle of a play, without having had a chance to learn my lines, or even read the script. The sense of being a stranger in a strange land faded the closer I got to school and other people who were neither adults yet nor kids any longer who also had few clues to who they were and what they were going to become. I reflected that, in a way, I was the lucky one. I already knew what I was going to be doing with my life. I was already doing it, and I hoped I was getting better at it as I got more practice at it. I clung to that thought, and it made me feel much better to remember that, whatever else happened, I had a mission in life. As I walked up the last block to the schoolyard, I could hear the voices of other early arrivals as they hung out in small groups outside the doors. Their conversations seemed louder and more animated than usual this morning. I wondered what could be going on to cause such a buzz. The first group I passed answered the question for me and I laughed to think that I hadn't figured it out sooner, or even anticipated it. The number one topic of every conversation I could hear was me or more properly, The Dragon and Ace. "Nothing like being on TV to make you an instant celebrity," I thought, as I slowly strolled and casually eavesdropped. Neeka's pseudonym hadn't yet become common knowledge, so mostly she was referred to as 'the girl with the cool bike' and 'the biker girl'. I resolved to name-drop as soon as an opportunity presented itself. I looked around for 'biker girl' herself and spotted her standing with a group of other girls under one of the few good shade trees on the school grounds. I started to go over and ask her what she thought of all the notoriety when she saw me coming and warned me off. "Better not, Sam," she told me, mind to mind. "I've already heard a few people describe my alter-ego as looking something vaguely like me. If they see us together, some genius might notice a similarity that we'd rather they didn't. We'll catch up later." That was all she had time for at the moment. As I angled away and walked on, I heard one of her friends say that 'biker girl' might even be a guy under that disguise. I walked away faster, giggling to myself as I felt the heat of Neeka's blood rising at being mistaken for a boy. I thought there might be some costume changes coming shortly. "Yuk it up, Sam," Neeka said. "It's your fault, you know. Next to you, almost anyone would look masculine." That caught me by surprise. It implied that if I wanted to look less like my own alter-ego, I needed to de-emphasize my figure. This meant giving up most of the wonderful sexy clothes that I had fallen in love with wearing. I was standing there, picturing myself looking dowdy in a loose, baggy dress when Sara Henderson caught up to me. "Sam!" she said in an intense whisper, as she pulled me away from the growing crowd. "Do you have any idea how famous you are? Absolutely everyone is talking about The Dragon." "And Ace," I reminded her, although I couldn't remember if we had clued her in to Neeka's choice of an alias before the dinner party broke up. "Right," she said. She didn't seem surprised, so I supposed that the subject had come up during dinner and I'd missed it. "Has anyone noticed a similarity between me and The Dragon yet?" I asked, hoping that all the TV pictures hadn't screwed-up my chance to have some 'normal' time in my life. "Are you kidding? Are you green and scaly? Do you have the face of a fire-breathing lizard?" "Not at the moment." "Then relax. No one is going to even think of the possibility. You don't realize how effective your, uh, 'makeup' is. If I didn't already know, I wouldn't have guessed. On TV it looks absolutely real." "Whew! That's a relief," I said. People had been telling me how good it looked, even up close. Even those people who had seen it more than once still had a hard time looking at it and seeing past the image crawling over my skin. "A lot of people think it's all fake. They say that the TV footage is all FX and the whole thing is like that old War of the Worlds radio hoax. Of course they can't explain how all the papers and police and everybody is in on it." "'There ain't no such animal.'" "Hunh?" "What the old farmer said when he went to the zoo and saw an elephant for the first time. Some people insist on holding onto their version of reality even in the face of irrefutable evidence that it's wrong." I remembered my meeting with Trooper Trammel and how he was perfectly happy to exclude me from his world-view as well as from his report. "I guess," Sara said dismissively, and I knew I had slipped into pedantic mode again. "Is anybody talking about the fire last night?" "Not that I've heard. That was you too? I figured you were up to something when you didn't come back from the ladies room. Neeka wouldn't say anything other than you'd gone after some bad guys and she needed a ride to follow you." "And Steve volunteered?" "Right away. We all wanted to go, but Steve said you wouldn't want everyone coming after you and he could only take two others meaning Neeka and Jim." "So you got stuck with Bud?" "I don't know that 'stuck' is the word I would use. Bud is hardly the boobie-prize. He's maturing fast. He's a lot more fun to talk to lately." "How so?" "He listens. I mean, he pays attention to what I say. He tries to relate. That's unusual. At least it is compared to some of the other guys I've gone out with." I thought that all the sex Bud had been getting lately might be responsible for that. I knew my brain worked a lot better when my hormones had been burned off. I guessed that the same was true for the boys, too. Or it might just have been that he was hanging out with girls a lot more lately. Certainly he and Jolene were spending every minute they could together, and when he wasn't with her, he was often with me. This might just have been a case of familiarity breeding relaxation and consideration. The bell rang before I could do any more eavesdropping, but it didn't matter at all. The Dragon and Ace stayed topic number one all day long. By and large, I ignored it. Whenever I was drawn into a conversation on the subject, I made sure to mention that I heard that the biker girl's name was Ace and then I bit my tongue and suggested that The Dragon must be an alien from a distant galaxy. That opinion got me dropped from most discussions on the subject pretty quickly and I went back to focusing on my schoolwork. My classes moved to the front of my mind, leaving my insatiable pussy to work on its pacifier something that seemed to satisfy it pretty effectively without dragging me off to the restroom every hour to frig my clit. A few times I caught some strange looks because I would be unconsciously rocking my butt around or jerking my hips as my pussy sucked away on the rubber bulb. "Heck, what are they going to think," I wondered. "That I have a hungry beast between my legs that needs constant feeding? Well, they're right. And a reputation as a sex-crazed teenager is probably an excellent antidote to anyone's suspicions about me and my alter-ego. That is the cover I'd planned to use." Before, I might have worried about people's opinions of me, right or wrong. Now, I didn't care what they thought, as long as they put one and one together and got 'sexpot' instead of adding two and two and getting 'superheroine'. Mom had suggested that a rep as a dumb blonde was a good cover. I couldn't do the 'dumb' part, not with the grades I had been getting, but I could overdo the 'blonde' part as much as I wanted and get the same effect. By lunchtime, I was ready for a break and was glad to be able to sneak off to the weight room. I had mostly put out of my mind how much the wrestling team knew about my strength. I was just walking into the room when it occurred to me that they certainly knew enough to figure it out, 'blonde' overkill or not. "Hi, Sam!" Steve called when I dropped my towel over the weight bench. "Hi!" I called back. Steve was doing one-handed bicep curls with his arm on one of the type of padded supports with which I was so familiar. I watched him for a bit, reminiscing about supports and clamps and stuff until my nipples started to throb, then I looked around the room at the other guys. They all nodded back and smiled or waved. It was all very normal-seeming and casual. I knew something was up immediately. I walked over to Steve and bent down to whisper in his ear, "What the heck is going on here?" "Uh oh. I guess I'm busted," he whispered back. "I told the guys that you wouldn't want them to make a big deal about yesterday and all, seeing what they know and what they might think they know. I told them I'd beat the crap out of them if they didn't lay off you about it. They took that as a dare. Then I told them if that if they made you mad, you might beat the crap out of them. That got their attention." "So they're all playing dumb? Actually, that's fine with me. I can use a little time away from all the chatter and speculation." I turned back to the bench to find Roger and Doug loading the big plates onto the long bar for me. They must have known by now that I hardly needed the assistance, but they were going out of their way to be considerate and I couldn't say anything. They did look like they were getting almost as good a workout lifting and loading my weights as they would have doing their own exercises, so I couldn't claim they were losing out by helping me. And it may have been their way of acknowledging me without saying anything. On the whole, I liked that arrangement. It seemed a very 'guy thing' to do and I remembered that that was one of the main reasons I was here, anyway to show them that a girl could be one of the guys. When they had the bar sagging on the hooks, I assumed the position and took a grip on the bar. I didn't even look to see how much weight was on it. I was trying to stay as calm and collected as possible to keep the flow or adrenalin in check. It was a battle, because I had trained myself to slide into a trance so easily and I wanted to do this with as little enhancement as possible. I needed to find a mental place that let me fine-tune the amount of power I could use. I knew how to turn the faucet on full-blast, now I needed to see if I could get it to trickle as needed. I took a couple of deep breaths and did just the opposite of what you normally do under a weight, I relaxed. I made my grip tight, but left the rest of my body loose. I pushed up against the bar, gradually increasing the force I used until started to feel the effort in my arms and shoulders. I kept pressing until I felt my pectorals tensing into knots. I had barely begun to take the curve out of the bar when I felt the muscles of my abdomen and neck tense in sympathy. I kept on pressing, focusing on staying cool and not getting worked up, until I felt like I had reached the maximum effort I could put out unaided. I was mildly pleased to see that all on my own, I had taken most of the weight and it felt like it was about to break free of the hooks. Still, I could see that I wasn't going to be able to lift it without applying a lot more power and I knew it would take even more to be able to control it when it was in the air. This was the critical moment. I tried to feel for the tap that would allow just the right amount of adrenalin to flow into my blood and give me the power to raise the bar. I was trying to let just a bit into my system when I felt a cool sensation in the pit of my stomach and the bar lifted off the hooks like it had suddenly gone weightless. "Damn!" I swore, and let the bar settle down again. I let go and crossed my arms over my stomach and tried to calm down so I could try it again. "Something wrong, Sam?" Steve asked in a concerned tone. "No, I just went too far with it. I know I have the strength. I'm trying to get the hang of controlling it. Let me relax a minute and I'll try again." I closed my eyes, took several deep breaths and then slowed my breathing deliberately until I felt all the juice had drained away. While I was lying there, trying to avoid falling into a trance, I realized that I was going about this the hard way. I knew how I could have near-total control of my body and here I was avoiding using it. "Stupid!" I thought. "Just go with the flow." I let myself fall into the familiar sideways-drifting and floating feeling that meant I was under. I opened my eyes to a slightly slowed-down and barely out-of-focus world. I put my hands back on the bar and felt the rough grips bite into my palms and my fingers. The bar felt colder and as I pushed up on it, I thought I could feel it squirm slightly in my grip as if it was alive and protesting being abused like this. I reached out my will and ordered just a small squirt of power. Immediately, the bar got lighter, but did not jump off the hooks as it had before. I pushed harder and nothing happened. I asked for another squirt and the bar broke free and I slowly lifted it to full extension, locking my elbows to get the balance right. For the first time, I could feel the weight. I could feel the effort it took to keep it in the air. My shoulders were being driven down onto the bench. If they had been as wide as the guys', my joints would have no support. As it was, I was cheating and letting the bench do some of the work. "Just a touch more," I thought, and the weight fell off to the point where I was sure I could control it. Bravely, I lowered it to my chest, letting it press into the tops of my boobs before pushing it back up again with an effort. That effort was delicious. It meant I had balanced just the right amount of power, control and physical effort. If I hadn't been tranced, the elation I felt would have raised my adrenalin level and the bar would have again felt weightless. I did a paced set of ten repetitions before letting the bar settle back to the hooks. Each rep took effort, and each one drained the juice I had metered into my blood until the last one was close to the greatest amount of physical effort I could muster. I was actually breathing hard when I let go of the bar. Beads of perspiration ran down my cleavage as I sat up and turned around to sit on the bench leaning on the bar. "Not bad," Doug said. "But you did better the last time. You were straining there at the last." "No, this was better," I told him. "This time I made it count. It's not about brute force." I stood, straddling the bench and put my hands under the bar. "Sure, I could do this..." I let a bolt of juice slam into my body and I yanked the bar off the hooks and snap-curled it. I put too much into it and it sailed out of my hands and over my head arcing just below the hanging light fixtures. I've never seen boys move so fast in my life. As soon as the bar left my hands, Steve, Doug and Roger dove for the farthest point of the room. Doug and Roger picked the same corner and landed on top of each other in a heap. Steve scuttled up against a machine, staring at the bar to make sure no part of him was going to be under it when it hit the floor. Without the time-dilation effect of the trance, I wouldn't have been able to appreciate fully the situation. It all happened in a split-second before the 1500 pound barbell dropped back within my reach and I snatched it out of the air and lowered it carefully onto the supports so I didn't bend the bar out of shape. "...but I'd rather do it the hard way, so I get more out of it." I finished. All three guys were still on the floor, pulling their feet up so they wouldn't be crushed if the weights rolled toward them. They all looked embarrassed when there was no disaster to be avoided. "Fuck!" Roger said, in a solemn tone. "No shit," Doug said. Steve kept quiet. He looked at me reproachfully as he got to his feet, and I felt a pang of guilt at having given in to a fit of exhibitionism. He smiled forgivingly as he came back over to me, though, and I knew he felt bad about letting himself be startled into jumping for cover. I was getting better at reading boys from all this male bonding stuff anyway. Steve's smile became harder, almost animalistic and I could hear him breathing through his teeth. He put his hand around my now-bulging bicep and pulled me away from the weight bench and toward the door. Puzzled, I offered no resistance as he marched me down the hall to ward the locker room. I didn't figure out what was happening until I glanced down and saw the tent his cock was making in his baggy nylon shorts. It looked like the circus had come to town and the Big Top was setting up in Steve's shorts. I knew then that I had found a sure-fire way to turn Steve on. He was a sucker for strong women and feats of strength made him instantly horny. I was being marched into a quiet spot for what I expected would be some intense fucking. The idea of Steve being so turned-on that he would drag me off like a Neanderthal and screw me black and blue set my pussy on fire. By the time we got to the entrance to the locker room, it was a contest of who was dragging whom. I had removed my pussy-pacifier when I dressed-out for the weight room, so all I needed to do was shimmy out of my shorts and pull off my top to get ready. I never got to take off my top. As soon as both our shorts hit the floor, Steve pushed me down on a wooden bench on top of a pile of towels and pulled my legs apart. As soon as it was accessible, Steve speared his cock into my pussy, driving it all the way in with one shove of his hips. I cried out sharply in surprise. He had never been this rough with me before, even when I asked him to. Now, he was out of control. He put all his weight behind his hips as he ground into me, forcing his cock deeper until our pubic bones were grinding together. When he realized that he couldn't get any more in, he pulled back out until just the head was still inside me and brutally drove it into me once more. He grunted, pulled back and did it again. And again. And again. He kept on pounding into me like a wild man, growling and grunting in a fit of lust. He was even more savage than the satyr, who had been more into savoring the moment. Steve was running on pure animal lust and it was contagious. By the fifth or sixth stroke, I was matching him, flexing my stomach to bring my hips up to meet his powerful thrusts. It was great! We both let go more than either of us ever had before. Steve tried to pound my pussy into submission with his cock and I rode him like a bull-rider on a prize mount, anticipating his movements and meeting him halfway each time. Finesse and tenderness were forgotten as the whole experience became one of brutal, urgent fucking. There were no caresses, no kisses, and no loving looks just his steel-hard cock spearing into my pussy with the force of a jackhammer cracking concrete. We got totally lost in the act, becoming more and more violent, until we both had to grab hold of the bench to keep from throwing the other off onto the cold concrete floor. We rutted madly for as long as our stamina held out. I don't remember having a climax. I must have, because I was as high as a kite when we finally wound down. I know Steve came at some point, because of the jizz that flowed out of my pussy, pooled in my anus and dripped onto the towels. I don't think he noticed it when it happened, because he never stopped or slowed down. We just screwed at top speed until we were exhausted and then he collapsed onto me and I wrapped my arms and legs around him, hugging him to me and trying to hold onto his cock with my pussy like I never wanted to let go. When he got enough breath back to speak, he said,"Damn! That was intense!" "No shit," I said, borrowing a crude line from Doug. "Sorry, I think I got carried away there." "Don't be. That was amazing. You were fantastic! I've never been so thoroughly screwed before." We didn't say anything else for a few minutes. We just lay there, holding each other, unwilling to let go, perhaps unable to unbend enough to do so. It should have been embarrassing when Roger and Doug walked in on us, but I was past caring. When they walked past, I just grinned up at them and wiggled my fingers without lifting my hand from Steve's hairy back. They seemed to take the scene in stride. Neither of them said a word. They just stripped, tossed their clothes into their lockers and went into the shower. When the hiss of the jets of water could be heard, Steve chuckled into my ear, "We'd better hit the shower, too". Before I could ask what he thought was funny, he sat up straddling the bench, lifting me with him before I could let go. He put both hands on my back and pressed me against his chest as he stood up and walked toward the shower, carrying me with him, my arms wrapped halfway around his broad back, my legs around his slim waist, and my heels digging into his hard butt. His cock was getting soft, but it was still engorged and still stuck up my slit. "You rat!" I squealed. I almost demanded that he put me down, but I was giddy and the kinkiness of the gag appealed to me, so I decided to see how far Steve was prepared to go with it. Just to tease him, I rippled my abused and nearly numb vaginal muscles, pulling on his cock so it wouldn't slip out. If he was going to hang onto me, I was going to hang onto him. We would see who would give in first. When Steve felt me clutch his cock, he went "Hurmph" and jerked his hips up in a reflexive response to shove more of it into me. I buried my face in his chest hair and purred. This was interesting. I could hold on like this for a long time, and Steve seemed to have little trouble carrying the extra poundage, probably since I contributed less than a third of our combined weight. I fantasized about Steve going about his day with me hanging onto him, his cock always plugged into my pussy. It was nice. If we got him some fat-clothes to hide me, we might even get away with it in places where they didn't know Steve. When Steve stepped into the shower room, there was a pause before Doug and Roger noticed what was up. I couldn't see because of my position, but I heard them when they started to laugh. Both of them laughed a couple of times and then things got quiet again, which was strange, because I thought it would get a bigger laugh than it did. I guessed the sight of a buddy with a girl glued to his chest and his cock in her may have been just one of those quick laughs that dries up when you start to think how much you wish that was you. I thought Steve might put me down at that point, but he went right over to a shower and turned on the water. He turned so I was out of the spray until it warmed up, then he walked into it so we both got wet. Before I knew it, he had doused us with shampoo and was working up a lather on his head, and then mine. This was a game I played regularly in the girls' locker room, but doing it with a cock in me and hanging on to the biggest stud in school while two other studly types watched made it special. Squeezing Steve's cock had forced most of the cum out of me, but the situation made me wet again. With Steve applying soap to both of us, I got pretty slippery inside and out. It occurred to me that he expected me to slide off from all the soap. If so, he failed to take into account my strength and determination. I locked my ankles behind him and held on tight to his waist and his cock, which was coming back to life again very nicely as I clamped my pussy onto it and worked it like I had been doing with the pacifier all morning. I even leaned back and let him wash both our fronts. He paid more attention to mine than his, which was just fine with me. He even managed to reach around and wash his balls, soaping up the base of his cock, which was all that wasn't in use. In the process, he washed my ass, liberally applying the slick lather to my anus, which nearly drove me crazy since I wanted him to stick a soapy finger in there real bad. Polly had turned me on to a new erogenous zone, and I wanted someone to explore it for me. All this was making me seriously horny again and I started to ride up and down on Steve's nice hard cock by rocking my hips forward and back, tugging on it as I did so, trying to get it to give me another dose of boy-cream. Steve rinsed us off and shut off the shower. In the silence, I noticed that we were alone in the room. Steve walked over to the wall between the shower heads and pressed my back against the hard tile. I reached up and grabbed hold of two of the fixtures to take some of the weight off so he wouldn't have to hold me up and was rewarded by feeling him begin to slowly slide his hard cock in and out of me in a very measured, very sensual pace. This time there was touching and caressing. Not by me, I was hanging from the shower-heads, but Steve's hands were all over me, exploring while he slow-fucked me to the point where I was quivering with desire and moaning with each thrust. I was sure each time that the next one would put me over the top. Just when I couldn't stand it anymore and I was about to peak, Steve stopped fucking and just pressed into me, holding me tenderly. I focused on feeling his cock in me, and my reward was to feel it jerk and throb, then pulse stream after stream of cum into the depths of my pussy. It was wonderful, not moving at all, just feeling Steve plant his creamy seed in my body. The sensation tipped me over the edge and with the last throb of his cock, I started to cum. As he had done for me, I did for him. I clenched my teeth and put my head back against the wall so he could see my face as I came and know the effect he had had on me. I let him feel the muscles in my pussy convulse all over his cock, working his cum into froth as it tried to suck it into my womb. I let him feel my cervix, as it bobbed up and down against the head of his cock, looking for more cum to gobble up. Only when we both had finished, did I unwrap my legs from his waist and lower my feet to the floor, letting his cock slide out of me. "Damn!" he said, looking down at his cum-slathered organ. "Looks like I need another shower." With my eyes locked onto his, I shook my head and got down on my knees. Using only my mouth, I sucked and licked every bit of goo off his wonderful cock, making sure I reached every fold of skin and even sucking the last drop out of it before kissing it passionately and standing up again. "Mmmmmm. You do that so well," he said. "Is this a service I can sign up for on a regular basis?" "If you like," I told him, teasingly. "It's only available for very special customers." "I wish we had more time," he said, as we walked out of the shower room to go get dressed. "Me too. Not that this wasn't great, but I'm getting tired of this place. Concrete ambiance and the scent of stale sweat have a limited appeal for me." I looked around the locker room. Doug and Roger were already dressed and gone. Steve and I had a few precious minutes of privacy. I decided to try to keep the playful mood going while I could. "You know, I have a very strong sex drive," I said. "Could have fooled me," he replied in a tone of mock-surprise. He was grinning as he said it. "I mean it's so strong that I have to take steps to keep it in check. Otherwise, I get so hot that I just might boil over." "That would be interesting to see. What steps are you talking about? Jerking off?" "Girls don't have anything to jerk. We frig our clits or rub our nubs. I used to do that every couple of hours. That's tough to work into a busy day. I found something that keeps me happy in between visits from Big Steve here." I stroked his cock through his shorts. "OK, I give. What is it?" "This," I said, taking my pacifier out of my bag and holding it up. Steve looked at it like he had no clue what it was or what I used it for. I waited patiently and saw the light slowly come on in his eyes. "You mean you.... Really?" "I sure do. It gives my pussy something to play with when it can't get hold of a nice hard cock. Would you help me put it in?" "Damn! Are you trying to get me hard again? If you keep talking like this I might be able to go one more time." "I'd love to, but we're going to get caught if we aren't out of here soon. No, I just want you to help me get it in. It's your stand-in, so I thought you might like to do the honors." I handed Steve the shortened toy and lay back on the bench. I slid my tight skirt up around my waist and spread my legs in a blatant invitation. I didn't need to worry about lubrication. My pussy was still pretty wet, even if all of Steve's cream had been hoovered into my womb. It got even wetter as I watched Steve's face light up. He stared at my slit like he had never seen one before. It was funny, but I didn't dare laugh. I spread my knees even wider and felt my labia curl open as they became filled with the blood that was rushing back into my pussy. Steve seemed fascinated by the sight of my pink hole. He just stared at it like he was hypnotized. "Come on," I urged him. "Put it in me." He cleared his throat and said, "I love it when you beg." He sounded sincere, so I slid my hands down the insides of my thighs and stroked them up and down my legs. I whimpered like a dog begging for a treat and said, "Please? Pleasepleaseplease, I need it! Give my hungry pussy something to suck on, please." He looked at me like he wasn't sure if I was play-acting or not. I was obviously having an effect on him. I put my feet on the floor and lifted my butt off the bench. I jerked my hips and looked as needy as I could manage. It wasn't hard to do. I just let out what I was feeling and tried to show him what I wanted in body language. Steve put the big rubber bulb up to my pussy and touched it to me, gently rubbing it up and down my slit to get it slick before trying to push it in. It felt wonderful, but it was unnecessary, and I needed it inside, not out. "Please don't tease me! Give it to me! I need something in my pussy. Please!" I had started out doing this for Steve, but it seemed that everything I thought of to say in play became true as soon as the words were out of my mouth. Steve had better hurry up or I was going to talk myself past the point of no return very quickly. When I pretended to cry and humped my hips up to press against the pacifier, he relented. He squeezed the bulb down to a point and pushed it through my opening. When he let go, it sprang back to full size again and snugged the plastic mouth-piece against me. The sudden feeling of having a void more than filled almost made me cum. My pussy closed around its toy and started playing with it, squeezing it again and again, all on its own. I thought I must have been getting so much of a workout down there that my pussy was developing some kind of reflex that made it constrict around anything it could get hold of. I kept my pussy exposed long enough for Steve to get a good look at how grateful it was. He seemed to be quite entertained by its antics, turning his head this way and that to get a better look. It really did feel like I was sucking on the pacifier, it must have looked that way, too. I lowered my skirt and settled it around my hips again, letting my pussy continue to play with its toy. Once the curtain had come down on the show, Steve looked up into my eyes again. "That may be the hottest thing I've ever seen," he said. I grinned at him. I could never get enough of that kind of praise. I sat up and took one of his hands in both of mine. Eager for more kind words, I waited to see what he would say next. "How about a date? I know that sounds odd, now; but we haven't really had one yet." He surprised me. My answer sounded like I had reverted to being nine years old again, "Oh, wow! Sure! When?" "Friday? Are you free then?" Just in time, I kept myself from bouncing up and down with joy. I did my best to not to sound like a kid and after a few seconds of being sure I was about to burst, a managed to utter a dignified response. "Well, that's the thing. You know I'm sort of 'on call'." He laughed. "Yeah. I know. That's OK. I'll take my chances. If you and Monique need to stick together, we can make it a double-date with her and Jim." That sounded like a wonderful idea to me. Neeka agreed immediately when I mentally asked her about it. "Dad won't be back until Saturday and Mom will be beside herself waiting for him, so an excuse for me to get out of the house will be a blessing," she told me. She even felt sure she could speak for Jim. "Jim will come," she said, flatly. That sounded like a great straight-line, but I suppressed the urge to be a comedienne. "Neeka says she and Jim would love to hang out with us," I told Steve. Steve got a funny look and his eyes darted to the dark corners of the room. "Did you forget that Neeka and I are telepathic?" I said, hesitantly. "Ahh. Right. Of course." He seemed embarrassed to have to have it explained. Then he got this look like he had just thought of something. "Uh, Sam? Do you and Neeka do this mindreading thing with each other all the time. I mean, like..." "Like while I'm enjoying sex with my favorite hunk? Of course. Sharing is one of the perqs." Steve looked like he had been caught on one of those TV shows that trick people into embarrassing situations. He wasn't at all sure how to take having an invisible observer looking over his shoulder. I thought this was strange, because he hadn't been at all shy about things when Doug and Roger were in the room with us. It must have been the possibility of being critiqued on his performance that bothered him. "So when we were...." "Unhunh. When we were trying to screw each other into the ground, Neeka was right there in my head, enjoying it every bit as much as I did. When we're in range, she feels everything that I feel. And vice versa. She thinks you're a great lover, too." She hadn't actually said that, but Steve had no way of knowing it. She must have heard me thinking about her, because no sooner was the fib out of my mouth than she turned it into the truth. I laughed and told Steve, "She says SuperHeroine and SuperStud belong together, but maybe you and Jim would like to trade girls sometime, just for a change." I said it jokingly, which wasn't entirely the way she meant it. Steve wasn't at all sure what to say to that. Somewhere it was engraved in stone that buddies didn't fool around with each other's girls. I was sure it didn't mean that guys didn't think about it, but there was a pretty heavy taboo against doing it. After deciding which would be the safer reply, Steve tried to be diplomatic. "Well, I certainly think Monique is very attractive and sexy and all that, but you are too; and way more than I can handle, besides." It looked like Steve was having a hard time lying credibly about his feelings on this subject. His eyes wouldn't meet mine and he suddenly couldn't sit still. I blurted out something I probably shouldn't have. "So, would you mind if Jim fucked me?" As soon as I said it I thought I had gone too far. This was really putting Steve on the spot, but we had stumbled into a subject that was a lot more relevant than Mr. Wojeski knew and I didn't want to waste the chance to find out if he would be terribly mad if he found out that my home-life was...complicated. "But he's your brother! Oh, that's right. He's not. Not really. Gee, I never thought about it.... Um, well, I guess I wouldn't mind...much." He was looking at me like he sure hoped that was the right answer, because he thought he was going to catch hell for giving the wrong one. I've never been able to shut up before I have followed an idea to the end, and I never know when it's going to get me into big trouble. I asked, "Would it make you hot to watch Jim or Bud fucking me?" Steve looked like I had hit him smack between the eyes with one of the dumbbells. He was totally lost for an answer to my question. There was no middle ground that he could walk with this one. I watched him think about how to wriggle out of answering for a bit, then he gave in and told me what sounded like the truth. "The idea sounds awful and seriously hot at the same time," he said. "I know you are just messing with my head, but that's how I feel about it. The more I think about it though, the more interesting it sounds. If it came to it, I'd probably enjoy it. You can be as much fun to watch as a lot of girls are to fuck. Now let me mess with your head some. How would you feel about you, me, and Monique in bed together?" Now there was an interesting question. It kind of indirectly answered my earlier one. "I think that would be a lot of fun," I told him with a straight face. "What time is good for you?" Steve chuckled. He looked like he thought I was kidding. I wasn't. He stopped chuckling. "You serious?" He asked. There was a faint note of hopefulness in his voice. So much for the 'don't screw a buddy's girl' rule. But I guess I had ruined that by asking the question. Or maybe there was a caveat about it being OK if your own girl was there too. He seemed to only balk at being in situations where there were more guys than girls. "You are not serious?" He asked again, more emphatically. It started as a declaration, but ended as a question. "Don't forget how we got together," I told him. "That was pretty kinky, wasn't it?" "Oh, yeah! That was fun. I didn't think any of you would go through with it. But you did. You all enjoyed it, from what I could tell." "You did, too. Four girls lined up in a row, begging for it in broad daylight. You didn't hesitate. You were ready to go." "Are you kidding? I'd still be kicking myself ten years from now if I'd passed that up!" "So let's not hear any more 'I'm too straight-arrow for this kinky stuff'. OK?" "All right. You win. Yes, it would turn me on to watch you having sex with someone. I'd probably be jealous, but not angry. Like I said, you are very hot to watch. Maybe one day you will do a video." Without realizing it, he had neatly turned the tables on me. I shut my mouth quickly before it could fly open and blab that I already had starred in the nastiest video no one should ever see. My poker face must have failed me. Steve jumped straight to the wrong answer, but the right conclusion. "NO! Is that what this is about? Did you make a home video of you and your brothers getting freaky with each other? OK, I have to see this. Forget what I said about the idea being awful. I really want to see the vid!" This hadn't gone at all like I wanted. It served me right for giving into the urge to mess with people's heads. It served me right for teasing Steve. It was Justice with capital letters for trying to seduce Steve into a foursome with Neeka and Jim. Steve read the guilt on my face and knew there was really was a video. Could I now tell him he couldn't see it? Could I lie to him and say it didn't exist? Could I take the chance and let him watch it? Why had I saved it from the fire if no one was ever going to see it? I was really torn between showing off my acting talent and risking losing Steve because of what I did and what was done to me in that barn. I didn't even know how it looked to the camera because I hadn't seen the darn thing myself yet. "I need to warn you that this video is way past dirty. Nasty doesn't even begin to describe it. This is some seriously illegal stuff, or it would be, if...." Is it really a snuff film if you come back to life in the end? Was I looking for some way to rationalize letting him watch the darn thing? "All right, stop building it up," he said. "I told you, I want to see it. I have to see it. It sounds great! Does it have a plot or is it just you screwing your brothers?" "Jim and Bud are not in it! It's just one scene, but there is a lot that happens," I explained, trying to be vague. I don't know why I was telling him this much. I hadn't decided if I was going to let him see it. Who was I kidding? I had been looking for some pretext for watching it since I snatched it out of the DVD recorder. "It's really raunchy," I said. I was running out of ways to warn him about what was on the disk. "I'm tied up and they torture me. They, ah, do some other stuff to me, too." Yeah, gang rape and murder. Did I really want anyone to see this? Yes, I guess I did. Should I tell him that I die in the end? Maybe I could claim it was a special effect? Technically that was the truth. Or was it? "Don't spoil it for me! Can you bring it with you on Friday?" "I suppose." My head was spinning so much from trying to decide that giving in seemed the simplest thing to do. "Good. My cousin has an apartment over in Wildewood Estates. He lets me borrow it when he's out of town. He's in Miami on business until Sunday, so we can go over there." That was a relief. I wouldn't be risking Bambi walking in at just the wrong moment. I was sure she might be strong enough to appreciate it, if it had been anyone but me in it. I couldn't chance her being in Mom-mode when the knife went in. Bud might still be too immature to deal with it, too. Heck, I was almost too young to be watching stuff like this and I was the star! "Wildewood is a singles complex," I observed. "I've heard stories about parties and stuff. Have you taken your other dates over to your cousin's place?" "Uh, yeah. Some of them." "Hmmm. So this really is an official date." "Yeah. I guess it is. I'm going to take you to a private apartment where girls shrieking and running around naked is normal and after we chat and watch some TV, I'm going to try to get your clothes off and chase you around and make you shriek, too. Does that sound official enough for you?" "Sounds pretty official, all right. I can hardly wait." The four of us alone in an apartment sounded like just what I had in mind in the beginning. Maybe this wouldn't be the disaster a small voice in the back of my head was warning me that it might be. The bell rang then to signal the end of the lunch period. Steve and I ran up to the front entrance of the Gym before anyone could walk in and catch me in the wrong locker room. "Friday. I'll pick you up at 7, OK?" he said. He seemed as eager as I was to finally be going on a real date with me. I nodded and smiled. This was something we both had wanted to do for days, but things kept getting in the way. Just as a bunch of girls and guys started up the steps, Steve leaned over and kissed me right there in front of everyone. It was quick and he ran off immediately to get to his next class, but it left me reeling. I don't know if he had any reason for it other than simple affection, but it sure had a lot of possibilities attached to it. As I walked through the crowd to get back to the main classroom building, I could hear girls whispering. He might as well have given me his class ring, or had my name tattooed on his arm, or spray-painted my name on the nearest highway overpass, or any other of the usual ways that boys announced their interest in girls. This was as good as any of those, because gossip would carry the news all over school by the end of the day. It would confirm any rumors that might have been circulating because Steve and I had been seen together. The significance of it to me was that it meant Steve had no problem letting everyone know that we were involved. Having surreptitious sex in the Gym was fun, but very few people knew about that and they all had reasons to keep quiet. Kissing me in public, even if it was barely more than a peck on the lips, was almost like calling a press-conference and announcing that he was hot for me. As one of the local star athletes, he had to know what it would mean when he did it, even if he were as thick as people assumed all jocks were. That meant he had to have done it deliberately, or else he just didn't care who knew we were together. Either way, it gave me a warm feeling that enhanced the freshly-fucked glow I already had. My English class went by so quickly that I thought I must have dozed off and slept through part of it. When Mrs. Elliott stopped me on the way out the door, I thought she was going to scold me, but instead she complimented me on the last thesis paper I had turned in. She said the quality of my writing had improved quite a bit in the last few weeks. I didn't trust myself to do any more than thank her for the kind words and I got out of there as quickly as I could. I couldn't tell Mrs. Elliott that my writing had improved because I had been wasting some of my study time each day working on a diary that was full of lurid descriptions of my sex life, as well as containing many of my secrets that really should never have been written down. Right now, I'm not comfortable with anyone knowing there is such a document. I've avoided talking about this before now, because I felt that writing about what you are writing while you are writing it fucks up the narrative flow and is as confusing to your reader as this sentence is turning out to be. Mrs. Elliott taught me to look at the papers I wrote from a detached point of view and I have tried to do that here, too. So, if you want to skip over the next few paragraphs to get back to the action, go ahead. Looking back over the rather large number of words that I have, so far, managed to pour into this, I realize that somewhere along the way this 'my story' thing took on a life of its own. It's probably way too long and has too many digressions and lectures and opinions to be readable, even though I did go back and delete almost all of the rants that I went off on along the way. Heavy use of the delete key has improved it considerably, in my humble opinion. Nobody needed to read that load of crud, least of all me. It felt good to get it out of my system, though. Since I am the only person I ever expect to be reading this, I guess in a way this is just a long letter to some future me. Trouble is, I haven't figured out what I need to tell me later in life. (Hi, there! Love ya!) I have no wisdom to pass along. I assume that the version of me that may one day go back and read this will be much wiser than I am now at eighteen. The only thing I can offer is a record of what my life is like and how I feel about it. Perhaps some day I will look back and feel nostalgic about this time. I don't know. If somehow this gets into the hands of someone else, please don't criticize the plot. That is one big advantage that the fiction writers have over us poor diarists they can arrange events to fit the form. All I can do is to write what happened in more or less the order it came about. I plan to keep on doing that, so SFPLLLLT! (How do you write a raspberry, anyway?) As for the large amount of detail I lavish on describing my sex life; well, sex is sort of my favorite hobby. I have a lot of fun doing it and especially trying different things and I hope that some day I will read this and be able to relive all the fun I had. That's justification enough for all this, I think. I had fun doing it and writing about it, so maybe one day I will appreciate being able to experience it again. So here's to you, Sam. Enjoy. Now back to the rest of my day. Gym class was something new. Coach had us dress-out and sit on the mats we usually used for tumbling. She introduced a small man wearing black pajamas as Mr. Morris and told us that he would be teaching us some self-defense moves. Mr. Morris explained that he was an expert in Judo and that what he was going to show us was strictly defensive and should be used only as a last resort in situations where we couldn't run away. I wondered if Sue had got the idea for inviting him to visit the class from me, or if it was something she had arranged in response to a concern for someone else in the class. She had mentioned something before that had made me wonder if one if my classmates might be having problems, but she had only referred to it once. I thought perhaps it was something she had been told in confidence and this was the best she could do to help the situation. After the usual warnings about warming up and stretching, Mr. Morris offered to demonstrate a throw for us. From the way he said it, I figured this would be something flashy, to get our attention and keep it while he taught us something simpler and more useful. When Coach whispered something to him, he looked at me and waved to me to join him and I knew I had been set up. I couldn't be mad at Coach for singling me out; after all, she knew that, of all the girls in the class, I was the one who she could be sure wouldn't suffer any accidental injury while participating in Mr. Morris' demonstration. I could hardly blame her for making a smart decision, so I stepped out and faced Morris on the mat. Morris was the short and wiry type. He was only about 5' 5", so he wasn't all that much taller than me. He didn't have Master Li's presence or his statue-like control, but from the way he stood with his center of gravity always directly over the balls of his feet, I knew he would be almost impossible to catch off-balance. He explained that he was going to show us a hip and shoulder throw that was a favorite move of the movies, but was rarely used in a real situation. He walked me through it step by step, so I wouldn't be surprised and do the wrong thing and get hurt. "Just relax, and go with it, and you'll be fine, Sam," he said. "OK," I told him, smiling a devilish grin. A scene from one of those Hong Kong-made martial arts films flashed through my head. It was the one where the various fighters have a tournament to see who has the best technique. It was full of funny lines like "my Kung Fu is stronger than yours" that were even funnier for being totally out of sync with the lips of the actor. I could hardly claim to be an expert in Kung Fu after only one lesson, but this was a good chance to compare what Mr. Morris did to what Master Li had taught us. After the walkthrough, he came at me full speed, and before I knew it, he had a grip on my arm and I was rolling over his hip and across his shoulder and into the air. Anyone else should have ended up on their face on the mat. That was the end position as he had explained it. But as soon as my feet left the ground, my reflexes took over and I curled into a ball and rotated so that I landed on my feet facing him. Mr. Morris seemed surprised; he cocked his head a little and gave me a brief nod of acknowledgement for having countered his throw. "Very good," he said. "You have excellent kinesthetic reflexes." He looked at me critically. With my figure, I could hardly have been a member of the gymnastics team. "I used to be into Cheerleading," I explained. "We did a lot of tumbling and cartwheels and stuff." "Of course," he said. "All right, would you mind helping me some more with the demonstration? I was going to have your teacher do this, but...." "I'd be happy to," I said. "All right, I'd like to show the class how a simple move can be effective against an attacker. Please come at me as if you are going to grab me by the throat. Don't worry about hurting me; just do your best to grab me." Morris was really asking for it and it was a great temptation to give it to him. I hadn't really had a chance to work with someone who knew how to fight, and the appeal of trying him out was almost overpowering. He assumed his defensive stance and waited for my attack. His hands were away from his body and he was on the balls of his feet. I stood straight and gave him a short courtesy bow before taking the stance Master Li had taught us. My hands were high and low, and lined up in the posture we had practiced. Morris' eyes got that, "Uh oh!" look, like he thought he might have just bitten off more than he could chew, but he waved at me to go ahead anyway. I shuffled forward quickly, swapping hand positions and feinting with my left and striking out with my right to try to grab the lapel of his pajama jacket. Morris turned his body so my grab missed by a couple of inches and faster than I expected, grabbed my arm while it was still extended. Before he could do anything with his hold, I swept my arm around under his, forcing him to let go. I snapped back into my stance and waited to see what he would do. Morris stepped back and said, "A ringer! Sue, you set me up. This girl has been studying Kung Fu. I recognize the style." At least he didn't mention which style, and for that I counted myself lucky. "Sorry, Charles. I thought it would be better if you did your demonstration with someone who had some experience." "Sure. She just surprised me. OK, Sam, let's try that again." "Full speed?" I asked. Morris' hesitation was just long enough to be noticeable. "Sure," he said, and took his stance again. I snapped into position and shuffled forward on the attack. Morris kicked at my leading foot, trying to hook me off balance. I picked it up and threw him a forward kick, which made him retreat a step. When I tried to follow up with a palm-strike to his stomach, he tried to grab my arm again, but I snapped it back and dropped to my hands and threw my own version of a sweep-kick at his legs. He jumped to avoid it, but forward, not back. As I stood up again, he got behind me and got his arm across my chest. I knew what would happen next - he would pivot me over his hip and I would land on my butt on the mat. I should have let it go that way, but pride intervened. I leaned forward against his arm and shoved with my legs, yanking him off his feet and throwing him over my shoulder. As soon as I did it, I regretted it. Using my strength in this encounter, even without applying any power behind it, was cheating. Fortunately, Morris recovered beautifully, rolling to his feet and coming back at me fast, his hands windmilling through the air. Before I could think of how to defend myself, he grabbed my left arm with his right and blocked across my chest with his left elbow pushing me off balance. I had nowhere to go but down and I did so very ungracefully, landing on my ass with a thump. Morris backed away and dropped out of his stance, signaling the end of the brief contest. I got to my feet rubbing my rear, but it was only my pride that hurt. Obviously, I needed more lessons. My Kung Fu was not yet strong, even if I was. Morris bowed to me and I bowed back. The class broke into spontaneous applause. I was about to turn and applaud Mr. Morris too, when I heard Abbie call out "Way to go, Sam!" and a couple of other voices echoed hers. I realized that the class wasn't applauding Morris, they were applauding me. By my reckoning, Morris had won, but the fact that I had held my own for even a few seconds against a professional like Morris was enough to make me the victor in their eyes. When I turned back to Mr. Morris with an apology on my lips, I saw that he was applauding me, too. I looked at Coach, but she only shrugged and smiled. I had to admit that from her point of view, the demonstration had gone better than planned. She now had a group of girls who knew it was possible for someone with a little training to fight back effectively against an attacker. This was an outcome that was much superior to a class that knew a couple of moves, but might be too afraid to use them. I was happy, too. I had managed to keep from using my power, and even though I had slipped and exerted more strength than a girl my size should possess, I had been in control the whole time. After all that, I wasn't even breathing hard. I returned to my place with the class amid a flurry of pats and hugs. Mr. Morris asked for another volunteer to be shown the move he had started to teach me and almost every hand went up. As another girl went up front of the group, I felt someone's breath on the side of my neck, followed by a kiss on my cheek. I turned around to see who it was, expecting to see Polly or Abbie. Instead, it was Dina McClesky, the smart girl from my Algebra class. I reached back to give Dina a pat on the knee, but she was scooting up to sit beside me, so I waited until she was even with me and I gave her a hug instead. I was happy to be able to share some of the solidarity with her. We smart girls needed to stick together. "That was very impressive," she whispered. Somehow her hand found mine and she squeezed it. I squeezed back, companionably, happy to have her indicate her willingness to get closer to me. You can never have too many friends. When her grip didn't slacken after that, a small bell went off in the back of my brain and I wondered if Dina hadn't been trying to communicate something other than her appreciation for showing the class that you could stand up for yourself in the face of physical danger. Or maybe that was the reason, but it had more significance for Dina than it did for the rest of the class. I glanced at Coach Simpson. She was staring at me with an intense expression that could have meant the lunch entre wasn't agreeing with her, or it could mean that she was trying to send me a message about Dina being the girl who was in danger. I wracked my brain for what little I knew about Dina McClesky. Perpetual Honor Roll member, shoo-in for Beta Club membership in her Junior year, quiet, no known boyfriends at least none known to me. She was one of those smart girls for whom schoolwork seemed to be everything. Usually that is the sort who also have perfect attendance records, as well, but I remembered several times this year when she had been missing from our Algebra class. She didn't seem the sickly type to me. Except for the glasses she wore when contact lenses were the universal choice for teen girls whose eyes needed help and a slight tendency to stoop, she was a pretty, brown-haired, hazel-eyed girl. When glanced back at Dina, she was also looking at me with a similar intense gaze and I wondered how long I had been missing all these signals that Dina wanted someone to help her. The time to kick my own butt would have to come later. I looked back at Coach and when I had her eye, I nodded. I stuck up my hand in the time-honored signal for a restroom break and she nodded back, acknowledging both messages. I tugged at Dina's hand to get her to follow me and we crawled through the group to the edge of the mat and then made our way out of the big room and down the hall to Coach's office. As soon as we were out of sight of the others, Dina's hand found mine again and she hung on with a grip that seemed born of desperation, but was presently fueled by hope. I shut the door behind us and pulled Dina over to sit with me on the small couch opposite the desk. Sitting down negated much of the six inches of difference in our heights and made it easier to talk. I tossed tact aside and got right to the subject. "What's wrong, Dina? What's the matter?" I asked. I put out a hand, intending to touch her arm in a comforting manner. She needed more than that. She lunged at me and wrapped her arms around me, hugging me tightly and pressing her face into my neck as she began to cry. While she cried, she sobbed out her problem. It came out haltingly, in bits and pieces, but when I had them all assembled in the right order, it made a picture that turned my stomach. Dina's father had died in a construction site accident several months ago. I remembered hearing about it at the time. The poor man had been buried alive when a trench he was working in caved in on top of him. Despite heroic efforts by his co-workers and the paramedics, he died before they got him to the hospital. Her mother's younger brother had moved in with them after that. The insurance money was being delayed on some technicality and the family needed a breadwinner if Dina and her mother were to keep their house. Being gainfully employed, single, and Family, her uncle Greg was asked to help, and had generously agreed to give up his own apartment to move in with them and help them out. Everything had started out OK. Greg had been a frequent visitor to their house before his brother-in-law's death, and he had seemed to be very fond of Dina, he even played a game with her, grabbing her and tickling her until she couldn't breathe. Dina's parents had thought this was terribly cute, even if Dina had doubts about it being really appropriate behavior for a man who was less than ten years older than she was. They all got along fine for the first few months. Her mother had found work as a receptionist in an office downtown, but the pay wasn't much and the hours meant that Dina and Greg were at home together for several hours each day and much of the weekend. It had only been in recent weeks that the trouble had started. It seemed like accidental things at first Greg leaving his bedroom door open while he dressed and Dina seeing him naked as she walked by. Greg happening to step into the hall just as she came out of the bathroom after her shower wearing a towel. Greg sitting in the living room, watching TV and drinking beer in his underwear, with an obvious erection trying to escape from his briefs, and making no effort to hide it when his niece walked into the room. Dina had tried to talk to her mother about her uncle, but her mother passed it off as just her brother being used to a bachelor's life and told her to try to make allowances, and that she should go out of her way to show her appreciation for his helping them out like this. It had progressed to him walking in on her in the bathroom. Even though she made sure to shut the door as an indication that she wanted privacy, he still barged in whenever he wanted and would stand and urinate into the toilet with her right there next to him. His excuse for this was that she took too much time in their one bathroom and "when a guy's gotta go, a guy's gotta go!" Things had gone as far as Uncle Greg telling her that since he was paying the bulk of the bills now, that he expected certain favors from Dina in return. Sexual favors, as it turned out, meaning a blow job every afternoon before her mother got home from work and almost any other time she was out of the house. The alternative to meeting his demands would be for him to move out, forcing Dina and her mother to lose their house, which he said would mean that they would have to resort to whoring themselves on the street for money, since Dina's mother was unskilled and her job didn't pay a living wage. Dina had given in to Greg. Whenever he wanted, she had sucked his cock as well as she could, even following his instructions to be sure to swallow the evidence each time. He even checked her mouth to be sure she had done so. She had resigned herself to doing this chore for her uncle as her part of the payment for having a roof over her head. At first it disgusted her, but as she got used to it and then got better at it, she began to think of it as an opportunity to learn how to make a potential boyfriend happy. 'Potential' because she apparently wasn't dating anyone. Although she didn't say so, I also got the impression that she had started to enjoy it, too. Her descriptions of the 'disgusting' act were just a little too graphic and detailed about her uncle's cock and how big it was and how it felt and tasted and how quickly it was all over, just when she was about to try some new variation on her technique. The real crisis for Dina had come ten days ago. While she was doing her duty and orally servicing her uncle's cock, he asked her if she was a virgin, which she was. Then he told her that he thought she would look very pretty sitting on his lap with his cock in her cunt. He told her that she wasn't that good a cocksucker and that if she wanted to keep off the streets, she was going to have to find another way to keep him happy. For Dina, this was much worse than the oral sex that she had been coerced into performing. She was terrified that Greg would get her pregnant something he had apparently mentioned in a way that made her think he considered it a desirable outcome and that would mean she would have to quit school, or at least lose any chance at going to college after graduation. Being turned into a sex slave in her own home was apparently something she could accept, maybe even learn to like, but to have her future taken away because of some incestuous fantasy of her uncle's was the worst thing that could happen to a girl who knew that her education was her only chance at having a good life. I knew she hadn't been this forthcoming with Coach Simpson about what was happening to her at home. If she had, Coach would have had no choice but to report it officially and Uncle Greg would now be behind bars and Dina and her mother would be up the creek without a paddle. Involving the police in what could only be described as incest would solve just one part of the problem. The irony was that by confiding this to me, Dina had in fact informed The Authorities about her problem. My badge made me a Law Enforcement Officer and I was going to have to do something about this situation personally or else pass it along to someone who would apply the letter of the law to it. I smiled as I reflected that being the 'spirit', rather than the 'letter' of the law was just the sort of thing I was best qualified to do. I could have a word with Uncle Greg and see if I could reason with him. I hoped his health insurance was paid up. He might be drawing on it soon. "Dina, listen to me," I said, gently prying her off me enough so that I could look into her eyes. "I think I can help you. Or I know someone who can help, anyway," I told her, amending my claim to distance my real identity from something I might have to do later in my other persona. If I kept this up, I was going to be flirting with a split-personality disorder. Her tears had mostly stopped by now, but she was still clinging to me like she very badly needed a warm embrace and a kind voice. The news that help would be forthcoming almost set her off crying again, but I summoned my maternal instincts and kissed the drops from her cheeks. She calmed down some then, but nestled back against me with her head even lower on my chest, somehow getting one hand under my top where it cupped my breast. I tried to keep a cool head while Dina's warm hand made my nipple swell. I tugged on my top see if I could alert her to the fact that she was fondling me without risking embarrassing her and possibly setting her off on another crying jag. Unfortunately, it had the opposite effect. Dina pushed my top up with one hand, exposing my nipple and before I knew what was happening, she had latched onto it with her mouth and started to suckle. The feeling of warmth and love that flooded through me at having Dina revert to babyhood in my arms was intoxicating. I had nursed before, but never someone who needed comforting so badly. The element of need made the experience a totally different one. There was no question of getting her to stop. No consideration for time or that the door wasn't locked and anyone might walk in on us. I was committed to this until Dina decided that she was over her emotional crisis and didn't need me to comfort her any longer. Almost as soon as she had my nipple in her mouth, my glands kicked in and milk began to flow. At her first taste of it, Dina made a happy little sound and curled up with her head in my lap, feeding steadily. I cradled her head as best I could so her neck wasn't at an awkward angle and I stroked her hair. After a moment, I found myself humming to her. It was a moment of bliss that I wanted to cherish for as long as it lasted. While I nursed Dina, I thought about how this maternal act clarified my feelings and my motivation for going into my profession. Here I was, providing the epitome of comfort to someone who desperately needed it. My reward for this wasn't something I would ever be able to adequately describe. It was a bonding, a sharing, a merging with someone at a physical as well as spiritual level. From now on, Dina and I would be connected by this moment. Although physically my peer; from now on Dina would be partly my child. That epiphany settled my mind about how I would view those people I helped. If I defended them; if I saved them or gave them aid or comfort; it would be the same as nursing them and they would become my children. This concept of symbolically adopting those who needed my help meant that I would look at things with maternal eyes from now on. Those who created problems needed to be chastised and their behavior corrected. Their victims needed comfort and support. If I had to hurt someone to get them to stop an antisocial behavior, I wasn't a vigilante running amok, I was a mother administering a needed spanking to get the attention of an unruly child. This put me much more at ease with my moral grounds for breaking bones. If I acted with a 'this is for your own good' approach, and tried to comfort and console wherever possible along the way, my conscience would be clear and I could stop worrying about whether I was abusing my abilities or overstepping any moral or ethical boundaries. I reviewed my actions during my recent adventures and I was pleased to find that wherever possible, I had acted in a manner that was consistent with this philosophy. I had mostly been doing the right thing all along, I just hadn't understood why. The rhythmic sucking on my nipple stopped and Dina opened her eyes and looked up at me. She detached herself from my breast with a trickle of milk running off her chin. It was a terribly cute sight. Dina lifted her head and jerked it away from me with an embarrassed flush rising to her face. She started to stammer an apology but I stopped her before she could begin. "Hush! It's all right. Everything is all right. You're fine. Just relax." I kept stroking her hair and wiped the milk off her chin with my thumb. She untensed, but didn't go back to feeding. I took the opportunity to switch her to the other breast. Dina looked at the nipple I offered her as though she had never seen one before. I expressed a few drops of milk onto my finger and wiped it across her lips. She licked it off immediately and I marveled at having just done something that nursing mothers must have done instinctively since the dawn of the human race. I hadn't felt so human in a long time. "Go ahead," I told her when she still hesitated. "You don't want to leave me lopsided, do you?" Dina self-consciously put her lips around my nipple and looked up into my eyes as she started to suck. Doing it deliberately made her clumsy at first, but then instinct took over and she latched on firmly and went back to feeding. This time, she was aware of what she was doing. I could see in her eyes that she was enjoying it, but now that she was over her outburst she felt uncomfortable about having her mouth on the breast of a classmate, and a relative stranger as well. It didn't seem to affect her appetite, though. She kept on sucking and swallowing until she had had her fill and she let go. "Feeling better?" I asked as she stared at the nipple she had just been sucking. There was a drop of milk left and she licked it off rather than see it go to waste. "I feel like I've eaten a whole quart of ice cream," she said, still lying comfortably in my lap. She stared at my breasts and asked herself if she had really just done what she thought she had. "What flavor?" I asked. The question seemed to puzzle her for a second. "French Vanilla," she said. "There seems to be a split of opinion between that and Butter Pecan," I said. "But without the nuts, of course." "Of course," she echoed. Then she laughed. "I'm sorry. This is weird." "No it's not," I said confidently. "It would be hard to think of something more natural." "You're not uncomfortable with this..." she said, unable to describe the situation. "No. In fact, I'm very comfortable with it. Are you sure you've had enough? There is plenty more where that came from. Or I can just rock you for a bit, if you'd like." "Just hold me like this, please. I haven't felt this good in weeks. Or longer." I pulled her back against my breast and she went back on my nipple by reflex. I felt her tonguing it and then she just settled back with it between her lips. Every few seconds she would give it a suck and then roll it idly between her lips. After a couple of minutes, she said, "You really don't mind this?" "Really," I assured her. "I'm enjoying it as much as you are." "That's good, because I was going to ask you if you wouldn't mind if we did this again sometime. I feel so warm and safe and happy right now that I couldn't stand the thought of never feeling this way again." "Whenever you need me, I'll be there for you," I assured her. This maternal thing was becoming easier for me all the time. "You're wonderful," she told me. "This is just what I needed." She sat up and looked at my breasts. She put out her hand and felt the closest one. She seemed fascinated that mine actually worked and that I didn't seem to mind her playing with them. "Can you really help me?" she asked, flipping my rings up and down. It was making me crazy, but I wasn't about to tell her to stop. "Where does Greg work and what time does he get home?" I asked, moving on to practical matters. I didn't want to have to invent any lies to tell Dina, so it was best if I avoided her questions. She gave me all the details I needed to know. I got her to promise to go to the library and stay there for at least two hours after school before going home. That should give me plenty of time to 'reason' with him and make sure the ambulance was gone before Dina got home. Dina finally got bored with my rings and I pulled my top back down to signal that playtime was over. She continued to stare at me like she had never seen anything like me before in her life. "What?" I asked, unable to stand the suspense. "I'm sorry. I'm just feeling something that I can't put into words. This is going to sound really weird, but I think I love you." "I love you too, dear." I said it without thinking, without pausing. It was what you said to a child to reassure her that you would always be there for her. Dina beamed happily. She looked like a toddler, full of unalloyed joy; or maybe that was just my new perspective on things. Whichever, she was a different person than she had been just thirty minutes earlier. The office door opened and Coach Simpson stuck her head in. "Everything all right?" she asked. "We're fine," I told her. "Everything is going to be OK now." "That's good," Coach said. She didn't press for details and I didn't have to evade her questions. I had the impression that she might have deduced more about Dina's situation than she had been told, and she had been anxious about asking someone to help for fear of violating a confidence. "The period is almost over. You two had better get dressed." Dina bounced off the couch and practically skipped out the door and down the hall. Coach held out her hand to keep me from following, but I had already assumed that she would want to have a private work with me, or vice versa. "I saw you on TV yesterday," Coach said. That covered a lot of ground very quickly. I reflected that she hadn't had to do any higher math than 1+1 to figure out the identity of the small green-grey figure that had killed the Main Battle Tank. She had already seen what I could do to the standard Detroit product. Come to think of it, I had shown her my makeup, too. "What can I say? The camera loves me!" I was giddy and happy. Dina's playfulness had rubbed off on me, too. "You are amazing." "Stop, you'll turn my head." "What did you do to Dina? She's like a different person." "I cuddled her and gave her some dessert. She's just having a hyperglycemic fugue," I said in a fit of brilliance. "But she feels better now. I told her I knew someone who could fix her problem." "I bet you do!" My medical explanation must have thrown her a bit. She didn't ask what I fed Dina. "Trust me. You don't want to know what that girl has been putting up with at home." "Must be worse than I thought, then." She seemed relieved that Dina hadn't told her everything "Let's just say I'm going to enjoy this," I said through my best Evil Grin. "You're right. I don't want to know." "You should be ashamed of yourself, setting me up with Mr. Morris," I said, changing the subject. "I did that before I knew. Sorry. Who should I have warned? 'Ed, this girl might rip you in half.' 'Sam, please don't hurt the Judo Master.'" "You're right. But it worked out anyway." A flash of inspiration hit me. "Did Ed hit on you?" "How did you know?" "He seems like your type handsome, fit, confident." "Maybe I'm not his type." "Let's see. Gorgeous and built like a Greek Goddess? You're everybody's type. You quit wearing a bra, didn't you?" "Yes, I did. I tried to put one on after walking around without one for so long and I couldn't stand it. Does it show?" "Beautifully." "That's not what I meant." "OK, under that t-shirt? Yes. Do mine show?" "Ha! Of course!" "Why 'of course'?" "Well...ah, you are so much more...." "My tits are bigger?" "Crudely put, but accurate. But you carry them so well." "That sounds like a compliment for Quasimodo: 'Does he have a hump?' 'Yes, but he carries it so well!'" "That's not what I meant!" "I know, I couldn't resist." "Sam, there are busty girls; there are girls with large breasts; there are girls with huge knockers; and then there's you." "So I'm in a class by myself." "I think that is completely accurate," she laughed. I saw the joke immediately. "Oops, I walked into that one." "Why are you worried about this, Sam? Your figure is stunning. Your bustline is large, but you have the personality to match it." "Gee, I dunno. Why are you?" "Hunh? Well, I...." "Gotcha! Sue, it's mind over matter." "'If you don't mind, it don't matter.' Yes, I've heard that one. I guess I just don't have the self-image that goes with this body. I look in the mirror and I expect to see what I looked like when I was 16." "You need to look in the mirror more. Preferably with your clothes off." "You think that will help my self-image." "No, but it will boost ticket sales at the peephole I've cut in your wall." "You goof! I love talking to you. It's like I haven't aged a day since I was your age." "You haven't. You just got better looking. Now deal with it. Did you agree to go out with Ed Morris?" "Yes. He's taking me out to a supper club this Friday. I don't know what I'll wear." "As little as possible." "I knew you were going to say that." "Sorry, but you've sentenced yourself to years of community-service. Get out there and show them what 'hard-body' means." "All right. I will. Maybe I'll find out if Ed's body can live up to his mouth." "Bragger, hunh?" "He made some promises about what he could do for me." "Really?" "Nothing you haven't already done, by the way." "I told you, find a big one. They're better." "I'm looking. But remember, anything is going to be big to me. Maybe I should start small and work my way up." "That's one approach. I'm jealous, by the way." "Of me, why?" "You have no idea how good you're going to feel." "It's that good?" "Oh, yeah." "I'd love for you to tell me all about it, but you'd better run. It's time for the bell." I gave Sue a hug and a quick kiss and ran for the locker room. It had been the most relaxed Gym class I had had in some time, so I didn't need a shower. I just changed clothes and ran for Math. I was there right on time. It's remarkable how punctual you can be if you wear the minimum amount of clothing and you don't have to spend forever touching up your make-up. Math was a stultifying rehash of everything I already knew in preparation for a quiz that I could have passed the week before. I wondered if I wasn't overdoing the studying. Who was I kidding? I was hooked. I didn't know what I was someday going to need to know I could only guess at a few things that I wouldn't and I soaked everything up like a sponge. It had become a compulsion. I was ahead in every textbook I had, even with those nights that I hadn't been able to study. I had a pile of library books that I had checked out and whizzed through so quickly that I was ashamed to take them all back so soon. I had found a few instances where the books disagreed with each other on matters of verifiable fact, which meant that some of them were wrong. The idea that books, especially textbooks, could be wrong shocked me. The things they were wrong about were things that could and should have been checked before the book was printed. If I hadn't been looking for better explanations of things that I was fuzzy on, I never would have discovered the discrepancies. Even scarier was that none of my teachers had pointed out the errors when we went over that material. I had wrestled with whether I should bring this up in class, point it out to my teacher in private, or just keep my mouth shut and let the class learn things that were wrong, but would help them pass the tests that must be equally wrong, because they were based on the misinformation in the books. I still hadn't made up my mind about what to do. Was I being overly critical? In the long term, did it matter all that much that some bad data got into the system? Surely these mistakes would be unlearned at some point, probably there would be a course in College on Stuff Your High School Textbooks Got Wrong 101. Math was the one exception to this. Because everything in a Math book can be checked by your own calculations that is the point, after all there is less chance of errors going undetected past the first printing. The first time someone checked their answer against the book and found it different, the jig would be up. I like Math because it is so beautiful and clean and pure. I used to hate it. I don't remember why. I suppose because it used to be hard before I took the time to understand it. There is something profound in that. I'll work on digging it out later. After school, Neeka and I met at her car. She already knew where we were going and why, of course. "Are you sure you want to do it this way?" she asked. "Remember what happened last night when you went out in the buff?" "Vividly. Thank you. But this is essential to the effect. I want to reinforce the message with a little aversion therapy." "It's your skin." "Very funny." I wouldn't say that Dina's house was in a bad part of town, but it was on the border between 'don't go there at night' and 'don't go there at all'. I wanted to believe that if she were forced to leave there, she would get to go to a better neighborhood, but I couldn't justify taking that chance. I was here to make it possible for her to stay and not be molested by the man who was supposed to be making that happen. Neeka's car was dusty enough and old enough to fit right in. She parked a half-block away and I walked back to the house, trying to look like just another schoolgirl coming home, dragging her bag of books. I walked up the short driveway to Dina's house and around to the side door. The key was in the flowerpot, right where she said it would be. I let myself in, replaced the key, and went looking for Dina's room. I had no trouble finding it. It was small, cramped, and crowded with all her stuff. It looked almost exactly like my room did when I lived with Yvette. The closet in my bedroom now was larger than Dina's whole room. I had to take a minute to remember what it was like before I went to live with Mrs. Reynolds and then I tried to remember if I had told her how much I loved her before I left for school. When I got the nostalgia out of my system, I closed the blinds and shut the curtains as far as they would go to make the room as dark as possible. I got out of my clothes and stashed them and my bag behind a chair in the main room. I crawled into Dina's bed, arranging the sheets so one naked leg was poking out in clear view of the door. Then I settled down to wait for Uncle Greg. It wasn't a long wait. Within fifteen minutes, I heard Greg's pickup wheeze to a stop out front. The door slammed and he came in the same way I had. I heard him come down the short hallway and stop to peer into the darkened room. I knew he had seen my leg when I heard him go, "Mmmm. Lazy bitch is taking a nap after a hard day of school." After a series of thumps that I assumed to be his boots and workbelt hitting the floor, followed by the bedroom door being closed, I felt a hand on my leg, sliding up the inside of my thigh. He groped me all the way up to my groin before he grabbed my leg and shook it, saying, "Come on darlin' time to pay the rent. Get that sweet mouth over here and suck my cock before I decide to give you that fucking I know you're craving. Shit, maybe I'll just fuck you anyway and pump a load of baby-juice into you. How'd that be? I'd just love to see you waddling around with your belly and tits all swoll-up." When I didn't move, he did what I expected. He yanked the covers off of me. It wasn't the climax I expected. I had made the room dark so that he wouldn't immediately know I wasn't Dina, but with the blinds closed and my dark skin pigment, he wouldn't be able to see me clearly until his eyes adjusted to the low light. I used the time to extend my scaly skin-job down the one leg that I had deliberately left a natural flesh tone and to check out Uncle Greg. From the filthy t-shirt that was all he had on at the moment, and the pile of dirt-caked clothes behind him on the floor, I figured that Greg worked in construction, like his late brother-in-law. His job must not involve a lot of heavy lifting, because his chest and arms were downright skinny. The only bulge on him was the paunchy start of a beer-belly that would eventually shade the cock that he held in his right hand. While my experience with cocks was limited, and somewhat biased by what I knew were a couple of extraordinary specimens, I thought that Greg's must be on the small end of the scale. Instead of fisting it with his whole hand as I had seen Bud do, and as I had enjoyed helping him with both of my small hands wrapped around his magnificent shaft, Greg was only able to wrap his thumb and middle finger around what I saw was a fully-erect organ. It looked so tiny that I wondered if his threats to make Dina pregnant had even been realistic, or if they were just part of his warped fantasy/power-trip. Rather than stare at his disappointingly small equipment, I watched Greg's eyes. I could see the pupils dilate when they were able to finally focus on what was in his niece's bed. Where he had expected to find a helpless, cowed young girl, instead he discovered his worst nightmare. "FUCK!" he screamed, in voice that broke in mid-syllable. He turned to run out of the room, but I had anticipated that and I was right behind him and pushed him in the small of the back, slamming him into the door before he could pull it open. He bounced back and clawed for the doorknob. I tapped him lightly just under each kidney and he made a retching sound and slumped to his knees, falling forward with his face against the door. All the fight was drained right out of him. I took his arm and dragged him back to the bed, where I picked him up and tossed him like a rag-doll onto the mattress. "Noooo!" he managed to moan through clenched teeth. I climbed on top of him, straddling his legs and looking down at him. The light from the partly-open curtains made my scaly green skin clearly visible to him in the dim light of the room. He looked up at the hideous monster pinning him to the bed and his expression was of such absolute fear that it was almost piteous. Dina had told me that he spent most of his free time on his butt in front of the TV, so I was pretty sure he had caught my appearance on the tube and he knew just who I was and what I could do. To make things even more personal for Greg, I forced his legs apart so I could get to them, then I reached out to grab his balls. He was very quick to cover them, and his poor excuse for a cock, with his hands. "Take your hands away or I will break every one of your fingers," I told him. He considered for a moment and then snatched his hands away, folding them like a mantis on his chest. I put one hand under his ball-sack and cradled the fruit of his manhood. I had planned this part carefully, but now that it was here, I thought it needed some embellishment. "Please don't!" Uncle Greg whined. That gave me an idea. "Don't what?" I asked. Surely he couldn't be that stupid. He was. "Don't eat my balls!" I almost burst out laughing. Greg had told me his greatest fear and I thought it was the funniest thing I had heard all week. I smiled in spite of my attempt to keep my face still. The sight of my white teeth, in the middle of the Dragon's face, must have convinced Greg that I was about to do the thing he dreaded most. "Eeeeeeeeee!" he screamed. It was in a key well above high C. I was sure that dogs for miles were covering their ears to keep out the piercing sound. I had to shut him up. Not to keep his screams from being heard by the neighbors I was certain that everyone in this neighborhood belonged to Mind Your Own Business rather than the Neighborhood Watch but because he was hurting my sensitive ears with that awful wailing. I closed my hand around his balls and twisted. Greg sucked air and became instantly quiet. He was convinced that he was seconds away from castration, followed by cannibalism. Even though the pain was making his eyes cross, he remained perfectly still and attentive. It was time for my pitch. "I'm going to give you one chance to keep your balls, Greg." I didn't bother trying to sound menacing. It would have been overkill. I let him absorb the concept that there was a way out of this for a few seconds, then I went on. "Your sister and your niece need you. They need you to pretend to be a man until they can get back on their feet. A man shoulders his responsibilities without trying to extort sex from the people he is supposed to protect. You need to decide if you are a man or not. Because if you are not..." I squeezed his balls for emphasis "...if you are not, then you won't be needing these!" My pitch was interrupted by a stream of urine jetting from Greg's penis. It showered his chest and splashed his face and he seemed unable to stop it. I waited until nature had run its course before I went on. I knew I had his complete attention. "In case you hadn't noticed, Greg, I'm a female." I shook my breasts unnecessarily and his eyes dropped to see the action. "And females of all species stick together. If I have to come back here again, I won't be leaving without a snack." I wanted to give his balls a last sharp twist, but after seeing his bladder let go, I decided that I had done enough to poor Greg. I climbed off the bed and walked to the door. "Don't even think of running away, Greg. There isn't a hole deep enough for you to hide in if you run. I'll find you. And when I do, I won't stop at your balls." I wasn't completely sure what I meant by that, but Greg was. The musty stink that suddenly filled the room told me that another of Greg's sphincters had let go. "And wash those sheets!" I said as I pulled the door shut behind me. I dressed quickly and left immediately. When I got outside, I was me again. I walked casually down the block and around the corner where Neeka could pick me up out of sight of the house. "Well, that was disgusting," Neeka said as she drove back to the main road. "If he had pissed on me, I would have ripped his balls off," I said, emphatically, but not really meaning it. "I think he thought you would anyway. All the same, that's not the disgusting part. It's knowing that there are people like that who walk around on two legs and claim to be men." "Maybe Greg will turn over a new leaf," I said, but not very hopefully. I really didn't want to have anything else to do with the scum, not even to eat his balls. To improve our mood, Neeka and I traded testicle recipes for the rest of the drive down to River Street and our visit to Xaiolong Li. A couple of hers didn't sound all that unappetizing. I had found from exposure to Mom's cooking and her taste in restaurants that if you saut something in garlic butter, I can eat it. It was the type of testicles that we were unsure about. Would a couple of big juicy ones taste better, or should you prepare a dish of several small pea-sized balls instead? I thought that the big juicy ones would probably taste better, but that it would be a shame to sacrifice a nice pair like that for one meal, even if you allowed for the leftovers. It would be much better to keep them in production, so that their output could be enjoyed over a longer period of time and in a wider variety of ways. "Are you turning into a connoisseur of cum?" Neeka asked. "Well, yes. I suppose I am. The flavor is certainly unique, and probably not to everyone's taste, but I like it. I know a lot of girls who think it's horribly yucky stuff, but if it's fresh and hasn't been sitting around getting yellow and stale, it can be very tasty." "Would you suck a guy off just to taste his cum?" "It depends on the guy, of course. If I'm attracted to him and he turns me on...sure. I'd do it. I think I already did that with Ron Majors, but that was more of a mercy-masturbation and I didn't get a very good taste." "Would you suck off a total stranger just for his cum?" "Now you're getting kinky." "This isn't already kinky?" "Maybe a little. It depends on how turned on I was at the time. Get me hot enough and I'll do pretty much anything." "How well I know! But don't make this sexual. We're talking about eating cum, not how you get it out of the guy." "For me, it's all part of the experience. I don't know if I'd want to microwave a plastic packet of cum, just to taste it. I'd want to get to know the balls it came out of first. I'd want to milk it right out of the cock myself to suck it hot and fresh, straight from the source. I'd want the guy to see me do it, to know that I appreciated what he had given me." "Would you rather he came in your mouth, your pussy, or just sprayed it all over your boobs?" "Yes." "Yes, which?" "Yes, any of the above. OK, if we're still talking about from a gourmet point of view, then he'll have to cum in my mouth obviously. Being sprayed with it is nice in certain circumstances. Isn't it a myth that cum is good for your skin?" "Don't tell any boys this, but I checked into this, and yes, it is actually good for your skin. It works better if you mix it with real skin cream so it penetrates, but there have been a lot of girls whose skin cleared up after they let their boyfriends cum on them." "Whoa! I see a new business starting up real soon!" "How many cums to fill an 8 ounce bottle?" "Oh. So much for my delusions of getting rich before I'm 21. It would have been fun to visit the factory floor, though. All those hunks yanking away, straining to meet their quotas...." "Or you could hire girls to do it for them. It would be a nice part-time job." "Carpal tunnel syndrome," I warned. "All that repetitive stress." "Yeah. Too bad. Have to use machinery. Strap them down and suck them dry. Then move on to the next one." "I still prefer the old fashioned method." "The collection bottle between your legs?" "That's my favorite. There's nothing like having your pussy flooded with hot cum. It just feels so good to have a nice hard cock pumping away in me, filling me up... Hold on a minute. I need something from my bag." "Do you want me to stop?" Neeka asked. "No, keep going. I can reach it." I squirmed between the seats and reached into my bag. When I squirmed back I had my pacifier in my hand. Seconds later, it was back in place, keeping my pussy happy. "Mmmmm," I moaned. "I'm glad you taught me this. It helps a lot." We had stopped at a light. "Show me," she said. I pulled my skirt up and spread my knees as far as I could in the small car. I tilted my hips so she could see how my pussy was contracting repeatedly on the rubber bulb, looking for all the world like it was sucking away at the big pacifier. "Steve said that's the hottest thing he'd ever seen," I bragged. "It's surely high on my list," Neeka said, putting the car in gear and driving on. She kept glancing over my way, so I tried to give her a good show. I put my hands over the top of the tall car-seat and held my butt in the air while I tried to tear the pacifier apart using my vaginal muscles. I think I was getting to her because she kept having to jerk the wheel to keep the car from veering out of her lane. I know I was having a lot of fun and giving my pussy a good workout at the same time. We pulled up in front of the old factory all too quickly. I tugged my skirt back into place and sat back down. "Are you going to be able to calm down?" she asked. "Or should we wait a while before going in?" I was panting like a dog in the hot sun. I hadn't cum, but I can't say why not. My pussy was twitching and my clit was stiff and still swelling. I felt wonderfully light-headed, like I had run several laps and was just getting my second wind. "No, I'm OK. I'm a lot better than OK, actually. Let's go." We got out, and I skipped to the door with Neeka following behind me. Inside, we were met by one of Master Li's assistants - whom I suspected were all close relatives of his who showed us into a room that was hung all over with brocade banners with Chinese pictographs on them. It took me a minute to figure out that they were the equivalent of trophy cups from various competitions. There was a large wooden desk at one end of the room, so I assumed that this was Li's office. We had only been waiting for a few seconds when Master Li himself strode in. He was moving at a much more brisk pace than I remembered from our lesson the previous week. I hoped we weren't interrupting something important. "Welcome," he said. Then he paused. I wasn't sure if it was for effect, or if he was mentally translating something to say. I spoke up before he got a chance to say it, though. "We want to apologize for missing class yesterday," I told him in a respectful tone. The man just oozed power and presence. I couldn't help being deferential, even though my head was buzzing and I felt like giggling. "We had something urgent come up," Neeka explained. "We hope you will let us make up the lesson." "Do not concern yourselves," he said. By which I think he meant, 'don't worry about it'. "I understand that you have...obligations. You may make up the lesson you missed should you choose to do so." I spotted the partly open door of a largish entertainment center behind a screen of colorful banners. I pulled them back so Neeka could see the TV and video recording equipment. "He saw us on TV," I said, understanding why he was being so courteous. "I recorded it and I have watched it many times," he said. "I cannot say the words to express how impressed I am." I though this was being a little too inscrutable. "Why not?" I asked. "Because the words are 'Holy Shit' and my momma taught me not to cuss in mixed company." "You're not from China." "San Francisco. My Chinese is pretty good, for not having been used much since High School. My Kung Fu credentials are impeccable, though. In case you were wondering." "I wasn't. I nearly beat Ed Morris this morning, using what you taught us." "I know Ed. He's not as good as he thinks he is." "Spoken like a true competitor." He laughed at that. "Only in business. We have separate competitions. The different martial arts only get together for exhibitions. But I have seen Ed fight. He favors his right leg. How did you lose to him?" "You mean, why isn't he a greasy spot on the floor somewhere?" "Yes." "He came to teach some defense moves to my Gym class. I only got to spar with him briefly." "You must be finding that control you were looking for." "I have a way to keep from demolishing everything I touch. I need to do better, though. I worry about hitting too hard." "I understand." He paused again and I suddenly understood why he kept doing it. "OK, you ask me one and I ask you one." "Deal," he said. "How do you do the thing with your skin? That's not makeup." "I have almost total control of my body, down to the cellular level. I just move the pigment around to make the design. How do you keep so still? That would drive me nuts!" "Lots of practice. It's a psychological edge. It intimidates people. Old Chinese trick." "Right." "Look, I'd give my right arm to work with you. You are a dream come true for anyone in this business." "You can't tell anyone about me." "I understood that last week. We're still finding pieces of that board. No, I don't want to exploit you; I just want to work with you. You are the ultimate student." "Not 'apprentice'?" "I'm not going to patronize someone with your abilities. It's going to be quite a challenge for me to find a way to work with you without getting killed. It's a good thing you have a partner." "She has her uses." I got ready to duck as soon as I thought of saying that. It was a wise move. Neeka slapped at me and I bent over to avoid her hand. "Don't bend," Li said. "Just flex your knees or move your feet to avoid a blow like that. When you bend over, you are shifting your center and allowing your opponent to influence you without making contact. It is important to remain centered at all times. Otherwise you will blow away in a stiff wind. Come with me. I will show you what I mean." He led the way into a back room and we spent the next hour working on how to stay centered and in control while in a fight. At the end of it, I felt like I had made considerable progress. I could move and be instantly ready to attack or defend. "It is a mistake to think that you can learn the fundamentals and then move on to more advanced things," Li told us. "Fundamentals are the most important thing. You must work on them every time you practice." "When do you want us back?" I asked as we were getting ready to leave. "As often as you can come. I will be available anytime you need me. You are the most important work I have." "You are being very generous." "No. I'm not. I have two grandchildren who attend Southside Elementary School. This is both an opportunity I will not miss and a debt I will not fail to repay." "How's three o'clock Tuesdays and Thursdays?" "Then I will see you both next Tuesday." I still thought Master Li was being awfully accommodating in telling us we could show up anytime we wanted. Lots of people had kids that went to Southside or Ringling. They were the newest and biggest schools in the county. I wondered if all of the families of those kids were going to think they owed me. "Don't they?" Neeka asked, eavesdropping on my thoughts. "What? Owe me for doing something that had to be done? I didn't do them a favor. I did it because someone had to and the 'someone' turned out to be me...us. I don't want everyone thinking they owe me for doing this. I don't want their gratitude." "There are going to be a lot of people who don't see it that way. Given the chance, they are going to want to express that gratitude." "You're saying I should smile and be gracious about it?" "Yes. Is that so hard?" "No. I want to help people. I enjoy it. It makes me feel wonderful when I get to make a real difference in someone's life. Saving a life is the biggest rush I know of. They don't need to thank me, too! That's just so embarrassing." "Gee, you've got it tough." "Oh, hush. I know what you're saying. I should be noble about it and let them thank me and fawn all over me. I think I understand why Heroes don't stick around afterward. They don't want to have to listen to the 'thank-you's'. Disappearing afterward is a necessary part of the job." "So is Public Relations. Dad runs into this all the time. When he gets back from a trip, he tells us these horror stories no names, but we usually know who he's been working for about people who get themselves in trouble because they forget that no matter how important or powerful they are, they can't ignore what the public thinks." "All right. I'll try to be noble and gracious." "Just say, 'Happy to be of service'." "And then leave before they try to give me the key to the city or something?" "Don't think they won't try." "Oh, no!" Neeka turned out to be clairvoyant. I had just walked into the house when Mom told me that Sheriff Foster had called. "More trouble? Do I need to call back?" "Not today, thank heavens. No, he was very apologetic about it, but he promised he would pass several messages along to you. I think you may want to sit down for this." I followed her downstairs with a sinking feeling in my stomach. When we were comfortable on the sofa, she held up a small pad and started to read her notes. "Every TV station, radio station, and newspaper in the lower part of the state wants to interview you. Several civic groups want you to speak to them. The PTA, the Chamber of Commerce, the DAR, the Kiwanis, the VFW, Rotary, Civitan, American Legion, and Scout Troop 43 have all expressed an interest in having you attend one of their meetings." "Scout Troop 43?" "Apparently you are a big hit with the 14-and-under male demographic." "Of course! The comic book readers." "Yes. Like Mr. Morton, they are probably your biggest fans." "Oh, no! I have fans?" "You have no idea. You've been in school most of the day. You haven't seen what's been going on." She handed me the front section of the newspaper. My picture filled half of the front page. Neeka's wasn't much smaller. The article was a bunch of questions for which, fortunately, the reporter had few answers. That was probably why the pictures were so big. The only thing they had managed to turn up so far was our involvement in thwarting the robbery of the grocery store. "Wow!" "Mr. Morton called, too. The dear man was positively bubbling over with excitement. He said to tell you he has a design for a second suit for you with some improvements that he wants to show you whenever you can come into his shop." "A second suit sounds like a good idea. I didn't know I would be this busy when he made me the first one or I would have asked about that. We'll go see him tomorrow after school. Neeka wants him to have a design put on her jacket, too." "Hmmm, he will probably have some ideas to improve her costume, too. I hope he isn't neglecting his other customers because of this." That sounded suspiciously like Mom had asked Mr. Morton to make her a swimsuit to wear this weekend and she wanted to make sure it was ready on time. With his quick turnaround, anything was possible, and surely a skimpy swimsuit would not take all that long to put together. If she had recruited professional help, maybe I needed to reconsider my decision to go easy on Bambi in our 'most daring swimsuit' competition. "Mr. Morton isn't the only one going out of his way on my behalf." I explained How Master Li had pledged his personal attention anytime I wanted, and why he felt obligated to do that. "I don't think people should feel that they have to pay me back," I explained. "Neeka thinks I should just put on a happy face and go with the flow." "She has a point, honey. You may think that your reasons for doing this are sufficient, but people are going to feel the way people are going to feel and there isn't much you can do to change that. But I'm not the most objective person to talk to about this. What I owe you can never be fully repaid." "Oh." I had forgotten that Mom would be on the side of those who felt they owed me something. That reminded me that I owed her quite a lot, too. In one way or another, we all have, or feel we have, obligations to others, either individually to our friends and family or collectively to our neighbors or to our country. Those who don't feel these obligations are either terminally antisocial or are true menaces to society. I felt I had a duty to use my abilities for the common good. It was something I had to do if I was going to be able to live with myself. I certainly didn't intend to obligate anyone to repay me all my jokes about the low pay and the perqs of the job were just that jokes. The idea of billing people, of being a Heroine for Hire, put a bad taste in my mouth. Gratitude just seemed so cloying and saccharine. Mom's point that, regardless of what I wanted or thought, people were going to have their own feelings about whether they should be grateful for my help was something I couldn't argue about. I didn't want gratitude. Neeka said I should accept it gracefully. And Mom said there wasn't much I could do about it one way or another. To continue to refuse the thanks that would probably continue to be offered would only hurt people's feelings, and I surely didn't want to do that. It looked like I was being forced to be noble about this despite my feelings on the subject. Neeka's comment about PR being a necessary evil certainly not her words, but my opinion struck a chord. We did need to manage the public's perception of what we were doing, or at least try to present the face that we wanted them to see. I remembered our ride through the most tree-lined streets she could find so we could get home without being followed by the TV station's helicopter. The people who came out of their houses and waved at us may have been saying thank-you as much as they were gawking at the funny-looking girls on the monster motorbike. At the time, I had been preoccupied with whether we were going to be able to evade the media to appreciate it, but that had actually been a nice moment. I wondered what people would have said, if we had stopped to talk. Maybe if we could do something like that again and talk to some regular folks to see how they felt about The Dragon and Ace I could get past my aversion to having people feel they were indebted to me. During dinner, we all talked about what we had heard people saying and how many seemed to be saying it. Some of the things were predictable and some were pretty outrageous. The Space Alien theorists seemed to be the smallest group to share a common opinion. After them came the Secret Government Experiment believers. I suppose this was somewhat more credible than being a Space Alien, but not much more flattering to think you had been bred in a test tube than to have been born on Venus. The next largest group was certain the whole thing was a hoax and that it was only a matter of time before someone exposed it as such. I thought that this group probably included those who were just unwilling to accept anything outside their own narrow world-view and were desperate to hear that "there ain't no such animal" after all. The biggest group seemed to be those who were willing to accept what they saw at face value, and had open minds about who or what I was. This was the group that thought we were cool and who wanted to have us come talk to whatever organization they belonged to. I was very relieved to hear that the number of people who were demanding that I be routed from my lair and burned at the stake as an abomination was extremely small and no one was taking them seriously when they managed to get a forum for their views. After dinner I went in to watch the local TV news with the rest of my family. Mom sat down on the sofa and I sat down beside her. Jim sat down and put his arm around Mom, and Bud put his arm around me. It was very cozy and nice because it was spontaneous. The TV didn't have much more to add to what they had been putting out for the last day. The connection to the grocery store holdup was currently being played up, which was more old news since the paper had uncovered that earlier. The artificial excitement of the news anchors wasn't holding my interest and I was about to ask if there wasn't something else we could be watching when a familiar face popped onto the screen. "So, Deputy Murphy, we understand that you were there when The Dragon thwarted the supermarket holdup. Is that right?" The interviewer was referring to herself in the plural. I hated when they did that. It sounded so pretentious. Murphy suddenly looked uncomfortable. I suspected that he had been told that the interview would be about his commendation and the interviewer was ambushing him with this line of questioning. "Yes, that is correct, ma'am," he said. His normally formal tone was becoming positively stilted. "Can you tell us what happened?" the interviewer asked, hopefully. I briefly empathized with her. I'd seen some TV interviews where people froze up so badly on camera that they could hardly manage one-word answers to the questions. Murphy looked like he wanted to tell the girl where to go. His eyes darted about like he was checking for the closest exit. Then he took a deep breath and told the story. It was interesting hearing it from his point of view. He started off with a no-nonsense statement of the facts that sounded like it might have been taken verbatim from the official report. He told how his unit had been dispatched on a silent alarm, how they had approached through the back of the store, and how, when they discovered that it had turned into a hostage-situation, he kept watch while the on-duty SWAT squad surrounded the building. Murphy became visibly more at ease as he described waiting the long minutes he had sat in the dark, expecting the SWAT members to rush in and take down the perpetrators in a hail of bullets any second. He even admitted that he got a case of nerves while he watched the robbers become more excited and agitated when they realized that their plans had come unraveled. He said that he was sure that the whole thing was about to blow up any second. "And what happened then?" The interviewer' urged. Her professional demeanor slipped a bit, along with the mid-western accent she had been faking. Her vowels came out with some familiar extra sounds in them. "Well," Murphy continued, "I was about to get on the radio and find out what the...what was taking so long, when someone tapped me on the shoulder. I was so keyed-up that it startled me. I hadn't noticed anyone coming. I hadn't heard a thing. She was just suddenly there! "I turned around and there was this girl's face floating there in the dark storeroom. At first the face was all I could see. That suit she wears makes the rest of her almost invisible, you know? Anyway, she told me...she told me she was my fairy godmother. She said she was going to go in and deal with the robbers and she wanted me to back her up." "You said a girl's face?" The interviewer interrupted, passing up the obvious question about my fairy godmother crack. "Not the dragon-face we saw yesterday?" "That's right," Murphy said, impatient at being stopped in the middle of his story. "She's very pretty, too. I noticed that first off. She didn't turn into the Dragon until she was ready to go into the store. She even warned me she was going to change like that, but I still nearly crap... uh, I was still startled. It was dark in there, you know, and I didn't know what to expect. I've seen her do that a couple of times since then and I'll tell you, it's not something you get used to seeing. It makes your guts crawl, being that close when she turns into The Dragon." "Thanks loads, Murphy," I thought. "They didn't need to know that I change. Now they'll be looking for a girl, not a lizard." "Anyway, she went into the store like a commando, you know? She crawled out across that floor and just about disappeared. Then I saw her pop up behind one of the robbers and before he could react, she snatched his gun away and went after the other one. That's when I followed her. I was going to cover the first perp while she went after the second one." Murphy paused. If it had been anyone else, I would have suspected that it was for effect, but I knew Murphy was reliving a near-death experience and he was just trying to calm down before he went on. They cut to a reaction shot of the interviewer to fill the time. She looked fascinated. I expected her to urge him to continue, but she was so caught up in the story that she forgot her line. "So I go in with my gun drawn, see. She's just turned her back on the first guy, like he's nothing to worry about now that he's unarmed. She's so focused on getting the hostages free that she doesn't care about anything else. "She's about to take on the second guy, who's holding a knife, when I see that he's got a pistol in his belt too and she doesn't have a chance in hell of getting to him before he can pull it out and shoot her dead. So I yell for him to drop the knife and get down on the floor. That's when it all hit the fan. "The first guy grabs her from behind, and the second guy goes for his gun. Only instead of shooting her with it, he points it at me. I'm trying to decide if I have a good shot, but with the hostages behind the second guy I'm not sure that I can get him cleanly and not hit one of them if I miss, so I hesitate just a fraction of a second. "I'm about to take a chance and shoot the guy with the pistol, because he's going to shoot me if I don't. There is this blur in the air, and a gun goes off. I'm not sure if it's me or the perp doing the shooting. By the time I figure out it was him, and for some reason I'm not dead, both perps are out cold and she's standing there, holding something out to me." Murphy stopped long enough to reach into the breast-pocket of his duty shirt and pull out a small object. He held it up so the camera could get a good shot of it. "This is what she gave me. It's the bullet that would have killed me if she hadn't have stopped it." "Stopped it?" the interviewer said. "How did she stop a bullet?" "She grabbed it right out of the air. She just put out her hand and caught it, like it was the easiest thing in the world. When she gave it to me, it was still burning hot. I'm holding it in my hand and I still have trouble believing that anyone could do that, but here it is." "So she saved your life?" "My life, the hostages' lives, probably at least one of the perps' lives, too. If she hadn't been there, things would have ended very differently. We were very lucky that she got involved." They must have run out of time for that segment, because they cut away from the interview with Murphy and the anchorperson promised 'more news later on this breaking story' and then the commercials started. "Wow! Is that what happened, sis?" Bud asked. "Pretty much," I said. "Murphy left some things out and he added a couple of details that I don't recall, but I'm sure that's how he remembers it. I wish he hadn't said that about me changing into the Dragon. In hindsight, I shouldn't have let anyone see my real face. Can't be helped now, I guess. At least the girl doing the interview didn't get to follow up on that. Thank goodness for commercials!" "He doesn't know you got hurt catching the bullet," Mom observed. "Probably not. I think I got out of there before it really started to hurt. I remember it was some time before I could move my fingers again." "Don't worry about him giving away part of your secret. I think that will help more than it will hurt." "How?" "People will know that The Dragon is just a mask and that there's a real person under there. They won't be as afraid of you." "They know Murphy thinks you're pretty, too," Bud added. "What do mean, 'thinks'?" I asked, jokingly. I reached over to give Bud a pinch but he scooted away before I could get him. "OK, I meant they think he knows you're pretty!" He said. I ignored him. "I want some of them to be afraid of me. The bad guys, I mean." "I don't think that will be much of a problem after yesterday," Mom said. I wondered how much of Uncle Greg's fear of me was due to the surprise of finding something that looked like me in Dina's bed and how much was because he had seen me on TV demolishing the tank. Judging from the way he peed himself, he'd been pretty well spooked. That was the kind of reaction I wanted all crooks to have when they met me. If I paralyzed them with fear, it would be much safer for everyone than if I had to fight them. After the third consecutive commercial, I announced that I had homework to do and I got up, leaving Jim and Bud to fight over which of them got to put their arm around Mom, who was eating it up. I picked up my books, but instead of using the desk in the family room, I took them down to the workshop so I wouldn't have any distractions. It was very quite down there and with no interruptions I finished my assignments in no time at all. It was still well before bedtime and I hadn't had a lot of time alone lately, so I decided to just hang out down there for a while. The silence started to get to me, so I turned on the police radio and listened to the calls. Except for the routine in-service, out-of-service, taking-a-pee kind of radio traffic, there wasn't much of anything happening. Crime seemed to be taking the night off, which was fine with me. After idly punching the heavy bag a few times, I stopped because I didn't have any enthusiasm for it and I didn't want to get all worked up before bedtime. I sat down at the computer and looked at the screen. Neeka had made using it to connect to the county systems look easy. I didn't have her skills, having only used computers for writing papers, doing Web searches and stuff. The screen had a strange-looking icon on it that looked like an eye. It blinked and rolled when I moved the mouse pointer close to it and it said 'Surveillance' underneath. Curious, I clicked on it and a screen came up with a list of locations, mostly intersections. When I clicked on one, it opened a window that looked like a picture of the intersection of Main and Ebersol downtown. I recognized the store on the opposite corner, but I couldn't figure out where the camera was until I realized that it must be mounted on one of the tall light-poles. I clicked the Back button and picked another camera. Many of them were just pictures of crosswalks, with the occasional person walking through the crosswalk. Riveting stuff. I hoped there wasn't someone whose job it was to stare at this all night, on the chance that a crime would be committed in view of the camera. I skipped down the list, looking for something more interesting. All the locations were public areas. I saw one that said Brownlow Park, which was where we had met with Murphy and Rosario, so I clicked it. The picture was of the parking lot. The camera there was also mounted on a light-pole so the image was well lit. I could see one car still in the lot. It looked like it was jerking around and I looked at it closer. I could make out two people in the back seat. They were moving around in there like they were fighting. One was on top of the other and had one hand on the door and the other on the back seat. The one on the bottom had both hands on the neck of the one on top. I nearly grabbed the radio microphone to report a crime in progress when the strangeness of seeing the person on the bottom choking the person on top hit me. Instead of hitting the microphone switch, I closed the window on the screen. Realizing that I was watching two people make love in the back of a car made me feel like a peeping tom. I wanted to go over and warn them that they were on camera, but they would almost certainly be gone by the time I got there. I turned off the computer and the radio and went back upstairs, thinking how lucky I was that there were no cameras outside the Gym building at school. Halfway up, I turned around and went back. I turned on the computer again and waited patiently for it to start up. When the eyeball icon reappeared I opened it and checked the list. There wasn't a camera behind the Gym, but there was one overlooking the parking lot. I wondered if anyone had been watching when Angie and I had fucked Neeka's gearshift or when I had strip-searched Sue and then gone down between her legs. It gave me a weird rush to think that someone might have been watching the whole time for either event. But I decided to be a little more careful about what I did in public places from now on. When I went back to the family room, Jim and Bud had gone. Mom was sitting in the same spot on the sofa, with her head back and her eyes closed. I walked very quietly across the plush carpet in case she had dozed off. She had a contented smile on her face. Her blouse was hanging open and there were two damp spots on it. Apparently Jim and Bud had had some dessert after I left. I was torn between being envious of her or happy that she was getting the attention she craved. Mom had told me that nursing someone was one of the nicest feelings and the most emotionally bonding things you could do. I remembered how great I felt while comforting Dina in Sue's office and now I understood exactly what she meant. As quietly as I could, I crept around and slid onto the sofa, putting my head in her lap. As soon as she felt the weight, she raised her head and looked down at me. I smiled at her and tried to look needy. It worked. She pulled her blouse open and gave me a breast. With her nipple in my mouth I closed my eyes and took my own turn being comforted. It was almost as blissful as being on the other end. Pretty tasty, too. I wasn't able to pin down what the flavor reminded me of, but it was delicious. She stroked my hair and my cheek. I let go of all my worries and all my concerns and drifted into a warm, safe place. I don't know how long I lay there, but I must have fallen asleep, because she had to wake me up to tell me it was bedtime. When I opened my eyes, I found I had been switched to her other breast without knowing it. I gave her nipple a last quick suck and then licked it clean for her. She kissed me and we went upstairs to go to bed without saying a word to each other. I think both of us were reluctant to break the mood. <1st attachment end> ----- ASSM Moderation System Notice------ Notice: This post has been modified from its original format. 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