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Archive-name: First/bend02.txt
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Archive-author: R. Palme
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Archive-title: Bend in the Road, A - 2
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... a story of a young boy's coming of age...
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Introduction Revisited
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My name is Kyle Spencer and I am a twenty-year-old freshman at university. I
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am studying language arts and my life long dream is to be a writer. A teacher
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in my private prepatory school once told me that the world's greatest writers
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draw best from their own experiences. So, in this first effort, I am sharing
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with you a truthful and open account of my memories of a very different coming
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of age. You might find it strange, familiar or maybe even bizzare in parts,
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but it is a true and lengthy account. "Truth is stranger than fiction."
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Now please enjoy ... A Bend in the Road, Part 2
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Chapter Four:
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A Boy's Life
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Life at the school was not really as bad as I had imagined it would be.
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I was only ten, probably the shortest kid there. A star pupil prematurely
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accelerated into a world of eleven year olds. Having always been self-
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motivated and resourceful, I knew how to loosely adhere to "rules and
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regulations" without being a "teacher's pet," so I got along ok. The food was
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mostly tolerable and the teachers mostly stupid or blind and not too heavy on
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discipline.
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There was a "rich" mix of rich boys from different countries all over
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the world at our school. In my class I counted three Japanese, two East
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Indian, six from Europe and one black from Ghiana, Timothy Mbutu, who later
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became my friend. The rest from U.S. and Canada. They were sons of
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diplomats, bank presidents, doctors, lawyers . . . and one local barber's son
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in the Sixth Grade who was teased endlessly; we called him "Lotto Boy" because
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his father had won the lottery and he really wasn't one of us.
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Each morning before showers we had to stand in our underwear, in front
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of our rooms during inspection. In our uniforms, we all looked united,
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members of a group. In our underwear we were reduced to our individual
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selves, naked, shivering and masked only by the minimal cloth we chose to
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sleep in. "Pyjamas were for babies," we had all decided the first friday
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night at a dorm get-together. It was the suggestion of an older floor
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monitor, who I now suspect had wanted more of an eyeful during the morning
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inspections.
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It was funny to see the regional difference in choice of undergarment.
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Timothy wore the thickest, cleanest white cotton underwear I have ever seen.
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They stood out smartly against his little dark-black body and I wondered if
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his parents had thought he was being shipped to Alaska to go to school. The
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french boys, Pierre and Robert wore these loose cotton undies with a wide
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panel in front and no fly. Gunter from Germany wore nylon bikinis in all
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different colours that looked almost like bathing suits. Stripes seemed his
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favourite and one pair that had holes worn on the sides that let you see a bit
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more smooth pink flesh. Christopher stood out because he was much taller than
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the rest of us and the off-white pouch of his Jockey's was a little bit
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fuller, showing early signs of puberty.
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This was actually Christopher's second year at Shawnigan, he was twelve
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and still in the Fifth Grade. The only reason he was still at Shawnigan at
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all was because of his mother, a fashion model. Where most of the kids'
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parents had either money or influence, she must have had a bit of both.
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I shared a room with James, a fat kid who was fanatic about collecting
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hockey cards. The wall on his side of the room was plastered with sets of the
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Vancouver Canucks, colourful because of their ever-changing uniforms. His
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family lived in the New Hampshire and put him in Shawnigan "until he learns to
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behave like a gentleman," which is probably still a long time coming.
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Most of the kids were jealous of my home life, though they shouldn't
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really have been, except for the beach, of course. This was because I went
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home on the bus and then a plane from the city of Victoria one weekend of
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every month. After the first four months at Shawnigan, I settled in pretty
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much and would ask to stay there with my friends some of those weekends.
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Anything to stay away from Samuel.
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By the start the new year, I was only going home on obligatory holidays
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and school breaks.
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Chapter Five:
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Chris & Me
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Some days, I would look at him from my desk by the windows, not really
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contemplating the work, just admiring the way Christopher teased the girls and
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gave smart answers to the math teacher and sparkled his eyes. It never really
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occured to me that it might be considered so inappropriate to adore another
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boy so much.
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Christopher was a mischeivous tough boy, often forgiven because he was
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very beautiful really. He made us all call him "Chris," because "Christopher"
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was what his mother and the teachers called him. His light brown hair was
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always tussled and long. He had fair skin but was nicely tanned from the
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previous summer. He seemed to like the sun, removing his shirt whenever he
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could. I wondered whether he too was originally from California, or whether
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he just liked to show off his body. He was slim and muscular for an almost-
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twelve year old, not too skinny and a fast runner.
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Whereas most of us just giggled a lot when someone said "bum" or "fart"
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or "pee," Chris swore using adult words and taught the rest of us to say
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"fuck" and "cunt" and "frig" under our breaths. He didn't really fit in
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with the old-world money crowd.
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One time I came up behind him in art class, to look at his drawings.
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While I stood over his desk, I sneaked a close look at his neck, exposed above
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a cotton school shirt. His skin seemed so smooth and soft, covered very
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lightly by a boy's velvety fine hairs. I started to put my hand on his
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shoulder but got scared and drew it away. The assignment had been to draw a
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vase of flowers. His drawing was of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with flowers
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coming our of the handles. He drew it perfectly from memory. Chris was a
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true rebel and I admired that too.
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I didn't think about my own appearance much in those days, but I guess I
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was a normal cute nine-and-a-half-year old with dark brown hair parted at the
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side and dark brown eyes, and ears that stuck out too far from my head. My
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skin was smooth, with a few freckles, and I had the faintest hint of hair
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growth on my arms.
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Of course I had already begun to learn about sex and growing up through
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reading books. I even went so far as to inspect my hairless groin daily for
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the first sign of puberty. I was NOT looking forward to it. I had a large
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"attitude", being rather smart for my age, and was a bit of a loner. The
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other kids sometimes picked on me, calling me "perfessor" or "teacher's pet."
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Some teachers did take a special interest in me, as I would work quietly and
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usually finish first. This left me lots of time for thinking, scheming and
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dreaming. It also left me enough time to get up to other bits of boyhood
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mischief.
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That first fall, dreams of Chris as my "special friend" filled my head
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constantly and it got so bad that I had filled the pages of my personal scrap
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book with drawings of him and me; as best friends, walking together, building
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a tree fort, wrestling together on the grass . . . sitting on a stone fence by
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the pond fishing. Those eyes of his.
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Chapter Six:
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First Awakenings
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As I said, I knew a little bit about sex, but I hadn't really done much
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of anything serious. I had just played innocent games like most children who
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are curious about sex.
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There was a time when I was eight. A little girl from a nearby beach
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house, Susie, let me see her underwear while we played "house" on an old
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mattress stored in her parents' garage. She lifted her pretty dress over her
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head coyly. I still remember the soft cotton-flannel material, double-thick
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at the crotch, with pink roses in a pattern and a discreet lace-like elastic
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around the each leg and the waist. I was allowed to get on my knees and
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inspect closer, but had to keep my hands behind my back. The cloth covering
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her young pud was smooth and thick, steeped in a damp body warmness that
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helped carry her "sweet pea" aroma. She wouldn't let me touch it. I was only
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allowed to look and she giggled loudly when I tried to smell. We didn't do it
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very long for fear that her mom might be lurking nearby.
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For some reason, the details of this experience made quite an impression
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on me. Afterwards Susie made me give her my favourite horse figure in
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payment. I enjoyed the thrill of doing something illicit, sneaky, and erotic.
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We both knew our parents wouldn't approve. But it was nothing serious,
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really, just child's play.
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At age eight-and-a-half I had a friend Terry, same age, who would stay
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at our house afterschool until his mother, my mother's best friend, came by on
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her way home from work. We were left quite alone to do what we pleased since
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both my parents also worked. I was an only child and our housekeeper, Erma,
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was usually too intent on soap operas and afternoon game shows. From 3:30pm
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to 5:00pm, when my father returned home, we pretty much had the run of the
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house.
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Terry was quite curious about sex and nakedness and such. He kept
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wanting to play hide and seek where the object of the person who was "it" was
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to pull down the pants of the other. He was most often "it" and I got "de-
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pantsed" regularily. Amongst our many other nasty games and rituals, the most
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exciting was "Doctor". The patient would be slowly stripped to his underwear
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and examined closely, one layer at a time.
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Once, while playing Doctor, we found a box of my mother's sanitary
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napkins. Terry convinced me that they were to absorb a girl's pee, and that
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they were like a more grown-up sort of diaper. He wanted to test this theory
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out, so we discretely took two and wore them in our underpants for the
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afternoon. We excitedly drank quantities of cold juice trying to reach the
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point where we could no longer hold our bladders. The dry pad felt good as it
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rubbed against my little dick, but I felt oddly peculiar about what we were
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doing to my mother's private things.
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There we were, both standing in the bathroom with our pants around our
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ankles, holding up our shirts and big bulges of padding in the front of our
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briefs. It was difficult to try peeing with my penis standing up out of
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excitement. We tried to relax a bit and concentrate on "letting go" but
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before either of us could really pee more than a dribble, I heard my father
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pulling up in the driveway. We quickly flushed the evidence down the toilet
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and tried very hard not to look guilty the rest of that afternoon.
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When his mother came, Terry raced out to the car. I supposed he was
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very anxious to get home because he had not yet gone to the bathroom. For days
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I was scared my mother would discover the absence of two pads. Either she
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didn't notice or thought the housekeeper took them.
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The exhilaration and danger of discovery plus the sharing of such
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intimate secret activities made Terry and I good friends. In the hopes of
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pursuing our favourite activities, we decided to form the Fun Club.
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Chapter Seven:
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The Fun Club
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The activities of the Fun Club were fairly innocent and limited to
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showing each other our underwear and collecting pictures of girl's and women's
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lingerie from the Sears catalogue, sharing stories, and the very occasional
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flash of our privates. On one hot August night Terry, my girl cousin Joline
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and another young friend Frank Stiller, were staying overnight. We all got to
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talking dirty and Terry let slip about the club. Of course Joline and Frank
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wanted to join the Fun Club too.
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My parents went out for dinner that night, leaving us alone with Erma.
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All through our dinner, hamburgers and fries, we just giggled excitedly and
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bugged each other nervously. Erma must have thought we were crazy.
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Afterwards she went to her room and concentrated on an episode of 60 Minutes.
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We locked ourselves in the rec room, the basement of the beach house, and
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turned the tv set up to mask our true intentions.
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Terry wanted to come up with an appropriate initiation feat for everyone
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to do. Fascinated by girls, he kept suggesting we play "post office" or "spin
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the bottle" with Joline. She protested that it wasn't fair since she was the
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only girl. Surprisingly, her suggestion for a game was, "Why don't we play
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strip poker." Supposedly her older brother and some of his friends had talked
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her into playing once.
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Being a girl, Joline was like an unknown animal to me. I was curious
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but she could be dangerous. So I hesitated, not sure if we should go through
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with it or not. Frank and Terry pleaded with me to play, but we didn't have
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any cards in the basement.
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Frank was nosing around in a closet when he pulled out the game Twister.
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He started spreading out that plastic cloth with the coloured circles on it
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and suggested that we invent a variation of the poker game. By this point my
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heart was racing and I was thoroughly caught up in the anticipation of
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actually getting to see a live naked girl. I had already begun sneaking looks
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at my father's Playboys, hidden in the back of his underwear drawer, so I had
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a good idea what it was all about, but I really wanted to compare with a girl
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around my age.
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We sat down together in a circle on top of the plastic cloth, much like
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we were having a picnic in the middle of the room. Each of us selected our
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own personal colour; Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow. With an initial spin of
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the Twister dial, the person whose colour came up had to take off one piece of
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their clothing. We then proceeded like stip poker. Terry was the first to
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lose his shoe. Joline lost both her shoes and a sock. I lost a shoe. It
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went like this until Frank was the first to have to pull off his pants.
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Joline giggled incessantly and we thought we'd get caught. Once Joline was
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down to her underwear we started kidding around and going in slow motion.
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Joline was a bit mad, saying "Go, go, go!"
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Terry was the first to have to undress completely. He had lost three
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rounds in a row. He stood up in his Superman UnderRoos and slowly inched them
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down, revealing himself directly to Joline. She scowled and giggled.
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Beingthe loser we told him to run naked around the basement so we could all
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get a good look. His little hairless pee-pee swung to and fro. It was cold
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in the basement. His little wrinkled balls were tight against his smooth
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boy's body. Terry declared that it was unfair that he was exposed first and
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didn't get to look at everyone else, so we decided to keep playing until the
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last person was completely undressed. The next to lose was Joline, then
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Frank and then myself until we were all naked in the circle.
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Mostly we gawked at Joline and she took her time sizing each of us up
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(or down) too. She was ten, the oldest. But unlike the women in my father's
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dirty magazines, Joline had no hair above her "quim" (that was the word we
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sometimes used). She was ten years old. I wasn't sure I liked older girls'
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hairy pussies, since they seemed dirty or something. There was something
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about Joline that was clean and fresh. I think she boasted that her breasts
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were beginning to grow but they didn't show that much.
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Terry and I caught each other staring at Frank who was uncircumsized.
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His parents were vegetarians and they probably thought it was more natural or
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something. Anyways, it looked cool, but different from our own. As we sat
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there looking, we all grew warm and uncomfortable, with Joline giggling again.
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We weren't sure what to do next. Someone suggested that we actually
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play the game of Twister in the nude. Before we could make a move, however,
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Erma was banging on the basement door saying, "What you chill'uns up to,
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anyways?"
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...continued in Part Three: BEND03.ZIP
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