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This was a little quicker, I think.
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The Weekend (Final)
Fighting my insurrection erection was at the back of my thoughts at that moment. So what if it had all been implied? So what if, in slightly altered words, it had all been said before? All those times, I just ignored it. Like when she jumped on my back in the sea, or her little speech a few moments before. Why I ignored it is unclear to me even now; her intentions had been clear from the start of the weekend, and the progression and build up to it all had been witnessed, by myself, so that it should never have been a shock. And yet, only when it was handed to me on a plate, did it come as news to me.
Ellie had a cute little girl crush on me. Her girl crush then grew into what she thought was in love, then she realised her crush had simply grown into something more, but still wasn’t quite love. Like it’d dawned on her that maybe she wanted a relationship, like the grown ups do. So she searched on the internet and saw for herself exactly what the grown ups do. All of this I knew. The main kicker, however, was that she had matured this girl crush into something more than I, or most other human beings, could ever have imagined.
No longer was it the molester to the victim. No. Now it was something else - a whole new take on Stockholm syndrome - where the victim wanted it more than the sick individual who lusted after her. The young, ten year old girl, the target of my creeping, had proposed the idea of all the profanities that had been spinning in my head since the moment I met her. Not only had I skipped all the stages of trying to convince her to do all this, like most guys in my situation would, but chances were that she’d never tell. If she had been the one to bring it up, why would she then want to go ruin it all? All the cards were in my hand.
And I declined. Yeah. That’s right. Boom, bitch. ‘I, ahh, don’t think that’s quite appropriate.’
Here Son, I will give you everything you’ve ever asked for.
Thank you God, but I’d rather piss all over it and throw it back in your face.
‘Why?’ She replied in a high pitched tone and glared at me, pouting.
‘Because it’s illegal,’ a little piss here, a little there, ‘and I don’t fancy getting locked up.’
‘Why would you get locked up?’ Her concern was genuine.
‘You’re a minor, as in you’re, by law, too young to engage in any “adult activities”. I, however, am not. Therefore, if anybody found out, then I’d be put in prison and you’d get away scot free with a mug of hot chocolate in tact.’
Her expression was quizzical, as if it hadn’t clicked that “stranger danger” qualified for everyone over 16, and not just strangers. Then her expression was calculating. ‘So we just don’t tell anyone.’
Her reply came at a victorious satisfaction to her, and a relief to me. Yet I still had some piss left. ‘But it’s not quite as simple as that. I mean, even if nobody said anything, people could still find out.’
Why was I the one that was having to be convinced? ‘Well then we be super duper extra careful!’ Ellie said in her overly-excited manner.
I remember one thing that was repeatedly blaring through my mind which was like (ironically enough) a police siren: “am I actually considering this?” The tantalizingly cute girl had given me permission to perform any sick deed I wanted unrequitedly (or for now, anyway) and I refused to accept it. Maybe I was just thinking “this is too good to be true”. Many times in my life I’d find myself finding myself in situations like that, and it all ended up being a flop, one way or another. That was probably why I was so intermittently refusing to believe it. I was just distancing myself from what could potentially happen, so as to prepare myself for when it didn’t.
‘Maybe, but… Egh.‘ I scowled. I think some part of it involved my pride. Almost like I wanted it to be so that I had convinced her, so that she was doing what I wanted, and not the other way around.
‘But what?’ She was just teasing me now.
‘I know we’ve already gone over this, but do you truly understand the depth of what you’re saying?’
She nodded. ‘I know all about it. We had sex education classes the other week before we left for summer, though it was mainly about puberty, but they told us about sex.’ She had a look of steely determination. ‘So I thought a lot about it, and I really, really like you.’ She blushed and looked down, and began twiddling her thumbs. ‘And I thought that, maybe…’ She trailed off.
I slackened my entire body into the chair and let out an almighty huff. I was flummoxed. Perplexed. Dumbfounded. I knew how to react to a girl who had expressed “such thoughts” towards me before, but they were always my own age. How the hell do you react to something like that from a ten year old? Half of me was saying “isn’t this what you always wanted?”, whilst the other half was saying “dude, are you seriously considering this?”
‘All right, Ellie, I think it’s really sweet that you feel that way about me. Seriously, I’m flattered.’ She giggled and I ruffled her hair. ‘But–’
‘Yeah, yeah, I’m ten and you’re seventeen and it’d be “weird”.’ She contorted her face as if she were repulsed by the word.
‘Well, there’s that. But also, things like this are a two way street.’ She apparently didn’t understand my point, so I continued. ‘You might be thinking that way about me, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it goes both ways.’
She considered that. Then she came up with a very direct answer. ‘Well I’ll just have to convince you!’
Damn it, if she wasn’t so cute and if it weren’t for the fact that I was probably going to be sent down as a child molester in the years to come then I probably wouldn’t have crumbled as much as I did. I wanted to resist (pride, isn’t it great?) but I just couldn’t bring myself to do so. So I went about it differently. Which was probably the best decision I’ve ever made in my life.
‘Maybe you will.’ I deliberately didn’t look in her direction and wore the confident smile that I generally used in a situation to say “I was right”. This reaction came as a surprise to her too.
‘How do I convince you?’ Her voice faltered. I could tell that her mind, too, was a mesh of emotions and thoughts and moralities and the like. It would be interesting to have seen this from her perspective, although I guess I could say the same for the entire story.
‘Ah, ah, ah, I’m not doing that.’
‘Why not?’ She was back to being giddy again.
I searched for an answer and shoved all of that pride shit to the back of my mind. ‘Because that’d be cheating.’
She pouted and fidgeted uncomfortably. I put my arm around her, as I’ve done so many times as the comforting babysitter, and pulled her close. ‘I like you, Ell. You’re a good kid.’
The journey ended very quickly, and soon enough we were back in our hometown. It was ten to five by the time we’d reached their home, with Ellie impatiently rushing back and Sara begrudgingly following behind. Sara had slept the majority of the way back, and had been apparently oblivious to mine and Ellie’s conversation, which was probably a good thing. Me and Ellie had chatted about mindless things, much like most of our conversations, as all meaningful talk had gradually seeped out the window. However, I’d noticed a new spring in Ellie’s step, and in some ways, I’d noticed one in mine.
The door swung open, and as it did I received a text from Amy.
< Will b back at 10 - Amy x >
Putting kisses are we? I laughed briefly to myself, and realised I still had another five hours of babysitting to go. I was tired, but it wasn’t as if the work required much in the way effort. The girls were complaining about their hunger, although it hadn’t been that long since they’d had lunch, so I made a few sandwiches to settle their stomachs. Perfectly satisfied, we spent a while doing what we so typically did when I babysat; useless conversing and messing around, and generally acting like a bunch of kids (which, to be fair, two out of three of us were).
After wandering into the kitchen to get myself a glass of juice, I noticed a salty scent on my skin. Of course. I had been in the sea a few hours ago and never had a shower to wash off the persistent salty sea smell. I forced down the juice and walked upstairs, and walked into the bathroom. At this point I would like to stress that there is no lock on the bathroom door. Just as a heads up.
I twisted the shower knob and waited for the water to heat up. It was a lot like my own shower, as in that it took about four years for the hot water to begin trickling out. I removed my clothes and patiently waited for a little heat. The bathroom was freezing, which didn’t really help matters. Then, I saw - and heard - the door handle twist. I knew what was coming before I even saw it.
Ellie belligerently stormed in with a pink towel on her shoulder and most of her clothes except her panties alluding her body.
‘Woah!’ I immediately retaliated and searched for something to cover myself. I picked up my jeans and haphazardly covered my crotch. Ellie squealed and smiled, then turned her head shyly.
‘Sorry!’ She said. Without leaving.
‘Couldn’t you hear the shower running?’
‘I dunno. I just walked in.’ She turned her head so that she was looking towards me again. ‘I’ve already seen it before, you know?’ She giggled.
‘Yeah, but, it’s the principal of the thing and, well…’ I stammered, looking for an excuse. She still wasn’t leaving.
‘I don’t mind.’
‘Yeah, well, I do. So can you leave please? I need my shower.’ I placed a hand under the water to emphasise this. The water was tepid at best.
‘So do I.’ She said as she slipped off her underwear, revealing her entire body in all its glory. She smiled dubiously and cocked her hip to one side.
‘But I was here first.’ I tried to ignore her naked body but it was very difficult when she was a couple of metres away and looking at me with big, green eyes and an overly confident smile.
‘And this is my house.’
This fucking girl. ‘I am also your babysitter. Which means you are under my authority.’
‘What’s that mean?’
‘It means you have to do everything I say.’
She crossed her arms. Nope, definitely not moving now. ‘Nuh uh.’
‘Yes.’ I said, trying to exert my increasingly obsolete authority. ‘Now leave, girl.’
She giggled. Giddiness levels began rising. ‘Make me.’
Well, I could never resist a challenge. I charged forward, forgetting my jeans in the process and leaving them in a muddled lump on the floor. She didn’t retaliate, but instead twisted her body slightly and began giggling to herself like a mad idiot. She barely resisted when I lifted her up and physically forced her out of the bathroom and into the corridor. She kicked and pushed at the door, but it eventually subsided. I thought it was over, but boy was I wrong. Now it was a game. And she was just getting started.
At first there was silence. I heard her giggling from outside but she didn’t do anything other than that. Falsely believing I was safe, I reached into the shower and splashed my hand with now moderately hot water. Just as I was about to begin my first steps into the shower, I saw the door handle quickly turn. Ellie came crashing in with her typical arbitrary elegance.
‘Ellie!’
She looked at me, spooked, but never withdrew her smile. She ran back into the corridor, slamming the door behind her. She wasn’t gone. I knew that for a fact. I waited for a few moments, and decided to continue my routine. Whatever she was doing, I still had the cover of the shower curtains. I started walking towards the shower, in the hopes to climb in before she came back in. One thing that I had overlooked, however, came creeping towards me with the realisation of it coming far too late.
Misty room. Warm room. Relaxing, tiring, succumbing. Self-nakedness. And physical activities with a naked girl. All things to set the perfect scene and the perfect mood for a bit of self-depravation. Unfortunately, I only noticed that renowned tingling feeling and euphoric blood rush far too late, and when Ellie came charging back in again she was met with a surprise that neither of us were expecting.
‘Ed’s got a stiffy!’ Not the term that I’d personally use for it, but she was a kid after all.
I turned my back towards her instantly and she began cackling like the little witch she was. She was stood at the doorway, except the door was now wide open and she had a visitor. Sara was peering in with slightly more acceptance of her surroundings than usual.
‘Are you having a shower?’ Sara asked. Well done Miss Obvious.
‘I’m trying to.’
I couldn’t actually see how she’d reacted, but anyone could tell that she had done her usual shrug. I heard footsteps trailing away, and I knew Sara hadn’t given the moral support that Ellie needed. This came in an angry, and all too cute ‘hmph’.
Disregarding all notion of insecurity, I thought ‘fuck it’ and walked into the shower, forcing the curtains closed behind me. The shower was a little basin at the corner of the room next to the bath tub, with only a curtain there to retain some privacy. A curtain that was easily pulled to and fro.
‘Edward.’ Ellie said slowly and teasingly. I knew damn well that she was up to no good.
‘Go away, Ellie.’
‘But why?’ She moaned.
‘Because I actually want to have this shower before tomorrow.’
Impatient shuffling. I noticed that my boner was refusing to go down, and it didn’t help that the ten year old stood several steps away was also prevalently naked. I saw her figure through the translucent curtains move steadily in my direction, but then altered course. I didn’t understand what she was doing until I heard the toilet chain get flushed and water starting to come crashing out. As soon as I caught on, boiling water came rushing from the shower nozzle and I let out one of the girliest screams I’ve ever let out in my life. I leapt out of the way of the water, and I heard Ellie’s laughter roaring through the room.
‘Stop taking so long!’ She shouted between bouts of laughter.
‘If you left me alone then I might go a bit faster.’
‘I’m only doing it cos you’re taking for-ev-er!’
I sighed. ‘Ellie…’
‘I’ll flush the chain again.’
‘Then I’ll just take even longer.’ She obviously didn’t care about the time it took for me to have a shower. She probably didn’t even care about having a shower herself.
‘Fine then.’
Footsteps. The end of it? Of course not.
The shower curtains flung open and the conniving miscreant was standing very closely behind them. Her face was pretty much at waist height, since the shower basin provided some elevation, and Ellie was quite evidently staring at one area. And this time, the area was standing a lot taller than last time she was this close.
Immediately, she didn’t do anything. Her smile and giggling expression had faded away into that typical curious look that any young child wears when discovering something new and interesting. I watched her eyes as they ran the length of my dick, then up my body slightly, then back to my dick. After about five seconds of this, she looked up at me, made eye contact and flinched, then her face flushed with red. She turned away, but left the curtain open.
‘Thanks for doing that.’ I said sarcastically. My eyes narrowed down to her smooth, round butt, that pushed neatly out behind her. Ellie was a thin girl, and her curved but small bottom complemented this perfectly.
‘Why is it like that?’ Her voice was quieter but consolidated.
‘That’s, ah, none of your business. Why are–’
‘Is it cos I’m naked?’ Her voice was now more direct. Accusing.
‘Well, no, it’s just–’
She snapped back around and glared at me. She closed her eyes and tilted her head upwards slightly, then placed her arms behind her back and pushed her chest forward. Small bones of an underdeveloped chest frame protruded outwards, and I noticed her nipples were very slightly upturned from the developing breasts underneath. She pushed her entire body forward and elevated onto the balls of her feet, then leant back and opened her eyes with a satisfied smile. She was stretching.
‘It’s okay, I don’t mind if it is.’ She licked her lips in the way of a woman much, much older than her, and rocked on her feet in the way of a girl much younger.
I didn’t know how to respond. It’s a double edged sword; damned if I do and damned if I don’t. If I said ‘no it isn’t’ then it’d come across to her that I don’t think she’s attractive and this, that and the other, but if I said ‘yes it is’, then she’s got that power and control that no little girl should have. I settled for a different course, one that was less definitive.
‘It can be whatever you want, dear.’ I indifferently fumbled for the shampoo, always keeping Ellie and her cute, round belly in my peripheral vision, but made sure not to give direct eye contact. I was going to play it suave.
‘Huh?’
‘It doesn’t matter.’ Now I turned to her. She watched me with hopeful eyes. Hopeful of what, I do not know. I’d managed to will my erection down quite substantially with the sided shampooing routine, but all the while I was watching her. Her scrawny frame and prevalent ribs that showed the signs of a petite, young girl. Hips that were beginning to curve out in accordance with puberty, and legs that followed suit. Her legs were long in comparison to the rest of her body, which gave her a figure that boys in the years to come would yearn for. That I yearned for now. The small cleft in between her legs smiled up at me happily, showing few signs of any peach fuzz that would be bound to follow some time soon. All in all, she was a very attractive girl, and she’d definitely break some hearts in the future, for boys her own age. But for now, The Creeper was on duty.
‘Aww, it’s gone down.’ She frowned.
‘That upsets you?’
She shrugged similarly to her younger counterpart. ‘I dunno.’
I carried on showering, washing off the shampoo that I had so tentatively lathered into my hair. She watched me through the entire process, as curious as a meerkat… For lack of a better metaphor. Or simile. Fuck literacy.
‘How long are you going to be?’ She was now questioning, rather than demanding.
‘How long’s a piece of string?’
She scowled at me. ‘Can I–’
She stopped herself, but her eyes trailed towards the shower. I raised an eyebrow in recognition of what she was wanting, but curiosity of whether I was correct in what I was thinking. She noticed the raised eyebrow, and she smirked. That didn’t stop her. She took a brazen step forward and pushed herself into the shower. She looked up at me and gave me her confident smirk. I stepped back to allow her some room.
‘What are you doing?’
‘You’re…’ She trailed off and lolled her head to one side, stalling and at the same time searching for encouragement. ‘You’re taking too long.’
‘So it’s okay to just walk in here with me, is it?’
She nodded. She turned around and yanked the shower curtain around behind her. Now we were enclosed in a tight space, completely naked with hot water and soap lathering our bodies. Yep. The insurrection erection was back.
Her beautifully large, green eyes wandered across my body, but she was forced so close to me that she had to go out of her way to move her neck and look at my dick. She let the water trickle onto the front of her head, and closed her eyes and giggled to herself. Think ‘:3’ face. I moved further backwards so that she could stand further under the shower nozzle, and she graciously accepted the increased space. Her arms were held in front of her, with her hands resting neatly in front of her crotch. Meaning I could no longer see her perfectly small labia.
She then let curiosity get the better of her and looked down to see the erection returning. She giggled.
‘If you keep looking at my penis like that I’ll kick you out. You’re here to shower.’ Yet I was checking out her body equally the same.
Red flushed to her cheeks again. The more she looked, the more curious she got. The more curious she got, the more embarrassed she got. She chewed at a fleck of wet hair that had drifted down her face, twiddling the end of it with her right hand. The left she had left slackened.
‘Why is it doing that?’
‘Huh?’ I was completely under the impression that if she knew what a “stiffy” was, then she’d know why they occurred. Evidently, I was wrong.
‘Why is it, errrm–’ She glanced up at me with a look of astonishment, as if she was shocked at what she was going to say. ‘Why’s it gone big?’
‘Do you know what the word “aroused” means?’
She looked to the side and thought for a moment. ‘No.’
‘Well, it’s like, when you’re in the mood to do things like have sex, you get this tingling feeling that makes boy’s penises go hard and girls get…’ I stopped when I realised how awkward this was explaining to a ten year old girl. ‘They get wet, kinda.’
‘So that’s why boy’s willy’s go big when they see a naked girl?’
Maybe I’d thought a little too much of what she knew. It seemed that in actuality, she had a random mesh of information from the internet and other sources that come with growing up, and apparently she’d not been able to connect the dots. She had the facts (or some of them anyway) but not the reasonings behind them.
‘Well, yeah.’
‘Why?’
I scratched the back of my neck. The questions were getting more difficult. ‘Well, you get aroused because it makes it easier to have sex, because otherwise it’d be pretty difficult to make babies and stuff, if you want to look at the actual reason why we have sex.’
She studied my dick further. ‘So why do people have sex then if it’s not for babies?’
Wow. She actually knew nothing. ‘Because it feels good.’
‘It does? Hmm.’ Her mind was processing information.
I had a question. A very awkward one. And I asked it nonetheless. ‘Have you ever, ermm, masturbated before?’
Her entire face went red. ‘W-what do you… I mean–’
I laughed at her panic. It was my turn for revenge. ‘You don’t have to answer if you don’t want. It’s just that people like that feeling, which is why we do things like that.’
Her eyes were glued to the ground. ‘Is masturbating where you, like, touch “that”.’ She pointed towards her crotch.
‘Ah, so you do know what it is.’ I laughed again.
‘I put my finger down there once to try it, cos I wanted to know what it was like.’
‘And…?’
She finally looked at me, but her face was still completely red. ‘It was weird.’
‘Good weird?’
She thought, then nodded diffidently.
‘So does that answer some of your questions?’
‘I guess.’ She gave me a hesitant smile. ‘Wait, so does that mean you want to have sex with me?’
Fuck. She’d managed to turn it all back onto me. My raging boner was as prominent as ever, and I had no way out. ‘Well, it’s more complicated than that.’
‘What do you mean?’
‘Umm…’ I searched my mind for an explanation that didn’t overlap with what I’d already said. ‘You get aroused not just cos you want to have sex. You get that weird feeling when you see or do other things that aren’t quite sex but are involved in it.’
‘Like what?’
‘Like, well, seeing someone naked.’
‘Eww, so if you saw a fat, old guy naked your penis would go big?’ She burst out in laughter at the revelation.
I joined in momentarily. ‘All right, all right. So maybe it doesn’t work for everyone.’
That cocky grin. ‘Who does it work for?’
This much she’d figured out already. The sly little girl wanted me to say it. ‘Well, the person has to be somewhat attractive.’
‘So you think I’m attractive?’ One foot behind the other. Arms behind her back. Head tilted slightly to one side. Promising smile.
‘Don’t get ahead of yourself, sweetie. It can happen randomly, or I can have thoughts that might be enough to make me get aroused.’
She crossed her arms and pouted. I placed a hand on her shoulders. ‘Now come on. We’ll run out of water at this rate.’
So we continued to awkwardly shower. I could see her offering the odd glance towards my dick, unable to control her curiosity. It was almost as if she were entranced by it. I also took my chances to glance at her body as she lathered it in all sorts of shampoos and soaps that I hadn’t even noticed in my short time in the shower. All was going well, and my erection had even started to settle, until the applications of shower gel began to lower. Literally.
She had been working for sometime on her chest area which would have been a hell of a lot more arousing if she actually had breasts. Not that it wasn’t a pleasant sight to look at. She was faced sort of in my direction, but at an angle so we weren’t directly facing each other. She began to rub the bubbly soap (coconut, mmm) around her lower abdomen, then around her bony hips and then her crotch. I watched in complete awe as she worked the soap across her perky labia, and somewhat into the small crevice, and then into her inner thighs and then the outside. She then worked the soap down the rest of her legs and stood up, taking a glance first at my fully erect dick, then up at my face.
‘Perv.’
That was enough to snap me back to reality, but not enough to spark a reply. This sort of scene from a girl my own age would have been enough to blow my boner. Never mind a girl suited towards my own perverted tastes.
‘Can you do my back, please?’ She was now facing away from me, with her face twisted backwards so she could still look in my direction. She had a calm but submissive expression, like a girl in a porno asking her daddy to go gentle. Fuck, did this girl know she was doing this.
‘Uhh, sure.’ I said, very unsurely. She handed me the bottle of beautifully smelling coconut shower gel, and I poured a little into my hands. I rubbed it into my hands and then began working on her shoulders. I felt her neck muscles relax and the tense up again, as if she were both nervous yet subdued. I then began working around her collar bone and up her neck slightly, just about to reach her hair, then lowered my hands down again. I slowly made my way down her back, in quaint circles, and made sure to lather each area of her back carefully and tentatively. As I did, I noticed myself slowly creeping forwards, and the ever prominent erection was daring to poke her in her lower back. Just as I noticed this, I slipped forward very slightly and the tip of my dick applied the pressure needed to cause her whole body to tense up. She let out a shaky gasp of air and relaxed again. Was that a good or a bad thing?
I worked on and around her hips, then paused. She turned her head back towards me, in confusion, then realised my predicament.
‘You can do my bum, if you want.’
I’ll fucking do your tight little arse hole if you want me to. I retained what little restraint I had and crouched down. Have I ever said how the gluteus maximus was so much more amazing when your face was about five inches away from it? As I made the first stroke from her hips to the very top of her butt, she tensed up yet again, which was much more noticeable from this position. She then relaxed, and I trailed the soap around the edges of her perfectly squishy and refined buttocks. I then moved my hand carefully into the tiny cleft of her cheeks and parted them slightly. I trailed my hand and the preceding soap down her crack and I noticed her tiny hole looking up at me in all its cleanliness and innocence. I decided that going down there would be going too far, so I left the cleft of her butt and began working on her lower thighs. I worked down her leg muscles and to her feet, and stood upright again, my heart hammering in my chest. While writing this it seems like I did this for a long time, but you’ve gotta remember this was all done in about twenty seconds, if that.
She moved underneath the shower nozzle and rinsed out the soap that was filling her every orifice. Shower time was done in my opinion, and she seemed to have the same idea. We stepped out and I handed her a towel, and we dried off comparatively separately from each other. I replaced the clothes I’d been wearing since I only had these and what I wore yesterday, and Ellie wandered off into her bedroom to get changed there.
I let out a sigh. She’d barely looked at me after the entire thing, and she fled into her bedroom seemingly with her tail between her legs. No. Maybe it wasn’t that bad. Maybe I was just being paranoid. She definitely seemed a bit odd though. I wiped the towel across my face, washed my face in icy water from the sink faucet, then wiped my face again with the towel. I was beginning to wonder if what I’d done was a bad thing. Sure, my personal intentions may have been twisted, but in the eyes of anyone else it’s just a babysitter doing his job. My worries weren’t for bystanders, however. They were for her.
‘Hey, Ed!’ Ellie shouted, ridiculously loud.
‘Yeah?’
She skittered into the bathroom, now clad in pajama shorts but no shirt. Her nipples were completely erect. Did that mean anything?
‘Are my pants in here?’ Pants as in underwear, for you guys less familiar with English lingo.
I scoured the floor and saw bright white underwear shining up at me. I scooped them up from the floor (regretting not spending longer fondling them) and handed them to her.
‘Thanks.’ She took them in her hand, and turned around momentarily. Then she turned back to me again and leant against the doorframe. ‘I was just thinking… You said girls get–’ She held herself from uttering the last word. Her expression was serious and for once I was the one that wanted to giggle.
‘Yeah. Why are you asking?’
‘No reason. It’s just weird, that’s all.’ She toyed with a strand of hair and watched me with a guarded eye.
She went to say something, then dropped her strand of hair. She sided against it and wandered back downstairs again, leaving me to guess her true purpose. My thoughts returned to earlier that morning when she had virtually grinded against my leg during her sleep. Maybe she was remembering that and was curious. At that point, nothing she came out with could have surprised me.
I walked back downstairs to see a very odd scene of Sara laid across the floor, in nothing but her black, starry underwear, starfishing to her heart’s content. It was like a scene out of The Exorcist.
‘Sara, what are you doing?’
‘The floor’s comfortable.’
‘Mhm.’ I tread over her body and took a seat on the sofa, then propped my feat over her tummy as if she were in accordance to the rest of the floor. I felt her body vibrate under my feet for what was seemingly a slight giggle.
‘Get off.’
‘Huh? Sorry, I didn’t see you there.’
‘Get off!’ She moaned again. She didn’t seem as if she were going to take any drastic action any time soon, but I complied anyway. I checked the time - 20:45 - and kicked Sara with my toe. She returned a bedraggled grunt.
‘Time for you to go to bed, Miss.’
‘Do I have to?’
‘You’re complaining?’
She shrugged. ‘I’m comfy.’
‘Come on.’ I put my hands under each armpit and lifted her up, and she wrapped her arms around my neck and legs around my waist, and I placed my arms around her lower back. It was like carrying a toddler, although then again, she was so small she might well have been. She didn’t resist at all, although due to her typical flippant nature, I never expected her to in the first place. Along the way back upstairs, I met Ellie who gave me a distasteful look.
‘You gonna help her in the shower now?’ It wasn’t with malice, but instead with mockery. She grinned and hit me on the arm, stopped me to give Sara a kiss on the cheek, and carried on walking to wherever she was heading. Sara had buried her face into my shoulder, and to anyone who didn’t know her, she could easily have been fast asleep. Well, Ellie didn’t seem upset or hurt about the whole event, and even felt up to joking about it. Guess I hadn’t scared her off.
I laid Sara down on her bed, and she reached for her comforting duvet. Somehow, she’d managed to avoid the salty sea smell, and I really couldn’t be bothered with another bathing, so I allowed her to go to bed unperturbed (and who the fuck needed dental hygiene?). I sat down beside her on the bed and kissed her on her forehead.
‘You all set? Not wearing pajamas?’
She shook her head dismissively.
‘All right then. Well, good night.’
‘Night.’ Her voice squeaked from the encroaching grasp of sleep.
I headed toward the door and the voice squeaked out again. ‘Wait.’
‘Yeah?’
‘Is Ellie gonna do all that adult stuff with you?’
‘Eh, I don’t know, I mean–’
‘It’s fine if you do. I won’t tell.’ She smiled; a rare sight to see from her. ‘Make sure she tells me what it’s like.’ With that, she rolled over and turned her back to me, officially ending all conversation. I let out a short laugh and headed out the door, crashing into Ellie on the way out.
‘Ow!’
‘Sorry, sorry. You okay?’
‘Y-yeah, I’m fine.’ She turned away sheepishly. She was now wearing a pajama top.
‘Were you listening?’
No reply.
‘Did you set your innocent little sister up to this?’
No reply again, but she was smirking slightly now.
‘Jesus, you’re terrible.’
She giggled in her mischievous manner. I turned around and saw Sara sat upright, eager to listen to our conversation.
‘I told you to stop corrupting the poor girl.’ I said compliantly.
‘So?’ She thrust her hips to the side arrogantly.
‘So, stop doing it. Do you have no respect at all?’
‘Says you. You felt up my bum!’
I felt my entire face pouring with red. I could see Sara express a look of awe, while Ellie broke out in laughter.
‘Y-you asked me to.’ I spluttered.
‘Ed-dy’s a per-vy. Ed-dy’s a per-vy.’ Ellie chanted while wiggling her hips from side to side.
My entire body felt like it was on fire, in a mixture of embarrassment and anger. Not genuine anger, but more for the painstaking fact of being humiliated by a little girl. Sara hopped out of the bed and stood by my side, then tugged at my sleeve cuff to get my attention. ‘Why did you feel Ellie’s bum?’
Ellie burst into another round of laughter. ‘N-no! It’s not like that. I mean…’ I tried to explain, but Ellie had returned to her accusing chorus.
I decided I’d had enough. I grabbed her around her waist and lifted her up over my shoulder. Ellie beat at my shoulder and flailed her legs wildly in the air, repeatedly screaming ‘Stop!’ and ‘Put me down!’. Ain’t no kid hurting my pride. Sara watched with the premise of almost-laughter, her jaw slackened in a mixture of awe and wonderment that only a kid could have.
I threw Ellie down onto her bed and stood over her, glowering. Sara was neatly bunched up at my side, peering over curiously at Ellie who was laid complacently. Sara seemed to shuffle around uncomfortably, then pulled at her panties which had managed to bunch up her bottom. She had no qualms with sorting out this problem with two people watching her. Ellie was panting heavily and wore her confident smile, with her knees bunched up slightly and her upper half relaxed submissively.
‘Perv.’ She said quietly, her final retort.
‘Shut up.’ I replied childishly.
She sat up and crossed her legs beneath her, then stretched her torso so far it was almost as if she were trying to touch the ceiling. ‘Make me.’
‘I’m not playing this game.’
‘Why not?’ She said playfully.
‘Because I’m not. Besides, Sara, shouldn’t you be in bed?’
Her face contorted in an expression of revelation, as if this came at a shock to her. ‘Oh, right.’
She showed no sign of returning back to bed. Not while her big sister was encouraging her to rebel against me. ‘Come on.’ I gestured to her bed.
‘Okay.’ She still didn’t move. Her eyes wandered towards her sister, as if asking her to bail her out.
‘You wanna go to bed too Ellie?’
‘Nope. Not my bed time.’
‘Mhm.’ Most of the time I’d tried to exert authority that they didn’t like, it didn’t go well.
‘Why don’t you stay up here with us? It’ll be like a sleepover!’ Ellie exclaimed. Sara’s face lit up.
‘Yeah!’ The loudest I’d ever hear Sara speak in my life.
‘Stop trying to delay your sister from going to bed.’
‘Why? It’s not as if there’s any school tomorrow.’
I wanted to argue, but at the same time, I didn’t. I couldn’t argue with her logic, and what’d be so bad about staying up with a couple of young girls?
‘Fine. Your mum will be back at ten, though. And she’ll expect you to both be in bed, fast asleep.’
‘Yeah, yeah, sure.’ She waved her hand irreverently.
‘Good.’ I sat down on the bed, and they both looked at me expectantly. What were they expecting? I knew nothing about sleepovers.
‘We need chocolate!’ Ellie shouted suddenly.
‘And crisps–’
‘And pop–’
‘And sweets!’
I laughed at the pair of them. It was nice to see them actually acting like young girls for a change. Namely Ellie.
‘All right, I’ll see what I can scrounge up.’
I left the girls who were giddily chatting away about the excitement of a sleepover. It wasn’t even that, since it’d only be a couple of hours at most, then I’d be going home. Well, either way, it kept them happy, and that was sufficient enough for me. Downstairs, I discovered a treasure trove of chocolate, sweets, fizzy pop and other high fat and high sugar foods in a shelf high enough to be out of the girl’s reach. Although I guess that wouldn’t stop a determined Ellie, but it was probably there as the principle of the thing. I got a couple of bags of crisps, a big bar of chocolate and some Coca Cola, then walked back upstairs to the girl’s room.
I opened the door to a newly made fortress of pillows and cushions, with the two girls snuggled up neatly inside. They were on the floor, but still leant against their respective beds, as if they weren’t allowed into each other’s territory. I set down the bundle of food and drink, and sat in the No Man’s Land of the fort.
‘Here you go.’
‘Yay!’ Ellie squealed. They both made a grab for the large chocolate bar, and I was forced to break some off for them both to stop the approaching war. They began munching happily and I leant back against the wall. The next hour or so consisted of talking, play fighting, tickling and eating. I’d initially asked if the girls wanted to watch TV, but instead got dragged into a conversation about clothes. I truly learned of the difference between Sara and Ellie’s fashion sense that day. They then proposed to take me shopping and dress me up in ‘cute clothes’, whereby I intermittently declined.
Around when the time approached ten o’clock, Ellie had ended up nestled in my lap, which she had plonked herself on without any notion of asking if it were okay on my behalf. Sara was curled in a ball on her side of the fort, with a quilt haphazardly strewn across her body and pillows laden left, right and centre around her head. Her panties were hanging crookedly to her butt, which I could see the top of, and I took the liberty of staring while Ellie told me about the wonders of bright socks and underwear as opposed to dark. Yeah, yeah, I understand.
Eventually, she realised my interested wasn’t focused on her, so she brought it back to her with an elbow to my abdomen.
‘Oi! What was that for.’
‘Nothing.’ She said, then giggled.
I checked my watch. It read twenty to ten. ‘Your mum’ll be back soon.’
She pouted. ‘Aww.’
‘That upset to see me go?’ I said snidely.
‘Shut up.’ She retorted, then rested her head into my chest. I wrapped my arms around her body. ‘A little.’
‘Really?’ I laughed. ‘That’s sweet.’
A few moments of silence. ‘I enjoyed this weekend.’
‘Good, good.’
‘Like sleeping with you. And the shower.’ I could feel my boner threatening to come back, and red flushing to my cheeks again.
‘R-really?’
‘Yup. Maybe I could touch you in places next week.’
I spurted out a laugh in shock. ‘Woah, woah, hold your horses there, Miss.’
She giggled. ‘I’m kidding! Unless you wanted to.’ She turned her head towards me and lowered her eyes in a very endearing fashion, then winked cheekily.
Fuck it. ‘Maybe. But before that, you need to go to bed.’ I stood up and lifted her up at the same time. She jumped onto her bed and made me sit next to her, then pulled me in for a hug and gave me an almighty kiss on the cheek.
‘Will you be here again next Thursday?’
‘It’s up to your mum, really. But probably.’
She smiled. ‘Yay!’ She pulled me in for a hug again in excitement.
‘Heh heh. Anyway, sleep.’ I commanded.
‘Fine.’ She laid back and pulled her duvet up from the floor. Sara was still there but I figured I’d leave her there. Better to let Ellie and herself explain that than me. I’d had enough responsibility for one weekend. I squeezed her hand in recognition of a final goodbye, but when I tried to let go she didn’t loosen her grip.
‘Hey, Ed.’
‘Yeah?’
‘Thanks. For everything.’ The true extent of what she was thanking me for wasn’t immediately obvious to me.
‘Don’t mention it, kidda.’
I went to go, but she stopped me again. ‘Can you teach me more stuff?’
I scratched the back of my head. ‘About what?’
‘About… adult things.’ She smiled quirkily.
‘Sure, but we’ll talk about it next week.’
She huffed in a sulk. I got up and this time she didn’t stop me. I turned off the light; a definitive end to the weekend we’d enjoyed.
Twenty minutes later, Amy arrived hastily and drove me back home, paying me and thanking me for all the work I’d done. Don’t mention it. If anything, you’re doing me the favour.