The Legend of
Bastien
By Karen Singer
Chapter 6 – Plotting – Part 1 of 3
It
was again an hour earlier than his usual getting up time for school. This time Chris had been sleeping when she
woke him up. She herself had slept a
little too – restlessly, but at least she managed to get a few hours’ sleep. After neither of them sleeping at all the
night before, she was just glad that each of them had gotten some rest. She hadn’t made him wear a diaper to bed last
night. She didn’t make him use one this
morning either. But as soon as breakfast
was over and he got out of the shower, that bit of freedom for him was
gone. Having only one short skirt, he
had to wear that again, but she gave him a different sweater top to put over
it. The colorful patterned leggings
today were the biggest difference. He
hugged her tightly and thanked her for them right after he put them on.
He
didn’t thank her though when she made him stand in front of the bathroom mirror
and put eye shadow on his eyelids himself.
He didn’t thank her when she watched carefully as she made him put his
lipstick on using nothing but the small mirror from his purse. He even looked angrily at her for a moment
when she told him to be more careful with it.
After that, he had to sit still while she finished with his eyes and
recombed his hair.
She
watched as he went out the door, on his way to school and…who knew what
else. Horror! He was dressed better today. Warmer.
He was wearing a hat on his head and mittens on his hands. He had complained about them being mittens,
but Miranda had said she liked them better than the gloves she would have
bought him. Everything she had bought
for him yesterday had come with Miranda’s seal of approval, and from what Tess
had seen, Miranda had expensive taste.
She didn’t want to think about the time she would probably have to spend
in jail once the payback period for the store account came due. People who owed too much money for too long a
period were allowed to go to work, but after that, they spent every other
minute of their time in the city jail until the debt was paid. Who would take care of Chris if that
happened?
Chris
felt much warmer walking to school. Not
better, but warmer. He hated the
mittens, but he liked their warmth. He hated
the leggings, but he liked their warmth too.
He hated all the clothes he was wearing, but he liked that they were at
least keeping him warmer today. Like
yesterday, he still felt strange walking around wearing a skirt. He still felt more exposed, vulnerable, and afraid. Should he be afraid? He knew without a doubt that he should. Like yesterday, he could only conclude that
girl’s clothes felt weird to wear.
He
had gotten through yesterday, but would he manage to get through today? He could only hope. He still continued to picture the blood
dripping from his mother’s neck as the sheriff had held his knife to her throat. Yesterday, he had done everything possible to
say as little as he could and meekly do whatever they wanted. He had done that and had wound up with no
further problems…other than the ones he already had. With the reminder in the back of his mind of
the blood on his mother’s neck, he decided that he would have to keep doing
whatever they wanted with no fuss at all.
Once again, he would try not to say anything at all…if he could. But that didn’t stop him from worrying about
what horrors today might bring.
The
door to the school seemed to magically open for him and Billy literally dragged
him inside. “Hey cocksucker!” Billy greeted
him nastily as he pulled him in the direction of the boy’s room.
As
he had decided, Chris purposely said nothing.
He simply meekly followed along.
“Hi
Chrissy,” Miranda said as she ran up to walk next to him. “I love those leggings.”
Chris
looked at her and almost said thanks, but he held his tongue.
“Did
your mother make them?”
Chris
looked at her again, but said nothing. A
moment later, Billy and his friends dragged him straight into the boy’s
room. Chris had no illusions as to what
for. Without even getting the time to
remove his coat or mittens, Chris found himself forced to refresh his lipstick,
then kneel down and service Billy, noticing that as usual, Billy was putting
himself first. And of course, after
Billy, he had to do Sam, one of Billy’s other friends. But this time, instead of being allowed to go
to class after two blowjobs, Chris had to suck off Chet first. Three today.
Only then was Chris released so he could go to his locker and put his
coat up. This time, he stuck his other
shoes in the locker along with his coat and kept the warm boots on his feet.
He
was late of course, walking into class.
But he tried to be as silent as possible as he slipped inside and sat at
the very back. Why was he even
there? As far as he could see, the only
reason he was in school now was to be closer to Billy and whatever he wanted.
He
wanted badly to wipe his lips off with his arm, but he didn’t dare. Since this started, he couldn’t seem to get
away from the taste and feel of the lipstick they required him to keep putting
on. And each time he did, the feel of it
got heavier and heavier, and of course, he couldn’t ignore the odd taste of it
at all.
As
the teacher droned on at the front of the room, his mind replayed the entire
day yesterday. And in the middle of remembering
it all, was the bridge. The bridge that
led to…where? And why would the deputy
park on this side of the bridge if he needed to prevent big trucks from driving
over the bridge from the other side? He
should have been parked over there. Maybe
he was just being lazy.
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“Nine
yesterday,” Alicia said into her phone.
“Does
that count Vincent here too?” Olivia asked.
“Yes. Tom told me he took him there.”
“Okay,
good. I’ll take care of it. I just wish Miranda hadn’t made things so
much worse yesterday.”
“You
and me both, but I had a little talk with her about it last night, and she
won’t be spending any more of their money again.”
“Good. We’ve got a big enough problem to watch out
for now.”
“You
should have heard what she really wanted to do to Chrissy though. It was…surprising.”
“Miranda?”
“It
seems Miranda was more than a bit hung up over Chris before this all
happened. When she heard that Chris wet
his pants three times the day it happened, the first thing Miranda thought
about was what a big baby he had become.
You know the diapers Chris is stuck in was her idea, but what she really
pictured was him turned into a complete baby, including baby bottles and
spending the rest of his life crawling around on a nursery floor.”
“Oh
my,” Olivia exclaimed. “At least she got
her way with the diapers. I’d think
she’d be happy about that.”
“I’m
sure she is,” Alicia replied. “She seems
to be hung up now over how smart Chris was before he made his mistake, and how
stupid he really turned out to be.”
“Well,
I think Billy is taking care of that misconception rather well.”
“That’s
what I told her, but I get the impression that she now has a personal vendetta
against him, so she’d still like to come up with more to make Chrissy’s life
even worse.”
“Worse? I’m not sure that’s even possible.”
“I
haven’t even seen him yet,” Alicia replied, “but I can’t imagine anything worse
for him. And where Billy came up with
the idea for him being a town cocksucker, that’s just…dare I say it…awful! My son!”
“Yes,
but at the same time, Vince and I both think that Billy is already showing
everyone in the town that he’ll be a huge force to reckon with someday. He’s already earning the respect he deserves.”
“That
much I can agree with,” Alicia replied.
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As
first period ended and Chris walked out into the hallway, he wasn’t the least
bit surprised to see Billy already there waiting for him. He figured that Billy must have walked out before
the end of his class to be there that early.
The moment Billy reached out and started dragging him toward the front
of the school, Chris knew where they were going. Principal Pomeroy’s office. Just as Billy had threatened to do before.
Pomeroy
stood up the minute he saw Billy entering the outer office with Chris in tow. He wasn’t surprised when Billy dragged Billy
all the way into his office. “Billy,” he
said. “I don’t think…”
“I
don’t care what you think!” Billy told him.
“Now get those pants down. The
faggot here has work to do.”
“But
Billy…”
Instead
of answering, Billy picked up the phone on the principal’s desk. He dialed the number for the sheriff’s
office. “Dad,” he said as soon as his
father had answered. “Dumb Pomeroy here
doesn’t seem to be interested in taking advantage of our new town
cocksucker. What do you think about
that? If Chrissy here doesn’t have cocks
to suck, how’s he going to get any better?”
“Put
him on,” Tom Bastien told his son.
Billy
turned the phone over to Pomeroy.
“Yes
sir?” Pomeroy replied, now clearly worried about the consequences.
“Billy
says you’re not interested in what Chrissy needs.”
“It’s
not that,” Pomeroy replied, trying to find an excuse. “It’s just that…this may not be the best time
or place.”
“Pomeroy,”
the sheriff said. “Is this a good time
for you to leave that job and start working as a fieldhand with the cows
instead?”
“No! No, of course not.”
“Then
do you have a problem?”
“Uh…no
sir. Not at all.”
“Good. I didn’t think so.” With that, he hung up the phone.
Pomeroy
looked at Billy, who was smiling back broadly.
Without saying another word, he dropped his pants and watched as Chris
dug some lipstick from his purse and coated his lips. A moment later, he closed his eyes as the
warmth of Chris’s mouth engulfed him.
This was a bad thing. A very bad
thing. But that didn’t mean that it
didn’t feel good.
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“Miranda,”
the teacher said as nicely as she could.
“Do you have a problem? Did you
understand everything we’ve been talking about?”
Miranda
brought herself back to reality. “What?”
The
teacher forced herself to smile kindly.
“I asked if you understood what we’ve been talking about. You looked like you have a problem of some
sort.”
Miranda
considered that. “Yeah, I do,” she said
as she grabbed her purse and her books and got up from her desk. “But sitting here isn’t going to solve
it. I need to go to the library
instead.”
“Anything
I can help with?” the teacher offered.
“I
seriously doubt it.”
Five
minutes later, Miranda sat down at one of the few computers available for
students to use. Now, where should she
start. How did she even go about finding
out what she needed to know?
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Tess
was doing everything she could to concentrate on her work at the bank, but it
was difficult. The only thing her mind
wanted to concentrate on was on Chris.
What was he doing? What was
happening to him? Was it as bad as yesterday? She worried about him incessantly.
The
phone rang and she answered it. “Hello”
“Tess,”
Betty Tucker’s voice came from the receiver.
“How are you today?”
“Sick!”
“Sick?”
“In
my head anyway. Maybe to my stomach
too.”
“You’re
not coming down with anything, are you?”
“All
I’m coming down with is a bad case of worry about my son.”
“That
much I can understand. “Listen,” she
said. “I just got a call from Olivia.”
“Olivia? What did she want?”
“Tess,
she just cancelled nine dollars of your debt to the store.”
“Nine? That’s a weird number.”
“That’s
what she told me. We’ve already fixed
the accounts.”
“But
nine dollars?”
“Yes,”
Betty replied. “I don’t understand it
either. I just wanted to let you know.”
“Yeah. Thanks,” Tess replied. She hung up.
Why would Olivia Bastien cancel nine dollars’ worth of her debt. It was almost nothing at all. Why bother?
And then she remembered another number nine. The number of people Chris had evidently had
to service yesterday. Was something
happening here that she wasn’t aware of?
Was Olivia trying to send her some kind of message? She really had no idea. It was all just…strange.”
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