The Princesses and the Frog
By Charlotte Dickles
Author's Note: This story contains adult subject matter. Do not read it
if such material is likely to offend you, or it is illegal in your
country. Otherwise, please sit back, read and enjoy.
'Mr Hughes, please come in,' Mr Bain said, 'and thank you for coming to
see us so promptly.'
He could hardly have done otherwise, Steve Hughes reflected, with
yesterday's letter from the solicitors Bain, Bain and Bain burning a hole
in his pocket; he might learn, the letter had said, 'something to his
advantage provided he acted swiftly'. Nevertheless, when he telephoned
the solicitors he'd been astonished to be given an early-morning
appointment next day; clearly things did need to move fast. He returned
Mr Bain's greeting, and they conducted the normal thirty seconds of small
talk, prior to getting down to business.
'As I mentioned in my letter,' Mr Bain commenced, 'I need evidence that
you are Stephen Frederick Hughes, and that your mother was Charlotte
Fredericka Hughes (nee Mansfield). Hopefully you've brought your
passport, and your own and your mother's birth certificates...' (he
paused and looked for Steve's confirming nod before continuing) '...so
I'm going to ask you some questions, and then at the end, should the
answers to the questions prove satisfactory, I will take a DNA sample,
which will be sent to the laboratory for confirmation. Is that acceptable
to you?'
Steve said that would be perfectly acceptable, thinking that considerable
money must be involved if the client was prepared to go to the expense of
a DNA analysis.
So, the solicitor examined the documents and then went through a series
of questions about both him, and his mother, ranging from the date and
place of birth, his parents' marriage and deaths, and finally coming
around to everything he knew about his mother's estranged twin sister.
'I know that, like most twins,' Steve said, 'they had been really close.
Then, when I was about five or six, they had a bust up and they never
spoke again. Later, in the early 1990s, I heard that she'd emigrated to
Europe and, as far as I know, she's never returned.'
'Do you know where in Europe she lives?'
Steve shook his head. 'No. Even when Mum was alive, we never exchanged
even a Christmas card with her. When Mum died last year from breast
cancer, I tried to find her to let her know. The only clue I had was that
my great-grandmother was supposed to have come from Russia sometime prior
to World War I, and she was rumoured to have been a minor royalty before
the Revolution. That's why Mum, my grandmother and I all have Frederick
or Fredericka in our names. Personally, I think it's all bullshit but I
did feel that perhaps Aunt Freddie might have gone there looking for her
roots. Unfortunately, all my queries to the Russian Embassy were met with
total silence.'
'So your aunt's name was Fredericka, as well?'
Steve nodded. 'I suppose so, although we always called her Freddie.'
Mr Bain nodded for a few seconds, before saying, 'Well, Mr Hughes, I
believe that, rather than you finding your aunt, your aunt has found you.
My client is Fredericka Mansfield. I'd like to take a DNA sample to
confirm it, and I'll be passing that onto the laboratory, but since time
is short, I can't wait for the results before proceeding to the next
stage. I need to gain your assurance that everything I now tell you is in
strictest confidence.'
'In strictest confidence? Why's that?'
Mr Bain smiled. 'I can't answer that until I have your assurance that you
will not divulge the answer to anyone else - no one else whatsoever.'
Steve shrugged. 'I guess that's OK.' Seeing the solicitor's
dissatisfaction with that as a firm statement of intent, he added, 'Yes,
I will keep everything you tell me from now on in confidence.'
'And not just what I tell you. You will need to see your aunt, and you
will also keep all details of that in confidence.'
Steve nodded. Clearly, he wasn't going to learn anything without that
commitment. 'I agree.'
Mr Bain smiled. 'Excellent. In that case, I can tell you that your aunt
lives, not in Russia, but in Molvania.' He withdrew an envelope from his
desk drawer. 'Here is a British Airways Club Class Return ticket to
Budapest, and the flight is booked for 2 pm this afternoon. You'll be met
at Budapest Airport for onward transportation to Molvania. I trust that
is satisfactory?'
Steve tried to stop his jaw from gaping. 'You're expecting me to fly to
Eastern Europe this afternoon. I haven't even packed a toothbrush.'
Mr Bain looked at the wall clock. 'You'll have ample time to purchase a
toothbrush at Heathrow Airport,' he said. 'As for everything else, I've
been advised that you should travel light. Everything you need will be
provided in Molvania.'
'But don't I need a visa or paperwork?'
'You have your passport with you,' Mr Bain said, 'and Hungary is in the
European Union so you have full EU citizenship rights, there. As for
Molvania, I have been assured there will be absolutely no problem with
your entry into that country.'
'But...' Steve faltered as he hopelessly tried to grasp the reality of
the situation he was faced with.
'Of course,' Mr Bain continued, 'you don't have to travel this
afternoon.'
Steve gasped at the straw. 'I don't?'
'Of course not. It's entirely up to you when you travel. All I can say is
that I have been told that the matter is of the utmost urgency. In my
experience, that can mean anything between two extremes: the first is
that the client is incredibly impatient and expects everyone else to run
around for them; the second is that the client - perhaps a wealthy client
- is dying and wishes to see a potential beneficiary prior to remaking a
will. As they say, it's your call to decide which it might be. All I can
advise is that you really have nothing to lose by acting quickly, and
potentially a huge amount to lose if you do not.'
***
'Meester Hug-Heez?'
When the door opened to reveal three sexy girls, his heart had
immediately filled with joy. He'd had a long journey, commencing with the
BA flight to Budapest. Then he'd been met and put as the only passenger
onto an extremely elderly, twin-engined aircraft that had seen better
days. The interior would have been called luxurious in 1950, when it
would clearly have been the top of the range in executive planes. Now, it
had all looked extremely dated and rather shabby.
But his spirits sank to the dregs of his stomach when he realised that
the guide book to Moldavia, which he'd bought at Heathrow and read with
great interest all through the flight to Budapest, was of absolutely no
relevance whatsoever, since he was going to Molvania! He'd had a long
day, he felt stupid, and he didn't know where the hell he was going.
From the limited information on the plane - and the only stewardess spoke
virtually no English - Molvania was a tiny state, about ten miles long,
set in the Carpathian Mountains, which, since the break up of the Soviet
Union, had returned to a monarchy. Great!
After a two-hour flight, the plane had landed at a darkened airport and
he'd been picked up by an elderly Rolls Royce and taken to what looked
like a fairy-tale castle, with portcullis and drawbridge, and spires and
turrets shooting into the air.
The car had driven over the drawbridge and stopped immediately outside
the huge iron-studded door, which gave entrance to the castle. The driver
made no effort to get out and help him, so Steve got out by himself,
walked over to the door and used the gigantic door-knocker to create a
sound to wake the dead.
Rolls Royces, even quite elderly ones, do not make much noise as they
move, so after being deafened by the door-knocker, Steve wasn't even
aware that it had departed until he heard the rattling of the portcullis,
and looked around to see that the huge iron gate had already fallen into
place and the drawbridge was lifting, totally cutting him off from the
rest of the world. As a large frog sitting next to the door started
croaking, Steve felt the whole situation was rapidly taking on the
scenario of a horror movie, except that this was real life, and he was
really frightened to face he-did-not-know-what the other side of the
door.
In fact, he was faced with three pairs of beautifully large tits on
display, on teenage girls wearing unfashionable dresses which made them
resemble fairy princesses - puffed up sleeves with scooped necklines,
narrow waists, then swirling multiple layers of chiffon which swept down
to the floor. Their straight, dark-brown hair was cut in a severe fringe
at the front, but at the rear it was so long it reached almost to their
waists.
'Hughes,' he said, correcting the tallest girl's pronunciation.
'Whose?' the girl repeated, looking puzzled. Then her face broke into
laughter as she followed his eye downwards. 'These are *ours*,' she said,
thrusting her breasts forward. 'Not belong to anyone else. At least, 'and
she made eyes at him and her smile widened, 'not yet.'
He couldn't resist another glance downwards in their general direction,
and the three girls laughed and obligingly shook their shoulders for him,
and their boobs wobbled like jellies.
'Sorry,' he said, unsuccessfully trying not to blush. 'I meant my name is
pronounced *Hughes*.'
'Ah, *Hews*,' the second girl said, nodding. 'I am Princess Beatrix.
Thees,' she waved at the taller girl, 'is my eldest sister, Princess
Angelika, and she,' she indicated the smallest girl, 'is my younger
sister, Princess Caterina. Can we call you Steep-hen?'
'Call me Steve,' he said. 'Pleased to meet you.' He was even more pleased
when the princesses, in turn, gave him a kiss and a hug, pressing those
lovely boobs against him, and giving him an instant hard on. Although,
now he'd had a chance to clock them properly, he realised that, apart
from their wonderful boobs, the three girls were not what one would call
beautiful. Their faces were square-looking, with heavy jaws and
foreheads, which their fringes only partly hid. It made it quite
difficult to guess their ages, probably about...
'I am of age eighteen years,' Angelika said, guessing his thoughts.
'Seventeen,' Beatrix said.
'Just sixteen,' Caterina said, 'and we are steep kuzan.'
At least, that's what Steve thought she said. He was gradually getting
used to their heavy Eastern European accents, but steep kuzan was not a
term he could grasp.
'Steep kuzan, did you say?' he asked. 'What does that mean?'
'Our father marry your aunt,' Angelika explained.
'Ah!' Steve said. 'Step-cousins.'
'That's what I say,' Caterina said, but further conversation was halted
as an inner door to the large ceremonial hall inside the castle was flung
open with a crash.
The three girls immediately swivelled around to face it, dropped onto one
knee, lifted one side of their skirts in a curtsy, and said what Steve
guessed was the equivalent of, 'Your Majesty.'
Steve felt rather out of place, having had no warning that a real king or
queen was in the castle, and since it was not the kind of normal thing
which happens to a guy living in Clapham - even when he visited historic
castles - he wasn't even certain what he should do.
For a moment, he thought that the woman who came through the door was his
own mother. A more careful examination made him realise that, simply by
the way she carried herself, she was someone with immense presence, much
younger-looking than the fifty-five years she must be. Perhaps a fortune
spent on beauty treatments had considerably helped. Unfortunately, as
soon as she opened her mouth she totally destroyed the illusion.
'Steve, love,' she said, in a deep Cockney accent. 'Your Aunt Freddie is
simply dying for a kiss.'
***
C-r-o-o-a-a-k,' went the frog, as the man and the three princesses
disappeared inside the castle.
In frog language, that meant something like, 'If only one of you
princesses had kissed me, I would have given you any wish you desired.'
But since he wasn't interested in the kisses of middle-aged queens, he
turned his back and kept a look out for any passing food - he suddenly
felt quite hungry and really fancied a nice, juicy fly.
***
'Molvania is so difficult to get to, and there's so little to see when
you do get here, that the marauding armies which periodically swept
across this part of Europe, tended to leave us alone,' said Aunt Freddie
(or Queen Fredericka as she was officially known).
'But the monarchy was a direct challenge to the Bolsheviks,' she
continued. 'When they took control of the region, they arrested every
member of our royal family. They said it was for their own protection,
but, in fact, they immediately executed them all. Fortunately, my
grandmother - your great-grandmother - had been sent to England for
schooling, and stayed on in England, hoping to return sometime, but of
course, she never did.'
Steve and his Aunt Freddie had adjourned to the Royal Chamber, leaving
the girls in the main ceremonial hall. The Royal Chamber was a bit of an
anti-climax, since the throne was covered in a drape and pushed to one
side of the room and they sat in conventional swivel chairs at a
boardroom table. Freddie had started to explain how she had got there.
'After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991,' she continued, 'the
Molvanians decided they wished to return to a monarchy, and sent for me,
the eldest daughter of the only remaining bloodline of the original
Molvanian royal family. I am now Queen Fredericka of the Monarchy of
Molvania.'
'Blimey!' Steve said.
That not may have been a response covered by normal royal protocol, but
somehow, her Cockney accent removed any sense of awe he might otherwise
have held her in. Which, he thought, just shows what a prejudiced mind I
have! 'But Aunt, how on earth could you suddenly take on the job of being
a queen of a state, without a lifetime's training and being brainwashed
into thinking that you're better than everyone else?'
She smiled. 'I'd already had my training,' she said. 'Prior to that, I'd
been Chief Executive on an Inner London council. Now, I have less money
to spend and population to manage than I did then. Of course, my job is
made a lot easier since we don't have that stupid democracy thing to
worry about, here. If I believe something is a good idea, I just do it.
We may only be a small country, but Molvania has advanced faster than any
other in the region since the fall of the USSR, and I'm certain that's
down to me and to the monarchy.'
'And you have a husband and three lovely step-daughters,' he added.
'It's actually *seven* not-so-lovely step-daughters and one not-so-bad
step-son,' she replied. 'The others are at our palace in the capital with
my husband, Rudi. The sole reason I chose him as a husband was that his
children were mostly girls, and I needed a daughter to continue the line.
And so far, I'm afraid that Rudi has failed me. I remain a monarch
without a heir.'
'Why do you need a daughter rather than a son,' he asked. 'I thought the
heir to the throne always went down the male line.'
'Not in Molvania,' his aunt said. 'Between 1762 and 1834, there were a
series of disastrous kings - who continually wasted money and lives on
war - alternating with excellent queens - who promoted peace and
prosperity. From then on, Molvania has only had female monarchs.'
She smiled. 'I'm afraid that means that, even if I pop off tomorrow, you,
as the sole surviving member of the family, won't inherit the throne.'
'Thank heavens for that,' Steve said. 'I don't think I'm really up to
that kind of job.'
'The big problem is that I don't know who will inherit. My failure to
bear a daughter is causing a lot of unrest generally and I've been
desperate to resolve it.
'A while ago,' she continued, 'I had a miscarriage, and my doctor has
told me that was definitely the last baby I can ever conceive.'
'So what,' Steve asked, 'am I doing here?'
She smiled again. 'The sixty-four thousand pound question. Have you eaten
by the way? I think we could do with a slight break before we continue.'
***
'I need to bear a daughter of royal bloodline,' Aunt Freddie continued,
'but cannot. You Steve, on the other hand, could conceive with one of
these girls, a child with a similar mixture of genes as Rudi and I would
conceive. It's fortunate that you have inherited our strong family nose,'
(a feature Steve had always wished he did not have), 'and they their
father's rather ugly face.
The five of them had eaten a pleasant meal, which the girls themselves
had served. Indeed, it appeared to Steve there were no servants in the
castle, a fact he found surprising. He would have thought a royal
household would be brimming with them. But the meal had been appetising
and tasty, and Steve had enjoyed it. After finishing it, he and Freddie
had gone back to the Royal Chamber and continued their discussion.
Over dinner, Steve had already worked out which way the conversation
would be looming, and had made up his mind.
'You mean,' he said, 'that you want me to marry one of my step-cousins,
and quickly father a child. Well I can tell you...'
'No,' Freddie said.
'What?'
'I said no, I don't want you to marry one of these three girls,' Freddie
said. 'That would take far too long, and your first child might be a boy.
In any case, the population wouldn't be satisfied, since the daughter
needs to be mine, rather than that of my nephew, who is not in line to
the throne.'
'Well if you don't want me to marry one of these three girls,' he said,
'what am I doing here?'
'I want one of them to bear a daughter I can present as my own,' she
said. 'Obviously, the mother will take the role of nursemaid and care for
the baby, but the population will believe it is my child, and therefore,
the natural heir to the throne.
'So I want you to make these three girls pregnant,' she continued. 'As
soon as one of them is carrying a daughter, I will immediately announce
to the world that I am pregnant, and start the equivalent of pushing
cushions up my blouse - although there are actually far more
sophisticated ways of pretending to be pregnant.'
'Don't the girls have any say in this?' Steve asked, horrified that
Freddie appeared to be giving them away like common prostitutes. 'After
all, they have only just met me. I'm more than thirteen years older than
Angelika, and fifteen years older than Caterina.'
'I've spoken to them all and they are agreeable,' Freddie said. 'Your age
is immaterial; neither is your appearance nor prospects. What is
important is that the first of them to have a daughter by you will be the
mother of the future Queen of Molvania. An offer that no sensible woman
could refuse.'
Steve nodded. He was, he realised, being exceptionally pickity about an
offer of sex with three, willing, busty teenagers - and presumably lots
of it if they wanted to be the first to conceive. 'I suppose I can
understand that, but it certainly seems weird. Still, if they're
happy...'
'You will be happy too,' Freddie said. 'Not only will you have unlimited
sex with three teenage girls, I will also pay you fifty thousand pounds
on the day that I "give birth" to a healthy daughter. Does that make you
happy enough?'
'Tell me what I have to do.'
'Most importantly, you agree to keep this matter secret forever. If you
ever mutter a word to anyone, even after I'm dead, there'll be people
who'll come looking for you. You will live here for the time being. All
the servants have been sent elsewhere. All the food will be cooked in my
own palace kitchen and then transported here, so no one else will see
you; the girls will do what work is needed around the place. But that
means there are only the four of you on this site. If the secret leaks
out, it's one of you four who will be responsible. Do you understand?'
Steve indicated that he did understand. He could keep a secret without
the need for threats, but he understood why Freddie felt it necessary to
do so.
'Secondly, you'll stay around here until at least two, preferably three
of the girls are carrying female foetuses.'
'But what happens if they conceive a male baby?'
'In that case,' Freddie replied, 'their pregnancy will be terminated and
you'll do your best to get them pregnant again.'
'Terminated! Will they agree to that?'
'They already have done,' Freddie said. 'Remember, they want to give
birth to the next Queen of Molvania. They won't do that if they spend a
year bringing a boy into the world.'
'Well what happens if they don't all become pregnant? One of them could
be sterile.' Steve didn't want to mention the fact that so might he.
'I want at least two of the girls carrying female babies,' Freddie said,
'so that if one pregnancy goes wrong there's a back up ready for me.
Three would be preferable, but obviously, as you suggest, there could be
complications. For example, two might become pregnant straightaway,
whilst the other takes several months.'
'Several months! You can't expect me to stay here for several months. I
thought you were talking about a few weeks.'
Freddie smiled. 'The sooner you get them all pregnant, the sooner you can
go home, so you'd better put everything you've got into achieving that.'
Steve sighed. 'Bloody hell!'
'One last thing. No one must know there's a man in this castle, otherwise
someone is sure to smell a rat. Stay out of the way when the deliveries
are brought in. The rest of the time, there's no problem as long as you
stay indoors; if you want to go outside, remember that much of the
grounds can be seen from a distance, or by planes coming into land at the
airport. You'll have to put on disguise. The girls will help you to do
that.'
'Disguise.' Steve gave her a quizzical look. 'What kind of disguise?'
'Oh for heavens' sake,' Freddie stormed. 'I don't get involved in
details. I've told you, the girls will sort you out. Now is there
anything else, or are you ready for me to hand over the keys?' She stood
up, as a preparation for going back out to the ceremonial hall.
'Keys? What keys?' he said, following her out to the main chamber where
the girls were waiting.
'Why,' Freddie said, tossing a key ring with three keys towards him, 'the
key to the girls' chastity belts, of course.'
'Yer-hooo!' Caterina yelled at the top of her voice. The other two wasted
no time in shouting; they simply pounced on him and started tearing off
his clothes. Freddie watched them for a few seconds, smiling, before
gracefully leaving by the main entrance.
'Well,' she said to the frog who was still sitting there, 'I'm sewing my
seeds in a rather different way to normal, but I think it's all going to
work out nicely.'
'C-r-r-r-r-o-o-o-a-a-a-k,' said the frog, which meant, 'You're sailing
close to the wind. You'd better watch out.'
***
The next three days were like no other that Steve had ever experienced.
Sure, he'd occasionally had flings with girlfriends; and once, at
university he'd been invited to a party that turned into an orgy. But
never had he been to a never-ending orgy.
What was remarkable was the carnal knowledge of the girls who had been
virgins until now - the chastity belts had ensured that, and Steve had
seen the evidence. But Freddie had taken the girls out of school and sent
them for several months' instruction by an experienced 'Madame'. Without
any real practice at all, they were now Olympic standard sexual athletes!
Steve had never considered himself as having incredible staying power,
but these girls seemed to have no trouble in making him climax
continually, hour after hour, day after day, and night after night; each
girl desperate to be the first to get herself pregnant.
Until the fourth day!
***
Caterina noticed first. She was the one who normally slept between his
legs, her head resting on his thigh only inches from his groin. Her task
was to awaken him with an erection every few hours, and each of the girls
in turn would then service him.
But on that fourth morning, no amount of tongue or handiwork, by either
her or the others could get him hard. The more they tried, the more
ashamed and depressed Steve felt, which in itself made the task almost
impossible. Finally, Angelika suggested that Steve patently needed a day
off. No man could work continuously without a break, and that's exactly
what Steve had been trying to do, she said. Indeed, it was more the
girls' fault than his, since they shouldn't have pushed him so
incessantly.
The other girls agreed. Caterina suggested it would be really fun to go
for a picnic in the castle grounds by the stream. Even Steve cheered up
at that and the girls contacted the kitchens at Freddie's palace and got
them to prepare a picnic lunch.
***
'What have you done with my clothes?'
In the frenzy on that first night, Steve couldn't remember what had
happened to his clothes. He guessed that one of the girls must have taken
them and had them washed, ironed and repaired - he could remember one of
the girls tearing several buttons off the front of his shirt - but surely
they would have been returned from the palace laundry by now. In the
meantime, he'd been wearing Angelika's satin dressing gown on the few
occasions when he wasn't naked.
'I burn them,' Beatrix said.
'Burnt them!' he spluttered. 'What the hell for, and what am I going to
wear?'
'No man here in castle, you remember? I cannot send man's clothes to be
washed and made better at palace. Burning is best way get rid of them. I
put on fire.'
'As for what you wear,' Angelika took over the response, 'Queen say you
must not be in garden without disguise. You could be seen from aircraft.
Yes?'
Steve thought back to the spiel he'd been fed that first day. 'Vaguely,
yes. But what disguise have you got?'
Both the girls smiled. 'Come with us,' Beatrix said. 'We find something
perfect for you.'
***
'This is what Queen has ready for when she "become pregnant".'
They had gone into the well-equipped medical centre, with its combined
delivery/termination room and adjacent three-bedded ward, and then up the
narrow spiral stairs into the tower above. There were several small,
circular storage rooms - one above the other - with cupboards of medical
supplies, racks of bedding and other paraphernalia.
Caterina had pulled open a drawer and extracted the garment from one of
several similar ones inside. It was a bit like a flesh-coloured leotard,
except that there were protruding nipples on the front, which made it
look almost like the torso of someone's body.
Steve eyed it, suspiciously. 'What is it?'
'Is pregnancy Torsolet,' Beatrix said the unfamiliar words carefully.
'Specially made to same colour of Queen's skin.'
'It fits her like second skin,' Caterina said. 'You think she was naked.'
'So what's the point...' Steve began.
'This is the point,' Angelika said, pulling a length of plastic piping
out of the drawer. 'This end,' she held up one end of the pipe,
terminating in a small rubber cup, 'fit onto nipple, this end onto tap.
Fit to right nipple,' she loosely held it against the nipple on the
garment, 'breasts inflate with water. Queen can be any size breast she
choose.'
'Put onto left nipple,' Caterina said, and Angelika obligingly moved the
rubber cup to the other nipple, 'pouch on stomach inflated.'
'Each week,' Beatrix said, 'she add more water to stomach pouch, and look
more pregnant.'
'Fantastic,' Steve said. 'But I thought we'd come up here to find a
disguise for me. What else have you got in here? A gardener's uniform, or
something like that?'
'Silly man,' Caterina said.
'We show you disguise,' Beatrix said.
Steve shook his head, as though someone had just told him something
stupid. 'But this is your Queen's pregnancy disguise kit. What do I get?'
'Is alright,' Angelika said. 'She buy several Torsolets at same time so
no problem if one is damaged or wear out. You wear this one.'
'But I don't want to look pregnant.'
'We explain that,' Beatrix spluttered, with mounting frustration at
Steve's apparent denseness. 'If you connect pipe only to right nipple,
only breasts inflate.'
'You mean,' not for the first time that week, Steve was having trouble
grasping the situation, 'that you're expecting me to put *that* on and go
outside pretending to be a naked woman?'
'Silly man,' Caterina said again.
'Phew, thank heavens for that.'
'You not go in grounds,' Angelika said, 'looking like naked woman -
pregnant or not pregnant. We find you dress, and put on make-up. Also we
have wig for you.'
'What!'
'You have to look good woman,' Beatrix said. 'Else someone see you from
plane and think you a man. They put together two and two.'
'Unless you *are* a man,' Angelika gave a glance down at his limp
genitals before continuing, 'and I see you not. You get ready for
picnic.'
'Anyway,' Caterina said, 'we think it be fun. Like dressing doll, only
with real person. You enjoy too. Yes?'
***
It wasn't so much enjoyment, as an incredible sense of exhilaration, that
Steve felt as he came out of the shower without a hair on his body. The
hair removal cream they'd given him, (made from goats' milk they'd said,
but he thought it was probably goats' piss) had been extremely effective.
'Look,' Caterina said, staring at his erection, 'he is cured. We have sex
now, yes?'
'No!' Angelika snapped. 'One quick fuck, he go limp. We agree we go for
picnic. We do it.'
A man shouldn't feel delighted to be denied a quick fuck, but for some
reason, he was.
'Curiosity, really,' he muttered to himself.
'What?' Angelika turned, holding the Torsolet in her hands, ready to pull
it down over his head.
He smiled at her. 'I'm curious what it will be like wearing that, with
boobs sticking out, and... well, just simply looking like a woman.'
'He curious as well.' Caterina pointed downwards at Steve's prick, which
was now rock solid and pointing at her.
'Hell!' Steve said. 'What are we going to do about that? I'll never get
the Torsolet over it.'
'Cunt!' Caterina said.
'It's a perfectly reasonable question,' Steve said, feeling rather
wounded.
'No. Caterina mean we have special box.' Beatrix held it up for
inspection. It was clearly designed to fit between his legs and contain
his genitals. 'When she think up plan, Queen order it specially for you.'
'It give you cunt,' Caterina said with great relish. 'You able have sex
with man.'
'No men here' Beatrix said. 'Steve cannot have sex with man.'
'Steve does not want sex with man,' Steve said. 'I'm going to wear it
just for disguise, and maybe I'm a bit curious. But there's no way I'm
getting into the general proximity of a man, never mind having sex with
him.'
'Sex with good man F-A-N-T-A-S-T-C,' Caterina said, rolling her eyes at
him. 'You be woman - maybe you enjoy too.'
'Well it's hardly going to be the same, is it?' Steve said. 'That's
simply a plastic, er, cunt that fixes between my legs. It won't feel
*fantastic* for me.'
'No, no, no, we not explain,' Beatrix said. 'Torsolet has thingy called
Sensotouch.'
'Skin of Torsolet like touch-sensitive computer screen,' Angelika said.
'Stroke on Torsolet,' she lightly stroked the skin of the Torsolet,
'passed to many electrodes touching your skin.'
'You feel like it your own skin,' Beatrix said.
'But more sensitive,' Caterina said.
'And cunt is most sensitive of all,' Beatrix said, holding up the false
vagina to demonstrate.
'You're all crazy,' Steve said, trying his hardest not to wonder what it
would be like with a man's prick thrusting into an artificial cunt stuck
between his legs.
***
It appeared the instructions that came with the Torsolet were written in
Hungarian. Since the girls' first language was Rumanian, Beatrix
hesitantly read them whilst the others tried to make sense of what she
said. There was an accompanying tub of red gel, which, she said, had to
be smeared over Steve's torso prior to putting on the Torsolet, to
prevent sweat rashes. So, Angelika put on a disposable plastic glove that
came with the tub and smeared the gel all over Steve's torso.
It felt incredibly erotic to Steve, and once they had pulled the Torsolet
over his head and down his body, it became clear that he had been
absolutely right about the difficulties of fitting the Torsolet over his
throbbing erection. Consequently, they decided that in spite of their
earlier agreement, someone had to be chosen to relieve his tension.
Normally, there'd have been a squabble over who was to get first mating
rights, but Caterina reckoned the other two always got more than she did,
and they didn't challenge it. It was not the greatest of sexual
gymnastics, lasting a little over three minutes, but at least Steve knew
his equipment was working again, and Caterina got a small dollop of
spunk, which if they did but know it, would make Caterina the first of
the girls to become pregnant.
But Steve's prick had returned to its former floppy state, and he was
able to feed it into the hole on the inside of the false vagina without
problems. A gusset hung down from the front of the Torsolet, and when
Angelika pulled this firmly between his legs, it kept the artificial
vagina in place. As she tugged it hard enough to fasten it to the
matching bit at the rear, his balls were squeezed into oblivion, bringing
water to Steve's eyes. Fortunately, by the time he'd got sufficient
breath back to yell, the pain had disappeared and it all felt comfortable
again.
'All men like large breasts, yes?' Beatrix said, fitting the one end of
the piping to a tap. 'You to?'
'He like large breasts,' Caterina said. 'He love ours.'
'Actually,' Steve confessed, 'I do quite like large breasts, but better
not make them too big, eh?'
'Every man need to know what big breasts like for woman,' Angelika said.
'We make breasts HUGE!'
'...and see how he enjoy them as woman,' Caterina added.
'No girls, just normal kind of...'
His words were lost as they all pounced on him and held him down. Beatrix
connected the pipe to the right nipple and turned on the tap, and let it
run, and run, and run. Of course, the problem was that with Steve lying
on his back, it was quite difficult for them to judge exactly how big his
breasts were as they formed shapes like huge bell gongs on his chest.
It was not until he tried to sit up with two melons hanging down, they
all realised just how big his tits actually were. They whistled and
jeered at him in a way that was not dissimilar to the way that, when he'd
been at school, a bunch of boys - not Steve, of course - had whistled and
jeered at a particularly large-breasted girl. Only now did he realise how
embarrassed he - that is, the other boys - had made her.
'OK, very funny. Can you let them down, now? Please?'
Beatrix looked at the instructions again, shook her head and pointed at a
picture in the instructions. 'No. You see - non-return valve.' She quoted
the words carefully, anxious not to get it wrong. 'Pull cup off nipple,'
she gave a tug on the pipe and it came free, 'water does not come out.'
She was right; Steve's breasts remained melon-sized.
'Sorry, Steve,' Angelika said. 'Your breasts very large. Do not be upset.
Only for few hours.'
The other girls made similar apologetic noises.
'Well it won't do me any harm to carry these around for the day, and I
guess I do deserve it.'
'You not deserve it, Steve,' Beatrix said, thinking that Steve wouldn't
feel so magnanimous after he'd carried that colossal weight around for
ten minutes. She smiled at him. 'You very nice about our large breasts.'
'Mmm,' he replied, actually still feeling bad about that girl at school.
'To support your breasts,' Angelika said, 'you need good corset. Put on
camisole to start.'
'Corset!' Steve said with trepidation, as he obligingly allowed her to
feed the cami over his head. He'd read lots of stories on the web about
corseted women. 'I don't need a corset.'
'If you put on princess dress,' Caterina said, 'you need corset. Dress
not fit properly without corset, and you not look like fairy-tale
princess. We all wear corsets.'
Steve tried not to gulp when she told him about looking like a fairy-tale
princess. It really wasn't normal for a man to find that an incredibly
erotic suggestion - was it? A dress, with puffed up sleeves and...
'For picnic, we dress properly,' Beatrix said. 'You must too.'
Angelika was already wrapping a corset around his back and fastening the
front busks, so it was too late for him to argue about it. But he would
make damn certain they didn't tighten it too much.
***
'But I can't breathe,' Stephanie said.
'You still talk, Princess Stevie,' Caterina said. 'For that you must
breathe.'
'And I watch your breasts push out the top of your dress,' Beatrix said.
'They inflate like baboons.'
'Balloons,' Stephanie corrected.
'Do not walk quickly, Princess Stevie,' Angelika said. 'Princesses must
walk at royal pace. You look better, and you not gasp for breath.'
Beatrix and Angelika were carrying the picnic set between them. Steve had
offered to do it, but the three girls looked at those enormous boobs and
tried to imagine just how much energy it would take simply to climb up
the valley side to the point where they intended to have their picnic -
where a pretty stream emerged from the woods. Then they had declared
that, since Stevie was a visiting princess, they would do all the work
and she would be the guest.
Stephanie was glad to take Angelika's advice. She had heard of people
training with weights in a rucksack, but never with breasts as heavy as
dumbbells stuck to their chests. Already, in spite of the supporting
corset, her back was aching, and her feet, were throbbing in her tight
shoes with two-inch heels - the smallest heel, on the largest-size shoe
in the castle.
But (and this was an incredibly big but) Princess Stephanie felt
absolutely marvellous. The dress she was wearing was simply so beautiful
- a peach-coloured chiffon dress over a wide bustle, which swept the
ground as she walked. And with each pace, the Sensotouch system allowed
her to feel her boobs bouncing in their bra undercups, and her nipples
rubbing slightly against the fabric of the dress, and she could feel the
soft breeze underneath her skirt, making her bare pussy feel cool, but so
very sexy.
Even now, she couldn't really understand how she had got into this
position. Steve had been having incredible sex with three, very willing,
large-boobed teenagers - the kind of situation that every man dreams
about. Then of its own free will, Steve's prick had decided it had had
enough, and he had willingly gone along with being dressed in this most
beautiful of dresses, and walking in the gardens with them. Definitely
weird.
***
The picnic was great. The sky was bright and the sun was warm. They laid
a blanket on the ground, and all four girls laughed and giggled when
Stephanie first sat down, and the bustle pushed the front of the dress
right up in the air, exposing her stocking tops and bare buttocks and
pussy for all the world to see.
And it had to be admitted, that since the girls had such a wonderful view
of most of Molvania from this elevated vantage point, presumably most of
Molvania could also see them!
Just as the laughter was about to die out, Angelika pointed across the
valley and said, 'All people look with bipolars,' which made them all
laugh some more.
'Binoculars,' Stephanie corrected.
The girls showed Stephanie how to sit down properly in a bustle, by
lifting the dress from the rear before sitting, and gave her a few more
tips on princess-like behaviour. The picnic had included a couple of
bottles of excellent wine, and they had to finish those off, simply so
that Stephanie could learn to hold the glass correctly!
It was just as they were finishing their meal that Angelika said, in a
very small voice, 'I think my period comes.'
'Oh, Angelika, you poor kitten,' Beatrix said.
'You pregnant next time,' Caterina said.
'There'll be lots more opportunity for us to make babies,' Stephanie
said.
The three of them rallied around and offered support and comfort. After a
few minutes, Angelika said she would go back to the castle and lie down
for a while.
'We go for stroll in the woods?' Beatrix said, as soon as Angelika had
gone out of earshot. 'On this part of hillside, like in shop window. Nice
and secluded in woods.'
'Yes,' Caterina agreed. 'I ready for us be secluded.'
So they got up and followed the path into the woods. After they'd gone
only a few yards, Caterina said, 'We secluded now. No need go further.'
She pointed at a bench by the side of the path. 'We sit here, yes?
Stevie, you in the middle. We sit either side.'
They followed her suggestion.
'I think Angelika mean,' Beatrix said, 'to say no sex all day.'
'She knew period coming,' Caterina said. 'She want to stop us while she
not fertile. I think we should take opportunity.' She was not to know
that her opportunity had already been well and truly taken.
'But Stevie most important person,' Beatrix said. 'Stevie, you ready for
sex?'
In fact, Stephanie had been feeling ready for it all through lunch. Every
time she'd reached for a sandwich, her nipples had moved against the
fabric of her dress, and given her a feeling that was so squiffy, she
thought she might have a climax on the spot.
'Well, yes. But I'm a woman at the moment. Much as I'd like to...'
Stephanie's words died on her lips as the other two slipped her dress off
her shoulders and down her arms, and eased it over her enormous breasts.
When she'd been dressed this morning, there was clearly no corset in the
castle into which her oversize breasts would fit, so Angelika had
selected one with a simple undercup platform on which they could rest.
With her dress lowered, those two enormities were exposed to the fresh
air. So wonderful was the Sensotouch feature, that Stephanie could feel
the breeze upon her nipples.
But not for long. With perfect synchronism, Beatrix and Caterina lowered
their mouths to her nipples and sucked.
'Jeez!' Stephanie gasped. 'That's just... A-a-a-h!'
'Nipples of Stevie very sensitive,' Caterina said, coming up for a
breath. 'Much more than my nipples.'
'Can vary Sensotouch,' Beatrix said, as she, too, came up for air. 'I set
very high.'
'Oh my God!' Stephanie, too, had to gasp a mouthful of air. 'That's the
most exquisite...' Her words were cut off as Beatrix and Caterina ducked
their heads down to their task again. Never before had she been on the
verge of an orgasm for more than a few seconds. Now the experience went
on and on, for minute after precious minute.
'Cunt also important,' Beatrix said. 'You agree, Caterina?'
They lifted her skirt up over the hoops of the crinoline so that
Stephanie could just see the unfamiliar shape of a hairless slit between
her legs. Beatrix reached down and slipped a finger inside her cunt.
'Oooh!' Stephanie said.
'There is way,' Beatrix said, as she fiddled around, 'to let bud poke
out... There!'
She withdrew her hand so they could all see what was happening.
Stephanie could feel movement between her legs - the kind of movement
that no girl normally feels. As they all stared at her slit, so the tiny
bud of her clitoris appeared. It grew larger as they stared at it - and
larger, and started to emerge from its hiding point. It became the size
of Stephanie's thumb, and still it steadily grew until it was not
dissimilar to the shaftless head of a man's penis. Finally, it grew no
more.
'It's stuck,' Stephanie said in despair. 'How do we get it completely
out?'
'I sorry, Stevie,' Beatrix said. 'With this Torsolet, it make larger no
more. No worry, is plenty for us.'
She stood up, swivelled round to face Stephanie, and then lifted her own
skirts to the waist and sat astride Stephanie's lap. With the two sets of
skirts and hoops, further observation of their mutual point of interest
was impossible.
'Caterina,' Beatrix said, 'Get on knees and look. You guide us come
together.'
Caterina did so, crouching between Stephanie's legs - practically beneath
Beatrix's buttocks - and gave instructions. 'Stevie, open wide the legs.
More wide. That is right. Beatrix, fall down between legs of Stevie.
Stevie, more wide. No, Beatrix, push close to Stevie. More close.'
'Yes! Go on,' Beatrix said.
Caterina put a hand onto Beatrix's bum and gave a helpful push, to press
the two bodies together.
'That's it,' Beatrix shouted. 'Push harder. Harder.'
Stephanie could feel her clitoris starting to penetrate Beatrix, but
nothing like far enough for proper sex. She thrust her pelvis forward.
'Harder,' Beatrix shouted. 'Harder.'
Caterina got off her knees, put both her hands onto Beatrix's bum and
pushed as hard as she could. She shuffled her feet backwards, so she was
leaning her entire weight against Beatrix, and thrust with all her might.
'Go on, Stevie,' Beatrix screamed. 'Push!'
Stephanie did, and she felt her clitoris pop between Beatrix's outer
lips, but, she realised, she was never going to penetrate Beatrix
properly whilst wearing the Torsolet. So near, yet so far! She felt
despair creeping upon her.
'Stevie, harder,' Caterina yelled.
Of course, Stephanie thought, I'm thinking about this as a man. Now I'm a
woman, I don't need to penetrate Beatrix, only to rub my clitoris against
Beatrix's clitoris, until we reach mutually satisfactory orgasms. She
moved her body so that, instead of trying to push her clitoris inside
Beatrix's vagina, she was simply bringing her clitoris into contact with
Beatrix's.
'Oh! Y-e-e-s!' Beatrix shouted. 'Oh, that is fucking good. Oh, my orgasm
is coming! Oh yes. Y-e-e-e-s! Oh fuck me!'
With those final words, Stephanie felt an explosion happening somewhere
deep inside herself, which came surging outwards, through the only outlet
open, pumping buckets of semen (did girls have semen, Stephanie wondered)
into Beatrix's cunt.
'Y-e-e-e-s-s!' Stephanie gasped
'Y-e-e-e-s-s!' Beatrix screamed.
'Y-e-e-e-s-s!' thought that tiny spermatozoa spurting into Beatrix's
vagina, and racing against all the others to be the first to the prize -
the only prize that mattered. And it was!
***
It was almost four o'clock before they awoke from a slumber, returned to
the picnic area, packed up their things and went back to the castle. It
was fortunate they didn't leave it any later, for just as they were
entering the castle courtyard, and Stephanie was saying hello to the frog
- much to the amusement of the other girls - the drawbridge lowered, the
portcullis lifted and the royal Rolls Royce swept in.
Angelika came out of the castle to greet the Queen, as they approached
the door. She curtsied, and the two spoke together before they both
turned to watch the princesses walk over to them. The three girls
curtsied - one a little clumsily, and Angelika said, 'Your Majesty. Allow
me to present Princess Stephanie.'
The smile on Freddie's face froze and hostility flashed across her face.
'How dare you! You must all be drunk!' She stared hard at Stephanie and
said, 'You! I want to speak to you now.'
'Yes your Majesty.' For the first time, Steve (definitely not Stephanie)
had not referred to her as his Aunt Freddie.
***
'So, you're not as ignorant as you made out, are you?'
Steve (and definitely not Stephanie) didn't know what she was talking
about, but he had recovered his composure in the half minute it had taken
to walk into the Royal Chamber. 'I'm sorry?' This time he didn't call her
Majesty, but he felt it definitely unwise to call her Aunt Freddie. 'I
don't know why you're cross with me.'
'So why did Angelika call you Princess Stephanie?'
'But Aunt... Your Majesty, it was you who instructed me to wear disguise
if I went into the castle grounds. You knew I would have to dress as a
woman.'
'I'm not talking about your dress, or those ridiculous breasts, but why
did you call yourself that name?'
Steve couldn't work out what she was getting at. 'The girls said it would
sound silly, continuing to call me Steve or Stephen. Stephanie was the
female equivalent.'
'Oh!' She sounded surprised, but then added, with extremely bad grace,
'Yes, I suppose I should have thought of that.'
She paused for a few more seconds, thinking, and then said, 'I suppose I
had better explain. But remember, I have never told anyone else in
Molvania about this, so if it leaks out, you're the one I shall blame.'
She said the words with such an evil grimace that Steve felt a shudder
pass down his spine.
***
'Your mother Charlotte and I met your father at university, and we both
fell for him in a big way. It was the late sixties, and free love was
everywhere, so what was more natural than that twins should share the man
they both love. We continued the open relationship for a few years after
we left university, until Charlotte got pregnant.
'She insisted upon marriage, and both your father and I were happy about
that, assuming that it wouldn't change our threesome relationship. It
did. Charlotte wanted monogamy, and made things so difficult that
eventually I moved out.'
She gave a shrug. 'I didn't see why your mother should have sole rights
to your father simply because she was careless enough to get pregnant. So
we started an affair that went on for another five years or so, until I,
too, became pregnant. When Charlotte discovered who the father was she
blew her top. We had an argument that we never made up. I moved away for
a few years and made a new life with my baby daughter, who I named
Stephanie.'
'Oh!' The silence between them lengthened. She had clearly said on their
first meeting that she needed a daughter to inherit her reign, and Steve
was frightened to ask the obvious question.
'Stephanie died of cot death when she was only three months old.'
'Oh Aunt, I'm so sorry.' In spite of her previous hostility, Steve felt
impelled to go over to her and give her a hug. 'I simply never realised.'
'Of course you didn't, but when Angelika introduced you as Princess
Stephanie I thought your mother must have told you about her, and you
were making a game of pretending to be her. I made a wrong assumption,
when I should have remembered that both Charlotte and I named our
children after the same father.'
She looked at her watch. 'The others will be wondering what's going on.
Let's go back to them, and,' she gave an evil scowl, 'don't mention what
I've just told you, or else.'
Steve nodded. He *could* keep a secret without threats, but a threat from
Freddie certainly concentrated the mind.
***
'Incidentally,' Freddie asked him as they were re-entering the main
chamber, 'Why do you have such ridiculously large breasts. Don't they
make your shoulders ache terrible.'
'It's absolute hell,' Steve said.
'Then why did you inflate them so large?'
'It was our fault, your Majesty,' Angelika said, coming into the
conversation. 'We make the fool of Steve. We make the breasts big. Then
we could not let them down.'
Freddie turned on Steve. 'Didn't you read the instruction manual?'
'Hardly,' Steve said. 'It was written in Hungarian, so I left it to
Beatrix.'
Freddie sniggered, rather cruelly Steve thought. 'Beatrix is hardly a
master of Hungarian. In any case, there are only a few basic, very badly
translated paragraphs in Hungarian. If you'd bothered to look in the next
drawer along, you'd have found the full instruction manual in English.
That tells you precisely how to reduce the size of the breasts. It's
quite easy.' So easy, her tone dismissive tone implied, that even an
imbecile like Steve could do it.
'You're kidding me!'
Freddie irately shook her head. 'I'm not in the habit of kidding anyone.
The Torsolet comes from an English company, and their manual is
excellent, so it's a pity you didn't bother to read it. Anyway, I suppose
there's no harm done, just as long as you didn't use the gel.'
There was a moment of silence, which stretched into several seconds.
Freddie looked at them all, shocked incredulity on her face. 'You didn't
use the gel, did you?'
'Aunt, it said something in the manual about preventing sweat rashes,'
Steve said.
'Oh you stupid imbeciles. Don't you realise what you've done? Yes, you're
right, Steve, it does prevent sweat rashes. But it does so by bonding the
Torsolet to the skin and sealing the sweat glands. You're stuck in that
thing now for the best part of two weeks. You have completely blown the
whole project.'
'No,' Beatrix said. 'We have sex in woods, no problem.'
Freddie looked to Steve for confirmation. 'Is that right, Steve?'
Steve wouldn't exactly have described their sexual union as no problem,
but given the look on Freddie's face, he thought it best not to admit it.
'Sure,' he said. 'The three of us had sex in the woods after Angelika
left us. It was great.'
Freddie still looked suspicious, but fortunately she decided not to
challenge them further, and instead changed the subject. 'I shall be
going away next week to Brussels. I'm meeting with the European
Parliament.'
'That sounds very impressive aunt,' Steve said, trying to lighten the
tension.
She turned to Beatrix and Caterina, and said, 'Your periods should start
Monday, is that right? '
They both nodded.
'Well, I'm not leaving until Wednesday,' she said, 'so we should know one
way or another by then. I'm hoping I shall be able to make an
announcement about my pregnancy to the European Parliament.'
Beatrix and Caterina both nodded warily, probably not following her
English. Stephanie thought it highly probable the parliament would not be
overly interested in the monarch of a non-EU state, but thought it
diplomatic not to voice his opinion.
'It was bad luck about your period this time, Angelika,' Freddie said in
a sudden mood of magnanimity, and then spoilt it by adding, 'so you'd
better try a damn lot harder next month.'
Angelika smiled and quietly said, 'Thank you, your Majesty.'
***
'Wow,' Stephanie said as soon as the Queen had left. 'What rattled her
cage?'
'She angry my period come,' Angelika said.
'Angelika, you know. She always angry like that,' Beatrix said. She
turned to Stephanie. 'How you see her last week, all smile and she talk
funny English...'
'You mean Cockney?' Stephanie asked.
'Yes, that is it,' Beatrix said. 'She talk funny to make friendly with
you. She never smile.'
'She evil witch,' Caterina said.
'Then why did you agree to give her a daughter?' Stephanie asked.
The three exchanged glances, and Angelika said something in their own
language, then she turned to Stephanie. 'Queen say she lose baby because
my father give her bad seed. He guilty of treason. If we not do as she
says, he will be head chopped. She take all his money and our house. We
have nowhere to go.'
'That is evil,' Stephanie said. 'I can't go ahead with this knowing that.
I'll tell her...'
Beatrix interrupted. 'She said, even if no babies with you, we still use
training in brothel. We earn money with men on streets to buy food for
whole family. She very evil.'
'We hope that our babies be like you, Stevie,' Caterina said, 'not like
her. We have lovely babies if like you.'
Stephanie looked at the three of them, sickened at the position they had
been put in by her mother's twin sister. 'Then we better make more
babies,' she said.
***
Stephanie managed to find the instructions for the Torsolet written in
English, and studied them at length. Freddie had been perfectly correct
in saying that the gel was a powerful adhesive that was permanently
bonded to the skin, and it would only come off when the outer layer of
skin was shed. The really bad news was that although some versions of the
Torsolet were designed for male cross dressers, and the penis could fully
emerge to serve its proper purpose, the pregnancy version clearly was
not, and Stephanie had been lucky to be able to take things as far as she
had.
She did, however, manage to reduce her breast size, although the girls
insisted that since she was quite large for a woman, she should have
boobs to match. Which meant that she still ended up with boobs far larger
than she thought necessary, but she gave in with good grace. After all,
she only had breasts for a few weeks - the girls had them for life.
In fact, sex in the Torsolet proved to be so problematical that after a
few attempts they decided to cut out the intercourse, and simply milk
Stephanie for her semen. Each girl went to work on a breast or clitoris,
frantically licking until Stephanie squirted her semen into a small bowl.
The girls carefully divided it between them, and then they improvised the
final operation with a piece of plastic tubing. Each sucked up the semen
from the bowl into the tube (taking care not to suck too hard!) and then
inserted the tube deep inside them, and gently blew it out.
The whole operation worked out rather well, so that was the way their
sexual relations continued for the next few days. Stephanie felt she
should have been upset at failing to have proper sex with the girls, but
for some reason she felt perfectly happy that they were able to take her
milk and use it.
As Monday approached - the day that Beatrix and Caterina were both due to
start their periods - everyone was in a state of nervousness. To their
absolute delight nothing happened, and as the day wore on, nothing
continued to happen!
Tuesday morning, Freddie arrived. As soon as she heard their news, she
was on top of the world. Her previous bad mood might never have been
there. She immediately went back to the palace and returned an hour later
with the royal doctor.
A few minutes with each, and he confirmed that Beatrix and Caterina were
both pregnant! However, he would need to take samples and send them to
the laboratory for pregnancy sex testing.
First thing next morning, Freddie arrived clutching a champagne bottle,
and proclaiming that Beatrix had a female foetus inside her! She pushed
the champagne bottle into Angelika's hands, and told her to open it and
get pouring - none for Beatrix of course - clearly she had to be
thoroughly cosseted from now on.
'What about Caterina, Aunt?' Stephanie asked. 'Have you had her results?'
'Oh, yes,' she said, in the same sort of tone she might have used to
discuss the weather. 'Caterina has a male foetus. The doctor will come
around this afternoon to perform the abortion.'
'Don't cry, child,' she added, as Caterina burst into tears. 'This will
only put you out of the running for a few weeks. And you never know your
luck, Beatrix's daughter could easily be miscarried or deformed, so
there's still hope for you and Angelika to win the race. It's an ill
wind, as they say... Beatrix, Why on earth are you crying, now? You're
pregnant with a female, for God's sake.'
She simply could not understand why no one wanted champagne on such a
joyful occasion, and no one felt able to try to explain.
'Well if you're not going to open that champagne, Angelika, give it back
to me,' she eventually said. 'I'm flying to Brussels this morning, so I
might as well celebrate by myself, rather than with you miserable lot. I
really don't understand any of you.' And she stormed outside.
She took the driver by surprise, and he had to hurry round to open her
door for her.
'For God's sake, get a move on. We can go straight to the airport, now.'
Unfortunately, the driver didn't understand English, so she had to repeat
it in Rumanian, which annoyed her even more.
'C-r-r-r-o-o-a-a-k,' went the frog.
'And fuck you,' Freddie said, stamping on it.
Actually, she stamped on the spot where it had been sitting an instant
before. Fortunately, frogs have lightning reactions, and a moment before
her foot reached the ground, it had leapt forward two feet. Freddie could
have swore the thing croaked, 'And fuck you too,' but that may have been
her imagination.
Actually, that was exactly what the frog had said, and for a few seconds
it felt extremely mean towards Freddie, queen or no queen. But it wasn't
a malevolent frog, and knowing the power that frog wishes have, it
decided it really ought to recant that wish.
It was just on the point of doing so, when the car moved, and the frog
was sandwiched between three tons of armoured Rolls Royce and the granite
slabs of the courtyard.
Some day perhaps, a frog will survive such a situation, and it will be
able to tell all the other frogs, 'Whatever you do, don't take cover
underneath a car, particularly next to those large, round, black things
which keep the car off the ground.' Unfortunately for Freddie, that
message had not yet been transmitted, and the frog died before it could
retract its deadly wish.
***
Three days later, things were starting to return to a kind of normality -
although quite different to what it had been before. Only Angelika was
now milking Stephanie, as Caterina had aborted her baby and the doctor
had told her to avoid becoming pregnant for a few weeks. Privately, she
decided to give it a week and then get going again!
They all agreed that the really good thing about those few days was that
with Freddie in Brussels, they could relax, and not worry about her
pouncing in on them. So they were all totally gob smacked when the
entrance door suddenly crashed open one evening and a young man walked in
- about sixteen or seventeen years old, Stephanie guessed.
He greeted the girls in Rumanian, then turned to stare at Stephanie, and
added something, to which the girls replied.
'This, our brother, Andrei,' Angelika explained to Stephanie. 'He has
important news of family.'
'Hello Andrei,' Stephanie said, nodding at him. 'In that case, I'll leave
you to talk alone.'
'No,' Angelika said. 'He say you stay.'
'OK.' Stephanie said, thinking that it was all the same to her since she
wouldn't understand a word of their Rumanian conversation. Andrei smiled
at her in a pleasant way, no doubt, Stephanie thought, ogling her boobs.
She was wrong about not picking anything up. With the boy's first
sentence, the girls all gasped in horror, clasped their hands to their
mouths, and then looked at each other, and particularly at Beatrix, who
appeared as though she was about to burst into tears.
'Queen go to special doctor in London,' Angelika told Stephanie. 'He tell
her she have the cancer of the boob. She very bad. She not live long.'
'Oh my God!' Stephanie said. It was not just the shock of losing an aunt
whom she'd only just been reunited with, but it meant their entire plan
would have to be abandoned, leaving Beatrix pregnant with his, Steve's,
child.
'Why she wait to see doctor in London?' Caterina asked. 'We have good
doctors in Molvania. They would find cancer months ago.'
'What about my...'
Beatrix's wail was sharply interrupted by Angelika. 'Do not say the word.
We talk later about it.'
She was right. The boy probably knew a few words of English, and 'baby'
might well be one of them - a word which should have no part in their
current discussion.
'What is Aunt...' Stephanie stopped herself just in time. That was
another word which should not be used alongside the next word she had
been going to say. 'What is the Queen doing now? Is she staying in
Brussels for her talk to the EU?'
Caterina asked the question of the boy, and gave Stephanie his answer.
'No, she return home now. She must give news to people.'
The boy added something, and Caterina translated, 'Andrei needs to see
you in private. He has message from Queen.'
'Well he's going to have difficulty giving me a message,' Stephanie said,
'when he can't speak a word of English.'
Beatrix translated again. 'He says, message written. A private message.'
'OK,' Stephanie said. 'I suppose we'd better go into the Royal Chamber.'
Beatrix translated and the boy gave a little grimace - as though nervous
of what he had to do - rapidly walked over to the door to the Royal
Chamber, opened it, and then stepped back with a smile, a bow and a sweep
of his arm, to indicate that Stephanie should precede him.
Stephanie was surprised. She wasn't used to having men opening doors for
her - indeed, neither were most women in Britain, particularly by
sixteen-year-old boys. She realised that being a woman in Molvania had
certain advantages she hadn't thought of before. She smiled