The Plaintiff
That deep sense of reverence always came to mind when Mark entered the
library. The schools library was typical of Romanesque architecture.
Massive rounded arches supported on plain pillars looking larger than
they should be, older as well. Wisdom and age came to mind which, he
suspected, was the reason for that particular architecture.
Wisdom and age and those carvings, some definitely grotesque, but all
adding a sense of soundness and sobriety to the structure. Maybe even
dark Gothic, Mark decided, and very dark he noted. A scary place at
night he imagined, and definitely now as he climbed the steps to Ms.
Baker's office.
Mark had no idea why he'd been summoned and couldn't imagine being
called for anything pleasant. He was a freshman, a nobody making him too
new to have much to do with anything or anyone at the school.
Mark worried greatly over the summons as he reached the secretary and
gave her his name. She passed it on over an intercom that had to be five
decades old. Decades old but polished deeply matching the woman's voice
answering, he mused. He was invited in immediately.
"Mark? Mark Adams," the woman he assumed was Ms. Baker asked as Mark
walked into the large office. He nodded an apprehensive yes looking at
his surroundings. The space was more masculine than feminine, heavy,
dark, solid, like the library itself. It seemed somehow to suit Ms.
Baker, Mark also mused.
"I'm Ms. Baker. Please, please, come in, and thank you for responding so
quickly to my summons," Ms. Baker said pleasantly, standing as her
secretary left the room closing the door.
The door closed behind him silently showing another woman seated to his
right. She was sitting on a maroon leather sofa. Mark had no idea who
she was and Ms. Baker had not made an attempt yet at an introduction.
She too was stately, easily fitting into this scene, perhaps even more
than Ms. Baker.
"You're welcome," Mark said with formality and deep sense of reverence
not to mention a small amount of nervousness.
"It's Helen, please," Helen Baker said waving a hand to a leather and
dark oak chair that put him directly in front of her desk.
Ms. Helen Baker was the Head Librarian and a formidable woman in Mark's
eyes. Mark didn't do well around large powerful women. His size some of
it, he knew, but other things as well going back some number of years.
"Mark, allow me first to introduce you to one of our benefactors. Mark,
this is Mrs. Aby Van Braun. Mrs. Van Braun, allow me to present Mark
Adams, one of our freshman this year, and the young man I told you
about," Helen said.
Mark was about to sit, stopped, stood straight again and extended his
hand. Another domineering woman, Mark noted, as she too stood to take
Mark's hand. What was it she'd been told about him, Mark mused over
Helen's words.
This was not a comfortable environment and without a reason for being
there even less so. With both women towering over him, even worse. Mark
was small in stature and build and these women were not. He was at one
end of a spectrum, these woman at the other. As always, his aunt
suddenly came to mind.
"Very nice to finally get to meet you Mark. May I call you Mark?" Mrs.
Van Braun said taking Mark's hand in hers.
"Yes," Mark said nervously.
"And please, I'm Aby," Mrs. Van Braun noted smiling.
Aby's fingers wrapped around Mark's hand like an adult to a child and
Mark saw it that way. As always, it both excited him and scared him. It
always did with woman like Aby. Aby was clearly authoritarian,
commanding, almost imperious. Traits defined by his aunt long ago
frightening him since early childhood. He was on the verge of having an
accident, wishing again he'd gone to the bathroom first.
"Please, everyone sit, relax and I'll explain why I've asked you here
Mark," Helen said.
Mark obeyed instantly, anxiously since there was no context to him being
there, and yet his worse thoughts had already begun filtering through.
You get summoned by someone like Ms. Baker, it can't be good.
Why Ms. Baker wanted to see him had been frightening enough. Then this
second woman, perceptively as powerful as Ms. Baker, maybe more so
perhaps, only compounded mark's fears. He was definitely confused and a
little scared as he sat.
"Mark, a few weeks ago, five to be exact, you spent some time on one of
the libraries computers. A lot of time and while, both your session and
the information going into and out of those computers are private and
personal, I did chance upon the contents. Mark, it was an unregistered
access which is perfectly normal but it left a number of key words," Ms.
Baker said.
Mark had context now and his stomach twisted hoping he was wrong. That
session, please, don't let it be that one particular session, Mark
noted. He was becoming scared. The computers were suppose to be private
and that session so damming. Damaging at the very least and it sparked
key words and what did that mean? He was nearly faint.
At Helen's revelation adrenaline began pumping furiously into Mark's
body. Please, not that session! NOT that session, he pleaded in silence.
There was nothing to say, nothing he dared say hoping she hadn't looked
to deeply into those files and scripts, but knowing she must have if he
was there.
"Mark, for the past few months we've been monitoring computer usage here
hoping to find someone. Someone, how should I put this, suitable. That
search has been lengthy and difficult and when it did come up positive I
worked at making an identification. I know what I'm saying must sound
very unnerving but it's not what you're thinking," Helen said.
Mark's heart rate soared matching his blood pressure and those mounting
levels of adrenaline. Mark had known fear before this, but nothing on
this level as his world, this new world of his, was no doubt about to
come crashing in on him. He could hardly take a breath.
His reaction wasn't missed as he face turned ashen.
"Mark, please, relax a moment and breath. First of all, I assure you
that the material I chanced upon is being held in my trust and nothing
of those contents is any one else business but yours. As I said, it was
a necessary search and very important to us. More importantly, and I
hope you believe this, not intended to do you harm. Do you understand
what I'm saying?" Helen asked.
"Yes ma'am," Mark answered but he didn't understand and he wasn't sure
he believed it anyway as he added, "Please, Ms. Baker, I know how that
stuff might look and what it may suggest, but it's only fantasy, honest.
I've never actually done any of that. Never!"
"Please Mark, relax. Mark, truth is I would have never seen it nor
cared. I still don't were it not for a chance conversation I had with
Mrs. Van Braun just a while ago. Fact is we only hold material left here
for a day at best but in this case, and out of necessity, longer," Helen
said as she sat back.
"I don't understand," Mark said. He felt faint.
"Would you like a glass of water," Aby asked looking at Mark's blanched
face. There was no doubt that Mark was under a great deal of stress at
the moment. Unfortunately that was somewhat necessary and not
unforeseen.
Mark, still petrified and now nearly on the verge of fainting had lost
the ability to hold back the tears he felt pushing to the surface. He
was ruined. He was almost past the point of comprehension as his mind
reeled. It took a moment for Aby's question to register.
He was afraid to talk but realized he had to and yet his mind raced
backwards. It wasn't Aby's voice, but his aunt's yelling at him from his
past, "no liquids past eight o'clock young man."
Mark shook his head lightly and said, "I'm sorry, I drifted. Water? No!
I mean no thank you."
"Mark, please, take a breath and relax for me. As I said, that material
of yours is strictly yours and yours alone. If, at the end of this
conversation, you say no to this request of ours, that information goes
into cyber space. No questions. It's your business and allow me to
assure you that it will still be just your business at the end of this
discussion," Ms. Baker said.
"Request," Mark asked, now on the very brink of tears. A request she
said. He knew he'd heard it correctly. That was different than a demand,
different than an accusation or condemnation. What could she possibly
request that might be linked to that evening?
"Request! Yes, I've asked you here to make a request of you and it has a
lot to do with what went on with those visits of yours we've recorded,"
Ms. Baker said.
"Ms. Baker, I can explain," Mark said now convinced that Ms. Baker had
all of the grimiest details and a clear picture of who or what Mark was
as he added, "actually, it's mostly research material."
"Research material," Ms. Baker repeated. There was a slight amused look
on her face that she hadn't hidden very well. Clearly she didn't believe
him.
"Material for my Psychology class," Mark murmured unconvincingly. It was
in an odd way research but how could he explain something so odd.
"Of course it is," Helen noted too easily.
She wasn't buying it, Mark realized. Yet, oddly, there was no way she
could have connected that information to him except, obviously, she had.
How had she done that, Mark mused.
"Mark, there is no need for you to explain any of it, and I mean that.
As to how I came to know it was yours? That was simple enough, and I'm
sure that's a question you must have," Helen said and added, "that would
be your first question, right?"
"Yes ma'am," Mark said wondering suddenly if she was psychic.
"As to that then, I had just cleared the computer room to close and you
were the last student to use computer number three on that night. The
log-in also put you there," Ms. Baker said and added, and the copy
utility you used to download whatever it was you downloaded, gave a time
for that function at nearly the exact same time. It couldn't have been
anyone else.
Mark already on the verge of tears had been listening only selectively
and those last words alone left little of Mark's composure intact. He
could feel the tears welling up and his eyes filling. This was truly the
end and of everything and of that he was sure. There was nothing left to
say or do and no way he could remain composed.
"Mark, my dear Mark, please, you are not listening to me," Helen said as
she realized that Mark was losing it. She felt sorry for the young man
sitting before her.
Mark dropped his head and the tears flowed.
"Ms. Baker, if you would allow me, perhaps I can explain this better,"
Aby said as she shifted from the sofa and into another chair that she
moved to face Mark.
"Please do," Helen said realizing she had not done a proper job of
introducing their case to Mark.
"Here," Aby said taking a hanky from her bag and thrusting it gently out
for Mark's sake. Mark took it. There was a hint of freshness, of
femininity that touched at a memory. His aunt again.
"Thank you," Mark said dabbing at his eyes.
"Mark, if this helps, we were not searching for you in particular, just
someone who might be connected in some way with this sort of life style.
It really was random. Mark, truth is, I need your help - desperately.
That is why I am here. What went on in that session is only important
because you'll understand me when I tell you what I need. Do you at
least believe that," Aby said.
"I think so," Mark said sniffling against a sudden runny nose.
"Mark, twelve years ago my son, now thirty, but your age then, dressed
as a little girl for a Halloween party. It was silly, but then again it
was Halloween and he was very young. It was a very private affair and
completely innocent at the time. In fact, if I remember this correctly,
he also won best costume that night," Aby said and added, "Anyway, as
always, there were pictures."
"Pictures," Mark asked wondering if her son's pictures were among the
hundreds that he'd collected over the past couple of years.
"Yes, unfortunately. There are always pictures and even worse there was
one picture in particular that is most damaging," Aby said.
"I don't understand," Mark said taking a breath after a soft sob. Ms.
Baker had handed Mark an additional tissue just then. What did his
session have to do with this woman's son.
"I know you don't understand, but hopefully you will in a few more
minutes. Mark, that one picture in particular was taken after my son
removed his wig and make-up. The party had ended and he, like most boys,
and I don't mean to be offensive by saying this, was happy to get out of
his outfit. At least some of it," Aby noted.
"I'm not offended," Mark said trying to figure out what she thought
would offend him.
"Thank you. Unfortunately, by removing that makeup and wig, he became
clearly identifiable. Both as a boy and recognizable," Aby noted and
sadly.
"Your son," Mark asked not clear where this was going but realizing
there was a glimmer of hope in the changed tone of this meeting. It
didn't appear to Mark that he was actually the target now.
"Yes, my son," Aby said in frustration.
"I'm not sure I follow what it is you are saying," Mark said still
confused but now slightly hopeful.
"I know and if you'll allow me just a few more minutes, please, perhaps
you'll understand then. As I noted, there is a picture of my son looking
very much like a boy clearly dressed as a young girl. As a little girl
actually. A very little girl I should add and quite convincing as one in
the picture with the wig. Not something most boys would care to have
laying around," Aby noted.
"True," Mark said meaning it. He had always fallen short of actually
trying anything other than looking at pictures.
"Exactly. Problem is Mark, I've just come into some information that
this one picture in particular is now in the hands of a publisher. A
sleaze of a publisher I might add. With the other pictures showing my
son dressing as a little girl. Moreover there are those before shots
showing who he is, and it's, to put it mildly, devastating," Aby noted
though clinched teeth.
"Is it like a scandal newspaper?" Mark asked. He could imagine something
like that happening.
"No, but I'm sure those scandal sheets will follow soon enough. Mark,
are you familiar with a magazine called Little Sissy Missy?" Aby asked
and added before Mark could answer, "And Mark, please, it's important
you answer me honestly. For my son's sake. For my sake."
"Yes ma'am. I mean I've heard of it and I know a little about it," Mark
said feeling his face flush slightly. It wasn't one of his favorites,
but then again it published the types of pictures he enjoyed looking at.
Mostly it was sissy boys, always boys, some delicate enough, small
enough, even pretty enough to really be mistaken for little girls, or at
least for girls dressing as little girls.
Mark was now sure there was something else at work here and that he
really wasn't the target of some sort of punishment or that he was about
to be exposed. Clearly this was about this woman's son and not him. He
sensed a coincidence in this somewhere as he played back the meeting so
far.
"Well Mark, as it happens this magazine, and my calling it that is a
kindness of the highest order, will be doing another publication, I
believe, in a couple of more months," Aby said.
"They publish twice a year I think," Mark said.
"They do, and sadly my son's pictures will be in that next publication
based on some very reliable information. Mark, I simply cannot allow
that to happen. I won't let it happen," Aby said and the anger in her
voice chilled Mark. Mark would not want to be on the angry side of this
woman.
"It would be damaging," Mark said.
"Catastrophic," Aby said.
Mark, now feeling slightly better since this woman's son was the issue,
nodded and said, "I see."
It was oddly coincidental that her son and he might have something
common. That his aunt and this woman, at least on the surface, shared
some similar traits. Clearly it was why she intimidated him as she did.
Mark was not out of the woods yet, but he was no longer sobbing the loss
he had felt over being exposed. Now it appeared that they needed him for
something else and his session just a link to that something else.
"May I ask what this has to do with me," Mark said softly with as much
kindness as he could muster. That softness was so this woman didn't feel
challenged. Mark would not challenge someone like her even if he could.
"Mark, I want to stop this company from publishing. I want to stop this
man's publications completely. In fact, I want to seize all of his
pictures, his equipment, everything he owns if I can, but most of all
those pictures," Mrs. Van Braun noted
"You mean take them," Mark asked.
"No. Seize them Mark. A legal seizure that will gather into it
everything including those pictures of my son. I plan on doing this
legally through a lawsuit," Mrs. Van Braun noted.
"A lawsuit," Mark asked.
"A lawsuit," Mrs. Van Braun said and added, "based, in part, on U.S.
copyright laws."
"Got it," Mark said now more confident since clearly he had only a small
connection to this woman's son.
"Unfortunately the very act of suing them for that particular picture
will ultimately point directly to it. The very act of trying to hide
those pictures will expose them. That is unfortunate and has left me in
a dilemma for weeks now since finding out. That is until I was called by
Ms. Baker here," Aby noted smiling at Helen.
"Yes ma'am. So how would I fit into this?" Mark asked now slightly past
his anguish and very relieved at the moment.
"Mark, I want you to sue this company on your own behalf which would
actually be on my behalf," Aby said and added, "Actually Mark, I want to
sue them through you."
"Me? You want me to sue this company? I don't understand? I mean I'd
like to help, if I can, but I'm not sure I can," Mark said.
Clearly he was relieved to know this wasn't about him at all now, or not
about what he thought he was or wanted to do. Other than, it appeared,
he was doing a little of what her son did, although Mark realized that
might not be the case either.
"Mark, I'm a very wealthy woman and trust me when I say this, you can
help me, and if I can convince you to help me, I'll make sure you are
well taken care of," Aby said and that tone again changed.
Mark was sure she could do almost anything she set her mind to. That was
scary enough and that scared Mark anew.
"How?" Mark said realizing in another thought that this might expose him
just as easily as it did her son. When he said how he also wanted to ask
what would happen to him if this actually did happen. Obviously she
didn't want the publicity, but neither did he.
"Mark, I have a private investigating firm that has traced a single copy
of that picture, the most damaging, to a small sleazy office in New
York. Its source, unfortunately, is an old girlfriend of my sons who
sent it off in anger. That office, as it happens, is a front for this
man that publishes that magazine," Mrs. Van Braun noted.
"I don't have the first clue on what to do," Mark said.
"And you wont need anything in that regard. Mark, I have also secured,
through my own legal staff, another legal firm to act on your behalf.
There is no connection to me in that way. In addition to this New York
effort, I will be doing the same exact thing in Hong Kong where the
magazine is actually printed and published," Mrs. Van Braun noted.
"Hong Kong," Mark asked.
"Hong Kong. As it happens and fortunately for me, for us actually, Hong
Kong has kept the British legal system and English laws still apply
there. Hong Kong also follows the English model of laws on intellectual
property rights and copyright," Mrs. Van Braun noted.
"I see," Mark said using Mrs. Van Braun's hanky to wipe his chin after a
tear made it's way that far. He only slightly understood what she was
saying.
"Relax Mark. As it also happens the firm representing you will also be
coordinating the efforts of a Hong Kong legal firm at the same exact
time. If this works out right and I'm making sure it does, you won't
actually have to be a physical part of either action. Just an initiator
of that action."
"Nothing beyond that at all," Mark asked and added, "How?"
"The firm is planning on suing on your behalf, but once filed they will
expanded the suit to all of those being exploited by that company," Mrs.
Van Braun said.
"So I wouldn't have any connection with the actions taken?" Mark asked.
"That is my hope. Mark, I'm also hoping you'll say yes and with that yes
we will be able to shut this magazine down and seize both their
materials and their assets - completely," Mrs. Van Braun noted.
"Everything?" Mark asked.
"Everything and it would be well deserved. Mark, it seems, and I have
the evidence to prove this, that this man takes these images from all
sorts of sources and uses them without the owners permission. He knows
most will not sue out of fear of being outed as it were," Aby noted in
anger.
"I've heard that too," Mark said feeling guilty over some of the images
he's also downloaded as he added, "but even if you have the pictures,
won't that girl simply tell?"
"Which girl? Oh, you mean my son's old girlfriend? No. Mark, as you're
no doubt aware, lots of adults like dressing as little girls and some,
I've since discovered, like wearing diapers and dressing as baby girls,"
Aby noted before pausing.
"She dresses as a little girl?" Mark asked not daring to ask about the
diapers.
"Actually as a baby girl," Mrs. Van Braun noted.
"As a baby girl," Mark repeated slightly surprised.
"As it happens, yes, she does, and fortunately I've got my own set of
pictures. She's a successful lawyer and no more anxious to go public
than my son would be," Aby said in a voice dripping with sarcasm.
Mark wondered how that girl's pictures got into Aby's hands but decided
not to ask.
"And this guy, does he know that?" Mark asked.
"No, at least not that I'm aware of, but that doesn't matter either.
What matters is my son and me convincing you to help us so I can get to
this man before he does realize what he's got. Mark, will you be willing
to help me," Aby said and this time, thankfully, her voice was far less
forceful.
"May I ask what happens with me if I say yes?" Mark asked with some
degree of confidence now that he knew he was more or less off the hook.
He was still fearful, but fearful over new consequences from what he
might be willing to do and not so much by any risk of exposure.
"What I'm hoping, and what I've been led to believe is possible, is that
we can use you as a kind of sting operation," Aby noted and added, "with
you obviously fronting that effort and I financing it."
"How would that work?" Mark asked.
"Briefly, and I'm really hoping for this, we are going to get pictures
of you dressed pretty much as my son was. Privately of course and then
post them with all of the legal caveats and notices required by law.
When he downloads those images, and I'm told he will for his next
publication, we've got enough to go after him. The lawsuits themselves,
one here and one in Hong Kong, once it begins, freezes his assets, both
here and abroad," Aby noted.
Mark thought long and hard on what Aby had just said realizing in those
minutes what she was really asking of him. "Dressed pretty much as her
son was," she'd said. He didn't dare state the obvious, not yet as he
wondered what to say.
"I'd be like bait then," Mark said asking the obvious and then the risk
as he added, "And I'd be exposed as well then?"
"In a word, yes. However Mark, if you say yes, I can guarantee you a
very high degree of anonymity. A very high degree. You would, I'm told
and at the very least, be completely unrecognizable. Moreover, once I've
set this up with my people, you will be almost completely invisible
behind a number of complex security levels and walls meant to keep you
safe, sound and private," Aby said.
"How?" Mark asked.
"Mark, within another day, assuming I can convince you to do this, I
will have you secured behind a temporary visa, already in the works,
that links you to an address in Taiwan. That address in Taiwan then
links you from there to an address in Bolivia," Aby noted.
"Bolivia," Mark asked.
"Bolivia. We've picked Bolivia because of their Internet protections.
Fortunately I've had a friend there rent me a home through a friend of
her's there. Mark, it would take a huge amount of effort, a great deal
of really good guess work, and lots of dollars to find out who you truly
are, if at all," Aby said and added, "And the trail to Bolivia actually
ends there in Bolivia."
"I see," Mark said feeling slightly uncomfortable now that he had been
sitting so stiffly for so long.
"Mark, I realize what I'm asking of you. I realize as well that there is
still a risk, however slight, but I promise you, I'll make every effort
to guard you and your reputation," Aby said.
"It's still very scary," Mark said, blushing as he added, "I mean right
now, no one, outside of you and Ms. Baker that is know anything about
me."
"Mark, I can appreciate that and I know I'm asking a lot from you so
allow me to also extend to you an offer that I hope makes what little
risk there is worth it," Aby said smiling slightly, warmly.
"An offer," Mark not realizing, till now, he might get something out of
this, looked surprised. A few minutes ago he was scared enough to do
anything to keep anyone from finding out about him.
"Mark, I will, at the moment you agree, transfer $50,000 from a personal
account to one of my subsidiary companies through a holding company.
Those funds will go into a very secure bank and then into a new account
opened in the Bahamas. From the Bahamas account that money will then be
transferred to a bank of your choosing," Aby said and added, "Taxes paid,
of course."
"$50,000," Mark repeated.
"$50,000. In addition, I will also pay the balance of your tuition loan
and expenses for the remainder of your college, including what you've
spent this year. Moreover, while this is underway I will continue to pay
you a very handsome retainer as a technical consultant," Aby said.
Mark sat there thunderstruck. He looked like a child on Christmas
morning. It warmed him instantly. She had said $50,000 dollars clearly,
including his tuition and expenses plus a retainer. He had no idea what
she would pay him for that retainer, but he was already feeling faint
over that first part of her offer.
"Ma'am, that is very generous," Mark said.
"I hope so. In any event, that is my offer and I'm trusting it's enough
to make you say yes," Mrs. Van Braun noted.
"How long would this take?" Mark asked.
"A month I'm told, six weeks at the most. This man won't fight, at least
we don't think so. What we're hoping is that it's simply the span of the
legal process itself that dictates most of the time that you're
involved," Aby said.
"What if he does fight?" Mark asked.
"Fortunately, with the proof we present, we can still legally freeze
everything, pending the outcome of that suit, and it can begin within a
few days after this man has downloaded your pictures," Aby noted.
"You said that before, about my pictures that is, but the truth is, I
don't really have any pictures. I just sort of look at the ones on the
Internet," Mark said feeling his face flush over what he was telling
these two women as he added, "I was actually being honest when I said I
haven't done that sort thing. Not even for Halloween."
"I've guessed that from my research, and it doesn't really matter. In
fact that makes this better because you have not been part of that
scene. Truth is I've planned on that, or better said, I've planned
around that," Aby said.
"I'm not sure I follow," Mark said.
"Mark, if this is a yes that I'm hearing, or the hint of one, I've
secured the services of a woman, through another dear friend, that
caters to this particular life style. I've been assured that this woman
is the very best at what she does," Aby said and added, "Which would of
course be the dress up part and obviously that would include pictures."
"She does pictures?" Mark asked slightly giddy over that prospect.
Pictures meant something to wear for those pictures.
"She does pictures. The best of those as well I'm told, and she knows of
this individual. It would appear he's not very well liked within this
life style because of the way he exploits people like that. Mark, again,
if you agree to do this, I can assure you there will be pictures that
this magazine will definitely be interested in," Aby said and added, and
I've also been assured that even your own mother wouldn't recognize
you."
"So I would be in disguise," Mark said feeling a little more relieved.
"You would," Aby said.
"The other thing is Mrs. Van Braun, I really don't have anything. I mean
most of what I had, and it wasn't much, was tossed out by my aunt when I
started school," Mark said. He was fibbing a little, testing the waters.
He wanted to know if there might really be things to wear.
"That's not a problem Mark. I've also included, as part of this woman's
retainer, a substantial budget for whatever she deems necessary for you,
her and those pictures. I should also add that whatever you end up with
would, of course and should you chose to, be yours for the keeping when
this is over," Aby said happily.
"How does he get those pictures?" Mark asked.
"You'll be posted to a web site that caters to the type of individuals
that this man depends on," Aby said and added, "And you would be, how
shall I put this, attractive enough for his taste."
"How will you know when that man has my pictures? I mean he's got to
have my pictures before you can sue, right," Mark asked.
"Yes. Yes he does need to download your pictures for this to start. As a
matter of fact, once your pictures have been taken electronically and
only if they've been taken can we sue. So he must take them. As to that,
I have a young man who is going to encrypt your images with something
that this young man can easily identify and not be duplicated or
removed," Aby said.
"But those pictures are going to be on his system and that system is
actually in Hong Kong," Mark noted.
"I know, and this then is between you and me. You, me and Helen here,
but that young man doing the encryption has already gotten into this
man's server. I believe you call it hacking, and as soon as your
pictures are on that system and identified as being there, we file our
briefs simultaneously," Aby said and added, "Besides knowing of his
actions that way, we will also get a key bit of information back that
those pictures have been downloaded. Don't ask me how but we will get
some kind of confirmation."
"And what happens if that man, you know, once the lawsuit starts, takes
that data, I mean those pictures, and puts them somewhere else?" Mark
asked and added, "You know, hides them?"
"Then Mark, I'm prepared to break the law and to that end, there is
going to be a virus also encrypted within your pictures. A very nasty
virus that will destroy most everything that connects to or has
connected to those pictures. If that virus is not stopped, and only that
young man can stop it I'm told, it goes off - maliciously. We hope to do
that during the seizures, if we can't do it then, as I've said, it goes
off on it's own," Aby said.
"But what about those that might have also downloaded those pictures. I
mean my pictures," Mark said wondering about the hundreds, maybe
thousands of computers out there doing what he sometimes did.
"When I mentioned that this young man working for me had already hacked
this magazines server, there is, and I'm not sure I understand it,
something called a pod that has been placed there. That particular pod
must be on that particular computer for the virus to work. No one else,
without that pod, should be impacted," Aby said.
"I see," Mark said in amazed admiration of this woman's commitment to
protect her son.
"Can I hope for even a hint of a yes," Aby asked.
"I think so," Mark said.
"Excellent and thank you for at least considering this. Thank you very
much," Aby said clearly relieved.
"So how am I going to meet with this woman?" Mark asked and added, "You
know, the one that's doing the pictures."
"That's already been arranged. Truth is I've already assumed you'd say
yes simply to expedite this process," Aby said.
"And what if I said no?" Mark asked.
"Then I'll be talking with someone else," Aby noted.
"So I'd be visiting her?" Mark asked.
"Yes and no. Actually, for the time being, you'd be staying with her.
Safer that way," Aby said.
"And she's got Internet access or this web space---?" Mark asked.
"Yes but you won't be using it. You'll be using a new account, again set
up by my people. Not sure how it works, but you'll be connected through
a proxy on links that go through a dozen countries when you actually go
on the Internet," Aby noted and added, "It's another level of complexity
that translates to even more security."
"Oh man, that's wild. So I guess I'd have to work out a schedule. You
know, for classes," Mark said by way of hinting he was going to say yes
definitely.
He could not say no at this point. Those pictures that this magazine was
interested in were exactly why Mark had once bought a copy. He didn't
know the images were often stolen, not then, but they published layouts
of some of the best sissy, little girl and adult girl baby pictures to
be found.
Mark, thinking about it, was suddenly scared again. What he'd just heard
was that there was another stranger, this woman, out there that would
know of him, and if he understood this she would be dressing him up and
taking pictures. He was caught between the proverbial rock and a hard
spot but it thrilled him nonetheless.
Ms. Baker cleared her throat and said, "If I may step in here for a
second. Mark, as for school, that is not going to be an issue. I'm going
to be taking care of that personally. I will, on your behalf, secure you
a leave of absence for this semester."
"Leave of absence?" Mark asked.
"Yes, but you'll be earning credits as well. You'll have that leave
showing you actually working for someone who works for Mrs. Van Braun
under our internship program and her company is one of several. Mark,
you will be getting extra credit for this, believe it or not, which
should take care of your electives for this semester," Ms. Baker added.
"Seriously?" Mark asked shaken slightly. It was becoming too good to be
true.
"Seriously. Not only that, but you will also maintain the credits you've
earned for this semester. Moreover, and if need be, I will make sure you
have any slots in any classes you chose for your next semester when this
is over," Helen noted with her own smile.
"Ms. Baker? Aby... I... I don't know what to say," Mark said.
"Say yes," Aby added quickly with a sense of hope in her voice as she
added, "please Mark, I really do need your help."
"Then yes," Mark said and then sheepishly asked, "When would this
start?"
"Actually, right now? As soon as I can get you to this woman. That
woman, the woman you'll be staying with that is, is waiting for my
secretary's call as we speak," Aby said.
"I'd need to stop at my dorm room first, for some personal effects,"
Mark said blushing slightly.
"Mark, if you don't mind, I'd like this to start within the hour. Please
don't be embarrassed by this, but I'm sure this woman can take care of
anything you might need," Aby noted and added, "And I have someone
already set to go to your room to secure any of your perishables and
personal effects."
"Oh, right. I guess I also need to ask if she has seen the information
I've downloaded? I mean does she know what sort of stuff there is?" Mark
asked shading a deep red as he posed the question. What he meant was did
that woman know what he might like.
"Neither she nor I have even seen your particular information, let alone
anything to do with you in particular, if that is what worries you," Aby
noted.
It wasn't what Mark meant but he decided to let it go.
"I guess it's definitely a yes then," Mark said almost ready to hug this
stranger that seemed to know him and yet not. He had questions but
wasn't even sure what to ask.
Then suddenly the most obvious question came to him as he realized that
his face would be shown in whatever pictures were taken. He'd seen those
faces of others as he said, "My face."
"Mark, I'm told that is not going to be an issue. From what I've
gathered on this woman, the one you're about to meet, is that she really
is that good. As I mentioned, I've been assured that even your own
mother, if she was standing right across from you, wouldn't recognize
you," Aby said.
"That's comforting," Mark said excitedly as he added, "I think."
"And on that topic, I'm also going to need you to agree to leave here in
disguise," Aby said.
"Disguised?" Mark asked in a renewed panic.
"To help with my own cover. Mark, I'm too well known not to have been
noticed coming here. I'm worried that someone seeing you might, however
remotely, connect you with me. It's not much, just a wig, a girl's coat
and a pair of flats to wear with what you already have on," Aby noted
making it all sound so casual as she moved to a small bag.
"Why?" Mark asked suddenly fearful of this new bit of information and
the sudden risk of public exposure in something so feminine.
"Mark, in my position, there is always the risk of a camera. The
possibility, however slight, that a camera is waiting for me always
exist. They might also take pictures of those leaving the library as
well," Aby noted.
"Why?" Mark asked.
"Curiosity. Fishing mostly. Most know I'm a contributor to the college
but you never know. When we leave here I want you looking more like a
girl than a boy so there is no connection with you and me from this
moment on. There simply cannot be a connection, however remote, between
us," Aby noted.
"Why a girl?" Mark asked.
"Just another level of complexity," Aby said.
"But how am I getting to this woman's place?" Mark asked.
"I've got a car waiting as we speak. He's out front. He's going to be
dropping you off at a distant friend's house that has a daughter your
age that is also a student here. Anyone checking, if they even go that
far, will think it's simply that daughter going home," Aby said.
"And that daughter?" Mark asked nervously.
"She's not home, or here, if you're wondering. It's really just a safe
drop off point. Your hostess, or a representative of your hostess that
is, will be picking you up there the moment I reach home. Honestly, it's
just another precaution," Aby noted as she moved to open that small bag
sitting on the couch.
Mark hadn't noticed it until now.
The wig was jet black and long with bangs when he was put into it. Mark
also now wore a nearly perfectly sized pink coat and pink flats with
ankle length opaque white socks that he traded for his own tennis shoes
and socks. His own jacket, socks and shoes went into the bag.
Mrs. Van Braun added lipstick, blush and a touch of color to his eyes
before handing him a pair of girl's sun glasses. The bow, pink to match
his long coat, came out of her hand bag last. She clipped that onto the
back of Mark's wig.
Mark, flushed, felt oddly wonderful. A much different story when his
aunt sometimes did this to him.
"Ready?" Mrs. Van Braun said and Mark almost answered yes till he
realized that she was announcing him set and not asking if he was
actually ready.
"I guess so," Mark said.
"And Helen, thank you," Aby said as she held the door open for Mark.
"You're welcome Aby. Oh and Aby, say hello to the Senator for me when
you see him," Ms. Baker said.
"I will Helen and Helen, again, thank you," Aby said gratefully as she
took Mark's hand.
'Senator Van Braun,' Mark mused, as he walked out of the office and past
an empty desk. No wonder this woman was so worried about her son's
picture getting any kind of publicity.
It was nearly five thirty. Not more than a half hour till sunset. He had
been in that office almost an hour now and the receptionist was gone. It
also meant, thankfully, that the library would have less people given it
was dinner time.
"Are you OK?" Aby asked of Mark as they reached the steps down to the
library floor.
"Yes ma'am," Mark said almost wanting to skip.
"Can you make it to the car on your own?" Aby asked sounding slightly
sympathetic.
"Yes ma'am," Mark said finding no reason to hide the fact that he was
enjoying himself all of a sudden.
"Mark, I can't express how much this means to me," Aby noted as she
squeezed Mark's hand.
Mark wasn't sure what to say to that, but he felt giddy at the prospects
of what was ahead of him, and more so because of what he was wearing.
While he still wore a tee-shirt and jeans under his pink coat it didn't
matter because his coat and those shoes he kept glancing at were pink.
Pink to match his small purse, and that bow, he mused, behind a smile.
"Oh, I nearly forgot. Mark, what bank do you use?" Mrs. Van Braun asked
as they reached the door.
"I don't have a bank actually. I use the Student Unions Voucher system.
It's mostly for my books and stuff and I have a charge account at the
cafeteria," Mark said slightly embarrassed that he didn't have enough
money to actually need a bank.
"Well, never mind, Just let me take care of that as well then. I'll let
you pick out your own checks later," Mrs. Van Braun noted.
"Yes ma'am," Mark said as Aby and he reached the landing that led to the
outside doors. Mark went first, Aby waiting.
Off to the left, as he stepped out into a setting sun, was the car. That
was his car. Aby was going to wait till he drove off before leaving the
building for her own car.
Mark looked like a young girl and suddenly felt like it. Mark, a few
minutes later was in the back seat looking at the world in silence. The
driver had been told the girl was hoarse from a cold and was given the
address. Mark didn't have to say a word nor pay a fair.
It was a thirty minute ride before they entered into an area clearly
richer than most parts of the city. The house was stately as they pulled
into a long private driveway. A woman was waiting in front of a very
beautiful home as the car drove up to it.
Mark, blushing as he got out of the car, introduced himself to the woman
who invited him in leaving the car to go as planned. It was another half
hour over tea before there was another knock on the door.
"Mark Adams?" the woman asked when the women he was staying with invited
her into the kitchen to where Mark sat.
"Yes ma'am," Mark said taking her hand and shaking it. He was still in
his disguise and feeling slightly embarrassed standing there being
identified as a boy between the two women while decidedly looking female
himself.
"Let me call Aby Van Braun's assistant first, and then we can go," the
woman said flipping her cell phone open. She waited a moment before
saying, "I'm here, I've got Cinderella and we're leaving now."
Cinderella, Mark mused.
The woman closed her cell, smiled at Mark and said, "I'm a friend of
Hilga's. You'll be staying with her."
Hilga too was a formidable presence, towering over Mark as she invited
him into her house. Mark left the first house with a wave and thank you
to the woman that had entertained him for that last half hour. It was
another hour by the time they crossed town and remarkably into an area
that was very old and even more stately than the area they left.
Hilga's home, if it was her home, was set back from the street a couple
of hundred feet, at least, and circled by trees and shrubs that had to
date back to the turn of the century. Those trees were as old as the old
Victorian, Mark mused. Without the car in front you could imagine a
carriage sitting there.
"This is it," that assistant noted as she put the car in park.
"Beautiful," Mark said as he undid his belt to step out onto the
driveway. There was another woman opening the door. She was dressed in a
uniform suggesting a housekeeper. Obviously a housekeeper. Behind her
clearly the woman of the house.
"I'm Hilga," Hilga said taking Mark's hand. The woman that had brought
him here, drove off. Hilga introduced that woman wearing the uniform as
Barbara, the housekeeper, as the woman warmly greeted Mark and took his
coat. He would miss that coat and felt slightly exposed without it but
only for a moment.
Mark was looking at elegance with touches of modern, although classy as
he stood in the middle of the foyer. To his right a library or sitting
room and to his left a large, very large living room. There were other
women sitting in that living room, and all looking at him as Hilga
guided Mark in their direction.
"Ladies, our guest has arrived. Mark Adams, from left to right is Stacy,
Brigitte, Tracy and Susan. Stacy will be doing your makeup after we get
you into a bath and dressed. We'll be shooting your pictures in the
basement. I have a studio set up there. Tracy is our photographer.
Susan, our web-mistress, will be putting a few of your pictures up on
our web site this evening," Hilga said.
There was an animated and very warm greeting from each and a hand shake
from Tracy who walked over to Mark. She smiled and said, "Hello Mark,
and if you don't mind me saying so, you're going to make a very pretty
little girl."
Mark blushed crimson as he took her hand and those words in silence.
"We'll take care of his bath first, after some questions," Hilga said as
she took Mark's hand before adding, "Barbara will you fix something for
Mark to eat. It's getting late and I'm guessing he hasn't eaten since
lunch time."
"Yes ma'am," Barbara said walking off with Mark's coat.
"Are there other people... I mean, you know, guys here?" Mark asked in a
quiet voice. He knew or was guessing what this place was.
"Actually there would be Mark, but even then you'd never see them. We
keep our clients separate for the sake of our clients. However, in this
case and for however long Mrs.Van Braun wishes, you are currently my
only client and guest," Hilga noted.
"Really?" Mark said in astonishment over the planning that must have
gone into this, not to mention the cost.
"She has secured my services and my home for the duration of her legal
proceedings. You are safe here Mark, and under my care," Hilga said and
added, "and let me first show you to your room, ask a few questions and
then we'll take care of your bath."
"I didn't bring anything with me," Mark said.
"I know," Hilga said as she walked Mark up the steps.
Mark gasped slightly although he tried not to. Mark was looking at the
inside of a fantasy as the door opened. A girl's room and to the
smallest of details. Extremely feminine and childish beyond words.
The whole notion of the room was striking Mark fully as he gazed from
right to left. It could have been taken from the best catalogs of
children's designs and those designs put the age of a girl that might
live in such a room, well before puberty.
The bed, canopied delicately, commanded most of his attention at first
and was covered in sheers that cascaded down pillars held back by wide
pink ribbons tied into very large floppy bows. The bed looked extremely
luxurious and delightfully soft and feminine.
To the left dolls in various forms, sizes and wearing very fancy dresses
with a few sitting around a white wicker table on matching wicker
chairs. On the table in front of three sitting dolls was a delicate
childish tea set.
A large dresser next to those sitting dolls, a night stand with a
feminine lamp, then the bed. To the right of the bed another night stand
and matching lamp and a few feet from that a vanity. A complete vanity
Mark noted as he looked over the makeup that sat neatly displayed.
The vanity edged to a doorway that led into a brightly lit but soft pink
bathroom and another door next to that Mark guessed to be a closet. If
it was a closet it would be as big as the bathroom he mused as he stood
there in awe of his surroundings. A free standing mirror caught his
smile as he quickly tried looking serious.
"Will this suit you?" Hilga asked.
"I'm not sure I should answer that," Mark said feeling slightly
vulnerable again. He didn't know this woman.
"No need precious," Hilga said as she gently nudged Mark to the bed and
added, "Now why don't you sit with me so we can chat a bit. There are
some things I'd like to know about you."
"OK," Mark said moving to the predominately white satin bed spread.
"Mark, the questions I'm going to ask you are for your sake. I ask these
questions of all of my clients and what I'd like are very honest answers
or as honest as you can. I should also say that nothing you're going to
tell me is going to be shocking so please, again, be as honest as you
can be. OK?" Hilga asked.
"I'll try," Mark promised.
"So do you favor the little girl look?" Hilga asked.
"Yes ma'am. I mean sort of," Mark said blushing.
"And how old is this little girl you keep inside?" Hilga asked.
"I'm not sure. Maybe two or three, there about," Mark said softly.
"Two or three. And is this little girl, then, still in diapers?" Hilga
asked.
"Kind of. I mean she doesn't always wear diapers, but sometimes she has
accidents and when she does her aunt puts her back into diapers. Oh, and
she sleeps in diapers," Mark said feeling more comfortable talking about
the girl as if she was someone else.
"So it's this little girl's aunt that is doing this, when this is done?"
Hilga asked.
"Yes ma'am," Mark said.
"Why is her aunt doing this and not her mother?" Hilga asked.
"She wasn't a little girl when she was with her mother," Mark said
trying to sort his answer out as he added, "I mean she was a boy when he
first went into diapers."
"Can you tell me about that boy then?" Hilga asked.
"He started wetting his bed when his sister was born and after awhile is
mother suggested he wear diapers at night," Mark said remembering that
conversation he had with his mother as he added, "he was eight then."
"She didn't make this boy wear diapers, she just asked?" Hilga said.
"Yes. She thought it would be better than waking in a wet cold bed all
the time," Mark noted.
"So she began diapering him," Hilga said.
"Yes," Mark said remembering that first night his mother pinned him into
his diapers.
"Did she use cloth diapers and plastic pants or disposables?" Hilga
asked.
"Cloth and plastic pants," Mark answered.
"Baby oil and baby powder?" Hilga asked.
"Just baby powder," Mark answered and added, "And she just sprinkled it
over him."
"And those cloth diapers went on with diaper pins?" Hilga asked.
"Yes ma'am," Mark answered.
"Did it make him feel like a baby?" Hilga asked.
"Yes," Mark answered with a renewed blush.
"Did it excite him?" Hilga asked.
"Yes," Mark answered.
"Can you tell me about the little girl and how she came to be?" Hilga
asked.
"Mom took ill a couple of years later and his sister and he went to live
with his aunt. His aunt was very upset that he was still wetting his bed
and still wearing diapers," Mark said.
"So you, I mean he was around ten then. And what did she do about that?"
Hilga asked.
"She told him that he was wetting his bed to get attention because he
was no longer the baby of the family and that what he really wanted was
to be treated like his sister," Mark said.
"So she wanted to treat him like his sister?" Hilga asked.
"She said that as long as he was still wetting his bed for attention and
since he was wetting his bed to be like his sister she was going to
dress him like his sister," Mark said remembering that day as well.
"Did she buy you... I mean him girl's clothes?" Hilga asked.
"No, she was going to use his cousin Sandy's clothes. He was already
wearing Sandy's diapers and plastic pants," Mark said.
"Was this Sandy a baby?" Hilga asked.
"No. I mean she was younger but only by a couple of years then," Mark
said.
"Was she wearing diapers?" Hilga asked.
"No. She had worn diapers but had outgrown them although his aunt still
had them," Mark said.
"Was he very small then?" Hilga asked.
"He was small, but not that small," Mark said realizing he was now
talking about himself and not in the abstract as he added, "Sandy was
actually big, very big. Obese actually because of a glandular problem."
"So her diapers, as a baby, already fit you and that meant that her
dresses from those days would most likely fit you. Right?" Hilga asked
not having a problem changing with Mark's changes.
"Yes," Mark said.
"So it was more like dressing as a baby girl or toddler girl then?"
Hilga asked.
"Yes ma'am," Mark said.
"And did that scare you, the thought of being dressed as a baby girl?"
Hilga asked.
"Yes and no. I mean yes, it scared me, but it also got me kind of
excited," Mark said.
"Because you would be dressing just like your sister?" Hilga asked.
"Yes," Mark said.
"So did she dress you right away or later on?" Hilga said.
"She wanted to dress me right away but the dress she put me into was too
big. Sandy was seven then but even bigger than I was by now," Mark said
and added, "So we went down to the basement and my aunt found some of
Sandy's clothes when she was younger."
"How old was Sandy clothes, roughly?" Hilga asked.
"About two or three I think," Mark said, paused and added, "Maybe four?"
"The same clothes she wore when she was still wearing diapers then?"
Hilga asked.
"Yes," Mark said.
"So she put you into Sandy's clothes from when she was a toddler," Hilga
asked.
"Yes," Mark said.
"And this excited you?" Hilga asked.
"Yes," Mark said remembering what had happened when his aunt put him
into one of Sandy's dresses that first time, "I'd gotten excited and
that made my aunt even madder."
"You were in your own underpants then?" Hilga asked.
"No," Mark said blushing and added, "She made me wear my cousin's
panties."
"And you soiled them?" Hilga asked.
"Yes, so she marched me back upstairs and back into Sandy's room and put
me into my diapers and plastic pants," Mark said as his heart began
racing. He paused a moment, remembering and added, "She doubled the
diapers that day."
"Two diapers?" Hilga asked.
"Yes. She said that during the day I'd wear two diapers so I knew I was
wearing diapers," Mark said.
"Did she use baby oil and powder on you?" Hilga asked.
"Yes," Mark said.
"And that excited you even more didn't it?" Hilga said.
"Yes," Mark said wistfully.
"And then you were wearing diapers and baby pants?" Hilga asked and
added, "Plain baby pants?"
"No, then she put me into my cousin's baby pants. It was the kind that
had a plastic lining with a panty over that and ruffles," Mark said.
"Rhumba panties?" Hilga asked.
"Yes, those," Mark said.
"Then the dress?" Hilga asked.
"A slip first, then the dress," Mark said.
"What sort of dress was it?" Hilga asked and added, "Was it straight
with no waist or did the skirt fluff out say just below the arms?"
"At first the dress was straight but she wanted me all dressed up fancy
for my cousin's and sister to see, so she switched that straight dress
for one that had a puffy skirt," Mark said and added, "And a slip that
went with that dress. The skirts started just under the arms like you
said."
"And there you were, heavily diapered like a baby with a pretty pair of
rhumba panties on then a girlish little slip and dress. She had dressed
you like a toddler girl didn't she," Hilga said.
"Yes," Mark said feeling faint.
"Did she make you take a bottle or pacifier?" Hilga asked.
"A pacifier then but later a baby's bottle," Mark said.
"And she made you nurse it in front of the girls?" Hilga said.
"She did," Mark said trying to compose himself. His erection, almost
painful now, was obvious and that's when Hilga stopped asking question.
Hilga patted his leg, smiled and said, "I think that's enough for now."
"Does any of this make sense?" Mark asked.
"It does precious, but we won't know if it's what you like till we try
some of those very same things," Hilga noted.
"Like? I mean I thought I was just going to try some of those things,"
Mark asked and added, "I thought I was just going to be dressing up?"
"You will honey but I see no reason why we can't experiment with some of
your fantasies," Hilga said and added, "it's going to be a while so we
might just as well try and define who you are and what you really like,
right?"
"I guess so," Mark said.
"Then so be it," Hilga said.
"So when does that happen?" Mark asked.
"Bath first then we can find you something suitable to wear. I've had a
few days to put things together so you have more than a few choices.
Mrs. Van Braun has been very generous with your clothing budget," Hilga
said as she stood, took Mark's hand and moved behind him towards the
bathroom.
"Sizes? What about sizes?" Mark asked.
"Most of what I have is sized from a small to extra large. Some of the
newer things are one size fits all. A few other things we'll get as we
need them," Hilga said and added, "And I have had those few days."
"A few days?" Mark asked slightly surprised. It was only today that he'd
found out about this.
"My services were secured on Friday of last week. I've been preparing
for you visit since then," Hilga said as if Mark might have known that.
"She didn't know I'd say yes," Mark said.
"Actually Mark she didn't, but, given the information I had, I did and
advised her of that," Hilga said.
"You knew? How could you know?" Mark asked slightly shaken by the fact
that she might have seen the disk. She couldn't know this side of him
otherwise.
"Mark, I've been in this business for quite some time now and while I
don't really know you, and please don't be offended by this, I do know
of you," Hilga said as she moved to the large ornate tub in the bathroom
to turn on the water as she added in a reassuring tone, "If you'll trust
me Mark, it will be to your advantage."
"I'll try," Mark said.
The tub sat in a large space on golden brass claws lifting it a few
inches from the pink and white tiled floor and it was huge. Mark watched
Hilga unstop a glass vase filled with lavender crystals that instantly
changed the water into foaming bubbles. Immediately there was the smell
of lavender and baby powder as those bubbles foamed.
"Now then young lady, let's get you out of those clothes and into your
bath," Hilga said as she removed Mark's hair bow and wig first.
"Excuse me," Mark said to her reference as a young lady as he allowed
his tee-shirt to be lifted up and over his head.
"Would you prefer sissy or something else? Actually, I should have asked
if you have a girl's name that you use," Hilga said as she disappeared
behind the tee-shirt now covering Mark's eyes.
"I don't know? I mean this is... this is all kind of new to me," Mark
said as his tee-shirt came off.
"Well Mark, I mostly take care of little girls, little sissy boys and
baby girls here so I'm not actually use to using masculine pronouns. I'm
afraid it's young lady until you can come up with a name more suitable
for yourself," Hilga said moving to Mark's jeans.
"A girl's name," Mark said, not daring to tell her he had one. He didn't
want to say the word Sissy at that moment.
"Of course. Calling you Mark from here on out simply won't work for me
or you," Hilga said as she bent slightly for the button on his jeans as
she added, "I've always favored Mary or perhaps Mary Beth as in Mary
Elisabeth and frankly, it suits you."
"It suits me?" Mark asked as his jeans came lose. It took him back a few
years to his aunt again but not nearly as harsh. Hilga tugged his zipper
down making him slightly uncomfortable standing there.
"Actually, it will suit you just as soon as I've put you into something
more suitable. Suitable for a pretty little girl," Hilga said as she
tugged his jeans down past his shorts.
Mark's face went deep red as his shorts came into view. Just wearing
shorts in front of this woman and nothing else, as she removed his
jeans, left him nearly speechless. More so with his erection so obvious
and of course that growing wetness.
"I can see why your aunt decided not to keep you in panties! Clearly
you're going to need those diapers," Hilga said and added, "But perhaps,
after a time, we can try putting you into panties once in a while. Would
you like that?"
Mark, trying hard not to be so obvious had to give it up with the
mention of diapers and then panties. He almost lost it when she drew
closer to begin removing the very last of his boy clothes.
And then that smile...
The bath water foaming with bubbles was filling the huge tub and a
second later Mark, with Hilga guiding him, stepped into the water -
naked. It was almost hot as he eased himself into the froth and foam.
The tub was huge in comparison to more modern versions leaving lots of
room still for his feet.
Mark fully expected to be left alone then, but Hilga stepped to a long
side cabinet, opened it and was putting on a functional long white
plastic apron. She knelt down next to the tub and took up a light pink
bar of soap and pink wash cloth. Mark blushed at the notion of being
bathed.
"If you have something else to do, I can do this," Mark said with a
touch of uncertainty in his voice.
He was actually glad to be in the water and bubbles since it hid his
nakedness and eased his embarrassment, but that sense of relief didn't
last. It was clear she was intent on bathing him.
"Honey, this is the 'something else' I'll be doing while you are here,"
Hilga said as she rubbed the washcloth over the soap bar as she added,
"As I mentioned, you are my one and only client."
"Oh," Mark said resigning himself to the pleasure and small amount of
personal pain he felt. The pleasure of a woman intent on taking care of
him contrasted greatly with the pain that often came when his aunt did
this to him.
Hilga began with his neck and ears before working her way around his
face. It was all done in a gentle way. The wash cloth was soft and
smelling of baby powder as it passed his nose. It was intoxicating,
soothing and so very erotic, he mused.
It was exciting and frightening as well with this stranger now washing
him. Those emotions intensified as she worked her way down his body
front to back. She was silent the water warm and silken. His aunt rarely
was kind and never this caring.
Mark fought the excitement he felt and he was losing that battle as the
wash cloth moved between his thighs. Fortunately it was there for only a
short time as she moved on to wash his legs and finally his feet.
That pink wash cloth was replaced by baby shampoo for his hair that she
spread in her palms first. Johnson's No More Tears, he mused
sarcastically, remembering those days at his aunt's. Back then his
cousin's and sister would be eagerly waiting for his bath to end.
That shampoo and rinse was the last thing to be done before pushing the
center brass lever that emptied the tub. The water began draining
slowly, circling above the drain as Hilga took up a very large pink
towel.
"Do you dress now, at home?" Hilga asked as she let the towel fall
loose.
"I'm in a dorm room. I mean no. Actually I don't really dress at all I
guess. I mean I sort of did a while back but that stopped when I left
for college," Mark noted.
"That wasn't too long ago then, was it?" Hilga asked.
"No," Mark answered as he thought about it. His last time was just a few
months ago. Just before he left for college. His panties, rather his
cousin's panties had gotten wet that last time. They always got wet, and
his aunt had been furious. She was always finding something, some reason
to diaper him, Mark mused.
On that occation he was put back into diapers. Diapers and plastic pants
before wearing one of his cousin's dresses - again. It had been years
since that dress was worn by his cousin, even longer for the diapers. On
that occation he was being potty trained, his aunt had said. A fib, Mark
knew because that wetness wasn't from his need to go potty.
"Well, we're going to take care of that aren't we," Hilga said in a very
soothing voice.
"You haven't asked me what sorts of things I like wearing," Mark said
blushing.