The Book of Madness
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I could hear the raised voices next door. I stopped pushing the mower and leaned on the handlebars grinning, waiting for the tornado to exit. The door blew open and Sanna, the girl next door, spilled out, turning around and around as she spun down the steps and down the garden path. The shouting from inside was muffled again as the door banged closed behind her. She swung open the little front gate and, still spinning, jumped on her moped. Sticking her finger up at her house she kicked her moped into life and roared off.
She didn’t roar far; she coasted to a stop by my fence. Glancing back towards her house to check we were alone, she leaned over the fence towards me, beckoning to me. Sure she was angry, but she wasn’t angry at me and her face softened. “Quick, get your helmet!” she whispered urgently. I didn’t need telling twice. I rushed to the porch, grabbed my helmet and key and ran out towards my little motorbike. Sanna revved and inched forward, positioning her moped to block me as I approached my bike. “Get on,” she said urgently, nodding her head over her shoulder towards the passenger seat behind her. And so I hopped on pillion and we rode off down the track together on Sanna’s moped. It would have been dead romantic if it were sunset but instead it was a hot, sticky day, I was hot and sticky from mowing the lawn and Sanna drove too fast, throwing up hot, sticky dust that billowed around us. Her long black hair, sticking out the bottom of the helmet and down her back, whipped my face mercilessly. I was tempted to put my arms around her waist but didn’t dare - the last thing I wanted was to be made to walk home.
So many stories start with a boy and a girl being best friends from a young age and, in storyland at least, it predictably turns into first love and first fuck. Hey, that’s fiction! How many teenage boys and girls really ever play together, even when they grow up as neighbours? None!
I live next door to Sanna, which is a really common girls name here in Finland, although its not so common in the Swedish-speaking part of Finland where we live. There are only three houses in the hamlet, and if you translate their Swedish house-names they are literally called North Farm, Middle Farm and South Farm: Swedish names are often unimaginative like that.
Sanna and I did play together as kids, but not as much nor as often as we could have, despite being neighbours in a hamlet with population almost-zero. I live in North Farm. Sanna is a year older than me and has a brother, Juho, who is a year younger and they live in Middle Farm. We were the only teenagers, although there is now one more kid in the hamlet - I have a much younger brother who surprised us all a few years ago. Unplanned but welcome. My grandparents on my father’s side live in South Farm and we’re traditional ethnic-Swedish farmers. Sanna’s family are ethnic-Finnish, but the house has been in their family for generations and its not like ethnicity is important; we’re all Finns.
So, just three teenagers, yet we don’t really hang out and play together. Sanna and I get along great but, lets face it, girls and boys aren’t really interested in the same things. And we’re too old to ‘play games’ any more, anyhow. Now that we’re teenagers and have mopeds and motorbikes, we can take ourselves into town to hang out with our school friends instead. And neither of us gets along with Juho: he is a bullying evil shit of a brother and I think that’s been a major motivator in getting Sanna out of the house and as far away from home as possible most days. She almost never has friends over, instead mostly visiting them in town. Juho often has his shitty, stupid, evil friends over and I do my best to avoid them, too, often taking off on my motorbike to kill time in town.
So whilst we’re friendly, Sanna giving me a lift towards town is a new experience for me. We got half way to town, almost as far as the start of the metalled road, when Sanna slowed down and swung off up a track into the pine forest. This was different. I had assumed we were going into town, perhaps to hang out and see who else was idling in the town square. But now we were heading up one of the many little logging tracks in the managed woodland which is everywhere where we live and goes on to cover most of the rest of Finland.
The track was bumpy and we went slower and slower until we were just barely making walking pace as Sanna tried to steer around the bigger bumps and deeper puddles. We coasted to a stop in the middle of nowhere, deep in the forest. Sanna kicked down the stand, switched off and jumped off. Now that we’d stopped was the first chance I’d got to talk since the ride had started - you just can’t chat comfortably when wearing helmets and riding whiny little mopeds and motorbikes.
“You alright?” was my immediate question. Not ‘Why are we here?’ or ‘What are we going to do?’, but ‘You alright?’. I figured, after yet another argument at home, she had dragged me out here to hear all about it and to assure her she was in the right.
Sanna sighed. She seemed calm and resigned.
“Mattias dumped me. He’s been two-timing me with Aino, the slut.”
Well, this was news to me! I had no idea that Sanna had had a boyfriend nor that she had ever had any boyfriends. What with her being a year older, and her being a girl, we had our own friends at school and town and somehow I hadn’t heard any rumours.
“You don’t seem very upset. Was that what that argument was about?” I asked. Sanna was going to have to get used to my useless, unsympathetic manner if she was going to start confiding in me and looking to me for support with her troubled love life.
“I didn’t really like Mattias anyway, and the fight was about something completely different! Mum and dad have grounded me for all of next week for telling Juho I’d pull his balls off if he tried to spy on me changing again.” She seemed to take defiant pleasure in telling me her threat, and mimed a grab-and-tug under-belt cherry-picking motion with her hand for emphasis.
I paused to process this. She dated a boy she didn’t like? Several boys were called Mattias but I think I could guess which one. He was really popular. And her parents had grounded her for threatening Juho? They couldn’t know, they’d never side with Juho if they knew, but Sanna never really told them what kind of brother he was behind their backs. They probably thought it was all Sanna’s fault. Anyway, Sanna was going to be grounded next week? That was the week before the school holidays, but Sanna had just had her final exams and would be stuck home alone.
Sanna walked around me to the back of her moped where she had a big fibreglass carry box. Big enough for her helmet. She opened it up and fished out a small tartan picnic blanket, a pack of biscuits, a pack of mints and a pack of cigarettes. She deposited her helmet instead. Then she marched off into the forest, following a small deer trail. I followed her small tail.
She stopped in a clearing where a big boulder sat on top of some exposed bedrock. It was still warm and sunny and there weren’t too many biting insects to fight off. Besides, we were used to the midges and mosquitoes. She unrolled the picnic blanket on a dry, warm spot and plonked herself down, then patted the blanket beside her. She had to wriggle a bit to get her keys and phone out of her jeans pockets because her trousers were so tight it was uncomfortable to sit on them. I sat down, too, as she wriggled and kicked beside me.
“I didn’t know you smoke,” I said. The cigarettes had taken me a bit by surprise.
She leaned back, studying my face. “I don’t. They’re Mattias’s. He probably wants them back. Well, I’ll tell him where I buried them. He’ll have to dig them up! Don’t dare have them at home where mum might find them. She thinks I’m feral enough already.”
She looked suddenly serious. “Promise me you’ll never smoke?! It’s fucking disgusting, kissing a smoker. Never start.” She was giving me important advice. I nodded. It felt like she was telling me generally, as a favour, and not because she was ever going to kiss me. (At least, I didn’t think of the possibility of kissing Sanna until we got home that evening.) We buried the cigarettes in some peaty moss we could just reach without getting up from the mat and then we opened the packet of biscuits.
We talked about general stuff like school work and our social circles. We knew so little about each other. I wouldn’t have thought that Sanna would be very interested in me and my friends, but she listened politely and asked enough small questions to keep me talking. Normally girls her age hang out with older boys who could buy alcohol and drive cars. As she told me all about her gang, I realised she was completely normal in that regard and the mystery Mattias must have been a couple of years older.
Sanna twiddled with her phone, scowling as she swiped away lots of texts. Perhaps it was Mattias trying to reach her? She was just deleting everything, cleaning up.
“Give me your phone a minute,” she demanded. I wasn’t sure, but she wasn’t taking no for an answer, so I handed it over and Sanna started flipping through it. I could see screens flickering by. Was she reading my messages? Sad that I didn’t have anything exciting nor naughty on it. Sanna seemed to reach the same conclusion; “Don’t you have a girlfriend then?” she asked, surprised.
“Eh, no. What? Where did that come from?” I felt defensive, insecure, unmanly.
“Well, you’re quite a catch, and there’s not a single girl in your contacts! You’re not gay are you?”
“What the fuck!? Definitely not gay!” I replied angrily. I breathed out and calmed down. I had overreacted. “Wouldn’t a gay have lots of girl friends? I mean, friends who are girls?”
“Eh, yeah, they would, that’s right. So what is it, then? Just wondering.” Sanna smiled quietly.
“Just, you know, never had the guts” I replied without a smile, but equally quietly.
“Friends is a good start.” Sanna was eying me like I had so much to learn.
It was just getting too hard to keep batting the mosquitoes away as the sun started to get caught in the tops of the trees, and we had to get home again. We’d demolished all the biscuits and we were hungry, anyway. We got up and Sanna folded the blanket up into a tiny, neat square. I tried not to study her arse as she bent over to do it. Then we walked quietly back to her bike. When we reached it, and Sanna had retrieved her helmet, she turned towards me like we were going to say goodbye. For a moment I was scared she was going to expect me to walk home! But she just reached out and squeezed my hand and thanked me for listening. “We should talk more often,” she said. She seemed to think it was important. We grinned at each other and then mounted up and headed home.
Sanna pulled to a halt and switched off her moped when we got to mine. Then she quietly pushed it the last little bit back to hers, trying to avoid detection. She stealthily slipped in the back door. I thought about her mum thinking her feral - Sanna did have a cat-like quality about her. If there’s a word that perfectly describes Sanna it’s lithe.
Mum, dad and Ville were just sitting down to dinner when I got in. They had laid a place at the table for me. My parents looked relieved and concerned; they had found the lawn half done and I’d disappeared without my bike and I hadn’t called. I didn’t really want to tell them I’d been with Sanna but ‘I just went for a walk’ wasn’t cutting it and they knew Sanna’s moped was gone. In the end, I admitted I’d gone for a walk with her. To bring the conversation to a close, I stared down at my food and tried to ignore them but I could feel that they were exchanging meaningful glances.
“You must be careful around Sanna now she’s growing up, you know” my mum started. “She can be hard to say ‘no’ to and you mustn’t let her lead you astray.” The lecture continued in that vein for a while; I imagine Sanna’s parents had complained often enough and they only ever heard Juha’s side of the story, too. They didn’t understand that everything was always Juha’s fault; Sanna was sweet and nice. My parents probably thought Sanna was uncontrollable, too.
That evening, I shut myself away in my room and relived the afternoon with Sanna. I’d always fancied her, I mean, she is my girl next door! My girl next door. And she is really pretty hot. She’s tall for a girl, with narrow hips and shoulders that somehow make her seem even taller. She has long, jet-black hair and a small, pixie face and captivating, light blue eyes. She’s slender and sporty and not very busty but she is somehow still curvy and feminine and has great legs and soft, glowing white skin. She dresses quite trendily and has lots of really pretty friends. And we’d always been polite and friendly even though I’m in the year below at school. But this was the first time we’d spent time alone together in years. And I now knew she was single and I now knew she was grounded next week ... so it was exciting to wonder if we’d spend more time together.
My phone dinged: “‘night” was all it said. From Sanna. There was even a picture of her face as an avatar next to it. That’s what she had done with my phone in the forest: she had added herself to my address book, even taken a selfie, filed under a new contact group she’d created called “chicks”.
“Sweet dreams,” I replied. Always easier to be bold and flirty – virtually - than in the real world, isn’t it? I knew I was going to have sweet dreams, Sanna probably supplanting all the other girls I usually fantasized about.
The next day was Johannesafton. Mid-summer Eve. That’s the Friday, just a week before the school summer holidays start, which is a kind of national holiday. Technically, the Saturday is a national holiday but here everything is closed at least half day Friday. Where we live we celebrate in the Swedish style, with dancing around a maypole and a big lunch outside with new potatoes, sour cream, herring and meatballs and, importantly, lots of shots and singing. We have the Finnish-style mid-summer bonfire, too; you don’t have to pick one or the other when you can pick the best traditions from both!
I didn’t have to get up too early but I had a lot to do once I got up. I helped set up the long table on the yard out in front of the farms. The houses are all in a row with tidy little gardens with orchards and picket fences. Then, on the other side of the gravel road, there is a big farm yard with long barns and outbuildings. There are no fences on the farmyard but everyone knows which barn belongs to which farm and everything. But it feels like a shared space. These days, there aren’t any animals and just a few tractors and trailers and stuff for forestry and nowadays I have to mow the grass on the yard like it’s a lawn. I put up the trestle tables end-to-end right in the middle of the yard and spread out a white, disposable paper table-cloth that we buy by the roll. I stood back to admire my work. From the corner of my eye I noticed something moving in the vegetable garden at the back of Middle Farm. It was Sanna, dressed in a sweet, yellow summer dress, crouching down picking new potatoes. I sauntered over to help.
Getting close, I noticed how nice Sanna’s dress was. It was far too nice to wear when digging in the dirt. It was a very short dress and she was flashing all of her slender white legs and thighs as she squatted over the potato bed. She jumped in surprise when I crept quietly up behind her and squatted down beside her.
“Happy midsummer, Sanna.” Suave.
“Hi! Eh, shouldn’t you be getting ready? You can’t go dressed like that!”
I looked down at my faded, washed-out t-shirt and grubby jeans.
“You look fantastic, Sanna. Hardly suitable attire for picking potatoes. Please, allow me,” and I reached pompously in front of her and took over.
“Thanks,” she said but she didn’t leave me. I groped around in the soil bringing up new potatoes and Sanna gathered them up and put them in a basket carefully, as though they were eggs. It was so dry that the potatoes came up looking so clean they didn’t look like they needed rinsing.
“That’s plenty. Thanks again. Now, I’ve got to go pick wild flowers and you have to go shower!” she admonished lightly. Then she got up and skipped off to her back door, which was open. She actually skipped. That’s something only little girls do surely? I hadn’t seen a teenager do that ever before.
About midday we all drifted towards the yard. Dad had worked the morning, the mums and Nan had prepared the food, grandad had been out with the chainsaw to get a nice straight pole to make a maypole and my Sanna’s dad had been out getting lots of small sprigs of oak leaves to clad it. A midsummer pole is actually a cross-shape with rings hanging from the cross-piece. Kind of hard to explain. One thing is easy to explain: only Juha hadn’t been helping. He didn’t get out of bed until the last minute.
We sat down and tucked in. As we passed the food around, Juha somehow managed to engineer it so Sanna got every dish and bowl last. If I’d been sitting closer, I could have passed her stuff. No one else seemed to notice. That kind of pettiness was just so normal it was invisible.
I tried not to stare but, from a lot of short glances, I managed to build up a complete picture of how Sanna looked. Her canary yellow dress had quite a deep V neck and lots of tiny, pearl white buttons down the front. Sanna didn’t have a big bust but there was a captivating curve down to her tight tummy. She had no make-up on, but she was wearing a beautiful midsommarkransen - a wreath of wild flowers - in her hair. That must have been the flowers she said she had to pick. The bright blue corn flowers really matched her eyes perfectly. She looked gorgeous and she looked happy.
The discussion at my end of the table turned into a list of things I could help with in the summer holidays. I was beginning to regret not getting a proper summer job. Instead of freeing up my time, it seemed everyone expected me to help grandad with the forestry, instead. I put a brave face on it and pretended to be happy to help out. The discussions at the other end of the table seemed much more interesting. Nan was explaining to Sanna some Swedish traditions, for example, how - if a maiden lays seven types of wild flower under her pillow tonight she’ll dream of the man she’ll marry. There was lots of giggling and mum joined in and asked if Nan had ever dreamed of grandad. Nan seemed suddenly nervous as though there was a story there and that made everything even more funny.
“Sanna will dream about Mattias,” Juha injected. That screwed things up. “Who’s Mattias?” asked their mum, and it became clear that Juha had just ‘accidentally’ let slip that Sanna had a boyfriend. It didn’t help that Sanna denied she had a boyfriend. I think if Juha or I had a girlfriend, then we’d be congratulated, but the idea of Sanna and boyfriends just spelled trouble in her parent’s eyes; more so when Sanna denied it because that just seemed to confirm their worst suspicions. Sanna was seething with anger and looking daggers at Juha. Juha was innocently explaining that Sanna had been going out with Mattias and that he’d caught them smoking. The whole midsummer happiness had evaporated as our neighbours fought.
Suddenly Nan clapped her hands together and told us it was time to clad the maypole so we could dance around it. Sanna jumped up like it was the saviour she needed and I followed her over to the pole, leaving the others at the table. We started to bind the oak leaves and wild flowers around it and we worked happily and effectively together. I wanted to say something comforting and supportive but I couldn’t think of anything. My mind was kind of hopelessly blank. Sanna was totally engrossed in the work and seemed to have forgotten all about the unpleasantness at the table.
Juha got up and sauntered over. I could feel myself tensing up, a mix of fear and anger boiling up in me.
“Mattias is going out with Aino now,” Juha whispered triumphantly, as though it was the most hurtful thing he could think to say.
I don’t remember thinking at all. I just acted. I punched Juha so hard on the jaw there was a clunk. Juha might be a year younger than me but he is built like a brick shithouse. He’s in the local junior hockey team. I had hit him with all I had, and it was just about enough to make him stagger backwards a couple of paces. First, he straightened up and then he limbered up, his shoulders hunching forward and his elbows crooked as he swung his clenched fists threateningly. Just has he started towards me, my dad slid between us, his hands out pushing us apart. He had run over. Mum and Juha’s parents were hot on dad’s heels.
“Just what have you started now? You don’t hit people! Apologise!” my mum was ranting at me. It was just like how Sanna had it. I knew I couldn’t win. I had to apologise. Mum made us ‘shake hands and be friends’ and Juha had a just-got-away-with-it smirk as he crushed my offered hand.
Then Nan made us dance around the pole. Sanna’s parents played the accordion and violin - which were the perfect traditional accompaniment. It’s really hard to be sad and angry while you dance around the midsummer pole, sometimes holding hands with the young girl next to you in the ring, but I managed it. I was in a dark, depressed, helpless mood as we danced and sang happy traditional midsummer songs. Sanna could tell I was tense. She held my hand tighter than needed as we danced in a ring. I felt good about standing up for her, and apprehensive about how Juha was going to get even, later.
I didn’t glimpse Sanna Saturday nor Sunday and I wasn’t about to go knock on her door. I ended up riding my motorbike into town to hang out. My friends - all boys - all fancied Sanna - well, we’re boys and we fancy most girls, even if Sanna wasn’t really top of the list - so I hadn’t said a word about our trip to the forest together. I did tell them about punching Juha, but didn’t expand on why. No-one thought I needed much specific reason to hit Juha, they were all just amazed I was still alive. It occurred to me that they weren’t going to be much backup if Juha and his hockey teammates set about me. So instead, we did the normal things us boys do, like hanging around the hot-dog kiosk in the town square hoping girls our age or younger would pass so we could try and chat them up, or at least dare each other to. I remembered what Sanna had said about ‘being friends is a good start’, and I realised I wasn’t going to make any girl friends while I hung out with this gang. But what to do? Suddenly, Sanna seemed as far away as she ever had and I almost didn’t think about her, sometimes for several minutes at a stretch. Was I starting to crush on her? Perhaps a little.
The last week of school really dragged out. Sanna had already finished her final exams and was hanging around at home, grounded. I rode my motorbike to school to avoid Juha. My little brother Ville went on one school bus to primary school and Juha rode the other school bus to high school. It was a routine week, but I was keeping an eye out for Sanna when I was home, even more than usual. Sometimes a glimpse of her crossing the garden to the vegetable patch or something like that. Never more than just a glimpse. And no text messages.
It was Friday afternoon when, as I got home early from my last day at school, I saw Sanna sunbathing in the back garden in the orchard. She didn’t normally do that; her skin was so white, even her arms and legs, because she’d been dressing a bit goth this year. So seeing her in a bikini really got my immediate attention and I went to push the lawn mower in the part of our garden nearest her, even though that was the part that I’d already cut just a couple of days ago.
It must have been a transparent ruse. She saw me, sat up, pulled a towel over her torso, and waved. My heart leapt but I tried to play it cool. She was wearing sunglasses and I couldn’t tell if she was watching me or sleeping after that. I kicked myself for not having sunglasses on myself as I tried not to ogle too obviously.
It was legitimately hot weather and I got all sweaty as I mowed the same small patch of grass again and again so I took my t-shirt off and Sanna wolf-whistled. Then she got up and, donning a t-shirt, strolled slowly over to the fence, her hips swaying seductively. Her long jet black hair was in a plait that slinked over one shoulder and snaked down her chest. She was so out of my league. I paused my mowing to chat and pretend that I talked to beautiful girls casually all the time. She lifted her sunglasses and looked me and down obviously, like she was teasing. She was trying not to giggle.
“So you on holiday, now? Got any plans?” she asked sweetly.
“No, just going to take it easy for a few days,” I said as nonchalantly as possible. That wasn’t true: my friends would wonder where I was if I didn’t take myself into town every day, but right then, talking with Sanna, my friends all seemed so unimportant. All I wanted to do was hang out with Sanna. “How has your week been?” I followed up.
Sanna sighed. She was just poised to answer when we heard the distant crunch of wheels on gravel of Juha’s final school bus on the road as it approached. Sanna looked round, her brow furrowing. “Perhaps another time,” she said flatly as she turned and scampered indoors. It felt like we’d shared another private moment together before Juha’s return spoiled it.
Monday felt like the first official day of summer holidays, at least for us kids; our parents still had to work, but having the house to ourselves seemed like proper school holidays. Unfortunately my parents made me promise to look after Ville, which really put a damper on my day. I hadn’t really thought about that; I guess it was my fault for not getting a proper summer job that would take me away from home daily. While I had planned to be free all summer, my parents, on hearing I had no job lined up, had decided I should help grandad on the farm a few hours a day, just doing menial, boring things like thinning the forest and chopping firewood. Although we were three family farms in the hamlet, all the fields had long since been rented out to a local, full-time farmer and we just kept the forest tidy waiting for the logging - every forty years or so.
So, what was I supposed to do with a six year old? Wasn’t it obvious that Nan ought baby sit him? Mum and dad had barely left for work before I took Ville over to see our grandparents in South Farm.
Grandad was in the kitchen pouring coffee into three small cups on a tray when Ville charged in through the back door. Grandad put the jug back on the coffee maker and dropped down on one knee to be at Ville’s level to receive his hug. Grandad looked up past Ville at me and asked what my plans for the day were. I shrugged, unsure. The only thing I was sure about was that I had to baby-sit a six year old. Ville was still stuck in the embrace, grandad not letting go whilst he questioned me. Then grandad really surprised me: “Why don’t you go for a walk with that nice girl next door? Your Nan and I can look after Ville.” I went red and there was a polite cough and chuckle from the living room. Grandad released Ville and stood up to pick up the tray of cups. “Think about it,” he whispered and winked as he led us into the living room.
Nan was giggling. They must have heard grandad’s offer. ‘They’ were Nan and Sanna. Sanna was sitting in the living room beside Nan! Sanna had a precious, awkward expression on her face, almost embarrassed to be found there.
The ladies composed themselves and straightened up in their armchairs. Nan picked up a fancy glass plate of biscuits from the small coffee table between them and waved it at Ville, “go on, have a biscuit! Sanna has been cooking again.” I had no idea Sanna cooked and I had no idea she ever visited my grandparents. Gran had said ‘again’, so it must couldn’t be the first time. Gran wobbled the plate enticingly and Ville stretched out tentatively to take one. I reached over and snatched one, too. They were rough, round oatmeal ‘bondkakor’, which translates to ‘farmer’s cakes’, and you could see they were home-made. They were warm and smelled delicious- I think they were freshly baked, straight from the oven. I think they must have been spiked with sweet spices like ginger or nutmeg or something - they tasted a lot more exciting than they normally do. Nan patted her lap and Ville jumped up and sat, wrapped in nanny’s arms, nibbling at the biscuit edges to prolong it as he stared intensely at Sanna.
Grandad put a cup down on the armrest of the sofa and told me it was mine. He then went back into the kitchen to pour himself another cup. So, I sat down on the sofa and took another biscuit. Nan smiled at me and told me it was okay to dunk it in my coffee even when we had guests, meaning Sanna. As if to underline the incitation, Sanna leaned forward, took a cookie and dunked it in her coffee. Then she looked up expectantly at me as though daring me, so I dunked mine, too. Do you dunk biscuits where you live too? Here, its the height of bad manners but everyone does it all the time and just apologizes.
It was quiet for a few moments, just the tick-tock of the clock and small sipping sounds and clinking of cups on saucers. It was a comfortable silence. Then Nan, who always broke silences with never-ending questions, asked me what I would be doing for the summer.
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I hate camping. For thousands of years mankind lived in caves and mud huts. They hated it so much that they spent their time inventing bricks and mortar and running water and electricity. So every summer my parents dragged us off to spend a week in a rain soaked mud field for what they called a ‘holiday’. For craft folk, camping is a necessary evil. Anywhere that is far enough from prying eyes is even further from running water, electricity and sewers. By the time we arrived it was late...
ReluctanceIn an Assisted Living home but still doing quite well, she thought she saw one of the administrators who might be the daughter of a man she once knew. Now in her seventies the woman sat in her chair and thought back on those “lovely” and very fun days. “Miss ohhh miss” she called out one of the nurses. “I thought I saw a young lady here who possibly might be, well, hmmm how do I say this?” The nurse smiled and waited. “I am not sure honey but I believe her name is Summer? Is there a young woman...
(Real Stories) European Booth MadnessI used to live in Europe and the culture over there is more open to sexuality hence red light district. In one city they had a huge district and had amazing porn stores. I mean state of the art from porn stores with computers just for viewing porn to high-tech stores and sex booths equipped with stripper poles and viewing rooms. One of the best stores was a couple hundred feet from the nearest train station. The regular booths were upstairs and on the ground...
This story is not intended for children and if you are not old enough to read sexually explicit material, go away. This story features some elements of female domination (femdom), teasing & denial, chastity training, mild bondage, creampies, cuckolding cross-dressing and a few other fantasies of mine. I hope you find it entertaining, but if you might be offended, stop reading and do something else. The author retains all rights to this story. You may re-post the story...
Graduation Five months now have passed and Ricky had invited all of us to the gradation and party at his house. I hadn’t seen Hannah since her winter break since she didn’t come home for spring break. In that time Ricky and I saw each other a couple more times, which I told Hannah about. Ricky’s mother, Helen, had asked us to bring over some extra chairs, and I told her Chris would. Ricky’s whole family came in to see him graduate. Hannah was home a week early and done with her 1st year of...
Spring break in the Clayton household meant more than taking time off from school. It also meant the start of the NCAA basketball tournament a.k.a. March Madness. Jay and Sandy Clayton loved the tournament and watched it religiously. Because spring break was during the week of the tournament, Jay and Sandy could stay home and watch it. Jay Clayton was 17 and a junior in high school while his sister, Sandy, was 16 and a sophomore. They had a pretty good relationship with each other even though...
The beginning of a male story Junior year of high school was far from my favorite. It was late September before Rachel and my mother came up for air after their passionate island getaway. When Carmen's boyfriend did not return after the summer, she and Jeanie caught a case of the exclusives. Iris moved out-of-state with my uncle to get the kids away from everything that reminded them of their mother. Tanya and I were just getting comfortable as a couple when her father called her home; I...
I headed to a bar I knew would be crowded with after work revellers as well as lots of young men. It also had booths along a dark wall – perfect for my plans. I went straight up to the bar and ordered a drink. I then turned to survey the crowd and found my first target. He was about 25, a big guy, not all that goodlooking and not too drunk. I am quite pretty, with long blonde hair and big brown eyes so getting a guy’s attention is never hard. I walked up to him and asked him if I...
They lay on the couch, ostensibly watching a movie. Neither one was paying attention, more interested in the closeness, the snuggles and handholding they were indulging in under the blanket that covered them from the inquisitive eyes of the friend on the other couch. Both knew it was absolutely insane, that no matter what they felt it could never, ever go anywhere. They had been so close, so close before and held themselves back. This time, they knew there would be no going back. Hands slid...
Prologue I came to be in a simple moment of insanity. On a website that called to my usually very reasonable half to be something more, somebody that others could never believe she could be. Spontaneous, bold, flirty, sexy, beautiful, desired, all in all a woman confident in her sexuality. I was instantly popular with lots a chatters and started a steady social network with many men. I was coy and secretive, sweet and attentive, I had many wrapped around my finger with the person I could be...
First TimeBecky was nice at first but once she hit 18 it was like a switch went off in her head and she became crazy. She'd smoke pot then claim I gave her it (I didn't touch the stuff), would steal my beer from my room's fridge and generally make my life a misery. When my uncle moved back to the coast I was relieved but my antagonist was to return. Joy of Joys. My mom and her boyfriend had rented a cabin for themselves and left us 3 to fend for ourselves, Kelli being the oldest at 24 was put in...
No human thing can last forever. I moved off Rachel and lay beside her. I could not break the contact so I kept a hand on her breast and stroked her hair with the other. She turned to face me, and we spent a few minutes gazing at each other. I would have fallen asleep staring into her eyes had she not sat up. "Let's get food," she said, smiling down at me. I nodded and got out of bed. I could feel her eyes on me as I walked to the bathroom, picked up my swim trunks, and left the room....
Welcome to movie madness! Where all of your sexy spinoffs of your favourite movies are found! Feel free to add chapters of your favourite movies or to add crossovers between movies or to continue previously written chapters as long as you are writing about a real movie and that all characters are eighteen plus. If a chapter gets more than 10 likes I will write a follow up chapter. I will try to publish new chapters on a weekly basis and feel free to comment on what movies you would like to be...
FantasyIn orbit over Etheria. Hordak stood on the command deck of the Horde Space Cruiser looking down at the planet, Catra and Shadow-Weaver stood behind him. In front of them a young man in a Horde Space fleet uniform approached them. “Ah Lord Hordak,” The man saluted and handed a message disk to Hordac, “Here are your orders from Horde Prime himself. I have been ordered to deliver them to you and to deploy the Utopia Bomb…” The officer was interrupted by an out burst from the three. “Admiral...
Welcome to Reign of madness. This story is a fiction, taking place in a parallel universe. Any resemblance to real situations, places or persons living or dead is purely accidental. If you are under 18, please leave and what are you doing here anyway? First of all, please pick a gender.
FantasyMovie Madness----------I really did not want to be at work today. I reluctantly dressed and went in although it was a special day for me, even if everyone else had seemed to forget my birthday. I was quite irritated that no one remembered, and decided to just take the afternoon off and relax. As I headed out of the office, a package delivery truck had arrived unexpectedly and handed me a medium sized package with an envelope taped to the outside. I looked quizatively at the driver asking who...
I used to live in Europe and the culture over there is more open to sexuality hence red light district. In one city they had a huge district and had amazing porn stores. I mean state of the art from porn stores with computers just for viewing porn to high tech stores and sex booths equipped with stripper poles and viewing rooms. One of the best stores was a couple hundred feet from the nearest train station. The regular booths were upstairs and on the ground level they had all the dvd's and...
Technocratic: Episode 2 - Diving into Madness By Robyn You don't know how great being normal is until you're not. Oh you strive for individuality, to set yourself apart from the crowd, but deep down there is always a need, a desire, to be normal. To be differentiated, but not different. It was a pleasant May day when Tom's normal life shattered into abnormality. Before he had held no secrets, now he had one big secret. It had all happened so fast too. One moment he was staging...
Modelling Madness by Throne I used to be Billy John. Now I'm Belle Jean. In the past I favored worn jeans and T-shirts. Now I'm stuck in girly clothing all the time. What's worse, some of the fashions I have to wear are bizarre, to say the least, and lots of people get to see me in them. It all started because my wife Melinda took Art classes. She met this young woman who called herself Shadow, whose creations were weird fashions. Her current productions were all knitted. She...
Thou art that madness of supreme desire, which lacking, beauty is but dross and clay. Within thy veins is all the fire of day and all the stars divinity of fire. Thine are the lips and loins that never tire, and thine the bliss that makes my soul dismay. Upon thy breast what god at midnight lay, to make thy flesh the music of his lyre? Ah! Such alone should know thy loveliness! Ah! Such alone should know thy full caress, O goddess of intolerable delight! I beg of Fate the guerdon and the...
The amount of time I was spending at the mansion did not go unnoticed. My mother said nothing about it. Marisa would have been vocal about my lack of attention, except that Michael spent more 'working' dinners and weekends at our house. (The divorce got uglier and with Rachel and I fucking up a storm, the mansion was not a good hiding place.) Karen seemed relieved and at times angry at my absence. She was confused about anything and everything to do with me, especially how she felt about...
It was a hot August night in the country. I had just dimmed the cabin lights after a heated argument with Ramos over something I can’t even remember. I decided to take a hot bath to calm my emotions. I walked into the bathroom which I noticed for the first time was so large it seemed empty. My heart ached and I hadn’t stopped crying since Ramos slammed the door and. I heard the tires of his 71′ Chevelle scream down the old dirt road. I never felt so alone. The oversized bathroom only added to...
Thanksgiving Break - Hannah returns home A few months had past since my romp with Ricky. Things were still stale with my husband and I and work was the same. Thanksgiving break was coming up and Hannah was coming home and wanted us to meet her boyfriend. Chris didn’t like it that much but I reminded him that she is an adult now and we had to let go. We picked her up from the airport and we’re driving home. “when do we get to meet him?” I asked “I was thinking tomorrow at dinner” Hannah...
The further I got into August, the faster time seemed to go. Everyone knew I was leaving soon, and none seemed too happy about it. The worst ones handling my imminent departure were the R's. On more than one night I ended up comforting them in my bed. "It's not fair!" wailed Roberta or Rose. "We just get here, and you leave." I would hug them. "I know, and I'm sorry. But my employment contract is only for the summer. If I could stay here longer I would, but I can't." "What if...
Sex with Rachel became less important the closer the twins' return came. There were other things I would not be able to do with her that seemed more difficult to let go of. Like her smile when I walked into the mansion, it welcomed me as her man and not her sons' best friend. She sprang her gifts on me during our last night together. I arrived at the mansion dejected. I wondered if it were possible to fuck from the moment she opened the door until we had to pick up the twins. Rachel let...
Sarah gropped her perky 34B breasts, pushing them together to make them bigger. Sighing she gave up and had a quick check to the rest of her young 17 year old body. She had beautiful pale skin without any blemishes, nice long copper hair that almost fell to her well rounded ass. She was only 5ft tall and was the shortest girl in her grade but she knew what she lacked in height she made up in beauty. She had big innocent green eyes and a cute straight nose and small pouty lips that made...
Springtime for Summers (c) 2002 by Nom de Plume Anne Summers had always thought that Christmas would be the worst time. The death of her husband Patrick the preceding September had been such a devastating shock, she had barely gone through the motions that first December, in an effort to create a semblance of joy for her three year old daughter Lindy. In her fragile state, she had succumbed to the smooth advances of her investment advisor, Andrew Nash, a...
AnnSummers! When shopping for sex toys, lingerie, or even something for your BDSM backroom exploits, it’s always important to choose a retailer you can trust. Well, perhaps you enjoy walking into your local sex shop and chatting with the cashier, telling them how you appreciated their nipple clamp suggestions last week, but not everyone is into that.In the 21st century, most people prefer to purchase their sexual paraphernalia discreetly from the comfort of their own homes. But, still, it’s...
Online Sex Toys ShopsMrs. Summers’ SlipsChapter 1, "Curiosity" Shortly after my thirteenth birthday, I discovered the appendage between my legs had another use. As I experimented with these new-found sensations sometimes 3-times a day, and usually with the assistance of a purloined stroke mag), it became very clear that I preferred looking at pictures of partially clad women over full frontal nudity. By partially clad, I mean looking at pictures of women wearing seductive or frilly bras, panties, nightgowns, etc....
A little bit about Summer. She's 23 year old short haired brunette, tall and skinny. She's about 5' 10" tall and about 105 lbs. She is also some what of a shy woman. Even though she is skinny I think as a very nice body. More about her as the story goes on. Months after the store visit Summer gave Jenn a call. They had exchanged phone numbers as we were checking out. Anyway Summer told Jenn that her boyfriend broke up with her a month & a half ago. She went on to say that she hadn't...
Marissa Cooper's eyes blinked open after hearing the voice of her best friend Summer Roberts. She had spent the whole night partying with her friends and was drunk out of her mind. It wasn't unusual for Marissa and Summer to stay out until all hours of the night but this night had been special because it was Summer's birthday meaning both of them were finally 18. Ok, so they were still technically won't supposed to be drinking that they had both matured quickly and the rich of Orange...
Please read Part one of this story to get the background.Can be found here. http://xhamster.com/user/love-fist/posts/245108.htmlIf you like it, please comment, I'm still a novice writer and feedback is always helpful, and makes me want to write more!!Part 2.Rob looked fondly at the sleeping form cuddled next to him, the soft white sheet covered most of the delicate creamy flesh, but it did show a creamy white breast, the soft pink nipple resting against his ribs.With his free hand, Rob reached...
Continuing the Summer saga, this story picks up where "Summer is Hot in Cozumel" left off. "So, John, what's the deal with you sexually propositioning Aaron?" "WHAT?!" Grinning, Summer poked him in the ribs. "Don't try to deny it, you glorious freak. I heard you on Dave's phone call, trying to talk Aaron into helping you join the Mile High Club." John leaned back and laughed, "Oh god, you heard that? Okay, fine, Summer, you're onto me! My secret is out!" Still grinning,...
Chapter 14: Summer Transformed - Summer's Metamorphosis From below, Rayleena gave a moan that sounded almost despairing, then thrust powerfully forward and up, her hips driving the bursting shaft of her cock flesh to the hilt in Summer. Vantha could hear the slapping thud of Rayleena's body meeting the quivering globes of Summer's rump in a forceful plunge. Vantha quivered, her muscles standing out and tremb-ling, as she strained her own body, bent on burying her own fountaining cock into...
The two of them walked through the double glass doors of the convenience store with a whoosh of wind following them, blowing through the center aisle way next to the service counter, magazines and pages flipping through the wind. There was no one else there but Jeff, the clerk working the register, who at the moment was using the customer restroom on the other end of the convenience store. The cameras were the only things that caught them at first.One was male, tall and skinny, seemed to hide...
Realizing that I was on board, Summer’s face lit up. She jumped at me, wrapping her arms around me giving me a big hug.Ashley sat down on the couch across from us.“You’re sure about this?”Summer looked at me tentatively.“Yeah, we’re sure.”“Wait!” Summer spoke up. “What about Maddie? You’re sure that she won’t be mad at me?”“As I said, there’s no possession or jealousy. We all understand that we’re free to do what we want.”With her mind at ease, or at least the pretense of guilt removed, Summer...
CuckoldChapter 15: Summer Transformed - Summer's Release Summer showed no tenderness or compunction in what she did next. The now much larger girl stood up, her assets shuddering delightfully before Rayleena's awestruck eyes, as the huge shaft of her new cock jerked to slap heavily between her breasts repeatedly. Summer turned to Vantha lying upon the bed, her massive cock stretching out over Vantha like a tree limb from her new body. Summer's powerful new form quivered and rippled in anticipation...
After Summer’s threesome with Darren and Carl, she continued to see Darren on and off for a few months. After just a few dates though, Summer complained to me that Darren was starting to get jealous and possessive. He didn’t care about me, but when she was with him and her phone rang he’d want to know who was calling, or if she wasn’t free to meet up with him he’d demand to know if she was going out with someone else (she usually was). Things came to a boil when Darren found out that she’d been...
CuckoldIntroduction: Summer is made a member of the Connors family – in EVERY way possible Hot Summer Nights by Jen L. Lee 2012 You do realize that Summer has been returned to us from six foster homes, Mrs. Naste said to Teal Connors. She is almost 15 and we feel she is incorrigible and likely will never fit in anywhere, she sniffed in a condescending tone. Frankly, we all believed she would age out and be someone elses problem. There is no such thing as an incorrigible child, the 34-year old...
by Jen L. Lee © 2012 “You do realize that Summer has been returned to us from six foster homes,” Mrs. Naste said to Teal Connors. “She is almost 15 and we feel she is incorrigible and likely will never fit in anywhere,” she sniffed in a condescending tone. “Frankly, we all believed she would age out and be someone else’s problem.” “There is no such thing as an incorrigible child,” the 34-year old socialite said as she adjusted her stylish hat. “I was not able to have children after...
Chapter 13: Summer Transformed - Summer Is Gifted Both Vantha and Rayleena had left their respective quarters, and were now roaming the hallways of the Island, eagerly in search of new partners to satisfy their seemingly endless sexual lust and excitement. Because of the relative closeness of Tiffany and Ebony's quarters on the one side of the Island, and the layout of the corridors, it was only a few moments before Vantha and Rayleena met each other in the hallway. Both girls instantly knew...
When it came time to move, Summer decided that she’d rather get a few guys from her gym to help out than hire movers.“Why pay strangers when we can grab a case of beer and some pizza – that way, we can enjoy it too?” Her reasoning made sense, and again it was her money, so my say didn’t amount to much.That was the first time that I’d come face to face with Darren. He seemed like a nice guy, but I did my best to avoid him because it felt strange to be around him. He looked as much like Denzel...
Cuckold"So are you as excited as I am? You get to do your gift tonight!" Summer said, grinning at Aaron. "Yes, I do, and don't think I haven't given it a lot of thought," he smiled. "Thought? Obsession would be more like it," said John, sniggering at him. Aaron took a ring of calamari and plopped it into John's beer. "Hey, you fuck!" laughed John, plucking the calamari from his glass. He shook it at Aaron, splattering him with beer. "What? Do you deny it? That's all you've been...
Someone once said "Never leave home angry". Summer couldn't remember who had said it, but the line kept on bouncing around her brain. She was angry and she had just left the Trailer, she and her Mom were sharing, to go to the Baywatch Headquarters to start her shift. She was angry and she was disappointed. Only a few hours ago she had a fight with her boyfriend Matt. They kept on having fights about the one theme only. But why wouldn't he just let go of it? She had made it clear to him...
"Aha! I see you found the old tank top," Dave said, hugging Summer from behind as she stood at the kitchen counter chopping potatoes. Wrapping her arms around his, Summer smiled. "Did you think there was any chance I wouldn't? I'd already found it way before you left your phone message." "Well, I was right, you do look absolutely amazing in it." "Thank you, sweetie. I'm glad you like it on me. It's shorter than that little nightshirt you love so much, which at least sort of...
Part 1.Rob had nothing but admiration for this girl. The fact she was his daughter made little difference. He gazed upon her with love in his eyes.She had suffered many tragedies in her short life, many were shared with Rob, yet, she still smiled everyday. She'd grown up happy, in good health, with loving parents. Rob and Claire had been married since they were sixteen. They bore two c***dren, two years apart. Eddie was the elder, Summer the younger.The first tragedy struck when Eddie was...
This is a Summer Lovin’ contest story. Please vote. * Stephen’s love of his life is his sister’s best friend, Summer, a woman eight years older than him. Summer, I’m in love with Summer, my sister Christine’s best friend and I don’t know what to do about it. Love at first sight, it all started the first time I saw Summer in the summer of 1968. She was in the backyard with my sister in the pool. As if my sister was swimming with an angel, a woman with a model’s face and a porn star body, I...
Chapter 7: Summer Sucks JordanJordan held still on the bed, as Summer leaned in for a closer look at her crotch, her eyes fixed upon steadily growing bulge in her panties. Before Summer could do anything, Jordan's body began to tremble. In seconds it was growing, and Jordan could feel her skeleton enlarging. "Holy shit, now I'm doing it too!" cried Jordan, as she felt her body transform. After a few moments, Jordan finally stopped when she was roughly the same size as Summer in her bigger...
Deanna and Summer had both attended high school together, and their friendship had its ?roller-coaster? aspect. They were a true contrast, these girls. Deanna had long, wavy brown hair and blue eyes. She had an elegance to her that Summer didn?t quite possess. Summer was a classic blonde, who shared her eye color with Deanna, but little else in appearance. She had a bit of a tan, unlike her best friend. She was not quite as intellectual as her friend, either, though not the typical blonde...
I’d left Summer’s place full of hope, thinking that I’d formed some kind of special bond with her, but within a matter of days I thought that I’d blown it with her. After spending what had been the best day of my life with Summer, I was a little too eager to see her again. Could you blame me?After our time at her parent’s place, we made rough plans to go out sometime. I called her later that same night, but she didn’t answer. I called her again the next day and when she didn’t answer the...
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