Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 00:11:09 -0400 From: Pete Marenga Subject: Paddle for Little Brother - Chapter 1 Copyright (c) 2003 by Pete Marenga Please email me (Pete) at: dom6789@hotmail.com Please mention, "Paddle story," so I know what story you read. Make your SUBJECT LINE clear--please--or I'll end up deleting your email, thinking it's spam. For audiences 18 and over, ONLY. Contains homosexual incest, possibly other gay sex, and some really energetic butt-whacking. In other words, this is a story involving spanking, discipline, and, possibly, sex between male members of the same family. If you are underage or you object to this type of content (that means you don't like it, or you think it might bother you), then you are NOT authorized to read, download, copy this story, or cause same to occur, and you MUST NOT read this story. Events like those in the story don't really happen--that's why they need weird but hot, sexy, wonderful people like me to write the stuff--so those who like it can enjoy it. So, if you don't like this kind of story, just pass this window by, and be on your way. Otherwise--qualified men (and ladies)--I hope you read it, like it, and enjoy the hell out of it. And if you do, please email me, and let me know. --Pete dom6789@hotmail.com Read the story below ONLY if this content, as described above, appeals to you and you are of legal age to access and read it. _____________________________________ PADDLE FOR LITTLE BROTHER - CHAPTER 2 by Pete Marenga dom6789@hotmail.com My little brother Brian and I got along better than most, I think. At this stage of our family life, we had two older sisters who were married and out of the house, so it was just me and Brian. And when my parents said, "Tony and Brian love each other," we rolled our eyes and acted like most brothers who hate hearing that stuff, but I guess we loved each other the way brothers are supposed to. The problem that I had was, my 13-year-old little brother was a big pain in the butt, and didn't know it. At 16, I needed more privacy than Brian seemed to understand. I liked to jack off without my brother knocking on my door, or calling my name. I also wanted to have my friends over without Brian butting in. I was NOT getting what I wanted. From the time Brian was a toddler, everyone said how cute he was. This brings up the other problem: Brian never outgrew that cuteness. I don't think he has a big head about it, he just stayed cute. No, that's wrong, he got cuter as he grew up. I was good looking, but Brian had a baby face that melted people. Combined with his classic features, thin muscled body, deep blue eyes, and very light brown hair, he was easily the cutest kid most people had ever seen. That was another problem: When I needed to be alone, I wanted to shove Brian away and tell him to get the hell out of my room, but I couldn't--he was so cute. I wasn't sure if I was gay, but I knew I was attracted to him. Not just attracted, I jacked off thinking about him most of the time. So I end up trying to be nice to him, and gently tell him 'this is big brother Tony's time to be alone,' or with friends, or I'd try to get him interested in something else. I know that's probably wrong, because I already have a ton of guilt with my sexual feelings for Brian, and I dread the time when he starts to mature, because I don't think I could forgive myself if I ever did anything sexual with him that would scar him somehow. Brian tried to cooperate, but he just seemed to be drawn to me and whatever I was doing. I should be tougher with him. It would be so much easier if I could distance myself from Brian; so much easier if I could just tell him, 'Get the fuck out of my room and don't come back,' --but I can't. I see Brian naked once in a while, when he's stepping in or out of the shower, running late, and I'm brushing my teeth. So I know he's a little behind the normal growth curve for his age. He's little for 13. He has no hair anywhere below his neck, and his dick looks small to me--so I'm pretty sure sex doesn't exist for Brian. He doesn't put himself on display, but he never tries to cover himself at those times. Brian drives me nuts--but I love him. My friends are all on notice not to use foul language or say bad things about my little brother when he's around. And I've already lost one friend, who said the whole situation with me and my brother is ridiculous. Anyway, all my buds know to watch their mouths until Brian is out of earshot. "Come on, Tony, do something! Tell Brian to fuck off," my friend Ron said about Brian." "He's just a kid, I can't talk to him like that." I hated acting so defensive about Brian. "How old is he, TEN?" Ron said, "You gotta be able to control him." "He's thirteen," I said. "He's just a squirt!" Ron said. "Quiet, Ron!" someone yelled. "Tony--Ron's right!" Adam, my best friend said, "Maybe not cuss at him, but--you know, your brother's a PAIN. One good punch, and he'll shut up. And, he IS little, for thirteen." "Punch?" I said, feeling pain as I said it. "Ok," Ron said, "a slap, then. Whatever." Problem was, Brian was very innocent. I thought he was a pain, too, but a cute one. There was no way I could hit my little brother, and if I did, I'd be punished. I kept giving Brian pleading looks, leaning away from the others so they couldn't see what I was doing. Finally, Brian disappeared, and I had a good time with my friends. The next day, something happened that changed things, around our house. Dad left to take mom to our grandma's house--about an hour's drive, each way. He left us strict orders to clean the kitchen and the 2 bathrooms, but Brian wanted me to help him with his science project, so I did. I lost track of time. Dad came home, and we hadn't even started on the clean up job. It was obvious he was pissed. "I told you boys to clean!" dad roared. "Is that the kind of respect I get? This shows you have no respect for your father. You haven't touched a lick of housework since I left. Why didn't you?" "Dad, I'm sorry," I started to explain. "Tony said NOT to," Brian said. I couldn't believe my ears. I never said anything like that. Dad lunged at me, and tackled me to the floor. "Brian, go to your room, right now!" he screamed in a rage. Then, his attention was directed at me. "You're getting too big for your britches, boy. I never expected this from you, and I'm going to make sure it never happens again. And telling Brian to disobey me, that's the lowest!" "No, no! Dad, I didn't say that." But dad wasn't in a listening mood. He had my pants down to my knees in a second, and held me down with his hand. Then I heard a strange sound. I turned to see him with his belt in his hand. I'd been spanked before, but never with a belt. "You keep your face down on the floor, boy." At the last moment, he yanked my boxers down, and he let me have it. He must have hit me for 10 minutes with that thing, and it stung worse than anything I'd ever known. I howled and screamed. The next thing I thought of was that Brian could hear me screaming. That was humiliating, and I felt anger well up inside me. Dad left the room and returned with a wooden chair. "Sit down, boy!" I did, and screamed again. "I can't. It hurts too much." "I said, SIT DOWN, or this belt will lick your ass twice as hard." It was torture. He made me sit that way for fifteen minutes, then led me to the corner, right outside his room. I was dying of embarrassment, holding my jeans up and trying to walk. "Strip, right here," he said. "Dad, what--" "Don't argue with me," he said, swinging the belt once more. That time, he hit the back of my legs. Five times. I was howling and in tears, as I took everything off. "Face the corner, and I don't want to hear a peep out of you until I come get you." "Yes, dad." Since I was right outside his room, he could hear if I even breathed heavy. The sting was awful. My legs shook as I stood there. The injustice of this whole situation burned into me as I stood naked, facing the corner. Neither of us deserved to be punished, but I had taken a bad beating because of Brian's lie. This had never happened before, and as I thought about Brian, the injustice was worse, because I hadn't seen dad make any moves to punish him. Just then, dad poked his head out the door to check on me. "Good, your ass is red as a beet," he said, and disappeared back into his room. Then, I just got mad. I was mad at everyone, dad, Brian, even myself. I jumped when Brian showed up in the hallway. He looked scared as he took a good look at my bruises, and me just standing there, naked. Brian no sooner started to talk, when dad came out. "Brian," he said, "go back to your room. That's your punishment." 'Some punishment,' I thought. Brian retreated without a word. At least he was smart enough to do that. I started thinking about Brian's scared look. I got madder at him, and thought maybe I could give him something to be scared about. I tried to rub some of the pain away, but it hurt worse when I touched myself. At least I wasn't still crying when Brian saw me. I thought about all the times Brian entered my life when I didn't want him. Many times, I'd seen him through the crack in my door, watching me jack off. But it was always when I was just getting ready to cum--which was not a time I felt like getting up and interrupting myself--so I ended up cumming, knowing he was watching me. I was trying to get in the habit of closing my door fully and locking it, even when I thought no one would be home, but I didn't always remember. I could tell he liked to watch me. Was it because I was jacking off, and that was unusual to him? Or was it just seeing me naked, or my bigger dick? I was huge compared to him, but probably not quite 7 inches yet. I remembered a time when I was little, like Brian--maybe younger--when I liked to catch a look at a bigger dick, but it was out of curiosity, nothing sexual. That phase didn't seem to last long. I think I started jacking off soon after that. I don't even remember how I learned to jack off. I think it was a combination of touching myself and hearing other guys at school talking about it, but basically, I just did it. I wondered if I was really gay, or just had a thing for Brian. I'd never messed around with anyone, not yet, anyway. I was still stunned by what Brian did to get me in trouble, more than what dad did in return. It would have been way different if Brian was one of those nasty little brothers, but he wasn't like that. Although, I guess what he did, lying and getting me in trouble, was pretty nasty. I never, ever expected anything like that from my brother. Maybe he'd just turned mean? Did he have a new friend that was a bad influence? Did he do it as a stupid joke, not realizing dad would beat me for it? For some reason I looked a little to my left, and saw Brian's eyes, watching me through his almost closed door. I wondered how long he'd been there. I made an angry face at him, and he smiled. The little brat just smiled. I had started to feel guilty that I'd had such harsh thoughts toward Brian. But now, I'd decided he was really in for it, and the guilt disappeared. I got scared when I heard my dad's footsteps. Brian darted back from the door of his room. I jumped when dad put his hand on my shoulder. When he turned me around, I felt weight in my groin, and I realized I was hard. My heart sank, thinking I'd really get it, for that, especially with my dick pointing right at him. "Sorry it had to be so bad, Tony. We'll talk more later. Are you ok?" Dad looked, for a split-second, like he was going to cry. And I was sure he saw my hardon. He seemed to ignore it. I wanted to tell him how unjust I thought it was that Brian had lied--but all I really wanted to do was to get my clothes back on, and forget about this. "Uh....yeah, dad...I'm ok now." I had to be blushing, my face was hot. Then he put both hands on my shoulders. "Tony, I don't want to have to do this again." I just nodded, and dad went back to his room. His eyes looked sad, like he was sorry he'd hurt me. I was shaking. At least I'd gone soft while he talked to me. I had plans to make, for Brian. I noticed his door was closed now. I grabbed my clothes and went to my room to get dressed. The pain on the skin of my butt and back of my legs was down to a dull ache, I thought, until I slid my jeans on. Then it hurt like hell. "Ouch," I said out loud, losing my balance and almost knocking over the monitor of my new computer. It was my pride and joy. I went into the bathroom, remembering that we had some cream there, thinking that might take the pain away. Brian came in naked, ready to take a shower. I thought he would leave, but he stood by the tub. "Tony," he said, "I had no clue, I mean, I'm sorry." I just stared at him, as cold and hard a stare as I could make. Brian gulped and stared back, looking afraid, and I left the bathroom. He knew something was up. But I knew better than to say anything and tip him off that something big was coming his way. This was going to be a surprise attack. As I sat down at my computer desk, I made an outline of a plan for handling Brian to properly compensate for the terrible beating I got because of his lie. First, I knew I had to catch him doing something bad. Second, I had to have evidence. Third, I had to be able to catch him when he was in the house alone, because he's very careful not to do anything wrong when anyone else is home; and because I could only punish him when no one else was around. How to catch him doing something seemed like a big problem until I looked at my computer. Then the wheels turned at high speed. I had all kinds of video capability, and all I needed was a couple of those little cameras that you can hide. I had some money, and since school was out for the summer, there would be tons of time for me to set my trap while my parents were at work, and Brian was out swimming or playing with friends. And I'd make sure I was out a lot, at the times Brian would be home, to give him long periods to do whatever mischief he might get into. The next day, while Brian was busy swimming at his friend's house, I got in my car and bought the two cameras, and enough extra cable to do what I wanted. When I got back home, I didn't know how soon Brian would be back, so I didn't dare start wiring. Besides, I needed to take measurements of the rooms, and lay out a wiring diagram. Brian got home as I was finishing up. My door was open. It's a good thing I hid the diagram right away, because Brian did the unthinkable, and came right to my room. "What do YOU want, liar?" I said, sounding tough as nails, and staring him down. Brian looked like he'd been struck in the face. His eyes got that scared look again. "Are you still mad at me?" I narrowed my eyes, and in my toughest voice, said, "What do you think?" Brian paled as his scared expression turned blank. "Yeah, you're still mad." Now, we were staring each other down. As Brian turned to leave, it almost looked like he started to smile. It didn't really matter, I was going to give him something he definitely would not smile about. A few days later, Brian went camping with his best friend Rob's family. He'd be gone for two days. With both mom and dad away at work during the day, I had plenty of time to set up my cameras, as well as look at cool stuff on the net. And I was free to visit Adam and Ron as much as I wanted. I got lucky on the wiring, because dad had remodeled the whole house with hanging ceilings. It was an old house, and the old high ceilings made it hard to heat. It was easy to hide the cameras in the soft ceiling material, and the tiny hole I needed blended in with the pattern on the ceiling panels. The hardest part was drilling the holes between rooms, and getting the cable to go through so I could grab it on the other side of the wall. Hooking them up to my computer was no sweat. I was totally amazed at the quality of the video when I finally got to test my setup. I had used two separate ports on my system, so I could record Brian's room and the den at the same time. I had about a five hour recording time before my new CD-ROM drives would fill up. The only problem was the time it would take to view what I recorded, but I figured if I left the house for just a couple of hours at a time, it meant I would only have a couple of hours of video to check, at one time. When I got back to the house, I could do the playback at high speed, and not waste too much time looking at empty rooms. I just wondered how long I would have to wait before I caught Brian at something I could hold over his head. The first three days, I had nothing. Brian playing on his computer; Brian making faces at himself in the mirror; Brian dressing and undressing--that part was fun. The fourth day, I got lucky. About 20 minutes into the den video, there was Brian, drinking scotch from dad's liquor cabinet, right from the bottle. I was excited, but not ready to make my move yet. The next day was even better. Brian had his friend Kyle over, and he poured scotch into two glasses. It was obvious they actually drank it down--and funny the way they coughed and gagged, drinking it. But it wouldn't be funny when I showed the video to Brian. I was sure of that. Now all I had to do was figure out exactly what to say to Brian, and how to say it. Then it occurred to me that if I showed Brian the video, he'd know where the camera was hidden, and I'd never be able to catch him again. So, I took several stills of Brian's misdeeds, and made JPEG's out of them, then I took the JPEG's to Adam, and he did some real magic on them. First, I had to go back home and take some shots of all the walls of the den. Then, Adam combined those with the images of Brian and his friend, Kyle, and distorted everything, somehow, to make it seem like the pictures were taken from outside the window. Adam had a picture printer, so they looked like prints from a regular roll of film. This was perfect. Brian would think I was outside the house with a regular camera, and wouldn't even think to hunt around the room for a hidden video cam. I waited a couple of days to make it seem like the film had to be developed, then it was time to hit Brian with them. All I had to do was wait until mom and dad would go on a weekend trip to Cargana Island, and the stage would be set. When the time came, Brian and I said good-bye to mom and dad. Soon, Brian was surfing the net, and I went into action. I got several pieces of rope ready, hid them in my back pockets, grabbed my pics, and went to my little brother's room. I plopped the pictures on Brian's computer table. "Those are just copies," I said. "All the originals are safely stored at a friend's house." He looked at them and gasped, "No way." "Your ass is mine, little bro, or dad gets to see these." Brian was looking at the pics of him drinking from the bottle of scotch. "And these," I said, placing the ones of him and Kyle pouring from the bottle, and drinking from glasses. "Oh, God," Brian said, turning pale, and looking so defeated at me. He tried to run from the room, but I caught him. After I had him on the floor, I used one of my ropes to tie up his wrists. He had no shirt on, and getting his shorts off was just a matter of holding his legs, and gradually pulling down. "Tony, no--what are you doing--stop!" I left his briefs on. Brian had a chin bar in his room, so with another rope, I tied his bound wrists, and tied the other end to the chin bar. Then, I grabbed his kicking legs, and tied his feet together. "Tony, no--stop! What are you trying to do?" "You'll find out real soon, Brian," I said, suddenly yanking his briefs down to his feet. The ropes were in the way, so I couldn't take them off, completely. "AH! No!" he yelled. I took another rope and ran it from his bound ankles to the chin bar, and when I pulled the rope tight, it lifted Brian's little legs back and over his head, lifting and exposing two little-brother mounds of flesh, just wating to be punished. Then with my hand, I slapped his cute little butt three times, as hard as I could. Brian moaned, not very loud. It couldn't have hurt THAT much--my hand didn't really hurt. Brian's gasps sounded more like surprise than pain. His butt cheeks turned a nice shade of pink, though. "Where are you going?" he said, as I went to the doorway. It was very satisfying to see my little brother nervous--all tied and helpless. I laughed. "You'll see." I had a huge paddle hidden under my bed. It was given to me as a joke. I was so bad at ping-pong, my parents got me this oversized ping-pong paddle. I had peeled the rubber coating off it, and sanded it down to a smooth, hard wood surface. It was custom-made, heavy, and very strong. Brian turned his head toward me as I walked back into his room. His eyes widened when he saw the paddle, which I put in front of his face. "Lick it, Brian," I said, sounding like a drill sergeant. "No way." "Lick it and get 20 whacks, or don't lick it and get 50. It's up to you, Brian." He licked it. He was being too quiet for a 13-year-old boy about to get a paddling from his 16-year-old brother. His silence was making me nervous. "You know you deserve this, Brian, for what to did to me." "Yeah," he said, so softly in a weird voice. "Just yeah?" "Yeah--I'm sorry, Tony." "You're gonna be." I took a few medium-strength swings at his helpless little butt, just for practice. Smack. "Uh." Smack. "Uh." Then I gradually hit harder. Smack! "Uhh." SMACK! "Ah!" WHACK! "OW! AH!" I finished off ten of the twenty whacks, and was disappointed. I'd hit him pretty hard, and his butt was good and red--but no tears, no screams, no begging for mercy. "Brian!" Brian jumped. "Yeah?" "Next time I come for you to give you your payback, you get naked, put your hands on this chin bar all by yourself, and wait for me to tie you." "Ok, I--I promise, Tony." "This will be your reminder," I said, taking off my belt. I wound up for a good one. SMACK! "AH!" An ugly wide red swath appeared across Brian's butt cheeks. It looked nasty, and I dropped the belt. I went over to him, and without a word, I rubbed the redness. I started to get hard, right away, but I was a little scared I'd gone too far. "Oh!" Brian said when my hand touched him. I knew it would hurt, touching, but hoped that my rubbing would calm him down. What my hands felt was so hot, so incredible, I was starting to get into it, and kept rubbing for a few minutes. I was amazed and how red his butt got, like the color got deeper with time. His face and neck were also red, by this time. I wasn't sure why. Brian made little noises as I tried to soothe his tortured skin. I knew those had to be sounds of pain, but hoped I hadn't scared him too much. I went around to the front of him. "Well, what do you have to say for yourself?" Brian stared at me with a frightened look--with a different kind of fear, I thought. He gulped. When I looked down, I was shocked. Brian had a hardon that was about 4 inches long. I didn't know whether to ignore it, or what. "Please, Tony, don't tell--" "Shut up," I said, more out of nerves than any reason to say that. "You took those whacks like a real man." "Really?" Brian said, with the start of a smile. "Yeah. We'll see how you do on the other ten. You never know when I'll come to give you those, either." Brian nodded, with his eyes open wide. Then he looked down at his dick, and back up at me. There was no avoiding the subject now. I had no clue what to say. How did he get a 4 inch boner out of that baby dick of his? "Looks like that part of you is trying to become a man." "Yeah." When Brian's blush deepened, I realized why his neck and face looked red from behind, when I was rubbing his butt. "Is this what made you get hard?" I said, reaching behind him to rub his backside again. Brian nodded. "Do you know what to do with that?" I asked, looking right at his dick. Brian shook his head. I could see in his eyes, he was telling the truth. Plus, I'd have known if he'd started jacking off, and he hadn't. "If you take the next ten whacks like the first ten, maybe I'll show you." "Ok, Tony--give 'em to me now." "Hey, little boy, I call the shots around here. Just to make sure you know that, you can stay tied up until I'm ready to deal with you again." I got the strap and aimed it like I meant it. "You got that?" "Yes." "I wanna hear, 'yes, sir.'" "Yes, sir." I swung the belt, hitting Brian on the tender part of his backside. "Awoooooooooooo!" "Are you saying 'yes sir' because you're sincere, or because of this belt I'm holding?" "I'm SINCERE! I swear, Tony--I'll do anything you say, you don't have to hold the belt over me." "SMACK!" "YAAAAAAHHRRGH!" "You left out a word, slaveboy!" "Sir! I'll do anything you say, sir!" "Shit! What can you do for me all tied up like that?" Incredibly, Brian blushed. "Sir, I know! I could--" "You're missing the whole point, slaveboy! You're whole purpose in life, from now on, is to take pain--to take pain from ME. "Yes, sir," Brian said firmly. "SAY IT, THEN!" "My p-purpose is to take pain from you, sir." "You're going to like everything I do to you, and everything I make you do--aren't you?" Brian nodded. "SAY IT!" "Oh, God, Tony," Brian said, his body and voice trembling, "I swear I'll like it--anything you do to me." "WRONG WORD, BOY! WHAT HAPPENED TO 'SIR?'" "SMACK!" I gave him the belt again, in a fresh, white area of his cute rear-end. "OW! I'm sorry, sir. I will love everything you do to me." "SAY IT! Say, 'I will love all the pain you give me.'" "Sir, I will love all the pain you give me." "Ok, slaveboy, here's your chance to prove yourself." "Anything. Anything, SIR!" "Good, Brian. That's a good, little slaveboy. Now I'm going to give you the other ten smacks I promised you. To show how much you like it--how much you enjoy me smacking your butt-- you will SMILE through all ten smacks of the belt, and not cry out." "Yes, sir," Brian said, gritting his teeth. Of course I knew he couldn't do it. I gave him the first three smacks at medium force, to give him confidence. His face tensed, but he still smiled without yelling or crying. Then, I really wound up for the fourth swing. "SMACK!!" Brian still did not yell. He flinched, but he was still smiling--although it looked like a painful type of smile. "Uhnn," Brian moaned. It suddenly hit me that there were lots more ways I could enjoy my little brother-slave besides spanking his butt. I was sweaty, and needed a shower. I untied Brian. This would be the test of him--whether he would really cooperate, or give me trouble. After the last knot was untied, we stared at each other. Brian was cooperating. I nodded. "When I nod like that, it's either a prearranged signal for you to do something, or else you ask me what you can do for me. You GOT THAT, BOY?" "Yes, sir. What can I do for you, sir?" "Take my clothes off me, boy, and give me a bath." Brian reached for my belt and had the bottom half of me naked much more quickly than I'd thought he would. Brian's dick was stiff and sticking up, almost against his abs. I began to feel self-conscious, and stripped my own t-shirt off. "Sir, I--" "It's ok, boy." I was naked, now. Brian started the bath. "Sir, how hot should I make--" "Forget it. Turn on the shower. Step in and adjust the water." "Yes, sir." I put a towel on myself to cover my hardon. "Doesn't it bother you Brian--I mean, boy--to have your dick hard and prancing around in front of me?" "Sir--just at first, but not now." As I stepped into the shower, I shed the towel, and stared at my brother's dick. Hardon, I should say. "It's too hot," I said, "Make it cooler." "Yes, sir." "Face me. Don't say any more. As a matter of fact, don't make a sound from here on, if you can help it." Brian nodded obediently. The shower spray was on his back. He was staring at my cock, which was erect at its full almost- seven inches. I took the bar of soap, and went right for his hard little dick. I stroked slowly, watching his face, while I put an arm around him to feel the responses of his body. "THIS is what I was talking about, little brother--little brother slaveboy!" I said, stroking him fast, now; wanting to hit him with all of this at once, wanting his first cum to be overwhelming--to knock him down like a freight train. But mostly I wanted Brian to cum fast, because I wanted to make him cum a second time, before we were through. He screamed and squealed, and made wonderfully sexy noises as his thin young streams of pale white brother-fluid shot in amazing distances all over the tub and walls. Without entering him, I pressed a finger against his hot little hole, and listened to his screams of pleasure get louder. I had no trouble admitting to myself that I liked my little brother's sounds of pleasure, and that getting sidetracked from my plan of pain was more fun than I'd imagined. Brian's climax was over. "MY turn," I said, as I put Brian's little hand on my thick, hard, big-brother cock. "Oh, God." Brian moaned softly, as he slid down my body, and began to kiss my feet. "Hmm!" I said, not knowing what to think of this, but knowing I wanted to do something sexual with my cute little-brother. "Tony! Make me obey you," Brian said, his voice weak, "Make me." ______ I know it's monotonous, but I'll keep posting this notice at the end of a chapter--hoping you'll all write me a note. :-) WRYTE A NOWT. (You can even call me 'Petey' if you really must.) --Thanks, Pete. dom6789@hotmail.com