Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:09:33 -0700 From: Joseph Farrin Subject: A BOY IN THE ATTIC My name is CJ, short for Clifford Jenson. I'm 26 years old, two weeks out of college and, since last Friday, the office manager for Ralston Construction Company, which is the largest in the state. I stayed in college to finish my second degree even after my dad had died. Looking back, I couldn't have pleased my dad whatever I did. However, it was the two construction related degrees that won my job for me. I was a disappointment to my dad the minute I declined to follow him and my grandfather into medicine. From that moment on, no matter what I achieved, I'd always be, in his mind anyway, an educated idiot. I didn't want to be a doctor because I knew I'd feint the first time I saw blood. OK, so I'm chicken – I just admitted it SO! That's enough introduction, except to say I'm totally into cocks. I've never fondled tits or fucked a pussy because I was never interested in girls that way. I just like cocks. For that matter, I've never seen a girl naked except in a porn magazine. I live in the house that both my parents and grandparents had lived in. My parents and grandparents both conformed to the American mold. The American male want a current model of their favorite make of automobile. Women want a house just like their grandmother lived in but with all the modern conveniences. Consequently, the house was so old fashioned I couldn't take it. So, I had it redecorated and refurnished, after I'd given up the idea of selling. It was in a stable neighborhood of like homes, all of which, along with the trees in the area, had aged gracefully and were increasing in value. I had thought of selling it because it was enormous – way to large for one person – two stories with a basement and an unfinished attic. I can remember how, as a boy playing in the yard, I liked to look up at the attic windows from the exterior, a huge, half-circle one in the front and back and smaller, rectangular ones in the gable ends on each side of the house. But everything seems bigger to a child, doesn't it? With the house I also inherited my father's housekeeper, Maria Ortega and her husband George who takes care of the yard. They come every Friday for a full day and on those days Maria always fixes me a brown-bag lunch because I'd complained about eating in restaurants. So, It was in the lunchroom one Friday, while brown bagging it, that I picked up the local newspaper and saw an article headed "BLONDE BOY BANDIT". The heading was intriguing and so was the article. The writer was obviously exaggerating and writing with "tongue in cheek". It described a small boy between 12 and 15 years old, with long blonde hair that was upsetting merchants from one end of town to the other with petty thefts. The boy would eat at a lunch counter and run out without paying. He'd grab a food item from the shelves of a convenience store and dash out. He'd go into K- Mart, take several garments into a changing room, rip the tags off one he liked, put it on and run past the attendant saying, "There's my mom, gotta go, she's looking for me." He'd wait at a bus stop, ask some man for a dollar saying he'd lost his money and needed bus fare. Once he had the dollar he'd not board the bus. The articles became more frequent for a while. The kid was seemingly getting braver or more desperate and the articles began making jokes about the police department. One was titled, "How Not to Catch a Thief." Then they started to ebb and slowly tapered off to nothing. After a while I missed reading about him, I had grown to admire his spunk; I worried that he might get caught and wondered what his fate would be when he did. At one point I even thought maybe I'd hire an attorney to defend him if he went to court and scanned the paper every day for the appearance of another article in the series. It was only June but the temperatures inched a little higher each day, I became busier at the office and more wiped out at the end of the workday - less energetic for evening, leisure activities. Gradually, I fell into a routine of eating a big meal at lunchtime and a small, frozen dinner at night. I was not a good cook but at least my frozen dinners were eatable, some were even tasty. The routine included a swim in the pool when I got, home, eating and then lapsing into a couch potato, watching TV and drinking beer or Scotch on the rocks, always with the doors and windows opened wide. The house didn't have AC but the huge trees protected it from the sun and once the sun went down it cooled off rapidly with the doors and windows open and stayed that way until early afternoon the next day. The routine was relaxing and helped me forget my problems at work. My weekend routine was quite different; on Friday and Saturday nights I went to the gay bars and Sundays I took a book to one of the parks, found a shady parking space near a men's restroom and read. It's amazing how many people will approach you in a park; ask for a light, a cigarette, or what you're reading. I always scored at least once every weekend, but you know how that goes, it quenches your needs for a day or two and then sharpens them. In those sharpened periods, I'd sometimes get on the Internet, read Nifty stories or look at some of the porn sites I liked enough that I could get off on some of their pics, or get into a gay chat room. I subscribed to so many gay male sites that I finally started a "little black book" of User Names and Passwords. What kept me sane more than anything else, though, was meeting Nick in a gay bar, a non-stereotyped, young Italian, tall, skinny as a rail and prematurely gray. Damn he was a looker. One night after the bar closed, he came back to the house with me, sat in an armchair and I got between his legs and sucked him to climax. His cock was the opposite of his body – not too long but hefty and his cock head was huge. He liked to get off in a guy's mouth while he was being serviced and after the first time, he appeared on the average of 2 times a week, unannounced, sometimes as soon as I arrived home from work, sometimes he'd stagger in after the bars closed at 2 AM and stay overnight. So what; f you were going to be some guy's regular cocksucker you had to suck his cock when he needed to have it sucked, not when you were horny and wanted to suck it. As far as that goes, I couldn't suck cock very long before I horned up anyway. Work was going great insofar as my boss was concerned. However, I was having a problem with three of the office secretaries. It was clear, even to me, that they wanted to get a big, swinging cock to do the nasty with them. Damn, maybe I should wear a jockstrap to work; I did show a bulge. I had a big one and there was a teenage, office boy that made me spring a boner every time he came into my office to leave or pick up something. I didn't like any of the secretaries in the way they would have liked me to. I only liked girls as friends. And, being the office manager. I sure as hell wasn't going to come out to them as a fag and I sure as hell wasn't going to go out to dinner and tumble in the sack with them. For the time being that is the only thing I am certain of about the situation. Then, one Saturday evening, almost midnight, on the way home from a bar, when, I was approaching Sixth Street, a major, residential street, about six blocks from the house, my eye caught a blonde boy stepping off the bus at the corner. Because of the streetlight, I was able to see him. Holy Cow! I wondered if he lived in the neighborhood; if so I'd have to keep a lookout for him. He was eye candy at it's sweetest! A week later Maria mentioned that a policeman had come to the door; he was canvassing the neighborhood checking out a possible siting, by a resident in the area, of the "Blonde Bandit". "What did you tell him, Maria?" "I told him I hadn't seen him and if you had, I knew you'd have mentioned it." "God, the police department is more concerned about a child that's supposedly committed a couple of petty thefts than it is about major crimes, or so it seems. Maybe all those newspaper stories got to them." It was late July, when I thought of the Blonde Bandit again. I used one of the first floor bedrooms and bath that my parents used as a guest rooms. It saved going up and down stairs and was cooler than the second floor, but that isn't what made him come into my thoughts. I grocery shopped Saturday mornings and bought non-perishable items in quantity if they were on sale, including beer and somewhere, along the line, I began to wonder things like: "I thought I bought more frozen, meatloaf dinners than are left in the freezer and I don't remember eating all of them." "Where did all the grapes go I bought last Saturday?" "Jeez, that beer disappeared in a hurry and so did that bottle of Johnny Walker Scotch." Now and then, I also wondered the same about bacon, orange juice, eggs, cereal and other breakfast items. I wondered if George was sneaking beers now and then and sipping at my Johnny Walker. I wondered if Maria was taking a few items home, now and then. I couldn't believe they would be doing that. Maybe I should pay them more? They had a huge family, but they worked at five houses besides mine. What if they were, I couldn't do without them. They sort of came with the house and I couldn't cope without them. So, I forgot it, it was no big deal anyway and maybe it was my imagination. I could have bought bacon the week before I thought I did and maybe I forgot grapes last Saturday. Shopping was not an exact science for me. It was something I hated and got over with as quickly and painlessly as possible. One Friday, going out to the garage to get my car, George said: "CJ, look at the second floor and attic windows, they're all open a crack. I've never noticed that before." "Yea, when it got so hot I opened the second floor windows that way and I guess the attic windows have always been that way. It's not enough to cause a problem with rain." "Just thought I'd ask?" "You know, I'm going to call the office and tell them I'm going to be a half-hour late. I've never, in my entire life, have been in the attic. Wanta go with me? We opened practically every door in the upstairs hall, until we found the steep stair access to the attic between a linen closet and a closet used to store a vacuum and other cleaning supplies. George went up the stairs as I waited in the hall. He called down as his head reached over the top step and called down, "Just a couple of wooden packing crates and an old trunk, want me to snoop all around?" "Is there any indication of rain coming in the cracked windows?" "Not up here and I think it would have caused stains on the 2nd. Floor ceilings if there was." "Thanks Frank, I better scoot. I won't even be late for work, traffic permitting." In mid August, which, though mid September would be the hottest time of the year, was when, one evening, I got into a chat room I'd joined my second year at the University. In addition to chatting, subscribers could leave messages for other members they'd chatted with or whose profiles they'd pulled out of the archives. I often just looked at the messages and deleted them. A lot of them just wanted to exchange cock pictures. One, however, caught my attention, the chatter's screen name was "CK12" and his message was "CJ if your screen name JC12080 refers to your house number, I think I might know you. Want to meet?" I answered his message with "I've heard of adults soliciting minors on the Internet. Assuming 12 refers to your age, this is a switch. Your knowing me would be a long shot. You're not with the police are you, not that you'd tell me if you were." After sending the reply to his mail box I was sorry I'd even made a reply, but I felt I was OK so far. I'd subscribed to the room from an e-mail address where I'd used a fictitious name. I had another mail address in my real name. CK12's reply the next evening was "12 does refer to my age and I'm to young to be a cop. Saw your pic in your profile in the archives. You're sure a hot looking dude. If you live where I think you do, I'll be sitting on your front steps Friday night when you arrive home. If I'm wrong I'm sorry I got you all excited." It made me smile, as if some 12-year-old kid could get me excited. I damn near forgot about the e-mail exchange until I drove into my driveway Friday after work and a blonde boy, wearing only white Nikes and black, baggy shorts was sitting on the top step of my porch. I didn't drive on back to the garage, but stopped even with the front of the house and walked over to the steps. He was the cutest thing I'd ever seen. What was cute about him? Ever thing about him was cute, from the blonde hair atop his head to his ankles before they disappeared into his shoes. And his smile was so infectious, I caught myself unconsciously smiling back at him. And he was sexy as hell. What was sexy about him? The same things that made him so fucking cute made him fucking sexy, too. I told you I thought I knew where you lived, CJ. Why don't you put on a swimsuit and I'll meet you around back at the pool. 'It's fenced in, you can't get in." "I'll go out to the alley, move the garbage can over by the fence, stand on it and hop the fence. Hey, CJ grab a couple of beers after you put on your suit." In my excitement, I didn't even think about how he knew that my garbage can was in the alley in back of the garage, near to the fence. I told you he sure was cute. He sure was bossy, too. Who in the hell does he think he is? After 45 minutes with him in the pool, I wondered who the hell I was. He pushed me in; we raced across the pool, threw a beach ball back and forth, dunked each other and did every other rowdy thing he could think of to instigate. I began to think I was 12 years old the same as CK until he wore me out. I shouted "Uncle" and was getting out of the pool when he pulled my swimsuit off, climbed out of the pool and I went after him. He tried to sling my suit onto the garage roof but missed. I grabbed him and threw him back into the pool, put my suit back on, spread a towel on the concrete, stretched out on my back and hollered, "Asshole!" actually forgetting I had neighbors. He said, "I'll go get some more beers, I assume they're in the fridge. He came back opened the beers, used my lighter to light two of my cigarettes and sat down to one side of me, cross-legged. His swimsuit, which he must have had on under his shorts, was old fashioned, baggy and had a net like substitute for a jock strap and his boy-dick had worked out of it and was in plain view on the inside of his left leg. I didn't recognize it as one of mine from 10 to 12 years ago. Shit – no rest for the wicked. The way he'd been coming onto me, I bet myself that he'd be in my bed before the night was over and I sure hoped I was right. I'd never been interested in boys, but as I looked up the leg of his swimsuit and saw that 12-year-old, probably virgin, boy cock, I wanted it. I wanted to be the first person to have it and what was in it. God, I had to get my mind on other things. He broke my trance when he asked, "So what's the CJ stand for?" "Clifford Jennings and the CK." "Corky Kellian." In unison, we said "Nice name" and smiled. "You hungry CK?" "Starved. Didn't eat any lunch." We made a truce and walked in the backdoor of the house and into the kitchen. I found two bowls and handed him a bag of potato chips. He opened the fridge and pulled out two more beers. "Put one back, Corky. I think I'll have a Scotch on the rocks." He opened the upper cabinet by the fridge, got out the Scotch and said he'd mix it for me." "How did you know where to find my Scotch?" "Well, the beer was in the fridge. The glass-fronted cabinets have glasses and china, so I guessed the wood-fronted cabinet next to the fridge would be where you kept your Scotch, if you were logical." I didn't want to appear illogical, so I didn't pursue it but asked instead "Would you settle for a microwave Lasagna, CK?" "Love it, can I help you?" I went to my bedroom and brought back two terry cloth robes and we changed into them. The little prick got out of his still damp swimsuit in full view of me. He had the beginning of pubic hair; I guessed he had passed through puberty. He was fast turning into my sexual nemesis. I fixed a salad, we ate and I gave into his having a glass of red wine with the meal. After we'd finished he went back to the kitchen and returned with my pack of cigarettes, my lighter and an ashtray. "Corky, I'm glad you e-mailed me at the gay chat room. I'm glad you came over tonight." "Me too, as I told you, I was really taken with your pic." "How did you know where I lived?" "I'm staying with a guy who lives six blocks from here and I biked by one evening when you pulled into your driveway." "Lets see, the streets are alphabetical and named after trees, bushes or flowers. I'm on Iris, so where are you staying on Dahlia or Nasturtium?" I caught him off guard and he goofed, he said Dahlia, which is west of here but pointed east. He realized he'd goofed, saw the expression on my face and got out of his chair; before he could leave, though, I reacted quickly and grabbed him. He began to cry; I pushed his head onto my chest and let him cry. "I'm sorry CJ." "Why?" "I lied." "Every one does once in a while. Why not just tell me the truth?" "I live in your attic." "My God. I sometimes thought there was another person in the house or someone who had access to it." "Again, why?" "I needed a place to live real bad. I cruised around the neighborhood looking and by a process of elimination settled on a few where I'd observed people worked all day and selected you because I guessed you were single and I'd have one less person to worry about." "Why were you so desperate. Are you all alone." "Yes, and the cops are looking for me." "Why?" "Do you remember the newspaper articles about the Blonde Bandit?" "And that's who you are?" "Yes, and after a while I got to sort of know you and wanted to meet you so badly. So, I sent those messages to your chat room." "How did you do that?" "I found your book of sites and passwords." "How did you get access to a computer?" "I used yours." That was as far as we got, at least concerning conversation. Our robes had separated; I was still holding his head against my chest and our cocks began to intrude into our conversation as well as into the private, intimate parts of our near naked bodies. I thought of the times I'd read the articles about him and the compassion they aroused in me. I thought of my weak attempts to suppress the sexual desires that they aroused in me. And now I was holding him in my arms. I couldn't help myself; I put one hand on each side of his head, held it and kissed him on the lips. He wrapped his arms around me and returned my passion. Then our hands began to slide down to explore the other's symbol of manhood, which until this electrifying moment we had not touched with our hands. If it had ended there it would have still remained the most powerful and exciting moment of my life. As it was though, we managed without losing lip contact to reach my unmade bed and for the first time in my life I had sex with a beautiful, soft skinned boy with a five inch cock who was as eager for sex with me as I was for him. It was a very special moment, an undreamed of adventure abounding in spontaneous advances born of lust and answered with responses of the same origin. Yet, I knew I was racing roughshod over things forbidden by law, by religion and by society, but I hadn't the strength to stop. In what seemed like only a short, blurred moment, his eagerness and spontaneity changed into an accepting, yielding posture and he said, "Do me, do what men do to boys." I felt certain that this was his first time with another male, man or boy. That sharpened both my lust and my anxieties but, at the same time, made me acutely aware of my responsibilities as an adult toward a minor. It was after fondling and kissing every inch of his teenage body that I took his grape sizes testicle into my mouth, one at a time, and then pulled his erect penis down from where it was aligned next to his stomach and took it into my mouth. After he had his wet climax in my mouth, he put his hands under my armpits and pulled. He wanted me to move up. After that he grabbed my buns and pulled up. I finally guessed what he was after. He wanted my cock in his mouth. I was hung eight and a lot of guys couldn't take it, but not Corky, he swallowed it and serviced it as if he'd been a cocksucker for years. I erupted. He swallowed. We shifted positions. We were facing each other and after a while we softened. But that was not to last for long. The kid was unbelievably sexy, unbelievably hot. It was around two in the morning, after he'd climaxed for the third time that things settled down. Never before had I thought of myself as an old man at 23, but I sure as hell was not 12, either, and, as far as that goes, I couldn't remember so being so fucking sexed up at 12, either. I was ready to go to sleep for what remained of the night, thankful that tomorrow was Saturday and that Nick hadn't rang the doorbell after the gay bars had closed. Maybe he'd picked up another cocksucker at one of the bars. After breakfast and before going to the supermarket, I quizzed CK about where he'd come from before ending up in my attic. He'd already told me how he'd selected me. He was from Arlington Heights, a suburb of Chicago. His father had died, his mother remarried and his stepfather evidently hated him. He ran away and hitchhiked to Denver, where he began stealing stuff after his money ran out. He tried to call home but the phone had been disconnected, he wrote and the letter was returned, stamped, NO FORWARDING ADDRESS. Later on I had him write the Department of Vital Statistics for the State of Illinois in Springfield for a birth certificate. He had been born in Schaumburg, Illinois on February15, 1993. And, with my help, he was able to get his school records sent to St. Joseph's School, the closest to where I lived. I called them and asked them to phone me upon their arrival as I wanted Corky enroll immediately after receipt of his school records. I know you're wondering why, as the person telling this story, I inserted all this information at this time. Because I knew while having breakfast that I was in love with Corky. As crazy as it seemed for a man to be in love with a 12-year-old boy, that's the way it was. I wanted to keep him, love him, protect him, provide for him, and to do that I realized there were a lot of semi-legal matters to identify and settle before someone came to try and take him away. I guess there was no way I was going to keep Corky all to myself, though because Nick came in, earlier than usual, one night a few days after I'd found Corky sitting on my front steps. Corky and I looked at each other and I knew Corky was aware of what Nick was after, so we took him to bed and took turns. After he passed out and was asleep for the night, we kept on taking turns, as one or the other of us woke up during the night or went into the second bedroom that was downstairs. I really had to think hard about justifying Corky to Maria and George. Fortunately Maria had been hired after my mother died and I assumed that my dad hadn't talked to her too much about family, so I passed him off as a second cousin on my mother's site of the family. The day after Labor Day, Classes began at St. Josephs, with Corky in attendance, without any snafus, but before September ended, the school nurse called me at work one afternoon to come and pickup Corky, he wasn't feeling well. His legs hurt, it was difficult for him to walk and he had a fever of 102. I told my head secretary where I was going and on the way called Dr. John Lukens on my cell phone and asked him to meet me at the Presbyterian Hospital, as it was the closest to Corky's school and that I'd explain later. He was one of the two remaining partner's in my dads partnership. He thought it was me that was having the emergency, but when I arrived with Corky in tow, I explained the situation, briefly, and after Dr. Lukens examined him he helped me fill out all the crap of admittance forms and had Corky admitted, taken up to the third floor, where we caught up with him coming out of the elevator. I was a bundle of nerves. The hospital staff was giving me all kinds of shit because I was not Corky's parent, even though I was willing to be responsible for hospital billings. John took a heavy hand and told them I was the son of Dr. Hugh Jennings who was chief of staff for 10 years before his death, which I knew, and I was office manager for Ralston Construction, and Al Ralston was on the board of the hospital directors, which I did not know. In fact I didn't realize that Dr. Lukens even knew I had graduated or was back in town working for Ralston. Damn, I was glad he was on my side. He carried a lot of weight and didn't care whom he stepped on. He cleared a lot of shit out of my path in a short time and he didn't leave any room for rebuttal. He had Corky assigned to a private room right across the corridor from the nurses' station on the third floor and ordered a cot be provided in the room for me to sleep on because he didn't want Corky anxious about anything. An IV was placed in his left arm in case it might be required later. He ordered tests, starting at 8AM and told me he'd see me later during his evening rounds at the hospital. He didn't have a diagnosis at the present time, but felt it was nothing serious. I worried just the same. Before leaving he told the nurse Corky could have whatever he wanted to drink, as long as it was cold and that included sodas. For dinner he wanted him limited to chocolate, tapioca or similar puddings. Too, he was to get sponge baths on the hour until bedtime and his bedding changed after each bath and if his temperature should rise he was to be called immediately if it reached 103. The tests, the following morning, didn't reveal much, but Dr. Lukens decided that Corky had Rheumatic Fever and started a schedule for injection of antibiotics. I remarked that I hadn't heard of that for a long time. He replied it was not common, not serious but Corky was in the right age span to get it. Two days later he was discharged with instructions to rest for two more days and they avoid strenuous activity for another week. Dr. Lukens also gave me the name of a young partner, Corbin Davis, in the law firm that had represented the medical practice partnership of which he and my dad belonged. He wanted me to get in touch with him to effect legal guardianship or adoption of Corky before any more serious complications occurred in our living together. We weren't even home when Corky said, "God I got a boner you wouldn't believe. Can you drive faster? I can't wait to get home and 69." The doctor said "No strenuous exercise." "OK, you can suck me off then." "I don't even know for sure about that." "I do, if I'm supposed to remain calm. Did you know Dr. Lukens was gay?" "No!" "Yes." "How are you so sure?" "When they rolled me into that exam room before they took me upstairs, he had me undress. When he started examining me I sprung a boner and I thought his eyes were going to pop out of his head. I don't know much about what would cause fever and aching joints, but he had his finger in my crotch, right next to my prick, telling me to cough, had his finger up my ass, he was rolling my nuts around in his fingers and he began sort of milking my cock. By that time he had a boner, it was so obvious, despite his dark grey, dress pants. So what do you think?" "The examination wouldn't necessarily indicate so, but I wonder if it was appropriate for your symptoms. But if he popped a boner, "I think you're right." "And I think you're going to empty my balls for me the minute we get home." He was right. His balls had stored up a big load. For the two days of continued rest and the one-week of avoiding strenuous exercise, we never missed one day of sex. I guessed the reason the two of us got along so well was that we were both ape shit about cocks. As I thought of the whole situation at the hospital, I decided Corky was right about Dr. Lukens and decided that was why he had given me the name of Corbin Davis and urged me to call him. I did and he agreed to meet us the following Saturday morning, even though the office was not normally open on Saturdays. After half an hour into the conversation, I decided he, too, was gay. He was just too obliging, too solicitous and too personally interested in both Corry and me. After meetings with the District Attorney, an inspection of the house by a social worker, for which we prepared by moving our sleeping quarters upstairs, Corky in a large bedroom with a private bath and me in the master bedroom, and after filling out a ton of forms and having several interviews, some of which I made them compromise on answering because I felt the financial ones would subject me to identity theft, we finally settled on my showing adequate assets to meet the County's requirements and no more. Finally, in one year I was appointed as Corky' guardian. After two more years I adopted him. Whereas guardianship took a year, it took only one month before Corky began asking me to fuck him, which I steadfastly refused to do, being afraid I would hurt him. He negotiated the deadlock by getting me to let him sit on my cock if it didn't hurt either him or me. It didn't hurt me, but the first few attempts hurt Corky, but he was determined and never stopped trying. With me on my back, he'd bend his legs, face the foot of the bed, grab his ass cheeks and lower his fuck hole down onto my cock. He kept getting it in deeper, little by little, until one night; I was amazed as I watched how easily my eight inches disappeared from my sight all the way into his tight, little boy pussy. It was the beginning of a new world for the both of us. Corky knew more about how to do it than I did, through porno movies, or something. The next time He laid on his back, held his legs up and I became as a man partner and he became as a woman partner in the sex act. My lubricated eight inches slipped easily into his lubricated boy pussy. It was so slippery inside, yet, at the same time, so tight. I'm at a loss for words, I don't know how to describe how my big hard cock felt in his 12 year old, virgin pussy after it had gotten all the way in. First, I couldn't believe he had taken the whole thing and then I couldn't believe it seemed such a perfect fit. It was as if it was meant to be. Then, all I could think of was fucking him. I wanted to show him how much I loved him. I wanted to take his virginity, I wanted to pop his teen cherry, I wanted make him happy, I somehow wanted to brand him as my property. I fucked him hard and deep and ejaculated the biggest load that had ever shot out of the end of my cock, I felt it and Cory felt it and his love juice shot almost to his neck. I turned so I wouldn't collapse on top of him. We hugged, we kissed, we cried. Corky spoke first, "It was beautiful." "It really was, beautiful is the right word for it." "It didn't hurt this time." "I know." THANKS FOR READING MY STORY. I HOPE YOU EN0YED IT.