Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2023 15:12:00 +0700 From: Andrew Passey Subject: Shipperton Rules Part Three (Young Friends) "This is all so fucked up!" Nick said to Ken as they sat outside on the grass of Ken's garden. The Shipperton family had previously lived in the big old Manor House at the far end of town. However, that had been vacated and converted into the town library by Ken's father a number of years ago. Now they lived in a big purpose built house that was still easily the biggest in the town. Nick loved staying over there, it was so much bigger than his own house although that in itself was vastly better than what he'd been used to previously. "Tell me about it!" Ken said, nodding vigorously."How come word of all this doesn't leak out? I've never even heard it mentioned and yet boys in the years above us are all involved and doing it all the time! Dad hasn't even dropped a hint!" "Apparently talking about it means automatically being chosen or something like that. Although how can you talk about it if you don't know? I guess everyone is scared of your Dad finding out!" "Now I think about it, I seem to remember the odd comment by those with older brothers but I didn't really understand. Fuck, what if we get chosen?!" Ken said looking at Nick with a panicked expression. "We'll get through it, we've got each other's back, best mates forever!" Nick replied, throwing his arm around Ken. Nick then voiced a question he'd been pondering all morning, "So if I....say I was selected by lottery and you were in my cohort...would you...um....you know...use me." "What?!No!" "Really?" Nick asked in a slightly relieved tone. "Yes!! Even though I might like to...you know... do it with you, you're my best mate, I wouldn't take advantage of you!" Nick blushed slightly at that. Ken had said "even though I might like to do it with you.". Did that mean Ken would like to? And why did that make Nick feel all fuzzy inside with butterflies in his stomach? Just the thought of anyone having sex with him he thought. "Phew, I wouldn't do it to you either. Best mates have to stick together!" "Cool," Ken said before an uncomfortable silence settled over them while both boys tried not to think about having sex with each other. "So you're going to put yourself forward then?" "I guess so, you?" "Like I have any fucking choice about it!" Ken said slightly bitterly. "My family built this town, they own everything in it, it's my inheritance. It's not like we can just up sticks and leave. So I'm fucked, hopefully not literally. You can still escape though!" "I know but I don't want to leave here, my friends...you...statistically I know it's unlikely either of us would get chosen so we should be fine. It's just...you know the uncertainty." "Yeah, I sort of wish it was tomorrow so we could just get it over with. Hopefully neither of us will get chosen and we can just get on with our lives. It'll be fine Nick, you'll see. One day we'll laugh about all of this. Potentially in a mental hospital together but even so!' Both boys giggled at that and then got diverted away from all the sex talk by Ken's mum Michelle calling them in for lunch. The next day at school was tricky for everyone who'd had the news broken to them over the weekend. All the boys had been told not to talk openly about it as younger students weren't meant to find out neither were the girls in their year. Nick thought that was unrealistic and also symptomatic of the sexism behind the whole fucked up situation. However there was an opportunity to chat with his friends when they had swimming together in the afternoon. "My brother said don't expect people not to use you because they're your friend," Dean said as he took his shirt off and started to undress. Nick and Ken shared a worried look, they'd assumed that friends would be off limits and so if you were unlucky enough to be selected you might be lucky enough to have mostly friends in your cohort and off the hook. If that wasn't the case then it could be bad. "Seriously? What sort of friend would they be to fuck you when they know you don't want to?!" Ken asked, sounding outraged. Harry and Leo, twins who were friends with Nick and Ken came in at that moment and plonked themselves next to Nick. They clearly caught the end of the conversation as Leo giggled at Ken's comment. "What sort of friend would fuck you? A horny one I guess!" Leo said with a giggle. His brother Harry also giggled but then looked serious, "You'd hope a friend wouldn't use you...but wouldn't it be better for it to be a friend than an enemy? They might not be as rough." "Wait, boys can be rough with you? I thought there were rules in place to prevent you getting hurt!" Nick asked, feeling concerned. The changing room had briefly gone quiet and his words had been heard by Christian who smiled to himself. Time for a bit of mental disintegration of Nick. "Hey gay boy, when I fuck you I'm going to make you bleed with this monster and you'll still beg me for more!" He said thrusting theatrically in Nick's direction. Nick couldn't help but look over and see Christian's big dick as well as lots of others. He was reminded once again that the boys in his year were all at different stages of development. Christian was definitely one of the biggest and Nick did not like to think of anything that size going inside him. In fact the idea of anything at all was bad enough but no way would something that big not hurt. "Sounds like a one way ticket to a meeting with the council and all sort of consequences you twat," Ken shouted over. He hated Christian and the way he bullied his best friend. Ken knew that usually he'd be a target for bullies like Christian. He was slight, mixed race, intelligent like Nick, someone Christian would definitely have gone for. But for some reason he left Ken alone. Ken assumed it was because of who his dad was, at least there was some compensation for being a Shipperton. Christian flicked the Vs at Ken and pulled his trunks on, chuckling to himself as he followed Paul out to the pool. "Don't listen to Christian, Nick, he's all talk. Anyone who mistreats another boy is fucked. Usually literally! Dad said that it can end up that boy replacing their representative if they get too out of line. The rules are there to protect us and any shit Christian or wankers like him do will see them in a whole lot of trouble!" Nick did feel better after that but it still stayed with him all day. As he lay in bed that night he couldn't get the picture of some of the dicks he'd seen at the changing room that day. He hadn't seen Ken or the twins but he'd seen lots of others. Big ones, small ones, if he was chosen no doubt some of them would be being pushed inside him. The thought panicked him and not for the first time he wanted to run downstairs and tell his Dad he wasn't going to go through with it. However he knew whatever his Dad said it wasn't really an option. He didn't want to leave. He wanted to stay here, in Shipperton with his friends and where he loved living. Shipperton had seemed like a dream when he'd moved here, a place he could be happy and content. Now it had the potential to turn into a nightmare but either way Nick knew he wasn't going to leave. He just had to hope that lady luck was on his side. After all, the odds of being chosen were only 10%. He'd rather it was 0% but only 1 in 10 boys would be picked. Surely he'd be fine? He'd suffered enough in his life already and he hoped whichever higher power or whatever decided these things would decide Nick had already been through enough shit.