Copyright 2024 by James Breitbart, all rights reserved
* * * * *Meanwhile, Tommy was having a much easier time adjusting to his nude
state than his older brother. He attracted plenty of interest from his
classmates, but it was friendly curiosity rather than hostile gawking.
They had indoor recess due to the rain, and Tommy was quickly
surrounded by a crowd of his friends.
“I’ve never seen a boy naked!” Sara Noble exclaimed. “Does your thing always stick out like that?”
“Only when they get excited,” Gabrielle Davies explained, proud of the
knowledge of male anatomy she had acquired through having two younger
brothers. “They can rub it and that makes it go back down.”
“Wow!” Sara was gripped by an excitement she didn’t fully understand. “Can you show me that, Tommy?”
“I dunno that I’m allowed to at school,” Tommy answered sheepishly. He
wanted to, especially now that he had an audience, but his parents had
firmly impressed on him when he discovered masturbation that it was
something private that he could get in trouble for if he did it in
front of people. Since then, it had remained something that he
practiced only by himself or with his best friends Jonathan, Chris, and
Danny. The four of them thought of it as a grand secret.
“We’ll ask Mrs. Shafer,” Gabrielle decided. She led Tommy by the hand to their teacher. “Can Tommy touch his penis for us?”
The school had developed a protocol for this eventuality, which Mrs. Shafer immediately explained to the kids.
“Yes, but only Tommy and only at recess. We don’t want you getting distracted from your work.”
“How come we can’t touch ourselves?” Chris objected. The restriction
had piqued his childish sense of fairness. “I’m not making sperm yet.
It won’t make a mess.”
“No, but touching yourself in public is a special privilege for FENP kids. It’s against the rule for other kids.”
“Why?”
Mrs. Shafer saw an opportunity for a civics lesson. “Because if they
give FENP kids privileges, more parents will enroll their kids in the
program, and pay money that the state needs for things like fixing
roads and maintaining parks and paying my salary.”
“So if we all got stripped you’d make more money?”
“If only,” Mrs. Shafer chuckled, “the state gets most of its money from
taxes, but people don’t like paying them, so it’s hard to raise them
when the cost of things go up. The FENP program lets the state make
enough money to pay all its bills without raising taxes on everybody.
But even if you can’t play with yourself, you can still watch Tommy.”
Chris decided that was a fair trade, and joined his peers in watching
Tommy as he jerked himself off, discovering in the process that it felt
even better with an audience. Chris found that his own penis got hard
in the process of watching, as did Jonathan and Danny. They were young
enough that they didn’t have to worry about getting blue balls, but
they were all eager to go home and take care of themselves.
Jonathan ran upstairs as soon as he got home from school and threw off
all his clothes, stroking himself to a dry orgasm within seconds. He
hadn’t bothered closing his door, and his mother immediately noticed
that he was naked.
“What’s got you so excited?”
“Tommy’s mom signed him up for that FENP thing and he came to school
totally naked! Mrs. Shafer let him jerk i…I mean touch himself, at
recess in front of the whole class!” Jonathan was breathing heavily,
both from just having cum and from general excitement.
“Well, that was certainly an experience.”
“Mrs. Shafer said the rest of us can’t touch ourselves at school,
‘cause the state wants you to pay to have us stripped so they can pay
for roads and stuff. I was hard all afternoon.”
“You
can’t go naked or touch yourself in public unless I enroll you in the
FENP program,” Mrs. Maybaum explained, “but you can go naked in the
house if you want.”
“Cool!”
“But you still have to do your homework.”
When Brendan got home, he saw his little brother naked at the kitchen table. “What’s up with him?”
“Mrs. Wagner enrolled Tommy in the FENP program.”
“I know, she’s really…” Brendan caught himself before saying ‘a bitch’ to his mother “mean.”
“I think she’s cool!” Jonathan objected. “Tommy got to jerk himself off in front of everyone at recess!”
“Yeah, they don’t let you do that in middle school.”
“Did David not have as good a time?” Mrs. Maybaum asked
sympathetically. David and Brendan had been part of the same tight-knit
friend group since kindergarten. In fact, Tommy and Jonathan had first
become friends as toddlers when their parents left them to play
together at the older boys’ playdates.
“Well, I don’t know what they expected when they did that to him.”
“Do you want to talk about it?”
“No, actually I need to go upstairs.”
“Are you going to jerk off too?” Jonathan asked innocently.
“Shut up, twerp!”
Jonathan accurately took his older brother’s lack of denial as an admission. “Can I watch?”
“No!”
Mrs. Maybaum stepped in to protect her older son’s privacy and head off an argument. “Jonathan, finish your homework.”
Brendan came back downstairs a few minutes later, looking flushed, but
a little more relaxed. Sheri thought that he might be a little more
open to discussing it. “So, what happened?”
“Do you promise you won’t tell David’s mom?”
“Unless somebody hurt him.”
“It wasn’t like that. He just got hard in gym class and Jake MacDonald called him a fag.”
“What’s a fag?” Jonathan asked.
“It’s not a word you should ever use,” His mother hurried to answer.
“It’s a bad word for a gay guy.”
“What’s gay?”
“When a boy wants to do sexy stuff with other boys.”
“I like doing sexy stuff with other boys.”
“Yeah, everyone does when they’re a little kid, but when you get older you’re supposed to start doing it with girls.”
“And by older your brother means fully grown-up,” Sheri added, “and
it’s perfectly okay if when you grow up you decide you’d rather be with
men, or with men and women.”
“Jake was just being a jerk,”
Brendan said, “but he wouldn’t have gone after David if his parents
hadn’t gone and stripped him like that.”
Brendan went up to
his own room immediately after dinner. He had a lot of thinking to do.
Until that morning, he would have agreed with the received wisdom that
gay boys were somehow disgusting and deserving of torment. He would
have explained away his own juvenile experimentation by saying he
hadn’t understood what he was doing and his own occasional arousal at
the sight of a nude male boy as a reflex he couldn’t control. But he
knew that Marcus and David weren’t like the stereotypes of gay boys
that he’d absorbed from television, and they were too close friends for
Brendan to abandon. As one of the few Jewish kids in Pinnacle Bay,
Brendan had had plenty of experiences with the likes of Jake MacDonald,
and his friends had always stood up for him. He felt an obligation to
return the favor to David, but that sense of obligation led to a
disturbing conclusion. Brendan knew that the best way to deal with a
bully like Jake MacDonald was to create a critical mass of people who
he knew would take the potential victim’s side, which meant that the
best way to protect David would be for Brendan and the rest of his
friends to get stripped themselves.
While Brendan was coming
to this realization, David was in his own room lying on his bed and
crying into a pillow, feeling immensely sorry for himself and convinced
that the entire world hated him. His brother was downstairs, telling
his parents all about his day. Tommy had been cowed somewhat by David’s
outburst in the car, but quickly recovered.
“We had indoor recess, but Mrs. Shafer let me jerk off in front of everybody and it felt sooo good!”
“Do you like having people watch you do it?” Phil asked. He had
exhibitionist fantasies himself, but had never acted on them for lack
of a socially appropriate outlet.
“Mm-hmm. It’s even better when the whole class is watching than just my friends.”
“Well, I’m glad you had a good time, but remember you’re only allowed to masturbate at school during recess.”
“I know.” Tommy tucked into his dinner. Unbeknownst to the Wagners, the
warming pills worked by converting the white fat in their bodies to
brown fat, which breaks down white fat to generate body heat. A side
effect was increasing calorie demands significantly, which had made the
Wagners ravenously hungry. This included David, complicating his plans
to demonstrate his resistance by refusing any food offered to him and
making him even crabbier than he already was.
After dinner,
Jeannette took a plate up to David’s room and knocked on the door. She
received no answer, so she left the plate in front of his door and went
to confer with her husband.
“Do you think we made a mistake stripping David?”
“I think we certainly made the right decision stripping his siblings
before they got old enough to be that self-conscious, and I’m certainly
enjoying the nudity myself.”
“How are your students reacting?”
“They think it’s a hoot. I had a kid from the school paper come up to me and ask for an interview.”
“If they ask about why you did it, don’t mention David being gay. I don’t want him to feel like we’re outing him in the paper.”
“I’ll just say we wanted the kids to grow up comfortable in their bodies. It’s the truth, isn’t it?”
“Yes.”
“I know David’s giving you hell now, but I really think he’ll thank us
in the long run. Working out his issues with his sexuality now will
make it so much easier for him to form relationships.”
“Do you think he’s getting teased?”
“Oh, I’m sure. Even if the other kids don’t realize he’s gay, they’ll tease him for being naked.”
“He just tries so hard to fit in…”
“It would have been better if we could have stripped them when he was
younger, but you know what they say: better late than never. And I’m
sure his friends are sticking by him.”
“I thought it might be
good to have a sleepover for each of the kids, where their friends
could get a taste of nudity. If we do one for Tommy next week, David
will probably spend the whole time in his room sulking.”
“It’d
be more fair to do it after he’s grounded, when he’ll have a chance to
get out of the house. Plus, that will give him a reason to leave the
house and maybe spend a night with a friend.”
“Good idea. And I’ll start canvassing parents to see who would be okay with it. I guess I’d better go check on David’s plate.”
When Jeannette went out into the hallway, she discovered that David’s
plate had disappeared. The hunger occasioned by the warming pills had
gotten the better of his stubbornness, so at least she knew that he was
getting enough to eat.