A Bad Day In Paradise

By Aldric

Copyright 2016 by Aldric Pietar@spamex.com, all rights reserved
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This story is intended for ADULTS ONLY. It contains depictions of sexual activity involving minors. If you are not of a legal age in your locality to view such material or if such material does not appeal to you, do not read further, and do not save this story.
 
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This story depicts minors in unusual conditions that may include unprotected, unsafe sex or extreme humiliation. Obviously, this does not describe real life and should not be taken as such. In the real world, behaviors as described in the story are not acceptable, tolerated, or legal. The reader should never confuse the difference between fiction and real life. This story is fictional.

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A Bad Day In Paradise
 
The little town of Paradise is nearly always a good place to live. It’s along the coast, so even in January you can go without a jacket most days. It was a small town and didn’t attract many tourists, so everyone pretty much knew everyone else. And it was just a short walk to get out of town and find a place to be a kid without adults around. But today looked to Aiden, Brandon, and Kevin like it would not one of the best days of summer vacation.
 
All three boys had been born here. Aiden and Brandon Bell were 13 and 12 years old respectively and were brothers. Kevin Strong, who was 12, was their best friend. They were also very good friends with the Johnson sisters—Brittany, Briana, and Brooke. Brittany and Briana were twins and 13 years old. Brooke was 12. All six had been together since birth and were more like brothers and sisters than friends. They hung out together most of the time.
 
It had been an argument that started it. Not really and argument, they rarely ever were mad at one another. So it was more of a disagreement over gender differences. The boys felt that they were superior at sports while the girls excelled at school. The girls were quite sure they were over all better but that it didn’t matter. But once Kevin dared them to prove it, they had to.
 
They agreed that the girls were better at school. Report cards constantly proved that, so they decide to use the results of four sports to see who was better. The boys choose basketball and running while the girls choose tennis and swimming. It was decided the losers would submit to an hour of whatever the winners chose.
 
While the boys did win at basketball, they lost at each of the other three. So today, they were in the shade of the pine trees not far from the beach, where the girls were going to subject the boys to tickling.
 
Not too bad a punishment, maybe a little immature, thought Aden, but still, it would be somewhat embarrassing. The girls wanted to tie their arms to a pine trees such that their armpits would be exposed, and they needed the boys to remove their shirts.
 
Now normally, that wouldn’t have been bad. They had all swum together thousands of times. But this summer Aiden had started to grow a little armpit hair, and for some reason, showing that embarrassed him. But they had made it a contest (which the girls hadn’t really wanted to do) and they had lost, so he reluctantly took his shirt off and allowed them to tie his arms.
 
 The knots were not good ones, and all three boys knew they could untie them if they wanted, but they trusted their friends and didn’t want to cheat, so they didn’t try. The girls had gathered some bird feathers and pine needles, and the tickling had been going on for several minutes when suddenly it stopped being fun.
 
Noah Spenser, Tyler Cook, and Bryce Palmer walked into the clearing. They were the three most feared boys in Paradise. They were all thirteen, but big and tough. With them was a twelve year old girl, Alexis Palmer, and Kyle Strong, Kevin’s eleven year old brother.
 
Unlike Kevin, Kyle was hard to get along with. He had never fit in with his brother, and resented that Kevin, the Bell brothers, and the Johnson’s never seemed to want him around. He meant up with Alexis one day at the beach and instantly fell in love with her. She introduced him to her friends, and he became one of their gang.
 
Kyle had overheard his brother talking about losing the dare with the girls and where they were to meet to pay the losers penalty, and he took that information to his new friends hoping to be able to humiliate his brother and his friends for not including him in their activities.
 
“Looks like my big brother got tied up by a girl,” Kyle said.
 
“Yeah, but not very well,” Noah said. Noah was the leader of the group, and was not afraid of any authority. Threats made by him were not just idle threats, he really meant what he said. “We’ll have to help the girls make sure their boyfriends don’t escape.”
 
“Get your steel line out and tie them up properly,” Noah said. Living on the coast, the gang frequently went surf fishing, which required long steal leaders. Noah had told the other two boys to bring strands of wire, crimps, and a crimping tool with them. “And make sure you crimp the sleeves right so they don’t come loose.”
 
“We know how to crimp,” Brice said as he and Tyler got their stuff out. They moved in on the boys and the Johnson girls moved to stop them.
 
“Leave them alone,” Brittney said. “They haven’t done anything to you.”
 
“Shut up!” Noah said. “We have plenty of wire. Unless you get out of here you’ll be joining them.”
 
The girls backed off but didn’t leave. There was really nothing they could do to help their friends. And they were absolutely sure that Noah wasn’t just trying to scare them off, he really would tie them up too.
 
It only took a few minutes before Kevin, Aiden, And Brandon were securely tied to the pine trees, this time with steel wires.
 
“That’s hundred pound stainless,” Kevin said. “You might be able to break it, but it will cut deeply into your wrists if you try.”
 
Alexis whispered something to Kyle who laughed. “She wants to see them naked,” he said to Noah.
 
“No problem,” Noah said. He looked at the Johnson girls. “Since you didn’t leave when I told you to, you three can take off their shorts and underwear.”
 
“Come on Noah,” Aiden said. He couldn’t keep the desperation out of his voice. “We haven’t done anything to you guys, don’t do this.” He didn’t need to threaten to tell anyone, he knew that first off Noah wouldn’t care and second off, it would make Noah angry and he’d do something worse.
 
“How’d you like me to use the wire and pierce your ears for you?” Noah said, stepping forward and putting his face right in front of Aiden. “You and your worthless little suck buddies here. Or maybe I could pierce your dick or balls? Huh? You got anything more to say?”
 
Noah didn’t wait for an answer. Instead, he turned back to the Johnson girls and said, “Get a move on and get them naked or I’ll take out my frustration with you on them.”
 
The girls were scared. Like any kids, they had an interest in seeing someone their age but of the opposite gender naked, but the boys were their friends, more like brothers, and they really didn’t want to do this to them. However, they didn’t dare go against Noah for there was no telling what he might do to them.
 
Brandon had a single tear run down his check as Brooke removed his shorts, and the other two boys were close to crying as well as Brittany and Briana stripped them. Brandon had white briefs on, the other two boxers. All three were erect, and their dicks were tenting out their underwear.
 
Meanwhile, Tyler and Brice approached Noah. “Look man, this is gonna be fun for Alexis, but what about us?” Tyler asked in a whisper. “Why don’t we strip the girls too? That’s what I’d like to see.”
 
“Yeah, me too,” Brice said.
 
“Look, they are probably going to tell. If we say we made their girlfriends strip them, we’ll get into some trouble. But if we strip three girls, the police might get involved. And if that happens, we’ll all end up in juvie. Is that what you want? You want to be a sex offender for life just so that you can see three girls naked?”
 
“No, I guess not,” Tyler said.
 
“Okay then. Just don’t get too carried away over these three. I’m not worried about authorities finding out what we do the boys, as long as we don’t hurt them. Let’s just leave it at that. At least for today.”
 
Noah noticed that the girls had stopped. “Kyle, you got a knife?” he asked. Kyle pulled a pen knife out of his pocket. “Give that to Alexis and let her to cut their underpants off of them. And you grab their shorts, we’ll take those home with us.”
 
“No, wait, we’ll do it,” Brittany said. She and her sisters began pulling the boy’s underpants off.
 
“Stop, you had your chance,” Noah said. “Now we’ll strip them my way. And you three too unless you back off. Go stand over there by those trees.”
 
Alexis had an evil smile on her face as she approached the three boys. She to Brandon first. She pulled the front of his briefs out and looked down inside. Happy with what she saw she began cutting through the waist band and down one side before moving to the other side and doing the same. His briefs fell to the ground. She stood back and looked.
 
Brandon’s dick was about four inches long, and he had just a small amount of pubic hair around it. His dick was twitching up and down as she started at it. “This is nice,” she said. “I’ll remember this every time I see you from now on. And since were in the same grade I guess I’ll be seeing you a lot. Now how about Kevin? What do you suppose he’s hiding?”
 
She moved to up and quickly cut down the sides of Kevin’s boxers. “Oh my god,” she said as she turned to Kyle. “Is this really your big brother? He barely even has any hair!”
 
“That’s him. Kevin’s just a little boy. That’s why he’s tied naked to a tree and I’m fully dressed laughing at him. I’ll bet he doesn’t even shoot yet.”
 
“Well, we know that you do,” Alexis said, making Kevin wonder just how she knew.
 
“Yeah, he told us all about you two,” Tyler said. “He really enjoyed what you did to him.”
 
“What I did to him?” Alexis asked. “I didn’t do nothing to him. What was it he said I did?”
 
Kyle was looking very worried at that point.
 
“He said you two got naked together and you jerked him off,” Brice said. “We thought that was how you knew he shoots.”
 
“We were never naked together. He saw my tits once, and made a mess in his bathing suit. He’s been telling lies!”
 
“Did you lie to us Kyle?” Noah asked.
 
“Uh, no, not exactly. It wasn’t like that, I mean, I said, uh, I meant to say I saw her naked in my dreams, not for real. So it wasn’t exactly a lie.”
 
“It was exactly a lie you little bitch,” Alexis said. “And I don’t want nothing further to do with you.”
 
Kyle looked at Noah. Noah shook his head. “The only reason we let you hang with us is because Alexis liked you a little and asked us. Get out of here Kyle.”
 
“But I…”
 
“I said get the hell out of here. Or you can join your brother. There’s plenty of trees around here. And maybe your brother needs to know exactly how we came to be here today.”
 
“Wait,” Alexis said as she looked back at Kyle.
 
“Having a change of heart Alexis?” Noah asked with a smirk on his face.
 
“Not even. He can leave, in fact I want him gone. But his clothes stay here. I want to know if he’s really as big as he said he was or if all that was just a lie too.”
 
Kyle turned to run, and Noah yelled, “Don’t make me send these guys to chase you Kyle. You know it will get worse if you do.”
 
Kyle ran a few steps, but he knew they would chase him down. And he didn’t want to find out what would happen then. With his ears burning he turned around and walked back.
 
“Now strip,” Noah said.
 
“Please Noah, I’m sorry I lied. I won’t do it again.” Kyle turned to Alexis. “It was just, you know, I wanted to fit in with you guys and…”
 
“Hold him,” Noah said to Tyler and Brice. “Alexis can use the knife to strip him if she wants.”
 
“No, Please!” Kyle begged as Tyler and Brice took hold of him. “Let me go, I’ll do it myself.”
 
“I don’t give second chances to losers like you,” Noah said. “Do it for him Alexis.”
 
She didn’t hesitate. She pulled the front of his shirt forward, popping all the buttons off, and then cut along the top and bottom of both sleeves up to the collar until the front and back fell to the ground. She grabbed the side of his shorts and briefs at once and struggled to cut through the side but the knife was too small and dull. She had to just strip the remainder of his clothes off by hand.
 
Then she stood back and looked at him. “You call that a dick?” she said laughing. “I can’t believe you even shoot. You have less hair then your tiny brother. You’re just a baby. Get out of here.”
 
Tyler and Brice let him go and he ran off naked.
 
Alexis turned her attention back to the three boys tied to the trees. She approached Aiden. “Let’s see if Brandon’s big brother is really a big brother or if he’s just older.” As with Brandon, she forced the knife to cut through one side of his boxers and then the other, allowing the boxers to drop free.
 
“Oh, I guess a little bigger,” she said. “But not much. That’s almost disappointing. I wonder is this knife is sharp enough to shave that hair off so he’d look like Kevin.” She tried, but the blade was too dull.
 
“I have a pair of scissors,” Brice said. “I needed them to cut the seal on the wire container. He handed them to Alexis. She went to Aiden and cut as close to the skin as she could, removing as much of his pubic hair as possible. Then she did the same to Brandon, and finally to Kevin. Kevin only had just a small amount above his dick, and it was so thin that when she was done he looked bald.
 
“You know, Kyle had a good question, one I think we should explore,” Noah said. He turned back to the three Johnson girls. “You three, get over there to your boyfriends and give them a hand job.”
 
Brooke looked confused, but the twins seemed to know what he wanted them to do. “We aren’t going to do that,” Brittany said.
 
“Okay, fair enough, Alexis won’t mind. And after she’s done maybe me and my friends can find out how tight their ass hole is.”
 
“That’s gross,” Briana said. “You wouldn’t dare.”
 
“Do what I said or I’ll let you stay and watch what I dare to do. I promise you they’ll enjoy what I told you to do a lot more than what we’ll do to them.”
 
Again, fearing for the safety of the boys, the girls were trapped into doing Noah’s bidding. They had no idea what to actually do, other than it involved placing hands on a boy’s penis. They even had to explain that part to Brooke.
 
“Tell them how to do it boys or I’ll take over,” Noah said.
 
As if being naked wasn’t embarrassing enough, Aiden now had Brittany’s hand on his dick, which was jerking up and down under her grip. And he had to tell her how to rub it, knowing what would happen if she did. But like her, he believed that Noah would do exactly what he said he would do. And the Tyler and Brice would take care of his brother and Kevin.
 
“You have to rub it, pull the skin back, but don’t squeeze so hard,” he said.
 
She tried it and when he reacted by curling his toes she continued until suddenly he tensed and white stuff came shooting out of the tip of his dick. She let go immediately, which ruined what would have been a wonderful orgasm.
 
Briana achieved the same result with Brandon a few seconds later, and she also let go, causing him to yell, “Don’t stop, please don’t stop.” She grabbed him again, but it was too late, the feeling was over.
 
Briana got to the same point with Kevin, who then showed that Kyle was almost correct. He shot, but just two little squirts of very watery cum and then he was done.
 
“Now, you three girls are going to go back to what you were doing when we got here, except this time you can only tickle them from here,” he held a finger to the top of his zipper, “To here.” He moved his finger to the bottom of his zipper. “And if they get hard, you know what to do.”
 
Shaken and embarrassed over what they had just done, the girls picked up the feathers they had found earlier and started ticking. And they found that the slightest touch anywhere around the boy’s groin caused a much bigger reaction to the tickling then it did higher up.
 
“Don’t forget to tickle the tip of their dick,” Alexis said.
 
That caused a nearly immediate erection for all three boys as soon as they did what Alexis said.
 
It took a reminder from Alexis before the girls tended to the erections, which the boys both loved and hated at the same time. As the girls brought the boys to ecstasy, each of them were once again frustrated because the girls let go of their dicks the moment they began to shoot.
 
Once the girls returned to tickling, Noah used his cell phone to place a call. “Hi Ricky, know who this is?”
 
Kevin did his best to listen in as the only Ricky he knew used to be one of Kyle’s best friends, but something happened a few weeks ago to change that.
 
“Don’t be afraid, and you don’t need to apologize. You haven’t done anything to anger me,” Noah said. “I just thought you’d like to know that Kyle doesn’t have my protection any more, and he’s heading home now. Watch for him, I think you’ll like it if you find him.”
 
“No, it’s not a trick, I’m not setting you up. Kyle will be trying his best to hide, so watch and listen carefully. Trust me, he doesn’t want anyone to see him, especially not you and Adam. But if you two can find him, you can easily make this the worst day of his young life.”
 
“You didn’t have to do that,” Kevin said while gasping for breath due to the tickling.
 
“I didn’t have to, but I wanted to. Besides, after what he did why would you even care?” Noah asked.
 
“Because he’s my brother,” Kevin said. The girls had stopped tickling while the conversation between Noah and Kevin was taking place, which helped make it easier for Kevin to talk.
 
“Would you still care if you knew that we didn’t just happen to be here today? If you knew that it was your brother who told us why and where you’d be? And wanted us to come and humiliate you and your friends?”
 
“That’s between me and him,” Kevin said. “But you don’t need to make life miserable for him just because he told a little lie.”
 
“Not a little lie,” Alexis said. “He said I touched him! He’s a little creepy kid and he deserves whatever his former friends do to him.”
 
“No, not without limits. If I could, I’d make sure he was protected.”
 
“So you still want to stand up for Kyle?” Noah asked. “That’s the first time in your life you’ve done something that I can appreciate. Would you be willing to pay a fine to get free?”
 
“Yeah, but I don’t have much money,” Kevin said.
 
“Nobody has much money in this crappy little town. But that isn’t what I want from you. I want to see how much you really want to help your stupid little brother. If I let you go, will you do what I tell you without discussion or hesitation? If so, I’ll let you leave. If not, I’ll have the other two boys bring him back here and you can watch them have some fun with your brother.”
 
He wasn’t sure what he was getting into, but Kevin said “Okay, yeah, I’ll do it, whatever ‘it’ is.”
 
Noah motioned to Tyler, who used the cutting section of his crimping tool to cut the wire around each of Kevin’s wrists.
 
“Now we’ll see just how much you care about Kyle. Suck off each of your friends,” Noah said.
 
“Don’t do it Kevin, we’ll figure something else out,” Aiden said.
 
“No we won’t. I’ve got to do it.” Without saying another word Kevin knelt down in front of Aiden and took Aiden’s dick in his mouth and began sucking on it.
 
“If you want to get going before it’s too late, you need to do more than suck,” Noah said. “Remember the instructions Aiden gave to Brittany. You need to make him shoot, and you need to swallow all of it.”
 
Kevin started to slide his lips along the shaft of Aiden’s dick. His tongue ran across the tip of Aiden’s dick as he did it, and in just moments he felt Aiden tense. Then Aiden drove his hips forward, and began releasing all of the built up cum he had from the previous uncompleted orgasms. Seven or eight times he shot a wad of jiz into Kevin’s mouth. Kevin tried his best to swallow, but it was too much and some of it ran down his chin.
 
Without being told, he moved over to Brandon. Brandon was beyond ready to shoot and it only took two strokes before he repeated his brother’s performance, only with a little less jiz.
 
Kevin stood up and faced Noah. “Okay, I did what you said. I’m leaving now.”
 
“Wait just one second,” Noah said. Kevin thought he was about to be betrayed, but Noah dug through the pile of clothing and tossed Kyle’s shorts to him. “You can take those with you. But you’ll travel naked. I’m pretty sure your friends will still be here when you get back.”
 
Kevin caught the shorts and started to move as fast as he dared in bare feet. He didn’t waste time being cautious, he just hoped nobody would see him as he followed the path his brother was most likely to take.
 
Ricky and Adam had just caught Kyle when Kevin got there. Kyle was on the ground on his back with Ricky sitting on his chest. “What should we do with him?” he heard Ricky ask Adam.
 
“You should let him go,” Kevin said as he ran up to them. “He’ll make up for whatever he did to you, I’ll see to that. But not now. Get off him and take off.”
 
“We’re not afraid of you,” Adam said. But neither he nor Ricky moved towards him. They were both eleven and not very big even for that age. But if they ganged up on him, Kevin knew that he would have to have his brother’s help to fight them off and he wasn’t sure he’d get it.
 
“I don’t want to have to fight you,” Kevin began.
 
“Yeah, well, that’s good,” Ricky said. “And since you’re as naked as your brother, I think we can take you both on. So you’d better get lost or we’ll do to you what we’re going to do to him.”
 
At that moment Kyle rolled to one side and caught Ricky off guard. Ricky tumbled to the ground and Kyle got up before Ricky could recover. At the same time Kevin moved in towards Adam, who took off running.
 
“Get out of here,” Kevin said to Ricky. “Let him go if he wants to leave,” he said to Kyle. Ricky left as fast as he could. Kevin tossed Kyle’s shorts to him.
 
“How’d you get free?” Kyle asked as he pulled the shorts on. Kevin noticed that his brother had a boner.
 
“Noah let me, but he still has my friends. I came to help you, and now I need help. I need clothes for me and the Bell’s, and something to cut the wire with.”
 
“You never had time for me before,” Kyle said. “But now you want my help?”
 
“We didn’t want you around because you’re such an ass,” Kevin said. “Try to act nice once in a while and you can hang with us. But when all you do is make rude comments and threats then we don’t need or want you around. I’m going back with my friends. I hope you’ll help me. If not, don’t expect me to help or respect you again.”
 
Kevin turned and started back.
 
“What will Alexis do to me if I come back?” Kyle asked. “She’s pissed at me and she can be real cruel. And she’s got Noah and Tyler and Brice to help her.”
 
Kevin stopped. “I don’t know what they’ll do. But maybe if you show enough courage to come back on your own they won’t do anything. I need your help. Whether or not I get it is up to you. You don’t know what I had to do to get free. I’m going back to my friends and I’ll do whatever it takes to help them because I have absolute faith that they’d do the same for me.”
 
Kevin hurried back, worried about what was being done to his friends during his absence. When he got there Brittany, Briana, and Brooke were gone. Noah, Tyler, Brice and Alexis were still there. Alexis had a feather and was using it to keep Aiden and Brandon hard.
 
“Where’s your brother?” Noah asked.
 
“I told him what I needed and I assume he went home to get it.”
 
“You don’t really think he’s going to show his face here again, do you? Your brother only thinks of himself.”
 
“Actually, I do think he’ll show up,” Kevin said.
 
“Care to bet on it?” Noah asked.
 
“Maybe. What’s the bet?”
 
“If he shows up, he lets Alexis have one more look at him naked while he does to you what you did to your friends. Then I will free your friends and give you all your clothing back. Well, except for your underwear, those got kind of trashed.”
 
“And if he refuses to be tied or doesn’t show, what then?”
 
“Then you have to earn their escape. You give us,” Noah pointed to himself and Tyler and Brice, “The same thing you gave your friends. Then we’ll cut them free. But your clothes will leave with us.”
 
“And if I don’t bet at all? What then?”
 
“Believe me, there’s worse things we can do to the three of you. But I think the worse thing I can do is to take Aiden and Brandon to my house and leave you here to wait for your brother.”
 
“He’ll show,” Kevin said with confidence. “Then we’ll see what he does. I’ll take the bet.”
 
“We’ll wait fifteen minutes. Not a second longer. In the meantime, you go back to your tree. Get your arms up there so I can make sure you don’t run off somewhere.” Instead of wire, Noah used the rope the girls had brought, but his knots were a lot better than theirs had been.
 
They only needed to wait five minutes before a very frightened Kyle walked into the shady area carrying three sets of clothing and a pair of wire cutters. “I told you he’d come,” Kevin said.
 
“And you were right,” Noah said. “But that’s only part of what he has to do before I decide to let any of you go, including him.”
 
“What’s the deal,” Kyle asked. His voice squeaked, giving away his fear. “What am I supposed to do?”
 
“In order to get your shorts back and come and help you I had to give Aiden and Brandon a blow job. Now, in order to free them, you have to strip naked and give me one. But if you refuse, I’d understand. There’s still a way I might be able to free them myself.”
 
“Shit, you did that for me?” Kyle seemed genially surprised. “Fuck. And now I have to do the same thing to you? With everyone watching?”
 
“I did it with everyone including the Johnson girls,” Kevin said. “And don’t use that word. My friends and I don’t use it and you shouldn’t either.”
 
“Did he tell you what I did? That I told him about, uh, today?” Kevin nodded his head. “Before or after you came to help me?”
 
“Before.”
 
“Damn, and you came anyway? Why would you help me after knowing it was me who got you into this mess?”
 
“If he’d just sent you home naked I wouldn’t have done anything to help you,” Kevin said. “But he called Ricky and Adam and told them where to watch for you and that he wasn’t protecting you anymore. That’s when I decided my little brother might need some help.”
 
“Okay, alright, shit. I’ll do it.” Kyle pulled his shirt off over his head and kicked his sneakers off. He hesitated for just a couple of seconds before pushing his pants and boxers down and stepping out of them. “I’ve never done this before,” he said as he looked at his brother’s dick. “Does it taste yucky?”
 
“No, not really,” Kevin said. “And until a little while ago I had never done it before either. It isn’t that bad. Use your mouth like how you jack off. I won’t hold back.”
 
“God, he’s really going to do it,” Tyler said. “If I’d known the little brat was that easy I’d have had him sucking on mine weeks ago.”
 
Kyle ignored Tyler’s remark and tried to overcome his revulsion. He took a deep breath and took Kevin’s limp dick in his mouth. It began hardening immediately.
 
“No teeth,” Kevin said. “Keep your lips over your teeth.”
 
Once he got going it went pretty quickly. Kevin got hard and seconds later tensed as he was ready to cum. He was about to warn Kyle but suddenly the feeling was there and he began shooting. It wasn’t much as compared to what Aiden had done, but it was still the most cum he’d ever shot before.
 
“Okay, a deals a deal,” Noah said. “Since he brought his own wire cutters, he can free you guys. We’re out of here.” Leaving the remaining clothes in the pile, Noah led the way out and his friends followed.
 
Kyle stood there for a few minutes after they left before putting the clothes he had worn from home back on.
 
“Okay Kyle, you can cut the wire anytime now,” Aiden said.
 
“No, not yet, there’s something I have to do first.”
 
“Kyle, what are you planning,” Kevin said. “We’ve had enough, just untie us.”
 
“He’s going to take our clothes and leave us here,” Brandon said.
 
“No he’s not,” Kevin said. “Trust me. What is it you need to do first Kyle?”
 
“You, uh, did your friends to come and save me. I want to show them that I’ll change. I want to hang with you guys. So I’ve got to do this.” He knelt down in front of Brandon. “I’ve got to earn their trust.”
 
“Not like that you don’t,” Aiden said, but Kyle had already started on Brandon. Brandon did as much as he could to step back and convinced Kyle to stop.
 
“This isn’t necessary. If you want to hang with us, earn our trust in other ways. Right now, all we want is to be freed so we can get dressed and go home.”
 
Kyle looked guilty as he stood and picked up the cutters and cut Aiden free. Aiden moved to untie the ropes holding Kevin while Kyle cut Brandon free. The three older boys dressed quickly.
 
“I think that once we come to know that we can trust you we’ll be happy to let you hang around with us,” Brandon said.
 
“Actually, I’m not in a big hurry to face the girls after what happened,” Aiden said. “How about we go to Kevin’s house and find something to do there.”
 
It took time for everyone to start feeling normal again, and Kyle slowly earned the group’s confidence and respect. The way they had gained their freedom was never spoken by them, but Noah, Tyler, and Brice had obviously spoken of it since they started getting asked about it by many of the other kids in town.
 
 


 



   
   
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