Marty Part 2 - Tannerized
By Alpenhorn
alpenhorn@hackermail.com
Copyright 2017 by Alpenhorn, all rights reserved
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This
story is intended for adults only. It contains depictions of forced
nudity,
spanking, and sexual activity of preteen and young teen children for
the
purpose of punishment. None of the behaviors in this story should be
attempted
in real life, as that would be harmful and/or illegal. If you are not
of legal age in your community to read or
view
such material, please leave now.
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Tannerized
(Marty, Part 2)
[by Alpenhorn, 2017]
Glossary:
acorn---the
glans of the penis
bollocks---testicles
boner---erection
bum---buttocks
drawers---underpants
flagpole---erection
indubitable---impossible
to doubt; truer than true
kid---child
make
out---kiss, hug, and fondle
mate---friend
playing
doctor---a child’s game that involves disrobing
prostate---a
gland; part of the reproductive system
sport
wood---have an erection in a public place
starkers---completely
totally utterly no-doubt-about-it naked
torch---a
hand-held battery-powered spotlight; flashlight
wazoo---anus
willy---penis
Movie
Classifications:
Chapter 1:
PG [for brief nudity]
Chapter 2:
G [general audience]
Chapter 3:
R [for graphic nudity]
Chapter 4:
R [for graphic nudity]
Characters:
Martin---a
teenaged boy
Heather---a
teenaged girl
CHAPTER 1: the party
Martin? That
was a boy in my class at school. I had barely noticed him, so I was surprised
when I got an email from his pa, inviting me to the party for his thirteenth
birthday. My own thirteenth birthday had been just the month before, so I knew
what was involved with the “thirteen poses”.
It seems
that, as Martin’s pa was planning things, he had to come up with the roster of
thirteen people to invite. After close friends, neighbors, family, he had a few
spaces left. One of Martin’s mates told him that Martin had a crush on me. Who
knew?
At first I
intended to email back and decline. Then I thought: I can use some money. Maybe
if I can get a good pose, I can win. So I accepted.
The night
of Martin’s party, one of his mates had me come to the park and wish Martin
“Happy Birthday”. That may be the first time I actually looked at Martin
carefully. I could see that they had been right: he was indeed smitten with me.
I can use that to my advantage, I thought.
Just before
midnight, I arrived at the house of Martin’s neighbor, where the party would
be. I didn’t know if I should bring a gift, so I bought a half-liter of ice
cream. Martin’s dad thanked me and put it in the freezer. (As it turned out, it
was a dish of my raspberry sherbet that got that neighbor banned.)
We turned
out the lights and waited. We heard the boys come in the back door. Then we
heard the water running in a shower. The last two of Martin’s friends showed
up, breathless.
When Martin
was shoved into the room, we suddenly turned on the lights and shouted
‘SURPRISE!’ We definitely surprised him. No one could fake that shocked
expression. That was the first time I saw Martin naked.
I had asked
Martin’s pa to schedule me for the last pose of the night. My idea for a
winning pose: an erection. I knew that boys sometimes get erections at any time
for no reason. But doing it on demand, with no touching? That was the trick. I
whispered meaningless sweet nothings in his ear, and eventually succeeded. The
surprised reactions of the others there gave me confidence that I would win.
But I did
not win. That was a wasted night!
CHAPTER 2: begging for a date
In the days
after the party, things went back to normal. I ignored Martin. His eyes
followed me all the time. Maybe he had been doing that before, but I just had
not noticed?
About a
week later, I was walking down the hall in the school. Martin called to me:
‘Heather!’ But I didn't even look, I just kept walking.
The next
day, the same thing: ‘Heather!’ But now he was blocking the way so I had to
stop. ‘What?’ ‘Would you go on a date with me?’ ‘No.’ I pushed past him and
continued down the hall.
A week
later. ‘Heather!’ ‘Yes, Martin?’ ‘Would you go on a date with me?’ ‘No.’ ‘Why
not?’ ‘You’re just a kid.’ I walked on.
Next time. ‘Heather!’
‘What?’ ‘Would you go on a date with me?’ ‘No.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘You’re just a kid.’
‘Am not: I’m officially a teenager.’ ‘Look, Martin. I saw your willy at the
party. Remember? That is all the evidence I need: you are just a kid.’
He gave me
a sad-eyes puppy-dog look. But those tricks will not work on me!
Next time. ‘Heather!’
‘What?’ ‘Would you go on a date with me?’ ‘No.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘You’re just a kid.’
‘What would it take to prove to you that I am not just a kid?’
Before I
brushed him off again, I got an idea. A sneaky idea. ‘OK, Martin. Skip lunch
tomorrow and meet me at The Zone. I’ll tannerize you.’ ‘What’s that?’ ‘I guess
you’ll find out tomorrow. If you come.’
My idea was
that I could use Martin to get some experience doing medical things. I had the
idea back then that I would be a physician when I grew up. I had been doing
some on-line studying. I had some of the medical apps on my iPhone. But I had
no actual hands-on patients to try them on. Until Martin “volunteered”.
The Zone is
a sort of teen community center just across the street from the school. In the
main room were things to amuse teenagers. Game tables of various kinds,
magazines, computer desks, lounge chairs, two-person chairs for making out,
food vending machines in the back. In the late afternoon and evening it would
be packed. But at noon there were only two or three kids there.
I had
reserved the medical alcove. It was off to the side of the main room. There was
small amount of medical equipment and an examining table. Nothing major, but
enough for my purposes.
CHAPTER 3: tannerized
Martin came
into the medical alcove to meet me.
I
explained: ‘Some guy named Tanner researched and classified the stages of puberty.
By measuring certain things about your body, one can compute a number called
the “Tanner index”. It will show where you are in puberty: from child to adult.
Are you sure you want me to do it to you?’
‘Indubitably,’
he answered.
‘Get
undressed,’ I said. He looked a little surprised, but he did it. ‘You can put
your clothes on the chair, there.’
‘Shoes and
socks, too.’ He did it. ‘Now the drawers.’
But he
didn't take his drawers off.
‘Are you
giving up Martin? Will you stop pestering me?’
‘No, I want
to go ahead. I want a date with you. Really! But what about them?’ Martin
looked uneasily into the main room of The Zone. There was no privacy here. Anyone
in the room could see us if they looked.
‘Martin,’ I
explained. ‘They are all thirteen or older. The Zone is limited to teens only. They
can see your naked pictures on-line any time they want. They could even do it
using one of the computers right there in that room.’
He removed
his drawers. Charmingly, he covered his crotch with his hands.
Now I had
the kid starkers! All to myself! Without any “no touching” limitations! This is
what we used to call “playing doctor”. Tannerizing does not really require the
subject to be nude. But I had so much control over that pathetic kid, why not
use it for this?
*
There was a
Tanner Kit in the cupboard; I put it on the counter. I got out my iPhone and
thumbprinted it on. ‘Hello, Siri,’ I said. ‘Hello, Heather,’ the phone
answered. ‘Siri: Run app Tanner.’ ‘Tanner four dot two. Hello, Heather.’ ‘Siri:
Patient name---Martin ... hmm.’
‘Martin,
what’s your surname?’ ‘Stuart.’ ‘Siri: Patient name---Martin Stuart.’ ‘Stuart,
Martin Aloysius---Medical records found.’
‘Hey,’ Martin
objected. ‘You can just get my medical records?’
‘With this
app, as far as the records system knows, I’m a physician.’
‘Don’t you
need to get my permission?’
‘Oh, yes, I
should get your permission. I’m just a beginner, so I forgot... Do you, Martin
Stuart, authorize me, Heather LeLache, to give you medical services?’
‘Of course.
Anything for you, Heather!’
‘Put your
thumbprint here.’ What a pathetic kid!
*
I put the
phone on the counter, so my hands would be free.
‘Stand over
here with your back against the wall. As tall as you can. No, heels on the
floor.’ I adjusted the indicator. ‘Siri: Height 155 cm.’
‘Now step
up on the scale. Siri: Mass 44 kg.’
‘Come over
here by the window.’ With sunlight on his skin, I could get an accurate color,
comparing with the “skin tone” card from the Tanner kit. ‘Siri: Skin
tone---2A.’
‘You skin
is very pale, Martin; don’t you ever go out in the sun?’ ‘I sunburn easily, so
I have to wear something opaque when I do.’
I was
feeling like a real physician! ‘OK, Martin. Lie down on the examining table.’ His
legs were horizontal, but his back and head were supported so that his upper
body was maybe 30 degrees from horizontal. He still covered his crotch with his
hands.
When his
naked skin touched the table, the readouts lit up. I read them to the phone. ‘Siri:
Temperature 38. Siri: Oxygen 98. Siri: Pulse 102. ’
‘102 is a
bit high, Martin. I guess you are excited to see me?’
‘Oh, yes. Indubitably,’
he replied.
I
continued: ‘Siri: Voice---soprano.’
*
‘Well, kid.
Now we come to the important part of the Tanner evaluation. You will have to
move your hands. Unless you want to give up and agree to stop pestering me?’
Of course
the silly kid did not give up.
I said,
‘There are hand-holds on each side, there by your ears. See them? Grab them and
hold on tight.’ He did. Now I could see his willy! With a kid this pathetic, it
was easy. Martin blushed.
‘Spread
your legs wide, let one leg hang down on each side of the table.’
‘I remember
this pose,’ he said, nervously. ‘I don’t suppose there is some ice cream in
that kit?’
‘Martin, be
serious.’
I folded
away the extension---the part of the table that had been supporting Martin’s
feet. Now I could stand practically between his knees. Starting at his knees, I
ran my hands slowly up his two thighs. I could feel him quivering at my touch. ‘Siri:
Leg hair---minimal.’
I moved to
Martin’s side. I put my palm on his tummy, and slid it slowly up to his neck. He
inhaled sharply when I did it. ‘Siri: Chest hair---minimal.’
Now my
fingers were on his throat. ‘Siri: Adam’s apple---slight.’
I felt his
face. ‘Do you shave?’ ‘No.’ ‘Siri: Facial hair---none.’
I could
clearly see the kid’s underarms, because he was holding onto the handholds. But
still I massaged each underarm with my fingers. His body tensed. ‘Siri:
Underarm hair---none.’
Next I came
to the good part. I ran my fingers around the base of his willy and around his
bollocks. He was panting after that. His willy was getting longer. I leaned
close for examination. I used the finger-size electric torch from the kit. I
moved his willy left and right, examining its base. I moved his bollocks this
way and that, looking from all angles. ‘Siri: Pubic hair---none.’
It was fun
tormenting the kid---he never objected to anything I did, no matter how
outrageous.
I held the
pigmentation card beside Martin’s bollocks. ‘Siri: Scrotum pigmentation---5C.’
Martin’s
willy was rising up. I glanced at his face. Eyes scrunched closed, and a
grimace.
I got the
orchidometer from the Tanner kit. I gently felt one of the kid’s balls,
massaging it between thumb and two fingers. I did the same with the
orchidometer beads using my other hand. The idea is to find the bead with size
matching the ball. Martin’s voice had been making little squeaks as I did this.
‘Siri: Testicular volume 5 mL.’
Martin
watched warily as I took a glove from the dispenser on the wall, put it on my
right hand, and applied some lube to a finger of it. His eyes were wide; his
mouth was open in an O. I stood between his knees.
‘Ready,
Martin? Next I check your prostate. Move your heels up to about here. Press
inward, squeeze the table with them. Hard as you can. Hold tight with your
hands.’
I knelt
down and stuck my lubed finger up Martin’s wazoo. His sphincter muscles fought
me. It was harder to do than I had guessed from my reading. But I kept pushing.
And pushing. Martin was moaning. Finally, I felt his famous prostate gland. My
first time! ‘Siri: Prostate size 2.’ I gave it a couple of extra massages. Martin
grunted at each one. I pulled my finger out. The kid shuddered. ‘OK, Martin. Relax
your legs.’ I discarded the glove.
Last, and
best, the willy. I squeezed it with a finger and thumb. The kid’s whole body
tensed. I could feel his pulse---by now certainly higher than 102! His willy
certainly felt “hard” to me. But what did I know? All I had done was read about
it.
‘Martin, is
your willy fully erect?’
‘Oh, yes.’ His
voice was a squeak. ‘Indubitably!’
I took the
tape measure from the kit. ‘Siri: Erect penis length 9 cm. Siri: Erect penis
circumference 7 cm.’
Then the
phone interrupted. ‘Data out of sequence. Missing data: Flaccid penis.’ Stupid
app. ‘Siri: Flaccid penis unavailable.’
Martin was
panting faster.
I retracted
his foreskin. He jerked in surprise when I did it. ‘Siri: Foreskin type five.’
I ran thumb
and two fingers around Martin’s little acorn. He cried out, ‘aah!’ and bucked
maybe ten centimeters off the table. ‘Siri: Glans sensitivity---extreme.’ ‘Category
not recognized.’ Actually, I made that one up, so of course the app did not
recognize it.
I put his
foreskin back over his acorn.
With a finger
I pushed his willy downward toward his knees, let my finger slide off the end,
and watched as the willy snapped back up into position. ‘Siri: Penis
rebound---high.’ ‘Category not recognized.’ I wonder if I can program the app
not to say that? Then my subject won’t guess I am just making things up.
I stuck my
little finger in Martin’s “innie” belly button and twisted. He tensed his
stomach muscles and grunted. ‘Navel sensitivity---moderate,’ I reported. That’s
how to do it: just don’t say “Siri” first.
I wiggled
two fingers along the skin between his bollocks and his wazoo. He tensed his
muscles down there and grunted again. I pretended to report that result.
It was fun
to torment the kid. I was ready to tweak his nipples. Then maybe the soles of
his feet? But now not only Martin’s face was red---his hands gripping the
handholds were also turning red. His thighs were tensed, pressing his heels
into the sides of the table. Soon he could be hurting himself. Time to stop.
‘Siri:
Compute Tanner index.’ ‘Computing.’
‘OK, kid,
that’s all. You may get dressed now.’ He got up in a flash. He got dressed. There
was a bulge in his trousers.
The
calculation finished: ‘Tanner index two.’
‘That’s
your result, Martin. You are just a kid. I will only date you when you reach at
least Tanner four. Preferably five. Now get out, while I clean up here.’
He looked
dejected. His body had betrayed him.
CHAPTER 4: Doctor please
I thought
the kid would leave me alone then. But I was wrong.
A month
later in the hall. ‘Heather!’ ‘Yes, Martin?’ ‘Would you go on a date with me?’ ‘No,
Martin.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘You’re just a kid.’ ‘Prove it: tannerize me.’
‘Kid,’ I
argued. ‘You can’t grow that much in a month.’
‘Prove it!’
So I agreed
to tannerize him again.
Of course
the results were the same as the first time. And it seemed to me that it was
just as traumatic for Martin as before.
At the end
I said: ‘Get out of here. Don’t bother me with this again.’
I had
already had my eyes and hands all over Martin’s body. Twice. So I had no
interest in doing it any more. But maybe Martin thought that this was the only
way to get me to notice him.
In the
school hallway a month later: ‘Heather!’ ‘What?’ ‘Would you go on a date with
me?’ ‘No.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘You’re just a kid.’ ‘Prove it: tannerize me.’ But I just
answered, ‘NO.’
Unexpectedly,
he replied, ‘Doctor please.’ That phrase in English was the international
medical aid request. If you say ‘Doctor please’ to a physician, then he is
required to give you medical help, or find someone who will. Of course, I was
not a real physician, so I did not have to respond. But it showed how serious
Martin was. Or at least how love-struck.
‘OK,
Martin. Monday at noon.’
One of
Martin’s mates, Eli I think, was in the hallway nearby. He had seen the exchange.
He asked me, ‘What was that?’ So I explained it to him.
‘Do you
think it would be all right if some of Martin’s mates came to the next one?’ he
asked.
‘Sure, why
not.’
*
Monday at
noon. I was in the medical alcove. Three boys---Eli, Mo, and Ankit---were
sitting, all in a row, where they would have a good view.
The kid
came in and gaped.
‘Hi,
Marty,’ one of the boys said.
‘Guys! What
are you doing here?’
‘We’re here
to watch you get tannerized.’
‘Watch me?’
Martin’s voice squeaked. He seemed distressed. ‘Heather, did you do this?’
‘They
volunteered,’ I said. ‘Of course, you can go away and not bother me again. In
fact, I prefer that.’
‘No, I want
you to tannerize me.’ Like I said, he was a pathetic kid.
So, I
tannerized him.
With those
guys watching, it seemed even more unpleasant for Martin than usual.
The three
boys watched as Martin stripped himself starkers. By then they were already
breathing heavily.
Their eyes
got wide when they watched Martin move his hands and reveal his willy. The
kid’s face blushed even redder than usual.
The three
boys listened attentively as I stated loudly and clearly the measurements and
observations of Martin’s body. “Erect penis length 9 cm”---who wants even his
closest mates to know details like that?
When I did
the sensitive parts of Martin’s body, his mates helped him. Eli stood on one
side and Mo on the other, and Martin squeezed their hands instead of the
impersonal hand-holds. Ankit got some paper towels to mop the sweat from
Martin’s face, and a small paperback book for him to bite on. I wish I had
mates as fine as that.
The three
boys grunted along with the kid when I stuck my finger up his wazoo.
Their eyes
got wider and wider as Martin’s willy stood up straighter and straighter. Who
wants even their closest mates to watch that? One of them said ‘ooh’ quietly at
the final maximum flagpole.
I could
clearly see that those three boys all had boners of their own.
The kid
just closed his eyes and waited for the next indignity.
The boys’
eyes practically bugged out of their heads when I retracted Martin’s foreskin
and tweaked his acorn. They cried ‘aah’ and jerked when Martin did---some sort
of sympathetic reflex, I guess.
At the end,
when Martin lay exhausted on the table, the boys kept holding Martin’s hands,
and talked quietly to him in encouragement. Then they helped him get dressed,
and walked back to the school with him.
*
I did not
think Martin would give up, and I was right, he didn’t. He “Doctor pleased” me
a month later.
The word got
around. This time there was a whole gallery waiting, including not only the
three boys from before, but also a few girls from our class. Even some random
teens from the main room of The Zone.
When Martin
entered The Zone, and he saw the crowd, his face turned red. (Usually, it
didn’t turn red until he had to move his hands and exhibit his willy.) But
despite his embarrassment, he still came into the alcove and said, ‘Tannerize
me.’
So I said,
‘Get undressed.’
He looked
around. ‘Do these girls have to stay?’
‘Indubitably.’
I used his own word on him.
So Martin
was tannerized with an audience.
Those extra
observers did not make it easy for the kid. ‘Three of us had a sleepover last
night with Alice,’ one girl explained, ‘to get ready for this. The theme was:
Marty’s naked pictures. We are now experts. And Alice was there at the
“thirteen poses” in person, so she gave us the inside info on what happened. We
even know about the pictures that were banned from the Web.’
When the
kid started to disrobe, some of the girls started a loud commentary on his
body, describing everything they saw.
They even
had written a cheer: When Martin was lying on the table and I told him to move
his hands, they started chanting:
‘Mighty oak
or tiny wee?
Move your hands,
we want to see!’
As the
session went on, the commentaries became quite crude. Of course I did not stop
them: maybe this would convince the kid to give up on me. When Martin moaned or
grunted, they laughed. When he jerked or shuddered, they would comment ‘Wow!’
or ‘He sure felt that one.’
“Pubic
hair---none,” I told Siri. I wondered if Martin’s intimate details would be
known to the whole school by tomorrow. (As far as I know, they never were.)
Did this
embarrassment convince him to stop? No such luck.
*
This
continued, once a month. That kid was persistent. But pathetic. Every time I
told him to go away and forget it. But every month he came back. The
tannerizing of Martin Stuart became a social event among a select group of
connoisseurs.
Some
customs grew up in our public tannerizing sessions. For example: When Siri
announced ‘Tanner index two’ at the end, the gallery would moan. Then, while
Martin was still lying starkers on the table, they would come to him one at a
time, and say ‘Better luck next month.’ As each one said it, they would put a
hand somewhere on Martin’s naked body. (For good luck, they said.)
Later, that
custom morphed a bit. Usually at the end of the session, Martin was lying there
with a flagpole pointing to the sky. So of course the thing to do when wishing
him ‘Better luck next month’ was to give his willy a squeeze. It helped his
face stay red, I guess: 8 or 10 squeezes in a row like that.
*
Then one
day something new happened. Siri said ‘Tanner index three’. The gallery
cheered.
Mo jumped
up: ‘Everyone wait a minute. Martin, don’t get dressed.’ He ran into the main
room and bought a liter of raspberry sherbet. Laughing, he dumped a few scoops
of it on Martin’s tummy.
‘Congratulations,
Martin!’ they all yelled. ‘Half-way there!’ Mo fed us all sherbet to celebrate.
All while the kid was lying there starkers, ice cream running down his body,
flagpole throbbing, a silly smile on his face.
*
My next
attempt to get the kid to quit: assistance from the gallery. One month I had
Ankit do the initial exams: height, weight, skin tone, and the readouts from
the table. The next month Alice did these, and I got Elise to check for leg and
chest hair.
I would
teach them how to do the tests. So I stood on Martin's left, Elise stood on his
right. ‘Run your palm up his thigh like this.’ The kid was even more tensed up
than usual. By then he really had some leg hair. I taught my assistants how to
gauge it from the feel.
I asked
Ankit to check for pubic hair. ‘Shine the torch there at the base. Move his
willy out of the way to check all sides. At this stage, we just count the
number of hairs. Later, when there are more than 20 or 30 of them, we will note
when their color changes, and when they start curling. Now do his bollocks in
the same way.’
I got the
kids to take turns on the tests. But I reserved the prostate check for myself. ‘It
requires training,’ I claimed. I always do just enough prostate massage to
insure that Martin's willy exhibits its one hundred percent maximum flagpole. That
is what all the kids come to see.
*
After many
months, I finally said, ‘Today for foreskin: Alice.’
Each month
I could observe the kids who came. Alice would practically devour Martin’s body
with her eyes. So before I finally asked her to do the foreskin, everyone else
had already done it, some more than once. If Martin wanted a girlfriend, he
shouldn’t be pestering me---he should ask Alice. She seemed to be in love with
him. Actually, though, it was not Martin she loved, but Martin’s willy. Not
even that---Martin’s flagpole. So maybe they would not be a good match.
I said,
‘Today for foreskin: Alice.’
‘Hooray!’
Alice jumped at the chance.
‘Alice,’ I
chided. ‘If you are going to do this, you need to act professionally.’
‘OK.’
I stood on
one side of Martin, she stood on the other. Just after the prostate massage,
Martin’s willy was as prominent as possible.
‘To retract
the foreskin, hold like this, and slide the skin. Now you try.’
‘Mmmm,’ she
hummed as she did it.
Martin’s
breathing was ragged, as usual.
‘The
definition for foreskin type five says: “retracts to completely expose the
glans”, so check that you can see all of Martin’s little acorn. Even under
here.’
‘Woo-eee.’
‘Alice,
please.’
‘Right. Sorry.
Professional.’
‘Now put
the foreskin back. No, without stroking.’
Who was
panting more: Martin or Alice?
‘Now push
it down that way. Feel how much resistance there is. When you slide your finger
off, watch how fast it rebounds.’
Simultaneously,
Martin went ‘aah’ and Alice went ‘wow’.
Sometimes I
wonder who is more aroused: my assistant or my subject.
*
They all
relished checking the sensitivity of the kid’s little acorn. By that time the
sensitivity had declined from “extreme” to “very high”. Even if Martin knew it
was coming, though, his body still would involuntarily buck when anyone
fingered his acorn. The nerves from there go directly to the spinal nerves---no
brain needed.
Elise got
to be better at orchidometry than I was.
Martin
would lie there and just take it, looking at me with his sad puppy-dog eyes.
Even after
I subjected him to all those indignities, he did not give up. Every month he
came back for more.
I made sure
to instruct my assistants on how to avoid going clear through to orgasm: ‘That
would be considered “sex”. It is illegal for us to do that to him until he
reaches age sixteen.’
The boys in
the gallery were shocked. ‘But isn’t that unpleasant for Martin?’ Paul asked. ‘We
get him all heated up, then send him away with no release?’
‘Of course
it’s unpleasant. I’m always hoping it will be too unpleasant, and Martin will
give this up and leave me alone.’
‘I suppose
he can rush home and take care of it by himself.’
‘Normally
you might think so,’ I smiled cruelly. ‘But I schedule these sessions during
the school lunch period. So as soon as we finish here, Martin has to rush back
to school sporting wood.’
*
That small
group grew to know Martin very intimately. Practically every square centimeter
of his body. They would discuss Martin with no hesitation, even when he was
lying right there. Were his pubic hairs were starting to curl? When would his
willy achieve the next centimeter in length? The pigmentation of his scrotum. Had
his voice fully changed, or just broken a few times? Could he grow a beard, or
would it look too scraggly?
Sometimes I
fantasize about when those kids become parents themselves. How much of an asset
will it be if they are experts on male puberty?
EPILOG: Tanner index four
Finally,
the day came. ‘Tanner index four,’ said Siri. It was more than two years since
the first time. Martin and I were both fifteen.
It was a
happy day and a sad day for our group. No more need for tannerizing Martin. He
now had a loyal and supportive group of life-long friends that no one else in
the Village could match.
I agreed to
a date.
[the end]
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