Tom and Huck
By Suitcase
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Copyright 2011 by Suitcase, all rights reserved
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As
the late June sun beat down on the town of Panama,
Iowa,
Tom Fredericksen
and his chum, Henry "Huck" Hansen, were holed up in
Tom's room playing video games. Summer vacation had begun just
three
weeks before. But now, already, boredom descended like a
cloud, seeded by
a lack of funds. Both boys had already spent their allowances. On a day
like
this, they'd have liked to bask in the waters of the municipal swimming
pool,
and Huck said as much with a sigh. If only they had money for
admission.
Tom
agreed wistfully, and then got a gleam in his eye.
"Why
don't we go to the pond?" he said. Tom was the idea man of the two.
"You
know what our parents told us about that," Huck
said; Swimming
in the pond was strictly forbidden due to the lack of
a lifeguard.
"They
don't have to know about it," Tom said. "The pond's
half-a-mile out of town."
"I
dunno. I don't want to get into trouble."
Tom
was impatient.
"Fine!
Forget I even mentioned it. We'll just sit here and play video games
all day if
it makes you happy," he said.
"Well.......,"
said Huck.
"C'mon!"
said Tom.
"Oh,
okay," said Huck. "I just have to run home and get my suit."
"No,
doofus!" said Tom. "That's a dead give away. "Your mom knows you
don't have any money! Forget the suits."
Soon
the boys were making their way along the railroad tracks
towards the pond.
They had contests to see who could walk longest on a rail
without falling
off.
"So
are we gonna swim in our boxers?" asked Huck.
"No.
The pond's a skinny dippin' hole. I found out from the older
kids at
school," said Tom. "Everyone skinny dips."
"Oh,"
said Huck. "Um.....what's skinny dippin'?"
"Swimmin'
naked."
Huck
fell off his rail.
"For
real?"
"Sure,"
said Tom, with the casualness of a veteran, belying the inconvenient
fact that
he'd never actually done it. "It's no big deal. There are no
girls
around."
"I
suppose," said Huck thoughtfully.
They
walked on in silence. Soon they reached the pond, actually a
sandpit dug
out at the time the interstate highway was constructed.
Perhaps 250 feet
long, 150 feet wide, it was said to be pretty deep in places. Sandy
beaches abutted the pond, though the
side away from the tracks was overgrown. As they descended a small hill
leading
down to the pond on a path cut through the weeds, they could
see one boy
on the beach, resting, and two swimmers in the water. They recognized
the boy,
though he was three or four years older than they. He was reclining
under the
sun and was naked. He had a healthy bush. The boy waved at them
casually. Tom
and Huck waved back. While the boy was on the northern shore, they
decided to
turn right and head a short distance to a bit of beach on the Eastern
side that had a convenient log to sit on. Once there, they
paused, looking
out at the water. Time passed awkwardly.
"Well,
let's do this," said Tom.
"Okay,"
said Huck.
The
boys sat down on the log and removed their sneakers and sockettes. Then
they
stood. They'd not worn shirts, just fashionable knee-length athletic
shorts and
boxers. They faced a moment of truth. Though Tom and Huck were
in junior
high and had changed frequently in gym class, boys didn't wear jocks
for gym
anymore, so they only stripped to their boxers or briefs. Though
showers were
available, it was a rare boy with the courage to strip off to take one.
So
frankly, even though Tom and Huck were best buddies, they'd never
actually seen
each other naked.
They
turned their backs to each other, latched onto both shorts and boxers
with
their thumbs, dropped them to the ground, and ran into the water until
it was
safely waist deep. Ahhh. A little cool, but just right for swimmin'. At
first
the boys kept their distance from each other, paddling this way and
that. After
a while, though, they came
closer to chat, agreeing that
swimming without trunks felt really nice. Tom splashed some
water in
Huck's direction. Huck returned fire. And soon the two were horsing
around in
the water with great glee. They even dunked each other, being very
careful
where they grabbed, of course. Then, finally, Tom waded
to shore,
followed by his friend. They hadn't any towels. The two were going to
have to
sit on the log without any clothes and let the sun dry them. They looked mostly at the
water at first as
they noted how nice it felt not to have clammy trunks sticking to them.
Each
stole a few glances at the other's crotch, self consciously. But time
went on,
and they were dry, and still they made no move for their clothes. Ah,
this is
nice, Tom decided. Just letting each other see each other. Huck looked
at Tom,
pointedly looked down, then back up, and grinned. Tom did the same. And
they
laughed.
"We
gotta come again tomorrow," Huck said.
"Agreed,"
said Tom.
With
a bit of sadness, they pulled on their shorts, put on their shoes, and
began
the trek back home.
The
next day Tom and Huck lunched on sandwiches and chips at Tom's house
about
noon. They played video games for an hour,
then headed again to the
railroad tracks that would lead them to the pond. Along the tracks,
they passed
two well-tanned boys in their middle teens coming the other way.
"Headed
for a swim?" one of them asked.
"Yeah,"
said Tom. "How's the water?"
"Perfect,"
said the older boy. "Have fun."
Tom
and Huck pressed on and soon reached the pond, noting that they had the
place
to themselves. They returned to the same spot they'd claimed the day
before.
Unlike yesterday, the boys removed their clothes very matter-of-factly
and
entered the water leisurely, wading to waist-high depth before pushing
off and
swimming at an unhurried pace maybe fifty feet from shore. They circled
and
swam back, changing strokes from time to time, or simply floating and
allowing
the water to cool their overheated bodies. Then they came ashore, not
finished
for the day, just to rest and to bask in the sun for awhile. Then back
into the
water for some horseplay, and back to shore again to rest. It was a
little bit
of heaven for Huck and Tom, and if not heaven, it was
certainly a blessing
for two spectators hidden among the trees and overgrowth at the top of
the
hill.
Mary
Beth and Liz were 11-year-old girls who knew about the pond and its
occasional
special sights. On days they hadn't anything better to
do, Mary Beth
borrowed her father's powerful binoculars. Then the two girls mounted
their
bicycles and pedaled along a road that ran parallel to the railroad
tracks
about half a city block to the north. They'd take up a
position in the
weeds overlooking the pond and do a little sight seeing. Catching a boy
au
naturale brought a special naughty joy to these pre-teens, and they'd
had
enough luck over time to have gained a certain expertise in the matter
of who
was well endowed.....and who wasn't.
Today
Mary Beth had Huck and Tom in their sights, and through her powerful
lenses
they looked no more than 20 feet away, and at a very good angle!
"Let
me see! Let me see!" cried Liz.
"Shhhh,"
said Mary Beth. "You don't want them to hear us."
She
handed Liz the binoculars. Liz took a long look, and sighed.
"That
Huck Hansen is sooo dreamy," she said.
"Better
hung, too," said Mary Beth, who had picked up a lot of jargon from her
older sisters.
Tom
and Huck sat resting on the log several minutes, allowing
their hidden
admirers a good, long look.
"I
read 'Huckleberry Finn'," Tom noted. "There's a part where Huck said
he didn't like to wear clothes. I can kind of understand what he meant."
"Yeah,"
said Huck, looking lazily into the distance.
"Imagine
rafting naked down the Mississippi,"
Tom said. "Just the two of us."
Huck
laughed. "We better pass the towns at night."
At
length the boys grew restless.
"How
about we race to the other side?" Huck suggested.
"You're
on!" said Tom.
They
ran into the water, dove in, and stroked furiously toward the far shore.
"Shows
over," said Liz, sighing again. "We might as well head back."
"Hang
on a minute," said Mary Beth. "Looks like they're swimming all the
way across."
An
evil thought entered her mind.
"They're
gonna be gone awhile," she noted. "Let's take their clothes!"
"Oh,
I don't know," Liz said, startled (and thrilled) by the idea. "That'd
be mean."
"Oh,
c'mon, Liz," urged Mary Beth. "It'd be SO funny! C'mon!"
And
she rose from her hiding place, making her way rapidly down the hill,
across
the tracks, and through the path to the log, with Liz on her heels.
They
gathered up the shorts, boxers, shoes and sockettes, and ran for their
lives
back up the hill, sprawling and catching their breath only when they
were
safely out of sight. The boys were just reaching the far shore, with
Huck in
the lead.
The
boys rested their tired muscles a few minutes, standing in shallow
water and
restoring their breathing in the process. Then they began a more
leisurely swim
back to the log, side-stroking lazily under the afternoon sun. Atop the
hill,
the girls waited for the boys to come ashore, almost peeing their pants
in
anticipation.
Tom
was still in shallow water when he noticed. There was nothing by the
logs. Nothing.
"Oh,
no!" he said.
"What?"
said Huck, wading right behind him.
"Just
look," said Tom.
The
boys' stomachs knotted. Their faces paled.
"Let's
look around," said Tom. "Maybe someone moved them a little for a
joke."
They
scoured the area in a panic, even roaming around to the beaches on the
north
shore and searching the weeds beyond. Nothing.
Huck
looked at Tom helplessly.
"What
are we gonna do?"
Mary
Beth cackled as she viewed them through her binoculars.
"Did
you see the looks on their faces?" she asked.
"I
would if you'd let me see!" said Liz.
"Oh....sorry,"
said Mary Beth, handing the binoculars to her.
Tom
decided they'd return to the log and wait a little while, hoping that
the
prankster would return their clothes.
Mary
Beth and Liz gathered up their booty and headed to their bicycles, one
of
which, conveniently, had a basket. It would've been nice to tail the
boys
further, but Mary Beth thought it would be a friendly gesture
to inform
certain boys and girls back in town that Huck and Tom would
likely be
headed their way in a rather comical condition.
After
half an hour, Tom concluded that waiting any longer was a
waste of time. He
looked his friend up and down, and he looked down at himself,
now picturing their lack of attire, not in the context of the
pond, but as
if they were on a street in town. People were laughing.
"I'm
afraid they're gone for good, Huck," he admitted, to which his friend
nodded sorrowfully. "We should get started back."
"But
how can we go back?" Huck moaned. "We can't go in public
without
any clothes!"
"I'll
think of something," Tom assured him, sounding more confident than he
felt. "Let's go."
They
climbed up the path to the tracks and walked in the weeds
abutting the
rails, their penises swinging to and fro like the trunks of elephants.
The
track bed itself was too full of rocks for their tender bare
feet. Their
senses were alive for any movement.
Tom
hoped they might encounter boys coming to swim so he could ask them for
help,
but none came. A locomotive hauling a dozen cars did pass, moving
toward a
switching yard a dozen miles to the east. The boys sprinted
into a field
of young corn and hid until it passed. The trip back to Panama
took
twice as long as the trip out due to their lack of footwear. As soon as
they
neared buildings, Tom led Huck from the tracks, and they moved
stealthily
through a corn field toward the edge of town. He'd had time to
think as
they approached civilization, and he'd come up with a plan that offered
some
hope. As they knelt in the young corn, Tom filled in his friend.
"Over
there lie some tall grass and weeds, and then there's an alley, and on
the other side of the alley are the backyards of some houses.
Let's sneak
up and try to spot something we could cover ourselves with. Maybe we
could find
some clothes drying on a line. Maybe there's a tarp lying
around. Just
anything."
Huck
nodded, and the two moved gingerly in a low crouch through the
weeds and
knelt at the edge of the alley. They could
see three back yards from
their vantage point, but nothing that would help them.
"Let's
move over that way," Tom said quietly. They crept to their
left a
couple hundred feet and knelt again. The boys spied clothing
articles on a
line in the yard of the house on the far left. They moved closer, and
discovered, to their dismay, that the things hung out to dry
included
panties, bras, stockings........and two sun dresses. Tom and Huck
looked at
each other.
"We
gotta," said Tom.
Huck
agreed, glumly.
"I'll
try to get them," Tom volunteered. He edged leftward along the weed
cover
until the clothes line loomed dead ahead. Then he took a deep breath
and
scampered forward. Reaching the line, he grabbed a dress in his right
hand and
removed the clothes pins with his left. He threw one dress over his
shoulder
while he freed the other. A dog inside the house began to bark. Soon he
was
running with the loot back towards Huck, who was waiting in the weeds.
He'd
just reached his friend when a female voice called out from the
direction of
the house. "Hey, you kids. Bring those back!"
The
boys' hearts leapt, and they took off running toward the cornfield as
fast as
their poor, sore bare feet would carry them. They put three blocks
between them
and the scene of the crime before falling to the ground, out of breath.
But
they had the dresses. After regaining their breath and calming
themselves, Tom
picked up one of them and, after examining it, lifted it over his head
and let
it fall over his body. His shoulders were bare, of course, and the
garment
definitely was loose in the chest. Also, it was a bit too long. Huck's
fit him
better, as he was the taller boy. As they looked over each
other they
would have laughed, if only it had been a sister's bedroom and
they were
wearing them on a lark. But they were going to have to parade
themselves in
girls' clothes six blocks to Tom's house, and there would be
no cornfields
or weeds to help them. His parents' home was in the middle of town.
They
returned to the tracks and proceeded to a street at town's
edge. The plan
was to jog all the way, if possible, to minimize their exposure.
Unfortunately,
they were spotted by a boy on a bike who was serving as a scout, since
Mary
Beth and Liz had spilled the beans to half the kids in the
neighborhood
about naked boys on the loose. The boy quickly rode to find his
comrades.
"I've
found them. They're up this way. And they're not naked. But wait until
you
see!" he said with a smile. A dozen and a half cyclists, including five
girls, followed him back. Soon Tom and Huck were surrounded by jeering,
wolf
whistling, giggling, laughing, wisecracking cavalry. Knowing they had
no chance
to outrun bikes, the boys stopped jogging. Instead they plodded
gloomily on
with unfocused eyes. Tom thought of the Bataan
death march. The boys blushed violently. Their escort gained in size as
they
moved along. The boys' humiliation was spectacular.
On
and on they walked, objects of ridicule and unbridled glee, their
spirits
having sunk to below-sidewalk level. Then a car honked repeatedly, and
the
cyclists gave way as the auto screeched to a halt.
"Stop
those thieves!" shouted a woman, emerging from the driver's seat.
The
pedestrians in the crowd prevented Tom and Huck from running. The woman
came
around the car and approached them in a huff.
"Those
are my daughter's dresses, you pranksters!" she bellowed. "Give them
back this instant!"
And
quickly she grabbed hold of Huck's dress by the shoulders and yanked it
off of
him. Throwing it over one shoulder, she turned to Tom and lifted his up
and off
as well.
Suddenly
the pair were nude in front of dozens of eager eyes. The boys
reflexively
crouched low, their hands crossed over their crotches, their eyes wild
with
panic. They saw happy faces, some red from laughter, all around them as
the
sounds of ridicule reached new heights of volume, while the girls in
attendance
looked with pleasure upon the boys' protruding buns. The
woman, glad to
have retrieved her daughter's pilfered dresses, was unaware at first
that she
had stripped the boys bare. But she responded to the noise, looked
down, and
was aghast. The boys crouched before her in tears.
"Oh,
please help us, ma'am," Tom pleaded. "We were swimming and someone
stole our clothes!"
"I
see........okay, get in the car," she responded as she walked quickly
to
the vehicle and opened the back, righthand door. Huck jumped in,
followed by a
much relieved Tom. As the door shut behind him, the crowd moved in to
get
another look but was shooed away by the woman. As she opened the trunk
to put
the dresses inside and the boys' hearts began to beat more slowly, a
voice
spoke from the front seat. "Hi, Huck. Hi, Tom." They looked up and
immediately, with dread, recognized Jane Herman. She was a year ahead
of them
in class and a girl rated "a looker" by the males in
the
school. But right now she was looking at them, and her eyes were
roaming. Their
hands instinctively covered their vitals again.
"Um,
hi Jane," they said, awkwardly.
The
woman, obviously Jane's mother, got in and started the car.
"My,
I do believe you boys look better in my dresses than I do," Jane teased.
Tom
and Huck flushed redder.
"Now
Jane. Stop embarrassing them," said mom.
Jane
merely smiled and continued to gaze upon their mostly uncovered (and
quite
trapped) bodies.
"Eyes
in front, daughter," said mom.
Following
Tom's directions, the woman headed to his house, and her car soon drew
up to
the curb in front. She escorted the boys, who looked nervously all
around them
as they walked to the door. She rang the bell. Tom's
10-year-old
sister, Stephanie, answered. Her eyes widened as she looked upon her
brother in
his birthday suit for the first time in years. And his best friend,
naked, too!
"Mom!
I think you should come in here,' she said.
"Who
is it?" sounded his mother's voice from the kitchen.
"Tom
and Huck. With a lady," she said.
Soon
Marilyn Fredericksen appeared at the door. What she saw made her jaw
drop.
"Thomas
Fredericksen! Henry Hansen! What are you doing running around outside
with no
clothes on?" she demanded. Then she noticed the woman.
"I'm
sorry. I was....distracted. I'm Marilyn Fredericksen, this one's
mother,"
she said, pointing to Tom.
"I'm
Barbara Herman," replied the visitor. "These two boys had their
clothes stolen while they were swimming. They took a couple of
my daughter's dresses off our clothesline to cover themselves,
and when I
caught up with them I pulled off the dresses, not realizing they were
naked
underneath. They'd drawn quite a crowd! It was terribly embarrassing
for them. I
got them in my car as soon as I could and brought them home."
"Thank
you so much," Mrs. Fredericksen said. "May I launder the dresses for
you? I'll be happy to pay for replacements if they're damaged."
"No,
I'm sure they'll be fine. I'm just glad to see the boys safely home,"
she
said. And Mrs. Herman left.
"Okay,
Tom, I want an explanation for this," she said as she closed the front
door with the two safely inside. Stephanie hung close to her mother,
exceedingly interested in the boys' anatomy.
"It's
like Mrs. Herman said," Tom began. "We were swimming, and somebody
stole our clothes....."
"Swimming?
Swimming where?" asked Mrs. Fredericksen.
"....The
pond," Tom admitted glumly.
"And
what is the rule about the pond?" Mrs. Fredericksen queried, raising
her
voice.
"We
aren't supposed to swim there," Tom admitted, looking at the floor.
"And
then you stole some dresses?"
"We
were desperate, mom!" Tom protested.
"So
one indiscretion led to another. Is that it?"
"I
suppose so," Tom said, avoiding his mother's stare. "Mom, can Huck
and I go and get dressed now?"
"No
you may not! I want Huck's mom to see in just what condition you showed
up
here. Go over and face that wall, both of you, until I say otherwise.
I'm going
to call Mrs. Hansen right now."
And
as the boys put their noses to the wall, Marilyn Fredericksen
disappeared into
the kitchen, where she picked up the phone.
"Hello,
Pearl?
Marilyn
here. You'd better get over here right away if you can. You're not
gonna
believe what Huck and Tom got themselves into. Come to the back door."
As
the Hansens lived just across the street and two doors down, Pearl
Hansen was
knocking in less than five minutes.
Mrs.
Fredericksen quickly filled her in.
"Imagine
their faces when they found out their clothes were gone!" said Mrs.
Hansen, giggling.
"And
Mrs. Herman said that when she pulled the dresses off, there were a
couple of
dozen children around!" said Mrs. Fredericksen.
"Oh,
that's priceless!" exclaimed Mrs. Hansen. "I'll bet they could have
died!"
"I'd
give a pretty penny to have seen those two in their dresses," Mrs.
Fredericksen added.
The
two women struggled to keep their chortling at a low volume so the boys
wouldn't hear.
"So
did my Huck borrow some clothes from Tom?" asked Mrs. Hansen.
"Oh,
they're not dressed!" said Mrs. Fredericksen. "I made them
stay
in their birthday suits. Their faces are against the living
room wall. Would
you like to have a look?"
"Oh,
yes!" said Mrs. Hansen.
The
women swung open the kitchen door. Mrs. Hansen looked at the
boys'
backsides with a smile. Stephanie had invited in a couple of friends,
and they
were sitting on the couch teasing the two redfaced miscreants. Tom and
Huck had
their hands over their buttocks, trying to hide as much as they could
from
their young female audience.
"No
covering up boys," said Mrs. Fredericksen. "Put your hands behind your
heads."
"Make
them go away, mom!" Tom pleaded as he faced the wall. He and Huck
reluctantly raised their hands to their heads.
"Stephanie
has the right to have friends over if she wants," Mrs. Fredericksen
said. "You
just stay there. Mrs. Hansen and I are deciding how you'll be
disciplined. And
Stephanie. You girls can look, but no touching!"
The
two mothers retreated once more to the kitchen.
"Aren't
they adorable? Such cute little buns!" observed Mrs. Hansen. "Too bad
we can't keep them that way."
"Well.....maybe
we can. At least for a little while," said Mrs. Fredericksen with a sly
smile. "What if we withhold their clothes for a couple days as
punishment?
They're getting a little old for spanking, and definitely the
punishment would
fit the crime."
"Marilyn,
you're a genius!" Mrs. Hansen offered in admiration.
The
women returned to the living room and called the boys over.
"The
way you came to the door gave us an inspiration for an appropriate
punishment. For
the rest of today and all of tomorrow, your clothing privileges are
suspended. You
will not hide in your rooms. You may go there only to sleep.
You'll be out
here in your birthday suits with the rest of the family, and
whoever might
visit, and will help with the chores to keep yourselves busy. Any
questions?"
After
cowering naked before a couple dozen guffawing chidren, they found that
their
punishment didn't sound so severe. Their calm acceptance of their fate
was
aided by their total exhaustion.
"Mom,
Huck and I are really tired," said Tom, his eyes half closed. "Can we
take a nap now?"
"Yes,
but not in your room," said Mrs. Fredericksen. "Grab yourselves
pillows and sack out on the carpet."
The
boys did as they were told and were almost immediately asleep.
"Like
angels. Like little cherubs," Mrs. Hansen whispered to Mrs.
Fredericksen
as they returned to the kitchen.
"How
about I keep the two of them with me for the rest of today, and you can
have
them all day tomorrow?" suggested Mrs. Fredericksen.
"Sounds
fine to me," said Mrs. Hansen.
"Wait'll
they find out they have to mow the lawn tonight!" Mrs. Fredericksen
said
with a giggle.
"Would
you really make them do it naked?" asked Mrs. Hansen with raised brow.
"I
would if I could get away with it," Mrs. Fredericksen replied. "But I
don't think the mothers with little girls would look too
kindly on two
sets of genitalia on display. It'll be all right to have them do the
back yard
bare. For the front, I'll let them talk me into letting them wear
speedos,
which I will confiscate, of course, the minute they're back inside.
You've seen
the length of boys' shorts these days. In speedos they'll feel plenty
bare. You
should come over and join me on the patio tonight. We'll sit and drink
iced tea
and look at their cute little bodies while they work."
"Sounds
like a great idea," said Mrs. Hansen. "I'll be there."
"No
speedos when I send them your way tomorrow morning. It's only a couple
houses
and across the street. I'll make them streak," said Mrs. Fredericksen
with
a giggle.
"Call
me before they set out," said Mrs. Hansen. "I want to watch."
"Sure
thing," said Mrs. Fredericksen.
" Tomorrow's
laundry day at our household, said Mrs. Hansen. " I'll have
them
hauling basketloads of things to hang on the clothes lines in back. And the hedges back there
definitely could use
trimming. And while they're inside doing odd chores, I'm sure Huck's
kid sister
and brother will have great fun. They'll probably invite
friends over. Yes,
red faces and cute buns. What a great combination!"
(The End)