When I was a young man in college I was obsessed with balloons. After school I would race home to my secret stash, which was covertly hidden under a shelf in my closet. Many of my finest balloons were kept there, and upon greeting them every day, I would rub them softly and tell them how sorry I was for keeping them locked away. In my head I could hear their anguish; they implored me to release them to the free world, to save them from the dreariness of the dank closet. Instead, I would pull them out one-by-one and make love to them feverishly.
I didn't care that they cried when I ravaged them. There was something erotic about their helplessness, the way they seemed to deflate in order to get away from my three-inch erection. Emasculation was something I understood quite well. If they could understand it also...then maybe I wouldn't feel so alone. Growing up horny and afraid in PV made me value the subtly of connection. My understanding was that if you couldn't find it with other human beings, you could very well find it with the balloons locked away in your room.
Still, there was something missing. I wanted the cloying, needy feeling I had with my balloons to be more than masturbatory; I wanted it to be real. Suffice to say, my urge to procreate was the driving force behind my behavior, and to be honest, I was pretty embarrassed of that.
I deserved better. My balloons deserved better. Most of all, my sister deserved better. She and my bubbe had been instructing me on the art of balloon-making for months, and if they knew that I was fucking the balloons rather than learning from them, they would never speak to me again. Basically, I was fucked if I couldn't get myself under control. The look on my sister's face (surely mortification mixed with sorrow, splashed with a touch of fear) would have ruined me. It would have left me with a limp cock for all eternity.
So I set out to change things. I was finished fucking my helium-infused lovers like prostitutes off the street. It was time for me to become a decent person, which could only happen if I set my balloons free. I didn't trust myself around them anymore; one glance would turn into desire, then lust, then my cock in their tiny air-holes.
The first chance I got, I rode my scooter down to the adult orphanage on 7th street. I planned on giving every variation of balloon I had to the fucks, then make my way to the corner store for a pack of sweets. Maybe even flirt with the cashier a little while I was at it β he was a hot rod, that Johnny. But fate had something else in store.
Only a couple feet away from the orphanage was this red-headed bimbo who went by the name of Kyle β we all knew him as Queen Kate, of course, though never to his face. On the day I was to return the balloons, I ran into him standing just outside the entrance, as always. Except this time, he didn't descend with his usual greeting, which was to honk my dick ferociously. Rather, he pulled me in close as if to tell me a secret.
"I know what's in your backpack," he said. "Those are balloons, right? Well, rumor on the street is that there's a magic remedy for making them take you wherever it is that you want to go."
"Do tell," I said, with just a hint of horniness.
"Queefs," he replied simply. "Never you mind how I know, but I swear to you there is a magic man round the corner who has harnessed their power, and can replicate the effects of transportation for those who are worthy. Seek him out I dare say, but best do it quickly. He is not a man to be kept waiting." With that, he turned around and hurried in the opposite direction, not even giving me one of his customary dick-squeezes before leaving.
Thoroughly put off, I waddled off into the orphanage, intent on fulfilling my original purpose. All around me the crazies were singing, lulling me in with a chorus as sweet as a siren's song. I knew they wanted the balloons as badly as I wanted to get rid of them, so I dropped them at my feet and prepared to make an exit. Saying a quick, tearful goodbye, I was finally ready to leave my dark past behind me.
However, something was not quite right. I could sense it as clearly as I could sense my boyfriend's vaginismus, or my own hereditary alopecia. There was a stink on the wind, and for once, it wasn't mine. With the entirety of my hackles pointed towards the apparent danger, which I could tell was of the most frightening nature, I steeled myself for whatever was to come.
"Dylan, you get the hell away from them this instant!" To my chagrin, it was none other than my parol officer Ted, who happened to run the orphanage when he wasn't busy busting sycophants like me for petty theft and minor sex crimes.