"Loose" Lucy was more friendly than anything else, but that's not how alliteration works. She lived with her seven over-affectionate brothers and under-affectionate father, Paul Revere, above the family silver smithery. Her brothers were burly boys with curly black chest hair and muscles. She was small and dainty with long golden locks and a warm smile. Lucy loved attention, so even when the boys hugged her until her joints cracked, she didn't ask them to stop—not ever, not once.
Not when the youngest, George, caught her alone and tickled her until she was breathless with laughter. Not when the next older brother John pinched her bottom while she was preparing his dinner, she dropped his plate, and it made an awful mess. When Lucy saw the spy hole troublesome Thomas drilled in the shower wall, she blushed but didn't plug it up. The James twins (they had the same name since no one could tell them apart) routinely stole Lucy's unmentionables, and she didn't mention it. The other brother John made her give him kissing practice behind the shed, which just caused her to giggle uncontrollably. And then, in the communal bed, when she felt the rough hand of Andrew the eldest, creeping up her thighs, she closed her eyes tight and pretended to snore.
When Paul saw his daughter's virtue crumbling, he took matters into his own hand and bent her ample bottom over the anvil for a spanking.
"Oh!" said Lucy under his stern discipline, "eek!" And her seven brothers, watching from where they stood in a row, cringed sympathetically as her pert bottom turned pink and then purple. But a moment after he finished and she stood, her luminous smile shone through the tears and sobs, and everyone knew "Loose" Lucy was just as friendly as ever.
Gossip about Lucy's friendliness grew and grew until her father, Paul, feared her reputation would prevent her from finding a husband. A month and a day before her marriageable age, he appealed to the village priest for help. Paul led Lucy gently but firmly to the old stone chapel on the outskirts of town. From the curacy office, she heard a stream tinkling through an open window, and bird calls from on the old oak outside. "I'm looking for a mate!" chirped a sparrow. "Let's fuck!" advertised a bluebird. "Tweet tweet," heard Lucy.
"Bless you, my daughter." said the priest.
"Bless me, Father," said Lucy. "For I have sinned."
"Carry on," encouraged Father Karras trying not to notice her cute stub nose splashed with freckles or where her cleavage had outpaced the size of her bodice.
"It has been a long time since my last confession," confessed Lucy. "My brother George holds me down, pinches and strokes me until I can't breathe for the tickling."
"That's no sin," replied the priest.
"But father," replied Lucy, "Every morning, I wait for him in the bedroom alone where I know he'll find me. His touch gives me a delightful tingle!" Father Karras coughed uncomfortably, and she continued. "And my brother John pinches me on the bottom every chance he gets."
"But surely you can't help that he pinches you," said the father.
"But I lean forward over the kitchen sink to tempt him," countered poor Lucy turning red with embarrassment. "A couple of brotherly tweaks and a pat, and I can barely walk straight for hours." Karras shifted in his seat, setting his tablet over his lap to conceal his unprofessionalism. "And troublesome Thomas, he spies on me naked through a hole in the bathroom."
"But surely you didn't drill it for him, my child," said Karras with a sinking suspicion she might have.
"No, of course not," said Lucy. But when I see his handsome brown eyes looking at me, I lather long and hard, giving him the best show I can." The poor priest was turning red in the face and sweating as he tried to remember his vows.
"The Jameses, they steal my panties," she continued. The priest struggled to reply, but the words stuck in his throat. "And I know where to find them, but being bare down there is so deliciously naughty—I feel a draft teasing me right now."
"Me, dear," exclaimed the priest, "this has to stop!"
"That's not the worst of it," said Lucy. "The other John tosses me over his shoulder and carries me behind the shed for kissing practice. I try to struggle and squeak, but when I feel his hardness through his trousers, I can't help myself. I grasp it with both hands to feel its heat."
She wanted to tell him how soft and luscious she felt as Andrew molested her in the night. How deliciously indecent it was to be in a bed with her father and brothers as he traced the shape of her breasts through her shift while he thought she slept. But the pious man couldn't take it anymore. "Out! Out!" he shouted, pointing at the door. "I adjure you, depart!!"
Lucy followed the cobblestone road back through the village trying her best to feel obediently contrite for upsetting the priest. But the sun was shining, the little stream beside her was burbling cheerfully, and the shopkeepers were setting up colorful booths for the upcoming fall festival. She resolved to head straight home like a good girl and managed not to stop and look at the pretty blue dirndls, even though she'd outgrown her own in the spring. She barely glanced through the cobbler's window even though her own shoes were beginning to split from wear. But when she saw the jolly old mayor peeking into the pet shop, the curiosity to know what he was looking at was too tempting.
"Aren't they charming," said the mayor as she stood beside him. His enormity overshadowed her small frame. Through the window squirmed a litter of golden retrievers, their coat as soft and flaxen as Lucy's locks.
"Darlings!" exclaimed Lucy wishing with all her heart she could have one. But she knew her stern father wouldn't allow it; she was all the frivolity he could stand and more.
"Pretty little things," said the mayor rolling his giant, charismatic eye to look down at her. "But a chore to train. I dare say it would take the attention of seven strong men to give one of these treasures the attention it deserves."
Deep in her stomach, Lucy felt a strange flutter, and on the edge of her consciousness, odd thoughts nipped at each other cheerfully. "Oh, but my father would never," said Lucy. "I'm handful enough for him."
"I'm sure you do your best, my dear," said the mayor patting her on the head. "Have you ever considered being your own puppy?"
Lucy looked up at him, ready to laugh at the joke, but he seemed serious. Behind the window, the little dogs yipped together at the shopkeeper. "I'm sorry?" she said.
"Be your own puppy," repeated the mayor as though it were the most natural thing in the world. "You seem like a girl who enjoys petting." Lucy reddened a little, but she couldn't deny it. "And being the center of attention?" he asked. She nodded. "And maybe your father feels you need a little training?" he kept going, making her answer a new question with every breath she took.