Chapter 2: Admittance
Kelsey pulled her car up alongside the little gravel clearing that existed outside the east side of Licension Manor. She was surprised to see hers was the only car there and not for the first time she thought about just ignoring the invitation and the party. The incident with Helen still burned inside her. All she had felt was regret at ruining the moment -- there was no satisfaction in denying her own needs. She didn't plan on going crazy. But she did want to let go just once, to misbehave, maybe to fool around before things got too heavy. That's what burned inside her as she decided to get out of her car and head toward the old manor house on the outskirt of the town.
She checked again the invitation to make sure she had come to the right place. Scrawled underneath the first line inviting to her to the party was a series of instructions. The dress code was "natural" which she stared at in her bedroom and then decided it must have meant "causal." She pulled on a pair of figure-hugging jeans and a purple top. The top was the most daring she owned. It showed just a hint of the cleavage of her perky, dark breasts. Underneath the dress code were the words:
Arrive from the east. Leave your carriage at the clearing and walk toward the wall -- the guardsman will be there to welcome you if you welcome him with oral salutations.
Kelsey rolled her eyes at the instructions. Whoever had set up the party was really sticking to the historical theme. Kelsey wondered which student had managed to gain access to the old house. She didn't know much about it except that Licension Manor was abandoned and had been abandoned for at least a hundred years. The walled-off estate was a great sprawling barrier between the town and the wild untamed forest that hikers liked to disappear into in summer. She briefly thought that it might be too dangerous to go, that maybe they'd all be trespassing, but Kelsey decided that an entire high school couldn't be arrested. She was sure someone at her school had arranged a final big send-off party before summer and everyone separating to go to different colleges next year.
The sun was already setting and Kelsey shivered a little at the dark gathering around her. She walked a little quicker through the trees and down the path, glad that she could see the wall of the estate in front of her. There was a gate directly in front of her and in the middle of that gate was a figure. Kelsey waved a hand in greeting and then blushed when she realized the figure wasn't moving. She had tried to wave at a statue. Now she was glad no one was around to see her. However as she neared the statue her blush only deepened, her face growing hot as she caught full sight of the figure in front of her.
The statue was a part of the gate in front of her. It made up the middle of the entrance, locking the two sliding metal fence pieces in place. While the fence was metal, the figure had been carved from stone and was taller than Kelsey, definitely over six foot. Its arms were wrapped around each piece of the fence as if keeping it together, and its legs were spread out to give it a strong stance. It was a him. The strong cut of the statue's jaw and its muscular figure might have given it a way, but there was a more obvious sign. The statue was completely naked and sporting a thick, mighty erection. A stone cock jutted out from its groin, smooth and grey in the moonlight. It seemed to point directly at Kelsey in a way that made her stomach flutter. Her eyes just stared at the stone shaft for a minute, her tongue moving to run along her bottom lip, before she recovered herself.
"Hi!" Kelsey yelled out. Maybe there was an intercom somewhere. The sound echoed through the empty ground. "Hi! Let me in please!"
Nothing happened. She looked around, trying to find some sort of buzzer. Feeling her face burn with embarrassment, she moved closer to the statue, her head perilously close to the stone cock, trying to see if the intercom was hidden in an obscene place. She looked down at her invitation again. Two words jumped out at her:
oral salutations
. Her eyes widened as she realized what that meant. This time Kelsey spun on the spot trying to spot the cameras that must have been hiding to view this sight. "You sick bastards," she yelled, feeling her anger and shame rising up. "Fuck off and your dumb party."
Kelsey took three steps back toward her car before she paused. Everyone was probably inside the house already having a great party and she was excluded because of her sexual hang-ups. Whoever was watching waiting to let her in was probably rolling their eyes:
there's frigid Kelsey, being a prude again
. If the incident with Helen hadn't happened, maybe Kelsey wouldn't have cared. But now it was a nerve that was being prodded. "I'll show you frigid," she muttered under her breath as she turned on the spot and marched right back over to the statue.