David's Ordeal
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Copyright Oggbashan September 2005
The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary; the settings and characters are fictitious and are not intended to represent specific places or living persons.
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LADIES NIGHT OUT......... David was having a quiet drink in a local club one night when a group of attractive ladies out on the town for a 'girls night out' entered the bar. It appeared they had already been celebrating for some time and were looking to have more fun as the night went on...
Every other man in the club was with a partner or in a mixed group. I was the only obvious single male. The ladies descended on me like a pack of hounds that had cornered their prey. One sidled up to me and asked:
"Are you all on your own?"
I nodded.
"So are we. What's your name? I'm Deb."
"David."
"Well David, it's like this. We are celebrating Anna's forthcoming marriage this weekend. We're a Hen party but we are bored without male company. Could you help?"
I nearly choked on my drink as the eight women gathered around, cutting me off from the rest of the club. What an opportunity.
"Perhaps, Deb. It depends what you have in mind. I'm just an ordinary man, not an entertainer."
"Ordinary will do very well, David. Won't it, Anna?"
Anna was wearing a short bridal veil over a cream ball gown with the largest skirt I had seen in a long time. She nodded. She looked as if she had already drunk a little too much.
"Then the bride-to-be agrees, so it's up to you, David. Would you join us ladies in the small function room for some fun and games? The drinks would be on us."
How could I refuse?
"I would be delighted," I replied.
"You will be, David, you will be. Come on."
Deb took my hand and dragged me across the club's dance floor to the door of the small function room. The other women surrounded me. I doubt that anyone noticed me in the crush. My legs were caressed by their long skirts as they hustled me across the club. All of them were wearing bridesmaids' dresses or similar gowns. I was becoming excited by the attention I was getting. Once inside the function room, that was dimly lit by coloured wall lights, I noticed Deb lock the door. She saw me watching.
"We don't want to be interrupted by drunken slobs, do we?"
"No, we don't." several women replied.
"OK. Now we are here we have some games to play. David, will you please stand in the centre of the room β there."
"OK, Deb."
I stood where I'd been shown.
"Ladies! These are the rules for this game. David has to try to reach either of the doors at each end of the room. If he does, he gets a drink. If he doesn't, we all get a drink and the one who stops him gets two drinks. OK so far?"
"I think I'll sit this one out, Deb," Anna said feebly.
"OK, Anna, you can sit here and be the referee."
"Everyone else, David has to get to either door on his hands and knees. You have to stop him but only with your legs and skirts. No hands, no body, just legs and skirts. If you can trap him under your skirt and hold him there for ten seconds β he has lost. If he gets out in under ten seconds he can continue. OK?"
Everyone nodded.
"David and I will demonstrate first. David, on your hands and knees, please."
I dropped to my hands and knees.
"Now crawl towards me. Don't try to miss me. I want to show how this works."
I started crawling towards Deb. She grabbed her full skirt and lifted it up. I kept crawling and she let me crawl under her raised skirt. She spread her legs astride my crawling body and scissored around me. Her stockinged legs were firmly grasping me.
"Now he is trapped. As long as my legs can keep him for ten seconds then he will lose. Even if he escapes from between my legs he has to get out from under my skirt, and he can't use his hands."
Deb dropped the front of her skirt. I was completely hidden and in the dark. Deb's skirt was heavy, dark blue with a darker lining, and held out by a single hooped petticoat. I was inside the petticoat with at least three layers between the others and me. I could scent Deb's perfume, her natural one and the one she was using. I felt that I could enjoy being under Deb's skirt.
"While he is trying to lift the hem of my skirt with his head, I can try to trap him between my legs again. Even if I don't catch him with my legs if he's not out from under MY skirt within ten seconds then he has lost. David? Can you try to get out starting from when I say 'One'? Anna will count the rest of the seconds. Ready?"
My 'Yes' was muffled as it came out from under Deb's skirt.
"One!"
Deb's skirt heaved and shook as I struggled to free myself from her legs. When I was free from her legs I fell forwards into her skirt. I tried to move it away with my head. The petticoat's hoop was tucked underneath my chin and all I was doing was bagging my head deeper in the folds of the skirt. I pulled back, scuttled around and managed to get my head just visible before Anna's counting reached 10.
"OK. David escaped that time. You can lift your skirts. You can drop your skirts. What you can't do is this."
Deb grabbed the hem of her skirt, hauled it up and over my head, then pulled it around me. Her arms wrapped around the bundle, holding me tightly wrapped between her skirts and petticoat.