This is another one of my stories based upon a well-known traditional fairy tale.
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Chapter 1
Scarlet Hood lived with her parents on a remote farm in the heart of the Black Forest area of Germany. As a youngster, she had gone to the school in the local village five miles away. She had to walk there and back β no matter what the weather.
At home, her mother taught her how to cook and sew, while her father taught her about the animals. The farm was small, but they kept a variety of livestock on the various areas of pasture and hillside. Sheep, goats and cows were maintained, along with a reasonably sized flock of chickens. By the farmhouse Mrs. Hood had a small vegetable garden. It didn't by any means supply all of their needs, but helped to eke out the family's limited income.
Most families in the region tended to be fairly large, but Helmut and Magrit had only been blessed with the one daughter. While they tried (very diligently) for more children, somehow it just never happened. It was certainly something that they would never dream of mentioning to the village Doctor β even if they could afford to see him, which they couldn't.
Magrit had originally lived with her own parents on the other side of the nearby forest, but having been courted by the handsome, young Helmut from across the valley; she had married him and moved away. Her father had died some years later, but her mother remained in the little cottage. It was a relatively short distance, so the family saw her quite often throughout the year.
At eighteen, Scarlet was becoming frustrated, but she couldn't understand why. Never having been more than a dozen miles from home β to the nearest town, she hadn't seen or experienced anything different to the life she knew. Her only hope of escape was to be courted and to marry someone. Not as simple as it may seem, for there were very few eligible young men in the area. That said, she very much like Gustav, who was a woodsman in the forest nearby. She sometimes saw him as he walked close to the farm.
One hot day, as she was working in the vegetable garden, he had stopped and asked if he could have some water. She obliged readily and found that he was handsome and pleasant to talk to. Without understanding what she was doing, she began to flirt with him. From that day, he quite often came by when she was working outside and stopped to talk. Many times, she watched him as he walked away. But then came the day that she idly wondered what his backside would look like without trousers. Her face flushed immediately at the unbidden thought, colouring her face to a shade that almost matched her hair.
Her heart hammered against her ribs and she began to feel dizzy. Things were happening to her body that she couldn't understand; there was an aching in her breasts and every time she breathed she experienced delightful tickling sensations there. Staggering towards the gate for something to hold on to, she wondered if she was losing control of her bladder. There was a definite wetness between her legs. So much that she could feel a trickle running down inside the leg of her knickers.
She waited for a couple of minutes, getting her breathing under control until she no longer needed to hug the gatepost. Terrified that her Mother might see her in such a state she quickly made her way into the woods and found a hiding place that was out of sight of the farm. She collapsed on the floor amongst the leaf mould and exhaled in relief. Pretty soon she started thinking about what had happened.
Scarlet was dressed in her everyday clothes, typical for this particular area of the Black Forest. Although she wore the more colourful traditional costume to attend church, working clothes needed to be more hard wearing and less likely to show dirt. Her skirt was brown, pleated and came down to just below her knees. Her blouse of white cotton had short sleeves and was worn underneath a tight, black vollsteiff bodice.
Over the skirt was worn a white cotton apron, with a modest amount of lace adornment. On her feet she wore black shoes over white, woollen stockings. Underneath her outer clothes she had a slip, just slightly shorter than the skirt and white knee-length cotton bloomers.
Having slumped to the floor, the skirt had ridden up along with the white slip to reveal an expanse of flesh between the bottom of her knicker legs and the top of her stockings. She could feel the cool air gently caressing the fine hairs on her legs and once again felt the odd sensations she had experienced earlier. She unhooked the top part of her bodice to enable her hands to slip inside and ease the tenderness she felt there. To her surprise, the touch of her fingers brought forth even stronger reactions. She could feel how hard her nipples had become and now knew that it was the rubbing of her bodice on these that had caused the butterflies in her stomach.
She sat exploring her breasts through the thin cotton of her blouse until the trickling feeling returned between her legs. She stopped playing with her breasts and pulled her skirt and slip up further. Sure enough, there was a damp patch down there, which seemed to be growing as she watched. Experimentally, she touched a finger to the area and shivered. Her mouth fell open. Again she touched the middle of the wet spot and it made her go cross-eyed. She dared not touch the same place again for fear of fainting away, so moved her finger to contact an inch or so higher.
The effect was electrifying. She did it again, and again. Nothing in her life had prepared her for finding that her body had the ability to give itself such pleasure. She laid back and used a finger from each hand to touch both areas again. Before long she forgot about where she was, or even who she was. The delights that she was experiencing for the very first time were taking her to an entirely different place to any she had known before.
When the inevitable happened, Scarlet at first thought that she was dying β a punishment for doing something that must be so very, very wicked indeed. But then her senses began to return and she marvelled at how her body had felt. It took some time before she felt strong enough to rise to her feet and when she walked, she felt an embarrassing cold dampness in the crotch of her knickers.
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Chapter 2
Woolf Badmeister watched Scarlet as she walked unsteadily back down the pathway. My how she had grown in the last few years! From where he had been sitting in the woods, repairing one of his traps, he had been able to see the young woman through the gaps in the bushes. He wished that she had pulled her drawers down when she had masturbated, but the strands of semen hanging from the leaves in front of his diminishing cock proved that it hadn't been absolutely necessary for his pleasure.
"It's definitely time for that little chicken to be plucked," he muttered. As he dressed himself his mind wandered; how could he persuade Scarlet to drop her drawers for him?
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Gustav had noticed how much more Scarlet was flirting with him nowadays, but he hadn't let on. She did everything she could to catch his interest, but to no avail. Sure, he kept turning up and seemed to enjoy spending time talking to her, but even when she placed her arms behind herself, pushing her breasts out at him, he didn't respond at all. His eyes didn't even flicker to the developing mounds that she was so proud of.
Each time he walked away from her, Scarlet felt a yearning ache in the pit of her stomach. It wasn't love β it was lust. But she still didn't understand this.