Happy holidays everyone. Here's your present; your future is up to you.
--Ellen
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A beach house in dunes near Provincetown, at the tip of Cape Cod, in early June. Escorted by Carleton Beauregard Chapman.
For followers of my life-in-porn, there is a tie-in, here. My story, "I Become the First Dick-less Deke."
This was my sophomore year at the women's coordinate college of a university in Rhode Island. I happened, through a guy, to see the Deke house, decided no more girl's dorm for me; this was how I was going to spend my college years.
After some negotiation with the terrifying head of Dike, Ashley Bloker (known to all as "Tiny" Bloker), I was in. I had a room. I was a DKE dark secret, enforced by Tiny terror. I made a lot of their meals. I worked out with the guys in the house's gym and showered with them. They grew accustomed to my face. A few times, I dilated my birth canal painfully but ultimately ecstatically accommodate "Tiny."
Early in June, two weeks before the semester's end, a DKE asked me to the Cape for the weekend. He had a car. Also, expensive clothes. Also, an Alabama accent, six feet of lean muscle, blond hair. I thought of the "other" Ashley, in "Gone with The Wind."
His father was a judge in Birmingham. He had been graduated from a secondary-level military academy in Georgia, was a semi-pro tennis player. A natural DKE.
Funny thing, I knew him from "around." Served him at dinner. Saw him in the gym, halls, library. But never in the showers. Most other DKEs had seen all 5'6" and 115 pounds of me, my perfect pale skin, my 32C breasts with slightly too large and dark nipples, my jet-black untrimmed pussy mop, and my pretty face with arched eyebrows, dramatic brown eyes, and a pixie haircut. But not Carl (a.k.a. CBC)—yes, he was named after Pierre, Gustav Toutant-Beauregard, the first prominent general in the Confederate States Army.
You know: "You may talk about your Beauregard, or sing of General Lee, but the Yellow Rose of Texas is the only gal me."
When he asked me, I blinked. As a sophomore girl of that era, I hadn't had many weekend (want-to-sleep-with-me?) dates. Carl said, "Ah jus lak t'have a lady 'long f'stahle."
DKEs amused themselves imitating Carl's "stahle," but not to his face. You could not help echoed him in your head as he spoke. Not going to make this a dialect story, though.
Carl pitched the weekend: "Nice beach house, quiet this time of year, Provincetown's real pretty in spring..." He added, "Yuh git yuh own baidroom..."
I gave him my 10-power smile and smoldering brown eyes. "Sounds wonderful!"
"Git t'know yuh, Ellen," he said, and smiled.
Weekend comes. Packed and ready by end of classes Friday (there still were Saturday morning classes, then, but we all tried not to schedule them).
Beauregard has brought his Roadster (not really, just a nice Toyota Camry) from some garage and parked outside the gate of the quad on Waterman Street. Gorgeous afternoon. White and yellow daffodils blooming in the front plots of the fraternities in Wriston Quad.
Less than two hours by Route 195 from Providence to the Bourne Bridge. But then that long again to Provincetown. No traffic, at least not compared with real summer. You know what they say in New England, "No one goes to the Cape, anymore. It's too crowded."
Nice to zip past pine forests, then dunes, clam bars still shuttered, glimpses of the bay or sea.
"No idea who'll be here," said Carl. I liked how his tennis arms steered the Toyota and his hair blew. Not a convertible, but the windows were open. He had blue eyes, on the pale side, like his complexion; it made him seem to gaze at the horizon or into the future like Lee after Appomattox. ("He seemed to look far into the tragic past and far into the tragic future...")
"Just mah friend from back home, studying in Boston—music conservatory. He's doing a party; first weekend of the season. Summer rental."
We reach a beach house. Big, two-story. End of a winding road through dunes, up a steep driveway. Driftwood grey house, colonial blue roof shingles and shutters, white porch with a view of rolling dunes and stunted pines, the sea a quarter mile away.
I never saw weekend trouble start so fast.
Carl's friend hadn't arrived. Only two guys from Boston, studying theater, I learned. I sensed right away they were supposed to be a "couple," but one, Jim, seemed about sophomore level, and the other, Steve, about senior. Nice to have an age spread in a couple when you get older.
As soon as Jim saw Carl and heard his Dixie accent, he began ragging him. I psyched-out that Jim was attracted to Carl, but annoyed at his macho southern style. Or maybe I made up all this afterward, in the psychiatric hospital, to explain everything...
Also, Jim was from D.C., both parents in government. He was "full of himself," which I don't mind if you don't lay it on too heavy.
Jim laid it on with a trowel. Has anybody not heard, yet, that the leftish, politically correct, "connected" northern liberal sees southerners as gun-toting, backwoods, slave-whopping, coon hunters? Yup, everybody has heard.
Jim had short black hair, firm jaw, sensitive eyes, a good build that was a little stocky. He swaggered, following us upstairs to check out where the country hicks were putting their things. His friend, Steve, quiet, rolled his eyes, ruefully shook his head, said nothing.
It took until dinner and drinks for the spring-loaded tension to wind up to the max. and some drinks to pull the trigger. Jim and Steve came back from the beach in damp bathing suits, carrying towels. I pursued my hobby, assessing the shapes beneath bathing suits. No curled-up iguanas like Tiny Bloker carried in his underwear. But I wasn't into size, still am not. I could see some promising outcroppings and ridges. Maybe things would get to nude sunbathing tomorrow. Or a nude beach.
Some coded language flew back and forth about gays, their unimaginable sophistication, "bigots," "bashing," guys "doing it," girls "doing it. This young man was obsessed!
My guess? He might have had a few ultra-sensitive "experiences" with the like-minded and sensitive. But he didn't want to come across that way to some pretentious scion of southern plantation owners.
It was all one way, with Carl saying little, Jim becoming more frustrated and aggressive, Carl's cool blue eyes revealing little. But that message was making Jim crazy.
Jim said, dismissively, "A southerner no more would have gay sex than do it with a pig." Sort of a laugh. "Well, not sure about with the pig..."
Carl's half-closed eyes assessed. He was relaxed. I expected his fists to clench or something. He had said almost nothing, but the first words out his mouth almost made me spill my Chardonnay. I had changed into a two-piece bathing suit, by now. I like beaches, I like men to notice me, I like my torso, and my long legs are my hottest feature. I mean, I could have a sexy weekend without a written invitation to fuck Carl.
Steve started to speak, realizing Jim had not a clue about who Carl really was. Or how he might react. And so, Steve and Carl started speaking at the same time. Too late for Steve. Carl simply raised his volume—like a lawyer who talks over you. Once he had decided to speak, he was going to speak.
"Jimbo, Ah'm more or less up for anything, wonce..."
Jim waved his hand in histrionic dismissal and made a face. "You have no idea, Carl. It's not your little world. You probably think it's all artsy. You ever hear of the 'rough trade'?"
Give me a break! Jim? Where did he read about that? In a history of the West Village 60 years ago?
Carl said slowly, thoughtfully, "Ah been to New Orleans... Yeah, there's rough trade. Not like once..."
"Oh, you have no idea." Jim fired all possible body language of derision and ridicule. "Show me 'rough trade'!"
This was awful! Let's leave! Mostly, I was watching Carl. Guess what, he didn't telegraph his punches—so to speak. I did learn one thing. Never insult a Southern cavalier and take your eyes off of him.
I did not see Carl's move, his foot come off the floor. I just heard an awful "thock"—a thud—and I saw Carl's foot between Jim's bare legs, smashing the contents of the maroon bathing suit's crotch up into Jim's lower belly.
I was not, am not, a "hardened" woman. I had never seen anything like this. I leaped to my feet. My wine slopped. I started forward and stopped. I blinked back tears... Flashback to my family fighting.
An ungodly shriek! Like a woman with her belly slit open with a razor blade. Or some terror-crazed animal. Jim's body had whipped over, hands at his balls, half-shrieking, half-sobbing. I never saw anyone's face so red. He was breathing as though he had run a marathon.
He dropped to his knees with a "thunk." Then, he rolled over onto the floor and squirmed like a cut worm, sobbing: "No! My nuts! No, no! My nuts!"
Was I supposed to go to him? Or what? Now that I think back, I know I wasn't turned on. Thank God.
I glanced at Carl, alarmed that my count had become a large bat with long canines. My eyes must have been round with shock.
Carl was standing at ease. Head slightly cocked, pale blue eyes studying the agonized, shattered man on the floor. At the same moment, Steve had leaped up from the couch and was coming at Carl! Shit! No more weekend dates!
Carl turned and I saw his body subtly prepare to meet Steve. Otherwise, his expression, his eyes, did not change. "You fucker!" yelled Steve. "I'll kill you..."
Was Steve going to get his package smashed, too?
Nope. Carl's lean right tennis arm curved around in a punch that hit Carl's chin. I still can't get the sound out of my mind. I figured that did it. But Carl hit him again, so fast I barely saw it. This time in the solar plexus.
Jim writhing as though on a hot frying pan, clutching his balls, face red and wet with tears. Steve lying flat on his back trying to breathe, or vomit, or in convulsions.
I should have been an ER nurse.
I do nothing. Carl takes two long strides, grabs Jim by the hair, flips him like a sack onto his stomach. Then, his hand grabs the top of Jim's bathing suit and hauls it down with one terrific yank over Jim's cute, firm white ass, with sleek black hair on his butt and in a darkly mysterious butt crack. Hmm, I am getting off on this. I know, disgusting!
Jim screams, pleading, both hands grabbing his bathing suit. What? That important? What happened to his crushed nuts? He is squealing, "No, no, please, please!"
A girl never saw his penis? His grip is hopeless against Carl, who is half-lifting Jim's whole lower body as he tears the bathing suit off and flings it away. Jim has been heaved onto his back. Now, his crying is totally different.
Awww... My heart begins to soften. He is embarrassed to death at his exposed penis and balls. What the hell is this? What about the "rough trade"?
He won't take his hands off his ball and penis. He is weeping, now.
No mercy from Carl. He looks around, grabs a small lamp, yanks it so hard that its cord pops from the plug. Drops the lamp, which smashes, and grabs the cord. He's going to have to pay the bill when he checks out.
All right. Let's take moment, here. My nice Ivy League weekend date in a Cape Cod beach house with other nice college kids and my handsome, super-refined Southern cavalier, has morphed into Gitmo's interrogation rooms. My date obviously is a hardened CIA operative.
Bottom line: Is there anything I can do?
Take on Carl? Sorry, I forgot to load my Mauser. Appeal to the better angels of his nature?