Floor Boys (Male World Order: part 5)
**This story is a work of fiction and all characters, events, and locations described in it are purely fictional. No resemblance or connection to any living or deceased person or real-world event or location is intended.**
**This story contains descriptions of intergenerational sex and forced labor. If this offends you, do not read further.**
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"Seriously, Sir, I'm begging you. She will flip out on me if the beef and broccoli aren't in two separate scoops or piles or whatever," said the anxious head-shaved fellow in the white t-shirt and silky white short shorts to the weary-eyed older man behind the counter. "She will LOSE HER SHIT! She will burn down Sutton Place. They can be next to each other, but they can't be mixed."
"All right, all right, get a hold of yourself" replied Seventh Beta Jason Tseng before ducking into the kitchen to clarify the instructions on the order. "It'll be a minute," he said returning. "NEXT!"
The fellow in the white t-shirt and silky white short shorts stepped aside, and another young man in a white t-shirt and silky white short shorts approached the counter.
"Dude, hey, calm down. I don't you or this lady, but what the fuck can she do to YOU? Demote you?" HB9(I) Justin Campbell chuckled. "You new or something?"
"Hello, Sir. I'm here to pick up an order for Trantwell," Justin said, turning to B7 Tseng. Outside, another young man in identical white t-shirt and shorts passed, his shaved scalp catching the late afternoon sun.
Any tourist to the city paying attention could see an army of such boys speed-walking the streets and ducking in and out of restaurants and bodegas and dry cleaning shops, or cycling around laden with parcels. To Manhattanites themselves, they had largely become invisible. Part of the background noise of an already noisy city.
Such white-shorted boys could be found all across the country, in big cites and small towns. Doing domestic work in suburban homes in Indiana or high rise condos in Miami. Meatier ones could be found working on oil rigs or fishing vessels or factories (though often in more substantial uniforms as per OSHA rules -- always pure white -- the color of boyhood). A great many worked on farms. But New York seemed to have gotten a double-helping of these lads in shorts, and in New York they were called "floor boys."
They were indentured servants stuck in a legal limbo between childhood and manhood, in terms as short as six months or as long as twelve years.
Upon graduating high school, Justin's Primary Occupational Masculinity Assessment had determined he was not masculine enough to look after himself -- physically, mentally, or emotionally (among other factors in the score). This had nothing to do with his being an "h-neck" or registered homosexual. Male Assessment considered masculinity profile and Kinsey score to be quite unrelated things. There were perfectly heterosexual boys who scored low on masculinity and complete homosexuals who scored high.
Though Justin Campbell had just turned 19, he was still considered a minor until he was 25. It was believed a seven-year term of work would help ready him for the world. His employer; DrB3 Donovan Trantwell, PhD; was legally Justin's guardian. Trantwell paid the government for Justin's services. It was about half as expensive as hiring a paid servant. The government kept about 10% of it. The rest, plus interest, would be paid out to Justin in a lump sum upon his accession to legal manhood.
Often these arrangements resulted in a strong bond of dominance and submission, and the servants stayed on as paid employees after their term of indenturement was complete. But if Trantwell and Justin decided it was not a permanent fit, Justin would be given free housing for life in a public men's dormitory, provided he remained employed at least 30 hours a week. He also would have the option of residing with immediate family, as long as they did not charge rent. B8 and below were strictly prohibited from paying rent or owning residential property.
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Upon entering the service door of the spacious 1920s 3-bedroom, Justin removed his shoes and doffed his shirt and shorts, hanging them on a hook by the door. Justin usually remained nude in the apartment, as was established custom for servants when no women were in residence. On rare occasions Dr. Trantwell's mother came to visit, Justin put his shorts and shirt back on. They were designed to be quickly put on and taken off.
Justin was 5'9", and slight of frame. Puberty had brushed past him lightly, leaving only the faintest impression. His genitals were small and compact. He was nearly hairless except for a thin strip of light brown pubic hair arching over the base of his demure cocklet. At 19, he still had no armpit hair. He had an ever-so-slightly feminine curve to his hips and slight plumpness of his chest tissue. It had taken time, but Justin's smooth-shaved scalp had finally evened out with the rest of his skin tone. He had a golden tan complexion, his face sun-kissed with freckles, and his nipples and genitalia were quite brown.
Justin knocked on the bedroom door. Much like a nurse, he opened it before a response could be given. "Sir, Sir, I've got the food you wanted." Crispy Peking duck and a strawberry-vanilla Freezi. The red and white swirls of the icy drink glowed back-and-forth and there was a sparkling effect where they had begun to melt together.
Dr. Trantwell was in bed, unshaven, hair grown out of regs. Gut out of regs. He was wearing an old, stained Columbia sweatshirt and his pajama bottoms were around his thighs. A lemon cigarette was burning in an ashtray by to the bed, next to a nearly empty bottle of Canadian Club.
The good doctor's attentions were focused on the television, which was currently displaying contraband lesbian pornography from the 1990s. Dr. Trantwell had obtained a black-market disc of the internet archives.
"Just put it on the nightstand," Trantwell instructed, without pausing the long, slow strokes of his swollen uncut 8-incher.
Justin noted the blanket already had several semen stains in various stages of the drying process. Trantwell had been at this awhile. He cleared room on the nightstand and put the translucent beige EcoStyrene food containers down. He then took the bamboo-paper bag the food had come in and began to pick up the room.
Trantwell was quite used to Justin and didn't mind the intrusion on his privacy. Justin was a good, submissive boy. Hard working and obedient. The better they are, the less you notice them. As DrB1 Bruce Trantwell, his father, used to say: "the very best servies are invisible altogether."
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HB9(i) Justin exited the service door and took the trash down the hall to the chute. He didn't bother to dress. Exiting the trash room, he ran into B10 Lincoln Suarez, the paid servie of the apartment next door.
"How's it goin' man?"
"I'm pretty good"
"How's your Thirbida?," Lincoln asked, his Arkansas roots showing. 'Thirbida' originated in New Orleans as a term for "Third Beta" alongside 'Sibida' (B6), 'Vebida' (B7), 'Nybida' (B9), and others. Usage of the terms had spread rapidly through the Southeast and was not considered at all disrespectful there.
In the North, it was more common to just say 'Third' without the beta. On the West Coast, saying 'bee three' was the norm.
However you prefer to say it, Justin's Third Beta was not doing so great.
"He's great!"
"If you've got time off this weekend, there's gonna be a lower-beta POPup Pub in the park, wanna go?"
"Sounds fun, but I'll have to check with my Third."
"All right man, lemme know!," Lincoln started down the hall.