Danny Boy, Chapter 4: Love and Danger

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What happens to love when your life has been threatened?

When I awoke, Selina was still molded to my left side, but there was another body molded to my right. By the amount of cushioning there, I could tell it had to be Lita. She must have woken up, and crawled to find the nearest bodies.

I looked around to see Cindy and Kate asleep in each others arms on one side, and Donna and Rhianna on the other.

Laying there with those two incredible bodies snuggled up to me, I didn't want to move, no matter what my bladder was telling me. Now this, I told myself, is how you would like to wake up every morning for the next hundred years or so. It was the best awakening I'd ever had.

I had awakened with a full erection, of course, but it wasn't going down, with those two lovelies and their breasts there. My bladder was starting to scream, but I still didn't want to disturb the moment. Finally, when I felt I was risking an accident by staying, I had to disengage and get up, evoking grumbles from both sides.

I stepped out of the tent, and slipped on my loafers. There was just enough light to see by. It was the very first gray light of dawn, with sunrise still a couple of hours away.

I went down to the camp latrine, then grabbed a blanket that had been left out by the fire. It was damp from the dew, but not soaked.

I threw some kindling and larger sticks onto the fireplace, where they would probably ignite after a bit. I put enough wood that it would come up into a stable fire, then took the blanket and walked over to the edge of the fire break, about forty yards away.

There was a rock there, just the right shape for sitting on, but it was a bit hard. I folded up the blanket, and it made a perfect cushion.

Sitting very still, I saw a deer come up into the break a little ways below me, and start foraging in the bushes.

I heard a sound behind me, and turned to see Lita coming up. She had a mesh top and panties on.

"Hi," I whispered, and pointed to the deer. She gasped. The deer looked up at the sound, and we stared at each other for a few seconds, before it went back to its feeding. As it did, we could see a tiny fawn, still on rickety legs, coming up to get a drink from mama.

Lita came around to in front of me, and leaned back against me. I wrapped my arms around her, to cradle her breasts as she leaned back against me. It was magical. We watched the doe and the fawn for a few more minutes, before they wandered off.

She pulled off her panties and top, climbed up onto my lap, and suddenly, we were in the position we had been in last night. "Can you put a baby in me, please?"

Now this was beginning to scare me just a bit. "You ARE on the pill, aren't you?" I said, a bit nervously.

"Oh. Sorry. Yes, I'd be deLIGHTED to give you a baby." I was finally with the program, and was kissing her passionately again. It took a few more minutes, and a bit more adjusting to find a comfortable way to do it on a rock, but soon Lita was arched back over the rock, on top of the blanket. I was standing at the base of the rock, and thrusting her hard against the rock. Her feet were pulling my buttocks into her, to make my thrusts even harder.

"Oh, my god, that's even better than last night," she moaned. "How could anything top that? Oh, my go-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-d!!! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Aaaaahhhh!" she softly cried.

Just hearing the question threw her into another orgasm, but she managed to get out an enthusiastic "yes!!" Just as she was coming down from it, I said, "here comes our baby," and cut loose.

She actually bruised herself on the rock with the violence of her reaction, she came so hard.

When she was moaning softly in relaxation, I picked her up and sat back down on the rock, holding her to me until I slipped out. She collapse against me, and I had to hold her to me to keep her from falling off. She stayed completely limp against me for another couple of minutes, then sat up, and kissed me, passionately. I was surprised to see tears on her cheeks.

"Thank you for making me a woman," she said, fervently. "I had no idea! Oh, my god, I had NO IDEA ANYTHING could be that good!"

She hiccoughed a couple of times, then sniffled, then said, "you made me complete. I never knew I was missing anything, but I was, and now I am complete. Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

After a few more kisses, she got up off of me. "I expect your legs are getting tired."

"Well, they were, but they would happily go through ten times as much for an experience like that. Thank YOU, ma'am." I said, as graciously as I could. "Let's go get the fire built up for breakfast."

"It's already going," said Kate, behind me. She had cat-footed up behind us. Like me, she was wearing loafers and nothing else.

She gave Lita a huge, loving kiss, and said, "It sounded like you had a good waking up this morning."

Lita looked back at me, where my limp (and tired) penis was responding to Kate's words. In about two more seconds, it was all the way to flagpole mode again. Lita chuckled, "it would seem so."

They both laughed, then Kate said, "keep the fire going, if you would, so we can get breakfast going in a bit."

Kate came over and kissed me as she had Lita, then said, "DID you save any for me?"

Kate was so thin, and lightly framed, and short, that making love with her was always an adventure. She was as horny as a herd of cattle, all the time, but she could bend her body in just about every way imaginable. Her beautiful A-cup breasts were always eager for more attention, but their low profile meant that it didn't matter which way she was facing or turned. She also kept her vulva completely shaved all the time, to give the best contact.

What she wanted right now was the most contact I could give her. We ended up with her belly over the top of the rock, with her head hanging a bit down the far side, and me banging into her from behind. Instead of her legs being in the usual place, however her ankles were crossed behind her neck. This managed to pull her legs and hips almost completely out of the way of her vagina, which means every thrust into her I made -- however hard I made it -- was stopped ONLY by her labia and clitoris.

She not only wanted it hard, she wanted it as fast as I could go. So, for the next twenty minutes or so, I was thrusting just as fast as my body could manage, banging my balls against her clit, and my whole pubic area against her labia.

About every two minutes or so, she went into an orgasm, which lasted about thirty seconds. The next orgasm took a little longer to appear, but went a little harder. Toward the end, she was coming so hard she started to untangle and unwind.

I finally came in her the last time, when she totally let go with her legs, and wound them around behind me. I stopped thrusting so she could feel me spurting in her. I probably did not have much to give, after Lita's performance, but she could feel it, and it gave her the hardest orgasm yet, after which she passed out.

Kate only weighed about 80 pounds, so I could flip her around and lift her up into my arms, holding her there as if she were a child. After a couple of minutes, she woke up, and smiled at me. "Now that," she said, stretching in my arms, "is the way to wake up in the morning!"

When she had finished the stretch, I kissed her, and said, "thank you for sharing your incredible body with me, and your even more incredible love."

She seemed happy, and said, "you are welcome, but don't tell me it's the same as it is with Lita or Selina."

"Look, there is no doubt that Lita's body is a work of art, and she has all the body parts that drive men crazy. True, right?"

"But this ALSO is true. There is NO WAY I could have done with Lita what I just did with you. Never. And it was WONDERFUL. True, right?"

She frowned, and took a breath to speak, and frowned again, and finally laughed, and said, "Okay, you win. True, right."

"All RIGHT! Don't EVER sell yourself short, you beautiful and incredibly sexy BABE!"

"All true. I won't say the others aren't wonderful, too, in their own way, but you have the sexy heart."

I kissed her again, then turned and began to walk toward the campfire, still carrying Kate. As I got closer, I saw that Selina was up, and I thought I saw Rhianna disappearing in the direction of the latrine. Lita was tending the fire.

After a second, Kate started squirming in my arms, and managed to reach down and check that yes, indeed, I was fully erect again. She looked at me in astonishment. "How could you be hard again after that?"

"Well, you're a hell of a sexy lady. Kissing you is enough to get any man hard."

Insufferably pleased, Kate started twisting so that I would put her on the ground. I did, and she continued the twist into a stretch, showing off her naked body for Selina, Lita, Rhianna (now coming back into the fire circle,) and especially me.

When not only I, but the others assured her she was, she wanted to celebrate by climbing back on my pole, to take advantage of the moment.

She sighed. "Yeah, it was plenty. I was stuffed, in fact, but that doesn't mean I don't want dessert."

Everyone chuckled. No one had started breakfast yet, so I got the cooler out of the car, and pulled out breakfast.

"What are you cooking for, an army?" said Rhianna. She was back in her PJs again. Selina had on her blouse, open at the front, and panties.

"No, just a bunch of teenagers getting lots of the best exercise in the mountain air," I said. "Don't worry; it won't be too much."

Breakfast was a gallon of OJ, two pounds of bacon, two dozen eggs, and three tubes of biscuits. We wrapped up the biscuits in foil packets and put them in the coals, cut the bacon into inch-long pieces and fried them all up, then dumped half the grease onto the fire, and scrambled the eggs in the other half.

By the time it was done, Cindy and Donna had rejoined the ranks of the living -- although just barely, from the looks of them.

While we were eating, the girls commented on how well they had slept, and how hungry they were, and how beautiful the morning was. They wanted to know if I had managed to recover from last night, yet. I just smiled, as I knew where the answer to that question was going to come from.

"Well, I think EVERYONE heard Lita this morning, right?" Everyone but Cindy and Donna had -- they were still out. Lita blushed scarlet.

"When he was done exhausting her this morning," Kate went on, "he was recovered enough to fuck me so hard and so long, I passed out from coming." They all looked at her. "I did. I --" she looked over at me. "How long was I out for?"

"Two minutes. I was OUT COLD for two minutes, I came so hard. I swear, he fucked me for a long time before that, too. I've never come so hard in my LIFE."

"And then, when he's carrying me back to the fire, because I'm STILL so out of it I couldn't walk to save my life, Selina notices that he still has a monster boner, just from kissing me!" She looked over at me with something akin to awe. "No wonder you're hungry."

I probably did have a third of the entire breakfast on my plate. Well, I WAS hungry, and for darn good reason.

"So," said Cindy, slowly, "last night, you squirted so much in me that I had to swallow half of it, and then it was still overflowing my mouth, but it was enough to share with EVERYONE. Then you -- did you make love to anyone else last night?"

Selina held up her hand. "Yeah, and I was VERY happy -- still am, as a matter of fact."

"Tell me true, Danny," said Selina. "What were you expecting this weekend to be?"

I laughed. "Not what it has turned out to be, THAT'S for sure!" More laughter. "I figured we'd come out here and sing, and camp, and hike, and have a great time. If you all were feeling really relaxed, maybe you'd even be up for skinny dipping this afternoon, when it gets good and hot. There is no doubt, I had fantasy dreams about coming up here and having sex in the tent with someone, but not even in my wildest fantasies, would I have guessed that all of you would relax to the extent you have."

I shook my head. "This weekend could end right now, and it will still be one of the greatest times of my entire life. I know I'm not very old right now, but somehow, I think I'll be thinking that when I'm eighty years old."

They laughed again, good naturedly, then Lita said, softly, "I think I'll be saying the same thing." Everyone got quiet at that.

"You know," said Selina, "I think I will, too. I used to dream of my knight in shining armor, who would rescue me and carry me away, but I never really thought about what that meant. I decided, some years ago, that I didn't really want to stay a virgin until I married, but every boy who saw what my body was really like went so crazy that I couldn't stand to have him near me.

"Then Danny came along, and I couldn't believe someone that kind could even exist. That he cares for everyone shines through everything he does. If someone had told me about a guy doing what he did with Lita last night, lifting a babe like her OFF of him when she was literally begging him to, well, to fuck her, I would either not believe it at all, or think he had to be gay or completely without balls.

"Yet, last night, even after I had tasted his come -- and I really liked it, by the way, and I really want to taste some more -- we made love, and by the end of it, I was seeing stars, and babies, and feeling more fulfilled and more LOVED than I've ever been in my life.

"When he came in me, I could feel every pulse, and part of me was saying, 'oh, damn, I'm on the pill,' because at that moment I REALLY wanted his baby." She looked over at me, and I could see tears on her face. "I've fallen for you, big-time, Danny. I know you'll never stop loving other ladies, but I just hope you'll always have some loving for me. I could live a thousand years, and I'll never find another man as loving as you."

I took Selina's hand, and kissed it -- that being all of her I could reach. "Thank you, Selina," I choked out. I looked around at the others.

"There is something that is worrying me," I said, "and I don't see a way out, or a solution." They all looked at me expectantly.

"I'm falling in love with all of you, too. Not just with Selina, but with Kate, and Cindy, and Lita, and yes, even Donna and Rhianna, even though you were more off by yourselves last night. You'll always be a part of me, and I hope I'll always be a part of you. I just hope I can be worthy of your love, because I know women generally don't want to share, and here I am declaring to be in love with six women!"

They gathered around, at that, for a group hug, that developed into a mutual kissing session, before we went back to finishing breakfast.

We ate every scrap of breakfast. By the time we were done, we had also finished off the entire gallon of OJ.

I described what we had to do in terms of trash, and how to clean the cast iron, and what to do to set the camp up.

"Good," she said. "Now, as much as I'd like another round with you after last night, I think Kate and Lita and I can take care of breakfast. Why don't you go back in the tent, and anyone who is left can join you in there if she feels like it?"

I saw that Cindy instantly perked up at that. She had, after all, asked to make love to me last night, and had not had a chance yet. Donna also looked happier, but Rhianna just looked troubled.

I said to Kate and Lita, "is that what you want to do?" They assured me that it was, so I got up, and saw the twins heading into the tent. Before I went in, I went over to Rhianna, took her hand, and said, "It's okay. I'd LOVE your company, but my feelings won't be hurt if you don't want to. You are also welcome to come and watch, but not to take part, if that's where you are." I kissed her on the cheek, then turned to the tent.

When I got into the tent, Cindy and Donna, both naked, were on either side of a spread-out sleeping bag in the center. They were both waiting with welcoming smiles and legs spread. I smiled and turned to zip the door closed, only to see Rhianna coming in. I held it open for her, and she said, "I'm just going to watch, okay?"

"If you don't mind," I said, "I'd like to know whether it is that you are only interested in girls, or that you are interested, but not ready to do anything with a guy, or something else."

"I'm just not ready to do anything with a guy yet," she said. "I like kissing the girls, and making love to them, but last night was the first time I've ever even kissed a guy." She paused for a moment. "It wasn't bad, I guess; it just freaked me out a little."

"Okay. Well I am sorry that I intruded on your space. I was glad to see you making love to Donna last night; it looked like you two were really getting into each other."

She blushed, then looked up and smiled at Donna, and said to me, "Yeah, I guess we were."

I turned to Cindy and Donna. "So, I'm guessing that you two have something in mind." They didn't answer, but they looked at each other and blushed, and I could tell it was significant.

I put an arm around each. "You DO have something in mind. Something for the three of us to do together, no doubt."

"Wow it must be really something. Come on, the worst that can happen is that I say I won't do it."

"Well," said Cindy, "we heard about two girls and a guy in this racy story our sister was telling us about. In the story, the guy was lying down, and the two girls sat on him." They looked at me expectantly.

I tried to imagine what they meant. "Do you mean, you'd like to have one of you sitting on my face, and one sitting on my other end? Is that what you meant?"

"Well, why didn't you just say so? Let's see. I'm guessing you'll want to be facing each other, so you can make love to each other at the same time, right?"

"Okay, I'm good with that. In fact," and I turned toward Rhianna, "if they are going to have me completely covered at both ends, Rhianna, you may want to join in making love to them. You don't ever even need to touch me. Anyway, I won't even know it if you do or you don't, so it's up to you."

I turned to Donna and Cindy. "Once whoever is sitting on my pole gets off, you can switch off with the one on my face. Shall we get started?"

I started off with a passionate kiss to Cindy, which Donna promptly joined, and it a few seconds, we were in an aggressively enthusiastic kiss. I let them develop into a full kissing session with each other, while I lay down beside Donna's hips. As she kissed her sister, she stepped over my face, and settled her pussy down on my mouth.

The last view I had of Rhianna was of her leaning forward, giving the sisters rapt attention.

I would have liked to have taken my time eating the pussy that was on my face, but the reality was that my chin was being held in place by her weight, and I really could not do anything else. Someone needed to tell Donna that "sitting on his face" was just an expression. She had her full weight on my chin. I licked, and stroked with my tongue, and poked and thrust with my tongue, but there wasn't a lot of variation.

I also couldn't hear what was going on, as Donna's thighs were muffling my ears. After a couple of minutes, I could feel a pair of labia sliding up and down the outside of my penis, gradually getting wetter as they did so. Pretty soon, they popped over the top, and I slid inside.

It was very tight, but not uncomfortably so. I supposed Cindy was getting used to it, as it took a couple of minutes before she started sliding up and down my member. It took several more minutes, during which my chin was starting to get tired, before I felt more violence coming from the one riding my penis, and I started letting myself go towards a climax. Just as I felt the fluttering of an orgasm around me, I grabbed her hips and held them there, while I pumped whatever sperm I still had into her.

I think that increased her reaction, and I thought I heard a shout, but I wasn't sure. A couple of moments after that, I felt her collapse. I was finished a couple of moments later, and let her go. I think she fell off me.

I wasn't sure, but I didn't think Donna had come. She had certainly gotten wet, but I didn't think she'd gotten there.

After another half minute or so, Donna's vulva lifted up off my face and moved back, as it was pushed out of the way by another pussy. This new one -- Cindy, I supposed -- settled down on me, and I picked up where I had left off with the other.

Cindy, it seemed, was better about where to put her weight. She was supported more on her knees, and while I could easily reach her with my mouth, she wasn't resting her full weight on my chin.

I wasn't really excited about eating out a cunt I had just come into, but there wasn't really any other way around that. I probably hadn't had much cum to give, anyway. The way this weekend was going, if she got a couple of drops, that's probably all she got.

After a moment, I felt Donna settle down on my nether end, and begin stroking up and down.

Cindy's pussy definitely tasted different from Donna. She had a lighter, sweet flavor; less musky. I liked it.

Because of how she was holding herself, I was able to do a lot more with my mouth. I could run my tongue along the outsides of her labia, and blow on the clit, and tease the clit with the tip of my tongue. I wrapped my arms around her hips and rubbed her round butt.

Maybe I was overly sensitive to her motions, but Cindy seemed to respond to my rubbing her butt, so I started rubbing her bottom hard. After just a few seconds of that, there was a lot more moisture coming out of her, and I noticed that her labia were getting larger.

She was reacting so much, I wondered what would happen if I stepped up the stimulation. On impulse, I smacked one of her ass cheeks with my hand, to see what would happen. I heard a sound that might have been a shout, and suddenly I was trying not to choke, as what felt like a cupful of cum came gushing out of her. I had no idea a woman could produce that much. It still tasted good, but it was a lot more than I was expecting, and some of it ran down the sides of my face.

I didn't taste any of me in that, so I supposed I must have put hardly any into her.

Cindy was certainly enjoying this, judging by her reactions, so I thought, let's just see how much of this she wants. I started to spank her, hard, on both cheeks.

The reaction was instantaneous. As soon as I started it, Cindy fell all the way forward, and started coming VERY hard. I could feel her vagina pulsing with the orgasm, and tried to thrust in my tongue in time with her convulsions. I could only do that every other pulse or so, as she was literally gushing with come, and I had to keep swallowing.

As she fell forward, she also brought her knees forward, so while she was now putting her full weight on my chin, my ears were unmuffled. I could hear her coming, in deep, grunting "unnngh! unnngh!" sounds, as if she were in childbirth.

I must have spanked her for three full minutes, and she was clamping down on my tongue and grunting in full orgasm, for the whole three minutes. I thought about stopping, but she obviously wasn't complaining.

She kept on producing cum, too, which I wouldn't have thought possible. It slowed down after those first two gushers, but it felt like I swallowed a pint. While this was going on, I felt (and heard) Donna coming, and the whole thing turned me on enough that I finally came, too, holding down and unloading in Donna, while I heard her squeal and felt her flutter.

Finally, Cindy started slowing down, and I switched from spanking to gently massaging her now very red ass cheeks. She continued to groan, and a small aftermath of cum still kept pouring out of her, and she seemed to go on a long, slow, convulsion of orgiastic pleasure.

Donna finally climbed off my other end, and Cindy took me in her mouth. I was softening anyway, but since it had started the weekend, it seemed fitting. I saw Donna and Rhianna out of the corner of my eye. It looked like they were going into a 69.

Something was odd, though. It must be the position, I thought. Cindy didn't feel the same to me as she had last night. It was nice, though, and she was getting me back up to full erection again. As soon as she had me all the way up, she got up, and started moving down towards my feet. It looked like she wanted to get seconds.

Well, there probably wasn't any seconds to give, but she was welcome to anything she wanted. Cindy had a VERY special place in my heart, and always would, no matter what happened.

She slid over the top of me, and she was VERY tight. Just getting into her took more work than I expected, since I had just had her riding me for fifteen minutes and come in her.

I supposed that coming that hard had made her tighten up. She was slowly riding up and down, working me in deeper, as her blonde hair cascaded down her back. It had only been a minute or so, and I was already nearing the point of no return again.

As I passed the point of inevitability, I looked over to see where Donna was in a 69 with Rhianna, as Cindy seemed to get stuck in moving down my penis. Donna was sitting on Rhianna's face, and you could see Rhianna's brown hair flowing out . . . wait a minute.

With a small cry, the girl riding my penis slid down past the obstruction, which I could feel tearing as it rode farther down me, just as I started to build to eruption. It was her hymen. Rhianna's hymen.

Rhianna was the one riding me, and she had never even kissed a boy, and she was probably not protected, and I REALLY should pull her off of me, but it was already too late.

I suppose my instincts knew what they were doing. Even though I had already spent myself to nearly nothing, knowing that this girl was not on the pill and might well be fertile meant that I was going to pump every tiniest bit of sperm into her I could. Even bare as my tanks were, she got a half dozen spurts.

She could feel every one, of course, while I massaged her ass, holding her tightly onto me. At that point, I simply could not do anything else, while I jetted the baby juice into her possibly fertile vagina. I could feel her clamping down on me again, even as she cried out with the pain of it, as the pulsing in her made her come hard. As I massaged her bottom, it helped her orgasm go on longer and stronger, until she finally wound down.

Then she swung her legs around until she was facing me, lay down on my chest, and went to sleep, my penis still inside her.

I didn't know what else to do, so I held her. I really hoped I hadn't just gotten her pregnant. Even the thought made my shrinking penis twitch, causing a shudder to run through Rhianna's body.

After a few more minutes, I slipped out of her, and felt a cascade of fluid. I just hoped her juices were enough to wash out my juices, but I doubted it.

She woke up when I slipped out, and smiled at me, then kissed me, and got up, wincing as she did.

"I'm sorry," she said. "You were just being so gentle and accepting that when Cindy passed out after riding you, that I said I wouldn't mind letting you eat me, too, so Donna suggested we switch so you couldn't tell it was me.

"And it was wonderful, and you were right, it was VERY different from having your pussy eaten by a girl. I was already halfway to orbit when you started rubbing my ass. Oh, my god, I thought I was going to die! I came, a little bit, just from having you rub my bottom.

"Then you started to spank me, and I just totally lost it. I've never come so hard in my LIFE, and it just went on and on an on, and all I could think of was how good you were at this, and how much I wanted your baby. When I finally had enough of a clear head to do something -- anything -- I saw this penis in front of me, limp, and I said to myself, what a shame he's limp like that, so I sucked you until you got hard.

"Then, I was looking at this hard thing in my hand, and my pussy wanted it in me SOOO bad, that I just climbed on. I didn't think of anything else; I wanted you to come IN me with that thing.

"Believe it or not, it wasn't until you were actually against my hymen that I even REMEMBERED it. That was how effectively you turned off my brain with that spanking thing. Even then, all I could do was just shove on through it, so I could have your baby.

"Yeah, crazy." I was hoping I hadn't just gotten her pregnant. That would really suck.

Cindy and Donna were recovered enough, so we went outside, and got ready for a hike. There was a rocky bluff across the valley from us. It was about a two and a half mile hike, each way, so we could get back in plenty of time before dark.

Everyone had brought some kind of canteen and hiking shoes. We took light jackets, jerky, GORP, and water, and started on across. It promised to be a hot day.

At my suggestion, the girls all had shirts on, as we might run into other people. I think Kate, at least, would have gone hiking topless, if I hadn't nixed it. We were in a National Forest, not a National Park, so there were far fewer people out here, but you never knew. Not one of them was wearing a bra, though. Even Lita and Selina chose bouncing beauty over restraint out here. The only male anywhere near was one they WANTED to make horny, so they flaunted it, loving the feeling of their mammoth breasts bouncing around, just barely held together, in Selina's case, by the two ends of her completely unbuttoned blouse, knotted between them but hardly covering anything, and in Lita's case, by a plain white t-shirt that was so thin that you could not only see the nipples through it, you could see the color of the areolas.

We did not see any other people until we got all the way to the end of the hike, and were approaching the bluff, when I suddenly got an apprehensive feeling. I stopped and hushed the group, and quietly told the girls, "cover up." I didn't know why I said that, but it wasn't a request, and they obeyed instantly and quietly.

"What is it?" asked Kate, coming up beside me. We were only about two hundred yards from the bluff, and it was in plain sight.

"I don't know, but I have a bad feeling. Something just set off my personal alarms, and I want to know what it was. Listen."

We listened, and after a few seconds, there was a wisp of sound I must have heard before: a voice. I nodded. "There are other people up here," I said, softly, "so you might want to put your jackets on until we know they are safe." The girls had already mostly covered up, but they put on their jackets and zipped them up. I left mine off. I still didn't know why, but the hairs on the back of my neck were standing up, and my heart was starting to pound.

We walked on up to the bluff. Just as we got there, the source of the noises came out from around behind the rocks. They clearly didn't know we were there, because they stopped dead, and their mouths hung open when they saw us. They all had wine bottles in their hands, and one of them smashed a bottle against the rock as he walked around it.

I knew, now, what had gotten my alarms to go off before. It hadn't been the sound of a voice, it was the sound of smashing glass. This could be really bad, if I weren't very careful. I just hoped the girls understood how dangerous the situation was. I looked around at them, and they were all huddled together, jackets zipped, and arms folded. Yeah, they knew.

"Hey, shut the fuck up, asshole!" the leader said to me. "Can't you see I'm trying to talk to the fuckin' women?"

So much for diplomacy. I sighed. "No," I said, "they don't want to talk to you. I think you boys were just leaving." That was rich, I thought, my calling them boys. I'm still in high school, and these guys looked like they were in their twenties. Still, if it was going to get ugly, it was going to get ugly, and there was no point in being polite, if it was only going to get me -- and maybe all of us -- killed.

He walked over to me, like he was going to tell me a joke, and I said, "that's far enough," as I casually moved my left foot back behind my right, making an L-stance, flexing my knees slightly. Please God, keep the girls safe, I prayed -- my first real prayer in a long time.

He didn't act like what I said meant anything, but he did stop, before he got within reach. "Hey, man, I just want to talk."

"Boy, you're a touchy one, aren't you? We don't mean any harm. We just see some pretty ladies, and we want to talk to them. Nothing's wrong with that, is there?"

"Nothing is wrong with it as long as they want to talk to you," I said. "They don't."

He dropped the aw shucks friendly act, and looked me in the eye for the first time. "Are they your property? Why don't you let them speak for themselves?"

"If I ask them, and they all say they don't want to talk to you, are you going to leave them alone, or are you going to keep harassing them? Will you let them speak for themselves?"

He thought about that for all of ten seconds, before giving a sly smile that he clearly thought was winning, and said, "yeah, we'll let them speak for themselves, right boys?"

"Right!" the other three agreed in chorus, and then snorted with the joke I wasn't getting. These morons really were from the shallow end of the gene pool.

"Ladies!" I said, without moving my eyes from the leader's face. "Without saying any names or other information, I'd like you all to answer me. Does anyone want to have a conversation with any of these fine gentlemen?"

"No," came a unison chorus behind me. I knew that all of them had spoken up. Even speaking together, I knew all their voices.

"Hey, that one didn't say anything," said the leader, pointing past me with his left hand. He wasn't all that tall, but he looked wiry, and stronger than me. One of the other guys was huge, like a football lineman, and the other two were as tall as me, but a lot stockier. All four of them looked bigger and stronger than me.

As he pointed past me, lessons from the Karate Club were coming up fast. I had had this exact scenario on my brown belt test. Without moving my feet, I twisted my body, and started to turn as if to look where he was pointing, but then pivoted back the instant he moved, using my body like a coiled spring to move much faster than he could.

With my right hand, I batted the right hand coming around with the bottle to my right, so it went past me, as I stepped forward and reached over his right arm with my right hand, and then hooked the tops of his eye sockets with my left hand. In less than a second from the time he started to swing at me, I had yanked his skull back, making his knees buckle, and grabbed his windpipe with my right thumb and fingers, as hard as I could. I didn't know how much pressure it would take, and a failure would kill us all, so I grabbed good and hard. I heard and felt a crackle come from under my finders.

It worked. I had my thumb and fingers far enough around his windpipe that if I tore them away, the windpipe would at least be crushed, and maybe would be torn all the way out. He knew it, too, and I could hear him piss himself, as he realized he was less than a second from a slow, horrible death.

I looked into his eyes from two inches away, looking up to say, "STOP!" when I saw motion from his buddy. "Move back or he dies, RIGHT THE FUCK NOW!" They moved back.

"You have fucked with the wrong fuckin' bear, pal. You and your buddies get your shit out of here right now, and go back the way you came, and I will VERY GRACIOUSLY let you LIVE. This is your ONLY WARNING. If you weren't paying attention, ask your buddies how fast I took you down. Even if you were to try coming at me all four at once, I would just kill the first three of you to come at me in the first three seconds, and the fourth one slowly, over the next hour.

"If you so much as stop running where I can see you, I will come after you. If I EVER see you again, I will kill you. Got that?" I roared into his face. He nodded. "You got that?" I snarled at the others. They nodded, too, looking just as shaken as the leader.

They ran. Fortunately, they were headed in a different direction from the one we'd taken. I just stood there and watched them run, until they were out of sight. I took a few steps toward them as they ran, staying between them and the girls, and without thinking about it, I snorted so hard that I cleared both nostrils. I was very frightened, but there was a part of me that was so angry that I was disappointed they were leaving. For the first time in my life, I found myself WANTING to kill someone, and the desire felt good.

The girls had been agreeably silent, after I'd asked them to answer. Shaking with adrenaline, I turned around to see how they were doing.

They were still huddled together, looking at me with big eyes. I saw a couple of pants with wet spots. "I'm sorry, ladies," I said. "I tried to diffuse the situation several different ways, but they were not going to stop until they had killed me, raped all of you, and probably ended by killing all of you, too."

"Yes, I do. That's why, when they started the violence, I reacted so strongly. I'm so sorry I had to use that language in front of you, but it was the only language they would understand. I wanted that guy to piss himself, or they'd never leave us alone. I want them to have nightmares about meeting us again."

"Yeah, that's exactly what they would have done," said Selina. "Couldn't you feel it? Those guys were DANGEROUS."

Kate laughed, halfway between a chuckle and a sob. Everyone looked at her. "Not half dangerous enough, though," she said, as she took my arm, and laughed another half sob.

That got a general laugh, and suddenly, I was in a group hug with six women, all of whom were crying.

Well, there were lots of worse endings to that scenario. I was just glad they were okay.

We walked over to the bluff, and looked for about a minute, before the girls decided to head back. I didn't want to hang around either, in case they found a dozen buddies down the mountain with rifles and decided to come back -- but I didn't tell the girls that. I just would have suggested going back, if they had taken more than about another minute to decide. I did want to look down from the bluff and see if I could spot our campsite. I could see the fire break clearly, and the stream, so we should be just about . . . there. Nothing. I thought there might have been a tiny flash that was sunlight reflecting off a windshield, but it could have been anything reflective out there, and wouldn't mean anything to those guys. Good.

It took about another half mile on the trail, before we were able to go off down a side trail, and I started to relax. The turn was hard pack, so I didn't think they would be able to figure out where we had turned, unless they were wood wizards, and I was sure they weren't.

As we got into the lower trail, I started to move forward in the line. I had been coming last, I suppose to protect the rest, although I wasn't really thinking about it. As I started passing each girl in the line, I asked her how she was doing. Donna was last, with Rhianna. They were okay, but "I really thought it was stupid, before," said Rhianna, "but you know what? I actually hope I AM carrying your baby. You saved my life back there."

"I think you saved all our lives," said Donna. "But I'm really horny right now. Will we be back soon? 'Cause I really want to make love to you, right now."

Kate just smiled and said, "no baby for me, thanks, but I REALLY want you to fuck me!"

When I got up to Cindy and Selina, they just stopped for a moment, and waited for everyone to catch up. "It sounds like everyone wants you to make love to them, Danny," said Selina. "We do, too."

"I've never been this horny in my life," said Cindy. "Everyone has been sort-of sex-crazed this weekend, but last night was NOTHING like this."

"It's the danger," I said. "We all might have died today. That was VERY dangerous. That makes us all want to hurry up and make babies, before we die. It's a very old human reaction."

"I guess that makes sense," said Cindy, "but I still won't rest until I feel you coming in me again."

There was a general note of assent, from everyone there. "No rest for the weary," I said, and Kate just hooted with laughter. After a few seconds, everyone else joined in.

We got back in about three in the afternoon. Instead of going all the way up to the camp, though, I led us down to the stream. We were about two hundred yards below the camp, and there was a beautiful swimming hole there. The water was cold, but it was perfectly refreshing after five miles of hiking in ninety degrees, and we all stripped down and jumped in.

We swam for a good hour, playing in the water, having splash fights, and generally having fun. A lot of the fun came from the fact that we were not only all naked, we weren't shy about body parts any more. They spent a lot of time comparing how various breasts floated, with Lita winning the built-in flotation award. They wanted to see how well a penis floated, but that didn't work out so well, because it stopped floating as soon as they paid any attention to it.

I had to warn them about not getting any water in their mouths, since it seemed like a perfectly fresh mountain stream, but that's the kind of place where you get giardia. While we were there, I also made love to Cindy and Selina. Cindy was up on a rock, but Selina was immersed in the flowing part of the stream. Selina's teeth were chattering when we were done.

Just as we were gathering up our things, I caught hold of Kate, and began kissing her. She was happy to be pinned against the rock, though not so twisted as she had been in the morning. After I came in her, Selina came up to eat out what I had left in her.

As soon as we got back to the camp, I made the fire, and started to build it up. It was looking like rain, and I wanted to be sure we could have enough heat to cook dinner. I got the shovel out of the car, and went around the tent again, making sure that our drainage was good.

I also wanted to get the dinner done and the fire out before dark, but it didn't occur to me to wonder why.

Dinner was Cornish game hens, stuffed with cranberries, Granny Smith apples, and pecans, with maple syrup poured over them, wrapped in foil, and baked in the coals. Everyone had their own hen, and I made love with Lita and Donna while they baked. We had white wine to go with the hens. After dinner, we had almost finished getting everything cleaned up and put away, when the clouds burst. Laughing, we were already naked, so we just stood around in the rain, enjoying the cool water on our bodies, until we started to get chilly.

We went on into the tent, and all stayed in the most downhill section until we stopped dripping. Then we laid out in the center section as before, but with no more tension for anyone to do anything. We lay around naked, stuffed.

Kate summed it up for us all. "You know, I have a rich fantasy life. I dream of a lot of things. Some of my fantasies are intensely sexual; some aren't sexual at all.

"But never, in my wildest fantasies, would I have imagined that I would be here, surrounded by more love than I've ever known, after eating the best food I've ever had, sharing the love not only of five gorgeous women who like sex with me as much as I like it with them, but sharing all of them with a man whose heart is so good, I'd follow him anywhere, just to have a little piece of his love. Not only that, but he's so brave, he stood up to those guys today -- one against four -- and was tough enough to drive them off. Finally, he's so HUMBLE. He saved all our lives today, and he hasn't mentioned it ONCE. Even though we'd probably all like to fuck him three or four more times tonight, all he really seems to worry about is not hurting us -- or letting anyone or anything hurt us."

Kate was crying, but so were all the rest. "I don't know what the rest of you think, but my search ends here. I have found the love I have been hoping for all my life, and I don't give a damn how many women I have to share him with -- as long as I get to share the women, too."

"She speaks for me," said Selina. "I think I could live a thousand years, and I'd never find another man who would even come close. Almost all the rest are like those losers we met today, and the rest are wimps." She looked me in the eyes. "But you stole my heart last year, when I first met you, before I knew any of this about you. Do you know what made me fall in love with you?"

"We were getting ready to do our first Madrigal concert at a restaurant, and Kay was playing the harpsichord. Her little brother came, and was getting out of hand. The adults were going crazy, since no one knew what to do with him. When the altos and sopranos were singing, you came down to where he was, and took him by the hand up onto the risers with you. He was so thrilled to be up there where everyone was looking at him, that he was on his best behavior the rest of the time.

"It wasn't that your idea worked, that got to me; it was that you cared enough for him to include him, when everyone else was trying to exclude him. It was one little act, but it slew me."

She put her hand up and stroked my cheek. "I'm afraid I need to be a little older before getting started," she said, "but I would love for you to give me lots of babies," she sighed.

Rhianna stood, and came over to me. "I haven't known you like the others," she said, "and I did a wrong thing today, when I climbed onto you without your knowing it. I might be pregnant, but you didn't consent to getting me pregnant. I'm sorry about that.

"Still, after today-- I've never been so scared in my life. I think those guys really would have raped and killed us all, because they wouldn't have been able to rape us without killing Danny, and then we would all be witnesses to rape and murder. I'm sure the four of them would have been able to handle the six of us.

"But YOU -- what made you think you could take them on like that?" Suddenly, everyone stopped what they were doing, and were looking at me.

"Well," I said, "I didn't actually know that I COULD take them on. It was four to one, all of them much older than me, and three of them for sure stronger than me -- maybe all four. The only chance I had was to scare them so badly, that they never figured out they held the winning hand."

"Maybe I could, and maybe I couldn't, but finding out the answer to that could be really, really expensive. What if one guy picks up a rock and circles behind me? It doesn't matter what fancy Karate tricks I'm doing, if he bashes my skull in. Just one mistake, and we're all dead."

"So you were bluffing. You did that knowing you might die." Selina's eyes were even bigger, now, and she was crying again. "I was right, you ARE brave -- really, REALLY brave."

"Actually," said Lita, "I didn't, and I was watching. When I was little, my daddy used to show me moves like that. I was watching, horrified, and when he pointed to us and stepped toward you, I knew it was a trap. I knew he was going to kill you. He swung that bottle around so fast, to smash it against your face. I took a breath to scream -- and then you were holding him by the throat, and it was over. I was watching the whole thing, and you moved faster than I could see."

"Yeah, me, too," said Rhianna. "That guy wasn't the only one who pissed himself. I did, too. But you know what I was saying to myself, the whole hike back? I was saying, I hope I'm carrying his baby. I know what I did was wrong, and yeah, being pregnant now would suck, but I never thought I would want a baby so much in my life -- or even want one at all." She looked at me. "You're what every woman dreams of, and none of them find."

She reached out and touched my cheek. "I'm still sore this morning, but if you want to use one of those condoms, I'd really love a re-match, if you aren't totally worn out." She smiled again, and said, softly, "I'd even be okay without the condom, if it's okay with you."

It wasn't, but I got a condom out of my pack, and we made slow, gentle love, with loving hands all around us. She was eager, but a little nervous because she was sore. She did want me to come in her, though, as all the other girls had, after the encounter on the bluff.

As we made love, any time another's hand was near, I took it and kissed it, before putting it back to what it was doing. Pretty soon, all five of the others were gathering around us, making love to both of us, as I was making love to Rhianna.

I entered her, gently, in the missionary position, and she was enjoying it, although I could tell she was still uncomfortable. She had not really started winding up to an orgasm when I heard a smack come from behind me. Rhianna's eyes popped open, and she gave a little cry, and as a second smack came, she started coming hard, and I could feel the incredible wetness of her.

I bit, gently, down on a nipple, and started pounding into her hard, while whoever was doing the spanking was timing it so that she got a spank with every thrust.

Rhianna started screaming, giving a little scream with every thrust and spank. The screams kept getting louder, and higher, until she was tensing up her muscles so much with every thrust, that she got to the point at which she could not make any more sound.

I was once again at orgasm, but probably didn't have anything left to give her. I thrust hard into her anyway, and she could feel the pulsing as I came, and that took her into another round of locking up, knees bent and toes curled. Then she passed out completely, and I pulled out. We covered her up with a sleeping bag, and I pulled off the condom, unsurprised to see that it was, essentially, dry inside.

"Now, that is one well-loved woman," said Cindy, as we all collapsed in a heap beside Rhianna. I found myself next to a nipple, and kissed it, then teased it with my tongue. It's owner squealed and giggled.

"As are you all," I said. And then I was having trouble not bursting into tears, and I felt all their hands on me. "How does this work? How can I be in love with all of you at once? How can I keep from breaking a lot of hearts, including my own?

"Right now, I have to agree with Selina and Kate. I could live a thousand years, and never find as much love as I've found this weekend.

"Wait." It was Selina. "You're going about this wrong. Don't use your head. I trust your HEART. What do you WANT to do?"

I thought about it. "Short term? Do this again, as much and as often as we can. Share all the love we can with each other, before some of us go off to college."

"Long term . . . I just don't know. What's in my head is just too crazy. It would never work."

I took a deep breath. "I'd love to marry you -- all of you -- and spend our lives making love and making babies and raising them together. We'd all work, at the things we'd want to do in life, and at making a loving home. We'd probably have to live on a small farm as a commune, in order to have the space to live the way we want to live. Any who weren't working an outside job would work on the farm, along with our kids."

"Remember how I usually dress? I'd love to live where I could flaunt my sexuality in every direction, because anyone who got turned on would be someone I could make love with. Can you imagine what those guys would have done if they had seen us before we heard them, with Lita's breasts trying to rip the fabric of her t-shirt, and my blouse just barely containing my boobs, and not hiding anything? I think they would have bashed your head in with a rock before saying anything, and it would all have been over, for all of us.

"That's the price of a body like mine. I WANT to be sexy, but I have to hide it, all the time, from bozos like that."

She turned to Kate. "I envy your body. You can flaunt your sexuality all you want, and the morons are too stupid to notice. I'd rather dress sexy, and work on the farm, and stop for sex with any of you, any time you feel like it, but never have to hide who I was."

She turned back to me. "Sign me up. I'd just want us to be far enough from prying eyes that we don't have to worry about others. Someplace out West, maybe."

That floored me. "You'd really want to marry a man you shared with five other women?"

She smiled, "as long as I was sharing the women, too, why not? You can certainly keep six women in babies, can't you?"

"Then the only questions left for me are whether there is enough love to go around, and whether there is enough of this" she reached out and took hold of my little buddy "to go around.

"With your heart, and the love of these other ladies, I'll have more love than any woman in a traditional marriage would EVER get, so I'm fine with that."

She took another breath. "And, between making love with you, when you have the energy, we all can use toys and vibrators and such on each other, so we'll always be able to scratch that itch, when we get it."

"Lots of them," I said. "I've dreamed of having a dozen babies or more, but hadn't wanted to wear out my wife. I don't know yet what I think of all this, or if it's even a good idea, but you would of course each be able to have as many babies as you wanted."

I laughed. "Well, if we lived on a farm, we could feed that many, couldn't we? We'd be pretty poor, but happy. Health insurance would be the biggest cost, I think." I looked back at Cindy again. "Yes, to answer your question, I'd love that many children, but I wouldn't expect anyone would have more than she wanted to have."

"Not to me," said Kate. "I love the idea. I still want to go to college and medical school, though, and I'd rather work in the real world than on a farm, so I can be one of those who earns the cash to help support the rest. I'm not so sure I want to have a lot of babies, anyway, as much as I love them. Maybe I'll have one, and then decide if I want more."

She looked around at the others. "But I would love to have a happy place to come home to, where I'm always loved, and there are babies underfoot, and people who will kiss me hello, and make love to me if I'm stressed and need the attention, or just hold me while I cry if I'm too stressed. That sounds like heaven to me, too. Sign me up."

She smiled. "Besides, I'd love to be the family doctor, and if I also have a practice, I'd probably be earning enough to support the rest of the family."

I had put it out as a crazy idea, but four of the six women had said that they would want to live in something like that.

"I'm floored by your responses," I said. "I didn't think there was any way ANY of you would be interested in something like that, and, what four of you, said you would want to do that. Let's see, Kate, and Cindy, and Selina, and Rhianna, yeah, four of you. Wow."

"And maybe even six," said Lita. "I've been set on the idea of one guy just for me, for so long, that I'm not sure at all, but this weekend has been beyond any girl's fantasy."

She sat up, suddenly, and looked at us all. "Did you all like seeing my boobs trying to bust out of my t-shirt?"

"They were gorgeous," sighed Kate. "I wanted to rip your shirt open and fuck you myself, right there in the trail. And Selina did the same thing to me." She giggled. "I guess guys aren't the only ones affected by big boobs."

"Hey, you guys nursed too, as babies," I said. "It's only natural that breasts like that would make you want to suck on them, and make you horny, too."

Lita laughed. "Well, I want you guys to know that I could tell you were enjoying my boobs today, and for the first time in my life, someone was looking at my boobs and getting turned on, and thinking about, about," she swallowed, "about fucking me, and it not only didn't upset me, it made me want to think about, about fucking you, too."

She looked over at me. "Danny, do you remember what I said to you in the practice room, about how I'd like to dress?" I nodded. "That's still true. I'd love to be frilly, and feminine, and wear lacy things, and thongs, and things that make you -- all of you -- want me. I'll NEVER be able to do that in the traditional world. I've already had so many of those bozos come after me, that I was going to cut of my boobs, just to make it stop."

She smiled at me, "but it feels soooo good when we are making love, and I can feel them moving as you are pounding into me. I know you enjoy all of our boobs, but when you are taking pleasure in mine, I'm SO happy I can share them with you, and last night, when I woke up chilly, I snuggled up to you, and they just nestled around your side, and made us fit together like a hand in a glove. You didn't wake up, but it felt so good I leaked a couple of tears onto you before drifting off to sleep. I wouldn't give that up for anything.

"So, no, I don't ever want to give up my boobs, but like Selina, I can't just let them be seen, either, because of the bozos. This farm idea -- this commune -- gives me a way I can be totally out, totally sexy, get all the love and attention I do want, and none that I don't want."

"Wow," I said, softly. "that's five for six, that actually don't think the idea is too crazy."

"Well, I don't think it's crazy, either," said Donna. "I just don't know if it's what I want to do, yet."

"And, it's some years into the future, if it's going to be anything but just an idea," I said. "Selina, Kate, and I are all going to college next year. The rest of you will probably be going in the next year, or at most the year after. Who knows what will happen then?

"In the meantime, what would you say to forming a girls' camping club? It would be informal, so you don't have to worry about walk-ins wanting to join, but it would give you an excuse to do more of this.

"I could be your advisor, so you'd have reason to explain my coming along, because the tent is mine, and I'd also be there to help you learn outdoor skills and -- if you don't mind the chauvinistic overtones -- to keep you safe."

"I am perfectly fine with the chauvinistic overtones," said Kate with a shiver. "I am all for a woman being able to do anything a man can do, and I don't want to have to look to anyone for protection, but as long you are willing to stand between us and the bad guys, you can take ALL the chauvinistic credit you want."

We could all hear it. A vehicle engine was running, just up the hill from us. I couldn't tell if it was sitting up at the road or coming down through the woods, but it wasn't going away, and that was all I needed to know.

"Oh, my god, is it THEM?" whimpered Rhianna, as we all scrambled to get clothes on in the dark.

"Probably not, but let's not take chances." I was getting my jeans on, and pulled my socks and boots on next. I was just fumbling around for my shirt, when I heard the most frightening sound in the world: a shotgun round being chambered.

"Get down!" I hissed, and everyone hit the floor, but whoever cocked the gun didn't fire.

Everyone froze. I don't know if the girls knew what that sound was or not, but it had come from about ten feet away from the side of the tent. A moment later, vehicle lights came on, illuminating the side of the tent.

"Coming out," I said. I went to the door, and whispered back to the girls, "Once I go out, close this door, and NO MATTER what happens or what they say, don't open it again for anyone but me. No matter what."

I unzipped the door, and stepped out into the downpour. I could hear the door being zipped up behind me.

There was a vehicle off to my right. I couldn't see what it was, but its engine was running, and its headlights were blinding. Somewhere between me and it, was a figure I could just barely make out, with what had to be a shotgun in its hands.

"That's him," said a hoarse voice that I thought had to be the leader of the group at the bluff. "Kill him, Pap!"

"Thought you'd get away with jumpin' my boy, did you?" said the man. "Get the rest of your buddies out of there."

"Jump? He and three of his buddies attacked me without warning. It would have been four against one, and they planned to commit rape and murder." I held my hands open and out, so he could see they were empty, and started to walk towards him.

"Hold it right there!" I stopped. "I said, I wanted to see your buddies out here, too. In case anyone is thinking of trying something, I'm not the only shotgun watching you right now."

"My buddies," I said, "are children your son planned to rape and murder today. Didn't he tell you that the dangerous gang that jumped he and his four buddies was ONE boy and six girls?"

I could see a little better, now, in the light reflecting off of the tent. I could see that he was frowning. "Son, if you're shitting me, it will be the last thing you ever do. BILLY!"

He glared back at me, the shotgun still pointed at my heart. "How old is Billy?"

I said, "I thought it might be something like that. None of my friends -- all of whom are girls, by the way -- are over eighteen. When Billy and his three buddies attacked us, it was clear that they were not going to stop until they had committed rape and murder. With all of us under eighteen, and it happening on Federal property, well, let's just say that if word of this ever gets out, Billy will be lucky if a life sentence is all he AND his friends get."

Billy came over, holding a shotgun pointed at me. His father took it away from him, and spoke, quietly. "You tell me now, boy, how many MEN you fought today."

"It, it was just him, Pap, but there were others. I guess I couldn't see whether they were men or women."

"Then why was the first thing you said to them, 'hey babe, wanna fuck'?" I said. Billy didn't say anything.

I turned back to his father. "It looks like you've been had, mister. GIRLS! Please open the window and look out, so this man can see who it was that his son said he couldn't tell boy from girl."

The nearest window opened, and the man could see the six feminine faces it. "Okay, mister," he said, "it looks like it was all a misunderstanding."

"You're still pointing a loaded shotgun at a minor." He started at that, and moved it aside, and then held out his hand.

I didn't take his hand. "Plenty," I said, "but I'm not inclined to press charges at the moment. In fact, I'm inclined -- again, at the MOMENT -- to forget the whole thing, but there are a couple of things we need to settle first."

I looked over at Billy. "Since he told you he was jumped by a gang of men today, instead of what actually happened, I think you need to know what really DID happen, because it will help you in keeping your son alive."

He looked up sharply at that, and I could see he was thinking about moving the shotgun back to cover me again, but he thought better of it, and said, "go on."

"You can verify this with his three buddies, as I expect you know who they are. They were up at yonder bluff, drunk, smashing their bottles all over the rocks, when we showed up. By the time we saw them, it was too late to go elsewhere, and they came over and started accosting the ladies."

"He's lyin', Pa!" said Billy, and then I heard the tent door behind me start to unzip. I sighed, but it was probably safe at this point. Probably.

All six of the girls climbed out of the tent, into the rain with us, Kate in the lead. She marched straight up to the man, and said, "I'll tell you EXACTLY what happened, and if he wants to look me in the face and call me a liar, I hope to god D-"

"Oh, right. Sorry." She glared back at the man. "Billy started by saying, 'hey babe, wanna fuck,' and some other crude things. When D-- when my friend here objected, they threatened him and tried to run him off. When he didn't run off, they challenged him to let us speak for ourselves. He agreed to that, and then asked us all if we wanted to speak to the 'gentlemen', that being the too-polite word he used for Billy and his friends.

"Every one of us together said no, we didn't want to talk to them at all, but Billy pretended one of us hadn't, and pointed back to us with one hand. When, when our friend turned to look where Billy was pointing, Billy tried to brain him with a bottle.

"I'm still not sure exactly what happened after that, because I've never seen anyone move that fast in my life. It was obvious to all of us that they meant to kill our friend and rape (and probably kill) all of us, but we didn't know what to do about it. When Billy swung at him, he swung that bottle so fast, I could hardly see it. Anyone else I know would have just gotten killed.

"In about the time it took Billy to make that one swing, though, our friend had Billy tied up, with his head held back and his throat half torn out. Then he told them, in language Billy was sure to understand, that . . . " She stopped, and looked at me. "Should I go on?"

"Please do. I was going to tell him this, anyway, but he'll be more likely to believe it if you tell it."

She nodded, then looked straight at the man. "He told Billy that if he ever tried to come after us, or if he even saw him again, he would kill him." She hesitated. "In fact, he said, if Billy ever tried to come after us again, he would hunt him down, and kill him slowly. After that, he let them go, and they all ran like rabbits."

"I'd say that about covers it," I said. "I wanted you to hear that, mister, because I meant every word of it. Because you've got that shotgun and were conned into this by Billy, I'm not going to hunt him down, because I don't want any more danger to the girls. But I also don't want him getting the idea that I didn't mean it. If I EVER see him again, or if he so much as gets within shooting range of ANY of these ladies ever again, there will not be a place on Earth he can hide. Should he get so lucky as to take me out with the first shot, my brothers will be certain to find him, and I expect they would come looking for you, too.

"Because, while they aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, they also saw Billy's sneak attack, and they also saw me take him down. They were all watching, but I don't think any of them managed to see me move, either. They aren't geniuses, but they knew when to fold. There are times when it's better to choose to stay alive than to show how stupidly you can die."

"Mister, the less you know about me, the better. The important thing is that you understand that this boneheaded son of yours would be dead right now, if I hadn't had mercy on him up at the bluff. The only reason I didn't kill him right then and there, was that I didn't want the girls to see me kill someone right in front of them.

"After he showed he is stupid enough to come back tonight, though, I would GLADLY kill him in front of them, just so they know that he really, truly isn't EVER coming back. If you were not here, he would be dead already, shotgun or no. You don't threaten someone I care about and live, and you sure as hell don't do it twice.

"Again, though, because you are here and have that shotgun, I'm willing to let it go and call it a draw if you will." He nodded.

"At the same time, though, if he is too stupid to learn even from this, he will have two, and only two, possible results, if he EVER comes near us again. He can spend the rest of his life in prison, assuming he doesn't get the death penalty, for what he tried today up on the bluff, or -- what I think is MUCH more likely -- he will die at my hands, or my brothers'.

"I hope you can convince him that coming after us is what you call a lose-lose proposition."

He looked over at his son, then looked over at the girls, shivering in the rain, then back at me, and said, "mister, I'll do my best."

He glanced down at my hand, down by my side, then shook his head again, and turned to go. "Let's go, son," was all he said. He sounded tired, and I felt sorry for him.

I followed them over to their truck -- a beat up old clunker, but with an engine that sounded good. The man turned back when he heard me coming, his expression hard.

He just looked at me for several more seconds, then shifted the two shotguns to his left hand, and reached out with his right. His grip was painfully strong. "Thanks." I had a feeling he was having a hard time saying anything at all.

He got in, and they pulled out. It had been just the two of them. As their headlights swept across the woods, I paid attention to what they illuminated, but there didn't seem to be any evidence that there was anyone else here.

I walked over to the tent, where Kate and Selina were still out there, watching the taillights bump up onto the road, and then listening, while the engine sounds faded away.

"No," I said, "I think they are really gone for good this time, but all the same, I don't want to tempt that idiot by coming back here again. We'll be okay for tonight and tomorrow, but we'll have to find a different area after this."

"Two reasons. For one, I could see that father was feeling really bad about his son, and I wanted to shake his hand and wish him luck, now that you all were safe."

I looked over at Selina. "I think he will, as long as we don't wave temptation under his nose. He's one of the stupidest persons I've ever met, I think. I meant what I said about killing him if I ever see him again, and anyone with an IQ of two digits ought to know better than to try to come back on us. The thing is, he SHOULD have known better than to come after us tonight. I just don't want to gamble our lives on him doing anything smart."

All of us shivering, we got back in the tent, where the rest of the girls were clinging together in the aftershock. We all seven made love one more time before fading out. I entered someone, but couldn't remember who.

In the morning, I woke up in the pile of bodies. I didn't have one snuggled to the left and right, as the previous morning. I was on my side, and my head was pillowed on someone's breast. I could feel a body pressed against my back, and two more bodies were curled around my legs. There was a large pair of breasts against one of my feet, and the other foot, judging by the feel, was between someone's legs.

Before I opened my eyes, I tried to assemble the picture around me. It felt like all six were sleeping with as much body contact as they could get. My eyes came open, and I frowned. That would be because they were afraid, and that wasn't good. I was glad I made them feel more safe, and it was wonderful to wake up in a group snuggle, but none of us were going to relax until we were out of here.

Unfortunately, we really could not leave right away. The tent weighed almost two hundred pounds when it was dry. Soaking wet, it was twice that -- much more than we could manage -- and it would be ruined with mildew in a couple of days. Our only option, if we didn't just want to throw away the tent when we got back, was to leave it up to dry out before packing it up.

If I thought there was any chance at all of Billy returning, I would have had us out of there in the middle of the night. He was so stupid, I wasn't going to relax until we were completely out of the area, but I was pretty sure we weren't going to see him again that day.

Besides, I didn't want to set up the precedent of running away, every time you meet someone dangerous. If you can do it, it's much better to make the other guys do the running away. My only worry was that Billy might just be SO stupid, that he would do something that would get himself killed, rather than run away like he should. If he happened to be both stupid AND lucky, it could get me or some of the girls killed, too.

The only reason I was pretty confident about it, was that Billy was certainly a coward, and his father and his three buddies were probably his ONLY resources to back him up. There was no way he'd be coming down here alone.

Breakfast was pancakes, sausages, and fruit. Everyone was ravenously hungry again, but no one ate as much as they had the day before. "I think I'm going to gain five pounds," said Rhianna.

After breakfast, we cleaned up the camp, and got everything but the tent ready to move out. We put lines on the corners of the tent, and hauled it up off the ground so it would dry faster, and left all the windows open.

In the meantime, we went down to get clean at the swimming hole, bringing biodegradable soap and shampoo. After getting clean, everyone wanted one more round of love-making, after which there was one more round of swimming before finally dressing to head back.

While waiting for the tent to finish drying, we had one more pow-wow, sitting around the cold ashes. A pair of sticks were crossed in the center of the fire.

"We need to decide what to tell our parents about this weekend," I said, "and we need to decide what we are going to do from here on out. Even more, we need to decide how we are going to act around each other, when we are with other people."

"One thing that worries me," I said, "is how we are going to have a story which allows your parents to agree to our doing this over and over again -- because we all want to, right?"

Right, they all agreed. "Although I can do without the bozos," said Rhianna, nervously.

"You've got that right," I agreed fervently. "I really don't think we have anything to worry about there, but I think we should also find a different area to camp in, just so we don't tempt Billy to be even more stupid than he already is. Although this place is just about perfect, that's okay, as there are loads of good camping places.

"Here's the thing that worries me. Cindy and Donnas' parents know they came out here with me. They know that there were a bunch of other girls from the choir, but they also knew about me. To me, that means that if we keep doing this, the parents are probably going to start talking to each other, which probably means that all your parents are eventually going to know who was on this trip. Are we agreed on that, that there is no way to conceal who was on this camping trip?"

There was some fairly heated discussion, but eventually, they all agreed that yes, it would be better not to conceal it.

"Good. That makes the next question easier to state, although it might be harder to solve. How do we get your parents to agree to let you go camping with a boy on a regular basis?"

"Oh, go on," said Donna. "If you have a plan, I want to hear it." She seemed to have the consensus.

There wasn't any way around it, so I said, "why don't you just tell the truth, but not all of it? At the all-state choir tryouts, you started talking about your favorite things to do, and you all decided to go camping. Since I had the huge tent, and so much camping experience, you decided I could be the token guy advisor to this informal girls' camping club. I bought the food, brought most of the equipment, did most of the cooking, and taught you a bunch of camp skills.

"You have had so much fun this weekend, that you want to do it again -- also true, right?" That got some giggles. "I still have the tent and the equipment, and you all decided I could continue to be the token guy, there to provide the equipment and teach you camping skills.

"I wouldn't bring it up, but if your parents ask about whether it's safe to go camping with a guy, you could tell them that I was a perfect gentleman -- only if you think that's true, by the way -- and that I even chased off some boys who tried to harass you. IF they bring it up, you can tell them that you all will feel safer if I come along, and not only for my camping skills.

They had to wrestle that around for a while, but eventually, they decided it was what they would do, as their parents would probably be okay with it.

"On Billy and his friends, you should definitely down-play that. It was just some boys who were harassing you, and I chased them away. Yeah, there were four of them, and none of them ever touched you, although you thought they would have, if I hadn't chased them off.

"As to what I did, you didn't see, exactly, but it was clear I wasn't going to let them hurt you, and I made them leave you alone. Again, it's all true, but if you tell all the details, they may not let you ever go camping again, rather than think I'm someone who makes you safer instead of otherwise.

"Speaking of being safe, Rhianna, you are going to get on the pill as soon as possible, right?" She nodded. "Okay, that means that we are safe, as long as you all stay on the pill, and we don't stray outside our little group." Everyone kind of started at that.

"I guess that's not fair," I said. You are free to do whatever you want, but if you have sex with someone other than us seven, you need to let us know before you make love to any of us again. Can we agree to that?"

They agreed, although very slowly. I thought they were reluctant to restrict themselves, but I was wrong.

"Danny," said Selina, "I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I think you completely missed something I said yesterday, and I think we'd better get it straightened out, right now.

"I don't want to have sex with anyone else, ever -- well, any guy, anyway. Girls don't count, somehow, but I don't want any man in the world putting his sperm in me but you. I don't want anyone else's babies, and I don't want you ever wondering if my babies came from another man. That's not just for now, that's for ever."

"At the same time," Selina went on, "I know you are going to be loving all the rest of these ladies, and I'm fine with that, so long as I get some loving, too. I don't like it, but I also expect you'll be making love to other women, too. I don't think we are the only beautiful women who will be throwing themselves at you as we have this weekend, and I don't think for one minute you will be able to resist them all when they try to trip you.

"So, yes, I'll make this promise for ME, because it is a natural one for a woman to make, but I will not accept that promise from YOU."

"I said, yes, I won't be making love to any other man, but I will NOT accept you telling me you won't make love to other women. I know your heart, Danny, even if you don't. As long as I get plenty of love, and you give me plenty of babies, I won't try to keep you from making other women happy, too. That's a bad promise. I believe you would keep it, because you are honorable, but I believe it would make you miserable."

Suddenly, she looked fierce. "If you give me a venereal disease, though, I'm going to tell my mother exactly WHO gave it to me. If you thought you were tough with Billy and his gang, just wait until you see my mother in a rage."

The other girls were shocked at what Selina said, but none of them disagreed with it, which shocked ME. Selina looked around at them, still pretty fierce. "IF we ever get to the point at which we really are saying we will all marry, that will be the time when we promise none of us will go outside the group. Before that point -- IF we ever get to that point -- we aren't going to try to twist THIS man into being property, are we?"

"I don't know, Selina," said Kate, frowning. "Philosophically, I agree with you, and when he goes off to college, I don't think we should be trying to get him to make promises he can't keep. At the same time, though, there are SIX of us, and if that's not enough for him, then what are we doing here? Besides, he only has so much energy to give. If he is spending himself in other girls, he won't have as much for us. I'm jealous of what we had this weekend, and I don't want to share it right now. I'm already sharing it with five other women, and that's absurd enough."

I stayed out of the discussion, but they finally decided that yes, they did want me to promise to not make love to other women until I went off to college. They ended up voting on it, and they were split, four to two. In addition to Selina, Cindy also said she didn't want to restrict me, but not for the same reasons Selina had given.

"What if there is someone else who needs his love as much as we do?" she said. "What was it you said earlier, Selina? You trust his heart? Well, so do I. If he wants to make love to ANYONE else, it is okay with me. I trust him not to give me a disease."

They argued about it some more, but decided they were not going to try to force me into a promise until they were unanimous about it. "But I'm going to be REALLY pissed, if I come down with VD," said Selina. Everyone was firmly in agreement about that.

Cindy changed the subject by asking, "Why can't we make it an official school club?" Kate just rolled her eyes.

Selina said, "honey, if we do that, we'll have six kids walking in who want to join. Two of them would be girls who wouldn't want to play, would tell on us, or would just spread Danny further, and the other four would be wimpy guys. Besides, we'd have to have an adult advisor along on our campouts."

"Unofficial, though, works," said Kate. "It would be totally informal, which means we aren't anything more than some friends who want to go camping together. We'd really like to keep it an all-girl thing, but seeing as how Danny has the equipment and skills we need, we have to include him, although we do pick on him a lot."

Kate laughed. "You've got that right. I have to say, though, that my mom is pretty perceptive. If we keep this up until I head off to Yale, she is going to know that I'm not just doing it for the outdoor experience. She is going to know I'm doing it because I'm getting my brains fucked out. The thing is, she knows I'm on the pill, and I think she trusts me enough that she wouldn't ask any questions to which she doesn't want to know the answers. I think she'll trust me to be careful enough to not pick up a disease, and I also think she wouldn't spill the beans to the other parents."

"My mom will know," said Lita. "I feel so different right now, that I'm sure she's going to pick up on it. If she doesn't know I lost my virginity this weekend by Monday, she'll know by Tuesday."

"I don't know, but I think, like Kate's mom, she is going to be okay with it. She's going to ask me if I want to tell her anything, but if I say no but seem very happy -- which I am -- she's going to think I've got a boyfriend. The biggest thing to worry about is whether he gives me a disease, since he can't get me pregnant."

They all agreed that the sex must be denied, totally. It does not matter what they guess; if you don't tell them anything, they don't know.

"How about school?" I asked. "I would love to hug and tongue-kiss each of you, every time I see you, but I'm afraid that would be certain to get back to your parents, and quickly."

That took more heated conversation, as no one was happy about hiding her feelings for the others, but we eventually all agreed that we should be ONLY friends when we were around anyone else -- but that we would look forward to opportunities for more intimacy.

When the tent was finally dry, it was almost noon. We got everything packed up and put away, and the campsite finally cleaned up. It took a bit to get the cars out of there, with all the rain that had come down, but we were soon on the road out of there.

We stopped at a place I knew on the way home, where we could get soft ice cream. It turned out that the next weekend we were all free would be a three-day weekend in three weeks, so we agreed to try another campout that weekend. I agreed to plan food and location again, but this time, we would try to be proactive about them actually learning the camping skills, so I would try to teach what I was doing, as much as possible. By the third campout, I would try to do nothing at all, except what they couldn't do themselves.

Cindy and Donnas' parents were glad to see them, and they each gave me a warm hug before heading into the house. Their mother was there, as well as their older sister, home from college. Mom was still looking at me with pity, it seemed, but the sister was looking at me with a contemptuous smirk. I was tempted to tell Cindy and Donna to invite their sister on the next campout, which reminded me how difficult it was going to be to keep this a secret.

If we managed to make it through the summer, though, until Kate, Selina and I went off to college, that would probably be enough. Even parents who guessed were probably going to be okay eventually, if the guy was off in college and their daughters weren't pregnant or heartbroken.

It would be an interesting summer. Forget that; it would be an interesting WEEK.

Danny Boy, Chapter 4: Love and Danger

by Trampoline

Danny Boy, Chapter 4: Love and Danger

What happens to love when your life has been threatened?