Ben nearly jumped out of his skin when there was a knock at the door.
"Come in" said Victoria loudly, not sounding the least bit surprised.
Terrified, Ben turned his head to the door as it opened. His embarrassment was dreadful enough with Paul and the three girls witnessing him dangling in his just his underwear, without additional gawpers. His only relief was the fact that his erection was again rapidly subsiding.
As the newcomer entered with a huge grin the bottom fell out of Ben's world. At least he hadn't thought those fateful words 'it can't get any worse', because then he might have blamed himself, for it had indeed just got a lot worse.
CHAPTER SIX
"Amy!" he yelled "What the hell are you doing here? Get out!"
"Ben, meet our newest gang member, I think you already know Amy" said Victoria with a smile.
"What!? How!?" he blurted out, all too aware that he was still stripped down to his underpants and suspended from the ceiling "When!?" he added.
"Hi Ben" said Amy cheerfully "A couple of days ago."
"But..." spluttered Ben "What did... I mean... That's not fair you said you had to be initiated to be in the gang..."
"She has been" said Emily "As she said, two days ago."
"What!? Amy? Initiated?" he couldn't comprehend the idea.
"Yep, just like you" said Victoria.
"It was fun" said Amy.
"Fun? What, did they... did they..." he could barely bring himself to say it "strip you? I mean... completely?"
"Bare naked?" asked Amy, enjoying her brother's torment.
He just nodded.
"What, you mean take my knickers off and everything?" she asked.
He could only nod again.
Amy paused for a few moments to let Ben ponder what the answer might be, before opening her mouth slowly
"Sorry" she said "Gang secret. I can't reveal gang secrets."
Victoria put an arm around Amy's shoulder proudly "Good girl" she said.
Ben couldn't imagine his little sister suspended from the ceiling naked, being tormented by this gang, couldn't imagine she'd be cheerful now. He'd have thought she would run home crying her eyes out, and still be crying now. She could be a bit of a brat at times, but mostly she was a good girl, well behaved, did well at school. He didn't have a clue what she got up to with her friends; he'd never taken any interest, but this... He realised he didn't really know his little sister at all.
"As I said" said Victoria, breaking the silence "None of us is going to take your pants off." She let the thought hang in the air for a second or two "But Amy, well she wasn't here when I made my promise, she wasn't one of us, and so... she's going to do the honours."
"No!" said Ben emphatically.
Amy escaped Victoria's arm with undue haste, stationing herself in front of Ben.
"Don't worry brother dear, it's not anything I haven't seen before, well, not yours, recently, but other boys." she said with a big smile on her face.
"No, wait, wait, please, let's talk about this" begged Ben.
"The waiting's over Ben" said Victoria evenly "It's time for your pants to come off."
"Wait, wait... not yet, hold on a second, please...there must be something... please, anything. Please don't pull my pants off" Ben was panicking, desperate, on the verge of tears.
"Well... you could tell us the secret" suggested Victoria.
"No because you'll just do it anyway" he said starting to sniffle.
"Up to you" said Victoria. She paused briefly while Ben struggled to find a way out of his nightmare scenario.
"Go on then Amy" said Victoria.
"Amy brought her hands up to the front of Ben's boxers, taking hold of the waistband, but before she'd had time to start drawing them down Ben exploded: "Stop! I'll tell you! I'll tell you."
"Hold on darling" Victoria said to Amy, who, a little disappointedly, removed her hands from Ben's pants.
"Tell us the secret then Ben" invited Emily.
"It's... um... it's Harry... something Harry carless something" he said desperately trying to remember what the secret was.
Victoria looked over at Paul "No, that's not it" said Paul.
"Oh! No, hold on, urm, Hali... Hali... Beri, or something like that" he offered growing ever more desperate.
"Nope" said Paul.
"I see what you're doing" said Victoria gently "You don't really want to tell us the secret, you're just trying to throw us of, delay things a bit."
"No. I'm not. I want to tell you. I give in, I just can't remember. It's a word I don't know, I can't bloody remember all right. I just can't remember. It's Hali... something." he spluttered.
"Nice try, tiger" said Victoria "I knew you'd be brave". She stroked a hand down his cheek again, down his chest "I knew you wouldn't let me down"
Victoria smiled and nodded at Amy, and she brought her hands back up to Ben's pants, and started tugging.
"I give in! I give in! I don't want to join your stupid crappy gang." Ben shouted.
Amy drew Ben's pants down below his pubic hair, revealing a sparse downy patch with few enough hairs to almost be able to count.
"I'll tell" yelled Ben "I'm gonna tell mum and dad, you'll be in real shit" he threatened.
"No you won't" countered Amy without pausing, revealing the top part of Ben's quite flaccid penis."
"I bloody well will. Amy for God's sake we're brother and sister, they're no-one, why are you doing this to me, please have mercy." Ben had tears rolling down his cheeks as he surrendered to the humiliation of begging his sister, rather than face the humiliation of being naked.
"I didn't tell" she said.
"I don't care, I'm going to. You'll all be in trouble. Mum'll be furious, dad'll go spare, you'll never be allowed out again, you'll have your pocket money stopped for ever. You'll all be in so much shit you won't believe it. I'll tell the police, it's rape!" he yelled at the very limit of his endurance.
"No you won't" said Amy unperturbed. The inexorable descent of Ben's pants had brought the waistband dangerously close the end of his penis, which while mostly exposed was not yet entirely uncovered.
"You know we'd have to punish you if you did that" said Alison brightly "Really, really badly."
"You won't. I won't let you. I won't ever go anywhere near you, never go in the forest. I'll never go out. I'll stay in, forever, and anyway, you'll all be in prison" he blubbered.
"Ben, none of those things are going to happen" said Victoria calmly "We're not stupid. We take precautions."
Ben's penis was now fully exposed, slim and long, not yet thickened by his early puberty. Everyone's eyes were on it, apart from Ben's. His eyes were squeezed tightly shut, but not so tightly that the tears, which were flowing freely now, couldn't escape.
Amy didn't bother drawing the process out now, she just dragged his boxer shorts down to his ankles in one swift motion, then bullied them over his feet, finally casting them aside. She stepped back to get her first good look at her brother. She'd never really thought of him as handsome before, but now, looking at him differently, she saw that he was; even if he was a bit of a wuss.
Alison was the only person present who was grinning more broadly than Amy. Amy had only achieved the long held ambition of getting one over on her brother. Finally being able to bring him down a peg or two and assert some kind of superiority over him was thrilling, but she wasn't really interested in him, as a boy.
Alison on the other hand studied his body in detail, especially his now exposed penis. Like the rest of him, it was handsomely proportioned, and nicer than most she had seen. She wanted to touch it; play with it; watch it grow; make it spurt its boy juice. She thought that maybe, perhaps in time, he might like her and want to go out with her; want to kiss her and have some fun with her.
Victoria moved to Ben's side and caressed his bottom. "Alison was definitely right you know" she said appreciatively "Not only a nice bum, but even nicer bare"
Emily leaned to the side and took a look for herself, but Alison dashed round to Ben's rear to admire it properly, bringing both hands up to his buttocks to stroke and squeeze enthusiastically.
Ben didn't respond to any of this. He hung slumped, almost catatonic. His shame was so complete his mind had shut down and it registered nothing. Almost nothing.
"Are we going to make his willy hard?" asked Alison.
"I think it's time" replied Victoria.
Alison dashed back to the front of Ben for a ringside view, and Emily move round a little too. Amy stayed where she was, she already had a good position, and although she didn't share Alison's interest, she was curious.
"Girls, can you move aside a little" asked Paul, who remained lounging in his seat "You're obscuring the view."
Alison and Amy moved apart a little, until Paul said "That's fine"
Victoria moved up behind Ben. This was her job, and one she enjoyed immensely. It made her feel powerful. She stood very close to Ben, and brought her arms around him, so that she was effectively hugging him from behind. Her breasts pushed into his back, and his bottom pushed into the front of her jeans.
As her arms came round Ben's front she caressed him across his stomach with both hands, lowering them slowly with each pass. As they fell to the newly grown hair at the top of his penis they parted to glide gently down the sides of Ben's groin, stimulating that very sensitive, very private virgin flesh usually concealed and protect inside his pants. At the bottom they continued down a little way, stroking the insides of his thighs, before they began their caressing upwards again.
Ben was brought out of his catatonia by this treatment, his brain sending powerful, urgent signals to his conscious mind. He kept his eyes closed, but these new and unfamiliar sensations were taking him somewhere he had never been before; somewhere very deep inside his soul; somewhere primitive and bestial. He let out an involuntary moan, and his penis started to stiffen again. His embarrassment, his shame, his humiliation, were still locked away somewhere, subdued by this visceral experience.
Victoria brought her left hand up underneath Ben's scrotum, and stroked and massaged ever so gently, while her right glided up to his penis. She took it, still in the process of erecting itself, firmly, and began sliding it up and down. Ben writhed in her arms, but this was not the writhing of a tormented soul desperate to escape her grasp, this was the writhing of ecstasy, the oldest, most primitive, most profound writhing of all. He pushed himself back into Victoria's body, surrendering to her completely, his hips undulating back and forth instinctively to amplify the blissful tide rising within him.
"He's hard" said Victoria, releasing him. She stepped away, leaving Ben's penis straining upwards, more erect than it had ever been in his short life before. It took Ben a few moments to register what had happened, to realise she was no longer there, he was no longer being carried to paradise. His disappointment, his despair, was greater than anything he'd ever felt before.
"Look at his stiffy!" blurted out Alison, giggling. Amy joined her, her hands raised to cover her mouth. The two girls collapsed in a silly giggling heap.
"You timed that a bit closely" said Emily.
"I'm an expert. What can I say?" said Victoria with a grin.
"Are we going to let him go?" asked Emily.
"I thought we were going to give him a spanking, Amy will have left the nettles next door" said Victoria.
"He's had enough, don't you think?" suggested Emily.
"I suppose so. He's really shy though, I didn't think he'd be that bad" said Victoria.
"That's what I mean. It has been tough on him" said Emily sympathetically.
"Alright" said Victoria "How about we make it up to him a bit?"
"Fine by me" said Emily.
"Alison you think?" asked Victoria.
"Try and stop her" said Emily.
Victoria laughed. "Okay, we'll take a vote now then."
"All right everyone, calm down! Girls! Show some decorum please!" Victoria said loudly.
Alison and Amy picked themselves up off the floor and tried to stifle their giggles and look a bit more serious.
"Ben, open your eyes darling, look at me!" said Victoria. Ben didn't want to open his eyes, he wanted... he wasn't sure what he wanted, but it was something... something really important, and it wasn't opening his eyes.
"Come on darling, your test is nearly over, you've just got to open your eyes" said Victoria.
At that Ben opened his eyes, but kept them cast downwards.
"We now have to vote on whether we think you passed the test or not" said Victoria.
"But I didn't tell the secret" said Ben "You said I just had to not tell the secret"
"I know I did, but that wasn't the test. The test is how you handle yourself" said Victoria.
"But that's not fair!" complained Ben.
"Just be thankful it wasn't a gullibility test" said Victoria "Okay, Amy, as the newest member, you go first. What's your vote?"
"Well..." said Amy "He is my brother, even if he is a bit of a cry baby, so I guess so."
"Alison?" asked Victoria.
"He wasn't very brave at the end, but he was brave to start with, and he is kind of cute, so... I'll give him a yes vote." said Alison, still trying to avoid giggling.
"Paul?" asked Victoria.
"We need more boys with you lot girlying the place up" said Paul.
"Is that a yes then?" asked Victoria.
"Yeh, it's a yes."
"Emily?" asked Victoria.
"I think the girls are being unfair. I think he's very shy and this was very hard for him" began Emily, but she was interrupted by Alison and Amy when they burst into laughter again at the mention of 'it being hard'. Victoria glared at them "You two are going to be punished in a minute if you can't pull yourselves together." she warned.
Amy and Alison tried to pull their faces straight and held their breaths. "Go on, Emily" said Victoria.
"Well, as I was saying, I think that... no better not repeat that bit, I think he was very brave and did very well. I'm voting yes, because I think he's going to do very well in the gang" said Emily giving Ben a smile.
"That just leaves me then. I agree with Emily. Ben you're accepted. You're now officially part of the gang. Well done" said Victoria giving his side a quick pat.
Ben gave no sign of being pleased at this announcement.
"As a special reward Alison's going to do something really nice for you" added Victoria, hoping to cheer Ben up a bit.
"Am I?" said Alison.
"Yes" said Victoria, she leaned close to Alison and whispered in her ear "Blow job" Alison opened her mouth wide in surprise and immediately looked over at Emily who nodded to her.
"Okay" said Alison excitedly.
"Like we showed you" said Victoria.
"I remember" Alison said, moving back over to Ben's front and kneeling down in front of him. She took hold of his penis and rubbed it a little bit to bring it back up to full size, and then brought her hands round to his bottom, placing a hand on each buttock. Ben inhaled sharply at Alison's touch, but when she placed her mouth around his penis and started licking and sucking, he let out a loud grunt.
As much as Alison enjoyed the feel of Ben's penis in her mouth, Ben enjoyed it more, and it wasn't very long before he let out a loud and startled yelp, as the warm tide that was rising in him, growing ever more intense, suddenly released itself explosively. He felt as though his brains had melted and dribbled out of his ears, and his legs gave way under him, leaving him dangling limply.
Alison took the full force of his ejaculation in her mouth, nearly gagging, but managed to swallow all his come down, as she had been taught to do. She felt very pleased with herself. When she was sure he was finished she carefully licked him clean and sat back on her heels.
The others had just watched as Ben had experienced his first orgasm, and Alison had given her first blow-job unaided. Victoria nodded to Paul, and he got up and crossed over to Ben, collecting the chair on the way, and went to work on the rope. Ben was lowered to the ground and crumpled into a heap, flexing his arms up and down to remove the strain in them. Ben began to regain some sense of himself again, and realised everyone was looking at him.
"I want my clothes back" he said.
"In a minute sweety" said Victoria "We've got to get the handcuffs off first."
She took Ben's arm and tried to help him up from the floor, but he refused to cooperate. Emily took Ben's other arm, and together they lifted him up, and as Ben forced his cuffed hands down to cover his groin, they dragged him over to the chairs. Victoria sat in the big armchair and she pulled Ben in beside her. Putting one arm around his shoulders, she pulled him close to her.
"I know you're probably upset, and maybe even angry with us, but everyone has to have the same initiation, even Amy did, and it's important. It means we're all bonded together, like a family, only closer. You're a member of the gang now, and we're friends, so don't be all miserable. Think of all the fun we're going to have together." she said.
Ben remained silent, looking sulky and sullen.
"Let me show you something" said Victoria, pulling her laptop up off the floor and settling it in her lap. She took a quick look at the eight windows which still showed various outside views, and then she opened another, and loaded a video file into it.
"Here" she said "Look at this Ben" she turned the laptop towards Ben and gave his shoulder a squeeze. Ben couldn't help himself. He didn't want to look. He didn't want to do anything anymore, but he glanced across. His eyes widened as he saw the backs of Amy and Alison, and he saw them move apart, and he saw himself, hanging naked. He could just make out Victoria standing behind him, and he watched as she made him hard.
Victoria stopped the video. "We've recorded the whole thing, from beginning to end" said Victoria "Everything. So if you ever tell anyone, your mum and dad, the police, a friend, anyone at all, then this video is going to be seen by everyone. Of course we'll have to edit ourselves out, but that's no biggy. Starting a new school in September aren't you, our school, you don't want to turn up on your first day knowing all your classmates, all the other kids in the school, boys and girls, will have been watching this over the summer hols do you?"
Ben knew he was done for. There was nothing he could do to escape, and he wished he'd never heard of the New Forest. He could never live with the knowledge that anyone had ever seen that video.
"So come on, cheer up" said Victoria "You might as well enjoy yourself. The horrible stuff's over, it's all fun from here on in. Think of all the lovely girls you're going to see stripped off and naked" hoping to get something out of him.
"Where's that girl? Can we strip her?" asked Ben finally.
"What girl?" asked Victoria, relieved that she had teased him out.
"The one on the camera earlier, you said she wouldn't get away we'd catch her later." said Ben beginning to perk up a bit.
"Oh, her! No, probably not a good idea, Ben" said Victoria looking over and Emily and shaking her head.
"Why not, you said we could?" Ben complained feeling doubly cheated now.
"Because she's already here, Ben. It was Amy, and I don't think you want to be stripping your sister." said Victoria.
"What about Alison" suggested Emily.
"Why me?" asked Alison.
"Oh stop complaining, why can't you just do as you're told" said Victoria.
"I do do as I'm told" said Alison.
"Yes, when it's something you want to do" said Emily.
"Just let him undress you and have a bit of fun" said Victoria.
"What are you all going to be doing?" asked Alison.
"We'll go next door if you like. I think Paul probably needs a bit of relief" said Victoria.
"No, you can stay if you want" said Alison.
Victoria reached into her pocket and pulled out a key which she then used to unlock Ben's handcuffs. He rubbed his sore wrists, but kept his hands firmly planted in his lap.
"I tell you what" said Victoria kindly "If you're really good, and do as you're told, on Saturday I'll let you undress me. How's that?"
"Really?" said Ben.
"Really" she replied and couldn't resist ruffling his hair. Ben's penis stiffened again rapidly.
"And" said Paul "If you're really really good" we'll let you whack off to the video of that girl we were stripping the other day, and all the other girls we've stripped."
"Shouldn't the better prize be to undress me?" asked Victoria.
"Well... you can get tired of the same girl" offered Paul flippantly.
"You're chances of quality relief have just halved" said Victoria.
Everyone laughed; even Ben and Amy, who hadn't really understood what they were on about.
But, give them time...
[Continued in Chapter Seven]