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RELUCTANT PRESS

I noted that the two women were now on a first name ba-

CHAPTER THREE:

The Slumber Party

Over the next few weeks I became a regular visitor at the Wales' house, doing Susie's hair, cleaning her room, and I even did her laundry on a couple of occasions. A couple of times I had been there without Susie and found that Mrs. Wales, while still being very nice to me, began to tell me what to do instead of just letting me pick what I wanted to do. No mention was made about dressing me in women's clothes again, which disappointed me a little, but I was afraid to bring up the subject with Susie. However, a week after my birthday, a framed picture of Susie and me (or Danielle) on that night appeared on her night stand.

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Susie told me she was having her three best friends in for a slumber party that Friday and jokingly asked if I wanted to join them.

I refused quickly and she seriously asked if I could come over that afternoon and help her get ready. As always, I readily accepted any opportunity to be with Susie.

I went straight to her house after school and she asked me to clean her room. It was a mess again. I had gently asked her to try not to let it get so bad and she said that then I would have no reason to come see her.

Out of habit, I had put on an apron as soon as came in the house, wearing whatever was hanging in the closet and paying no heed to whether it was plain or flowered, ruffled or not. I picked up her clothes from the entire week and a pile of towels in both the bedroom and her bathroom. I cleaned the bathroom sink, toilet, and tub and mopped the tile floor. I made her bed and vacuumed the carpet.

Susie had changed her clothes while I worked around her, stripping down to her underwear. She knew that this drove me crazy but acted as though I was not even there. She went downstairs and got some of the food ready.

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RUFFLES & CURLES

By Kammi Morton

When I had finished her rooms I joined her in the kitchen and she gave me a snack of soda and cookies. I was relieved to sit as I had rushed to get my work finished before her friends arrived and this was the first time I had rested since I left school. I figured that I had about fifteen minutes with Susie before I had to leave.

"Oh, hi Susie!" said Mrs. Wales coming through the back door. "Are you finished with Danny? I'm running late for my bridge party so I need him for awhile."

"Sure Mother, I'm all set."

"Danny, I have a few things I need ironed. Follow me to my room and I'll get them for you.

I had never done anything before for Mrs. Wales and was

a little taken aback by her remarks.

It was not a request, it was an order!

For just a second I hesitated, wondering about what I should do. Another woman had now started to tell me what to do. I decided that this was not the time to put up a fuss as both Susie and Mrs. Wales were in a rush but I told myself that I would deal with it later!

I followed her to her bedroom and she took a skirt and blouse from her closet and tossed them to me and got a half slip from her drawer and threw this too.

"Hurry with them, I need to be out of here in half an hour!"

I went back to the kitchen and set up the ironing board and plugged in the iron. The straight skirt was gray wool and fairly easy to iron, using a wet pressing cloth and of course the slip was a cinch. But the blouse was a bitch! It was all cotton and obviously had been left in the dryer too long, probably in a ball. There were wrinkles over every square inch of the garment. Both from Mrs. Wales' order to hurry and my urgent desire to be out of here before Susie's friends arrived, I rushed through the blouse.

I ran back upstairs to find Mrs. Wales coming out of her bathroom in just her panties, bra and garter belt. The steam from her bathroom told me she had just taken a quick shower. I hesitated and began to turn away when she told me to bring her the things and help her dress.

I knelt on the floor in front of her and, very nervously, held the elastic waist of the slip open while she stepped in

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