This is the continued story of
Simon’s Journal.
Before you begin this third volume in this series,
I would highly recommend that you
read the first and second volumes
as each picks up were the previous
left off.
Simon’s Journal -
Volume I
Thirteen Days – The First Crusade
Thirteen
Nights – After the Crusade
ADMONITION:
The following narrative is nearly a complete
work of fiction. Some events and characters were pulled from real life but have
been changed, enhanced and twisted to comply with my will. Any other similarity
to actual individuals living or dead is completely unintentional, but it would
be so very incredible!
WARNING:
The story you are about to read contains
diaper use, violence, adult language and strong sexual content. If reading a
coming of age story about boys wearing diapers and exploring their awakening
sexuality doesn’t tickle your pickle, or if pickle tickling is illegal in your
area, then I suggest you select something else to read.
Simon's Journal
Volume III
Thirteen Sails
Adventures Abound
Written by Danny
Where’m I going?
“Simon!” mom shouted through the house, “They
are waiting for you!”
Grabbing my backpack with one hand, I tucked the
string inside the waste band of my swimming trunks with my other just before
running out of my room.
“Simon?” she shouted again.
“For crying out loud I’m coming already!” I
yelled as I paused to turn off the light switch by the door.
At the end of the hallway dad stopped me,
gripped my face firmly with both hands and kissed my forehead. He’s been doing
that a lot since I came back home. “Do me a favor, have fun and try not to
think about all that other stuff for a few days alright?”
I smiled and threw my one free arm around his
neck, hugging him with all the strength I could muster without pulling at the
scars that crisscross my back.
Seeing how this was going to be the first
time I was going to be away from home for more then a few hours since my return,
Mom felt the need to hug me harder and longer.
She finally released me with a question, “Did
you pack extra GoodNites?”
“Mom!” I blushed because out of the corner of
my eye I had noticed, standing on the other side of the screen, was my best
friend BJ and he had an ear to ear grin plastered across his acne cursed face.
Looking back to dad and then to mom I softly
reassured them both, “I will be ok, really!”
By the way her eyes glistened, I could tell
that she was struggling arduously to not cry. With one last kiss I was out the
door and running with BJ to their car, where Mr. and Mrs. Otteranski waited.
BJ dove into the backseat first, which gave
me two seconds to catch a glimpse of a polished black car with dark tented
windows sitting at the top of our street. In our neighborhood, a car like that
looked about as inconspicuous as a clown at a funeral.
I tossed my backpack into BJ’s lap, looked to
the black car once more and then jumped in, closing the door behind me.
As soon as I had closed the door Mr. Otteranski
sang out with, “Welcome to Otteranski airlines and I will be your pilot today.
Please observe that I have turned on the Seatbelts sign!”
It was corny, but it was still funny and we
both laughed.
I looked back to the house and saw that mom
and dad were standing on the front-porch waving goodbye to us. Mom was crying
now but she was still smiling. BJ rolled down the window and we both shouted
out to them.
“Bye, see you in a few days!” I said.
“We’ll collect some seashells for you!” BJ
shouted.
Standing on the beach, the smell of the ocean
on the breeze and the sound of the surf as it flowed in and out nearly stole my
mind away and probably would have done so if Mr. Otteranski had not given me a
soft kick in my posterior region. “Don’t stand there like a lizard sunning
itself, grab something and take it in.”
When I turned to face him, he was smiling
mischievously but the sight of my tears spilling down my cheeks brought about a
somber and loving expression as he bent down, took hold of my upper arms and
spoke to me, not as though I were a small child but as a boy on the brink of
manhood.
“We knew this might be tough for you,” he
paused to wave away a small flying insect, “but your doctor would not have
agreed to let you come if she didn’t think you were ready.”
With his thumbs he tried to erase the tears
from my face and then lifted my hair out of my eyes.
“You know, your moms right.” He said while
trying to hide a grin.
“No way!” I said grinning madly and trying to
pull away, “I ain’t cutting it off!”
Just then BJ yanked on my ponytail, “Yeah,
makes a nice leash!” he giggled.
In a blaze of flung sand we were racing
across the beach with me only two strides behind him. A few months before I
could have easily over took him but while I was sailing around the world, he
was here eating like a horse and growing nearly as tall as one.
BJ now had several inches on me but our
appearance, which once was similarly clean-cut, now differed greatly. His hair
was cut high and short, his upper lip sporting a hint of peach fuzz and he
looked like the teenage boy any parent would like their daughter to date.
And then there was my own appearance, which
was significantly in contrast to BJ’s. My hair was long; in fact, it was so
long that I had to keep it pulled back with a rubber band or at times I would
tie a bandana around my head to keep my hair out of my eyes. I now sport a
sweet scar over my right eye that extends down past my temple to my cheekbone.
It’s not as gnarly as you might be envisioning—as a matter of fact—Mary likes
it. She says it makes me look ruggedly handsome.
My hair is long for two reasons. The first is
because it helps to hide the canning marks that crisscross my spine from my
shoulders to my buttocks. I have my ‘good friend’ Runt to thank for those
reminders of the flogging I endured by his hand. The second reason for my long
hair is more personal, it is because I made a promise and it is a promise I
intend to keep. However, I don’t feel like writing about that just now... maybe
some other day.
You know, I think BJ let me catch him this
time; but I’m not complaining. Another ten yards and I would have dropped for
sure.
Being careful not to allow sand to get into
the still healing wounds of my back, I tackled him and we both crashed onto the
sandy beach laughing. My hands quickly found his ribs and I began tickling him
without mercy.
“UNCLE! UNCLE!” BJ cried out.
“And you think that is going to stop me?” I
said still tickling him.
“Stop! Stop!” He pleaded!
“Say Simon is the best!”
“No, get off!” he laughed.
“Say it!” I commanded.
“Never!”
I could tell by the way his voice pitched
higher and higher that I nearly had him broke.
“Say it and I will stop!” I said laughing
while trying to hold on with my legs to his bucking and rolling body.
“No!”
Sounding almost like I were trying to get a
baby to say dada I repeated, “Come on, say it.”
“OK! OK!” he relented, or so he tried to make
me believe, “IT!” he shouted and bucked so hard that he nearly dislodged me.
“Well then...” I said in my best evil voice, “then
you can die laughing for all I care!”
“No! No! Stop!” he roared as my fingers dug
into his armpits.
“Boys! This car won’t unload itself!” Mr.
Otteranski called out.
Grudgingly I stood up and extended a hand to
help my best friend to his feet.
Rolling onto his back he said, “You’re a
jerk!” and took hold of my forearm.
“Yeah but you love me anyway!” I joked and
acted like I was going to kiss him.
He put a singe finger to his nose like he was
going to blow snot on me.
As though I thought they might somehow shield
me, I raised my hands up between us, “Man you do and I’ll...”
Not really interested in having to help
unload the car, we took our sweet time walking back and spent the time talking
and joking around.
“You know something.” I said looking out over
the water and sounding serious.
“What?”
“I think,” I paused deciding that I didn’t
want to say it and instead said, “that the last one to the car is an underwear
sniffer!” and before I had even finished saying it, I was a good three strides
ahead of him. It was only by sheer chance that my hand touched the car a full
second before his.
“Dog!” he panted.
“Woofer!” I shot back between gasps.
“You both better get busy or I’ll make you
two pups sleep on the porch!” Mrs. Otteranski said.
“Can we?” BJ shouted excitedly.
“Oh man, that would be sweet!” I said in
support.
Trying to sound mom like, she said, “No! Now
hustle!”
I don’t know what it is about having to do
something that seems so much like work that makes it so miserable to do but
despite that fact, we had the car unloaded in less then ten minutes.
“Can we go swimming now?” BJ asked sounding
desperately bored already.
Looking my way his mom started to say, “Don’t
get your...” but I cut her off, “Yes I know, don’t get my back wet and don’t
lay on the sand without a shirt on! Mom already told me like a bazillion
times!”
She gave me a look like I’d better check the
attitude as she said, “And you have on your...” again I cut her off but this
time the tone of my voice came out rather whiney, “Yes I am wearing ‘em under
my trunks! Now can we go, pleeeease?”
Throwing her hands up, “Alright, I guess so,”
and she had to raise her voice several decibels to be heard as we dashed out
the beach house door, “I’ll have lunch ready in about an hour!”
“OK, We’ll be back!” I shouted back to her
over my shoulder.
As we ran past BJ’s dad on the porch he said
something about staying close but neither of us really heard him.
We laid out our towels using a few medium
sized stones to hold down each corner. We slipped off our sandals and in BJ’s
case he pulled off his shirt before the two of us moved toward the water.
Just as had happened before, the smell of the
salt water on the air and the sound of the surf seemed to hypnotize me for a
moment.
“Dude!” BJ said punching me in the arm.
It didn’t really hurt so I’m not sure why I
said, “Ouch!”
“Oh please! Don’t be a baby!” he joked.
I narrowed my eyes and raised my hands in
claw like fashion, poised to strike out and tickle him again!
“You do and I will soooo dunk you!” he warned
with an accusatory finger.
“You dunk me and your mom will. . .” I didn’t
have to finish.
“OK, but stop turning into a space cadet.” He
said with a toothy smile.
“Huh?” I grunted in confusion.
He poked me in the forehead and spoke slowly,
“STOP SPACING OUT!”
Trying to be funny I repeated, “Huh?”
“Dork!” he laughed.
“Dork-wad!” I countered but he didn’t hear me
because he had dove under the water.
Before either of us knew it, we were being
called back up for lunch, which consisted of hotdogs cooked over an open fire
pit and BBQ potato chips.
“Oh man these are good!” BJ said and followed
it up with a ground-shaking belch.
It was funny but seeing the expression on his
mom’s face I backhanded him in the chest and said, “Dude you are such a pig!
Excuse yourself!”
Looking sheepish he said, “Sorry!” to his
mom.
His dad just chuckled which made us both
burst out laughing.
“Would you like another hotdog Simon?” she
asked while placing another on my paper plate before I could answer her.
No one drew attention to it and I didn’t even
know I said it until later when BJ told me about it, but apparently I had
absent-mindedly said, “Thank you Miss-M.”
We were not allowed to go swimming again for
an hour after lunch so instead the two of us went to see if we could find a
hermit crab but not before I went into the bathroom to changed into a fresh
swim diaper.
I was just pulling my trunks up over the swim
diaper when BJ barged into the bathroom.
“Dude! Don’t you know how to knock?” I
snapped.
“What? It’s not like I haven’t seen you
wearing those?” he said as he stood before the toilet and let loose a golden
stream into the bowl.
“That’s not the point!” I said but he wasn’t
really listening. He was too caught up in the ecstasy of bladder relief.
“Just ‘cause you seen me wearing them at the
Y last week don’t mean I want to go showing them off!” I grunted loud enough to
get his attention this time.
He turned around, snapping the waste band of his
swimsuit back into place and said, “You’re being a butt again!” and as an
exclamation point to that statement he flushed the toilet.
I wanted to offer up another protest but
determined instead to just let the issue drop, which was probably for the better.
The last thing I wanted to do was ruin our vacation the very first day by
combating with him over something like this.
We never did find a hermit crab however we
did find a little green lizard with yellow spots on its back. We let it go
because it looked like it was just a baby.
We managed to find several other little
creatures; two small turtles, a fat beetle and a black spider with two white
stripes. I have no grief or remorse what so ever for killing that spider. Of
course we tortured it first by pulling all its legs off one side of its body
and watching it try to get away but all it could manage was to scamper in a
circle.
The rest of the afternoon was spent swimming,
picking up shells, skipping rocks on the water and just laying on our towels
soaking up the sun.
“What’s that you’re humming?” BJ asked
shortly after we had laid down to rest from swimming again.
I rolled my head in his direction, “What?”
“You were just humming something.” He said.
“Oh, nothing really. Just something...” I
didn’t finish.
I’m not sure but I think I nodded off for a
few minutes but came too again when he said, “I know I am not supposed to ask
you about...” he faltered with his words but quickly rebounded with, “But can I
just ask you just one thing?”
I was sitting up now, with my chin on my
knees and my arms wrapped around my legs. I gave a slight nod of agreement even
though inside my head everything was racing and it felt like my chest was going
to implode. I took a breath and held it as I braced myself for his question.
“How come you don’t stutter anymore?” he
asked.
I exhaled with relief and I think I might
have even let a faint, yet amused titter slip out.
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